Post Amazon Account Set Up
[1] Disabling Foreign Marketplaces
This is a vital step for all new sellers!. We only want our products to be available for sale within the United Kingdom, orders being fulfilled to foreign countries can be costly to fulfil.
To do this please click here - Going On Holiday?
From here you’ll be able to select that you’re “on holiday” for all marketplaces except the United Kingdom, allowing only orders from the United Kingdom to be processed through your store.
Turning Off EFN (European Fulfilment Network)
EFN (European Fulfilment Network) is another opportunity to fulfil your stock from the UK to the EU via FBA without high postage fees, however you are still subject to pay extra tax on top of your regular fees which can incur losses on your sales if not setup correctly.
How To Disable EFN?
Log-in to your Amazon seller account and go to your settings, click fulfilment by Amazon. The first tab you will see is "cross-border fulfilment settings" and at the bottom of this tab it will tell you if you are enrolled into EFN or not. If you are, click edit and untick all the EU countries and click save, you will no longer be selling outside of the UK.
Settings > FBA, scroll down to “Shipping programmes and export settings” and then click edit. You can turn off FBA Export completely from here.
[2] Amazon Business Buying Account (Amazon-to-Amazon Leads)
We do not advise anyone uses their personal buying account to purchase anything, in case Amazon links these to business transactions. We’ve already mitigated our risk by creating our seller account using a different email from the one used on our personal buying account. As you’ll have seen within the Seller Circle platform, we do occasionally have some Amazon-t- Amazon product leads. It’s against Amazon’s terms and conditions to purchase products to be resold on Amazon, and Amazon may ask for invoices. Invoices from a personal buying account will not be accepted. You can get around this by creating an Amazon business prime account here.
You must not sign up for business prime with this account - this is again against Amazon’s terms and conditions.
To open a business account you’ll need your UTR/Ltd company number to be approved.
Amazon business buying accounts often have business exclusive prices, quantity discounts and large buying quantities for many different products listed on Amazon. Most of the time your personal Amazon buying account will be limited to a set number of each product. To work around this and purchase more products (e.g. if there was an Amazon to Amazon lead you wanted to buy more than you were limited to purchase), please do the following steps.
Click business settings > people > add people > select “Buyer (requisitioner)”
Make sure “place orders” or “request order approvals” is selected.
You can add up to 20 people which means if a product is limited to 3 per customer, you can purchase 60 items (3 per account).
When you are adding people, just use your current email address jakejones@gmail.com but add a full stop within your name “jake.jones@gmail.com”.
If you are using Gmail, the confirmation email you receive will still be sent to your current Gmail account meaning you do not need to create multiple new email addresses each time you add a person to the buyer account. If you want to place multiple orders of 3 products, for example, you will just need to sign in to each Amazon account and place those orders.
[3] Sending Invoices to Business Customers
Most orders you receive on your Amazon account will be from personal Amazon accounts; however, occasionally you will have orders from business Amazon accounts. When you receive an order from a business customer, you’ll need to upload an invoice within 24 hours of receiving the order.
If you do not do this, you’ll get a mark on your Amazon account, increasing your invoice defect rate (IDR), which can lead to suspensions if this gets too high.
Most accounts will be eligible for the automatic VAT invoicing program, please use the following links to register for this.
None VAT Registered | VAT Registered
If you attempt to enrol and your account is not eligible yet, you’ll need to use a free invoice generator. Here, you’ll simply be able to create the invoice, add your logo, sale price, order number, address etc. Upload this invoice, go to and find the business order requiring an invoice. From here you’ll be able to upload the invoice for this order. Most accounts which are not yet eligible for automatic business customer invoicing will be invited to the program within a few months of selling on Amazon.
It is now a legal requirement to have PLI (Public Liability Insurance) when selling on Amazon. You can purchase this through PolicyBee who are a trusted and reputable source for insurance with prices starting from as low as ÂŁ14.70 per month.
Last updated