In the Professional selling plan, you are charged a non-refundable monthly subscription fee when you have active listings, regardless of whether you sell anything in a particular month. You do not pay a per-item fee when an item sells. All other fees are charged as applicable.
The Professional selling plan gives you access to inventory tools to upload batch files and manage your orders through feeds and reports. These tools are beneficial to most medium- to large-size businesses.
For answers to common questions about this fee, please visit Monthly subscription fee FAQ.
In the Individual selling plan, you are charged a non-refundable fixed closing fee every time you sell an item. You do not pay a monthly subscription fee. All other fees are charged as applicable.
The Individual selling plan gives you access to basic inventory and shipping settings, however it does not allow you to use promotions and deals, APIs and other tools. Individual selling plans are also not eligible to be the Featured (Buy Box) Offer. The Individual selling plan is beneficial to small sellers.
You can switch between selling plans whenever you want.
The following table summarizes the differences between Individual and Professional selling plans.
Plan type Seller account feature | Professional | Individual |
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$49.95 monthly subscription fee* *If you expand to sell in other stores using merged accounts, you will pay the equivalent of 39.99 USD per month, split proportionately across each country or region in which you have an active listing and charged separately in each local currency. You can downgrade at any time. For more information, see Monthly subscription fee FAQ and Merging Accounts for more details. |
Yes | No |
$0.99 per-item fee when an item sells | No | Yes |
Create new product pages in the Amazon catalog | Yes | Yes |
Manage inventory using feeds, spreadsheets, and reports | Yes | No |
Manage orders using order reports and order-related feeds | Yes | No |
Use Amazon Marketplace Web Service to upload feeds, receive reports, and perform other API functions | Yes | No |
Make listings inactive when you want to stop selling for a period of time (for example, if you can't fulfill orders for any reason, such as family emergency, inclement weather, going on holiday or vacation, and so on) | Yes | Yes |
Promotions and other special listing features | Yes | No |
Eligibility for listing placement in the Featured OfferBuy Box | Yes | No |
Access user permissions/grant access rights to other users | Yes | No |