Module 2 of 8
Getting Started
What to settle before the first purchase: startup costs, business structure, the seller account, and the numbers that decide whether a product is worth buying.
- Tools and ResourcesThe printers, labels, scales, tape and boxes an FBA seller needs, with the sales rank guidelines and the supported store list.
- Startup ExpensesWhat it costs to start: equipment, software subscriptions and the stock budget, listed for both the US and the UK.
- Setting Up Your First GoalChoosing a first target you can measure, and working back from it to a monthly buying budget.
- Business StructureSole trader, LLC or limited company: how sellers usually register, and what changes once they do.
- Seller Account RegistrationOpening an Amazon seller account step by step, and the documents Amazon asks for during verification.
- Sales Rank OverviewWhat Best Sellers Rank measures, why it only means something inside its own category, and how to read it as a demand signal.
- Buy Box OverviewWhat the Buy Box is, why most sales go through it, and what decides which seller wins it.
- Gated Categories and the Ungating ProcessWhy Amazon restricts some categories and brands, how to check a restriction before buying, and how the ungating application works.
- Hazmat ProductsWhich everyday products Amazon treats as hazardous materials, and what the hazmat review means for sending them into FBA.
- Unfulfillable InventoryWhy stock gets marked unfulfillable, and the options once it is: removal, disposal or liquidation.
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Sourcing Methods OverviewThe five ways to source stock for Amazon, what each one asks of your money and time, and how to pick the one that fits you.