🏷 Wondering how to start an Amazon Seller account so you can sell on Amazon?
Here’s what to do!
1. Go to sell.amazon.com and click Sign Up. (ahh if they only paid a commission for this! lol😆)
2. Select your plan: Choose the individual plan (no monthly fee) if you don’t have your product ready. Upgrade to the Professional plan ($39.99/mo) when you are ready to send inventory in. Or, say f-ck it and go Pro out the gate to set a 🔥 under your ass.
3. Create a fresh account: You will be asked to sign in to your Amazon account. Click Add Account > Create a New Account and use a business email to keep it separate from your personal shopping account. You can create a quick business @gmail for now, and change it later.
4. Have these things ready:
- Government ID (passport or ID card)
- Tax information (personal SS for now is fine – you can switch it to your business EIN later)
- Proof of address (utility bill)
- Bank statement
- Credit card (chargeable debit or credit card)
- Phone number
- Bank account details to get paid (your personal for now is fine – you can switch it to your business bank account later)
* Make sure everything has the same address! It doesn’t matter the country.
- Depending on what country you’re in, it may ask for different documents. Just provide what it asks.
- Sometimes approval takes days, sometimes weeks.
- They may ask for more info. Sometimes you need to get creative to provide the info they ask for! As always, search google and forums for people who have had the same issues. And as always, be persistent! If they don’t reply to your emails within 2 days, email them again.
Overall, getting your account approved is a huge first step that you can do NOW, even before you know what you will sell. This tells the universe that you are serious about cash flowing on Amazon = building digital rental properties.
You don’t have to be a US citizen or be in the US. You can be pretty much anyone.
The total overall fee to sell via FBA is around 30% of your sale price. With some variation depending on category and size.
Cheers,
– Riley Bennett, Amazing Marketing Co, FBA Lifestyle Podcast
PS. Don’t know what to sell yet? Well, people ask me how to choose what to sell all the time, and why I put together the 90 Day FBA Challenge! It’s a 12-week course with weekly group coaching calls where you can bounce thoughts off of me weekly where I help you choose and develop the right product! There’s no better investment you can make if you wanna make 6-figures on Amazon in the next year!
PPS. If the country you live in is listed below, you will need to set up a Payoneer account as your virtual bank account and provide that account number to Amazon to pay you.
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How to provide the bank statement to Amazon through Payoneer.
1. Go to Payoneer.com and create an account
2. After creating your account contact Payoneer support and tell them you need a Payoneer bank statement to provide to Amazon. Follow their instructions to get this. Once you have it, provide it to Amazon so they can pay you.
3. You can get a Payoneer account debit card sent to you if you want. Warning: Sometimes they send the card without a tracking number so make sure your name or company name and phone number and email is on there correctly.
