Split shipments or eat the fee? Amazon's placement service fee punishes sending everything to one destination, and most sellers guess wrong. Enter four numbers and see the cheaper path plus the exact dollars you save.
Single destination · split shipment · dollars saved
Estimates use a published-style per-unit placement fee model. The split discount (about 50% off at 2 destinations, waived at 3 or more) and the flat forty dollar per extra destination freight and prep cost are planning assumptions. Confirm exact placement fees in Seller Central before you commit a large shipment.
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Since 2024, Amazon charges an inbound placement service fee. Send your whole shipment to one destination and let Amazon fan it out, and you pay for that convenience per unit. It's quiet, it's automatic, and it lands after you've already shipped.
So sellers guess. Some split into four destinations to dodge the fee and end up paying more in freight than they ever saved. Others send everything to one place and eat a placement fee that was bigger than the cost of splitting. Both are leaking money they can't see.
You can't pick the cheaper path if you've never run the numbers side by side. That's what this tool does.
Total units, unit weight, size tier, and how many destinations you'd split into. All numbers you already know.
Single destination placement fee, split placement fee after the discount, and the extra freight each split adds.
Split or single, and the exact dollars the cheaper path saves you on this shipment.
It's a per-unit fee Amazon charges when you send inventory to a single destination and let Amazon distribute it for you. Send to fewer locations and the fee goes up. Spread the same units across more destinations yourself and Amazon discounts or waives it.
No. Splitting cuts the placement fee but adds prep and freight for each extra destination. On low unit counts or cheap standard-size items, the extra freight can cost more than the fee you saved. That's the exact trade this tool prices out for you.
They're a planning estimate built on a published-style per-unit placement model and a flat freight assumption for each extra destination. Your real numbers vary by lane, box count, and item tier, so confirm in Seller Central before you commit a large shipment.
It gives you the dollar math behind that choice. Minimal shipment splits means one destination and a higher placement fee. Amazon optimized means more destinations and a lower fee. This tool tells you which one nets out cheaper for your shipment.
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