From October through December, Amazon's storage rates jump sharply, and most sellers only find out when a four-figure charge hits their account. Enter your inventory and see the bill coming while you can still do something about it.
Monthly cost · peak Oct-Dec rates · full-period total
Estimates use published-style monthly storage rates per cubic foot with peak rates for October, November, and December. Your exact rate can vary by category and dangerous-goods status, so confirm the final number in Seller Central before you plan around it.
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Here's how it usually goes. You send in extra inventory over the summer to be ready for the holidays. Storage feels cheap, so nobody watches it. The units sit there through the fall.
Then the October, November, and December invoices post, and the number has tripled. That slow-moving SKU you meant to liquidate is now costing you real money every single month it sits in the warehouse. Sellers who don't see this coming get a bill that quietly eats a chunk of their peak-season profit.
You can't plan around a number you've never seen. That's the whole reason this forecaster exists.
Units, cubic feet per unit, how long you'll hold it, size type, and the month you start.
The tool applies the off-peak rate for most months and the higher peak rate for any month in October, November, or December.
Total cost, your worst single month, how many months hit peak, and your average monthly spend.
From October through December, Amazon raises the monthly storage rate per cubic foot sharply to push sellers to keep only fast movers in the warehouse during peak season. Standard-size inventory can go from about 0.78 to roughly 2.40 per cubic foot, so the same pallet costs about three times more each month it sits there.
It's your total cubic feet stored times the monthly rate per cubic foot for your size type. Total cubic feet is units times the volume of one unit. The tool walks each month you hold the inventory and applies the peak rate for any month that falls in October, November, or December.
Measure length, width, and height of one unit in inches, multiply them together, then divide by 1728. That gives you cubic feet per unit. Enter that number and the tool multiplies by your unit count to get total volume.
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Run your slow movers through the Removal calculator before the peak rates flip in October. It shows you, in dollars, whether it's cheaper to pull a SKU out or keep paying to store it through the holidays.
Try the Removal vs. Storage Calculator → Takes about a minute. You get the cheaper path, not a sales pitch.