The discount plus the fee looks scary, so most sellers skip the highest-value program on Amazon. Enter your numbers and see your true margin under Subscribe and Save next to a plain sale. Sometimes the "expensive" option keeps more money.
Margin with S&S · margin without · verdict
The referral and fulfillment fees are charged on the discounted price. Funded percent applies only if you qualify for Amazon's tiered Subscribe and Save funding. Confirm your exact terms in Seller Central.
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Subscribe and Save gets a bad reputation. Sellers see a discount plus a fee and assume it eats too much margin, so they leave the program off and chase one-time sales instead.
Here is what they miss. A subscriber reorders on autopilot month after month, and on the tiered program Amazon often funds a chunk of the discount you offer. So your real per-order margin is thinner than a full-price sale, but not by nearly as much as the sticker discount suggests. And you get that margin over and over instead of once.
The only way to make the call is to put both margins side by side. That is what this calculator does.
Price, cost, fulfillment, discount, and the funded portion Amazon covers. All from your account.
Full-price margin and Subscribe and Save margin, with the funded portion netted out of your discount.
Enroll or skip, with the margin you keep under S&S shown next to the margin you give up.
Your cost is the discount you offer minus the portion Amazon funds. On the tiered program Amazon often funds part of the discount, so your effective discount can be smaller than the sticker percent. This calculator applies the funded percent so you see the real number.
In the tiered Subscribe and Save program Amazon can fund a share of the discount at certain thresholds. Enter the funded percent you qualify for and the calculator only charges you for the part you actually pay.
It is worth it when the margin you keep still clears zero and the repeat orders beat the discount you give up. Subscribers reorder on autopilot, so lifetime value usually beats a one-time buyer even at a thinner per-order margin.
Yes. Run it as many times as you want with no account. Drop your email only if you want the breakdown sent to your inbox.
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