The FBA inbound placement service fee is the cost of spreading inventory across Amazon’s fulfillment centers close to customers. This fee is charged for standard and large bulky-sized products. This fee is calculated based on product size tier, shipping weight, number and location of fulfillment centers in your shipping plan.

You can find out more about FBA inbound placement service fee in the official article on Amazon.

Your inventory is send to a minimal number of fulfillment centers chosen by you (one location), and Amazon distributes them further within their network for an additional per-item fee. The fee depends on the location and is higher in the West of the U.S.

You can send your inventory to several fulfillment centers yourself and reduce or avoid the fees. If you send your inventory to 2 or 3 fulfillment centers suggested by Amazon (partial distribution), you will pay a reduced fee. If you send your inventory to 4 or more fulfillment centers suggested by Amazon, you can avoid the per-item fee.

The inbound placement service fee applies only for FBA calculations and for amazon.com only.

This fee is found in FBA section marked “Plmt” (“placement”). Next to “Plmt” you will see a letter that determines the selected inbound placement service option:

“O” - Optimized shipment splits

“M” - Minimal shipment splits

“P” - Partial shipment splits
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You can manage FBA inbound placement service fee in your Seller Assistant account in the Extension Settings section
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​In case of default, the extension applies an Optimized shipment splits.

You can also change this fee for a specific product on Amazon manually. In order to do so you need to choose Inbound placement service fee in the extension itself and select the more appropriate one.