Amazon FBA

How to book a Pallet Delivery to Amazon

If you are planning to send your goods to Amazon, you are in the right place. We offer dedicated services which can handle your pallet delivery to Amazon. To book your order, please access our Quote&Book page link, input the collection and delivery postcodes, select the pallet type you need, or, for international shipments, insert the dimensions and weight of your pallet. The website will instantly offer you a list of services, and you can choose any services that indicates it can handle deliveries into Amazon. These services are marked with the Amazon icon in green.

After you select the service, you can start filling in the general information of the booking, such as complete collection and delivery addresses, contact information etc. On page number three (Options), you need to provide the Amazon details, without which the delivery to Amazon cannot be arranged:

• Unit Count: represents the number of individual items you are sending. These items will have to be placed in boxes (cartons).
• Carton Count: the number of boxes used to pack the items you are delivering to Amazon.
• Pallet count: the number of pallets you are delivering to Amazon
• Vendor's name: The name of the company the goods are coming from
• Purchase Order: represents a unique identifier that Amazon uses to track and manage orders placed with suppliers for products that will be sold on its platform.
• FBA Reference: Each product in Amazon's fulfilment centres are assigned a unique identifier known as an FBA reference to track and manage inventory.

After completing the booking with all the requested details, we will send it to our carrier, and they will book the delivery with Amazon. If you are sending to an Amazon FBA centre outside of Great Britain, you will have to provide the above information along with a commercial invoice that our system will allow you to create. The EORI number for Amazon is not requested. Also, the Incoterm our carriers ship under when delivering to Amazon is DDP (the seller is responsible for paying any duties and taxes).

Amazon FBA Pallet Requirements

If you are sending your first order to Amazon, and you are not aware of their packing requirements, the information below may be useful to you. Ensuring proper packaging will not only protect your goods in transit but will also avoid any potential delays. Please be advised that Amazon will often reject consignments which are not packed according to their requirements.

• The first thing you need to pay attention to is the pallet base. If your destination is a UK-based Amazon warehouse, your pallets should align with the UK standard four-way access pallet dimensions (1200cm x 1000cm). For European Amazon warehouses, the pallets must measure 800cm x 1200cm and possess four-way access capability.
• Make sure you use a new, sturdy pallet base. Pallets must remain intact, without any breaks or damages that might compromise their structural integrity.
• Conformance to the ISPM 15 standards is mandatory, meaning the pallets must undergo proper heat treatment.
• The height of your pallets must not exceed 1.7 meters (170cm), and the weigh no more than 1000 kg.
• The cartons within your pallets should not surpass an individual weight of 30kg.
• Each pallet is required to be securely wrapped in transparent plastic wrapping. Please note that Amazon might reject pallets wrapped in black or otherwise coloured shrink wrap.
• Amazon labels must be attached to the pallets, these are supplied in your online Amazon FBA account.
• Pallet contents should not extend beyond the boundaries of the pallet.