AutoPrice: Intelligent Margin Protection for Amazon Sellers
Maximize Profitability and Efficiency with Automated FBA and FBM Pricing
ShipmentBot’s AutoPrice feature offers a powerful solution for maximizing profitability and streamlining operations. AutoPrice intelligently automates pricing for both Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) and Fulfillment by Merchant (FBM) channels, ensuring optimal margins while remaining competitive.
Stop leaving money on the table – let ShipmentBot watch the ever-changing landscape of Amazon fees and shipping costs.
The Challenge: Protecting Margins in a Dynamic Marketplace
Selling on Amazon presents unique challenges:
- Complex Fee Structures: Amazon’s FBA and referral fees can significantly impact your bottom line. Understanding and accurately accounting for these fees is critical.
- Fluctuating Shipping Costs: Shipping expenses, especially for FBM, can vary wildly based on weight, dimensions, and carrier rates. Dimensional weight calculations add another layer of complexity.
- Competitive Pressure: Maintaining competitive pricing while protecting your desired profit margin requires constant vigilance and adjustment.
- Manual Processes: Manually calculating optimal prices is time-consuming, error-prone, and unsustainable for growing businesses.
The Solution: ShipmentBot AutoPrice
ShipmentBot’s AutoPrice feature addresses these challenges head-on with a comprehensive, automated pricing engine. Our system dynamically calculates optimal selling prices for both FBA and FBM products, taking into account:
- Cost of Goods: Your precise product acquisition costs.
- Amazon Referral Fees: Automatically factors in Amazon’s percentage-based commission.
- FBA Fulfillment Fees: Real-time estimates of Amazon’s picking, packing, shipping, and storage fees (for FBA products).
- Inbound Shipping Costs (FBA): Accurately tracks and incorporates the cost of shipping inventory to Amazon’s fulfillment centers.
- Dimensional Weight: Automatically calculates dimensional weight to ensure accurate shipping cost estimations (for FBM products).
- Configurable Freight Rules (FBM): Set base and variable freight costs to reflect your specific shipping expenses.
- Desired Profit Margins: Define your target margin percentage, and ShipmentBot will ensure your pricing achieves it.
- Defective Allowances: Account for potential losses due to returns or damaged items.
- Business Pricing (Quantity Discounts): Supports automated calculation of tiered pricing for bulk purchases.
- MAP Price Enforcement: System automatically respects and enforces Minimum Advertised Price rules if set.
Key Benefits for Your Business
- Increased Profitability: Maximize your profit margins by automatically accounting for all costs and fees.
- Time Savings: Eliminate manual price calculations and free up valuable time for strategic initiatives.
- Competitive Advantage: Stay ahead of the competition with dynamic pricing that adapts to market conditions.
- Reduced Errors: Minimize the risk of human error in pricing calculations.
- Simplified Operations: Streamline your pricing workflow and gain greater control over your Amazon business.
- Data-Driven Decisions: Make informed decisions based on accurate, real-time cost and pricing data.
Seamless Integration
AutoPrice seamlessly integrates with your existing ShipmentBot workflows and supplier catalogs. Configuration is straightforward, allowing you to tailor the pricing strategy to your specific business needs.
Take Control of Your Amazon Pricing
ShipmentBot’s AutoPrice empowers you to take control of your Amazon pricing, protect your margins, and maximize your profitability. Let our intelligent automation handle the complexities, so you can focus on growing your business.