Amazon Business is for business shopping. With a free Amazon Business account, separate your personal purchases from work purchases by seamlessly switching between your personal Amazon and Amazon Business accounts, access hundreds of thousands of sellers who have business-only choices and volume discounts, and access features that will save you time.
Innovative technology that runs at the speed of your business
Amazon Business offers its users a buying solution for their large scale registered business. Each company can designate users who are allowed to enter and buy business items on Amazon on behalf of their employers.
The main administrator can accept or remove authorized users as needed and handle payment methods, shipping addresses, approval workflows, and reporting options as required by the business.
Amazon Business is focused on creating new features and software to make business shopping as easy as possible. Amazon’s software capabilities can help you solve your biggest challenges and digitally transform your purchasing process.
Amazon Business benefits
More ways to save
- With an average of 40 offers for each product, you can choose the best price.
- Save up to 10% when setting up recurring deliveries for eligible products.
- Bulk purchase discounts start with just 2+ eligible items.
More payment methods
Whether with existing shopping cards or a new line of credit, pay the way you want with flexible payment options available to small businesses.
Access to hundreds of millions of products for your business
- IT products
- Leisure products
- Cleaning and sanitation
- Maintenance, repair and operation
- Professional beauty
- Occupational medicine
- Wholesale supply
- Work clothes and accessories
Disadvantages of the program
- Increased commissions reduce product margin: Amazon Business charges you a commission of 6 to 15 percent, excluding products that are not normally sold as business merchandise. This does not cover Amazon order fulfillment fees.
- Product differentiation is harder: Selling on Amazon can’t just stand out. Likewise, you cannot communicate with your target market and end consumers and explain why they should buy your product. With Amazon Business, shoppers can easily find and buy from the lowest-priced vendors.
- Buyers become Amazon customers, not yours: Amazon restricts the way sellers interact with buyers. As a supplier, you are not free to add packaging inserts and other marketing content. It will be more difficult for shoppers to recognize your brand as Amazon takes more control over the buyer-seller relationship.
- Product data and technical information: It can be difficult to insert product data into Amazon Business. This becomes a very technical and boring task that you might have to outsource to an IT organization. Each item category has its own rules. Setting up your product data will affect how well it sells and displays on Amazon.
Despite some of the shortcomings of Amazon Business, it might be worth opening an Amazon Business account.
After you are accepted as an Amazon Business customer, you can purchase the Business Prime plan if you like. Business Prime supports Amazon Business, which allows you to be more flexible about shipping and payment terms.
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