For many Amazon sellers, choosing cross-border overseas trade and selling products is only the first step in a long journey. Only when the payment is recovered and the money is truly put into their pockets will they feel most at ease. So, how long is the average Amazon FBA payment collection cycle?
For novice sellers trying cross-border overseas trade for the first time, they first need to plan the operating costs of opening a store in advance. At present, the normal operation process of a store is: product selection-purchasing-delivery-promotion-replenishment. The budget for a novice seller to run a store is often closely related to the type of store and the quantity of stock.
Regular budgets generally include hard expenses such as product selection software and store decoration, new product purchase expenses for product selection, as well as multi-way logistics and delivery costs such as outbound, entry, and transit, Amazon FBA warehousing and distribution , advertising investment and other expenditures. Especially choose Amazon Fba to implement warehousing and distribution, because it is impossible for novice sellers to send only one product in a batch to the Amazon Fba warehousing operation center. This will not guarantee timely delivery after buyers place orders. Therefore, entering Amazon Fba The goods in the warehouse often have certain size requirements.
In any industry, the security of the capital chain must be considered, and the capital turnover cycle of the Amazon platform varies greatly depending on the store model chosen. Currently, after a buyer places an order on the Amazon platform, the payment is first transferred to the platform account. After the customer receives the product and confirms it, the payment will be transferred to the seller’s account within a certain period of time. For the FBA delivery model, it takes about 14 days from the time the product is sold until the funds can be withdrawn to the bank card. In this way, the entire cycle from the “new release” of product procurement to the actual receipt of payment after being sold through the Amazon platform is relatively long, which requires sellers to have a certain degree of economic strength and be able to support every aspect of product circulation. .
Different from the traditional domestic e-commerce ecosystem, cross-border e-commerce platforms such as Amazon have very detailed and strict regulations on sellers’ payment and payment time. Sellers must be familiar with and master the rules such as Amazon Fba’s payment cycle. While ensuring timely access to their own sales revenue, they must also accurately grasp inventory and sales data to avoid normal payment collection due to other uncontrollable factors, and reasonably arrange capital flows. , to avoid situations such as a break in the capital chain.