Amazon FBA Fees 2026: Rs. 50 a Cubic Foot, and Pick & Pack Falls at 22.5 kg

Amazon India publishes its seller fees at sell.amazon.in/fees-and-pricing. Most of the attention goes to the three headline charges — referral fee, closing fee and weight handling — but the page carries a fourth block called Other Fees, and that is where fulfilment by Amazon actually gets priced.

We read the page on 9 November 2026. Three rates sit in that block, all of them applying only to sellers who store stock in an Amazon fulfilment centre: a pick & pack fee charged per unit sold, a storage fee charged per cubic foot per month, and a removal fee charged per unit if you ever want the stock back.

The first of them behaves in a way almost nobody expects: past a certain weight, the pick & pack fee goes down.

Amazon's own sentence, quoted in full: "This fee is charged per unit sold: Rs.17 for Standard items up to 1kg, Rs.5 for each additional kilogram up to 5kg, and Rs.2 for each additional 5kg thereafter." And immediately after it: "Heavy and Bulky items are charged at Rs.26 per unit sold."

Read those two sentences together. The Standard scale climbs with weight. The Heavy & Bulky rate is flat, and Heavy & Bulky begins at 22.5 kg. The table below works the Standard scale out; every row except the first and last is our arithmetic applying Amazon's published rates, not a figure Amazon prints.

On our reading of Amazon's slabs, a 20 kg Standard parcel costs Rs. 43 to pick and pack, and the same goods at 23 kg — now Heavy & Bulky — cost Rs. 26. Three kilograms heavier, Rs. 17 cheaper. The crossover sits a little below 20 kg: by our arithmetic the Standard scale passes Rs. 26 at around 3 kg.

This is not a loophole and it is not an error. Heavy & Bulky units move through a different part of the building and are priced as their own stream, which is also why their removal fee is ten times the Standard one. But it does mean that for anything in the 3–22 kg range, pick & pack is the one Amazon fee that penalises weight twice — once here and again in weight handling.

Five separate tests, and meeting any one of them is enough. A 4 kg television is Heavy & Bulky because of what it is; a 23 kg sack of something is Heavy & Bulky because of what it weighs.

Two further rules from the same section decide the weight a fee is charged on. "For standard-size items, the minimum chargeable weight is 500 gms" — so a 40 g phone case and a 480 g kettle are billed identically. And "Amazon Shipping Fees is computed on volumetric or actual weight, whichever is higher", which is how a light, bulky item ends up charged as a heavy one.

"This is the fee charged for storing your products in the Amazon Fulfillment Center costing Rs.50 per cubic foot per month." That is the whole rule — one rate, charged on volume, with no reference to what the stock is worth.

A cubic foot held for a full year is Rs. 600 before GST and Rs. 708 after it (our arithmetic on Amazon's published rate and its own stated 18%). For a cubic foot of phone cases that is trivial. For a cubic foot of slow-moving stock bought at Rs. 200 a unit, it is a material share of the margin, and it accrues every month whether anything sells or not.

If stock is not selling, taking it out is itself a per-unit charge, and the Heavy & Bulky premium here is the steepest ratio on the whole page.

Rs. 10 to remove a Standard unit, Rs. 100 to remove a Heavy & Bulky one — ten times, for the category that was Rs. 17 cheaper to pick and pack. The two fees point in opposite directions, so where a borderline item should sit depends entirely on how confident you are that it will sell.

Expedited removal costs three times standard for a Standard unit and exactly the same for a Heavy & Bulky one. On Amazon's published rates there is no reason for a Heavy & Bulky seller to choose the slower option. The page's note adds that "FC Removal fee is charged per unit", so a thousand unsold Standard units cost Rs. 10,000 before GST to retrieve.

Amazon's own formula on the same page is "Total Fees = Referral Fees + Closing Fees + Shipping Fees + Other fee (if applicable)", and everything on this page is that last bracket. It applies only to the fulfilment-centre channel — an Easy Ship or Self-Ship seller stores and packs their own stock and pays none of these three, which is the trade the channel comparison on that page is really about.

Two more lines worth knowing from the same block. Payment arrives seven days after delivery: "You are eligible to get paid for the order 7 days after the order is delivered." And NOTE 2 warns that programmes such as Amazon Launchpad or Amazon Business Advisory are charged "over and above the fees discussed here" — so this page, and the rate card it comes from, are not the complete bill.