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Amazon FBA Fee Calculator: Germany

Estimate Amazon referral and FBA fulfilment fees in your own marketplace, and the profit, margin and return per unit. Twelve stores, each with its own rates.

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Germany: no digital services fee, the cheapest fulfilment, and every surcharge

Germany is the best place in Europe to fulfil an order and one of the most exposed to Amazon's inventory surcharges. Both halves matter, and they pull in opposite directions.

A German-established seller pays no digital services fee at all on the German store. Germany has never enacted a digital services tax, so there is nothing for Amazon to pass on. The picture changes with your establishment rather than your store: a UK-established seller on Amazon.de pays 2%, and a French-established seller pays 3% on referral and FBA fees.

Fulfilment is the cheapest of the major European stores. A 20g light envelope costs EUR 2.33 locally, falling to EUR 2.07 under the Central Europe programme, which lets Amazon place stock in Poland and the Czech Republic as well as Germany. At 460g it is EUR 2.68 against EUR 3.77 in France.

The surcharges are where German costs actually land

Germany sits in the restricted set for all four of Amazon's inventory charges, none of which show up in a per-order calculation:

  • Storage utilisation surcharge, from EUR 14.85 to EUR 76.87 per cubic metre a month for standard size, by utilisation ratio band. Exempt if you are a new seller, on an Individual account, or under 25 cubic feet of daily volume.
  • Aged inventory surcharge, starting at EUR 47.99 per cubic metre a month at 241 days and reaching EUR 261.97 beyond 455 days.
  • High-return-rate returns processing fee, above per-category return thresholds, EUR 2.22 on a 20g light envelope.
  • The Pan-EU low-inventory fee, triggered when both your 90-day and 30-day days-of-supply fall under 28.

Only Germany, France, Italy and Spain carry the first three. The Netherlands, Sweden, Belgium, Poland and Ireland carry none of them.

What that means for your numbers

On a single order, Germany is the cheapest of the five stores here. Across a year of holding stock it can be the most expensive, and the difference is entirely about how fast your inventory turns.

If you use Pan-European FBA, note the trade: storing stock in another country triggers a VAT registration and reporting obligation there, and supplying Amazon a VAT number for a country is itself the opt-in to placement. The alternative, the European Fulfilment Network, avoids that but roughly doubles the fulfilment fee, EUR 5.08 against EUR 2.07 on a 20g envelope.

For how the calculation works, the formula behind it and what it leaves out, see the full guide. For help interpreting a result or comparing it with a quote or statement, read the questions and answers.

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