COVID-19: Impact on FBA and Vendor Central Orders

This shares the impact of COVID-19 on FBA as well as Amazon Vendor orders. For products that are Fulfill By Amazon (FBA) : Amazon has just announced that they are temporarily prioritizing products coming into their fulfillment centers.  As the COVID-19 crisis has escalated, there has been an increase in online shopping on Amazon. As a result, some products, such as household staples and medical supplies, are out-of-stock. With this in mind, Amazon is temporarily prioritizing household staples, medical supplies, and other high-demand products coming into their fulfillment centers so that they can more quickly receive, restock, and deliver these products to customers. The specific list of categories that are being prioritized by Amazon includes: baby care, health and household…

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Gear Up For Tax Season!

If you are like most people, thinking about tax paperwork may fill you with dread.  For online sellers on marketplaces like Amazon, Walmart.com, and even your own e-commerce sites, calculating and filing sales tax can be overwhelming. This article provides some basic tips to help you start to tackle your sales taxes for your digital commerce business. Determine where you have a sales tax nexus.  This is a function of your physical business locations, personnel locations, and inventory warehouse locations. Determine where you have economic nexus.  Even if you do not have a physical presence in a state, if you pass the economic threshold for total revenue or transactions in a state, you are legally required to collect and remit sales tax to that…

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