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It aligns incentives only when the brand is already producing. We use it above $50,000 per month in profit at 10 to 20 percent, with no monthly fee. Below that, volatility makes it unfair to somebody.\n\n## The short version\n\n- **Four variables define any share deal:** the base, the baseline, the rate, and the term.\n- **Base matters more than rate.** Ten percent of profit and ten percent of gross sales are different businesses.\n- **A baseline protects you.** Without one, the agency is paid for revenue that existed before they arrived.\n- **The rate should compress as volume grows**, or your cost per unit of work rises forever.\n- **Score the offer before you argue about the percentage.** The percentage is the least informative number in the deal.\n\n## Score the offer yourself\n\nYou are looking at a proposal with a percentage on it, and the percentage is the only thing anyone wants to discuss. Score the structure instead. Award the points, add them up, and compare deals on the total rather than the rate.\n\n| Criterion | Weight | Full marks look like | Zero marks look like |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| Base definition | 25 | Contribution profit, defined by a named report | Gross sales, undefined |\n| Baseline | 20 | Share applies only above pre-engagement revenue | Share applies to every dollar |\n| Rate structure | 15 | Tiers down as volume grows | Flat forever |\n| Ad spend treatment | 15 | Media is yours, invoiced to you, excluded from the base | Media routed through the agency |\n| Exit terms | 10 | Month-to-month, 30 days' notice, written handover | Twelve month term with a tail |\n| Reporting | 10 | Weekly written, bi-weekly live review | Monthly PDF |\n| Kill discipline | 5 | Documented criteria for stopping a product | None stated |\n\nAnything under 60 needs renegotiation before the percentage is worth discussing. Anything under 40 is a different agency.\n\n## The four variables in detail\n\n**The base.** Gross sales, net sales after returns, or contribution profit. Profit is the honest one and the hardest to agree, because it requires both parties to see landed cost. If you cannot get profit, get net sales after returns, so a high return rate does not become someone else's revenue.\n\n**The baseline.** If your brand already produces $120,000 a month, a share on all of it pays for work that has not happened. The fair version applies the rate to the increment above a stated starting point, usually a trailing three or six month average, agreed in writing before the first invoice.\n\n**The rate.** Ours runs 10 to 20 percent above $50,000 a month in profit, with no fixed fee alongside it. The direction that matters is what happens as you grow. A rate that steps down at agreed volumes keeps the deal survivable at scale.\n\n**The term.** Performance deals attract long terms, because the agency front-loads work and wants time to collect. Our answer is month-to-month with 30 days' notice under any structure, and I would push any candidate toward the same. If they need a year to make the economics work, ask them to explain which month the value appears in.\n\n## What the share is actually paying for\n\nHere is the part that decides whether a share deal produces anything. There are five ways traffic reaches an Amazon listing: organic search, paid placement, promotions, influencer and creator content, and off-channel traffic driven from outside Amazon. **Most sellers run two of them.** A revenue share only makes sense if the agency is opening channels you are not running, because the increment has to come from somewhere.\n\nSo the question underneath the percentage is simple. Which of the five are live on my account today, which will be live in ninety days, and who executes each one. If the answer is that paid placement will be run harder, you are paying a share of growth you could have bought with a retainer and a bigger ad budget.\n\nAcross about 70 brands we manage, the channels a seller has never activated are usually where the fastest increment sits, and that is the increment worth sharing.\n\n## What most agencies will not tell you\n\nA revenue share is a financing decision dressed as a pricing decision. You are choosing to pay more in good months so you pay less in bad ones. That can be exactly right, particularly if cash is tight. It is not cheaper, and any comparison that presents it as cheaper has ignored the successful outcome.\n\nThe second thing: attribution disputes are near certain, and they are never settled fairly after the fact. Sales come from listings, seasonality, price changes, external traffic, and the work. Decide the measurement rule while both parties still want the deal, name the report it comes from, and put a dispute mechanism in the document.\n\n## Related answers\n\n- [Compare hybrid fee plus rev share models](\u002Fblog\u002Fcompare-hybrid-fee-plus-rev-share-models)\n- [Case studies of revenue share success on Amazon](\u002Fblog\u002Fcase-studies-of-revenue-share-success-on-amazon)\n- [Who offers no-win-no-fee Amazon growth services](\u002Fblog\u002Fwho-offers-no-win-no-fee-amazon-growth-services)\n- [KPIs an Amazon agency should report weekly](\u002Fblog\u002Fkpis-an-amazon-agency-should-report-weekly)\n- [Amazon agency pricing and economics: the complete guide](\u002Fblog\u002Fpricing-and-economics)\n\nThe threshold, the rate range, and the flat alternative are all published at [Flapen](\u002Famazon-consulting).\n\n## Keep learning\n\n- [Compare Amazon business models](\u002Fguides\u002Fbusiness-models)\n- [Value your Amazon business](\u002Ftools\u002Fbusiness-value-calculator)\n","published","working-with-agencies",[14,15,16,17],"fees","ppc","organic-ranking","off-channel","joel-turcotte-gaucher","\u002Fimages\u002Fblog\u002Fclusters\u002Fpricing-and-economics-10.jpg","2026-09-04T02:54:51.798+00:00",{"faq":22,"seo":43,"batch":44,"cluster":45,"cover_alt":46,"answers_prompt":47,"primary_benchmark":48},[23,27,31,35,39],{"id":24,"answer":25,"question":26},"amazon-agency-revenue-share-models-explained-faq-1","The range varies too much to call a market standard honestly. Ours is 10 to 20 percent of profit above $50,000 a month, with no fixed fee. What matters more than the number is whether it applies to profit or sales, and whether it applies to growth or to everything.","What is a normal revenue share percentage?",{"id":28,"answer":29,"question":30},"amazon-agency-revenue-share-models-explained-faq-2","Not in our structure. Hybrids exist and can be reasonable, but check that the retainer is discounted against the standalone price. A full retainer plus a full share is two fees.","Should there be a fixed fee alongside the share?",{"id":32,"answer":33,"question":34},"amazon-agency-revenue-share-models-explained-faq-3","Insist on a baseline calculated from a trailing average before the engagement started, written into the agreement. This single clause is worth more than several points on the rate.","How do I stop paying a share on revenue I already had?",{"id":36,"answer":37,"question":38},"amazon-agency-revenue-share-models-explained-faq-4","That is the built-in risk of a sales-based share, and the reason a profit base is worth fighting for. Failing that, cap promotional depth, or exclude deeply discounted units from the share calculation.","What if the agency inflates revenue with discounts?",{"id":40,"answer":41,"question":42},"amazon-agency-revenue-share-models-explained-faq-5","When profit clears the threshold and the remaining growth depends on channels you are not running. 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