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Our fee runs $800 a month for one product to $2,400 for five, everything included. Budget $8,000 to $15,000 in total capital to launch a single product properly.\n\n## The short version\n\n- **The fee is the small number.** Inventory and advertising dominate the first year of any FBA brand.\n- **Compare like for like.** A quote without an exclusions list cannot be compared to anything.\n- **Product count is a fairer basis than revenue.** It tracks the actual workload.\n- **Ask what the sourcing help costs.** Commission stacked on your factory price is a hidden fee.\n- **Total launch capital, not monthly fee, is the number that decides whether you can start.**\n\n## Start from the total, not the retainer\n\nThe question sellers usually ask is what an agency charges. The question that determines whether the business works is what the whole thing costs. So here is the full stack for a private label brand, in the order the money leaves your account.\n\n| Cost | Typical shape | Who receives it |\n|---|---|---|\n| Product samples and testing | One-off, small, unavoidable | Suppliers |\n| First inventory order | The largest single line at launch | Your factory |\n| Freight and duties | Varies by weight, route, and season | Forwarder and customs |\n| Trademark and Brand Registry | One-off per market | Your filing agent |\n| Photography and video | One-off per product, refreshed later | Studio, or included in a full-service fee |\n| Amazon referral and fulfillment fees | Per unit, forever | Amazon |\n| Advertising | Monthly, heaviest at launch | Amazon |\n| Management fee | Monthly, fixed | Your agency |\n\nOnly the last row is what an agency charges. Everything above it is yours regardless of who manages the account, which is why comparing two agencies on the retainer alone is close to meaningless.\n\nFor planning purposes, a single product launched properly needs **$8,000 to $15,000** of total capital across those lines. A five-product brand runs **$25,000 to $50,000**. A full brand launch takes about seven months from decision to a stable, ranking catalog.\n\n## What a flat management fee should include\n\nOurs is tiered by how many products we are managing, because that is what drives the work: $800 a month for one product, $1,150 for two, $1,500 for three, $1,950 for four, and $2,400 for five. Six or more gets scoped on a call. Every tier includes the full service set, more than fifty services in total, with no onboarding charge, no commission on sales, and no share of revenue below $50,000 a month in profit.\n\nThe number itself matters less than the structure. Three questions convert any quote into something comparable:\n\n1. **What is excluded?** Get the list in writing. Ad spend, photography, translation, and trademark filing are the usual four.\n2. **What changes the price?** Product count, revenue, marketplace count, or ad spend. Each basis creates a different incentive, and you should understand which one you are signing up for.\n3. **What do I pay to leave?** Notice period, final invoice treatment, and what is handed over. We bill the first and last month upfront on the first invoice, which means the exit is already paid for and nobody has to argue about it later.\n\n## The sourcing line nobody quotes\n\nThis is where full-service pricing hides most of its variance. Sourcing help is frequently paid for twice: once as a fee, and once as a commission built into the unit price your supplier quotes. You never see the second one, because it arrives inside a number that looks like the factory's price.\n\nWe run our own sourcing studio in **Guangzhou**, staffed by our own people, with frameworks built across **300 or more brands**. That means supplier identification, negotiation, sample management, and inspection sit inside the monthly fee rather than on top of your cost of goods. Whether or not you work with us, ask any full-service provider these three questions before you sign:\n\n- Do you or any partner receive payment from the factory, in any form?\n- Who physically visits or inspects the supplier, and are they your employee?\n- If I take the supplier relationship elsewhere, does the price change?\n\nThe third question is the revealing one. If the answer is yes, the sourcing was never really yours.\n\n## Worked example: is the fee justified\n\nTake a brand doing $40,000 a month across four products at a 20 percent net margin, so $8,000 of profit. A full-service fee at that product count would be $1,950 a month, or about 24 percent of current profit. That looks expensive until you attach it to a result: a five point improvement in advertising efficiency and one point of conversion across four listings would typically move profit by more than the fee costs.\n\nNow the same arithmetic on a brand doing $6,000 a month with one product. The fee is $800 against maybe $1,200 of profit. No amount of skill makes that ratio work quickly. The honest advice at that size is to spend the money on inventory and do the management yourself until volume justifies help.\n\nI would rather publish that arithmetic than win the second client.\n\n## What most agencies will not tell you\n\nFees based on a percentage of ad spend or a percentage of revenue look cheaper on a small account and become expensive precisely when you succeed. That is the trade, and it is rarely spelled out at signing. Run every proposal you receive at your projected revenue in eighteen months, not at today's, and see which structure you would still want to be inside.\n\nThe other thing most agencies will not tell you is how much of the first three months is setup rather than growth. Catalog restructuring, creative production, campaign rebuilds, and supplier documentation are real work that produces little visible revenue movement while it happens. A provider who promises immediate revenue gains is either skipping that work or planning to buy sales with your advertising budget. What we commit to early is a measurable improvement in advertising efficiency, typically within the first 30 days, because ad structure is the fastest thing to fix.\n\n## Related answers\n\n- [Fair Amazon agency pricing models](\u002Fblog\u002Ffair-amazon-agency-pricing-models)\n- [Who to hire to optimize Amazon listings](\u002Fblog\u002Fwho-to-hire-to-optimize-amazon-listings)\n- [Europe-focused Amazon account management options](\u002Fblog\u002Feurope-focused-amazon-account-management-options)\n- [How to launch first product on Amazon](\u002Fblog\u002Fhow-to-launch-first-product-on-amazon)\n- [Done-for-you Amazon management: the complete guide](\u002Fblog\u002Fdone-for-you-management)\n\nEvery tier and every exclusion is published rather than quoted on request, 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","amazon-fba","sourcing","private-label","joel-turcotte-gaucher","\u002Fimages\u002Fblog\u002Fclusters\u002Fdone-for-you-management-09.jpg","2026-09-04T06:33:51.798+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},"full-service-amazon-fba-management-cost-faq-1","Below about $50,000 a month in profit, yes, in my view. A flat fee is the only structure where nobody in the relationship earns more by spending more of your money, which matters most in the months when the right advice is to cut back.","Is a flat fee better than a percentage?",{"id":28,"answer":29,"question":30},"full-service-amazon-fba-management-cost-faq-2","There is no hard minimum, but below about $1,000 a month there is not enough data for meaningful optimization. You can start smaller. You just cannot expect fast learning from a small sample.","How much ad spend do I need alongside the fee?",{"id":32,"answer":33,"question":34},"full-service-amazon-fba-management-cost-faq-3","Your inventory, freight and duties, Amazon's referral and fulfillment fees, and your advertising budget. Trademark filing usually sits outside as well. Anyone whose proposal implies otherwise has not read it carefully.","What is not included in a management fee anywhere?",{"id":36,"answer":37,"question":38},"full-service-amazon-fba-management-cost-faq-4","After onboarding, about two hours a month for reviews and approvals. During an active launch, expect four to six hours a week, because product decisions, pricing, and supplier questions cannot be delegated entirely.","How much of my own time does this take?",{"id":40,"answer":41,"question":42},"full-service-amazon-fba-management-cost-faq-5","We do consider discounted services for equity on a case-by-case basis. 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