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Planner

Maybe

Returns run at only 0.6% of orders. But products sell for $7.52 on average, outside the sweet spot, so Planner is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
54
54 / 100
Top 18% of 835 Stationery & Office Supplies niches · +7 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£223K/yr1.4M searches / yr
90-day growth
-4.2%search demand this quarter
Competition
35%top-5 click share · 29 brands · 39 sellers

Flapen Score

Planner against its category

The dotted line is the Stationery & Office Supplies average. Past it, Planner is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

54Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Planner market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Planner 1.4M times last year and spent an estimated £223K. The top 5 brands take 51% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jan–Sep. Flapen scores it 54 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

2.1% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 1.4M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 2.1% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -4.2% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £223K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
1.4M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-4.2%
Conversion, latest week
2.1%
Market size, estimated
£223Ka year
Peak month
September2.3× the quietest month
Top search term
weekly planner341K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £7.52.

Listings sell for £7.52 on average, from £3.16 to £24.44. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 30K to 40K a year. The average listing sells 500 to 750 of them. At £7.52 that is £4K to £6K a year per listing.

Average price
£7.52under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£3.16–£24.44
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
30K–40K
Units per listing a year
500–750
Revenue per listing a year
£4K–£6K
Returns
0.6%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

90% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 9.2% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #88 within Calendars, Planners & Personal Organisers. It carries 886 reviews at 4.48 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
90%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
9.2%
Average rank
#88in Calendars, Planners & Personal Organisers
Average rating
4.48 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
886per listing
Listings tracked
48

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 3 of last year's 12 launches as successful.

12 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 3 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 32 months on average, so a newcomer is not facing entrenched names.

Launched, last 12 months
12
Successful launches
3Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
32 months

Products

Top Planner products & what they sell for

Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take only 35% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

£0£9K£18K£27K£36K101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

29 falling

Sellers

39

Top-5 brand share

51%

Top 20: 92%

Top-5 click share

35%

Top 20: 73%

Open market

43%

  • Zhswlp12%
  • Thboxes11%
  • Umriox10%
  • SWEETZER & ORANGE10%
  • RETTACY9%
  • Moseem6%

Demand

Planner search demand

Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.

50K30KSpike '24Holiday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Black Friday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jan, Sep · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.3×

Search terms

Top Planner search terms shoppers use

The exact words shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth, and conversion.

  • weekly planner341K/yr
  • planner319K/yr
  • daily planner234K/yr
  • weekly planner pad78K/yr
  • planners92K/yr
  • organiser notebook49K/yr
  • undated planner33K/yr
  • planners and organisers32K/yr
  • work planner30K/yr
  • weekly planner notebook20K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Planner

What buyers praise, what they complain about and why they send it back, from the reviews.

Complain

Quality-Overall15%+0.51

Not good quality

Expensive for the quality

How on earth has it made its way through quality control

Size-Overall15%−0.05

Large Year Ahead

Small

smaller than expected

Print Quality8%−0.05

Difficult to read the print

Unreadable printing

The page printing - To Do - is completely unreadable

Adhesion/Stickiness8%−0.05

Doesn't stick

It isnt particularly sticky so as I didnt get it straight

made it difficult to stick flat

Advertised Vs Actual Product5%+0.84

the pictures are misleading

Not as described

Love

Document Organizing/Classification24%+1.54

Helpful organiser

Keeps me super organised

Great for getting organised

Quality-Overall19%+0.51

Build quality feels solid and well thought out

Always great quality, great price & quick delivery

Good Quality

Advertised Vs Actual Product11%+0.84

As shown

it is as pictured

As described

Ease Of Use10%+0.28

Easy to use

can be removed easily

Very handy

Value For Money8%+0.80

Excellent value for money

Good buy

Great deal

Return

0.6% Return rate 65% Fixable by listing

Size-Overall42%█▆▄▅▅▅

Large Year Ahead

Small

smaller than expected

Advertised Vs Actual Product10%▁▂▅█▆▇

the pictures are misleading

Not as described

Quality-Overall9%▆▂█▄▆▅

Not good quality

Expensive for the quality

How on earth has it made its way through quality control

Paper Quality5%▁█▄▁▆▇

Ok. Thought it would have more pages very thin

Print Quality4%▁█▃▆▆▃

Difficult to read the print

Unreadable printing

The page printing - To Do - is completely unreadable

FAQ

Common Planner questions

Answered from the same tracked data.