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Back to School Plates

Pass

Back to School Plates scores 66 out of 100, a Pass. Shoppers spend an estimated $77K a year here, search demand grew +559.7% this quarter, and an estimated 3.2% of orders come back.

Flapen Score
66
66 / 100
Top 3% of 14,768 Health & Household niches · +17 vs the category median of 49
Market size
$77K/yr121K searches / yr
90-day growth
+559.7%search demand this quarter
Competition
21%top-5 click share · 64 brands · 66 sellers

Flapen Score

Back to School Plates against its category

The dotted line is the Health & Household average. Past it, Back to School Plates is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

66Pass
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Back to School Plates market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Back to School Plates 121K times last year and spent an estimated $77K. The top 5 brands take 29% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jul–Aug. Flapen scores it 66 out of 100, a Pass.

01 · Demand

An estimated 4.3% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 121K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 4.3% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +559.7% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $77K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
121K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+559.7%
Conversion, latest week
4.3%
Market size, estimated
$77Ka year
Peak month
August219.1× the quietest month
Top search term
back to school plates39K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $14.73.

Listings sell for $14.73 on average, from $7.75 to $35.67. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 6K to 8K a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At $14.73 that is $0 to $1K a year per listing.

Average price
$14.73under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$7.75–$35.67
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
6K–8K
Units per listing a year
0–100
Revenue per listing a year
$0–$1K
Returns
3.2%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads.

91% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 95% ship with Prime. On an average day, 31.1% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #3,272 within Disposable Plates, Bowls & Cutlery. It carries 58 reviews at 4.67 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
91%
Prime listings
95%
Out of stock, average day
31.1%
Average rank
#3,272in Disposable Plates, Bowls & Cutlery
Average rating
4.67 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
58per listing
Listings tracked
88

04 · Newcomers

0 of last year's 38 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

38 products launched here in the last 12 months. 0 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 18 months on average, so a newcomer is not facing entrenched names.

Launched, last 12 months
38
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
18 months

Products

Top Back to School Plates products & what they sell for

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

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Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take only 21% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

Brands

64 rising

Sellers

66

Top-5 brand share

29%

Top 20: 67%

Top-5 click share

21%

Top 20: 56%

Open market

67%

  • Brand 17%
  • Brand 26%
  • Brand 36%
  • Brand 45%
  • Brand 54%
  • Brand 64%

Demand

Back to School Plates search demand

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

20K15KSpike '24Holiday '24Spike '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jul, Aug · busiest ÷ quietest = 219.1×

Search terms

Top Back to School Plates search terms shoppers use

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

  • back to school plates39K/yr
  • back to school plates and napkins21K/yr
  • school plates8K/yr
  • pencil plates9K/yr
  • back to school paper plates and napkins5K/yr
  • school paper plates6K/yr
  • pencil paper plates4K/yr
  • back to school paper plates10K/yr
  • first day of school plates7K/yr
  • first day of school plates and napkins4K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Back to School Plates

We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.

17%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
27%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
3.2%of orders come back
“larger than I expected”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”27% of negative reviews mention the same topic

Every topic

Every topic buyers talk about, one row each.

Red shows the share of negative reviews and green the share of positive reviews, biggest topic first. Open a row to read what they wrote.

14 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Back to School Plates questions

Answered from the same tracked data.