Product Research

Look up any ASIN, UPC, EAN, ISBN or keyword. You get the fees, your eligibility, the competition and the most you can pay, and you can save the product as a lead.

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Profit Outpost's product analysis for a sample water bottle at a $9.50 cost: net profit $7.33, ROI 77.1%, margin 29.3% and a max cost of $13.46 under the cost and sale price fields, beside the profit breakdown — The real app with sample data.

Lookups: ASIN, UPC, EAN, ISBN, keyword, Amazon link
Targets: Minimum profit, minimum ROI, optional margin
Costs: Inbound, placement, storage, prep, misc, sales tax, FBM
Output: Profit, ROI, margin, break-even, max cost

Every fee, line by line

Profit Outpost asks Amazon for its own fee estimate for the product (referral, FBA fulfilment, variable closing and every other fee in the estimate) and adds the costs you set:

Inbound FBA shipping per pound of shipping weight, plus an optional flat amount per unit
Amazon's inbound placement fee for the split you use (Amazon-optimized, partial or minimal)
Storage if you set a storage time, at peak rates if you choose them
Prep, misc fee ($ and %), sales tax on your cost, and your own FBM shipping cost for FBM

You get profit, ROI, margin, break-even price and max cost, with the full breakdown beside them.

Profit breakdown

Sample

Sale price: $24.99
Referral fee: −$3.75
FBA fulfilment fee: −$3.70
Inbound, prep, storage: $0.00
Your cost: −$9.50

Net profit$8.04

Max cost to the cent

Max cost is the highest cost, to the cent, that meets both your minimum profit and your minimum ROI. Profit Outpost tells you which one limits it, so you know whether to negotiate or walk away. ROI is profit divided by your cost including sales tax.

Try the worked example on the home page.

Max cost: the most you can pay

Sample

$13.49

Minimum profit $3.00Met: $4.05

Minimum ROI 30%Limits it

Limited by: minimum ROI 30%. Negotiate below $13.49 or walk away.

FBA and FBM side by side

Switch a product between FBA and FBM and the costs follow: FBM drops Amazon's fulfilment fee, inbound shipping, prep, placement and storage, and adds your FBM cost. You set the default in Settings.

Cost	FBA	FBM
Amazon fulfilment fee	Yes	–
Inbound shipping	Yes	–
Prep	Yes	–
Placement	Yes	–
Storage	Yes	–
Your FBM shipping	–	Yes

Eligibility and risk

With your Amazon account connected, each product shows whether you can sell it, need approval, or are restricted, plus warnings such as hazmat, IP-risk brands, private label, Amazon's own brands and Amazon on the listing. With Keepa, Profit Outpost also reviews seller competition and Featured Offer concentration over the past 30, 90, 180 or 365 days. Where the data can't establish a concern, you see Unknown, never "safe". Eligibility belongs to your account and can change, and a favourable result doesn't protect you against later complaints.

Eligibility for your account

Sample

Lumen Trail Water Bottle, 32 ozYou can sell

Pip & Pebble Stacking RingsUnknown

Hearthwell Cast Iron SkilletRestricted

Warnings

HazmatIP-risk brandAmazon on the listingPrivate label

Good to know

Known limits

Fees are exact at the price Amazon estimated. At another price Profit Outpost scales the referral fee until the analysis runs again. Placement fees use the top of Amazon's published ranges. Category percentages ("top 0.4%") are estimates, because Amazon doesn't publish category sizes. The calculator works now; fees and eligibility from your own seller account arrive with the Amazon connection, which you can't connect yet: Amazon has to open Profit Outpost's access to seller accounts first, and the parts that use it are ready in the app for when it does.