Books & media
Fulfilment maths that still works at book margins
When a unit earns you a pound or two, every prep penny is visible. Our volume ladder takes FBA prep down to £0.30 per unit at 3,001+, with inspection, FNSKU labelling and Amazon-ready packing included.
FBA prep turnaround target
24hr
Pick accuracy target
99.8%
Free storage on every delivery
30 days
What goes wrong elsewhere
The problems this solves
Thin margins amplify every fee
A £0.20 difference in per-unit prep is noise on a £40 supplement and fatal on a £6 paperback. Books need volume pricing that actually reaches low numbers.
Volume is the whole business
Media sellers move thousands of units, not hundreds. Receiving, labelling and shipping at that scale by hand stops being possible long before it stops being profitable.
Condition disputes eat the profit
A bumped corner turns 'new' into 'very good' and takes the margin with it. Without inspection at goods-in, you inherit your supplier's damage as your feedback problem.
How it runs
4 steps, all of them visible to you
Each step writes back to your portal as it happens, so progress is something you check rather than something you chase.
See it in the portalBulk inbound, counted properly
Pallets or containers received, unloaded and counted against your announcement, with condition issues photographed.
Prep at ladder rates
Inspection, FNSKU label and Amazon-ready packing included at every tier, from £0.50 per unit at 1–500 down to £0.30 at 3,001+ - the tier where media volume usually lives.
Dense, cheap storage
Books stack efficiently, and volume-based storage rewards that: dense stock costs little per unit, and every delivery gets 30 free days while shipments are built.
Ship to Amazon or direct
FBA shipments forwarded against a 24hr prep turnaround target, with condition checked on every copy before it travels.
What it costs
Straight from the published rate card
These aren't “from” teasers - they are the rates on our pricing page.
See the full rate card- FBA prep £0.35/unit (2,001–3,000) · £0.30/unit (3,001+), all-inclusive
- Storage £20/m³/month; first 30 days free on every delivery
- Bundling £0.35 per unit bundled for sets
Questions
Asked before, answered here
What is the cheapest way to prep books for FBA in the UK?
Volume is the lever. Our ladder runs £0.50 per unit at 1–500 down to £0.35 at 2,001–3,000 and £0.30 at 3,001+, with inspection, FNSKU labelling and Amazon-ready packing included rather than itemised on top. For sellers moving media in the thousands, the difference between a flat rate and a real ladder is the margin.
Is a 3PL viable for low-priced books and media?
It comes down to per-unit arithmetic, which is why all our numbers are published. At £0.30–£0.35 per unit prepped at volume, £20 per cubic metre per month of storage after 30 free days and no minimums or setup fee, the only fixed overhead is a £30 monthly account fee - and only in months you ship under 100 units, above which it is waived - with the first month free. Run those numbers against your average sale price - that is the honest test.
Do you check book condition at goods-in?
Every unit is inspected as part of prep, and stock arriving bumped, creased or water-marked is photographed and flagged through the portal's discrepancy alerts. That lets you claim against the supplier or courier and keeps damaged copies out of 'new' listings, where a condition complaint costs both the refund and the feedback.
Can you handle sets and bundle listings for media?
Yes. Box sets, series bundles and multi-disc lots are assembled at £0.35 per unit bundled and listed as a single pickable SKU. Bundling slow single volumes into sets is one of the few ways to lift margin on media without touching price, and it costs pence per unit to build.
Can you fulfil single book orders from my own website or eBay?
No - we prep stock for Amazon FBA rather than picking and packing individual orders. Your stock sits here as one live inventory position and forwards into Amazon against a 24hr prep turnaround target.
Related
Run the numbers, then send a pallet
Every rate is published. If the maths works - and at volume it usually does - £0 setup means there is nothing else to decide.