Estimating Amazon final-mile charges

You can estimate the final-mile cost to an Amazon fulfillment center inside your Seller Central shipping plan, before you commit. If you use an Amazon-partnered carrier (Amazon LTL or small-parcel), Amazon bills you directly — those charges never appear on your Prime Freight invoice. Use the estimate to compare options; don't accept Amazon's charges until you've decided.

Once you have created your shipping plan, open the prepare-shipment step. Amazon walks you through choosing a shipping service and entering your packaging details, then shows an estimated cost. The exact screen layout changes over time, so work by what each field is asking for rather than by its position on the page.

1. Choose the LTL / Amazon-partnered carrier shipping service.

2. Enter your pallet details. If you don't have exact numbers yet, estimate:

3. Height — use Amazon's maximum allowed pallet height.

4. Weight per pallet — divide your total cargo weight by the number of pallets.

5. Number of pallets — divide your total shipment volume in CBM by roughly 1.5.

6. Leave Stackable unchecked unless your pallets truly are stackable. If you mark them stackable when they aren't, Amazon may send a truck sized only for stacked pallets, and it won't fit all your cargo.

7. Enter the freight details it asks for:

8. Date ready for freight — any date, for estimating.

9. Contact person — any contact.

10. Freight class — use class 100 as a general estimate.

11. Declared value — your shipment's commercial value.

12. Calculate the estimate — but do not accept the charges. You're only pricing the option.

Tip: Automatic pallet calculators exist online, but they're often inaccurate and tend to underestimate pallet counts. Treat any tool's output as a rough figure.

1. Choose small parcel delivery (SPD) and your parcel carrier.

2. Enter your packaging details — carton weights, and box dimensions if asked.

3. Review the estimated cost, and again do not accept the charges until you've decided.

• Amazon-partnered carrier (Amazon LTL or SPD): Amazon handles and bills the final delivery once the carrier picks up. You are billed separately through Seller Central; nothing appears on your Prime Freight invoice.

• Prime Freight LTL or FCL delivery: the final-mile charges appear on your Prime Freight invoice. Ask your operations team for a detailed quote in the app.

See Paying Amazon for final delivery for how the billing splits work.

We coordinate the pickup for supported small-parcel and LTL services from our warehouse. If you'd rather we handle the whole final mile, we can quote our own LTL or FCL delivery — often faster than Amazon-partnered LTL during peak periods, at a higher cost (see Planning around Prime Day and holidays). Use the estimates above to run a quick cost-benefit comparison, then tell your team which option you want.

• Shipping to Amazon FBA, end to end

• Paying Amazon for final delivery

• Amazon palletization rules

• Planning around Prime Day and holidays