Amazon and eBay Fee Calendar 2026: What Changed on 5 Jan, 1 Feb, 1 Jul and 24 Aug

As of: 6 August 2026. Every date and rate in this article was checked against primary sources on that day (the Amazon Seller Central announcement, Amazon’s official European rate card, and the eBay Verkäuferportal). Source links are at the end.

For anyone selling on Amazon Europe and eBay.de, 2026 has four hard deadlines. Most of the “2026 fees” lists floating around either miss some of them or put them in the wrong order — the single most common mistake is dating the 5 January reductions to 1 February. This article walks the calendar date by date, with the source and with what it actually means for your product. If you also sell in Türkiye, the good news is that none of this touches Trendyol; the scope is Amazon’s European stores and eBay.de.

The 2026 fee calendar at a glance

• 5 January 2026 — Amazon: referral fee reductions in four categories, but only for items below a price threshold; low-price FBA extended; lower caps on deal fees.
• 1 February 2026 — Amazon: not reductions but increases. Monthly storage, return-to-seller and liquidation fees went up; FBA fulfilment fees were updated in the Netherlands, Sweden, Belgium, Ireland and Poland.
• 1 July 2026 — eBay.de: tiered commission removed in 43 categories, replaced by a single flat rate applied to the whole sale amount (direction: up). Amazon’s new European rate card also took effect on this date.
• 24 August 2026 — Amazon: for seller-fulfilled (FBM) orders you can no longer set price-banded shipping rates; only per-item/weight-based or weight-tiered models remain.

What these four dates have in common: none of them can be summarised as “the commission is now X”. Each has a threshold, a scope or an exception — and margin errors are born exactly where that threshold gets skipped.

5 January 2026 — the Amazon reductions are real, but only below the price band

Amazon had originally planned these reductions for 1 February and pulled them forward. Its own wording is explicit: “Am 5. Januar 2026 senken wir die prozentuale Verkaufsgebühr für bestimmte Kategorien … haben wir diese Änderungen vom ursprünglich geplanten 1. Februar vorgezogen.” So the reduction date is 5 January; any list dating it to 1 February is wrong.

The four categories that changed, across all European stores:

• Home / household products (new category): 15% → 8%, if the item price is ≤ €20
• Pet apparel and food: 15% → 5%, if ≤ €10
• Grocery & gourmet food: 8% → 5%, if ≤ €10
• Vitamins, minerals and dietary supplements (new category): 8% → 5%, if ≤ €10

The critical nuance: this is not a category-wide cut, it is a low-price-band cut. Amazon’s current rate card spells it out for household products: “8 % … bis zu 20 €, 15 % für Produkte mit einem Preis über 20 €”. So on a €35 household item the referral fee is not 8% — it is still 15%.

Worked example: on an €18 household item the referral fee is 18 × 8% = €1.44. On a variant of the same product sold at €22 it is 22 × 15% = €3.30. You raised the price by €4 and your commission grew 2.3×. If your catalogue is priced just above the €20 line, it is far better to price that deliberately than to discover later that the reduction never applied to you. To see the threshold effect on your own item, enter both prices into the Amazon commission calculator and compare them side by side.

Two more items that started on the same date

• Low-price FBA was extended to items ≤ €20 in most categories. By Amazon’s own statement, newly eligible items see an average −€0.45 per unit.
• Deal fee caps came down: the variable fee cap for Best Deals and Lightning Deals is €300 in Germany (£200 UK, €100 France/Italy/Spain).

Amazon’s headline claim for the overall effect: an average −€0.17 per unit sold. That is an average; the effect on your catalogue may be far larger, or exactly zero, depending on your price distribution.

1 February 2026 — this is an increase date, not a reduction date

Once the reductions were pulled forward, what remained took effect on 1 February: “Alle übrigen am 2. Dezember angekündigten Gebührenänderungen treten am 1. Februar 2026 in Kraft.” What was “the rest”? From Amazon Europe’s own announcement:

“…we will make selective fee increases …, including to monthly storage fees, return-to-seller, and liquidation fees, and will update FBA fulfillment fees in our Netherlands, Sweden, Belgium, Ireland, and Poland stores. Together, these updates will result in an average £0.02/€0.02 increase in fee per unit sold via FBA.”

In plain terms: monthly storage, sending stock back to the seller, and liquidating stock all got more expensive, and the FBA fulfilment tariff was refreshed in five countries. The title of Amazon’s official rate card at the time confirms it: “Tarifübersicht — Gebühren für Europa — Gültig ab 1. Februar 2026”.

We deliberately do not quote line-item amounts here — storage and return figures vary by size tier, month and country, so a single number would mislead. The right way to see your own figure: in Seller Central open Reports → Payments → Transaction view and compare the storage-fee lines month by month. The gap between January and March tells you what the increase cost your specific stock profile.

Staleness warning: the 1 February rate card is no longer current

This is the trap most “Amazon fees 2026” content falls into. As of today (6 August 2026) the European rate card in force is titled “Gültig ab dem 1. Juli 2026”; the February card is superseded. Comparing the two documents line by line:

• The referral fee table is identical. So the 5 January rates above are still valid today. The table’s column header reads “UK /DE/FR/IT/ES”, so the rates apply to Germany as well.
• What changed is the FBA fulfilment section: the July card added peak-season tables (“Für den Höhepunkt des Weihnachtsgeschäfts”). The document grew from 29 to 33 pages.

Practical rule: you may still read the referral rate from the older card — it is unchanged. But if you take FBA fulfilment or peak-season figures from the old card, you are pricing on stale data; read those from the 1 July card. The peak-season tables matter especially for Q4 pricing.

1 July 2026 — eBay.de dropped tiered commission for a flat rate

While Amazon moved down in some price bands, eBay.de moved up. eBay’s own announcement: “In ausgewählten Kategorien entfällt für alle Verkäufer*innen die Staffelung, und die variable Verkaufsprovision wird auf einen einheitlichen prozentualen Gebührensatz pro Kategorie erhöht.”

• Old structure (until 30 June 2026): tiered. For example, in Computers/Phones a seller without a shop paid 6.5% (≤ €990) + 3% (> €990); with a shop the threshold was €500.
• New structure (from 1 July 2026): one flat rate applied to the entire sale amount. No tiers.

43 categories, five rates

The categories that changed, by their new flat rate:

• 7% → 16 categories
• 11% → 1 category
• 12% → 14 categories
• 13% → 2 categories
• 14% → 10 categories

That is 43 categories in total. Verify from the official table whether your category is on the list and which rate it landed on — do not rely on “X out of Y categories” totals circulating in the press.

Worked example: a €1,500 computer

This is an example — a seller without a shop, under the old tiered structure and under the new 7% flat rate:

• Old: 6.5% × €990 + 3% × €510 = €64.35 + €15.30 = €79.65
• New: 7% × €1,500 = €105.00
• Difference: +€25.35 (about +32%)

Because the tier is gone, the impact is much harsher on high-priced items. On cheap items the difference is small, and where the rate fell it can even work in your favour. So instead of concluding “eBay fees went up”, split your catalogue by price band and look at each half. To see where your floor price now sits under the new rate, run it item by item through the minimum selling price calculator.

Two more items: the re-commerce discount and the service-standard surcharge

• Re-commerce discount: in those same 43 categories, certain item conditions drop the commission to 5% (eBay’s phrasing: “bis zu 60 % günstiger”). The conditions covered are “Neu: Sonstige”, “Zertifiziert / Hervorragend / Sehr gut / Gut – Refurbished”, “Vom Verkäufer generalüberholt”, “Gebraucht”, and “Gebraucht – Hervorragend / Gut / Akzeptabel”. If you sell used or refurbished goods, this is a real lever pulling in the opposite direction from the increase.
• Service-standard surcharge: the deviating commission for sellers rated “Unterdurchschnittlich”, and for those with a very high “not as described” return rate, changes on the same logic; and if the status persists for four consecutive months the rate goes up by one percentage point. Here your return rate turns directly into a commission rate — our guide on reducing your return rate covers that side.

eBay’s August 2026 Seller News contains no postponement or correction to this change; as of 6 August it is in force.

24 August 2026 — Amazon removes price-banded shipping templates (FBM only)

Most content attributes this one to the wrong platform: it is an Amazon change, not eBay. From the notification Amazon sent to sellers: “Ab dem 24. August 2026 können Sie für Bestellungen mit Versand durch Verkäufer keine gestaffelten, bestellwertabhängigen Versandkosten mehr festlegen.”

The mechanism was described verbatim in the US, where Amazon rolled out the same change earlier:

“…you’ll no longer be able to set price-banded shipping rates for any seller-fulfilled orders. Only per-item/weight-based or weight-tiered rate models will be available on your shipping templates. … If you do not take action …, any existing price-banded shipping templates will automatically be migrated to the per-item/weight-based rate model.”

Three consequences:

1. Only FBM is affected. On FBA, Amazon already handles shipping, so the change does not touch those orders.
2. Rules like “free shipping over €150” can no longer be built. If your free-shipping threshold is tied to order value, you will not be able to express that inside a shipping template.
3. Doing nothing means automatic migration. Your existing templates get moved to the per-item/weight-based model — which can unexpectedly cut your shipping revenue on heavy items. Setting up the weight tiers yourself is clearly safer than letting the migration decide.

An honest note on sourcing: the mechanism itself and the automatic migration are confirmed by primary text on Amazon’s own seller forum. The 24 August 2026 date, however, rests on a source quoting the email Amazon sent to sellers; Amazon’s German help pages on this sit behind a login wall, so it could not be confirmed verbatim. Treat the date as indicative and check your own account: Seller Central → Settings → Shipping settings → Shipping templates. If your templates are already weight-based, there is nothing for you to do.

Moving to a weight-based template may mean rebuilding the volumetric side of your shipping cost too; the volumetric weight calculator helps you see which tier an item lands in.

How to measure what this calendar did to your margin

Reading the calendar is not enough; the real question is what happened to your products. Four steps:

1. Split your catalogue by threshold. On Amazon, how many SKUs sit below and above the €10 and €20 bands? Without knowing how many SKUs actually qualify, you cannot say “my commission went down”.
2. Re-price your eBay categories against the new flat rate. Above €500 especially, the effective rate rose noticeably now that the tier is gone.
3. Refresh your FBA figures from the 1 July card. If you are still working from the February card, you have never seen the Q4 peak-season tables.
4. Close the loop with the payout breakdown. Whatever the tariff says, the real deduction is in the settlement lines. A seller who never compares estimate against breakdown notices the increase only in month-end cash flow.

To run all four by hand on a single product, the Amazon profit calculator and the FBA / FBM comparison tool will do the job; to compare the same item across marketplaces, see the marketplace profit comparison tool.

Three frequently asked questions

Did Amazon commissions go down on 1 February 2026?

No. The reductions took effect on 5 January; Amazon pulled them forward from 1 February. What took effect on 1 February were increases to storage, return-to-seller and liquidation fees, plus the FBA fulfilment update in five countries. Content that presents both dates as a “reduction calendar” gets the whole timeline wrong.

Is the household-products commission really 8%?

Only if the item price is up to €20. Above €20 the rate stays at 15%. The same logic applies to the 5% items at the €10 threshold. Saying “the commission dropped to 8%” without the threshold leads straight to a margin error.

Does the 24 August change affect FBA too?

No. It covers shipping templates for seller-fulfilled (FBM) orders only. On FBA, Amazon ships the order, so you have no shipping template to change.

Read fee changes from the payout, not from the calendar

What a fee change actually costs is told by the payout breakdown, not by the announcement. Once you connect your Amazon store, Verimle reads the actual deductions of every order from that breakdown, derives net profit per product, and alerts you when a deduction comes in larger than expected — so you see from your own data whether the 5 January reduction really reached your SKUs, or which product the 1 February storage increase is eating. Relevant surfaces: real profit X-ray, commission alert and return analysis. The features that draft a dispute — deduction objection and the Lost Money Radar — currently run on Trendyol accounts only; there is no endpoint on the Amazon side that submits one. It prepares a dispute draft; it does not bring the money back automatically, it shows what was over-deducted and why.

Sources and important note

Important note: All calculations here are examples. Amazon’s referral fee, FBA fulfilment and storage fees, and eBay commission rates vary by category, item price, item condition and account-specific terms; this article does not replace the official tariffs or your contract. Always verify the exact rates that apply to you in your own Amazon Seller Central and eBay seller account.

• Amazon European fee update (primary): aboutamazon.eu — Update to European referral and FBA fees for 2026
• Amazon’s current European rate card (“Gültig ab dem 1. Juli 2026”): FBA Rate Card DE (PDF)
• eBay.de commission change (primary): eBay Verkäuferportal — Gebührenänderungen

To try the new rates with your own product’s real numbers, use the Amazon commission calculator.