# low inventory fee
**URL:** https://sellersasksellers.com/t/low-inventory-fee/4397
**Category:** Deciphering Amazon’s inventory management
**Tags:** fees, reports, inventory
**Created:** [July 21, 2024, 1:49pm UTC](https://sellersasksellers.com/t/low-inventory-fee/4397 "2024-07-21T13:49:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@anon8238764](https://sellersasksellers.com/u/anon8238764)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2024, 1:49pm UTC](https://sellersasksellers.com/t/low-inventory-fee/4397/1 "2024-07-21T13:49:29Z")
Two questions:
1.) Where do we monitor for items that are going to be charged a low-inventory fee? The ‘restock inventory’ page? I ask because it does not seem very accurate, at least not for my inventory (which has seasonal ups and downs, summer being my peak).
2.) If I am low on an item, thus triggering a low inventory fee, what happens if I close the listing until more inventory is shipped in? I believe the low inventory fee kicks in at each sale of low-inventory items, so does that stop the low inventory fee from being charged?
---
### Author:  [@Tried\_Tested](https://sellersasksellers.com/u/Tried_Tested)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2024, 3:30pm UTC](https://sellersasksellers.com/t/low-inventory-fee/4397/2 "2024-07-21T15:30:45Z")
@VTR @ASV_Vites @Dogtamer @Lost_My_Marbles
---
### Author:  [@Dogtamer](https://sellersasksellers.com/u/Dogtamer)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2024, 9:08pm UTC](https://sellersasksellers.com/t/low-inventory-fee/4397/3 "2024-07-21T21:08:57Z")
> [@anon8238764](#):
>
> 1.) Where do we monitor for items that are going to be charged a low-inventory fee? The ‘restock inventory’ page? I ask because it does not seem very accurate, at least not for my inventory (which has seasonal ups and downs, summer being my peak).
We track it mainly from the FBA Inventory Dashboard @ https: [//sellercentral.amazon.com/inventoryplanning/manageinventoryhealth](https://sellercentral.amazon.com/inventoryplanning/manageinventoryhealth), but we also use the new SKU Economics Report Dashboard @ https: [//sellercentral.amazon.com/sereport](https://sellercentral.amazon.com/sereport).
Unfortunately, it’s not particularly unusual for us to have to scrabble around in various of the Fulfillment Reports themselves in order to reconcile **everything** fully.
* * *
> [@anon8238764](#):
>
> 2.) If I am low on an item, thus triggering a low inventory fee, what happens if I close the listing until more inventory is shipped in? I believe the low inventory fee kicks in at each sale of low-inventory items, so does that stop the low inventory fee from being charged?
There’s been a good deal of speculation about this question - both here in such SAS FBA Category threads as this one:
[https://test.sellersasksellers.com/t/low-inventory-fee-and-amazon-out-of-stock-guidance/3751](https://test.sellersasksellers.com/t/low-inventory-fee-and-amazon-out-of-stock-guidance/3751)
as well as over in the NSFE & related discussion venues.
Unfortunately, I don’t know the answer to your highly-pertinent 2nd question, primarily due to lack of first-hand knowledge (because it’s been many years since we went out of stock for our Offer-Listings).
---
### Author:  [@ASV\_Vites](https://sellersasksellers.com/u/ASV_Vites)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2024, 9:54pm UTC](https://sellersasksellers.com/t/low-inventory-fee/4397/4 "2024-07-21T21:54:54Z")
Closing the listing will stop the fees. The fees are assessed only when something sells.
Closing an FBA listing automatically makes the inventory stranded though and starts the destruction / removal order clock ticking.
There was some seasonal inventory logic added to the policy to make this a little easier on sellers, I just don’t know where that verbiage is or what it entails.
---
### Author:  [@bronson2033](https://sellersasksellers.com/u/bronson2033)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2024, 10:01pm UTC](https://sellersasksellers.com/t/low-inventory-fee/4397/5 "2024-07-21T22:01:17Z")
Sometimes I increase the price on a low stock item, so that if it sells it will more than cover the additional fee until more stock comes in.
---
### Author:  [@VTR](https://sellersasksellers.com/u/VTR)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2024, 10:06pm UTC](https://sellersasksellers.com/t/low-inventory-fee/4397/6 "2024-07-21T22:06:15Z")
We do the same.
---
### Author:  [@Dogtamer](https://sellersasksellers.com/u/Dogtamer)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2024, 10:06pm UTC](https://sellersasksellers.com/t/low-inventory-fee/4397/7 "2024-07-21T22:06:51Z")
> [@bronson2033](#):
>
> Sometimes I increase the price on a low stock item, so that if it sells it will more than cover the additional fee until more stock comes in.
This sounds. to me, like a reasonable approach, indeed.
Welcome to the Sellers Ask Sellers (“SAS”) Forums!
---
### Author:  [@Gandalf](https://sellersasksellers.com/u/Gandalf)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2024, 9:02am UTC](https://sellersasksellers.com/t/low-inventory-fee/4397/8 "2024-07-22T09:02:05Z")
We do this as well. I think it’s a much better option than closing the listing.