We’re updating our shipping templates to help ensure that shipping fees are predictable for customers as they purchase multiple units.
As of March 24, 2026, 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.
You have shipping templates with price-branded shipping rates, and we recommend that you proactively update them to per-item/weight-based or weight-tiered rate models as soon as possible to ensure that your shipping rates are set according to your business needs and to avoid any potential disruptions.
If you do not take action by March 24, 2026, any existing price-banded shipping templates will automatically be migrated to the per-item/weight-based rate model, and your shipping fees, which are charged to customers, will be set to the fees listed below.
For parcel shipping templates, the following rates will apply:
Standard shipping to the lower-48 states will be set to $0.00.
Standard shipping to other US regions (Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico) and international shipments will be set to $4.99 per order plus $0.99 per lb.
Expedited shipping to the lower-48 states and international shipments will be set to $8.99 plus $0.99 per lb.
Expedited shipping to other US regions (Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico) will be set to $10.99 per order plus $0.99 per lb.
Premium shipping, including one- and two-day deliveries, to all regions will be set to $10.99 per order plus $0.99 per lb.
For freight shipping templates, the following rates will apply:
Arranged delivery to all US regions will be set to $4.99 per order plus $0.99 per lb.
Scheduled delivery to all US regions will be set to $0.00 per lb.
To update your templates, take the following steps:
Under Shipping Templates, select the template to modify.
Click Edit template.
In Rate Model, select Per-item/Weight-based or Weight-tiered.
Under Shipping options, regions, and rates, adjust your shipping fee.
Click Save.
Review a sample offer to verify your changes. We also recommend that you review your entire product catalog to verify that shipping costs are displayed correctly, and that you monitor your first few orders to ensure accuracy.
I have never had price branded shipping so it doesn’t effect me.
That being said I was about to raise my rates. I have a lot of $5 items, there is no way I am charging $11 per item for “free shipping”. As it is I end up ripping off people for shipping because of Amazon’s Minimum fee per item instead of per order.
I harbored a good deal of suspicion that what KJ said in this 063025 post, when the deprecation of Price-banded Shipping was first announced via another email (reproduced elsewhere in that NSFE thread), would sooner or later wind up proving untrue (emphasis mine):
Last year they removed sellers’ ability to create templates with price banding (while claiming existing templates wouldn’t be effected.) Now they are removing existing templates as well.
If you were using price banding on your templates, just go in and change the templates either per-item/weight-based or weight-tiered rate models before March 24, 2026.
The things you do not want will only happen if you have price banding on your templates and do not change them to per-item/weight-based or weight-tiered rate models before March 24, 2026.
Ickynicks mentioned this to me. I found the email. I edited my to $6 for the lower 48, $7 to Alaska, and Hawaii. $6 for APO and 47 for US territories. I couldn’t change international or would’ve set it at a much higher rate even tho i seldom do international selling anymore
It appears they didn’t wait until March 24 as they changed all of our price-banded shipping settings to per item/weight sometime in the last few days. They did at least keep our shipping rates the same as they were previously for price-banded instead of changing them to the ridiculously low amounts that said they would.
I just got 3 orders for cheap books with NO shipping money, so I finally went in and changed the shipping template. I think it was easier than when I first set them up several years ago, but I have lost the ability to provide free shipping above 34.99, and now must charge shipping on everything.
Maybe set up and run two different shipping templates? One for those below $30.00 and one for those above $30.00 (or whatever your $$$ break point is). Assign the appropriate SKUs to the appropriate shipping template. Fairly certain it can be done this way.
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Yes, you can absolutely have multiple Amazon shipping templates (up to 20) with one charging shipping and another set for free shipping. Using a Professional account, you can create custom templates and assign specific SKUs to them in Inventory Management, allowing you to control which products are free shipping and which are not.
Key Details for Setting Up Multiple Templates:
Create Multiple Templates: Navigate to Shipping Settings in Seller Central to create unique templates named, for example, “Free Shipping” and “Paid Shipping”.
Set Different Rates: In the “Free Shipping” template, set all shipping costs to $$$0.00. In the “Paid Shipping” template, use the per-item/weight-based or price-banded option to set costs.
Assign SKUs: Assign your SKUs to the appropriate template via the “Manage Inventory” page or via inventory file templates.
Impact on Cart: If a customer buys items from different templates, Amazon generally calculates the shipping based on the combined settings of those items, but they will not be combined as free if only one item is free.