Should I move to an Amazon Business (Buyers) Account?

Should you move to a Business (Buyers) Account?

Do not Confuse this with your Selling Account (Seller Central), this only applies to your Buying account.

When it comes to managing your purchases on Amazon, you might be wondering whether to move to a business (Buyers) Account instead of using a personal (Buyers) Account.

The choice has its own set of advantages and disadvantages as listed below:

Moving to a Business Account

Pros:

1. Save Time Processing Orders:
   You can get and send your Amazon Business buying order data, in minutes, with two clicks (using Our Extension) to Easy Book Prep, Quickly & Easily. no More Waiting on Amazon!

2. Get Full Order Data
   Get better and more complete Data as a Business Buying Account, Personal accounts have reduced data, primarily:

   1. Expand your purchased Items Condition information beyond (New, Used, Collectable, & Refurbished*)
      With a Business Analytics, you also get the "Sub-Condition" information ( Like New, Very Good, Good, Acceptable ), which amazon removed from personal account information and is no longer available.

   2. Get Seller Information
      Know who you purchased the items from

   3. Get Automatic Order Cancellations
      We can automatically cancel your orders, with Cancelled Order Information,

   4. Make adding Extended Data part of the checkout process
      

   5. Get automatic filtering of undesired items
      Make sure personal items, that they are not imported and possibly listed at Amazon, with items category and classification information

   6. And More...

3. Better Inventory, Same Price:
   Get Better Quality Items, as Seller will typically send better times to "Business Buyers".

4. Deal with less Bad Items:
   Bad Sellers will typically opt to cancel orders, instead of sending a Business an incorrect, damaged, wrong Edition items, that you would return. (Businesses are pickier than poor College Students, and have time to complain...)

5. Business-Specific Features:
   You gain access to Amazon Business features such as:

   1. business-only pricing
      Get better/Lower Pricing deals on your items!

   2. quantity discounts
      Get additional discounts if you buy in quantity

   3. business analytics
      Get access to more order related data, like detailed shipping, reconciliation and more

   4. And more

6. Tax Exemption:
   If your business qualifies, you can benefit from the Amazon Tax Exemption Program

7. Clear Separation:
   Finally keeping financials separate to simplify accounting

Cons:

1. Need to get an Amazon US Business account
   Amazon is required to use your local State regulations to qualify your ability to get a Business account. Many states allow Business Accounts to be setup as a Sole-Proprietor. (We recommend Texas, if at all possible.)
   International Clients would need to consult with their fiscal and legal advisors first, but some have opened US Business Buying account .

2. Certain Extensions where not designed to work with Business (Buyer) Accounts:

   1. Book Profits BooksAnalyzer has some issues
      (Good News is that we have been able to work around these issues with our EasyBookPrep Extension, and even present a better experience than the original, but we can't guarantee that we will always be able to do so. )

   

   Any Concerns about existing personal Prime benefits or the Cost of such, will be dealt with the next article. (in short, you should not loose any benefits, but they may need to be reestablished under certain condition, and it is possible to keep the same pricing.)

3. Additional Setup is recommended to use all of Easy Book Prep's Features
   The amount of setup depends on how your going to use the Account:

   1. Just for you the setup is just defining the Bus Order Setup, and can be done by you if you wish.
      <Click here for instructions>

   2. For multiple users, please coordinate a paid 1:1 consultation with Ricardo to get a customized plan for your business account setup.
      Click here to set up.

We think the Choice is clear but this is up to you!

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