Amazon Business: Everything You Need to Know

Amazon is undoubtedly the largest online commerce, hence it is dubbed as the Internet shopping giant. Its large catalog of products, its prices, the great speed of delivery in a good part of the products, the possibility of accessing many products without any cost for the shipment, its functions and the customer service, are the main responsible Every day millions of people come to the platform to make their purchases. Everyone can buy on Amazon, but if you are a freelancer or have a company, you should know that it is now possible to have an Amazon Business account and that it offers numerous advantages.

If you are a freelancer or you have a company and you usually buy from Amazon, surely one of the biggest hits that we can put to the online shopping platform is to have to go requesting the invoices of many of our orders manually . In addition, depending on the seller and your tax country, the tax issue may vary considerably and we eventually choose not to request the corresponding invoice.

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However, the fact that Amazon has become a platform to which in addition to millions of users, many companies go every day to acquire all kinds of products, has made Amazon Business born. And today, the online shopping giant has become even the provider of many companies and businesses.

A service that has been available for a few months, so it is possible that we have seen a banner announcing it when entering our Amazon account. Of course, it is still a great unknown to many people and companies, so we will show below what exactly it is, how it works and what advantages it offers us.

What is Amazon Business and who can have an account

As its name implies, it is an Amazon service specially designed to meet the purchase needs of any type of company. Amazon Business offers flexible solutions and a lot of benefits to freelancers and companies, such as downloading invoices with their corresponding VAT, prices excluding VAT and much more.

With this in mind, it must be said that anyone who has their own Tax Identification Number (NIF) , can register for the service and have their account. Now, in addition to having an NIF, we will also need a corporate email address to sign up for Amazon Business. That is, we will have to have an email that serves to identify us as part of a company, since the platform checks the addresses as part of the verification process and does not recommend the use of generic emails such as Gmail, Hotmail, etc.

What if I already have an Amazon account?

The answer that the online shopping giant gives us to this question is that if we use a personal account for purchases of our company, we can convert the current account to an Amazon Business account. Of course, the email address associated with that account must be from the company. To change it, we only have to go to the option Login and security in our current account.

If our personal account is linked to the email address of my company, it is possible to change the email address of the current account by our personal email from the option just mentioned above and once the change is made, it is best to create an account Amazon Business with company mail.

What happens if I am Amazon Prime and convert my account to Business?

If we choose to convert a personal account in which we are subscribed to the Amazon Prime service to Amazon Business, our Prime subscription will automatically be integrated into the new business account and we can continue to enjoy all the benefits and advantages as before.

Amazon Business Advantages

In addition to each and every one of the advantages offered by having a personal Amazon account:

  • Large selection of products
  • Competitive prices
  • Prime Subscription
  • Free shipping

There are other advantages that we will obtain when creating an Amazon Business account and that are oriented to the business environment:

  • Price excluding VAT : When you log in with your Amazon Business account we can see the prices of products with VAT excluded on the product pages.
  • Flexible payment method : It is possible to share payment methods, including business cards, with some users or with a whole team.
  • Reconciliation : We can access our invoices with detailed items to simplify the accounting of our account.
  • Amazon Guided Buying (Catalog Management): A feature that allows us to specify “preferred” products and vendors, restrict certain product categories and activate alerts to comply with our company’s purchasing policy.
  • Multiuser : Amazon Business allows you to add multiple users to our account.
  • Groups : Allows access to Amazon Business to multiple users and locations thanks to our global logistics network.
  • Company Analysis : It is possible to track and analyze our company’s expenses thanks to personalized reports. It allows combinations of filters to improve the activity of our account, including orders, returns and refunds.
  • Identify your purchases : It is possible to add project codes or cost centers to our ordered orders. Use purchase order numbers (PO) and enable quick reconciliation of invoices.
  • Purchase systems : It allows us to choose between integrating our electronic purchasing systems (Coupa, Ariba or Oracle, for example) into Amazon Business or operating independently with them.
  • Detailed items : When buying with a registered purchase card, you can access company information and billing details easily.

How to create a free Amazon Business account

If after knowing in depth what exactly Amazon Business is, what I need to be able to create an account and what advantages it offers me, I want to create my own business account, these are the steps to follow:

  • We open a window in the browser and visit the Amazon Business page .
  • Enter the email address of our company and click Send .

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  • Next, we will be shown a form in which we must indicate the name of the account and the password to use.
  • The following will be to provide all the data of our company , our first and last name, Fiscal name, Country, Company telephone number, Fiscal address and the type of identification we use.

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  • Next, we will register the payment method , adding the credit card of our company. We can skip this step and do it later.

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  • Amazon will check our information and if everything is correct we will receive an email with confirmation that the account has been created correctly and we can start using it. This verification process can take up to 3 business days.

Anyway, for any questions that may arise if we are thinking of creating an Amazon Business account or converting our personal into a business account, we can contact Amazon directly.