The Amazon Business offering is aimed at companies that want to purchase items for their daily business needs. The size of the company only plays a role in the Prime offering.
Amazon Business: Shopping for your own company
To make your daily shopping for company supplies easier, you can set up a business account on Amazon. This helps you process orders more easily and quickly. Amazon Business offers a number of advantages, especially for business customers, and getting started is easy: you can create and use a business account free of charge.
- Many features are essential for everyday business, including receiving VAT invoices, volume discounts, and flexible payment methods.
- Companies that use Amazon Business benefit from business prices and attractive volume discounts. You can pay for your purchases flexibly, for example, by “purchase on account” or by credit card.
- Since 2025, Amazon Business has also offered consolidated invoices, which simplify accounting considerably by combining multiple purchases into a single list. The new analysis tools also give you a better overview of your expenses and procurement processes, allowing you to manage your purchasing strategies based on data.
- There are also products that are only available to business customers. In addition, Amazon Business offers sustainability filters that help you select environmentally friendly products and make your business purchases more sustainable.
- There is also the option of connecting Amazon Prime to your business account. This offers more advantages, but also incurs additional costs. With Business Prime, you continue to benefit from fast, free shipping, with user limits for Basic, Small, and Medium packages increased across Europe to provide even more flexibility for teams.
What does Amazon Business Prime offer?
If you choose Amazon Business, you can benefit from numerous advantages with the additional Business Prime offer. Amazon offers several packages, some of which are new, tailored to the size of your company.
- The Duo package is free if you already have a personal Amazon Prime membership. Only one person can use it. You benefit from fast, free shipping as well as analytics and survey features.
- The Essentials package costs $179 per year and includes up to five users. In addition to the Duo benefits, you also get Spend Visibility and Guided Buying, which allow you to manage your purchases more efficiently.
- The Small package costs $499 per year and is aimed at companies with up to 20 users. It includes all the benefits of the Essentials package and also offers 45-day payment terms by invoice, subject to approval.
- The Medium package is available for $1,299 per year and allows up to 200 users to access the platform. In addition to all the benefits of the Small package, you also benefit from advanced spend visibility features and the ability to control specific purchasing behavior through Guided Buying.
- The Enterprise package costs $10,099 per year and offers unlimited users. In addition to the previous benefits, companies also receive a 60-day payment term via invoice and the Spend Anomaly Monitoring feature, which automatically detects and reports unusual spending.
How to become an Amazon Business customer
If you are already a private customer of Amazon, you know how easy it is to register on the platform. It’s just as quick and easy for Amazon Business.
- You create a free account and then enter your company details, including name, address, and tax information, if applicable.
- You then have immediate access to special business benefits such as volume discounts, business prices, and multiple payment options.
- You can set up the account as a multi-user account by adding team members and assigning them specific roles and rights. This allows your purchasing team to work together efficiently while keeping purchases under your control.
- Administrators can keep track of spending and easily monitor budgets with Spend Visibility.
