Amazon Cuts the Referral Fee on Clothing Under £15

In brief: from 15 May 2024, Amazon's referral fee on Clothing and Accessories priced under £15 fell from 15% to 8%. The same cut applied under €15 in the Belgian, Dutch, French, German, Italian and Spanish stores and under SEK 175 in Sweden; in Poland the rate fell from 10% to 8% under PLN 65. Two days after it started, Amazon said a technical fault had charged some eligible sales the old 15% and promised to refund the overcharge.

The 2024 clothing referral fee thresholds

Store	Price below	Old rate	New rate
UK	£15	15%	8%
Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain, Italy	€15	15%	8%
Sweden	SEK 175	15%	8%
Poland	PLN 65	10%	8%

Other categories kept their existing referral fees.

A worked example

A seller sells 3,000 T-shirts a month at £12. At 15% the referral fee was £1.80 each; at 8% it's 96p — 84p saved per sale, or about £2,520 a month. If the first few days were wrongly charged at 15%, the refund would appear later as a credit.

What happened next

In December 2025 Amazon cut clothing referral fees again, to 5% up to £15 and 10% between £15 and £20 — see the 2026 fee changes.

What it means for your bookkeeping

• Check the rate you were charged. The overcharge shows that fee changes don't always apply cleanly. Spot-check a few orders in the settlement after any fee change.
• Refunds belong against the fee. When Amazon reimburses overcharged fees, post the credit to your referral fee account, not as income, so the period's fee cost is right.
• Repricing near £15 matters. With a much lower rate below £15, a product priced just above the threshold may earn more at £14.99.
• VAT treatment in 2024. In May 2024 Amazon still billed UK fees from Luxembourg under the reverse charge; UK VAT on fees only began on 1 August 2024 — see VAT on Amazon fees from August 2024.

How TrueBooks helps

TrueBooks posts referral fees and fee refunds from every settlement to your fee accounts in Xero, so the saving — and any correction — shows up automatically. See the Amazon Xero integration.