The Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) Donations program helps sellers donate unwanted product, including returns and eligible overstock FBA inventory. Now sellers using the program have access to a donation certificate from our nonprofit partners in Seller Central (login required).
Your donation certificate will be generated on a yearly basis and can be found on the Donations page in Seller Central. The donation certificate contains the quantity and description of your inventory that was donated through the program in the previous year.
What is the FBA Donations program?
The FBA Donations program helps you donate eligible products to Amazon’s charity partners. The program is part of our mission to provide sellers with a range of value recovery channels to save cost and effort in managing overstock and return products.
When you have products in FBA that need to be returned to you, or sold at a lower price through refurbishment or liquidation, you can create a removal order to have the products handled however you see fit. However, you also have the opportunity to donate your products to charity.
By default, all US sellers who use FBA are enrolled in the FBA Donations program. To get the most benefit out of the FBA Donations program, you have to manually elect to donate additional product that may otherwise sit in fulfillment and accrue charges.
On the Removals page in Seller Central, you can set up a standard cadence for donating your products, such as twice a month. The language used in Seller Central for donating your products currently says “Dispose” or “Donate/Recycle” to refer to donations. If you’ve chosen to liquidate or return products to yourself in the past, you may want to reconsider the benefits of donating for your business.
Since sellers who use FBA are automatically opted into the program, any product that is returned and is ineligible for resale may automatically be donated.
Don’t know if you donated? Check your Removal Order Detail Report.
Where do donations go?
We launched the FBA Donations program in 2019, in partnership with the nonprofit Good360, to help ensure that products donated by sellers get to those who are in need.
In 2025, the program held a holiday distribution event at the Mary Nelson Youth Center in Syracuse, NY, serving more than 4,200 individuals. Families received essential household items, winter goods, and toys for children—demonstrating how donated inventory helps meet both immediate needs and seasonal challenges.
The event’s impact was deeply personal. One mother shared that recent changes to her food assistance benefits had significantly increased her family’s grocery expenses, forcing her to choose between buying food or purchasing Christmas gifts. Without this event, her children would not have received gifts for the holiday. Because of this community-driven effort, she didn’t have to make that choice.
This event reflects the power of the Amazon–Good360 partnership: helping meet immediate needs and restore a sense of care and stability, and impacting thousands of lives for the better every holiday season.
You can partner with Amazon to make a difference with your products that are ineligible for resale, or aren’t selling through. Set up recurring donations today, and login to Seller Central to download your 2025 donation certificate.
