How to Prepare for Amazon Prime Day 2026

Prime Day is coming. Is your business ready? By now, nearly everyone is familiar with (or has at least heard of) Prime Day, Amazon’s two-day sales event that takes place annually to offer excellent deals across the online retailer’s major shopping categories.

Key Dates & Context – Event Timing

Amazon has announced that Prime Day 2025 will take place in July, offering significant discounts across various categories. Here’s why Prime Day is a big event that you won’t want to miss out on strategizing for:

• It’s one of Amazon’s biggest shopping days of the year, and it’s incredibly popular with consumers around the world.
• People look forward to Prime Day to snag great deals and offers on their favorite products—anything from big-ticket items like barbeque grills to everyday essentials like body wash and perfume is offered at special discounts for Amazon Prime members.
• This year, Amazon Prime Day is back and will run between the 8th and 11th of July.

The fact is that things will be a little bit different this year. With the introduction of tariffs and looming inflation on the horizon, sellers should expect changes in consumer habits and availability of sourcing. Here’s what we expect to be different this year and how your business can prepare for Prime Day inventory planning.

Prime Day 2025 – What’s Changed

The past few years have seen a boom in online shopping. In fact, the sheer number of people shopping online from 2020 through 2025 has accelerated the growth of eCommerce and made it a more popular way of shopping, even for everyday items.

Money conscious consumers

With financial concerns, especially uncertainty around the tariffs on the rise, many people are looking to save where they can. As a result, consumers are reducing their overall spending and sticking more carefully to household budgets. That means less disposable income to spend on more frivolous purchases. For Amazon sellers, this can impact how you set your deals on Prime Day. It means sellers must be conscious of lower consumer budgets, as well as a rise in the need to purchase more practical items (versus ‘treat’ items) at better prices.

Spending on the decline

Given all of the economic issues mentioned above, people are simply spending less. And when they do spend, they are more judicious about what they purchase. This means less impulse buying. Trends show consumers opting to be more purposeful about saving money to purchase one-off, big-ticket items such as holidays or stereo/entertainment equipment, for example. It is likely that people will be anticipating Prime Day as a chance to get great deals on the big-ticket items they’ve been saving up for.

Convenience shopping is up

Back during the pandemic days, people became more aware of the fact that you can buy many everyday, ordinary household items on Amazon, such as soap and shampoo. They realized that Amazon isn’t just for buying bigger or more uncommon items—it can fulfill the role of the bog-standard supermarket or corner shop too! Therefore, fast delivery (which Amazon excels at) on everyday items has become more commonplace. What does this mean for your store during Prime Day? It means that Prime Day deals needn’t be limited to items like TVs, video game consoles, and watches—it pays to bundle deals of household goods and ‘boring’ items too.

Popular categories have changed

Over the past few years, categories like athleisure and activewear have continued to perform strongly—even as more people return to hybrid and in-office work setups. These trends, which took off during the pandemic, have shown lasting appeal. Similarly, books, board games, and home entertainment products that gained popularity during lockdowns remain steady top sellers. As we move through 2025, it’s essential for Amazon sellers to stay aligned with evolving consumer behaviors and prioritize high-demand categories to maximize sales potential. As an Amazon seller, it’s important to be aware of various trends to ensure that you continue to deliver within the categories that are most popular with consumers.

Amazon Sellers: How to Gear Up for Prime Day 2025

Given these changes, it’s clear that Prime Day shopping habits may look a bit different this year. For Amazon sellers, that’s why it’s important to take a considered, strategic approach to getting your business running at its best for this important shopping day. After all, you want to wow your potential customers and make the most of one of the busiest shopping days outside of the festive season. Here are a few steps you can take to optimize and ramp up your Amazon store for Prime Day 2025.

Create different types of offers to suit each customer

Everyone loves a deal, but the truth is that not all shoppers are exactly the same! Some people prefer to save a percentage amount of their total purchase, whereas others love bundle deals that give them bang for their buck. Some ways that you can use different types of offers to please all types of customers include:

Take advantage of ‘Lightning Deals’

Also known by marketers as a ‘flash sale,’ Lightning Deals are where you offer special deals for a very limited amount of time. Let your customers know that if they shop with you between certain hours of the day, they can take advantage of special, time-limited deals that you won’t offer outside of those hours. Lightning Deals show up on Amazon’s Prime Day page, so by participating, you become more visible in front of a larger number of customers browsing the website looking for deals. While Amazon will charge you for offering Lightning Deals, the spend can be outweighed by the huge amount of savings you stand to gain.

Leverage promotions

Promotions have been around for ages; they’re not exactly innovative. So why are we including them on this list, you might ask? Because they WORK! People shop Amazon’s Prime Day for one main reason: because they want to save money. Promotions such as “buy one, get one free” or “buy one, get the second 50% off” are great because they incentivize customers to spend more while still offering them great savings. For customers watching their wallets, this can be a great opportunity to stock up on all the things they need at the best prices around.

Use Amazon Vouchers

Amazon Vouchers (or Coupons) create a bright green tag next to the list price of your item on the product detail page. It’s the easiest way to show customers that you’re offering Prime Day discounts. Just be sure to remember to apply—it’s simple to do, and Amazon outlines the process here.

Be smart with your list price

Prices are frequently in flux on Prime Day, as all sellers want to outdo each other with the best deals. You can, of course, change your prices manually. But if you want to kick things up to the next level, repricing software can help monitor competitors to ensure that your prices are meeting the industry standards without compromising your profit margin.

Have your FBA inventory ready to go

If you hold your inventory with Amazon using their popular and convenient FBA program, be sure that all of your inventory is in on time for Prime Day. You don’t want to get caught out by running out of inventory to ship! Proper inventory planning is crucial for a successful Prime Day.

Make your listings stand out

Writing a good listing takes some investment. You need to understand how to maximize the potential of each field, including the title, body text, item description, bullet points, and photos. There will be many eyes on Prime Day products, so you want to make sure your listing stands out. Optimizing your listings ahead of Prime Day is a great way to prepare for this important shopping day, making sure that you increase your odds of making a sale as much as possible. Here are some top tips all about writing Amazon product titles that can help.

Invest in the right marketing strategy

It’s not all about what you do on the day! Prime Day takes some advance preparation if you want to really make a splash with your customers. One way of doing that is by building your brand ahead of Prime Day using marketing and advertising techniques to get your business in front of your customers, letting them know all about the great deals you plan to unveil for Prime Day. Here are some marketing tactics that can be helpful ahead of Prime Day:

Deploy digital advertising outside of Amazon

Although your customers shop for your products on Amazon, you can get your brand in front of them in other places online through paid advertising. Using Meta, TikTok, and Google ads that shout about your Prime Day deals can help drive traffic to your Amazon store.

Turn to social media

Social media can be a great way to advertise your upcoming Prime Day deals using a bit of creativity. Platforms like Instagram Reels or TikTok lend themselves well to making engaging videos that can make people smile while letting them know about the deals you’re offering in your Amazon store for Prime Day.

Update your PPC advertising strategy

When it comes to pay-per-click (PPC) advertising on search engines, it’s good to refresh your bidding strategy every once in a while, but especially as Prime Day approaches. Increasing your bids on your most popular keywords can be useful in capturing more people searching for those items around Prime Day. You can also look at running sponsored display ads on Amazon.

Don’t neglect reviews!

When it comes to pay-per-click (PPC) advertising on search engines, it’s good to refresh your bidding strategy every once in a while, but especially as Prime Day approaches. Increasing your bids on your most popular keywords can be useful in capturing more people searching for those items around Prime Day. You can also look at running sponsored display ads on Amazon.

Prime Day and Arbitrage versus Private Label

What type of Amazon seller are you? If you’re a private label seller, your most important consideration on Prime Day will be inventory. Be sure your stock is replenished and ready to meet demand. With all the supply chain issues occurring around the world today, private label sellers may also wish to find more local suppliers. If you’re in the US, that might mean switching up suppliers who are also in the US or nearby, as opposed to sourcing from China. But if, on the other hand, you’re an arbitrage seller, then Prime Day is a great opportunity to look through your existing stock and think about ways in which you can price stagnant stock to move it quicker. The high-volume sales that occur on Prime Day are a great way to sell products that haven’t sold as well in the past. Prime Day is also a good opportunity for arbitrage sellers to research and source new products from new suppliers in preparation for the big day.

Back to Basics for Prime Day in 2025

Prime Day is poised to be a great day for sellers and shoppers alike in 2025. According to the 2024 data, Prime Day generated over $14.2 billion in sales, with independent sellers moving more than 200 million items during the event. Although a lot has changed on Amazon since the first Prime Day 10 years ago in 2015, all of it has been for the better. Today, there are more products available on Amazon than ever before and more innovative digital ways of advertising them and getting in front of consumers. Prime Day promises to bring the best of online shopping to consumers around the world. Amazon sellers who have done their homework and are prepared for the big day have lots to gain. We hope you find these steps useful for achieving your most profitable Prime Day yet! Want to maximize your Prime Day performance? Check out our guide on how to use repricer for record-breaking results. Looking for insight from previous events? Read our Prime Day Recap for sellers. Learn more about how to maximize peak season sales on Amazon. Explore our repricing strategies and repricer features to help you prepare for Prime Day and beyond. Create your Amazon Prime Day checklist today and start implementing these Prime Day seller tips for a successful 2025 event!