Overview

Amazon provides sellers with a built-in mechanism to temporarily remove self-fulfilled listings from the marketplace when they are unable to process orders. Whether you are dealing with a family emergency, severe weather, a planned vacation, or any other situation that prevents order fulfillment, you can switch your listing status to inactive and reactivate it when you return. Understanding how this feature works is essential for protecting your account health and maintaining a positive seller reputation.

Key Points / What Sellers Need to Know

• Listings can be set to inactive at any time — Sellers can toggle their self-fulfilled listings off through Seller Central when they cannot fulfill orders, regardless of the reason.
• Changes take up to one hour — After switching your listing status, it can take up to one hour for your offers to be removed from product detail pages and search results.
• Pending orders are not automatically canceled — Any orders that are already pending when you deactivate your listings will still need to be fulfilled or manually managed.
• FBA listings remain active — This vacation setting only applies to self-fulfilled (FBM) listings. If you use Fulfillment by Amazon, those listings will continue to appear and Amazon will handle fulfillment.
• Subscription fees still apply — Your Professional selling plan monthly fee continues to be charged even while your listings are inactive.

How to Change Your Listing Status

To update your listing status, log into your Seller Central account and navigate to Settings, then select Account Info. From there, go to your Listing Status section and click the relevant edit option. You will see your marketplace listed with Active and Inactive radio buttons. Select Inactive to remove your listings from the Amazon catalog, or select Active to restore them. Once you have made your selection, click the save or confirm button to apply your changes. The update will take effect across product detail pages and search results within approximately one hour.

Managing Multiple Marketplaces

Sellers who operate across multiple Amazon marketplaces have additional flexibility when managing their listing status. Rather than applying a blanket change, you can choose to deactivate listings in all marketplaces simultaneously or target specific individual marketplaces. The settings page displays each marketplace you sell in, with options to toggle each one independently. Use the bulk Active or Inactive buttons at the top of the table to change all marketplaces at once, or use the individual radio buttons next to each marketplace for more granular control. This is particularly useful if you have fulfillment capabilities in some regions but not others during your absence.