Glossary29 terms
UK marketplace seller glossary
The words you meet when you add Temu to Amazon or eBay: listing fields, fee names, product safety rules and VAT. Each definition links to the sourced data behind it.
Contribution SKU?Here is what it means.
Temu listings
Temu Seller Center
Temu's dashboard for sellers, where you register, set shipping templates, download category templates, add manufacturers and responsible persons, and see your terms and payments.
Source: /guides/sell-on-temu-uk
Payments report (Temu)
The report Temu provides for each settlement. It includes pricing adjustments and platform subsidies, which makes it hard to see what you kept. Seller Spring Settled turns it into VAT return figures.
Marketplace fees
Referral fee
Amazon UK's per-sale fee, a percentage of the price that varies by category, for example 15% for toys and games and 7% for consumer electronics, with a minimum of £0.25 an item.
Source: /data/uk-marketplace-fees
Final value fee
eBay UK's per-sale fee, a percentage of the total sale that varies by category, for example 10.9% for toys and games for business sellers, plus a per-order fee.
Source: /data/uk-marketplace-fees
Regulatory operating fee
A 0.35% fee eBay UK charges business sellers on each sale, on top of the final value fee.
Source: /data/uk-marketplace-fees
Per-order fee
eBay UK's fixed charge per order for business sellers: £0.30 for orders of £10 or less, £0.40 above. eBay states its business fees exclude VAT.
Source: /data/uk-marketplace-fees
Product safety
GPSR
General Product Safety Regulations. In Great Britain the General Product Safety Regulations 2005 still apply. In Northern Ireland the EU General Product Safety Regulation 2023/988 has applied since 13 December 2024.
Source: /data/uk-product-compliance
UKCA marking
The UK conformity mark. Great Britain continues to recognise the CE marking alongside or in place of UKCA, and a conformity marking is only needed where the rules for that product sector require one.
Source: /data/uk-product-compliance
UK Responsible Person (cosmetics)
Every cosmetic product sold in Great Britain needs a Responsible Person with a UK address. PO boxes and mail forwarding do not count.
Source: /data/uk-product-compliance
SCPN
Submit Cosmetic Product Notifications, the UK service where cosmetic products must be notified before they are made available in Great Britain.
Source: /data/uk-product-compliance
WEEE take-back
Sellers of electrical items, including online sellers, must offer free take-back of an old item when a customer buys a like-for-like product, or join the Distributor Takeback Scheme if eligible.
Source: /data/uk-product-compliance
Distributor Takeback Scheme
A scheme that sellers with under £100,000 of electrical sales a year, or online-only electrical sellers, can join instead of running their own WEEE take-back.
Source: /data/uk-product-compliance
Packaging EPR
Extended producer responsibility for packaging. It applies to UK businesses that handled more than 25 tonnes of packaging in the previous year with an annual turnover of £1 million or more.
Source: /data/uk-product-compliance
VAT
VAT registration threshold
£90,000 of taxable turnover over the last 12 months, or expected in the next 30 days. Businesses based outside the UK that supply goods to the UK must register whatever their turnover.
Source: /data/uk-vat-marketplace-sellers
£135 consignment rule
For goods in consignments worth £135 or less sent from outside the UK and sold through an online marketplace to customers in Great Britain, the marketplace is liable for the VAT. The limit applies per consignment, not per item.
Source: /data/uk-vat-marketplace-sellers
Deemed supplier
When an online marketplace is liable for VAT on a sale by an overseas seller, it is treated as the supplier for VAT purposes, and the overseas seller is treated as making a zero-rated supply to the marketplace.
Source: /data/uk-vat-marketplace-sellers
Making Tax Digital for VAT
HMRC's rules for VAT-registered businesses, which are signed up automatically and must keep some VAT records digitally.
Source: /data/uk-vat-marketplace-sellers
Flat Rate Scheme
A VAT scheme you can join if you expect VAT taxable turnover of £150,000 or less in the next 12 months. A limited cost business pays 16.5%.
Source: /data/uk-vat-marketplace-sellers
Digital platform reporting
Rules in force since 1 January 2024 under which platform operators may collect seller details and report them to HMRC each year. Sellers with fewer than 30 sales of goods and under 2,000 euros a year are not reported.
Source: /data/uk-vat-marketplace-sellers
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