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IB (Inbound) Glossary
IB (Inbound) is everything between your supplier’s dock and Amazon’s shelving: planning the shipment, labelling and prepping units to spec, booking appointments, moving the freight, and clearing receiving so stock becomes buyable.
IDQ (Index Data Quality) Glossary
IDQ (Index Data Quality) is the health of your listing’s search-index metadata: how completely and accurately Amazon’s search engine recognises your title, backend terms, attributes, and description — and therefore how reliably your ASIN surfaces for the searches it should win.
Impressions Glossary
Impressions count how often your product or ad appears on a shopper’s screen — in search results, in carousels, in sponsored placements — regardless of whether anyone clicks. They are the top of the funnel: visibility itself, quantified.
Inbound Compliance Chargeback Glossary
An inbound compliance chargeback is the fee Amazon deducts when an FBA shipment breaks the receiving rules — wrong labels, missing prep, incorrect carton data, misrouted deliveries. The charge offsets the manual labour needed to make your non-compliant shipment receivable.
Inbound Compliance Penalty Glossary
An inbound compliance penalty is the broader enforcement layer around FBA receiving: fee assessments (per shipment or per unit), placement or routing restrictions, and — at the far end — suspension of inbound privileges for repeated or serious violations of prep, labelling, or…
Incoterms Glossary
Incoterms (International Commercial Terms) are the International Chamber of Commerce’s standard shorthand for splitting responsibility in a shipment: who arranges and pays freight, who insures, who clears customs, and exactly where risk transfers from seller to buyer.
Intellectual Property Complaint Glossary
An intellectual property complaint is a rights owner’s formal claim against a listing — trademark, copyright, patent, or design — filed through Amazon.
Inventory Ledger Glossary
The inventory ledger is Amazon’s account of your stock: every unit’s movement inside the fulfilment network — received, stowed, sold, returned, adjusted, disposed, reimbursed — recorded as line items.
Inventory Replenishment Glossary
Inventory replenishment is the decision logic for keeping stock flowing: when to reorder, how much, and where it should live — timed so products stay available without capital drowning in warehouses. It’s demand forecasting converted into purchase orders and shipping schedules.
Inventory Tracking Glossary
Inventory tracking is the continuous visibility layer: knowing where every unit is and what state it’s in — at the factory, on the water, in FBA, in transit between locations, being returned — and keeping the dashboards and systems that describe it actually accurate.
Inventory Velocity Glossary
Inventory velocity measures how fast your stock sells through — units turned per period, or the inverse (days of cover). It’s the heartbeat metric of a healthy catalogue: fast velocity means capital cycling and rank fed; slow velocity means money parked in cartons.
IOR (Importer of Record) Glossary
The IOR (Importer of Record) is the party legally responsible to a country’s customs authority for imported goods: filing the declarations properly, complying with local laws, paying duties and taxes, and keeping the records. Not who moves the freight — who answers for it.
IP (Intellectual Property) Glossary
IP (Intellectual Property) is the family of legally protected intangible assets: trademarks (names, logos, brand identifiers), patents (inventions and designs), copyrights (creative works, imagery, content), and trade secrets.
IPCP (Inbound Preferred Carrier Programme) Glossary
IPCP (Inbound Preferred Carrier Programme) is Amazon’s logistics arrangement offering pre-negotiated discounted freight through vetted carriers into fulfilment centres — with something arguably more valuable than the rate: fixed daily warehouse slots that bypass standard…
IPI (Inventory Performance Index) Glossary
IPI (Inventory Performance Index) is Amazon’s 0–1000 score for how well you manage FBA inventory: how productively your stock turns, how effectively listings convert customers, how well you avoid excess and age-outs, and how steadily popular products stay in stock.
IPIP (Items per Inner Pack) Glossary
IPIP (Items Per Inner Pack) is the packaging-hierarchy attribute stating how many sellable units sit inside one inner pack (also called a case pack) — the secondary container that lives inside the master carton. It tells receiving systems how the shipment is bundled.
IPMP (Inner Packs per Master Pack) Glossary
IPMP (Inner Packs Per Master Pack) declares how many inner packs (case packs) a single master carton contains — the next layer up the packaging hierarchy from IPIP. Together the two attributes describe the full structure: master carton → inner packs → sellable units.
IRDR (Inventory Record Defect Ratio) Glossary
IRDR (Inventory Record Defect Ratio) measures how far Amazon’s system records diverge from physical reality: the share of units where what the system expects doesn’t match what’s actually on the shelf. It’s the accuracy score of your inventory footprint inside the network.
ISA (Inbound Shipment Appointment) Glossary
An ISA (Inbound Shipment Appointment) is the booked dock slot for freight deliveries to an Amazon fulfilment centre — the specific time and receiving door your truckload, LTL, or vendor shipment is scheduled to arrive, booked through the carrier appointment systems before the truck rolls.
ISBN (International Standard Book Number) Glossary
An ISBN (International Standard Book Number) is the unique 13-digit identifier assigned to every edition of a published book — the number that distinguishes this edition, in this format, from every other.
Item Highlights Glossary
Item Highlights is the structured field that sits directly beneath Item Name in Amazon’s listing editor — a dedicated 125-character space (as of the 2026 title standard) for the qualifiers, specs, and use-cases that no longer fit in a shortened title.
IXD (Inbound Cross Dock) Glossary
An IXD (Inbound Cross Dock) is a specialised Amazon facility that receives large inbound shipments — often palletised or containerised — breaks them down, sorts by destination, and forwards inventory to regional fulfilment centres.
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