Updates

Noon is updating the monthly storage fee for stock held in its Saudi warehouses. It is a single rate, charged per cubic foot of stock per month.

What it means

• Storage is now 2.75 SAR per cubic foot per month, up from 2.50 SAR.
• Cubic feet are worked out from the box: length × width × height in cm, divided by 28,317.
• It only applies to stock held in the noon warehouse, so it is an FBN cost. FBP sellers hold their own stock.
• A 40 × 30 × 20 cm box is 0.85 cubic feet, which moves from about 2.12 SAR to 2.33 SAR a month.

Per unit the increase is small. It is slow-moving stock that feels it, because storage is charged every month a unit sits there while the referral and outbound fees are charged once, on the sale.

The same change on the UAE side, at a lower rate than Saudi Arabia and a bigger step up in percentage terms.

What it means

• Storage is now 1.75 AED per cubic foot per month, up from 1.50 AED.
• Cubic feet are worked out the same way: length × width × height in cm, divided by 28,317.
• It only applies to stock held in the noon warehouse, so it is an FBN cost. FBP sellers hold their own stock.
• A 40 × 30 × 20 cm box is 0.85 cubic feet, which moves from about 1.27 AED to 1.48 AED a month.

The rise is about 17% in the UAE against 10% in KSA. If you price both markets from one sheet, storage is another line that has to be kept separate for each country.

Noon is updating the fee structure for Fulfilled by noon and Fulfilled by Partner in Saudi Arabia. Two things move: the FBN outbound fee table, and the referral fees on nine product families.

Referral fees changing

The FBN outbound fee table has also been updated. If you run FBN, reprice before the 10th rather than after, because the outbound fee is the larger of the two changes for small, light items.

The same exercise on the UAE side, with a longer list of affected families and a different rate for stationery than KSA gets. FBN outbound fees are updated as well.

Referral fees changing

Stationery lands at 14% in the UAE against 15% in KSA. If you price both markets from one sheet, that gap has to be built in rather than assumed away.

Noon is changing how Directship Express orders are charged in Saudi Arabia. Rather than its own fee table, the programme now follows the FBP rate card.

What it means

• Directship Express orders are charged on the FBP rate card from the 10th.
• A 20% discount applies to the Directship outbound fees.
• Your effective shipping cost is the FBP fee for the weight band, less 20%.

The FBP Express calculator in Tools already works this way, with the 20% discount set as an editable field so you can model what happens if it is ever withdrawn.