For people with no Amazon seller account yet
Amazon will not tell you until after you sign up. Ungating services will not tell you until after you pay them — through an account you don't have. We tell you here, free, before you stock: the gate verdict for a brand-new account, the exact documents, and the order that keeps inventory out of your garage.
We don't take money from platforms. We don't sell ungating services. That is why this site can print the verdict none of them can: for some categories, effectively closed to new accounts — start on the ladder instead.
Last verified: October 21, 2026
Nothing you answer leaves your browser. There is no email box at the end, and nobody will offer to submit anything through an account you do not have yet.
22 gates checked: 12 categories and 10 product types, each with a dated page. Brand-level gates change weekly and vary by account, so no honest site lists them — we say so instead of pretending.
Why this exists
Amazon's answer
Amazon's own category pages tell you to look for the 'Apply to sell' button — inside the account it wants you to open first. Its metric is registrations, so it will never print 'don't buy inventory yet.'
The services' answer
Ungating services submit applications through your Seller Central account — you must already be a seller to buy the help. Their honest sentence ('new accounts face higher rejection rates') is buried as FAQ #4 under the price.
Our answer
A computed verdict for a person with no account and no sales history: open, approval-with-these-documents, or effectively closed — with the documents, the cost floor, and the order of operations. Dated, and re-verified on a schedule.
The sequence
A beginner finds a product, buys $10,000 of it, and then meets the approval screen. The story is retold on forums every month because the sequence courses teach — product first — is backwards whenever a gate exists. Inventory is the last step of a gated launch, never the first.
The checker gives you the gate. The Amazon Entry Kit gives you the paperwork: the per-category document checklists for all 22 gates on this site, the invoice-readiness worksheet, the starter ladder plan, the application-order playbook, and the rejection-recovery steps for when Amazon says no the first time.
Included in the $39 Amazon Entry Kit
All 22 gates
Approval required
Do you need approval to sell supplements on Amazon?
Approval required
Can I sell protein powder on Amazon as a new seller?
Approval required
Do you need approval to sell vitamins on Amazon?
Approval required
Do you need approval to sell food on Amazon?
Open to new accounts
Do you need approval to sell pet supplies on Amazon?
Approval required
Do you need approval to sell beauty products on Amazon?
Approval required
Can I sell skincare on Amazon as a new seller?
Approval required
Do you need approval to sell baby products on Amazon?
Approval required
Can I sell baby feeding products and baby skincare on Amazon?
Approval required
Do you need approval to sell OTC medication on Amazon?
Approval required
Do you need approval to sell fine jewelry on Amazon?
Open to new accounts
Do you need approval to sell automotive parts on Amazon?
Approval required
Do you need approval to sell collectible coins on Amazon?
Approval required
Do you need approval to sell candles on Amazon?
Approval required
Do you need approval to sell phone chargers and wireless accessories on Amazon?
The honest alternative
Not every Amazon start waits on an application. The starter ladder — used books, pet supplies, automotive basics and more — seasons a new account with real sales history, and history is the ingredient gated applications reward most.
Straight answers
It publishes the taxonomy — inside Seller Central help, written for account-holders. The pre-account version, computed for a person with no history, is the page you're on. We record it from Amazon's published requirements and date it; Amazon can change a requirement at any time, and our change log says when we last verified each one.
You can — opening is free. The trap is the second step people take: buying inventory before the approval answer. The account costs nothing; the garage full of unsellable stock is the expensive way to learn a gate exists.
No. We sell one thing — the $39 Amazon Entry Kit of checklists and worksheets — and the checker above works completely without it. A service submits forms through your account; it cannot create your invoices, your authorization letters, or your sales history.
Brand-level gates change weekly and vary by account, so no honest site can publish a reliable list — anyone selling you one is selling fiction. Our verdicts stay at category and product-type level, where the published requirements are real.
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