- US median pay$47,540 a year[2]All industries, BLS May 2025
- One-time fee$2,500–3,000[1]On the start day, only if you hire
- Free replacementWithin 180 days[1]One per placement, fee paid, role, hours and pay unchanged, no refund
What the week looks like at an Amazon seller
An Amazon seller's week begins in Seller Central: account health, buyer messages, listing suppressions, stock levels and inbound shipments. Missed replies and policy warnings can hurt an account fast. Keywords, images and A+ content need changing, and reimbursements have to be claimed by hand. Settlement reports arrive every couple of weeks, full of fees, and only someone patient can tell you what a product really earned.
What a virtual assistant does for Amazon sellers
- Keep the purchase order sheet with dates, deposits due and shipping status
- Chase suppliers and freight agents for documents
- Check competitor prices and reviews each week
- Tidy product photos, documents and supplier files
A virtual assistant, in job-title terms an administrative assistant working remotely, handles the repeating office work of a team: documents, data updates, scheduling, simple customer emails and research. It is broader and less senior than an executive assistant, and it works best with written procedures.
Tools Amazon sellers commonly use
- Amazon Seller Central
- Helium 10
- Excel
- Google Workspace
- QuickBooks
- Xero
- Canva
- Slack
Common in this kind of business, not a checklist: name your own stack in the brief.
How to test a candidate for an Amazon seller
Give a messy purchase order email thread from a supplier and a freight agent. Ask for a status table and two short replies. Check they noticed a date that does not match and raised it without being asked.
What to keep in-house or check first
Keep the account owner login, bank details and deposit method with you, and add people through Seller Central's own user permissions with their own logins. Keep final decisions on policy appeals, and do not let anyone use tactics Amazon forbids, such as incentivised reviews. Amazon's rules change often, and your account carries the risk.
General caution, not legal advice: check the rules that apply to you with a qualified adviser.
Available now
1 virtual assistant on Stafka, English B1, updated 5 November 2026. The count is for the role, not for Amazon sellers: name your business in the brief.
Administrative Assistant0 years of experience · AM-1007
- English B1
- $800–1,000 a month
Anonymous profiles of people who asked to be shown to employers. Most applied through our Telegram bot with a written and a voice English task; Silkstaff checks English on a live call before any client interview. Names, contacts and employers stay hidden until a candidate accepts your intro request.
Choose a country: shared hours
Repeating admin work can run on a written checklist with a daily check-in, so a partial overlap with your day usually works. Anything phone-based needs agreed hours.
Against a 9–17 client day in winter[3][4][5][6]; for New York, on a 9–18 local day or a 13–22 shift. Check your own office.
What it costs
We do not publish a pay band for virtual assistants yet: where a profile lists a monthly rate, that is what the person asks for. The BLS figure of $47,540 a year is for Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive[2] across all industries: we have no separate figure for this niche. Paying through Deel adds $49 a month[7]; Wise and Payoneer also work.
See also: virtual assistant pay in the US, by state · pricing and replacement terms.
How hiring through Stafka works
- Send the brief or post the job free. List the recurring tasks, how often each one happens, and the person who will answer questions in the first month.
- Within 5 business days of a confirmed brief you get 3 matching profiles, or a plain no. Most apply through our Telegram bot with a written and a voice English task; each profile shows the English level (B1–C2); Silkstaff checks English on a live call before any client interview.
- You interview, choose and contract the person directly through Deel, Wise or Payoneer. Candidates never pay.
Questions
Can a VA talk to my Chinese suppliers?
In English, yes, and many suppliers are used to it. Keep pricing and contract decisions with you, and use one shared email address, so that the history stays with the company if the person leaves.
How do I give a remote hire safe access to Seller Central?
Add them as a separate user through user permissions and give view or edit rights by section. Do not share your main login, because Amazon can treat suspicious account access seriously, and buyer data has its own rules. This is general information, not legal advice.
Where can an Amazon seller hire an affordable virtual assistant?
The usual routes are a freelance marketplace, an agency with a monthly margin, or a direct hire in a lower-cost country. On Stafka it is a direct hire: you pay the person the monthly pay you agree with them, plus $2,500–3,000[1] once if you hire, with no monthly margin.
General information for small employers, not legal or tax advice: check contracts, tax and data rules for your country with a qualified adviser. Tool names belong to their owners; we are not affiliated with them. Spotted a mistake? Write to hello@silkstaff.com.