Hey community,

I created my Seller Central account as “Individual”, using the same email address associated with my Amazon customer account. After a year of selling, I decided to expand my business on Amazon. So, I created a company and plan to switch to a "Business" seller account.

My question is: Should I close my “Individual” account and then open a new one as "Business" or should I update the current account with the new company information?

Let me explain the context:

As a seller, if I upgrade my current account from “Individual” to “Business”, I will have some benefits, such as being able to keep the current display name, address, and phone number, in addition to the sales history, reviews and categories already unlocked. If I go down the account update way, I will update the Legal Entity and other data as the Payment Information (Deposit Methods and Charge Methods) with the credit card and the bank account details of this company I just created.

However, this update will affect my Amazon customer account (as an individual customer/buyer), because is the same email address. As a customer, I would like to keep buying and paying on Amazon.com as an individual (with my personal credit card, not the company credit card), because are personal purchases.

In other words: Currently, I am both individual (seller and customer). But I want to change to be a business seller (as a company) and remain as an individual customer.

How to do it?

Thanks in advance for any guidance.