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How to start selling on Amazon, solving common errors and frequently asked questions

Using Product ID Exemption on Amazon, Walmart and eBay

You can easily send empty product id to channels like Amazon, Walmart and eBay with this new feature of Store Automator. To use this feature, you just need to get a product id exemption from related channels. Therefore, you need to communicate with rel...

How to Solve and Prevent Amazon Error 8541

This article explains how to fix Error Code 8541 (The SKU data provided is different from what's already in the Amazon catalog.) The error is explained: "The SKU data provided is different from what's already in the Amazon catalog. The standard_product_...

How to Find Amazon Search Suppressed items on StoreAutomator

In order to see your Search Suppressed items in the Amazon Channel on SA, you should search the products by Error status and use the “Filter by Code'' filter. Select the Amazon Channel Navigate to Channel > Channel Products Select “Errors” in the Statu...

How to Check for Amazon Errors and Resolve Them

Sometimes when you try to create products for publishing on Amazon these fail with an error code - usually because they don’t meet the criteria Amazon has set. Let's see how to best manage these error codes on StoreAutomator. How do you know if a produc...

Amazon Specific Settings, Import File Language and Import File Encoding

These settings are located at Channel>Channel Settings>Amazon Settings and are useful, especially if you are using a different language than English for Amazon. StoreAutomator imports reports from remote channels in English by default. You can set the l...

How to Include the New Alternate Skus into the Amazon Channel

Any alternate SKUs you create for Amazon will not automatically be included in your Amazon channel until you include them. by You can include them by using either our bulk action function or using StoreAutomator UI/web page. If you have created multiple...

How to Use Correct Fabric Type for Apparel on Amazon

If you sell apparel products on Amazon, they require you to set the fabric type for each product. If you provide the information in the wrong format, you are likely to cause errors. To avoid that please ensure that the “fabric type” field is as Amazon r...

How to Create Alternate SKUs for Amazon Channel and Upload the ASINs Override File

You can create alternate SKUs on Amazon to add additional offers for the existing ASIN. An Alternate SKU creates a secondary SKU for an existing product by keeping the same product data. Alternate SKUs can be used as FBA offers for the same product you ...

How to Apply to Change Wrong Product Data from Product Detail Page on Amazon

If you realize you have incorrect product data on Amazon, you can fix this via Amazon Seller Central. You need to provide the correct and accurate information to Amazon in order to change the product detail page. Here are the steps you need to follow: 1...

What are the Valid Unit Count Type Values For Different Amazon Marketplaces

To list your products in specific Amazon categories, Amazon requires the unit count and unit count type fields. You can add these fields into your Amazon template in StoreAutomator. The valid value that you need to provide for the unit count type field...

How to Download Amazon Templates from Seller Central

Amazon templates vary depending on the category. Each template layout consists of different required and additional (but optional) fields. You can download category-based templates from seller central and observe the required fields for that specific ca...

Which Product Data can be provided or not by Amazon if you use import items from channel feature

Amazon limits what data is available to download because of copyright restrictions (in the case of descriptions and images) and other API limitations. See below for further details. Available to Download from Amazon: SKU, ASIN, price, quantity, conditi...

How to Download Inventory Loader Templates from Amazon

The Inventory Loader is a template you can use to add your listings to ASINs already on Amazon. With this file, you don't have to fill in all the product information you would normally need for a new product detail page. Here are the steps you need to f...

Adding New Variant to Existing Parent on Amazon

You can add a new variant for an existing parent on Amazon through StoreAutomator. This allows you to create new variants to diversify your Amazon catalog and make more sales by providing different variants. Here are the steps you need to follow: 1- ...

How to download Amazon reports and send to S3

This article explains how to download Amazon reports from StoreAutomator and send Amazon reports to AWS S3 (Amazon Simple Storage Service) StoreAutomator allows users to download Amazon reports through its platform. The users can download Amazon reports...

How to Solve Amazon Error Code 90117

Error Code 90117 - Your product description exceeds 2000 characters Amazon marketplace has a 2000 character limit in the description field so that buyers can read your page more easily. If you are encountering the 90117 error this means that you have ex...

When You Should Use Fast Listing Feature (Inventory Loader) on Amazon

Instead of sending all product data, which can create listing errors if Amazon doesn’t accept your feed, StoreAutomator sends SKU, Product Id, Title, Condition, Quantity and Price by using Fast Listing (Inventory Loader). However, you need to consider ...

How to solve Amazon Error Code 90202: There is a restriction in effect at the item level error on Amazon

This error may occur when: You are listing an existing ASIN that Amazon has restricted sellers from selling on this ASIN with certain product conditions. For example, if Amazon is only allowing to list on the ASIN for used condition products but the pr...

Ignore Future FBA Quantity Switch

This switch is to ignore future FBA quantities for the Amazon channel by subtracting the quantities of FBA items from the default inventory which means that the quantity on inbound will not be seen in your channel inventory. For example, In default in...

Amazon Specific Settings, Enable Price Update Flags Switch

This switch is located at Channel>Channel Settings>Amazon Settings tab. When this switch is enabled, you can set which price-types will be updated on Amazon. If you select the checkboxes for all price types after enabling the switch, all price fields wi...

Amazon Specific Settings, Don't Send Min-Max Price Switch

There are various channel specific settings depending on the channels you are using in StoreAutomator. Certain channels have their own channels-specific settings. This particular option is only available for the Amazon channel and is located on the Ch...

Amazon Specific Settings, Ignore Fba Existence Switch

There are various channel specific settings depending on the channels you are using in StoreAutomator. This switch is located on the Channel>Channel Settings>Amazon Settings tab. When this switch is enabled, SA ignores the FBA existence on your invento...

Amazon Specific Settings, Use Item Weight and Dimensions If Package Weight and Dimensions Are Empty Switch

There are various channel specific settings depending on the channels you are using in StoreAutomator. This switch is located on the Channel>Channel Settings>Amazon Settings tab. When enabled, SA will send the item dimensions fields instead of package ...

Default Fast Listing Mode Settings

Fast listing connects to products which are already in the Amazon catalog. SA connects to existing listings and only sends your quantity and price data to Amazon. Once the connection is made, your store will be listed as one of the available stores. Thi...

Order Download Mode Settings

This feature is located at: Channel>Channel Settings>Common>Orders tab. This feature helps you to choose which orders will be downloaded. (FBM, FBA or All Orders) IMPORTANT NOTE: This setting is only for the Amazon channel.

How to Solve Amazon Error Code 5000

Error 5000 If you are receiving this error in your error report, it means your XML document is in the wrong format or contains invalid values. Amazon requires us to share data feeds in a format known as XML. We create these files using your data that c...

Converting SKUs to FBA and FBM

You can convert SKUs inventory to FBA or FBM in Amazon Seller Central through StoreAutomator. By default, SKUs from StoreAutomator are sent to Amazon’s default warehouse as "FBM". Amazon does not allow you to sell your FBA and FBM inventory under the s...

Content Requirements for Amazon

Product Title Guidelines 1- Maximum of 200 characters, including spaces, though some categories may have a lower maximum count (Recommended character count: 80-120) 2- Note that mobile devices will only show about 45-90 characters so put the most import...

Amazon Listing Error: A value is required for the "is_expiration_dated_product" field

Learn how to solve this issue by adding this field to your templates For product types that have an expiration date, Amazon requires certain attributes to be included when creating new ASINs. These features are easy to set in StoreAutomator by addin...

Amazon Listing Error: Batteries_Required and Supplier_Delcared_dg_hz_Regulatory Errors

“Batteries_required” is required but not supplied and “Supplier_declared_dg_hz_regulation” is required but not supplied. These errors are caused when you do not provide these attributes and their valid values to Amazon for your products. These fields a...