Once you have activated your Amazon integration, you should begin seeing activity almost immediately. You may notice that some of your products have not listed properly or have not listed at all. It will be crucial that you consistently manage your Amazon account to monitor these issues. ChannelAdvisor provides you with a dashboard that assists you with this effort. The Amazon Product Overview page is a marketplace-specific dashboard that provides you with an overview of the current status of all your products assigned to Amazon. You can access this page via the menu from Marketplaces > Amazon > Products > Overview.

Prerequisites

You should be familiar with the following topics before continuing:

• Getting Started with Amazon

Tasks to Complete

The following tasks will assist you in properly managing and maintaining your Amazon listings:

1. Amazon 360 Product Dashboard
2. Product Status View
3. Resolving Amazon Errors
4. Viewing Product Performance

Amazon 360 Product Dashboard

The Amazon 360 Product Dashboard is a tool that allows you to monitor and manage many aspects of your Amazon listings in the various product states. Simply navigate to your Marketplaces > Amazon > Products > Overview page.  In addition to being able to manage any product listing errors, you will also be able to keep track of your customer satisfaction ratings and other customer metrics that Amazon measures in order to determine your search priority and ability to obtain the Amazon Buy Box.

Features and Benefits

Below are some of the features and benefits of this interactive tool - for complete details, please visit the Amazon 360 Product Dashboard page on the SSC.

View your Amazon sales over time View your listings by product state View your top 10 performing SKUs along with current quantity View the metrics that make up your Seller Reputation View the state and status of the Amazon Repricer feature View your Amazon Performance metrics View your most recent negative feedback

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 Please Note: Make sure that you have supplied ChannelAdvisor with your Seller Central login credentials as requested in your Amazon Settings in order for many of the features in the dashboard to work. To edit your settings to provide this information navigate to your Marketplaces > Amazon > Settings view and edit your Marketplace Account Information.

Product Status View

The Product Status view will serve as your Amazon listing management headquarters. From this view you will be able to view detailed information about all of the products you are sending to Amazon. You will be able to monitor the performance of your items as well as troubleshoot any listing errors you may have received. Navigate to your Marketplaces > Amazon > Products > Product Status view. There will be two primary views to choose from this page. The features of both pages are outlined below

Products View 

Select the "Products" button in the upper right corner of your Product Status page to view all of the products you are sending to Amazon. From this view you can perform the following tasks:

Filter based on a variety of criteria Search by SKU and Title View the product status for each item View listing errors associated with a specific item Perform the following actions by selecting the appropriate option under the action column Edit your item    View your listing as it appears on Amazon  View your product performance

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Errors View 

Select the "Errors" button in the upper right corner of your Product Status page to view your products that have received listing errors grouped together by listing error type. From this view you can perform the following tasks:

View error titles and descriptions Filter by error status and severity Dismiss a large number of errors in one click. Export a list of error messages Select the link under the errors column to view error details  Search by SKU and Title Perform the following actions by selecting the appropriate option under the action column Edit your item    View your listing as it appears on Amazon  View your product performance

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Resolving Amazon Errors

There are a wide range of listing errors that you may receive when listing to Amazon. Some errors are significant and will keep your products from listing on to the marketplace while other errors are less serious. For the less serious errors, although your product may list successfully, chances are that it is not listed optimally according to Amazon's standards.  Typically there are two methods of resolving an Amazon error. The method you choose will depend on the error you have received as well as how your data is organized. 

Because Amazon requests a large amount of data for items in multiple categories and has many requirements, it is not uncommon to receive multiple listing errors. Refer to the Common Amazon Errors page for an extensive list of errors and hints on how to resolve them.

Method 1: Edit Your Amazon Template Mappings

The Amazon Template is what tells ChannelAdvisor what data to send to Amazon. Failure to map the appropriate fields with the appropriate values from your inventory can result in listing errors. When you receive a listing error it is almost always a good idea to check your template. Some things to look out for are as follows:

• According to the Inventory File Templates on Seller Central, have I mapped all of the template fields that are "required" by Amazon to list successfully?
• Have I mapped using the correct attribute in my inventory?
• Have I setup the appropriate Business Rule or Lookup List to transform my data into a value accepted  by Amazon? 

Method 2: Edit Your Inventory Data

If you find the template appears to be mapped correctly and in according to Amazon's specifications, more then likely the source of the error is in your inventory data. Some things to look out for are as follows:

• Am I sending values that are accepted by Amazon according to the Inventory File Templates on Seller Central?
• Can I use a Business Rule or Lookup List to transform my existing data into a value accepted by Amazon?
• Do I need to create a new attribute in my inventory and populate it with an accepted value?

Please Note: If you're unsure about what fields need to be mapped and what values are accepted by Amazon, reference the Inventory File Templates located on Amazon Seller Central.

Product Performance View

In addition to the Amazon 360 Dashboard there is now a Product Performance view that will allow you to go more in depth with your products on Amazon. This view allows you to search for specific SKUs in your Amazon feed to compare your product details side-by-side with the Amazon product page for that SKU. Simply navigate to your Marketplaces > Amazon > Products > Product Performance view and search for any SKU within your Amazon feed to view these details.

• My Product Details - View and edit the details of a SKU in ChannelAdvisor as well as the current Amazon listing status
• Amazon Product Details - View the details of a designated SKU directly on the Amazon product page. If your SKU is not listed on Amazon this section will be grayed out. 
• Product Errors - Here you will be able to view any listing errors that are effecting a specified SKU
• Product Performance - Here you can view a day-to-day performance in terms of GMV for the specified SKU
• Product Information - A specified SKU's name, quantity, price, cost and recent sales
• Sales Rank - The Sales Rank calculation is based on Amazon sales and is updated daily to reflect recent and historical sales of the item sold on Amazon. The Sales Rank displayed here is for the Product Group within which the item is featured.
  Note: if there is no Sales Ranking for the ASIN on Amazon, there will be no ranking in this view.
• Department - The Amazon department or category for which the Sales Rank in the previous field is applicable.

Reference

• Fulfill and Cancel Your Amazon Order
• Amazon Marketplace Strategy