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CheckIt Quick Use Guide

CheckIt can be found by clicking Online in BookTrakker, then clicking the dropdown button to the right of Apps.

To use CheckIt immediately to download ASIN's and ISBN's into BookTrakker; then check for records on Amazon but Sold, Removed or otherwise not Available in BookTrakker and/or to find and upload records in BookTrakker but not on Amazon do the following:

Make sure you have uploaded to all servicesall previous changes to records in BookTrakker, be they New records, Sold records or Edits, to all services before using CheckIt.

CAVEAT: If you have books Sold or Pending on Amazon you need to make sure they are Sold or On Hold in BookTrakker before using CheckIt to update your database. Listings Sold or Pending on Amazon but not marked as such in BookTrakker may be relisted as For Sale on Amazon or even removed altogether.

Download ASIN's and ISBN's into BookTrakker.

1. Click the Online button at the top of BookTrakker. Click the dropdown button for Apps, select CheckIt. When it opens, select the Amazon service at the top. (If you only have one it defaults to that service.)

At present, because of file format changes made by Amazon, data is not available for CheckIt from Amazon.ca (Amazon Canada) We will notify users when this issue is fixed. 

2. Click Request Report, wait for Notification email from Amazon, or wait 15 minutes, then click Download Report. Wait for it to process. If the report is not ready then you will get a failure message, try again shortly. 

3. Make sure ISBNs is checked under Option.  If you want to preserve the ISBNs or ASINs in the record then click the check box for Copy to Field, and select one of the fields.  

4. Click the "Update ASINs" button. Click OK to the two messages.

5. CheckIt has replaced the ASIN or ISBN in BookTrakker with what Amazon has for that record. If there was no ASIN or ISBN in the record there is one now.

6. Close CheckIt.

7. Upload the changes to Amazon.  select Amazon in the list of services so the > points to Amazon, click the middle upload button: Process/Upload to Selected Service. Wait for all files to process on Amazon. (second button in CheckIt, upper right will take you to that page)

To find records on Amazon that are Sold, Removed or not otherwise Available in BookTrakker or to find records that should be on Amazon but aren't:

1. Click the Online button at the top of BookTrakker. Click the dropdown button for Apps, select CheckIt. When it opens, select the Amazon service at the top. (If you only have one it defaults to that service.)

2. Click Request Report, wait for Notification email from Amazon, or wait 15 minutes, then click Download Report. Wait for it to process. If the report is not ready then you will get a failure message, try again shortly. 

3. Click the "Show Recs" button to find records on Amazon that are not Available in BookTrakker. 

4. Should get a list of records. Click Set records for BT upload at the bottom. Close window. (You can also Print this if you want)

5. Click the Check ASINs button at the bottom. Window displays records in BookTrakker, but not on Amazon. Click Set records for Upload. (You can print this list as well)

6. Close CheckIt.

7. Upload the changes to Amazon. Close CheckIt, select Amazon in the list of services so the > points to Amazon, click the middle upload button: Process/Upload to Selected Service. Wait for all files to process on Amazon. (second button in CheckIt, upper right will take you to that page)

Repeat as necessary to fix listings on Amazon. Once a month should do but you can do it more often is you are an active seller.