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North American Marketplace Accounts
Amazon Canada or United Kingdom Booksellers
Using Hit Lists to Set Amazon Fields
Setting records for Amazon Condition
Setting records for Amazon FBA and FBA Data Entry
Hit List Help:
Users should
read about Hit Lists in Help at the top of BookTrakker, then click the Hit Lists
selection in green.
Alternatively you can click the Hit Lists tab on the left side of
BookTrakker, then press F1 for Help. (If Help in BookTrakker does not
work email support@booktrakker.com
at once. there is a fix from Microsoft)
Online
Hit List Help Here.
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Condition is the Amazon
condition used on Marketplace only, whether it be
Amazon.com, Amazon.ca o Amazon.co.uk. The
list of choices is as follows:
1 = Used; Like New
2 = Used; Very Good (default)
3 = Used; Good
4 = Used; Acceptable
5 = Collectible; Like New
6 = Collectible; Very Good
7 = Collectible; Good
8 = Collectible; Acceptable
11 = New
BookTrakker will match these conditions automatically based on using the
Book field on the main data entry form. As you select from the Book field
one of the choices, BookTrakker will set Condition on the Amazon tab
according to the following equivalence table:
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VG+, VG, VG-
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G+, G
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Fair, P
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If you want to use any other selection then
you need to manually change the choice to what you want. There is no
capability within BookTrakker to distinguish between Used or Collectible
during data entry, the default is Used, unless you select New for the
book, in which case New is selected on the Amazon tab. You have to change
the dropdown manually for Collectible.
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Marketplace - Must be checked
for all Amazon.com uploads, Merchant Fulfilled. To set Marketplace by
default then do Tools > Options at the top of BookTrakker, then click
the Amazon button in the middle to bring up Amazon Settings. Check
Marketplace under Amazon Defaults, and if you have downloaded your
Shipping Templates into BookTrakker then select your default Shipping
Template. You can always change on the Amazon tab during data entry. You
can uncheck Marketplace on the Amazon tab if you do not want to upload an
Active record to Amazon while uploading elsewhere. Or, if you have
both an ISBN and an ASIN then use both, BookTrakker will upload the ISBN
to other services and the ASIN to Amazon.
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North American Marketplace Accounts (NAM)
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If you list on one of the
North American Marketplace (NAM) sites (Amazon.com, Amazon.ca or Amazon.mx)
and have a North American Unified Account then you can upload to both Amazon.com or Amazon.ca through the same Pro
Merchant account. See NAM
instructions to understand what the NAM is all about. So if you have
either an Amazon.com or Amazon.ca Pro Merchant account you can upload to
Amazon.com and/or Amazon.ca to manage listings. For Mexico you can only
manage through your Amazon dealer page. BookTrakker does not directly
upload to Amazon.mx.
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Shipping choices for
booksellers in Canada (CA) or the United Kingdom
(UK)
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Item Note - Used for the
Comments field on Marketplace. Limited to 2000 characters in BookTrakker.
NOTE: If Item Note is used then BookTrakker will get the data for Seller
Comments in the upload file from this field. This field will allow you to
use one description for Marketplace listings and a different description
for the other services. Leave it empty and BookTrakker will
use your Marketplace Field Mapping choices for creating Seller's Comments
on Amazon.
File > Export > Amazon
Mapping.
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C.
Setting records for Amazon Condition.
This can be more complicated, especially if you have DJ information. Ignoring
DJ information, which can be included in the Comments on Marketplace, you
will do a series of Hit Lists based on Book. These instructions assume
you follow Amazon's convention of assigning condition as described above
in Condition.
If you understand how Hit Lists work then you can do compound Hit Lists
based on both Book and DJ to optimize the Amazon Condition settings.
Obviously a VG Book with a Poor DJ is not really Used - Very Good.
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1. Used; Like New
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Click on the Hit Lists tab, left side. Click New.
Click OK. Select Marketplace under Search Field. Search Criteria defaults
to Yes. Under Marketplace click into the blank field and select Book.
Over on the right, under Search Criteria, click into the field for the
dropdown button to appear, click the dropdown button and select NF. Then,
on the right, under Search Type, select At Least from the dropdown list.
Your setup should look like this:
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Click the Execute button. Next, click the Hit Lists
tab on the left, then the Action tab, upper right. Click on Change, in
the Action frame on the left side. Then select Condition from the Change
dropdown list, and Used; Like New from the Change To field. Your setup
should look like this:
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Click Execute, confirm the changes. You can also set
them to Collectible - Like New using the same process, providing they
qualify under Amazon's guidelines for Collectible.
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2. Used; Very Good Click on the Hit Lists tab, left
side. Click New. Click OK. Select Marketplace under Search Field. Search
Criteria defaults to Yes. Under Marketplace click into the blank field
and select Book. Over on the right, under Search Criteria, click into the
field for the dropdown button to appear, click the dropdown button and
select VG+. Over on the right, select Less than or equal to. Click under
Search Field, new row, select Book again from the dropdown list, then VG-
under Search Criteria, then At Least under Search Type. Your setup should
look like this:
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Click Execute. You will end up with a list of all
books where Book is VG+, VG or VG-. Next, click the Hit Lists tab on the
left, then the Action tab, upper right. Click on Change, in the Action
frame on the left side. Then select Condition from the Change dropdown
list, and Used; Very Good from the Change To field. Click Execute,
Confirm. You can also set them to Collectible - Very Good using the same
process, providing they qualify under Amazon's guidelines for
Collectible.
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3. Used; Good. Repeat as above, except G+ = Less than
or equal to, and G = At Least. Then select Condition from the Change
dropdown list, and Used; Good from the Change To field. Click
Execute, Confirm. You can also set them to Collectible - Good using the
same process, providing they qualify under Amazon's guidelines for
Collectible.
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4. Used; Acceptable. Repeat as above. except you select Fair, Less than or Equal to. Then
select Condition from the Change dropdown list, and Used; Acceptable from
the Change To field. Click Execute, Confirm. You can also set them
to Collectible - Acceptable using the same process, providing they
qualify under Amazon's guidelines for Collectible.
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5. New . Similar to above,
except you set the Hit List to search on New, Equal to. Then select
Condition from the Change dropdown list, and New from the Change To
field. Click Execute, Confirm.
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D.
Setting records for Amazon FBA.
See E below for FBA Data Entry Instructions.
Three choices. No FBA, FBA/All
(uploading to other sites) or FBA only.
Click Tools
> Options at the top, then click the Amazon button in the middle to
bring up the Amazon Settings form:
1. If you are a Marketplace seller
only then No FBA is checked, and you have to select one or more of the
three Amazon Services, and what default Shipping Template you want to
use, if any. If there are no templates to choose from then records will
be uploaded to Amazon using the default template in your Amazon
account.
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2. If the FBA/All check box on
the Amazon tab is checked then the Status for New Records in BookTrakker
will be set to FBA SHIP and will be uploaded to Amazon only,
with Status changing to FBA TRANSIT after each upload. When the new books
arrive at Amazon and are processed into Inventory you can open App
Manager, click the Utilities button at the top, then click the Update FBA
Data button at the bottom. That will bring up this form:
To update records in
BookTrakker where Status = FBA TRANSIT click the Request Inventory Report
to bring up the Status Window for requesting Amazon data:
Followed by
And then, when records have been updated:
Click OK.
This process will update both
FBA Price and Quantity for any records in BookTrakker that were changed
on Amazon since the last report, as well as changing Status in BookTrakker
for any books that have been processed into Inventory at Amazon from FBA
TRANSIT to Available, ready to be uploaded to other online services. This
means you have Amazon ship the books when they sell elsewhere.
You should run this report at
least once a day to stay current.
For existing Marketplace
sellers who want to ship books to Amazon for FBA, do the following:
Click on the Hit Lists tab, left side.
Click New. Click OK. Select Status under Search Field, defaults to
Available. Select Marketplace under Search Field. Search Criteria
defaults to Yes. Select what records you want based on your Search Fields
and Search Criteria.
Once you have the records selected do an Action, Amazon. Under the Amazon
box, upper right corner, click the dropdown and select FBA. Then select
FBA/All in Change To:
Next
you have to set Status to FBA SHIP. Select Status on the Action tab, then set Status over on the right to FBA SHIP. Click
Execute, then Confirm the change.
Click
the red Hit List button at the top to get out of Hit List mode. Then
upload your records.
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3. If the FBA Only check box on the Amazon tab is checked
and Status = FBA then these records are only uploaded to Amazon. If
previously uploaded records were changed to this choice then they would
be removed from the other services while being uploaded to Amazon.
Click
on the Hit Lists tab, left side. Click New. Click OK. Select Status under
Search Field, defaults to Available. Select Marketplace under Search
Field. Search Criteria defaults to Yes. Select what records you want
based on your Search Fields and Search Criteria.
Once you have the records selected do an Action, Amazon. Under the Amazon
box, upper right corner, click the dropdown and select FBA. Check Yes.
Click Execute. Confirm.
Click
on the Hit Lists tab, left side. Click the Action tab, upper right. Check
Status on the left. Where is says To: Available over on the right, click
the dropdown button and select FBA at the end of the list. Click Execute.
Confirm. (You will get zero results)
Click
the red Hit List button at the top to get out of Hit List mode.
E.
Data Entry Instructions for New FBA Records that will be listed on other
online services.
When
doing new records Status is set to FBA SHIP until you do your upload to
Amazon, then the Status will change to FBA TRANSIT while you create your
Shipping Plan and ship the books to Amazon. Clicking Update FBA Data at
the bottom of the Utilities tab in App Manager will set these books to
AVAILABLE when Amazon receives the books and has them available for sale.
When they are set to AVAILABLE they can be uploaded to other online
services.
Before
starting data entry do Tools > Options at the top and set Cover to
blank by clicking into the field to select the content, then pressing the
Delete key on your keyboard. Click OK at the bottom of the form, then No.
CAVEAT:
There are many fields in BookTrakker that some users may not need to use.
That’s where Tools > Tab Order comes into play, you can select which
fields to use and what order. Some fields, such as Type, are optional, up
to the user. Many other fields are similar.
To
do a New record: Click New Record button, bottom right corner. Click OK.
Depending on your Tab Order you need to get to the ISBN or ASIN field on
the Keywords tab near the bottom of BookTrakker. Type, paste or scan in
an ISBN into the ISBN field, or paste in an ASIN from Amazon into the
ASIN field. Press enter to move to the next field, and so on. (You can
also use the Tab key)
Make
sure you fill in description in the Features field if needed. (Or
whatever field you are using for this, but NOT Item Note if this
information is going to other services than Amazon.) Finish data entry,
setting a price, then click Next Record or Done if you are done with data
entry for this session.
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