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| Company Amazon Import
requires that you have registered BookTrakker with Amazon. If
you have not already done so please review this page: https://www.booktrakker.com/help/Amazon_Registration.htm
Amazon Import also
requires that you operate BookTrakker in AlphaNumeric
mode. Open BookTrakker, do Tools > Options at the top. Midway
down the form check Use Alpha Record Code. Click OK at the bottom, click Yes to close the program. ********************************************************************************************** REQUIRED
UPDATE TO INVENTORY FILE ON AMAZON All Imports/Updates from Amazon now require
a Custom All Listings Report to be created. Login to: https://sellercentral.amazon.com/listing/reports/custom?report_type=47700 Click this button in the
middle: Then click the Save
button, lower right corner to Save the changes: *********************************************************************************************** If you are an FBA seller
on Amazon then importing data is a two step
process. 1. Import Amazon Data 2. Update FBA and/or
Merchant Fulfilled Data To Import Amazon
Listings: 1. Open App Manager.
Click the
Utilities/Messages tab at the top. Click the Import Amazon Data button at the
bottom.
The Import Amazon Data
form opens. (These instructions are based on Importing 300 Records to test
the import, the message boxes will reflect that.) Limit Import to 300 records
for Testing enables you to see how your listings will look in BookTrakker,
before you do your entire Inventory. If you want to test how
your data will look in BookTrakker by changing settings then repeat requests
as often as necessary, until you get the formatting of Author and Title to
your liking. Exclude Non-BMVD Items
means that only Books, Music, Video and DVD listings will be imported, all others will be deleted from the final database. This
may not work for some sellers where Books are listed in other departments on
Amazon. (Not all books go into the Books Category) Click the respective
Amazon Sites choice it should default to your Amazon account unless you have
more than one, in which case you need to select which one you want.
Click the Author/Title
Format button to specify how you want Author/Title data to appear in
BookTrakker:
Click close to get back
to the previous form. Click the Request Report
button. The Clear Database form appears. Click Yes to wipe out any existing
Inventory in BookTrakker or No to Cancel.
Next is what type of
Amazon seller you are. Yes for FBA, No for Merchant Fulfilled.
This form appears:
We have found that we
process ~2 records per second. Click OK to get:
BookTrakker has contacted
Amazon, requested the report, and are waiting for Amazon to create it so
BookTrakker can download and process the records into BookTrakker. Download of your Amazon
records has started. First pass
imports the ASIN/ISBN, Amazon Condition and Item Description, putting the
latter into the Features field in BookTrakker.
Total Records is a
combination of Active and Inactive records on Amazon. When the download is
complete it will start to process, unless you clicked Yes for FBA, in which case
it will request a file for FBA and download data from it, then go to the next
step, processing the Biblio data:
Sending the ASIN or ISBN
to Amazon and getting back bibliographical data about each listing.
Author/Title/ Cover (Binding), Publisher, Date Published, Size and Page
Count. When its finished you get:
We have discovered that
this report may not be accurate, so after clicking OK you will see this
message: Import
Complete. Some Status Messages relating to number of records written to the
Database may not accurately reflect the final Inventory Record Count due to
factors involved in the Processing. Click OK to get:
Click OK, you will get
the same message again, click OK again.
Click Done, then Close on
the form that follows. Open BookTrakker to see your data. FBA
Sellers Need to do this Next Step: 2. Update FBA Data Close BookTrakker. Open
App Manager, click the Utilities tab at top. Ate the
bottom is
Click that to start the
FBA Update Process. You can also access this
from your desktop:
Either method brings up
this form:
For purposes of doing the
FBA update after the initial import, click the Update Sales and Inventory
button. Leave the Sales Date range alone for this import.
Then….
If
you do Merchant Fulfilled on Amazon and have Sold items you get this:
Followed by a Pick List
of items Sold or Missing which you can print or not. (Missing happens because
for reasons unknown we are unable to import them into BookTrakker. If you get
Missing records in the Pick List you should print it, then
investigate) The same Sold records are accessible in BookTrakker via a Hit
List or using the Show dropdown upper right corner for Status. This is the
next form in the sequence:
Then….
Followed
by Biblio Data updates if there are new records added to Amazon that were not
listed in BookTrakker:
Then:
If
you do FBA only, you get:
Then:
Click
Done to finish. Open BookTrakker and look over your records. If you do Merchant
Fulfilled as well and had new records added to BookTrakker that were added on
Amazon independently of BookTrakker then you get:
Followed
by:
Click
OK to get:
Then:
Click
Done. Open BookTrakker to see
your now updated Inventory. You should run the Update
FBA Inventory once a day thereafter. If you forget, that’s OK, as the app
will know that and account for the missing time. |
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