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get orders on Amazon for books you never had, then have to cancel,
running the risk of negative feedback? Or trying to explain to the
customer what went wrong?
The
Solution:
For sellers who want to clean up their
listings on Amazon where the Author, Title, Publisher, Date or Binding
is not the same as what they actually have and don't want to do this
manually we have a solution that costs $100.00 plus the
download/installation of BookTrakker, with no requirement to actually
purchase or use BookTrakker beyond the 30 day trial. (You can print out
any of the reports for use with other programs when the BookTrakker
trial runs out. You can still import into BookTrakker and use CheckIt
Pro to remove records from Amazon.)
It does require that you are able to import your data into BookTrakker
with respect to the ASIN/ISBN, SKU and the required data fields, and set
all records for Marketplace upload. Then create an export file to set
the records for Online in BookTrakker without actually uploading them.
This method works best with Homebase 2.3 or any of the Interloc
databases still in use, such as BookMaster 3, Record Manager or Bookmate
where there is a specific field for ISBN only. You can also use it with
a tab delimited import (no quotes) but one has to know a little bit more
about importing records for tab files to work. We have instructions
online.
Since you do not need complete data accuracy for this operation you can
use the default import mapping to get the data into BookTrakker for
Homebase 2.3 and the Interloc/Alibris programs.
After importing your data and setting records for Amazon when the
question pops up after clicking Close, you restart BookTrakker. Then do
File > Export > UIEE > Start to set the Online flags in
BookTrakker so CheckIt can work with the database.
Click the Online button at the top, followed by the New Service button
at the bottom. (If for some reason the Online button does not work
contact us at the email address below) Where it says Select or Type in
New Service click the dropdown and select your Amazon service. Amazon US
MP, Amazon.ca MP or Amazon.co.uk MP. (Do not select one of the SC
choices)
Click Next. Fill in your Amazon email and password, click finish. The
new Amazon service will appear in the Service list above the New Service
button, below Chrislands. You will see a check box to the left of the
Amazon service name, check the box. This sets it as an Active service
for uploads. (No uploads take place until you initiate one. BookTrakker
uploads are not automatic, the user has to click a button first.)
Then click the dropdown button to the right of the plugins button at the
top and select CheckIt. Wait for CheckIt to open. (might take as long as
45 seconds to open) When it does you want to click the Request Report
button to post a request to Amazon for an Open Listings Lite report.
Click OK and wait for the email notification from Amazon. Meanwhile,
click the ISBNs check box under Option. When Amazon notifies you that
the report is ready click the Download Report button.
Wait for the download to process.
Before purchasing CheckIt/CheckIt Pro you can do a dry run to see some
of the benefits of this program.
CheckIt downloads the ASIN's and ISBN's that Amazon has assigned to your
records on Amazon and replaces what you have in BookTrakker where they
are different. This way your ASIN's/ISBN's match Amazon's data. After
downloading the report you can click the Update ASINs button. In Free
mode CheckIt will report on how many changes would be made if you
purchased CheckIt for $50. Ditto for the other operations described in
the User Guide button upper left corner.
For the purposes of this posting you can ignore that and move onto the
operation to compare your bibliographical data with Amazon.
Click the Verify Data with CheckIt Pro button, upper right. This opens
up CheckIt Pro. There are a few buttons at the bottom. Click the Match
Control Panel button. When it opens change the Title count from 1 to 5,
then click the Save button. Click OK. (You can read about CheckIt Pro by
clicking the User Guide button lower right corner.)
To compare all of your Amazon data in BookTrakker click the Get Amazon
Data button. This will start the process of downloading data specific to
each ASIN or ISBN you have in your BookTrakker inventory file into the
CheckIt database, and run a comparison between the records, looking for
differences. In Free mode all it does it issue a report of how many are
different, you have to purchase CheckIt Pro for $100 (Includes CheckIt)
to find out which specific records are incorrect.
The process of downloading data and doing the comparison between records
takes awhile. We process ~9 records per second on a broadband (Cable,
DSL) connection. So for 6000 records it would take about 11 minutes to
process. (You can reduce the number of records to process by doing a Hit
List in BookTrakker, then selecting the Hit List on the CheckIt Pro
control panel)
After the report is issued you can click the BT Orphans radio button in
the BT Results Display frame to find out how many records in BookTrakker
have ASIN's or ISBN's that don't even exist on Amazon. With the purchase
of CheckIt Pro you can print out a list of these records so you can
update your database. If you switch to using BookTrakker then CheckIt
Pro can strip the ASIN's or ISBN's from BookTrakker and set the records
for reupload to rematch against existing pages or create new product
detail pages.
The example below is an abbreviated result (included but not shown in
this image are Publisher, Date, Binding and Edition) of what you
can expect in the Amazon Mismatch report for mismatched records after
you purchase and register CheckIt/CheckIt Pro:
A user would check the box to the left
of the SKU to set the record for automatic deletion on Amazon, then
after doing the same for all other incorrect records they would click
the Fix Selected BT Records button to remove them from Amazon and set
the records in BookTrakker for reupload, to either rematch or create a
new product detail page. If the BookTrakker trial ran out then you would
need to print the list of results before closing CheckIt Pro so you can
fix the records in whatever program you are using.
Using CheckIt/CheckIt Pro can almost guarantee that a dealer is not
going to sell a book they don't have.
There is no requirement for anyone to purchase BookTrakker if they want
to clean up their Amazon data during the 30 day Trial period. Purchase
of CheckIt/CheckIt Pro is required.
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