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Add Amazon Seller Central – Product Creation (US) export

Send your products to Amazon as a seller in the US via Productsup.

Introduction

To let you sell your products on Amazon, Productsup has built an ecosystem that sends product and order data to Amazon and imports order data from Amazon into Productsup:

  • The API-based export Amazon Seller Central – Product Creation (US) lets you the US-based sellers export their data to Amazon. See the set up process in the current document.

  • The data source Amazon Marketplace Orders (SP-API) lets Productsup import your orders from a selected Amazon Seller Central account to Productsup. See Set up order sync for Amazon.

  • The API-based export Amazon Marketplace Shipment Update (SP-API) lets you update orders on Amazon using information stored in your ERP, order management, or shop system, for example, order tracking IDs and carrier information. See Export shipment updates to Amazon.

  • The API-based export Amazon Inventory and Price Update (API) 2021 lets you update inventory and prices for the exported products on Amazon. See How to configure your Amazon Inventory and Price export.

This document describes the Amazon Seller Central – Product Creation (US) export that let US-based Amazon sellers link their categories and subcategories to the Amazon categories and export their products to Amazon via API.

Note

Currently, the Amazon Seller Central – Product Creation (US) export is only for US-based sellers and is in the beta phase. However, we can add more countries on demand.

Now, we support only one category for test purposes – the US/SOFA category. To request other categories or countries, contact your Customer Success Manager or support@productsup.com.

You can also use analyzer tests to confirm that your attributes meet the Amazon requirements. In case of errors during the export, you can see Amazon's feedback about errors in Productsup to fix and resend the product catalog.

Prerequisites

To set up the Amazon export in Productsup, you need to:

  1. Create a seller account on Amazon if you don't have one.

  2. Have login and password for your Amazon seller account. Productsup connects to Amazon via the Selling Partner API.

  3. Prepare and send us a list of the Amazon product types and countries where you want to sell products.

    Note

    This export has category-specific attributes. Productsup supports only some categories by default. But we can add missing categories on request. To request the necessary categories, product types, countries, or languages for this integration, contact your Customer Success Manager or support@productsup.com and provide the following information:

    • List of product types

    • List of countries, regions, or marketplaces per product type. See Marketplace IDs for reference.

  4. Import your products to Productsup as a main data source. See Add a main data source to import your products.

Add and set up Amazon Seller Central – Product Creation (US) export

  1. Go to Exports from your site's main menu and select ADD EXPORT.

  2. Search for Amazon Seller Central – Product Creation (US), hover over it, and select Add.

    Amazon Seller Central – Product Creation (US) export
  3. On the Exports page, select the name of the added export to set it up.

  4. Select Add Destination and choose Amazon marketplace 2024 from the drop-down list, give it a name as desired, and select Save.

    Amazon destination
  5. Select Add New Authentication or choose a previously created authentication from the Select authentication drop-down menu. See Add OAuth authentication to external systems to set up authentication with another platform.

  6. Switch Active to On to activate the destination.

  7. Select Save.

  8. Next, set up a Classification Mapping list for Amazon. See the following section.

Set up a Classification Mapping list for Amazon

You must map your attributes to the Amazon categories using the Classification Mapping list to let Productsup know which category-specific attributes should be available to you.

  1. Go to Lists from your site's main menu and select ADD LIST.

  2. Choose Classification Mapping and select Continue.

    Classification Mapping list
  3. In Name, give your mapping list a custom name to help you identify it among others. You can edit it later.

  4. In Classification, select Amazon Seller Central – Product Creation (US).

    Amazon Classification Mapping list example
  5. In Stage, choose Import to replace the imported categories with the categories accepted by Amazon.

  6. In Attribute, choose your category attribute from your imported attributes. The platform later populates the list with the values from this attribute to let you map your categories to the Amazon categories.

  7. Select Add.

  8. Map your categories pre-populated in the right-hand side column to the Amazon categories in the Replace term column, selecting a needed category from the drop-down menus.

    Amazon_list_example.png

    Note

    You must create and set up a new Classification Mapping list every time you modify the chosen category attribute in your data source and import its new values into your site. Otherwise, the existing list can't upload your new values, and you can't map them to the corresponding Amazon categories. Once you create a new Classification Mapping list, you need to choose it in the related rule box.

  9. Map your attributes and add the Classification Mapping rule box. See the following section.

Map your attributes and add the Classification Mapping rule box

To map your custom categories to the Amazon categories, you must map the attribute in Dataflow and add the Classification Mapping rule box to apply the Classification Mapping list created in Set up a Classification Mapping list for Amazon.

  1. Go to Dataflow from your site's main menu and select Amazon Seller Central – Product Creation (US) in the drop-down menu on the left.

  2. Map all relevant attributes from import to export.

  3. Map your category attribute in the import stage to category_path in the intermediate stage.

    Map the category attribute to Amazon category_path
  4. Select category_path in the intermediate stage to add and set up the Classification Mapping rule box. Set up the rule box:

    1. Choose the list created in Set up a Classification Mapping list for Amazon from the List drop-down menu.

      Classification Mapping list for Amazon US
    2. In Case Sensitivity, choose Match Sensitive to perform a case-sensitive search in the attribute's values or Match Insensitive to ignore the case of the values.

    3. In On No Match, choose what should happen if there is no match with the values on the list:

      • set to empty string makes the cell empty

      • set original value leaves the original value

    4. Select Save.

  5. To let the site display your category-specific attributes in Dataflow, select Run or Import in the top-right corner of your view.

    Warning

    This run will fail because you still need to map all the mandatory attributes, so no data export occurs at this stage. The aim of the run is to import the necessary categories and attributes into Dataflow.

  6. After the run is completed, check the Classifications drop-down menu in the upper ribbon of Dataflow. You must see all categories su.

    CSA channels

    Tip

    If you can't see the Classifications drop-down menu when the site run is complete, refresh your page.

  7. Select each category in the Classifications drop-down menu and map all relevant attributes from import to export.

    The fork icon to the right of the category-specific attribute name identifies attributes relevant to the selected Amazon category.

    The fork icon for the Amazon CSA

    Note

    If some attributes are missing in the intermediate stage, add them manually.

  8. Check your export readiness. See the following section.

Check your export readiness

Use analyzer tests in Data View to checks your data completeness and readiness for export to Amazon.

  1. Go to Data View from your site's main menu and choose Amazon Seller Central – Product Creation (US) from the drop-down menu on the top left-hand side.

  2. For each attribute, select Analyze to ensure your data is compliant with Amazon's requirements. Alternatively, select the Overview drop-down menu and choose Readiness.

    Analyze readiness
  3. See the readiness report and correct the data using rule boxes.

    Readiness report
  4. Once your data is ready, select Run in the top-right corner of your view to send your products to Amazon.

    Note

    You can open the Notifications panel Notifications_bell_icon.png to check the export progress.

Retrieve errors from Amazon to fix issues with your data

When your site run finishes, Amazon can send feedback on your export to Productsup to let you fix errors.

  1. Go to Error Log from your site's main menu.

  2. Select the Amazon errors tab.

    Warning

    It may take several minutes before you can see the Amazon errors tab.

  3. If you need more information on errors, select Download CSV to download the Amazon feedback file.

    Amazon errors tab
  4. Use rule boxes, Dataflow connection, and data services to fix data issues and run the export again by selecting Run or Export in the top-right corner of your view.