How to Download Your Category Listing Report.pptx

2. What is Category Listing Report Amazon’s Category Listing Report gives a complete view of ALL of our listings on Amazon, as they currently appear in Amazon’s system. Additionally, it can be used to quickly create a flat file for upload, which is extremely useful for brands selling hundreds of ASINs.

3. What is Category Listing Report Instead of changing or updating information to each individual listing, we can use the category listing report to update the entire catalogue all in one go. However, it is recommend breaking it down into test batches first, especially when we are not familiar with the process or the catalog.

4. Benefits Looking at a category listing report is an effective way of reviewing all of our Amazon listings at a glance, in one convenient file, and immediately identifying any potential issues, like non-compliance and abuse. For example: A specific problem you’d be able to spot on a category listing report is if someone added keywords to a listing’s backend, causing that ASIN to be flagged as, say, a pesticide or as a drug.

5. Benefits Whether it is for identifying a technical issue, an abuse issue, or a compliance issue, a category listing report has become an Amazon seller necessity. The report also serves as a record that you can show Amazon Seller Support when reporting such problems.

6. WHY CLR is Recommended 1. It gives you a record of the changes you made, and a batch ID that you can refer back to later if necessary, or use to get the Catalog team to assist you in pushing your changes through If you’re making changes to a lot of listings, it’s a lot faster than doing them one by one in Seller Central It’s more accurate- it gives you a full view of all of your listings, so you can see all attributes, for all variations, and ensure they match. It’s often more effective. Changes that you can get to stick in Seller Central often upload without an issue. 2. 3. 4.

7. How to Download Category listing report is not available “By Default” for all accounts. We have to request the support to activate the report

8. How to Download Goto the help section on amazon seller central and open a case with support asking them to activate “Category Listing Report” for your account. It can be as simple as: “ Hello, I would like to activate access to the Category Listing Report, please. Thanks!” Support will respond within 6-8 hours and activate the report without any questions/queries

9. Once the report has been activated, we can easily download it by going to hamburger menu on SC and navigating to: ○ Reports>>Inventory Reports On the reports page, from drop select “Category Listing Report” and click request report. Report will be ready to download with 3-5 minutes ● ● ●

10. Best Practices Routinely checking your Amazon category listing report is not only considered a best practice for listing management, but it also helps you identify potential issues with your listings and prevent any disruptions to your Amazon business. DO-NOT use old flat files for any changes. Make sure you download a new report everytime an update has to be made. This is necessary because amazon keep on making changes to the reports and the listing attributes.

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