An alphanumerical code retailers use to manage their inventory. They’re usually generated using inventory management software like SellerEngine Plus. To learn how to create your own SKUs, please read this post.
The sales rank of products on Amazon indicates their popularity in reference to other products in that category. It relates to the number of sales a product has in an hour. The more sales it gets, the lower the sales rank. An item with a sales rank of 1...
Selling certain product categories on Amazon is restricted, meaning that you can only sell them with Amazon’s approval. Please read this help page for a list of all the categories, the type of products allowed, and the condition they can be sold in. The list of ‘restricted’ products...
This is what you call products manufactured exclusively for a particular distributor or seller. In practice, they will have the seller’s logo, labels, packaging inserts, etc., not the manufacturer’s, when they’re offered for sale. They’re known to most people as ‘phantom brands’. AmazonBasics, for instance, is a range of...
Prime Day was initially a one-day sales event on the second Tuesday in July celebrating Amazon’s birthday. In more recent years, it’s been known to stretch over two consecutive days, preceded by several days or weeks of pre-sales events.
This is a written account of how you intend to turn a suspension of your listings and/or selling rights into an opportunity to improve. It’s submitted in a Letter of Appeal, and it’s supposed to show Amazon that you’ve identified the issues, taken steps to correct them, taken preventive...
Warning messages sent by Amazon’s Seller Performance Team to flag up a negative change in baseline performance goals. Historically, these notifications preceded a listing or account suspension. More recently, notifications sometimes also include a request for a pre-POA - that is, a plan of action sellers can put together...
Part of the Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) program, PAN EU enables sellers to list their products across all European venues with the Prime badge, send them to a single Amazon fulfillment center, and let Amazon distribute the products across Europe, without charging sellers for shifting merchandise across warehouses and...
To put it simply, the Order Defect Rate is the percentage of unfulfilled orders averaged over your total sales in a certain period. If it’s over 1.19%, then you’re on the verge of having your account suspended. We discussed high defect rates and other such issues in this blog...
Part of the Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) program, MCI enables sellers to choose the European countries they want to list and ship their products to. They’re able to split their inventory across any number of European venues (currently up to 5).