Here are the recommended steps and best practices to successfully create new listings from existing products, along with videos to guide you through this process.
Here are a series of videos to walk you through how to successfully list to Amazon, eBay, and/or Walmart using Marketplace Management.
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- Integrating
- Exporting/Importing Product Data - Prepare your existing product data for listing on additional channels, and/or create a new product from scratch
- Working with Variations
- Staging - Stage your products to prepare for listing
- Categorizing your listings
- Understanding Listing Statuses
- Publish "Ready to Publish" items
- Working with "Incomplete" items
- Working with "Errors"
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Integrating -
Please note this recent update as of 4/13/21: In order to publish listings, Marketplace Management requires the Outbound setting to allow publishing to be On. Please see this article for more information about setting up your integrations. (Note: If you're on a free trial, use these integration steps instead.)
- Exporting/Importing Product Data - Prepare your product data by exporting your product information, adding additional required fields for publishing, and re-importing this new product information back into Marketplace Management using the Products Workspace. (i.e. UPC, Primary Image, Description, Brand, Shipping Weight Unit, Shipping Weight Value, Manufacturer)
Slides from the Exporting and Importing Product Data presentation are available here
Create a new product: If you are creating a brand new product from scratch, please view this video and then continue with the remaining steps. - Working with Variations - Learn more about how variation information is imported into Marketplace Management depending on the marketplace, how to work with variation sets in Marketplace Management, and how to prepare and create variations in Marketplace Management.
Slides from the Variation presentation are available here - Staging - Stage your products to the desired marketplaces you want to list to and start the listing process
Slides from the Staging presentation are available here - Categorizing - Categorize your listings based on the desired marketplaces
Slides from the Categorizing presentation are available here - Listing Status - Understand what each listing status means
Slides from the Listing Status Definitions presentation are available here - Publish "Ready to Publish" Items - Working with Ready to Publish Items
Slides from the Ready To Publish Items presentation are available here - Working with "Incomplete" Items - How to troubleshoot items with missing information
Slides from the Working With Incomplete Items presentation are available here - Working with "Errors" - How to troubleshoot the most common errors
Slides from the Working with Errors presentation are available here