How to Manage Your Local Business Amazon Seller Account

 

Once you have set up your local business Amazon seller account, there are a number of ways to keep track of your business activities on the site. Amazon provides a wide range of tools to give you up to date, detailed information so that you are always aware of how well your local business is performing.

1. Inventory management.
This allows you to the view the entire list of your current inventory and to make any necessary changes. You can edit the price, shipping options and quantity of each listed item. If you would like to see if other Amazon sellers have lower priced similar items, you can also do this. Another way to view your inventory is to relist your closed items. Closed items are those products that have either been sold, didn’t sell in the past 60 days, were removed because they violated Amazon’s terms or were personally removed by you.

2. Order management.
On a daily basis you can view all of your sales orders. By clicking on the order ID, you can see the particular details about that order, directly print a packaging label for that order and also contact the buyer of the product if you need to. You can also examine any refunded orders.

3. Payment management.
Through your payments account, you can access financial information such as your money balance, the Amazon fees deducted, any refund amounts and your bank transfer details. This provides you a detailed financial account for all your transactions.

4. Reports.
   Amazon can provide you with detailed reports on your sales orders, customer feedback and ratings, refunds and buyer claims amongst other important information.

5. Notifications.
  To keep you up to date with any news going on in your local business Amazon seller account, you can set up email notifications about your product listing and sales orders. Make sure that your Amazon notifications aren’t getting sent to your spam box or else you could be ignorant about what’s happening in your account.

All this business tracking information is freely available using Amazon's seller tools.

How to List Your Local Business Products on Amazon

 

In a previous article we outlined the six steps required to set up your local business Amazon seller account. Once you have set up your account, you are ready to set up your product listings so that they can be displayed on the Amazon catalog for viewing by buyers.

Follow these steps to create your listing:

1. On your seller account page, click on ‘manage your inventory listing’ link and then click on listings to create your product listing.

2. Search the Amazon database for the item you want to sell. Once you have found it click on the ‘sell yours here’ button.

3. Describe the condition of your local business item. For example, describe if its new, used, scratched etc

4. Set the price of your product and register to collect payment through Marketplace Payment by Amazon. As you set your price, take into consideration the Amazon commission fees and the shipping rates.

5. Set the quantity that you have of the item you want to sell and assign a code to the product to help you track it when it’s sold. Something to note is that if you have multiple copies of the same product, but they are not in identical condition or are of different editions, then you need to create a separate listing for each product. However, if you have multiple copies of the same product and all of them are in the same condition then you only need to create one listing.

6. Confirm that all the information you have entered is correct. You can always edit the data later if you want although you can’t change the ‘condition’ field unless you close that product listing and create another one.

Having completed these six steps your product will now be listed in the Amazon catalog ready for sale.