Vendor Central Catalog Management
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Amazon internally assigns different codes for each item listed so that the order system can recognize whether the product is orderable and should be ordered. If an article has a wrong code, Amazon no longer orders it from you. It is not available directly from Amazon on the Amazon website, visibility decreases fewer customers click on it.
show moreThis leads to less demand. And the downward spiral is in full swing. Fortunately, Amazon has since revised their previously extensive list of codes to make it less confusing. And the following are now currently being used by Amazon. Green light, this means that the product is currently available from you.
The supplier in stock, this means that the product is in stock at the supplier and readily available for Amazon to reorder as require. Temporarily unavailable. This means that product is currently not being ordered by Amazon and permanently unavailable. This means that the product can no longer be ordered at all.
As a vendor, you would obviously like to maintain your product listings in your catalog at the in stock replenishment code at all times, unless you are delisting or discontinuing a product in order to amend the availability of a product in your catalog, you can do so. By going to the edit products page, located in the dropdown menu of the items tab on the top menu of vendor central.
On the next page, click on the update availability link in the top left hand side of the page, select which ASINs you would like to amend the availability of choose your availability in the top left hand side of the page, and then click the yellow edits availability button. Your items will then reflect the new availability immediately.