Amazon Business sellers can now use Automate Pricing to manage their business prices
Automate Pricing allows you to quickly update prices across a large catalog of products, without spending a lot of time to make updates listing by listing. With the newly launched business pricing rules, Amazon Business sellers can now create rules that will automatically update your business prices and quantity discounts. You can make these updates based on changes to your consumer prices, saving both time and effort.
Similar to existing price rules, you can control the prices by defining rule parameters, setting minimum and maximum price boundaries for single-unit business prices, and selecting the SKUs on which to automate pricing.
For quantity discounts, the percentage discount you enter for each quantity tier will be used to determine the minimum price applicable for that specific quantity tier. For example, if the minimum price for a SKU is USD $20, and you entered 10% as the discount on 5+ units, the minimum price applicable for quantity tier 5+ units would be USD $20 * (1-10%) = USD $18.
For more information, see Create a business pricing rule , or visit the Automate Pricing tool to get started.
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Seller_nstkdGWZl0SW0
This assumes that sellers want to sell to businesses, which many do not and some of us have selling agreements to only sell to end users.
This issue is long past due to allow an opt out.
The people using this are getting free 30 day terms on retail purchases.
Seller_KOsHWCDw6zcSe
Just testing it. Trying a single product under competitive buy box rule. True that the feature helpful for large catalogue. That’s not hold true for our store due to limited items. However, we stuck in a segment which is highly crowded and commoditized. Would like to bleed stock at cost price and move forward. Not enough data or case studies to substantiate the success of this feature for the sellers. Hence testing out small!
Seller_otDFihTxKiDRD
Unless you offer sellers a real and valid way to shut down the poorly constructed rules and comparisons on the pricing bots that hide inventory and give false flags on prices, I’m not impressed. And if that pricing error bot is anything to judge by, this would hurt as many people as you seem to think it would help.
MJ
Seller_AevYmOVtgtKV2
I just tried this for my whole catalog and its very glitchy. We sell a lot to business customers so I thought this would be great, but its only adding one tier for a lot of my skus overwriting the four tiers I previously had even though I copied the same rule from the original listing with the four tiers.
Also the tiered discount is off of the standard price not the business price so its kinda weird. 3% off as the business price, 5% off for buying 5 units, and they are only getting an additional 2% off (5% total) not the 8% we are offering.
Seller_XFj8akGqahG0f
I truly believe Amazon manipulates prices by artificially reducing prices in the algorithm but not actually on the site which causes sellers thru automated pricing to reduce prices which in turn gives amazon buyers a discount thru manipulation of the price. Seems to me that Amazon wants the prices so low that they keep their customers happy while skinning the sellers of any profit.
Seller_BKlV7AqNr0t5x
Marketplace fees are increasing, labor costs are increasing (minimum wage $15/hr), shipping costs are increasing (ridiculously),packing material costs are increasing, much easier return, more stringent restocking fee, less reasonable A-to-Z and SAFE-T ruling, more removal of ASINs by Amazon due to various wrong reasons…
Now, it’s very generous for Amazon to offer sellers more price cutting function.Thank you, but we will pass because we also need to make a living…
Seller_TB4RCHbuXIRue
I just went to the basic. Fill out 2 boxes and then this box opens: "Proceed to marketplace(s) selection. But It doesn’t offer any option.
Seller_Cg8VryZqmewbJ
This make no sense to me. No benefits to the seller. Especially when Amazon itself uses the sales of the book sellers and than buys bulks and jacks the price way down. When is Amazon going to help the sellers instead of worrying about making even more money for themselves? Its getting just as bad as goodwills starting to scan books when they are to benefit the community. Just making it to where there will be no sellers on amazon except amazon in the end will loose money.
Amazon Business sellers can now use Automate Pricing to manage their business prices
Automate Pricing allows you to quickly update prices across a large catalog of products, without spending a lot of time to make updates listing by listing. With the newly launched business pricing rules, Amazon Business sellers can now create rules that will automatically update your business prices and quantity discounts. You can make these updates based on changes to your consumer prices, saving both time and effort.
Similar to existing price rules, you can control the prices by defining rule parameters, setting minimum and maximum price boundaries for single-unit business prices, and selecting the SKUs on which to automate pricing.
For quantity discounts, the percentage discount you enter for each quantity tier will be used to determine the minimum price applicable for that specific quantity tier. For example, if the minimum price for a SKU is USD $20, and you entered 10% as the discount on 5+ units, the minimum price applicable for quantity tier 5+ units would be USD $20 * (1-10%) = USD $18.
For more information, see Create a business pricing rule , or visit the Automate Pricing tool to get started.
Amazon Business sellers can now use Automate Pricing to manage their business prices
Automate Pricing allows you to quickly update prices across a large catalog of products, without spending a lot of time to make updates listing by listing. With the newly launched business pricing rules, Amazon Business sellers can now create rules that will automatically update your business prices and quantity discounts. You can make these updates based on changes to your consumer prices, saving both time and effort.
Similar to existing price rules, you can control the prices by defining rule parameters, setting minimum and maximum price boundaries for single-unit business prices, and selecting the SKUs on which to automate pricing.
For quantity discounts, the percentage discount you enter for each quantity tier will be used to determine the minimum price applicable for that specific quantity tier. For example, if the minimum price for a SKU is USD $20, and you entered 10% as the discount on 5+ units, the minimum price applicable for quantity tier 5+ units would be USD $20 * (1-10%) = USD $18.
For more information, see Create a business pricing rule , or visit the Automate Pricing tool to get started.
20 replies
20 replies
Seller_nstkdGWZl0SW0
This assumes that sellers want to sell to businesses, which many do not and some of us have selling agreements to only sell to end users.
This issue is long past due to allow an opt out.
The people using this are getting free 30 day terms on retail purchases.
Seller_KOsHWCDw6zcSe
Just testing it. Trying a single product under competitive buy box rule. True that the feature helpful for large catalogue. That’s not hold true for our store due to limited items. However, we stuck in a segment which is highly crowded and commoditized. Would like to bleed stock at cost price and move forward. Not enough data or case studies to substantiate the success of this feature for the sellers. Hence testing out small!
Seller_otDFihTxKiDRD
Unless you offer sellers a real and valid way to shut down the poorly constructed rules and comparisons on the pricing bots that hide inventory and give false flags on prices, I’m not impressed. And if that pricing error bot is anything to judge by, this would hurt as many people as you seem to think it would help.
MJ
Seller_AevYmOVtgtKV2
I just tried this for my whole catalog and its very glitchy. We sell a lot to business customers so I thought this would be great, but its only adding one tier for a lot of my skus overwriting the four tiers I previously had even though I copied the same rule from the original listing with the four tiers.
Also the tiered discount is off of the standard price not the business price so its kinda weird. 3% off as the business price, 5% off for buying 5 units, and they are only getting an additional 2% off (5% total) not the 8% we are offering.
Seller_XFj8akGqahG0f
I truly believe Amazon manipulates prices by artificially reducing prices in the algorithm but not actually on the site which causes sellers thru automated pricing to reduce prices which in turn gives amazon buyers a discount thru manipulation of the price. Seems to me that Amazon wants the prices so low that they keep their customers happy while skinning the sellers of any profit.
Seller_BKlV7AqNr0t5x
Marketplace fees are increasing, labor costs are increasing (minimum wage $15/hr), shipping costs are increasing (ridiculously),packing material costs are increasing, much easier return, more stringent restocking fee, less reasonable A-to-Z and SAFE-T ruling, more removal of ASINs by Amazon due to various wrong reasons…
Now, it’s very generous for Amazon to offer sellers more price cutting function.Thank you, but we will pass because we also need to make a living…
Seller_TB4RCHbuXIRue
I just went to the basic. Fill out 2 boxes and then this box opens: "Proceed to marketplace(s) selection. But It doesn’t offer any option.
Seller_Cg8VryZqmewbJ
This make no sense to me. No benefits to the seller. Especially when Amazon itself uses the sales of the book sellers and than buys bulks and jacks the price way down. When is Amazon going to help the sellers instead of worrying about making even more money for themselves? Its getting just as bad as goodwills starting to scan books when they are to benefit the community. Just making it to where there will be no sellers on amazon except amazon in the end will loose money.
Seller_nstkdGWZl0SW0
This assumes that sellers want to sell to businesses, which many do not and some of us have selling agreements to only sell to end users.
This issue is long past due to allow an opt out.
The people using this are getting free 30 day terms on retail purchases.
Seller_nstkdGWZl0SW0
This assumes that sellers want to sell to businesses, which many do not and some of us have selling agreements to only sell to end users.
This issue is long past due to allow an opt out.
The people using this are getting free 30 day terms on retail purchases.
Seller_KOsHWCDw6zcSe
Just testing it. Trying a single product under competitive buy box rule. True that the feature helpful for large catalogue. That’s not hold true for our store due to limited items. However, we stuck in a segment which is highly crowded and commoditized. Would like to bleed stock at cost price and move forward. Not enough data or case studies to substantiate the success of this feature for the sellers. Hence testing out small!
Seller_KOsHWCDw6zcSe
Just testing it. Trying a single product under competitive buy box rule. True that the feature helpful for large catalogue. That’s not hold true for our store due to limited items. However, we stuck in a segment which is highly crowded and commoditized. Would like to bleed stock at cost price and move forward. Not enough data or case studies to substantiate the success of this feature for the sellers. Hence testing out small!
Seller_otDFihTxKiDRD
Unless you offer sellers a real and valid way to shut down the poorly constructed rules and comparisons on the pricing bots that hide inventory and give false flags on prices, I’m not impressed. And if that pricing error bot is anything to judge by, this would hurt as many people as you seem to think it would help.
MJ
Seller_otDFihTxKiDRD
Unless you offer sellers a real and valid way to shut down the poorly constructed rules and comparisons on the pricing bots that hide inventory and give false flags on prices, I’m not impressed. And if that pricing error bot is anything to judge by, this would hurt as many people as you seem to think it would help.
MJ
Seller_AevYmOVtgtKV2
I just tried this for my whole catalog and its very glitchy. We sell a lot to business customers so I thought this would be great, but its only adding one tier for a lot of my skus overwriting the four tiers I previously had even though I copied the same rule from the original listing with the four tiers.
Also the tiered discount is off of the standard price not the business price so its kinda weird. 3% off as the business price, 5% off for buying 5 units, and they are only getting an additional 2% off (5% total) not the 8% we are offering.
Seller_AevYmOVtgtKV2
I just tried this for my whole catalog and its very glitchy. We sell a lot to business customers so I thought this would be great, but its only adding one tier for a lot of my skus overwriting the four tiers I previously had even though I copied the same rule from the original listing with the four tiers.
Also the tiered discount is off of the standard price not the business price so its kinda weird. 3% off as the business price, 5% off for buying 5 units, and they are only getting an additional 2% off (5% total) not the 8% we are offering.
Seller_XFj8akGqahG0f
I truly believe Amazon manipulates prices by artificially reducing prices in the algorithm but not actually on the site which causes sellers thru automated pricing to reduce prices which in turn gives amazon buyers a discount thru manipulation of the price. Seems to me that Amazon wants the prices so low that they keep their customers happy while skinning the sellers of any profit.
Seller_XFj8akGqahG0f
I truly believe Amazon manipulates prices by artificially reducing prices in the algorithm but not actually on the site which causes sellers thru automated pricing to reduce prices which in turn gives amazon buyers a discount thru manipulation of the price. Seems to me that Amazon wants the prices so low that they keep their customers happy while skinning the sellers of any profit.
Seller_BKlV7AqNr0t5x
Marketplace fees are increasing, labor costs are increasing (minimum wage $15/hr), shipping costs are increasing (ridiculously),packing material costs are increasing, much easier return, more stringent restocking fee, less reasonable A-to-Z and SAFE-T ruling, more removal of ASINs by Amazon due to various wrong reasons…
Now, it’s very generous for Amazon to offer sellers more price cutting function.Thank you, but we will pass because we also need to make a living…
Seller_BKlV7AqNr0t5x
Marketplace fees are increasing, labor costs are increasing (minimum wage $15/hr), shipping costs are increasing (ridiculously),packing material costs are increasing, much easier return, more stringent restocking fee, less reasonable A-to-Z and SAFE-T ruling, more removal of ASINs by Amazon due to various wrong reasons…
Now, it’s very generous for Amazon to offer sellers more price cutting function.Thank you, but we will pass because we also need to make a living…
Seller_TB4RCHbuXIRue
I just went to the basic. Fill out 2 boxes and then this box opens: "Proceed to marketplace(s) selection. But It doesn’t offer any option.
Seller_TB4RCHbuXIRue
I just went to the basic. Fill out 2 boxes and then this box opens: "Proceed to marketplace(s) selection. But It doesn’t offer any option.
Seller_Cg8VryZqmewbJ
This make no sense to me. No benefits to the seller. Especially when Amazon itself uses the sales of the book sellers and than buys bulks and jacks the price way down. When is Amazon going to help the sellers instead of worrying about making even more money for themselves? Its getting just as bad as goodwills starting to scan books when they are to benefit the community. Just making it to where there will be no sellers on amazon except amazon in the end will loose money.
Seller_Cg8VryZqmewbJ
This make no sense to me. No benefits to the seller. Especially when Amazon itself uses the sales of the book sellers and than buys bulks and jacks the price way down. When is Amazon going to help the sellers instead of worrying about making even more money for themselves? Its getting just as bad as goodwills starting to scan books when they are to benefit the community. Just making it to where there will be no sellers on amazon except amazon in the end will loose money.
