Listing Lounge: The Perks of Choosing a Professional Selling Plan
We are delighted to have you rejoin us in the Listing Lounge this week. Today’s topic of discussion is all about the benefits of enrolling in a Professional selling plan.
Since this is the Create and Manage Listings category of the forums, we’d like to highlight some of the perks sellers might benefit from while managing their listings.
1. Manage inventory using feeds, spreadsheets, and reports
Features such as Inventory file templates, style guides, and browse tree guides are only available to sellers with a Professional selling plan. An inventory file template is a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet that contains multiple data columns for describing your products. You can use inventory file templates to upload and update listings on Amazon. Additionally, you can generate customized inventory templates specific to the types of products you sell and list information for different types of products across multiple categories using one template. If you would like to learn more about templates, you can visit our Listing Lounge post called the ‘T on Templates’.
2. Eligibility for listing placement in the Featured Offer
For many sellers, Featured Offer placement can lead to increased sales. To give customers the best possible shopping experience, sellers must meet performance-based requirements to be eligible to compete for Featured Offer placement. Upgrade your Individual selling plan to a Professional plan to become Featured Offer eligible. (Note: Featured Offer eligibility doesn't guarantee that your offers will be featured.) You can read more about this feature on our Listing Lounge post titled, 'Missing Featured Offer (formerly Buy Box) on Detail Page'.
3. Use Amazon Marketplace Web Service to upload feeds, receive reports, and perform other API functions
The Selling Partner Appstore is a one-stop shop where you can discover Amazon-approved third-party apps to automate, streamline, and identify growth opportunities for your business. If you would like to learn more about the AutomationHub, you can check out this thread → HERE← written by @Christine_Amazon.
4. Ability to Provide Gift Services
If you have a Professional selling plan, you have the opportunity to provide customers with gift-wrapping and messaging options so gifts can be delivered with extra cheer! Offering services such as gift wrapping and messaging has been known to increase sales conversion rates by offering an enhanced buying experience to customers. To learn more about Amazon Gift Services, make sure to check out the Listing Lounge article called, 'Unwrap your Gift Options.'
Other benefits to a Professional Selling plan outside of listing management may include:
- Ability to set shipping rates
- Access user permissions/grant access rights to other users to help assist with your account
- Ability to create promotions
- Option to use Amazon Business features to create pricing and offers unique to business customers.
- Ability to calculate U.S. sales and use taxes on your orders
- Option to use Product Opportunity Explorer to generate new product ideas by better understanding Amazon customer search and purchase behavior.
- Ability to claim certifications that are recognized by Amazon
- Option to Manage Handling Time, Transit Time, Holiday settings, Weekend operations
- Ability to call support from SPS
If all of the above sounds good to you and you’d like to upgrade to a Professional selling account, the simple steps can be found on this help page →HERE←
We understand there is a lot to take in when starting your Amazon selling journey so if you need a little extra time and would like to weigh the options of which plan is best suited for your business you can check out the Selling Plan Comparison chart →HERE←
If you have questions regarding selling plans and are looking for support, feel free to begin a new discussion here, select the Account Setup category, and use the tags, ‘Registration’ to work with the Community Managers in that category. That’s all from me this week! See you around on the forums soon! ~ Cooper_Amazon
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Listing Lounge: The Perks of Choosing a Professional Selling Plan
We are delighted to have you rejoin us in the Listing Lounge this week. Today’s topic of discussion is all about the benefits of enrolling in a Professional selling plan.
Since this is the Create and Manage Listings category of the forums, we’d like to highlight some of the perks sellers might benefit from while managing their listings.
1. Manage inventory using feeds, spreadsheets, and reports
Features such as Inventory file templates, style guides, and browse tree guides are only available to sellers with a Professional selling plan. An inventory file template is a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet that contains multiple data columns for describing your products. You can use inventory file templates to upload and update listings on Amazon. Additionally, you can generate customized inventory templates specific to the types of products you sell and list information for different types of products across multiple categories using one template. If you would like to learn more about templates, you can visit our Listing Lounge post called the ‘T on Templates’.
2. Eligibility for listing placement in the Featured Offer
For many sellers, Featured Offer placement can lead to increased sales. To give customers the best possible shopping experience, sellers must meet performance-based requirements to be eligible to compete for Featured Offer placement. Upgrade your Individual selling plan to a Professional plan to become Featured Offer eligible. (Note: Featured Offer eligibility doesn't guarantee that your offers will be featured.) You can read more about this feature on our Listing Lounge post titled, 'Missing Featured Offer (formerly Buy Box) on Detail Page'.
3. Use Amazon Marketplace Web Service to upload feeds, receive reports, and perform other API functions
The Selling Partner Appstore is a one-stop shop where you can discover Amazon-approved third-party apps to automate, streamline, and identify growth opportunities for your business. If you would like to learn more about the AutomationHub, you can check out this thread → HERE← written by @Christine_Amazon.
4. Ability to Provide Gift Services
If you have a Professional selling plan, you have the opportunity to provide customers with gift-wrapping and messaging options so gifts can be delivered with extra cheer! Offering services such as gift wrapping and messaging has been known to increase sales conversion rates by offering an enhanced buying experience to customers. To learn more about Amazon Gift Services, make sure to check out the Listing Lounge article called, 'Unwrap your Gift Options.'
Other benefits to a Professional Selling plan outside of listing management may include:
- Ability to set shipping rates
- Access user permissions/grant access rights to other users to help assist with your account
- Ability to create promotions
- Option to use Amazon Business features to create pricing and offers unique to business customers.
- Ability to calculate U.S. sales and use taxes on your orders
- Option to use Product Opportunity Explorer to generate new product ideas by better understanding Amazon customer search and purchase behavior.
- Ability to claim certifications that are recognized by Amazon
- Option to Manage Handling Time, Transit Time, Holiday settings, Weekend operations
- Ability to call support from SPS
If all of the above sounds good to you and you’d like to upgrade to a Professional selling account, the simple steps can be found on this help page →HERE←
We understand there is a lot to take in when starting your Amazon selling journey so if you need a little extra time and would like to weigh the options of which plan is best suited for your business you can check out the Selling Plan Comparison chart →HERE←
If you have questions regarding selling plans and are looking for support, feel free to begin a new discussion here, select the Account Setup category, and use the tags, ‘Registration’ to work with the Community Managers in that category. That’s all from me this week! See you around on the forums soon! ~ Cooper_Amazon
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Listing Lounge: The Perks of Choosing a Professional Selling Plan
We are delighted to have you rejoin us in the Listing Lounge this week. Today’s topic of discussion is all about the benefits of enrolling in a Professional selling plan.
Since this is the Create and Manage Listings category of the forums, we’d like to highlight some of the perks sellers might benefit from while managing their listings.
1. Manage inventory using feeds, spreadsheets, and reports
Features such as Inventory file templates, style guides, and browse tree guides are only available to sellers with a Professional selling plan. An inventory file template is a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet that contains multiple data columns for describing your products. You can use inventory file templates to upload and update listings on Amazon. Additionally, you can generate customized inventory templates specific to the types of products you sell and list information for different types of products across multiple categories using one template. If you would like to learn more about templates, you can visit our Listing Lounge post called the ‘T on Templates’.
2. Eligibility for listing placement in the Featured Offer
For many sellers, Featured Offer placement can lead to increased sales. To give customers the best possible shopping experience, sellers must meet performance-based requirements to be eligible to compete for Featured Offer placement. Upgrade your Individual selling plan to a Professional plan to become Featured Offer eligible. (Note: Featured Offer eligibility doesn't guarantee that your offers will be featured.) You can read more about this feature on our Listing Lounge post titled, 'Missing Featured Offer (formerly Buy Box) on Detail Page'.
3. Use Amazon Marketplace Web Service to upload feeds, receive reports, and perform other API functions
The Selling Partner Appstore is a one-stop shop where you can discover Amazon-approved third-party apps to automate, streamline, and identify growth opportunities for your business. If you would like to learn more about the AutomationHub, you can check out this thread → HERE← written by @Christine_Amazon.
4. Ability to Provide Gift Services
If you have a Professional selling plan, you have the opportunity to provide customers with gift-wrapping and messaging options so gifts can be delivered with extra cheer! Offering services such as gift wrapping and messaging has been known to increase sales conversion rates by offering an enhanced buying experience to customers. To learn more about Amazon Gift Services, make sure to check out the Listing Lounge article called, 'Unwrap your Gift Options.'
Other benefits to a Professional Selling plan outside of listing management may include:
- Ability to set shipping rates
- Access user permissions/grant access rights to other users to help assist with your account
- Ability to create promotions
- Option to use Amazon Business features to create pricing and offers unique to business customers.
- Ability to calculate U.S. sales and use taxes on your orders
- Option to use Product Opportunity Explorer to generate new product ideas by better understanding Amazon customer search and purchase behavior.
- Ability to claim certifications that are recognized by Amazon
- Option to Manage Handling Time, Transit Time, Holiday settings, Weekend operations
- Ability to call support from SPS
If all of the above sounds good to you and you’d like to upgrade to a Professional selling account, the simple steps can be found on this help page →HERE←
We understand there is a lot to take in when starting your Amazon selling journey so if you need a little extra time and would like to weigh the options of which plan is best suited for your business you can check out the Selling Plan Comparison chart →HERE←
If you have questions regarding selling plans and are looking for support, feel free to begin a new discussion here, select the Account Setup category, and use the tags, ‘Registration’ to work with the Community Managers in that category. That’s all from me this week! See you around on the forums soon! ~ Cooper_Amazon
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