Process to request a product with same upc to cleave
I have seen the replies to request support to cleave an item but without details on the process
(Brand sells it as an assortment but all have the same UPC code)
Example: Dog ornaments same UPC code for 5 different breeds of dogs
What are the steps? Do I create a product with a general description that fits all the product in the group with zero inventory and then submit a request to “cleave” the product? In the request to do specify all the variants of the UPC code? Will I ten have a chance to submit a different title for each breed of dog in the group?
If it’s a product already posted with all variants as a group (but in a physical store it would be sold per piece) - can I request an already existing item to be cleaved so I could sell each breed separately (obviously someone who has a poodle does not want a poodle, doberman, and lab etc, they just want the poodle ornament)
Process to request a product with same upc to cleave
I have seen the replies to request support to cleave an item but without details on the process
(Brand sells it as an assortment but all have the same UPC code)
Example: Dog ornaments same UPC code for 5 different breeds of dogs
What are the steps? Do I create a product with a general description that fits all the product in the group with zero inventory and then submit a request to “cleave” the product? In the request to do specify all the variants of the UPC code? Will I ten have a chance to submit a different title for each breed of dog in the group?
If it’s a product already posted with all variants as a group (but in a physical store it would be sold per piece) - can I request an already existing item to be cleaved so I could sell each breed separately (obviously someone who has a poodle does not want a poodle, doberman, and lab etc, they just want the poodle ornament)
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Seller_hA060q8nqygew
Details here -
Do I create a product with a general description that fits all the product in the group with zero inventory and then submit a request to “cleave” the product?
You need to have one listing in your inventory for each dog breed before you request the cleave. Start with creating one ornament. If it’s a poodle, provide the details for the poodle.
Then create new SKU’s based on the ASIN for the poodle. After creation, you edit each of these SKU’s to provide the releveant details for the particular dog breed. When you request the cleave, Amazon will pull the details you provided from the SKU’s for the other dog breeds, and use them to create the new (beagle, schnauzer, lab etc) ASIN’s.
- Before the cleave, you will have 12 offers in your inventory against one single ASIN, the poodle.
- After the cleave, you’ll have 12 offers in your inventory, each for a different ASIN.
In the request to do specify all the variants of the UPC code?
Yes, you will need to make 11 cleave requests to come up with a total of 12 unique ASIN’s. Amazon prefers you submit these all at one time. You can send them in an Excel spreadsheet.
It would look something like this -
Basically, what Amazon does (as I understand it), is finds the SKU in your inventory called ‘YellowLabOrn’. Then they pull the basic fields from that listing (at least title, description, and bullet points) and use that data to create a new ASIN.
Will I ten have a chance to submit a different title for each breed of dog in the group?
You do that before you request the cleave. You add the YellowLabOrn SKU to your inventory by creating a new offer based on the original poodle listing. You edit the YellowLabOrn SKU to reflect the correct data for a yellow lab. You send it to Amazon to request a cleave.
If it’s a product already posted with all variants as a group (but in a physical store it would be sold per piece) - can I request an already existing item to be cleaved so I could sell each breed separately
You can request it, but Amazon has to agree that what you’re requesting is valid. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don’t. They may see it as a product that should only be sold as a group of however-many ornaments come in the assortment. It doesn’t hurt to try though. 
The process is still the same. You would use the current listing for the assortment in place of the Poodle ornament in the example above.
Seller_eu3PLMAYxNDzv
Your reply: “You add the YellowLabOrn SKU to your inventory by creating a new offer based on the original poodle listing”
I have tried this but it rejects it because it has the same UPC code as the poodle - that’s where I get stuck.
Seller_hA060q8nqygew
I have tried this but it rejects it because it has the same UPC code as the poodle - that’s where I get stuck.
You misunderstand. You can’t create the complete YellowLab listing for yourself. That’s where cleaving comes in. You submit the details for the lab in the listing that looks like it’s for the poodle (that has the Yellow Lab “SKU”). That’s how it’s supposed to work. You put the details there so Amazon can find them and use them to create the new listing that you can’t create for yourself.
Let me try explaining it a different way. You create a Poodle ASIN from scratch. You know how to do that, and let’s assume it succeeds. So there is an ASIN… let’s call it B09POOD123 (ha ha) that Amazon created for your poodle ornament. It has all the details for the Poodle.
Now… you go to Inventory… Add A Product… and enter B09POOD123. Then you give it a SKU for a yellow lab. Your Manage Inventory will show this:
ASIN B09POOD123 SKU PoodleOrn
ASIN B09POOD123 SKU YellowLabOrn
Still with me?
Now… you EDIT the SKU for your YellowLabOrn. You change (or in Amazon lingo, “suggest”) a new title that says ‘Yellow Lab Ornament’ instead of ‘Poodle Ornament’. You update the description to match the yellow lab instead of the poodle.
So your SKU “YellowLabOrn” now contains the details for the Yellow Lab, even though it’s still tied to the poodle ASIN.
Your SKU “PoodleOrn” is also tied to the Poodle ornament, but your SKU only contains information for the poodle.
Following this?
Then you say to Amazon -
Hey, I have two ornaments, one for a poodle and one for a yellow lab, but both have the same UPC so your system thinks they are the same product. I have created a SKU for the yellow lab and added the details that apply to the yellow lab ornament. Please open this listing, pull out the details I entered for the lab, and use this to create a NEW ASIN for the Yellow Lab ornament, and connect my SKU to it.
Remember -
You have TWO listings against the same ASIN. One listing has the correct details for the poodle. You want this one left alone. The other listing has the details for the yellow lab. This is the one you want Amazon to “cleave”. Meaning remove the details for the yellow lab, and use them to build a new ASIN.
Does that help clear it up?
Seller_eu3PLMAYxNDzv
Thank you very much. I will try that later today 
Process to request a product with same upc to cleave
I have seen the replies to request support to cleave an item but without details on the process
(Brand sells it as an assortment but all have the same UPC code)
Example: Dog ornaments same UPC code for 5 different breeds of dogs
What are the steps? Do I create a product with a general description that fits all the product in the group with zero inventory and then submit a request to “cleave” the product? In the request to do specify all the variants of the UPC code? Will I ten have a chance to submit a different title for each breed of dog in the group?
If it’s a product already posted with all variants as a group (but in a physical store it would be sold per piece) - can I request an already existing item to be cleaved so I could sell each breed separately (obviously someone who has a poodle does not want a poodle, doberman, and lab etc, they just want the poodle ornament)
Process to request a product with same upc to cleave
I have seen the replies to request support to cleave an item but without details on the process
(Brand sells it as an assortment but all have the same UPC code)
Example: Dog ornaments same UPC code for 5 different breeds of dogs
What are the steps? Do I create a product with a general description that fits all the product in the group with zero inventory and then submit a request to “cleave” the product? In the request to do specify all the variants of the UPC code? Will I ten have a chance to submit a different title for each breed of dog in the group?
If it’s a product already posted with all variants as a group (but in a physical store it would be sold per piece) - can I request an already existing item to be cleaved so I could sell each breed separately (obviously someone who has a poodle does not want a poodle, doberman, and lab etc, they just want the poodle ornament)
Process to request a product with same upc to cleave
I have seen the replies to request support to cleave an item but without details on the process
(Brand sells it as an assortment but all have the same UPC code)
Example: Dog ornaments same UPC code for 5 different breeds of dogs
What are the steps? Do I create a product with a general description that fits all the product in the group with zero inventory and then submit a request to “cleave” the product? In the request to do specify all the variants of the UPC code? Will I ten have a chance to submit a different title for each breed of dog in the group?
If it’s a product already posted with all variants as a group (but in a physical store it would be sold per piece) - can I request an already existing item to be cleaved so I could sell each breed separately (obviously someone who has a poodle does not want a poodle, doberman, and lab etc, they just want the poodle ornament)
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4 replies
Seller_hA060q8nqygew
Details here -
Do I create a product with a general description that fits all the product in the group with zero inventory and then submit a request to “cleave” the product?
You need to have one listing in your inventory for each dog breed before you request the cleave. Start with creating one ornament. If it’s a poodle, provide the details for the poodle.
Then create new SKU’s based on the ASIN for the poodle. After creation, you edit each of these SKU’s to provide the releveant details for the particular dog breed. When you request the cleave, Amazon will pull the details you provided from the SKU’s for the other dog breeds, and use them to create the new (beagle, schnauzer, lab etc) ASIN’s.
- Before the cleave, you will have 12 offers in your inventory against one single ASIN, the poodle.
- After the cleave, you’ll have 12 offers in your inventory, each for a different ASIN.
In the request to do specify all the variants of the UPC code?
Yes, you will need to make 11 cleave requests to come up with a total of 12 unique ASIN’s. Amazon prefers you submit these all at one time. You can send them in an Excel spreadsheet.
It would look something like this -
Basically, what Amazon does (as I understand it), is finds the SKU in your inventory called ‘YellowLabOrn’. Then they pull the basic fields from that listing (at least title, description, and bullet points) and use that data to create a new ASIN.
Will I ten have a chance to submit a different title for each breed of dog in the group?
You do that before you request the cleave. You add the YellowLabOrn SKU to your inventory by creating a new offer based on the original poodle listing. You edit the YellowLabOrn SKU to reflect the correct data for a yellow lab. You send it to Amazon to request a cleave.
If it’s a product already posted with all variants as a group (but in a physical store it would be sold per piece) - can I request an already existing item to be cleaved so I could sell each breed separately
You can request it, but Amazon has to agree that what you’re requesting is valid. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don’t. They may see it as a product that should only be sold as a group of however-many ornaments come in the assortment. It doesn’t hurt to try though.
The process is still the same. You would use the current listing for the assortment in place of the Poodle ornament in the example above.
Seller_eu3PLMAYxNDzv
Your reply: “You add the YellowLabOrn SKU to your inventory by creating a new offer based on the original poodle listing”
I have tried this but it rejects it because it has the same UPC code as the poodle - that’s where I get stuck.
Seller_hA060q8nqygew
I have tried this but it rejects it because it has the same UPC code as the poodle - that’s where I get stuck.
You misunderstand. You can’t create the complete YellowLab listing for yourself. That’s where cleaving comes in. You submit the details for the lab in the listing that looks like it’s for the poodle (that has the Yellow Lab “SKU”). That’s how it’s supposed to work. You put the details there so Amazon can find them and use them to create the new listing that you can’t create for yourself.
Let me try explaining it a different way. You create a Poodle ASIN from scratch. You know how to do that, and let’s assume it succeeds. So there is an ASIN… let’s call it B09POOD123 (ha ha) that Amazon created for your poodle ornament. It has all the details for the Poodle.
Now… you go to Inventory… Add A Product… and enter B09POOD123. Then you give it a SKU for a yellow lab. Your Manage Inventory will show this:
ASIN B09POOD123 SKU PoodleOrn
ASIN B09POOD123 SKU YellowLabOrn
Still with me?
Now… you EDIT the SKU for your YellowLabOrn. You change (or in Amazon lingo, “suggest”) a new title that says ‘Yellow Lab Ornament’ instead of ‘Poodle Ornament’. You update the description to match the yellow lab instead of the poodle.
So your SKU “YellowLabOrn” now contains the details for the Yellow Lab, even though it’s still tied to the poodle ASIN.
Your SKU “PoodleOrn” is also tied to the Poodle ornament, but your SKU only contains information for the poodle.
Following this?
Then you say to Amazon -
Hey, I have two ornaments, one for a poodle and one for a yellow lab, but both have the same UPC so your system thinks they are the same product. I have created a SKU for the yellow lab and added the details that apply to the yellow lab ornament. Please open this listing, pull out the details I entered for the lab, and use this to create a NEW ASIN for the Yellow Lab ornament, and connect my SKU to it.
Remember -
You have TWO listings against the same ASIN. One listing has the correct details for the poodle. You want this one left alone. The other listing has the details for the yellow lab. This is the one you want Amazon to “cleave”. Meaning remove the details for the yellow lab, and use them to build a new ASIN.
Does that help clear it up?
Seller_eu3PLMAYxNDzv
Thank you very much. I will try that later today
Seller_hA060q8nqygew
Details here -
Do I create a product with a general description that fits all the product in the group with zero inventory and then submit a request to “cleave” the product?
You need to have one listing in your inventory for each dog breed before you request the cleave. Start with creating one ornament. If it’s a poodle, provide the details for the poodle.
Then create new SKU’s based on the ASIN for the poodle. After creation, you edit each of these SKU’s to provide the releveant details for the particular dog breed. When you request the cleave, Amazon will pull the details you provided from the SKU’s for the other dog breeds, and use them to create the new (beagle, schnauzer, lab etc) ASIN’s.
- Before the cleave, you will have 12 offers in your inventory against one single ASIN, the poodle.
- After the cleave, you’ll have 12 offers in your inventory, each for a different ASIN.
In the request to do specify all the variants of the UPC code?
Yes, you will need to make 11 cleave requests to come up with a total of 12 unique ASIN’s. Amazon prefers you submit these all at one time. You can send them in an Excel spreadsheet.
It would look something like this -
Basically, what Amazon does (as I understand it), is finds the SKU in your inventory called ‘YellowLabOrn’. Then they pull the basic fields from that listing (at least title, description, and bullet points) and use that data to create a new ASIN.
Will I ten have a chance to submit a different title for each breed of dog in the group?
You do that before you request the cleave. You add the YellowLabOrn SKU to your inventory by creating a new offer based on the original poodle listing. You edit the YellowLabOrn SKU to reflect the correct data for a yellow lab. You send it to Amazon to request a cleave.
If it’s a product already posted with all variants as a group (but in a physical store it would be sold per piece) - can I request an already existing item to be cleaved so I could sell each breed separately
You can request it, but Amazon has to agree that what you’re requesting is valid. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don’t. They may see it as a product that should only be sold as a group of however-many ornaments come in the assortment. It doesn’t hurt to try though.
The process is still the same. You would use the current listing for the assortment in place of the Poodle ornament in the example above.
Seller_hA060q8nqygew
Details here -
Do I create a product with a general description that fits all the product in the group with zero inventory and then submit a request to “cleave” the product?
You need to have one listing in your inventory for each dog breed before you request the cleave. Start with creating one ornament. If it’s a poodle, provide the details for the poodle.
Then create new SKU’s based on the ASIN for the poodle. After creation, you edit each of these SKU’s to provide the releveant details for the particular dog breed. When you request the cleave, Amazon will pull the details you provided from the SKU’s for the other dog breeds, and use them to create the new (beagle, schnauzer, lab etc) ASIN’s.
- Before the cleave, you will have 12 offers in your inventory against one single ASIN, the poodle.
- After the cleave, you’ll have 12 offers in your inventory, each for a different ASIN.
In the request to do specify all the variants of the UPC code?
Yes, you will need to make 11 cleave requests to come up with a total of 12 unique ASIN’s. Amazon prefers you submit these all at one time. You can send them in an Excel spreadsheet.
It would look something like this -
Basically, what Amazon does (as I understand it), is finds the SKU in your inventory called ‘YellowLabOrn’. Then they pull the basic fields from that listing (at least title, description, and bullet points) and use that data to create a new ASIN.
Will I ten have a chance to submit a different title for each breed of dog in the group?
You do that before you request the cleave. You add the YellowLabOrn SKU to your inventory by creating a new offer based on the original poodle listing. You edit the YellowLabOrn SKU to reflect the correct data for a yellow lab. You send it to Amazon to request a cleave.
If it’s a product already posted with all variants as a group (but in a physical store it would be sold per piece) - can I request an already existing item to be cleaved so I could sell each breed separately
You can request it, but Amazon has to agree that what you’re requesting is valid. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don’t. They may see it as a product that should only be sold as a group of however-many ornaments come in the assortment. It doesn’t hurt to try though.
The process is still the same. You would use the current listing for the assortment in place of the Poodle ornament in the example above.
Seller_eu3PLMAYxNDzv
Your reply: “You add the YellowLabOrn SKU to your inventory by creating a new offer based on the original poodle listing”
I have tried this but it rejects it because it has the same UPC code as the poodle - that’s where I get stuck.
Seller_eu3PLMAYxNDzv
Your reply: “You add the YellowLabOrn SKU to your inventory by creating a new offer based on the original poodle listing”
I have tried this but it rejects it because it has the same UPC code as the poodle - that’s where I get stuck.
Seller_hA060q8nqygew
I have tried this but it rejects it because it has the same UPC code as the poodle - that’s where I get stuck.
You misunderstand. You can’t create the complete YellowLab listing for yourself. That’s where cleaving comes in. You submit the details for the lab in the listing that looks like it’s for the poodle (that has the Yellow Lab “SKU”). That’s how it’s supposed to work. You put the details there so Amazon can find them and use them to create the new listing that you can’t create for yourself.
Let me try explaining it a different way. You create a Poodle ASIN from scratch. You know how to do that, and let’s assume it succeeds. So there is an ASIN… let’s call it B09POOD123 (ha ha) that Amazon created for your poodle ornament. It has all the details for the Poodle.
Now… you go to Inventory… Add A Product… and enter B09POOD123. Then you give it a SKU for a yellow lab. Your Manage Inventory will show this:
ASIN B09POOD123 SKU PoodleOrn
ASIN B09POOD123 SKU YellowLabOrn
Still with me?
Now… you EDIT the SKU for your YellowLabOrn. You change (or in Amazon lingo, “suggest”) a new title that says ‘Yellow Lab Ornament’ instead of ‘Poodle Ornament’. You update the description to match the yellow lab instead of the poodle.
So your SKU “YellowLabOrn” now contains the details for the Yellow Lab, even though it’s still tied to the poodle ASIN.
Your SKU “PoodleOrn” is also tied to the Poodle ornament, but your SKU only contains information for the poodle.
Following this?
Then you say to Amazon -
Hey, I have two ornaments, one for a poodle and one for a yellow lab, but both have the same UPC so your system thinks they are the same product. I have created a SKU for the yellow lab and added the details that apply to the yellow lab ornament. Please open this listing, pull out the details I entered for the lab, and use this to create a NEW ASIN for the Yellow Lab ornament, and connect my SKU to it.
Remember -
You have TWO listings against the same ASIN. One listing has the correct details for the poodle. You want this one left alone. The other listing has the details for the yellow lab. This is the one you want Amazon to “cleave”. Meaning remove the details for the yellow lab, and use them to build a new ASIN.
Does that help clear it up?
Seller_hA060q8nqygew
I have tried this but it rejects it because it has the same UPC code as the poodle - that’s where I get stuck.
You misunderstand. You can’t create the complete YellowLab listing for yourself. That’s where cleaving comes in. You submit the details for the lab in the listing that looks like it’s for the poodle (that has the Yellow Lab “SKU”). That’s how it’s supposed to work. You put the details there so Amazon can find them and use them to create the new listing that you can’t create for yourself.
Let me try explaining it a different way. You create a Poodle ASIN from scratch. You know how to do that, and let’s assume it succeeds. So there is an ASIN… let’s call it B09POOD123 (ha ha) that Amazon created for your poodle ornament. It has all the details for the Poodle.
Now… you go to Inventory… Add A Product… and enter B09POOD123. Then you give it a SKU for a yellow lab. Your Manage Inventory will show this:
ASIN B09POOD123 SKU PoodleOrn
ASIN B09POOD123 SKU YellowLabOrn
Still with me?
Now… you EDIT the SKU for your YellowLabOrn. You change (or in Amazon lingo, “suggest”) a new title that says ‘Yellow Lab Ornament’ instead of ‘Poodle Ornament’. You update the description to match the yellow lab instead of the poodle.
So your SKU “YellowLabOrn” now contains the details for the Yellow Lab, even though it’s still tied to the poodle ASIN.
Your SKU “PoodleOrn” is also tied to the Poodle ornament, but your SKU only contains information for the poodle.
Following this?
Then you say to Amazon -
Hey, I have two ornaments, one for a poodle and one for a yellow lab, but both have the same UPC so your system thinks they are the same product. I have created a SKU for the yellow lab and added the details that apply to the yellow lab ornament. Please open this listing, pull out the details I entered for the lab, and use this to create a NEW ASIN for the Yellow Lab ornament, and connect my SKU to it.
Remember -
You have TWO listings against the same ASIN. One listing has the correct details for the poodle. You want this one left alone. The other listing has the details for the yellow lab. This is the one you want Amazon to “cleave”. Meaning remove the details for the yellow lab, and use them to build a new ASIN.
Does that help clear it up?
Seller_eu3PLMAYxNDzv
Thank you very much. I will try that later today
Seller_eu3PLMAYxNDzv
Thank you very much. I will try that later today
