Hi Sellers!

Have you gotten to the point that running your Amazon business has become more difficult to maintain by yourself and you need to allow other people to work on your account without access to personal information? Or do you need to give a colleague access to help set up listings? If so, there is a facility present in your seller account where you can provide access to other employees, co-owners, or contractors by setting your User Permissions.

Important Note: This feature is only available to sellers that have subscribed to the professional selling plan. For more information on how you can switch to the professional selling plan, see this help page.

There are three types of users:

Primary Account Users: A primary user, also known as the account administrator, is the one who registers a new Seller Central account. The primary user will have access to every page and feature their account type offers.

Secondary Account Users: A secondary user is invited by the primary user, through User Permissions. A primary user can grant certain permissions to a secondary user. By setting user permissions, other users can complete tasks such as manage inventory or handle shipping confirmations.

Authorized partner: An authorized partner is an individual or company to whom you have granted access to your account. Authorized partner will only have access to the data that you grant. All external contractor or companies that are not part of your company must be added as authorized partners. Do not add them as your secondary account users.

Tips for granting access to your seller account:

• Don’t share your password with other people.
• When granting permissions to users, grant the minimum permissions required for them to do their job. You can edit permissions if their job changes.
• Regularly review the permissions granted to your users. Users with account permissions who no longer work with your business could pose a risk to private information contained in your selling account.
• Don’t add external third-party service providers or developers as users. You can add third-party service providers as partners by going to the “Authorized Partners” tab under Global Account. Follow the process on the screen to provide access to your partners.

For more details check out this help page: Set and edit User Permissions.

Please let me know if you have any further questions or concerns.

-Connor