This article gives you more information about the "Allow Partial Update" feature flag we can enable for you.
Important I: If you are already selling products in your Amazon Seller account, you can use the "Partialupdate" with our Amazon API to update your existing products' offer data. This means that there is no need to push the listings with Channable first or to empty your Amazon Seller account. To do so, you need to use the exact same product IDs in order to update the data.
Important II: If you are using the "Partialupdate" and you are pushing/creating the listings with our Amazon API, your products need to be online and active first for the feature to work. It can't be used when creating new listings.
When an Amazon API updates, there are 3 possible ways a product is updated on Amazon. These are related to an update type sent along the product or feed itself. There are 3 possible update types:
- If you use "Update", all information you provide in the API overwrites any existing product information on Amazon. Any unspecified information is erased. By default, this tag is set. With "Update", if you send an empty value, the corresponding field will be cleared on Amazon.
- If you use "Delete", all information is removed. If you clear the API or exclude a product from the API, this type is used, but you can’t set “Delete” as an update type yourself.
- If you use "Partialupdate", all specified information overwrites any existing information, but unspecified information is unaffected. This means Amazon only updates the values that are provided. Empty fields are ignored. It can be used for updating offer data, like price and stock, without having to fill in the rest of the build- or attributes step.
In conclusion, the "Allow Partial Update" feature flag allows you to set the third update type for your products. If you would like us to set this feature flag for your Amazon API, you can contact our Technical Customer support team.