Migrate an Amazon API from another integrator to Channable

If you’re currently using another integrator to list on Amazon, but want to switch to Channable, you don’t need to completely delete and relist your listings.

Follow these steps to migrate your existing listings from another integrator/API without losing any data (e.g. reviews) from your Amazon account.

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Before you start

You’ll need

• An Amazon account

• Existing offers and/or listings on Amazon

Good to know

• If an item is part of a brand enrolled in Amazon Brand Registry, you need to be a Brand Representative or Authorized reseller list it

• Items from certain categories require approval from Amazon to list.

1

Create your Amazon channel in Channable

1. In Channable, go to Projects > [Your project] > Channels.

2. Click + Create Channel and select Amazon.

3. Fill in your channel settings:

   1. Name: Choose a name for your channel. This is for your reference only.

   2. Unique ID per item: Select the field containing your product IDs (often id).

   3. Amazon Country: Select the country you want to advertise your listings in.

   4. Listing requirement level: Select Offer and product.

   5. Amazon error language: Select your preferred error language.

   6. Use master rule group (optional): Add a master rule group or leave this empty.

4. Click Continue.

2

Connect to Amazon

1. Return to the Settings step.

2. For Linked seller account, click Select seller account.

3. Click Amazon and fill in the requested information:

   1. For Label: Name your connection

   2. For Region, select the country you’re listing in.

      • EU countries and the UK: select Europe

      • US, Canada, Mexico: select North America

      • Australia

      • UAE

      • Turkey

4. Click Connect with Amazon. You’ll be redirected to your Amazon Seller account to finalize the connection.

3

Pull your Amazon Account Data into Channable

Testing your channel setup shows the data from your Amazon seller account in Channable.

1. Click Test channel setup.

2. In the Results step, go to the Overview tab and review the information pulled from Amazon.

• The All listings chart shows how many of the items you imported are online vs offline.

• The Offline listings chart provides an overview of possible reasons why your listings are offline (intentional or otherwise).

• The Channable - Your Amazon account table shows how items you imported to Channable connect to items in your Amazon account, and their current listing status.

4

Categorize your items

To make any changes to your old setup, you need to import your categories from Amazon.

Import your category data

1. On the Overview page in the Result step, click Download as CSV to download your product data.

2. Open a new tab in your browser and go to Google sheets.

3. Select Blank spreadsheet.

4. Import your CSV file into the spreadsheet (Go to File > Import > [your CSV file]).

5. Publish your Google spreadsheet to make it publicly available. (Go to File > Import and select [your downloaded CSV file]). Copy the generated link.

6. Back in Channable, go to Setup > + Combine imports.

7. Select Google spreadsheet and fill in the following:

   1. For Name, provide a descriptive name (e.g. “Amazon categories”)

   2. For Google spreadsheet URL, paste the URL you copied earlier.

8. Click Start import to import the file.

9. Click Edit mapping and map channable.client_id to id.

10. For Merge options, select Combine on field and choose id.

11. Return to [your Amazon channel] and go to the Rules step.

12. Create the following rule:

If amazonlisting_product_type isn’t empty

Then take category and copy value from amazon_listing_product_type

1. Click Save.

Categorize the rest of your items

Note: If you only want to manage existing products in your account in this channel, you can skip this step.

To list the rest of the products in your import, you need to categorize them.

1. In [your Amazon channel], go to the Categories step.

2. Map (assign) categories for all items.

You can use AI categorization to automatically match items to Amazon categories, generate categories from a category field, or create categories manually.

5

Create rules to enrich, filter, and refine your product data (optional)

When product data is incomplete or doesn’t match Amazon’s required format, use rules in Channable to transform and optimize your data. See Create rules.

If you only want to manage existing products in this channel, create a rule to filter out items that are not in your account. If not, you can skip this step.

Example rule:

If amazonlisting_product_type is empty

Then take all fields and exclude

After completing these steps, your items are ready to be managed by Channable.

Adjusting your setup

You can freely adjust your shared and category-specific attribute mapping in the Build step. After saving your changes, run your channel to apply them.

Note: If you want your attributes to stay as they are, you can leave their mapping empty - even if they’re marked by our system as mandatory.

What’s next?

Set up an order connection

Setting up an Amazon order connection requires the order connection add-on and the Quantity attribute mapped in your channel setup.

To find the quantity field:

1. In the Build step of your Amazon channel, go to Attributes per category.

2. Scroll to the Offer section.

3. At Fulfillment availability, click + Add.

4. Map the field containing your quantity information for the Quantity attribute.

5. Click Save.

After providing quantity information, continue setting up an order connection.