5 tips to win Amazon’s Buy Box

As an Amazon seller, your prices must be attractive to increase your chances of getting a good ranking on the marketplace and converting sales. The price is, along with the choice of delivery method, one of the determining factors to win the Buy Box. To help you be as competitive as possible, Amazon provides its sellers with a price tool: Automate Pricing.

Available from Seller Central, this tool allows you to update the prices of your products using automatic rules, which can be configured directly on Amazon. This saves you from updating each product’s price individually and from re-importing your product catalogue.

To use Amazon’s repricing tool, products must be sent to the marketplace without a set price. You can create an automatic rule in the Lengow platform to remove this data from your product catalogue. This empties the attributes “price” or “sale_price” for a specific product category or for all your products, meaning the price data generated by Amazon isn’t overwritten.

When you sell your products on Amazon, buyers regularly use filters to refine their searches. Size, colour and so on, these variations guide online shoppers in their purchase and give better visibility to your products.

Example: A t-shirt in different colours and sizes.

To manage your parent-child variations, complete the “VariationData” attribute when completing matching, along with the following attributes:

• “parent-sku”: indicates the parent of a range of products.
• “relationship_type”: describes the variation between your parent and child products; this must be empty for parent products.
• “VariationData..Parentage”: indicates whether the item is a parent or a child.
• “VariationData..VariationTheme”: defines the type of variation as size, colour, or both.
• “Color”, “Size”, “Length”, etc.: indicate the characteristics (colour, size, etc.) for child products, according to their variation types.

If your catalogue includes products with parent-child variations, make sure to include different keywords in these two product categories. For example, you can add keywords related to colour and size in the “search terms field” for children’s products. These terms aren’t visible to buyers but will help to better position your product on the marketplace.

Example configuration of a product catalogue with parent-child variations:

To improve your customers’ shopping experience on Amazon and increase your sales, offer your customers a fast and flawless service with Amazon Prime. This option provides sellers with many advantages, particularly in terms of delivery speed to meet e-shoppers’ increasingly high expectations. Besides, Prime customers’ average annual basket value is twice as high as that of a traditional buyer, so it’s in your best interest to cater to Prime users first.

To implement Amazon Prime, you must first configure the shipping settings for the Seller Fulfilled Prime service. A new shipping method will then be created in your Seller Central.

Then, on Lengow’s platform, enter the shipping mode value as “Amazon Prime” in the “merchant_shipping_group_name” field.

The “Fulfilment by Amazon” service (Amazon FBA) allows you to reach customers who have a “Prime” subscription. Using this service, Amazon takes care of all your logistics, from storing your products in warehouses, to sending packages to the end user and managing returns.

If you are using Amazon FBA and Lengow, you should be aware that there are dedicated fields to indicate when products are shipped by the marketplace. To do this, enter the value AMAZON_EU (for Europe) in the attribute “fulfillment_center_id”. Then, make sure that your “quantity” attribute does not contain any value, as Amazon handles shipments. If only some of your products are affected by Amazon FBA, you can set up a rule in Lengow that will reset the quantities for the concerned products to zero.

Your Amazon FBA orders will come back to Lengow with the status “Shipped”, this will also appear in your back office via our APIs, if you have one connected.

The title, like your product’s main picture, plays a decisive role in consumers’ purchasing decisions. To optimise your title, write attractive, descriptive and structured titles by adding relevant and precise keywords, and up to a maximum of 200 characters.

Amazon also asks its sellers to adapt to its nomenclature. This means, for example, capitalizing the first letter of each word in your titles. To facilitate this task, the Lengow platform gives merchants the ability to set up a rule by using the UPPERWORD function ($your title field) to automate this action for the entire product catalogue.

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Source: Amazon