Amazon Inventory Loader
Normalize Amazon inventory loader style templates by validating essentials like SKU, item name, quantity, and price.
Expected columns
Example row
| sku | product-id | product-id-type | price | minimum-seller-allowed-price | maximum-seller-allowed-price | quantity | add-delete | will-ship-internationally | expedited-shipping | standard-plus | item-name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMZN-SKU-12345 | B08XYZABCD | ASIN | 29.99 | 10 | a | Example Product Title for Amazon |
About this format
Amazon's flat-file inventory loader is the standard way to bulk-manage listings on Seller Central. This preset validates your inventory file against Amazon's field rules, enforcing SKU length limits, valid product-id-type codes, condition codes, price formatting, and fulfillment channel values.
Common errors like missing SKUs, overlong item names, invalid condition codes, and malformed image URLs are detected automatically. Safe numeric formatting fixes are applied so your file is ready for upload.
How it works
- 1Upload your Amazon inventory loader CSV.
- 2We canonicalize column headers, handling common aliases and synonyms.
- 3Per-row validation checks SKU length, item-name length, prices, quantities, condition codes, and fulfillment channel values.
- 4Cross-row duplicate SKU detection flags accidental overwrites.
- 5Export a validated flat-file ready for Amazon Seller Central.
Examples of fixes
- Normalize price and min/max price fields to clean decimals
- Normalize quantity to a whole number
- Flag SKUs exceeding Amazon's 40-character limit
- Flag item-names exceeding Amazon's 500-character limit
- Normalize product-id-type to uppercase (ASIN, UPC, EAN, etc.)
- Validate add-delete field values (a or d)
- Detect duplicate SKUs that could overwrite existing listings
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