Step 1: Check if your product exists on Amazon

Step 2: Create listing template

Step 3: Associate listing template to products or categories

Step 4: Create simple product

Step 5: Create product with variations

Step 6: Complete the creation by adding price + stock

Extra. Products Matching:

Step 1: Check if your product exists on Amazon

You can search Amazon catalog by EAN / UPC / SKU / ASIN / GTIN / ISBN / JAN / MINSAN.

By using this search, you know the Product Type and other information that are helpful for later steps, if the product exists on Amazon. Navigate to PrestaShop Sync > Search Amazon Catalog, paste in the identifier and click Search.

If the identifier exists on Amazon, the result contains 2 sections

• Brief information table: Image, name, all the identifiers, relationship, brand, product type.
• Full information as raw JSON.

In this case, scroll down to the Product Matching section at the end to quickly list the product in your seller catalog.

Step 2: Create listing template

Listing template maps the product data in PrestaShop, into Amazon defined structure.
Amazon classifies the products by Product Type (category / universe). Each product type contains a different set of fields. They are divided into 3 groups:

• Variation theme: Only available on product types that have variation. Decide which attribute(s) is used to define the variation. E.g. A drinking cup may have the variation base on color, or age + material, etc.
• Recommended fields: Including, but not limited to fields should have data when send to Amazon.
• Others.

Navigate to PrestaShop Sync > Amazon Listing Templates, click Add New Listing or edit an existed one.
If your product exists on Amazon, choose the Product Type you found in Step 1. Otherwise, browse Amazon catalog to find the best match.
Each time you change the Product Type, the module loads all its fields.

Configure the listing template

Except the variation theme field, all other fields have a same list of possible options to choose from.

If there is no option that fits, you can choose the Default Value. Default Value is helpful on some fields that Amazon offers a set of choices. E.g. there is only 2 choices for the field Is exempt from a declared supplier external identifier (supplier_declared_has_product_identifier_exemption)

Example configuration

• Brand: Use PrestaShop manufacturer
• Bullet_point: Use PrestaShop product description
• Country_of_origin: Choose France default value
• Product_description: Use PrestaShop product description
• Supplier_declared_dg_hz_regulation: Choose Non-applicable default value

Tips

A listing template is intended to use for many products. Don’t configure a field with a specific value that is bound to a particular product. For such case, you can specify it in Step 4.2.

Step 3: Associate listing template to products or categories

 Navigate to PrestaShop Sync > Filters, choose the listing template you would like to associate to a particular product.

 You don’t need to change the red X on the column on the left of Amazon Listing Template column. That column is for automatically updating only, not for creation.
You can also associate s listing template to a whole category.
The listing template on product has higher priority than the one on category. That say:

• If product A is belonged to category C
• Product A has the listing template T1
• Category has the listing template T2

→ The template T1 will be used when creating product A.

Step 4: Create simple product

Navigate to PrestaShop Sync > PrestaShop Sync, click on dropdown action and choose Create. Products that don’t have listing template are unable to be created:

It leads you to the creating wizard:

For product with variations, you need to choose the one you are going to create, parent or child:

The creating wizard is basically the same as the chosen listing template, with field data of the product itself. Continue reading to find out details about each section of the creating wizard.

Step 4.1: Product identifiers (ASIN / EAN)

Use ASIN / EAN to effectively tell Amazon to match this product to the existed one, keep as much as possible the Amazon data.

ASIN / EAN can be taken from Step 1.

Step 4.2: Override the listing template if needed

As said earlier, all the fields of the listing template are show.

Each field has the data of the product itself, or the default value you chose on the listing template.You can set a different value for any field by click to Override this, below each field.

Step 4.3: (Optional) View the data before send to Amazon

Scroll to the bottom, click on Build data only, it shows the payload that will be sent if created:

Step 4.4: Create Product

Click on Create Product, to fix the error if any.

Step 4.5: Check the result

After a success send, Amazon will take some time to evaluate and list your product. You can check the result by either way:

• Click on Get SKU info from Amazon. If you see the data and no error, the creation is a success.
• View actual result on Seller Central.

Example of a success creation request

Step 5: Create product with variations

Similar to Step 4 above (Create simple product), with some minor differences.

You have to create the parent product first, with minimal information. The parent product is a virtual product that will hold all the variations later on.

Step 5.1: Create parent product

Parent product does not have EAN, don’t need to fill it. Send the product to Amazon as normal:

The parent product will appear as incomplete in Seller Central:

Don’t worry, we are going to add children / variations to it.

Step 5.2: Create variation

• Go to the creation wizard of the variation, click to create it to Amazon.
  If the sending is success, Amazon takes 10 minutes ~ 2 hours to reflect the changes. You can check for the result by either way:

  • Get SKU info from Amazon: If no error appears, Amazon accepts the listing

• View the result directly in Seller Central

The parent product becomes the holder for the first variation.

Continue to add the remain variations. They will be grouped inside the parent product.

The variation is incomplete because it does not have price nor stock. Adding this information in the step below.

Step 6: Complete the creation by adding price + stock

 Back to PrestaShop Sync list, choose the product you just created, select to sync the stock + price (tax including or not), and click Update

This updating process is also executed automatically if you enable the PrestaShop Sync option in Filters page

Tips

You don’t need to fill all the fields in the listing template, there are too many of them. However, Amazon usually requires data more than the fields in Recommended section. To quickly find out which fields are mandatory, just send an initial request. Then, correct the returned errors one by one.

Extra. Products Matching:

The above approach always works regardless the existence of your product in Amazon catalog.
If the product does not exist, it uses all the data you provided via listing template + override to create a new product onto Amazon. If the product exists, it updates that product with data you provided via listing template + override.

When you are sure the product is existed in Amazon catalog (can tell by seeing the result in Step 1: Check if your product exists in Amazon), there is much simple way to bring it into your seller catalog. You give Amazon the product identifiers (ASIN / EAN) and tell it to make a copy of the product under your catalog with a given SKU. Here is how to do that:

• Create listing template as normal (Step 2: Create listing template).
• The only one mandatory field is Product Type, you can leave others unset.
• Continue Step 3: Associate listing template to products or categories.
• Similar to the Step 4.1: Product identifiers (ASIN / EAN), enter the corresponding ASIN (and EAN if possible). Because you don't provide product data, this is crucial part to tell Amazon which product you are going to create.
• Click Match product to send the request to Amazon.
• You can also use the action Get SKU info from Amazon to check the result after send.