Listing a product in "Stationery and Office Supplies". Amazon showing it in "Books"
I am listing plain notebooks in the category below:
Stationery & Office Supplies > Office Paper Products > Notebooks, Writing Pads & Diaries > Composition Notebooks
However, when I view the notebook on Amazon, it is under the “Books” category. It should be “Stationery & Office Supplies”.
The front-end layout of the product pages in the “Books” category is designed for a readable book. It is completely unsuitable for notebooks.
Any ideas?
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If it helps, here is one of the ASINs B09L988T8Q
The product photos are very small, no bullet points are showing. It shows “Publisher” in a very prominent place. It should just be a generic product page.
I’m on a desktop btw.
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I found a solution to this problem. Here it is if anyone needs it in the future.
The reason the product page format was incorrect was due to the “GL Product Group”. This is different to the browse node.
When you manually create a product on Amazon, you can only choose the browse node. Amazon automatically assigns the GL Product Group code. In my case, Amazon was incorrectly assigning the product to the GL Product Group “BLANKBOOK” rather than “OFFICEPRODUCTS”. This resulted in my notebook showing as a reading book on Amazon, and the product page content looking completely wrong.
To fix this, I had to use an inventory upload CSV file to do a partialupdate to the existing ASINs.
First, download the Category-Specific Inventory Template that best matches your product. For me, it was the “OFFICEPRODUCTS” inventory template.
On the inventory template file, the “Valid Values” tab has a list of “Product_Feed_Type” options. This is the GL Code Group and dictates how your product page content looks.
When filling in the template, I selected the correct “Product_Feed_Type”, and then entered the “item_sku”,“external_product_id” and “product ID type” for the ASINs I wanted to change. Then select “PartialUpdate”. That is all you need for the upload to be successful.
It fixed all my ASINs immediately.
