Assigning listings to product category

To update the category on a single listing:

1. Go to your “manage inventory” page
2. click the “edit” button to the right of a product
3. go to the vital info tab
4. locate the “Recommended Browse Nodes” field, click the “edit” button to the right of this.
5. click the “save” button at the bottom of the page.

To update listings in bulk:

1. go to the “Add Products via Upload” page: https://sellercentral.amazon.co.uk/listing/upload
2. click on the “download an inventory file” tab
3. select the category or categories you would like to add products to, I would recommend doing this 1 category at a time and save the files for future bulk edits you may wish to do, but this is just personal preference.
4. select the “advanced” template style (for simplicity)
5. Click “Generate template” and save the file somewhere memorable
   a) if you have a list of SKUs/ASINs already, continue to step 6
   b) if you need a list of SKUs/ASINs to use for this file, go to inventory -> inventory reports, select “all listings report” from the drop-down, click request report, wait a few minutes and then download the generated report.
6. open the template you downloaded earlier, you only need to fill in a handful of fields here:
   Feed product type (this is a drop-down and should be obvious), SKU (this should match the SKU as it is in your inventory), external product id type (this is a drop-down, select ASIN), external product id (this should be the ASIN that matches the SKU, see the inventory report you downloaded on step b above), recommended browse node (drop-down, refer to the page you downloaded the template from to see what each number corresponds to), Update Delete (this should be set to “partial update”).
   a) note that if you have not yet set a country of origin for each product, you will also need to fill this in otherwise the upload MIGHT be rejected.
7. save the file
8. go back to the “add products via upload” page, go to the “upload your inventory file” tab
9. upload the file, ensure that it says “upload file” in the upper-left and NOT “purge and replace”
10. wait patiently, it can take a while, depending on the category there might be other mandatory fields which should be clearly indicated in the “feed processing report” which is generated once the upload completes, you will need to fill these in and try uploading again if this is the case.

The bulk upload method can be a little daunting at first but once you get used to it the whole process will take minutes.
By setting the updateDelete field to “partial update” anything you haven’t filled in will be taken from the existing listing, this is why “mandatory” fields can be left blank and it still works.
However this will give an error in the event that a “mandatory” field is actually blank on an existing product page, which happens when the requirements change, a recent example of this is country of origin, which has been made mandatory recently and as such many existing products do not have it set.