What does SellerMagic ALT do for me?

SellerMagic ALT (Amazon.com Listing Tool) is a tool that makes your daily inventory management process efficient. In general, with the tool you can

Easily list new items on to Amazon.
Get information (title, picture, etc) of items and browse through them on your desktop.
Update price of your items according to the market to make your offer competitive
Verify whether your Amazon.com inventory is accurate.
Synchronize your local copy of inventory with Amazon.com online inventory

In details, its functions include

Generate Amazon open listings report
Import Amazon.com open listing report and inventory loader file
Import any user defined format, including half.com format
List the inventory in a table, which can be sorted by any data field, such as product name, ID, ranking etc
Upload the local data file into Amazon.com, with three different upload modes:
- reprice only
- add/delete/modify
- purge/replace
Retrieve all essential information of a product by just the product id (e.g. ISBN). The retrieved information includes the product picture, dimension, title, ranking etc.
Retrieve the market competition information, including nickname of competitors, their rating and offering price. The market competition data can be sorted by any data field.
Allow the user to customize the competition model in an extremely flexible way. For any item condition, you can customize the competing conditions. The selected competitors are put in to a separate"compete" list and are sorted independently.
Provide the market competing status according to the retrieved market information and the customized competition model. The examples of the status are
- Your offer is the only one is the market
- Your offering price is too high
- Your offering price is too low
Automatically increase the price if your price is too low
and much more...

How much does the SellerMagic ALT cost?

The subscription of the software is $29.95 per month. Our competitors charge a lot more.

Can I try SellerMagic ALT for free?

Yes. You can download SellerMagic ALT and execute it without license registration. The free version has all the features except it only saves or uploads up to 10 items.

How do I register the program?

Go to the purchase page of this website to purchase a license. After you are done the purchase, a license key will be emailed to you.

After you get the license key, in the SellerMagic ALT program, go to Help/License, click the “enter license key” button in the pop up dialog and click register. The SellerMagic ALT program will contact the license server and does the registration. After the registration is successful, the program will run in a full licensed mode.

Can I cancel my SellerMagic ALT subscription?

Yes. You can cancel it at any time. Simply go to our purchase web page and follow the "unsubscribe" link. Or you can directly log in to your Paypal account and cancel the subscription. You must un-install your program after you cancel the subscription.

Does SellerMagic ALT work for Amazon.uk ?

Not yet. We plan to have a UK version in the future.

Do I always need to assign SKU number to my items?

Yes. SKU is very important because it’s the ID that identifies your items.

What if I did not use SKU number before?

If you did not use SKU before for your Amazon online inventory, we strongly suggest you to generate SKU's and replace your entire inventory list with the new inventory that has SKU's. Here is what you should do. First, generate a latest open list report using menu import/import new from Amazon. Then, use menu tools/complete SKU for all items to automatically generate SKU's. The pattern of SKU's can be customized using the data template option. Finally, upload the new list to Amazon using the Purge/Replace upload option.

Can I import data from SellerEngine?

Yes. Import from SellerEngine is very easy. From SellerEngine, use menu “Export / Export Item Report” to export the data into a text file. Then in SellerMagic ALT, select menu “Import / From file”, in the pop-up dialog, select file format “SellerEngine Item Report”.

How do I import my Half.com inventory?

First, you need to request an inventory snapshot from Half.com. The snapshot file will be email to your email account by half.com. Save the file into the local disk. And use menu “Import / From file” and select Half.com as file format to import the file.

How do I import inventory in Excel spreadsheet?

First you need to save the Excel file as a TAB delimited text file using File/Save as in Excel. Then import the file to SellerMagic ALT using menu "Import / From File". Select the file format as "custom format ". Click CFG button by the "custom format" radio button to define the data format. The items in the "Selected Columns" list box should map to the columns in the data file.

Can I use CueCat barcode scanner to import an item?

Sure. First, install the CueCat barcode scanner. To do that, insert the CueCat scanner cable into your computer’s keyboard input and connect the keyboard to the adaptor in the CueCat cable. Second, go to the new product view of the SellerMagic ALT window and put focus to the product ID entry. Scan the barcode with the CueCat.

If the barcode is ISBN, then after scanning, the information of the book will be automatically obtained from Amazon.com. Of course, you need to keep the internet connection on during the scanning in order to do that.

How do I update the price of my listings without touching their quantities?

Use menu "Export/Upload to Amazon" to upload the new inventory to Amazon.com. In the upload dialog, select upload mode as “repricing”. In this mode, only price, SKU and delete flag will be uploaded to Amazon.com. All the other fields, such as quantity will not be uploaded. Therefore, Amazon.com will only update the price and leave other fields unchanged.

How to automatically adjust the price of my products?

First, use the "edit/option" menu, edit the Price check(2) option. You need to set the threshold for price too high and price too low warning. Then you go to auto pricing option to edit the auto pricing rules. You can selectively enable auto price decreasing and auto price increase separately If the auto pricing is enabled, the price will be automatically raised or lowered to the threshold price if it’s below (for the price too low) or above (for price too high) the threshold .

What does the “compare” tab mean in the market information window?

“Compare” tab lists all the third party offers that meet the criteria you defined in the “price check” options. Offers that do not meet the criteria are filtered out and not listed in the “compare” tab. Therefore, the offers in the “compare” tab are your competitors. The competing price and your offer status are computed based on the statistic calculation of the offers listed in the “compare” tab.

How to customize the display columns?

Select menu edit / option and configure the “List Display Fields” options. Edit the “Selected Columns” at the right side of the property page. They correspond to the data fields in the list view.

Why is the product image not displayed in the detail view window?

The image of the product is fetched following the image URL and displayed at the bottom right side of the window. By default, the image URL is the link to the medium size product image in Amazon.com unless the “Image Url” data field is set. In that case, the image is fetched from the link pointed by the “Image Url” data field. Since the image is fetched from a remote server, the online connection is required.

If you could not see the product image, it could be because one of the following reasons:

the computer is not connected to the Internet, or
you set the “Image Url” data field but that link is not valid, or
the Amazon.com does not have the product image