The Advanced Options in the Amazon Settings provides extra controls over the listing, pricing and upload processes. For the majority of the options, the default should be satisfactory. However, you may want to change some options to fine tune your process.

• Quantity Changed Action
  This tells AMan Pro what to do when uploading items to Amazon and the quantities of some items have changed from what is in Pending Uploads. This happens because of orders arriving during the pricing process. This option is not relevant if you upload price changes only.

• • Warn - This will cause AMan Pro to display a message and ask you what you want to do

  • Skip - This causes AMan Pro to skips any items that have changed so that you can manually adjust later

  • Use Current Value - This is the default and tells AMan Pro to use what is in the database currently

  • Ignore - This tells AMan to use what is in Pending Uploads
     

• Data Collection Options

• • Get specified offering prices only - If set (default), AMan Pro will only download information about competing sellers that are offering the item in the same condition (i.e. New, Used, Collectible, Refurbished) as you are. The default is on which is the most efficient setting. However, turning this off, gives you more control over the pricing process but will slow it down considerably. If you just want to include the lowest price in the other offer categories, then the most efficient method is to use Advanced Metrics in Advanced Pricing Options
     

• List an Item Refresh
  This determines some of the values on the List an Item dialog when it is being prepared for the next item to list

• • Clear Shipping Information - This will automatically uncheck the Expedited and International shipping options - New listings only.

  • Reset Quantity to 1 for new items - This will cause the quantity field to always be reset to 1. If unchecked, the quantity will be left with the same value as used when listing the previous item - New listings only.

  • Load defaults after listing - This will reset all values to your defaults before presenting the dialog for listing a new item - New listings only.

  • Clear screen after processing - This clear all values from the List an Item dialog - New listings only.

  • Obtain other seller quantity and date - When obtaining pricing information for competing sellers, this will cause AMan Pro to obtain the quantities and listing dates for you competitors. This will slow down the data collection but can provide very valuable information.

• Bulk Listing Options

• • Skip incomplete entries - This causes AMan to ignore items that have not being priced

  • Display Pricing/Listing errors - This will display errors as they occur. These errors are normally due to items not being in the Amazon catalog. It is not recommended that you turn this on as it will slow the process.

  • Skip items with negative profit - If turned on, this will prevent AMan Pro from listing items that are priced less than your cost.

  • Request Quantity - If set, AMan Pro will prompt for the quantity on every item being listed.
     

• Inventory Analysis

• • Highlight listings when quantity less than X - If X is non-zero, AMan Pro will color any listings that have a quantity less than X. This will alert you the fact that you may want to order these items from your supplier.

• Amazon Logon

• • Cache Logon - If set (default), AMan Pro will only logon to Amazon when the prior logon have expired. This speeds up processing. However, you may want to turn this off if you logon to the Amazon web site with more than one user account.

  • Defer Logon - If set, this will stop AMan pro logging on at startup. AMan Pro then logon when required.

• Miscellaneous

• • Allow Invalid ASINs - If set (not recommended) AMan Pro will not validate ASINs/ISBNs as they are entered

  • Delete Pending after Listing - If set (default), AMan Pro will delete items from Pending Uploads once the items have been listed or uploads

  • Relist uses original SKU - If you relist an item, with AMan Pro, the SKU field is normally left blank. Setting this option will reuse the SKU from the original listing.

  • Add X to 9 digit ISBN - When listing, if an item has a 9 digit ISBN, AMan will add the X to it

  • Convert ISBN to EAN - AMan Pro stores the ISBNs of each item in a field called AManUPC. If this option is set, AMan will convert the ISBN to an EAN code (978XXXXX)

  • Convert UPC to EAN - Amazon returns UPC codes as UPCs (12  digit barcodes). If this option is set, AMan Pro will convert the UPC to a 13-digit EAN. This is useful if you are exporting your items to another site.

  • Use HTML ASIN Search - To convert a barcode to an ASIN, AMan Pro by default uses a HTML search. If unchecked (not recommended), AMan Pro will use AWS. This is much slower.

  • Store Listing XML - If you have a large inventory ( > 40,000), turning this option off will free up database space cause displays to be quicker. However, it will require AMan Pro to obtain information about you items every time.

  • Display zShopid not found - For certain function, AMan Pro requires the zShopid (also called an exchange id). Turning this option on will display a message whenever AMan Pro cannot locate this value. This should only be turned on if requested to do so by support.

  • Sort Cloned Row - When you clone an existing listing with AMan Pro, by default it is placed as the last row in the grid. Setting this option will place the cloned row in the sorted position in the grid.

  • Display all Pricing Tabs - When running in split screen mode, if this option is on, AMan Pro will display further information the bottom pane.

  • Use AMan Price for Price Difference - If you are not automatically updating prices, setting this option will cause AMan Pro to calculate the price difference based on the AManPrice column rather than the Price column.

  • Amazon logon also logs onto Vendornet - For certain function, AMan Pro is required to logon to a section on the Amazon web site called Vendornet. By default, AMan Pro always logs onto this are. Turning this option off, will cause AMan Pro to only logon if necessary. However, due to changes on the Amazon site, this may cause some functionality to fail occasionally.

  • Prune listing prior to Purge/Replace Upload - If set, AMan Pro will perform a prune of your listing before a Purge/Replace Upload. This will keep your database tidy if you are performing Purge/Replace uploads regularly.