Manage FBA inventory

You can use the tools on the Manage Inventory page for routine inventory management tasks, including specific FBA tasks such as creating a shipping plan or submitting multi-channel fulfilment orders. You can also set filters and preferences to create customised displays of your FBA inventory.

On the Manage Inventory page, you can:

• View and sort your inventory
• Create, copy, and edit listings
• Manage pricing
• Add and remove images
• Close and delete listings

For more information, refer to the help page Manage inventory.

Set FBA filters and preferences

You can quickly filter your list to show only your FBA inventory.

• In the Filters bar, next to Fulfilled by, click Amazon.

To sort your FBA inventory, click a column header.

You can add and remove columns, including columns displaying information specific to your FBA inventory, by setting your preferences.

1. In the upper right of the Manage Inventory page, click Preferences.
2. On the Manage Inventory Preferences page, select (to display) or clear (to hide) the columns that you want. Columns specific to FBA inventory are:
   • Available displays the quantity of a product available to ship to customers.
   • Inbound displays the quantity of a product in assigned to shipping plans, in transit to fulfilment centres, or being processed at the fulfilment centre.
   • Unfulfillable displays the quantity of a product that is currently in fulfilment centres, but not in a condition to be sold.
   • Reserved displays the quantity of a product that is:
     • being processed at the fulfilment centre
     • associated with a pending customer order
     • Being delivered to another fulfilment centre
   • Fee Preview displays the estimated fees for the product once it is sold. For more information, refer to the help page Preview your fees.
   • Fulfilled by specifies whether a product is currently fulfilled by Amazon or if you are fulfilling it yourself.

For more information about preferences, refer to the help page "Setting your preferences" in Manage inventory.

Begin FBA tasks

The Manage Inventory page is the first step in many common FBA inventory tasks. You begin by selecting the inventory that you want, and then, on the Action on selected menu, choose one of the following:

• Change to fulfilled by Amazon

  When you send inventory to Amazon for fulfilment, you need to change the fulfilment method to Fulfilled by Amazon. For more information, refer to the help page List products for fulfilment by Amazon.

• Change to fulfilled by merchant

  You can change the Fulfilled by setting to specify that you will fulfil the product yourself.

• Send/replenish inventory

  When you are ready to send inventory to Amazon, you begin by creating a shipping plan. For more information, refer to the help page Send FBA inventory to Amazon.

• Set replenishment alerts

  You can set alerts that let you know when you are running low on inventory.

• Match low price

  Quickly match the current lowest prices on Amazon for the products you offer. For more information, refer to the help page Match low price.

• Create removal order

  Have your non-sellable inventory in Amazon fulfilment centres either returned to you or disposed of. For more information, refer to the help page Remove inventory.

• Create fulfilment order

  Submit an order you received through another sales channel for fulfilment by Amazon. For more information, refer to the help page Submit or cancel a multi-channel fulfilment order.

• Print product labels

  Print Amazon product labels for selected inventory. For more information, refer to the help page Managing FBA inventory.

• Close listings

  You may close a listing at any time, until the time it is purchased. This action does not remove the record from your inventory. For more information, refer to the help page Manage inventory.

• Delete products and listings

  When you delete a listing, the SKU, all sales history and product information are permanently removed from your seller account. For more information, refer to the help page Manage inventory.

Additional inventory management tasks

Across the top of the Manage Inventory page are links to additional views and tasks, some of which apply specifically to FBA inventory.

• All inventory

  Return to a view of all of your inventory.

• Failed

  Identify errors that result in failed listings or "no listing" errors by reviewing the messages in the Error type column, and then use that information to search for resolutions to that specific error.

• Suppressed

  Suppressed listings are those listings that do not meet minimum Amazon standards. For more information, refer to the help page Suppressed listings.

• Listing enhancements

  Identify opportunities to improve your listings by reviewing the messages in the Enhancement column, and then use that information to update your listing. For more information, refer to the help page Enhance your listings.

• Remove unfulfillable inventory

  Create removal orders for unfulfillable inventory. For more information, refer to the help page Remove inventory from fulfilment centres.

• Fix stranded inventory

  Stranded inventory is an inventory at a fulfilment centre that does not have an active offer on Amazon. For more information, refer to the help page Fix stranded inventory.

• Manage pricing

  Update prices on any active listings, either one by one or in batches. For more information, refer to the help page Manage inventory.

• Inventory Amazon fulfils

  Provides a view of FBA inventory exclusively. For more information, refer to the help page Amazon-fulfilled inventory.

• Shipping queue

  Provides information about the status of each of your shipments/deliveries, including shipping plans that you are currently working on, those in transit and at the fulfilment centre and all deleted, cancelled or closed deliveries. For more information, refer to the help page Track your shipment (shipping queue).