If the price is not changing in Automate Pricing as expected, verify that your listing
meets all necessary criteria.
I. Confirm that the SKU is active
If the SKU is inactive, it will not reprice or surface in Automate Pricing.
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From the
Inventory drop-down menu,select Manage
Inventory.
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Enter the SKU in the search bar and
click Search.
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Under Status, verify that
the SKU is listed as Active.
II. Check whether the price was
changed manually and the rule setting for the SKU
You can choose to continue repricing or pause repricing after a manual price update
through feeds, Manage Inventory, or a third-party repricing software.
To find out if your SKU was paused due to a manual price update:
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Select Pricing
Automate Pricing.
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Click Take Action.
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Click Edit SKUs.
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Enter the SKU and click Search.
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Review details in the Your
price column. If the listing is paused, Repricing
paused: Price changed manually appears.
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To continue
repricing, under Action, click the arrow next to the
Take action button.
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Select the rule
assigned to the SKU.
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Select
Start repricing.
To set your preference
to continue repricing after manual price updates, follow these steps below:
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Select Pricing
Automate Pricing.
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Click
Take Action for the rule to which the SKU is assigned
that you want to make changes.
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Click Edit
rule parameters.
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Click the down arrow of 3 Rule parameters to expand.
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For the
question Do you want to continue repricing if you update your price
elsewhere in Seller Central? select Yes, I want to
continue repricing.
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Click
Save this rule in Amazon button.
III. Check whether the offer has
active promotions
Automate Pricing does not reprice offers that have active promotions or a sale price.
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Select Inventory
Manage Inventory.
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Enter the SKU and click Search.
If there
is a green box around the field in the Price column, the
offer is running a sale price.
IV. Check whether the offer matches
the repricing rule criteria
Automate Pricing only changes the price of an offer if the entire rule criteria matches.
For example, if you set the match low price rule and match the
lowest price, your price does not change.
V. Check that the SKU is assigned to a
rule
To verify whether the SKU is being repriced by Automate Pricing:
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Select Pricing
drop-down menu, Automate Pricing.
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Click Edit SKUs.
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Enter the SKU and click Search.
If the SKU has a
rule name assigned in the Rule name field and
Stop repricing option is enabled when you click on
the Take action button, then the SKU is actively
repriced. Otherwise, the SKU is not currently assigned to any rules for
repricing.