hey what's up guys today there was an
exciting update on our merch by amazon
dashboard that i'm gonna tell you all
about in this video it
is called the automatic upload
feature and it is not what it sounds
like so let's get right into it
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this is the pop-up that i got
uh via pretty merch when i logged into
merch by amazon today
so it says merch by amazon is
introducing an automatic
product upload feature to maximize your
reach
on merch now real quickly like i when i
first read that i was like oh this has
to do with upload automation
and it kind of does but it also kind of
doesn't like the way i think of upload
automation you know i'm running i'm
running my upload automation right now
while i record this video
is i basically have software upload new
designs and create new listings for me
and they are kind of doing that so let's
continue on
we will leverage your existing designs
and translate product information to
create new listings across other merch
products and marketplaces
alright cool if you would like to
participate
no further action is required so they've
auto opted us
into this which is great if you do not
wish to participate
visit your account and then go to merch
settings and
choose no don't upload by july 13
2021. if you choose to participate we
will selectively upload your live
designs across other merch products and
marketplaces
where we will translate the product
information for you
read more in our faq now one interesting
thing that pops up in my mind
is that they will almost assuredly be
translating
using software and there's nothing wrong
with that but it's not the most optimal
uh solution and the reason that like
this you know the reason i even wanted
to say that is because
when i was kind of coerced into doing
the
amazon fba pan european program where
they let me
basically clone my sellercentral.com
account into a dot co dot uk account
which then
they made my products available on five
european marketplaces
they also assigned me an account manager
and had five different people basically
translate
like five humans manually translate my
listings
into the various languages for the
marketplaces we would be selling on
uh well i guess they didn't need five
because uh uk wouldn't need that but
um france italy spain and german were
the four that they had um
translated for me so anyways it's just
with amazon merch uh
almost assuredly due to the scale
they're gonna have to use automation
and then when you did that when i did
fba i don't know if that program even
exists anymore or at least the way i did
it um it was manual
all right so they have an additional
resource set up on the faq
section of merch by amazon i'll drop a
link to this in the description in case
you want to check it out for yourself
but i will also read it
right now because i can definitely
relate to watching youtube videos
where people basically say what i need
to hear as opposed to me having to read
it
um so let's get let's get right to it
all right so the page is called
automatic upload
what's changing merch by amazon is
introducing an automatic product upload
feature we will leverage your existing
designs and translate product
information to create new listings
across other merch products and
marketplaces
for example a t-shirt published to
amazon.de
germany may be published to other merch
by amazon supported marketplaces like
dot com
dot co dot jp dot fr dot it spain
koda uk got it and maybe added to other
merch by amazon products
like sweatshirts or cell phone cases
okay so that's kind of interesting so
they say that if you uploaded a t-shirt
in germany they may
publish the same t-shirt on all the
other available marketplaces for you
automatically including translation
and add it to additional products and
that's kind of interesting because
they're going to convert a t-shirt
design
into a cell phone case at least that's
what they said right there they said
they can do it
so you know think of like you know some
not not all designs translate that well
into other uh
products so it'll be interesting to see
how some of these turn out
especially with the phone cases uh
because they have like the different
camera placements and you kind of have
to like optimize around them so we'll
see if they figured that out or not
can i opt out of this program yes you
can choose to edit your preference on
the settings page at any time note if
you decide to opt out the designs
uploaded to other marketplaces and made
available on other products prior to
your opt out will continue to be
available
unless you delete them so they'll still
be in your account and or in our
accounts
and be deletable however i don't know
why you'd opt out because this is
basically free um
coverage right free exposure to
international audiences
bigger audiences will merch by amazon
uploads
count against my daily publishing limit
that's an interesting question to ask
especially for the lower tiers
the answer no the uploads will not count
against your daily publishing limit
next question will merch by amazon
upload all of my designs to new
marketplaces and products
answer we we may choose to upload all or
some of your designs to new marketplaces
and products interesting it's like they
got a fire lit under their butts to
really
scale out merch by amazon or you know
what my suspicion is
and i'm just guessing here but this push
makes me think maybe they like really
did expand
aggressively into the international
marketplaces and they've got the
infrastructure and it's just being
underutilized
is what i'm guessing and because they're
so well established in the united states
they kind of
know that this works right they've got
it the validation's done this isn't in
theory like
it's crushing in the u.s if you don't
believe me look at all the big brands
that have signed on to partner with
merch by amazon
um so yeah so maybe they're just trying
to be aggressive because they already
know
they really strongly believe in this
will i earn royalties on the automatic
product uploads
yes you will earn royalties on products
merch by amazon will create on your
behalf
will a content rejection due to a
product upload in other marketplaces
affect my account standing no rejections
resulting from merch by amazon automatic
product uploads
or translations will not affect your
account standing
now that's one thing that like i don't
run into too many
in case anybody's wondering like because
you guys know i've been hitting the
international marketplaces
pretty hard i do not run into very many
strikes at all after translating like i
actually came up with a number i forget
what it was it's been a while
but uh it was like extremely rare it's
like one a month at this point lately
how will my merch by amazon or how will
merge by amazon set pricing
we will set the default price as merch
recommended list price at the time of
upload
to a new marketplace or product you can
always suggest a new price by using the
edit option on the manage tab
so that's one thing when i use my
automation it sets the pricing to how i
want it
and i set a little bit higher prices
than default prices typically
well especially with the international
like non-amazon.com pricing so
um if i see sales coming in what i
typically do is on a daily basis i just
check them and go in and edit and then
increase the price
how will i know when my design has been
uploaded
on the manage page you'll see an auto
upload status next to the product
that was enabled by merch by amazon real
quick note there so i went in and looked
for that i couldn't find one on the
manage page i also
went into the developer console because
you never know sometimes things are
hiding in there
especially on the product creation
screen that's how we were able to
identify some
products that were coming down the
pipeline even before they were announced
and i didn't see any text for auto
upload hidden in there so
i don't think this is rolled out yet
it's probably going to be in some future
release
how will merged by amazon set product
variations we will use the existing fit
size
and colors already selected for the
original product when uploading a design
to the same product in a new marketplace
when we upload designs to a different
product we will upload designs to
available fit and colors
of the target product if color or size
of the original products is not
available in the new marketplace or
product
it will not be uploaded for example a
t-shirt available for men
and women in navy and grass color on
amazon.com
will be published to a t-shirt product
on
amazon germany for men and women fit for
the same two colors
and t-shirt product on amazon japan for
men and women
fit for only navy color as grass is not
available in japan so it doesn't sound
like they're gonna estimate
i mean i guess they could but uh
it doesn't sound like they will estimate
honestly from what it just said because
i mean well actually i don't know i
haven't looked at japan and seen if they
have a similar green available we know
there's multiple greens that they
sometimes make available but at least
if it's available in navy and that's
available they will make it available in
navy
if the same t-shirt design is uploaded
to a v-neck product in amazon.com then
it'll be
available for women fit in navy color
okay
and last will my brand name be
translated
no brand name will not be translated so
they'll keep that consistent
all right guys so that is it for this
update again i'll link to the resource
in the description below let me know
your thoughts in the comments below
i know people are already excited
because i saw some posts in my
amazon merch facebook group and i know i
had a couple people email me about this
update so
thank you for that i do appreciate it
because it helps keep me on my toes and
get these videos out
for the people that weren't aware that
this happened uh and as i wrapped the
video guys just want to remind you i
wrote a free seven-day merch by amazon
mini course it is extensive it's very
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