Amazon Inventory (also known as Amazon Shopping Products) is now available in Marin, giving you the ability to see all of the products you sell in Marin's Shopping Products grid.

With this feature, you can now link your Amazon Seller Central account to Marin alongside your Amazon Advertising account in order to gain a more holistic view of your ecommerce efforts, spanning both organic and sponsored listings. 

Marin Support 

Marin offers support for downloading or syncing your Amazon Shopping Product listings from your Seller Central account along with organic conversion and revenue. Currently, this support is for Amazon Sellers only, not Amazon Vendors. Please see the Future Enhancements section of this article for additional planned upgrades.

Linking Your Seller Central Account 

To link your Seller Central account into Marin, follow the steps below. 

1. In the left-hand navigation, click on Accounts > Publishers. 
2. Click Manage Accounts to launch the Linking Wizard.
   
3. In the Add Publisher tab, click the Link button for Amazon.  
4. Give your account a nickname. This is the field you will use to identify your account within the grids. 
5. Select your account type from the drop-down.
   
   Within this drop-down, you'll see four options: 
   1. Amazon Advertising (Vendor or Seller) account
   2. Seller Central account - Europe
   3. Seller Central account - Far East
   4. Seller Central account - North America
      
      For the purposes of linking entire product listing (Shopping Products) including the ones without ads, you'll want to select one of the Seller Central account options. Select the location which fits best, based on the region of your Seller Central account: (North America or Europe or Far East).
       
6. Click Connect Account.
7. From here, you will be taken to the Amazon site, where you can enter your credentials and grant permission for Marin to connect with your Seller Central account. Once this process is complete, you will be redirected back to Marin's Linking Wizard. 
8. Once your Seller Central account has been linked, you'll find Shopping Products in the Shopping Products grid.
   
   Note: Your sync will take place overnight. 

Object Structure 

Given that Marin was initially conceived for your digital marketing efforts, we've had to adapt the tool in a few ways in order to suit Amazon's organic Shopping Products.

Similar to other publishers, your object structure will follow a hierarchy of:

Publisher Client Account > Campaign > Group > Shopping Products

However, given that not all of these objects exist within Amazon's Seller Central accounts, we've had to make a few adjustments, which we'll outline below. 

• Your Publisher Client Account (PCA), campaign, and group are placeholder objects created in Marin that do not exist on the Amazon side. These are simply a repository for your inventory. 
• Given that these are placeholders, they do not have an external ID that corresponds with Amazon's ID because they don't exist in Amazon. These objects serve only to align with the standard account structure we use in Marin.
• The name of your PCA in Marin will be Amazon Seller Central - [country code] - [unique account id]. So, for example, this might be Amazon Seller Central - US - A123BCD4E5FGHIJ. Your campaigns will have "Inventory Campaign" appended onto this same structure. Similarly, groups will have "Inventory Group" appended.

Shopping Products are the only level of the hierarchy that exists within Amazon Seller Central and therefore have external IDs (Pub IDs) that correspond with those used in Amazon.

Organic Revenue

Amazon Organic Revenue is a metric (available from the Column Selector) that reports your sales on Amazon resulting from customers discovering and purchasing products without direct advertising. It includes sales from organic search results, browsing, recommendations, and customer reviews. It differs from revenue generated through paid advertising campaigns where budgets are allocated for sponsored placements and targeted ads.

This helps you understand the full impact of your strength as a business by seeing your ability to generate sales without relying solely on paid advertising or promotional activities. It helps you to understand customer loyalty, brand equity, and the quality of products or services offered. While advertising and marketing efforts play a crucial role in driving growth, organic revenue demonstrates the natural demand for your company’s offerings and the effectiveness of its core operations in generating sales.  

Future Enhancements 

As this feature is initially a stepping stone to broader support, we have plenty of enhancements planned for the future, including:

• Support for Amazon Vendors.
  • Pending API availability from Amazon.
• Ability to analyze organic revenue for Amazon Shopping Products, alongside ad-based revenue (when available) in order to suggest when to create new ads.
• Recommendations for bidding and budgets based on organic performance