Part 9: creation profiles and exporting variation products to Amazon with Salestio

Part 9: creating Amazon variations with Salestio Play video
8:13 Published August 2022 Watch on YouTube

The creation profile is the most important object in Salestio, and this part explains it properly. A profile describes how your store's product data maps to what a marketplace requires: which field becomes the title, where the brand comes from, how variants translate into Amazon's variation theme, and what to supply for attributes your store does not track.

Once the profile is right, exporting becomes mechanical, and the same profile handles every product after it. Part 7 showed what Amazon expects. This part encodes it once.

What you will learn

  • What a creation profile is and why you configure it before exporting.
  • How Shopify variants map onto Amazon variation themes.
  • How to supply required attributes that your store does not track.
  • How selling lists control which products are sent and when.
  • How to read and fix the errors Amazon returns on a failed export.

Steps shown in the video

  1. Open the creation profile editor in Salestio.
  2. Map Shopify product fields onto Amazon's required attributes.
  3. Configure the variation theme so sizes and colours group correctly.
  4. Set values for attributes your store does not hold.
  5. Add products to a selling list and export them to Amazon.
  6. Check the export result and resolve any attribute errors Amazon returns.

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