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Reading: Although you have the ability to add and modify your reportable product catalog online, most clients product mix is ever changing. An automated process can easily be setup to build your catalog and place it on your FTP server (or read from ours) at which point we seamlessly import the catalog for you, returning an email summary (if specified below) of each import and a fresh import will occur for each scan block you designate keeping your product catalog current.

Writing: After the report block runs, the raw data can be sent to your FTP server and or by email for integration into your back-end system. Or if you prefer, placed on our FTP server for you to download. 7 days of data will remain in our system for online retrieval and 2 days of FTP files.

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CompetitorEye's FTP server (Clients only. Not for evaluation)My FTP serverNo FTP, reports through email onlyNo FTP, no emailed reports

FTP Server:

Server:

ActivePassive

Login:

Custom control port: (0 = none, use standard port)

Password:

A strong password contains a mix of upper case, lower case and digits.

Element delimiter:

CommaTabPipe

How the columns in the file will be delimited.

Reading from your catalog:

After a report is uploaded to your server, our engine will check to see if you have a product catalog file to process. If so, we will import it at that time designating which products you want reported on next. If an updated catalog doesn't exist, we will re scan your existing catalog.

Four import formats exist (single product per line)

MANUAL BASIC: your item #,known ASIN 112,B0009VXBAQ 872,B000NV9NX7	MANUAL ADVANCED: your item #, known ASIN, known UPC, known MPN 112,B0009VXBAQ,045496880019,NWII280 872,B000NV9NX7,609585126312,19PFL5422D
PREMIUM BASIC: your item #,known ASIN,mf,ifep,ifed,ifop,ifod,pri 112,B0009VXBAQ,23.13,2,0,2,0,A 872,B000NV9NX7,-1,3,0,2,.15,N	PREMIUM ADVANCED: your item #, known ASIN, known UPC, known MPN,mf,ifep,ifed,ifop,ifod,pri 112,B0009VXBAQ,045496880019,NWII280,-10,2,0,3,0,P 872,B000NV9NX7,609585126312,19PFL5422D,85.12,0,5,0,5,P

If you do not know the ASIN, you must use advanced and supply either a UPC or MPN of the product for complete automated matching, but we can match on just one and make a recommendation.
If you are unsure of any of the ASIN,UPC or MPN leave it's position "blank" as in 112,,045496880019,NWII280 in the case of not knowing the ASIN. (Note the double comma)
If you do not know the ASIN, please use our item mapping screen to manually enter the product.
Premium Elements can use your optimized pricing preferences. Please note, values supplied in your feed, will override default values.
For additional information concerning optimum pricing feed elements (mf, ifep, ifed, ifop, ifod, pri) Please see Optimized Pricing Specifications

Folder:

The folder your product catalogs will reside in (blank if in root).

File Name:

The name of the file we should read.

Email:

Recommended. Import report summary will be sent to this address. Leave blank if none required.

Controls:

Remove all previous imported mappings before each import.
If you choose to remove all previous mappings before import, your feed will contain a "clean slate" each time without any previous mappings which could differ, however you will lose your instant email alert settings each import. This option is designed for merchants whos ASIN mappings change on a regular basis. If your Items remain constant and do not change on a regular basis, do not select this option.

Inactivate items for monitoring that are not in your most recent import or synchronization. Keeps CompetitorEye in-line with your current selling products.
Inactivate items for monitoring that are showing out of stock in your most recent import or synchronization.
Populate your item's stock status, current price and shipping directly from your scans. No longer available at item level. Data is in your monitoring reports.
Typically if utilizing CompetitorEye's automated synchronization, we will import this data for you. Otherwise you may use this option to automatically obtain the data when monitored.

If utilizing direct Amazon synchronization for import: (Requires read access from your Amazon inventory file) Required after 9.1.2012

If you have granted CompetitorEye access to your Inventory file on Amazon for synchronization, we should only read from it and not fall back to storefront loading if an inventory file is unavailable.

My current CompetitorEye account should monitor SKU's that are: (And If synchronization via inventory file, load from): Normal InventoryFBA InventoryBoth (Read more)

During synchronization of 'Normal Inventory', interpret non numeric (blank) inventory as 'in-stock' FBA. (Deselect if using 'FBA Inventory' or 'Both' above)
Do not load items with .MISSING appended to your sku (Amazon created sku's)

Writing the report file:

We will automatically FTP the latest product reports to your server as well as send a report email.
The file format you will receive is one product per line which will include your product identification.
-- *Please review the CSV header for current column names, positions. As new data becomes available we will not change the format of the .CSV but append to it. Allowing upgrading to be at your schedule without interruption of your integrated systems.

For example:

For additional premium plan elements included in your feed, please see Optimized Pricing Specifications

Although all reports are available to you in our reports area, reports sent to you are typically for your own analysis, we can deliver only that data you consider highest priority (usually lineup or not-listed) or all data for your own import: All (raw - 1 file)
Only those you are in the Buy Box
Only those you are in the Buy Box & can raise price
Only when featured
Only when featured with potential of Buy Box win
Only when not listed in Buy Box or featured
Only report on items that have had pricing changes from 1 or more of the top 20 sellers since my last report
Delta Report. Retain full report data for online review but only deliver price lowering or raising deltas via FTP/Email
All FBA Shipping is FREE: By default FBA items with a price >= 25 (35 as of 10/21/2013) will report as 'free shipping' as defined by 'FREE Super Saver Shipping'. Select this option if you would like ALL FBA items to report as 'Free shipping' in your reporting and repricing calculations. For more information read this forum post.

If I am at my floor for at least one report cycle, 'Yo-Yo' my pricing to my provided ceiling in an attempt to stimulate other sellers to raise their pricing
If I am own the buy box for at least one report cycle, 'Yo-Yo' my pricing to my provided ceiling in an attempt to stimulate other sellers to raise their pricing

Include each sellers FBA status and Feedback counts/percentage in reports
Include Amazon's 'Estimated Referral Fee' in your raw data reports. Note: This option requires whitelisting status from Amazon. Use the Contact Us link above to request more information
In standard reporting, NA can exist in some numeric columns, check to default to numeric 0 for easier importing into your system
Only raise to ceiling if at least 1 seller can be found (including me)
On certain child/parent (variation) items, when Amazon has no buy box or top 3 featured sellers listed on the main product page and instead requiring the user to make a selection of color or size and / or clicking to the “New & Used” secondary page, use the secondary page sellers as buy box and featured. By default when this occurs CompetitorEye will simulate that the first seller would have become the “Buy Box” owner, and the next 3 sellers would have been the top 3 featured sellers and so forth, and report/reprice as if they had indeed been in those positions. You may disable this override so that the system treats the item as it is and report/reprice having no actual Buy Box or top 3 featured sellers. The 4th position in reporting will be filled (Secondary page sellers) instead of the Buy Box and Top 3 featured.
*Use this option when you want to compete against featured sellers, or only for buy box position that would be skipped in repricing logic when those sellers are not displayed without additional click.

Folder:

The folder your wish the report logs to be placed.

File Name:

Leave blank if you want us to use a unique date format name every upload: 'CompetitorEyeMMDDYYYYHHMMSS.csv'

Email:

Scan report summary will be sent to this address. Leave blank if none required. Multiple email addresses can be used if separated by a semicolon ;

Compression:

Compress your email attached report if large size.

Compress FTP file

You may compress your email attachment and leave your ftp file uncompressed, or compress both.

Send Report Email

Summary emails can be sent to you for each report run.

Attach raw data report to summary email even if going to FTP

Include Sales Rank / UPC analysis in report email (Auto-Disabled if more than one report per 6 hour window)

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