The need for data backups spares no one – especially not Amazon sellers. It is recommended to save and back up product-related catalogue data such as listing data, dimensions, ingredients etc. regularly.
There’s an easy way to do that – if you know how to: The reverse flat file. This feature is not available by default in the seller central, it has to be activated by the Amazon support.
Simply open a support message with any topic and add the following text:
“Hello Amazon,please enable the reverse flat file feature.We would like to save our catalogue data.Thank you!”
Usually, the relevant product information will be available after a few minutes. You can find the report in “inventory” → “inventory reports” → “category report”.
Reverse flat files are issued in categories. That means you have to download a separate flat file for each category.
If needed, these files can then be transferred directly into an account without having to enter everything manually first.
