Build International Listings in North America
Note: In order to sell and use the tools described below in the U.S. and Canada marketplaces, you must have a North America Unified Account. Currently, this tool only covers products that you are fulfilling yourself. It does not cover items fulfilled by Amazon.
Learn more about the North America Unified Account.
The North America Build International Listings tool saves you time managing listings and enables you to create and update listings at the same time across Amazon's U.S. and Canada marketplaces. You select a source marketplace where your listings currently exist and identify a target marketplace in which you currently have no offers. If you mistakenly select your source marketplace as the target marketplace, the system will delete all the listings on the source marketplace. There is no way to reverse this error at this time.
Build International Listings performs the following automatic functions:
It creates listings on multiple (target) marketplaces based on products you are selling in one (source) marketplace.
Whenever you add a listing or delete a listing, it updates listings in the target marketplaces based on the pricing rules you assigned to the target marketplace.
It adjusts your source marketplace price changes in the target marketplaces based on the pricing rules you assigned to the target marketplace.
It adjusts prices in the target marketplaces to reflect exchange rate fluctuations with the source marketplace currency.
How it works
When you use the North America Build International Listings tool, each eligible product you have listed on your home or source marketplace will be automatically listed in the foreign or target marketplace you select. You simply create a connection between the source marketplace and each target marketplace where you do not have any existing listings.
When you have set up a connection between the source marketplace and each target marketplace, all of your products that are listed on the source marketplace will be listed on the target marketplaces, provided the listing meets the following criteria:
The product already has a detail page in the target marketplace with the same ASIN as in the source marketplace.
The product is eligible to be synchronized through this tool.
The product is in stock in the source marketplace.
The listing is active in the source marketplace.
The condition of the product is new or used. Note: You are solely responsible for ensuring that you and your products comply with all applicable laws including, but not limited to, any applicable laws of the target marketplaces.
Additional notes on used synchronization: Only used offers without "condition" notes will be synchronized. In addition, if you add condition notes to existing offers, they will be removed from the target marketplace. If you decide to change from "New and used" to "New only," all used offers will be removed from the target marketplace.
The Build International Listings tool will keep each target marketplace synchronized with the source marketplace.
For each change you make to your source marketplace listings:
It may take a few hours before new listings, removed listings, or price changes are reflected in a target marketplace.
The price of your listings in the target marketplace will be determined using automated pricing rules you select.
The North America Build International Listings tool uses the Current Daily Exchange Rate to calculate the price in the target market if the currency is different from the source marketplace. The tool will automatically update the price of each listing in the target marketplace if the Current Daily Exchange Rate changes by more than 1% compared to the last exchange rate used to calculate the price. The Current Daily Exchange Rate will be obtained from Bloomberg daily. We are not responsible for the exchange rate obtained and will not be liable in any way for any loss or damages relating to the exchange rate used.
Excluding products
If you do not want your offer on certain SKUs extended to any other marketplace, you can exclude your offer at the connection level. To exclude your offer from another country, follow these steps:
If you don't have a connection between the source and target marketplace, add the connection between marketplaces in the "Manage Connections" tab.
Once the connection is established, click the Edit link on the Build International Listings page
Click Excluded products.
In the Excluded products dialogue box, enter a SKU or SKUs that you want to exclude from the target marketplace. Separate the SKUs with a space or a comma or add each on a new line.
Note: You must follow these steps for each source to target marketplace connection where you wish to exclude your offer.
You can remove a connection to a target marketplace at any time. When you remove a connection, you can choose one of the following options:
Keep all connected listings in the target marketplace. The tool will no longer update your listings in the target marketplace automatically.
Remove all connected listings from the target marketplace.
Once a connection has been removed, the North America Build International Listings tool will no longer synchronize your listing from the source marketplace with the target marketplace listing. In particular:
Listings that you selected to keep on the target marketplace will not be synchronized with the listings in source marketplace.
If you add a new listing to the source marketplace, the new listing will not be listed on the target marketplace automatically. If you remove a listing from the source marketplace, the product will not be removed from the target marketplace.
The tool will not automatically update prices of each listing on the source marketplace or update the listing prices on the target marketplace when the exchange rate fluctuates.
Do not directly modify your connected listings in the target marketplace; changes to your listings in the target marketplaces should only be made using the North America Build International Listings tool in order to maintain consistency with your changes on the source marketplace. If you make any change in the target marketplace (for example, if you change the price of a listing, add a listing, or delete a listing), the connection between the marketplaces for the changed listings will be disabled. Note: Inventory quantities will continue to update even if a Build International Listings connection is removed between marketplaces.
Your listings on the target marketplace will still be active but will not be synchronized with the listings in the source marketplace.
If you remove a listing from the source marketplace, the product will not be removed from the target marketplace.
The tool will not automatically update prices of listings in the disconnected target marketplace and the source marketplace.
Important information about Build International Listings
Note: You remain solely responsible for all terms of your listings, including the prices and the products listed, in all marketplaces. You are solely responsible for complying with all applicable laws in each marketplace in which you offer your products, as well as any obligations towards Amazon (in particular those contained in an applicable seller service agreement, such as the Amazon Services Business Solutions Agreement or a Merchants@Amazon Program Agreement, each as supplemented by the Additional Business Solution Terms or our International Seller Rules).
Please note Canada tax and regulatory considerations, as well.
Status Report
When you build international listings based on your source-marketplace listings, you create global connections between source listings and listing selected international marketplace. The Build International Listings Status Report functionality is a snapshot of those connections that you can use to ensure changes made in your source marketplace propagate across your global listings.
With the status report, you can easily see:
Status of your source-marketplace listings
Source listings that have been successfully cross-listed to a target marketplace
Status of new target listing
Reasons why source listing was not created with instructions on next steps (if applicable)
Price setting for new target listing
Automated pricing rules
For each connection you set up, select a pricing rule from the three that are available—see the table for details.
If the target marketplace has a different currency from the source marketplace, the tool will convert the currency using the Current Daily Exchange Rate, which will be obtained from Bloomberg daily.
Example: The source marketplace is Amazon.com and the target marketplace is Amazon.ca. One of your products is selling at $10.00 on Amazon.com. The Current Daily Exchange Rate at the time of creation of your listing on Amazon.ca is 1 USD = 1.1262 CAD.
Pricing rule options You enter or select: Price on the source marketplace Price calculation Price in target marketplace
Same price as the source marketplace price 10 USD 10 X 1.1262 11.26 CAD
Fixed amount above the source marketplace price 1 10 USD (10+1) X 1.1262 12.39 CAD
Percentage above the source marketplace price 5% 10 USD 10 X 1.05 X 1.1262 11.83 CAD
Note: You can update pricing rules at any time. The tool will recalculate the prices of your listings in target marketplaces whenever you update a pricing rule. It may take a few hours before the price changes are reflected in each target marketplace.
Create a connection
Go to Build International Listings.
If you have not previously set up a connection, choose a source marketplace from the Select the source marketplace drop-down menu. When picking a source marketplace, remember that:
If you are currently selling only in one marketplace, you should select the