How to combine Amazon Seller Central data with PDF file data

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What is Amazon Seller Central?

Amazon Seller Central is an Amazon-powered platform that allows merchants to sell products directly to customers on Amazon’s marketplace. It serves as a central hub where sellers can manage their inventory, track orders, analyze sales performance, and access business metrics. This portal provides sellers with data about their business operations, customer behavior, and marketplace performance.

Why would you want to combine Amazon Seller Central data with data from PDF files?

Combining data from Amazon Seller Central with PDF documents can streamline your business operations and provide valuable insights for decision-making. Here are a few ways you might use combined data from these sources:

  • Merge sales data from Amazon with invoice information stored in PDFs.
  • Cross-reference product specifications from PDF catalogs with Amazon listing performance.
  • Combine shipping manifests from PDFs with Amazon order data for improved logistics tracking.
  • Analyze customer feedback from PDF surveys alongside Amazon sales metrics.
  • Create comprehensive reports by combining Amazon analytics with PDF-based external market research.

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How to use Amazon Seller Central with Parabola

Parabola seamlessly integrates with Amazon Seller Central to automate your data processing workflows.

  • Direct API connection eliminates manual data export and import processes
  • Real-time data synchronization ensures accuracy in reporting and analysis
  • Customizable data pulls allow you to focus on specific metrics and time periods

Retrieving data from Amazon Seller Central

Parabola’s integration with Amazon Seller Central allows users to pull various types of reports directly from their seller account. This secure connection enables automatic data retrieval and updates, ensuring you’re always working with the most current information.

Key features

  • Automated data extraction from multiple report types
  • Secure API authentication
  • Customizable date ranges for data retrieval
  • Real-time data synchronization
  • Support for multiple marketplace regions

How to use

  1. Navigate to the Pull from Amazon Seller Central step in your Flow
  2. Authenticate your Amazon Seller Central account
  3. Select the desired report type and date range
  4. Configure any additional parameters
  5. Run the step to import your data

How to use PDF with Parabola

Parabola’s PDF integration capabilities allow you to extract and transform data from PDF documents effortlessly.

  • Automatic text extraction from both searchable and scanned PDFs
  • Flexible data parsing options for structured and unstructured content
  • Batch processing capabilities for multiple PDF files

Retrieving data from PDF

Parabola’s PDF data extraction functionality enables you to convert PDF documents into structured, analyzable data. The platform can handle various PDF formats and layouts, making it versatile for different business needs.

Key features

  • Text and table extraction
  • Multi-page document support
  • Pattern recognition
  • Structured data output
  • Batch processing capability

How to use

  1. Add the Pull from PDF file step to your Flow
  2. Upload your PDF file
  3. Configure extraction settings, including column names and keys
  4. Run the step to extract the data
  5. Add examples and fine tune your extraction settings for more accurate parsing

Combining Amazon Seller Central and PDF data

After retrieving data from both sources, you can merge them using Parabola’s powerful combination tools. This process allows you to create comprehensive datasets that provide deeper insights into your business operations.

Key features

  • Flexible matching criteria
  • Multiple joining methods
  • Automated data cleaning
  • Error handling
  • Custom mapping options

How to use

  1. After you add your data sources to the Canvas, add the Combine tables step to your Flow
  2. Drag the arrow from your data sources to the Combine tables step on the Canvas
  3. Choose the columns to match between the tables
  4. Configure the join type
  5. Preview and verify the combined results

Practical use cases and examples

Invoice reconciliation

Automatically match Amazon order data with PDF invoices from suppliers to track costs, verify pricing, and identify discrepancies. This process can save hours of manual reconciliation work and reduce errors in financial reporting.

Product catalog enhancement

Combine product specifications from PDF manufacturer catalogs with Amazon listing performance data to optimize product descriptions and identify opportunities for listing improvements.

Shipping optimization

Merge shipping rates from PDF carrier documents with Amazon order data to analyze shipping costs and identify the most cost-effective shipping methods for different regions and product types.

By combining Amazon Seller Central and PDF data in Parabola, you can automate complex business processes and gain valuable insights that would be difficult to obtain manually. The platform’s intuitive interface and powerful features make it possible to create sophisticated data workflows without coding knowledge.