How to combine and join tables from your Amazon Seller Central data

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What is Amazon Seller Central?

Amazon Seller Central is a platform that enables merchants to sell products directly on Amazon's marketplace. It serves as a central hub for managing product listings, inventory, orders, and accessing vital sales analytics. This portal provides sellers with essential tools and reports needed to run a successful e-commerce business on Amazon.

Why would you want to combine and join tables from Amazon Seller Central?

Combining and joining tables from Amazon Seller Central data allows you to create comprehensive views of your business performance and make data-driven decisions. Here's why this capability is crucial:

  • Merge inventory data with sales reports to better understand product performance
  • Combine order data with customer information for improved customer insights
  • Connect pricing history with sales metrics to optimize pricing strategies
  • Unite advertising performance data with organic sales for complete marketing analysis
  • Consolidate data from multiple marketplaces into a single view

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How to use Amazon Seller Central with Parabola

Parabola seamlessly integrates with Amazon Seller Central to automate your data processing and analysis workflows. Here are the key benefits:

  • No coding required to access and manipulate Amazon Seller Central data
  • Real-time data synchronization ensures up-to-date analysis
  • Visual Flow builder makes it easy to understand your data transformation process
  • Automated scheduling eliminates manual data pulling and combining
  • Custom transformations allow for specific business requirements

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

Combine tables

The Combine tables step in Parabola allows you to merge data sets from different sources based on matching columns. This powerful feature enables you to create comprehensive views of your business data and perform advanced analytics – mirroring the functionality of a vlookup in Excel.

Key features

  • Multiple joining methods (inner, left, right, full outer)
  • Column matching flexibility
  • Automatic data type handling
  • Duplicate handling options

How to use

  1. Add the Combine tables step to your Flow
  2. Connect the two datasets you'd like to join to the Combine tables step
  3. Choose the join type
  4. Map the matching columns
  5. Specify whether you'd like to match where any values match or all values
  6. Update results to preview the output and make edits as necessary

Practical use cases and examples

Combining Amazon Seller Central data tables in Parabola opens up numerous possibilities for business intelligence and optimization. Here are some practical examples of how this capability can be applied.

Sales and inventory optimization

Merge daily sales reports with inventory levels to create a comprehensive dashboard that helps predict stock requirements and prevent stockouts. This combined view enables better inventory management and helps maintain optimal stock levels across all products.

Marketing performance analysis

Combine advertising campaign data with organic sales metrics to understand the full impact of your marketing efforts. This unified view helps optimize ad spend and identify the most effective marketing strategies for different products.

Profitability tracking

Join product cost data with sales reports and fee structures to calculate accurate profit margins across your entire product catalog. This combined analysis helps identify your most profitable products and opportunities for cost optimization.

Combining and joining tables from Amazon Seller Central in Parabola provides powerful insights that can drive business growth and efficiency. With its intuitive interface and robust capabilities, Parabola makes it easy to transform raw data into actionable business intelligence. Start building your custom Flow today to unlock the full potential of your Amazon Seller Central data.