Integrating Amazon Seller Central and Google Sheets.
After what seems like an eternity for those waiting for it, the integration of Amazon Seller Central and Google Sheets has finally been rolled out.
If you have been manually manipulating, importing, and exporting your CSV files to and from Amazon Seller Central, you know how time-consuming and tedious that can be, as well as how potentially prone to errors. Now there is the potential to directly link your Amazon Seller Central account with your Google Sheets so that you can automate larger numbers of your Amazon Seller Central tasks much more easily than ever before.
We’re going to do a deep dive into the new Amazon Seller Central integration to Google Sheets. We’ll cover what each one is, and why automating common or tedious tasks is a more effective way to do business. We’re also going to get into the actual process of connecting your Amazon Seller Central account to your Google Sheets account, and what comes next.
Amazon Seller Central is a business management platform created by Amazon in 2015 to help those selling online to more easily manage various aspects of their Amazon business. This includes streamlined and centralized management of the seller’s inventory, a detailed sales and business dashboard, and a basic customer information database.
Amazon Seller Central is also the interface through which many other applications communicate and integrate with Amazon. Software systems like MailChimp, Google Drive, and even Quickbooks can easily interface with Amazon Seller Central to create a more comprehensive seller experience.
Google Sheets is one of the primary applications that make up the Google Drive suite, along with Google Docs, Google Slides, and many more. Sheets is a powerful spreadsheet application that can rival Microsoft Excel and can operate both online and off. Users of Google Sheets have powerful and streamlined functionality to manipulate data, as well as integrate with other software applications from Google and other organizations. Google Sheets is often integrated with applications like Twitter, Slack, Dropbox, and Trello.
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The primary goal of integrating Amazon Seller Central and Google Sheets is to make the management of business data and functionality much simpler and more streamlined, as well as add a significant amount of automation to it. Connecting your Amazon Seller Central to your Google Sheets account can cut the time needed to perform essential business data management, resulting in dramatic improvements to productivity and efficiency metrics.
Those managing the business won’t have to manually move data from one location to another, and will not have to worry about making sure that imported or exported data is in the proper format. Eliminating these tasks alone can lead to significant time savings for the organization since a file can simply be transferred from one location to the other on completely integrated platforms.
If your business uses both Google Sheets and Amazon Seller Central, the integration can also give your organization more resilience as well. In the event that one service isn’t available, such as during times of system maintenance or upgrades, the company’s data will still be accessible on the other platform. This lowers the risk of lost data as well as the potential liability associated with restoring that data if lost.
Now that you’re connected, you’ll need to make sure you have current data. Go to your Amazon Seller Central home screen and click “Orders” near the top, then find the green box on the right-hand side of the screen near the top and click “Export Order Data”. This will give you a popup with the list of file types available, from which you want to choose CSV, also known as Comma Separated Values, and save the file to your computer.
Now navigate to your Google Sheets page or app, and go to File -> Import -> Upload. You should now get another popup with a file explorer. You’ll need to pick the file you saved earlier, and click “Upload”. This will upload your new data into a Google Sheets file.
Now find the link to “Go To Data View’, and click that to open another new window. On the left side, select the “From Web” tab and underneath the “Important Note” section there will be a link for the Google Sheets API. Open that link and click on “Explore The API”. If you have a Google Developer account this is where you can get your API key to build applications or expand the functionality of your Google Sheets.
Be sure that you use the Google Sheets app on your mobile device as well, so that you will be able to access current data from any location with data or wifi connections available. The app is available through the Google Play Store and can be downloaded onto nearly any device that has the ability to run an Android or iOS app. One important feature of the app is the ability to make any sheet available offline, so you don’t have to worry about being connected in order to look at the latest numbers from your company, they’ll already be there. You can also edit offline, and the changes will sync the next time you connect.
If getting your Amazon Seller Central and Google Sheets accounts linked and integrated sounds like more than you want on your plate right now, you can always have the professionals at The Amazon Junkies handle it for you, while you collect the benefits. If you would like more information on how we can help you work smarter, not harder, contact The Amazon Junkies today.