Add products

A product in MapProtector is one of your own catalog items — SKU, title, product group — with the Amazon listing it is sold as (an ASIN on a marketplace) and the MAP it is measured against. Every observation, candidate, case and evidence package points at a product.

Adding one product

1. Open Monitoring › Products and choose Add product.
2. Under Product, choose the Brand, then enter the SKU and Title as your own catalog names them. Product group and Description are optional; groups are useful later for policies and promotions that cover a family of products.
3. Under Listing and MAP, choose the Marketplace, enter the ASIN, the MAP amount and Currency, and the Condition the policy applies to (New, Used or Refurbished).
4. Choose Add product. You land on the new product. With Start monitoring this listing ticked it is scanned from its next scheduled slot; untick it to add the product without watching it yet.

Importing a CSV

For a catalog of any size, import a file. The import validates first and writes nothing until you apply it, so a file with problems costs you a corrected file, not a half-loaded catalog. Only SKU, title and ASIN are required; a product imported without a MAP is added, and you set its MAP afterwards on Products.

1. Open Products › Import catalogue (/products/import). The Columns panel lists every accepted column: lower-case, underscore-separated, in any order.
2. Choose or drop the file: a CSV, an Excel workbook (.xlsx, .xlsm), or the listing report or inventory file Amazon gave you, as it is — its column names are read without renaming. A selling price in the file is never read as a MAP.
3. Choose Validate. Validate checks every row against your catalog as it stands and writes nothing: the row report says what Apply would do to each row (add it, update it, or leave it because it already matches) or names what is wrong with it.
4. The file stays chosen. Fix it and validate again if needed, or choose Apply to load the same file; remove it with × to start over.
5. Valid rows are written even when other rows fail; the report says which. The Import history panel keeps every import with its outcome, and a file that was already imported is recognized and not written twice.

Monitoring state

Each product has a lifecycle state. Active products are scanned and evaluated. Monitor only products are scanned and evaluated but never produce a violation candidate — for a product you want measured but not acted on. Discontinued products are still evaluated, because a liquidator below MAP on a discontinued line is one of the most common patterns a brand wants to see. Archived products are not scanned and do not count against your plan.

Plan limits

Your plan sets a ceiling on monitored products. A product counts when monitoring is on for at least one marketplace; archived products do not. Adding a product past the ceiling is refused with the limit named, and Settings › Billing shows where you stand. See Billing.