Seller intelligence
Authorized Network
The distributors and resellers you declare, how observed sellers are matched against them, and how the network page helps you decide about the rest.
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The Authorized Network is configuration: the partners your brand has authorized, declared ahead of time, with the storefront each one sells through. The Sellers page is the daily view of who was actually observed. The network page is where the two meet.
What a network entry holds
| Field | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Company, account or contract reference | Who the partner is in your own records. |
| Contact name, email, phone | How your team reaches them. Not used for notices. |
| Marketplace, Amazon seller id, storefront name | The storefront the partner sells through. The seller id is what matching uses. |
| Scope | What the partner is authorized to sell, in your own words. |
| Status, authorized from, authorized through | Whether the relationship is current: Authorised, Inactive or Revoked, and its dates. |
| Tags, notes | Whatever your program needs to file. |
How matching works
- A network entry that names a seller id is the storefront with that id on that marketplace. When the storefront is observed — or when the entry is added after the storefront was already seen — the entry is linked to the seller identity.
- If the entry is Authorised and today is inside its dates, the seller’s standing becomes Authorized, with the entry recorded as the reason.
- Matching never sets Unauthorized. A seller that matches nothing is Unknown; deciding that an unknown seller is an unauthorized one is a person’s call.
- Matching never downgrades a standing a person set. A seller your team marked Brand internal or Exempt keeps it even if an entry later matches, because the person knew something the match does not.
Reconciling
- Open Configuration › Authorized network. Each entry shows whether it has matched an observed storefront.
- Choose Match now to compare every observed storefront against the network again — after an import, or after adding seller ids to entries that lacked them.
- Read Observed sellers to decide about: storefronts seen on your listings that match no entry. From each, either add the seller to the network (a partner you forgot to declare) or classify them on the Sellers page.
Importing
Authorized network › Import takes a UTF-8 CSV with a required company_name column and the other fields as lower-case, underscore-separated columns in any order. Validate first, read the row report, then apply. Existing entries are updated by seller id or company name rather than duplicated, so the same file can be re-applied after corrections.