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Listing watch: know when a listing changes

Watch any ASIN on a connected Amazon marketplace: price, featured offer, sellers, best seller rank, title, description, photos and what reviewers mention. One email digest when something changes.

Watch a listing

Where in the app: Commerce → Listing watch → Watch a product

  1. 1

    Pick the marketplace and the ASIN

    Yours or anyone's, on a marketplace you've connected.

  2. 2

    Choose what to compare

    Price (with shipping), the featured offer and its price, how many sellers, best seller rank, title, bullets, description, photos, and review topics.

  3. 3

    How often

    Daily (the default), weekly, or hourly. Hourly checks only the price, featured offer and sellers.

  4. 4

    Email

    Switch it on and name one or two addresses. Your own email is filled in.

The first look is the starting point and sends nothing. After that, each change is added to the product's timeline, and the addresses get one digest with every product that changed.

Reading a change

  • Each product in the digest has its photo, title, marketplace and ASIN, and up to four changes.
  • Best seller rank shows a green ▲ when it improves and a red ▼ when it drops, per category. It's reported when it moves by at least 5 places and about 10%.
  • Review topics are what buyers mention, how many reviews say it, how it moves the star rating, and up to three quotes.

Limits

  • Up to 200 watched products, 25 of them hourly.
  • Only Amazon's official API is used, so the overall star average, total review count, Amazon's Choice and "bought in the past month" aren't available.
  • Review topics come only for Amazon.com, .co.uk, .de, .fr, .it, .es and .co.jp, and only for a child ASIN of a brand you sell. Amazon.ae isn't offered.

Tip: Your Amazon app needs the Product Listing and Pricing roles, and Selling Partner Insights for review topics.

What you should see

What you should see

  • The list shows each product's latest price, featured offer, sellers and rank
  • The product page lists how often it's checked and who's emailed
  • A change appears on the timeline after the next check

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