You can get a pricing preview in the slide panel at the bottom of the Pricing Rules page by clicking Preview. If the panel remains hidden for any reason, simply click the arrow at the bottom of the screen to bring it back into view.
On the left of the Preview panel, you can select the venue you'd like to preview pricing for and browse or search your 'whole inventory' or a particular smart list of your choosing. Once an item has been selected, information on that item will display in the panel such as: Details, Competition, Buy Box & Lowest Prices, and Pricing Log (see below for descriptions). You can add a markup or margin for previewing purposes.
On the right side of the Preview panel, you will see five tabs: Details, Stock, Competition, Buy Box+Lowest Prices and Pricing Log. The Details tab displays biblio-data about the currently selected item. The 'Stock' tab displays relevant details about your physical stock. The Competition tab displays all competitors for that item on the selected venue. Competitors that would be filtered out according to your competition filters, will be grayed-out in the grid display. You can view competitors by condition or all conditions at once (and see how many sellers in each condition you would be competing against based on your current filters, i.e. new 1/15), view the item on the selected Amazon venue, see when the competition data were last retrieved.
You can also see which seller currently has the Buy Box by looking for the golden or silver star in the far left column. The 'Buy Box + Lowest Prices' tab shows you the offers winning the Buy Box and the lowest prices in each existing condition.
The Pricing Log tab shows the final price that has been calculated for that item according to your Pricing Rules. You can edit your Pricing Rules and check Preview to see what effect the rules have on the prices of your items. Price calculations are displayed in your home venue currency, as well as the currency of the selected venue.
Each change you make while in preview mode will automatically trigger a new price calculation and you will immediately see the new results.
ProTip: Using the Preview function in the Pricing Rules is a great way to make changes to your strategy and spot-check how they would adjust the prices before committing those changes to your entire inventory/Smart List.
Make sure you save any preview changes you wish to keep!
ProTip: You can clone a Pricing Rule by clicking 'Save as' and entering a new name for the copied rule.
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