Overview of all Settings

Default List and shipping fee currency

This is the default currency that will be shown on Run Settings under 6. Costs are in, and when creating a new cost profile.

Your Operating Currency

This is the default selected on Run Settings under 7. Return profits in.

Add a fixed percentage commission
reduce rates by X%

This affects currency calculation by adding a spread to all mid-market rates. Please see Currency Exchange for details.

Manually override individual commission rates

Allows individual rates to be set with a higher or lower spread percentage. Please see Currency Exchange for details.

UPC/EAN/ISBN Lookups

Keyword Search

Return all results

Returns all results from an ID lookup. Please note that the MWS API will never return more than 10.

Only return top N by current Best Seller Rank
(only available on ID Lookup)

Returns the top N results in descending order of current (spot) BSR. The maximum is 10, which is effectively equivalent to returning all.

Only return first N items

Return the first N items, in the order returned by the MWS API. This will usually be by ‘relevance’ or by ‘featured’. The exact ordering is determined by Amazon.

Major Brands

Maintain a list of brands that are always ignored or filtered out. See Major Brands for details.

Browser/Storefront product cost

Cost to use when using the Amazon Browser to run a file. See Amazon Browser | Cost Percentage

Slow down the browser

Increases Amazon Browser reliability at expense of speed. See Amazon Browser | Slow down the browser

MFN BuyBox Premium

Adds a premium to MFN only products when analysing against FBA.

Profit Calculation - Reference Offer Selection Order

Adjust which price is used as the Reference Offer (used in the default profit calculation). Prices are considered in the specified order and the first available one is used.

Only consider In-stock offers

When checked, this option makes PC2 ignore offers which are not immediately shippable. This means all offers where the availability is not ‘NOW’.

An offer, including the buybox itself, can be considered ‘not immediately shippable’ even if the availability date is the very next day. If you find some offers being skipped, please check if the expected delivery date is a little later than usual. That could be a hint that it isn’t immediately available, and you may want to try turning this off if you get better results that way.

Sales Estimates - Rank Ordering

Select the order in which sales ranks are considered to create sales estimates. The first available rank is used to produce the default “Est. Sales / Month” figure, which also feeds into “Est. Share of Sales” and “Est. Share of Revenue”.

The special STOP entry allows you to prevent certain ranks from being considered. Only those above this entry will be used, the ones below are ignored.

Packaging Overrides

Since 3.0.10

Allows you to specify packaging to override “AMZ Multi Pack Qty" for items where Amazon catalog information is incorrect. The file is automatically reloaded on edit and uses the following comma separated format:

# <- lines beginning with a hash/pound are considered comments and blank lines are ignored, as are leading or trailing spaces.

Rules:
ASIN, packaging, marketplace ID(s)

Marketplace IDs are optional. If not specified, the override will apply to all supported markets. Otherwise specify one or more, also separated by comma, for targeted override.

Later rules can augment earlier ones. For example:

#Override packaging for ASIN 0000000000 with 5 for all markets:
000000000,5
#Override packaging for ASIN 0000000000 with 10 for markets US and UK only:
000000000,10,US,UK
#Override packaging for ASIN 0000000000 with 5 for all markets, but 10 for US and UK only
000000000,5
000000000,10,US,UK

Diagnostics:

When an override is triggered, the “Diagnostics” column will contain an entry showing both the original and the replacement value. This will allow you to adapt your override rules, for example where the Amazon catalog information has been updated.