When submitting your feed, Amazon may give you a feedback on errors that you will need to resolve quickly in order for your products to be published. In this presentation we present you the most common errors and the best practices to solve them via the platform Lengow and/or in the Seller Central of Amazon

1. AMAZON MARKETPLACE
COMMON FEED ERRORS
&SOLUTIONS

2. AMAZON ERROR REPORTS
After sending your Amazon feed, you receive integration
reports. It is in these reports that Amazon will trace the errors
that may be present in your catalog and thus prevent its
publication on the marketplace.
We will show you in this presentation what you can do on the
Lengow platform and/or the Amazon Central Seller to correct
your feed.
First of all, be sure to well prepare your product feed:
- fill in all the mandatory data in order to minimize errors
- respect valid values expected for certain attributes

3. ERROR CODE: 5000
This is a malformed or invalid XML document. It may
contain invalid values or duplicated SKUs on the same
product feed (each product must have its own SKU).
XML
FEED
ACTION TO TAKE
Check your feed structure and the different SKUs, on the
preview stage for example on our platform, before sending it
to Amazon.

4. ERROR CODE: 8016
You are creating products with variations (parent and child
products) but the data provided on the products is not
sufficient to create a variation.
The most common causes for this are:
- You are not using the same variation theme on the parent
products and on the child products of the same family
- The variation attributes associated to the variation theme
you choose are not filled on the child products. If you have
specified a VariationTheme value "SizeColor" for your parent
and child products, you must also provide a specific color for
each child product.
VARIATION
MANAGEMENT

5. ERROR CODE: 8016
ACTIONS TO TAKE
- Fill in the same type of variation for the
variations of the same family (size, color, sex, ...).
- Ensure that all the attributes associated to the
variation theme are filled for every child
product on the feed. Use the rules on our platform
to be sure to fill every attribute.

6. ERROR CODE: 8026
You are not allowed to sell in this category of product. A
validation of your account may be necessary depending on
the category concerned.
PRODUCT
CATEGORY
ACTIONS TO TAKE
- Contact your Amazon account manager and make an
approval request.
- If you don't have an account manager, fill in the Request
Approval form in your Seller Central

7. ERROR CODE: 8032
This is an invalid variation relationship: it occurs when you
have already assigned a child variation to a parent SKU.
VARIATION
MANAGEMENT
ACTION TO TAKE
Check the child/parent data set in your feed before
sending it to Amazon and delete the old relationship before
submitting a new one. Use the preview stage on the Lengow
platform.

8. ERROR CODE: 8541 / 8542
These errors are commonly referred to as matching errors
and they occurs when the EAN of the product already
exists on Amazon but some other data on your feed for
that product (title, brand, color, size, etc.) does not match
the Amazon data.
Amazon recognizes an ASIN, but your product information
does not exactly match the information that Amazon
already has in its database for this ASIN.
Note
This error may be due to the recycling of UPC or EAN
by manufacturers. For example, clothing barcodes are
sometimes reused after three years.
PRODUCT
ID

9. ERROR CODE: 8541 / 8542
ACTIONS TO TAKE
Check that the proposed ASIN matches your product
- If the proposed ASIN corresponds to your product, there are two
possible solutions:
Change the values that are causing the problem, in order to get closer
to those given by Amazon and see if this solves the problem. We
recommend that you go through automatic rules on our platform to
make these changes.
Force publication by using the ASIN indicated by Amazon with a
custom value that must be input into the product sheet.
- If the ASIN proposed by Amazon does not match your product, contact
Amazon support.

10. ERROR CODE: 8560
Amazon cannot integrate the product, because at least one piece
of mandatory information is missing.
For example,
- Missing EAN: EAN codes are required to publish products on
Amazon, they are used to identify products.
- Missing brand: Brand is an important element of Amazon
matching since it allows verification of the EAN in the case there is
any doubt.
- Missing product type: it is a variable which can be obligatory
according to the universes and which defines a type of category
additional to those requested in the matching.
MISSING
REQUIRED
DATA

11. ERROR CODE: 8560
ACTION TO TAKE
Fill in the missing value on your Amazon feed.
- Missing EAN: it is therefore necessary to recover the EAN of the product from
your supplier and to provide it to Amazon. If you are the manufacturer of your
own products, you must acquire EAN codes for them.
- Missing product type: to find authorized values see the "Inventory Loader
File Template" on Sellercentral.

12. ERROR CODE: 13043
A 0.00 price (either standard or sales) is not valid.
PRICE
ACTION TO TAKE
Please ensure that every SKU in your feed has a price at least
equal to or greater than 0.01

13. ERROR CODE: 20000
Amazon is unable to access the product image URL
IMAGES
ACTIONS TO TAKE
Check that:
- The product image URL loads correctly in your browser
- The product image URL is available publicly
If not, correct this in your source feed.

14. ERROR CODE: 90057
There are invalid values on a field of your feed
INVALID
VALUES
ACTION TO TAKE
During the matching field stage, match your fields with the
valid set of values expected by Amazon
Consult the Flat File "Instructions" and "Data Definition" tabs
for expected values.

15. ERROR CODE: 90117
The maximum number of characters in the "Description"
field for this product has been exceeded.
DESCRIPTION
ACTION TO TAKE
Use the TRUNC function on our platform to automatically
limit the number of characters in your description field

16. ERROR CODE: 90122
There is HTML content on the product description. HTML
content is not allowed on the product description on Amazon.
HTML
ACTION TO TAKE
Use the STRIPHTML function on our platform to remove the
HTML tag from your description

17. ERROR CODE: 99003
The values in the field "size-map" or "colour-map" are not
correct. For these fields Amazon requires values available in
the Sellercentral.
SIZE
COLOR
ACTION TO TAKE
Use our conversion lists
on the platform to adapt
the values of your source
feed to the values expected
by Amazon.

18. ERROR CODE: 99010
A value is missing from one or more required field from
this group. When the value of at least one attribute in a group
is missing or contradictory in a conditional field, the whole
group is rejected.
MISSING
VALUES
ACTION TO TAKE
Ensure all attributes in a group have valid values and
resubmit your feed.
You can prevent common errors by using the “Check My File
Amazon” feature to review and correct your feed before
uploading.

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