Ungating grocery category
hello everyone!
So I have just started my Amazon journey and have a question, on something that doesn’t make sense to me.
I got permission to sell alcohol and have listed our first item, no problem. In fact, we sold our first item just today, woop woop…
Anyway, today, when I’m trying to list the rest of our stock, I’m met with a barrier. We need extra permission to sell in the grocery category? I didn’t CHOOSE the category, it’s just automatically put my product there when I searched the Amazon catalogue. So how is it that my first product uploaded perfectly fine, but my second, did not? Am I doing something wrong? FYI: all we sell is wine, so all the products are the same, except the brand and variety. And I appreciate that some require brand authorisation, so I’m not talking about that, I’m just talking about category authorisation.
I want to comply with the documentation requirements, to get over this hurdle, and we can do this with supplier invoices, but I noticed that we need to prove that we have 10 units of each listing do gain approval… however, as we’re a small wine shop, with sometimes very specialised wines, it’s quite rare that we’d order 10 bottles of the same wine. Is this a legitimate concern?
Thanks for listening.
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Ah you've found the next Amazon hurdle :)
You will need to get ungated in the Grocery & Gourmet Foods category, an invoice from any of the big importers showing a dozen bottles or more should do it. Not sure how you first product got accepted, it should have been gated by Grocery & Gourmet Foods category and by gl_wines category so check the listing carefully.
Ongoing Amazon do sometimes ask for invoices, they get read by AI rather than humans so may not be accepted if less than 10 items (which would probably be 12 for wine, 10 is just some arbitory figure Amazon uses) at which point you could potentially face deactivation while it gets resolved one way or another so I'd be tempted to just list those you have bought 12 or more of at least while you build up some sales history.
