Amazon Growth Opportunities is a free Seller Central dashboard that ranks product-level recommendations — run an ad, add A+ Content, enroll in Vine, fix a listing, cut a cost — by their estimated impact on your sales. You open it from Growth → Growth Opportunities in the Seller Central main menu, and it sorts every recommendation into four types: Sell New Products, Improve Sales, Reduce Cost, and Drive Traffic (Amazon’s tool page, checked 2026-10-04). The tool is free to use, but many of the actions it recommends — advertising, Vine, some fulfillment programs — cost money. ...

Amazon Automate Pricing is the free repricing tool built into Seller Central: you pick a rule, set a minimum price (and optionally a maximum), and Amazon changes your price for you within those limits. It is free with the Professional selling plan, it offers three rule types (competitive, sales-based, and business price), and Amazon says price updates on existing rules are “usually processed in less than 15 minutes” (sell.amazon.com, data checked 2026-10-04). What it cannot do is win the Featured Offer on price alone, because Amazon also weighs inventory, fulfillment, and customer service. ...

To sell on Amazon Japan from the US, you open a Japan account through Amazon’s Sell Globally program — from your existing Amazon.com Professional account, or after creating a North America and Brazil unified account if you are new — then pick FBA in Japanese fulfillment centers or merchant fulfillment, and clear Japan’s product rules before you list. Amazon says a business outside Japan “may not be required to form a Japan-based company” (data checked 2026-10-03). That “may not” is where the real work sits: importing, consumption tax and regulated products each bring their own Japanese requirement. ...

To sell on Amazon India from the US, you add an India account to your Amazon.com Professional account through the Sell Globally dashboard, then choose between FBA and shipping orders yourself (FBM). The catch is FBA: Amazon’s US page says that “To sell in India using FBA, you will first need to connect with a trade compliance consultant using our Service Provider Network” (data checked 2026-10-03). The reason sits on Amazon.in, not on the US page: “The Indian regulations do not permit global entities to engage in direct B2C (business to customer) retail.” ...

A US seller can sell on Amazon Brazil from an existing Amazon.com Professional account, because Amazon’s North America and Brazil unified account already includes Amazon.com.br. What the US account cannot do is use local FBA in Brazil: Amazon states that “selling with FBA in Brazil is only available to Brazil-based accounts,” and storing and selling through FBA in Brazil requires a CNPJ, the Brazilian tax ID (data checked 2026-10-03). For a US business without a Brazilian entity, the realistic routes are Remote Fulfillment with FBA, which ships Amazon.com.br orders from US FBA stock, or shipping orders yourself from the US. This guide covers only what is specific to Brazil, using Amazon’s own pages. ...

Amazon Manage Your Compliance (MYC) is the Seller Central dashboard where Amazon lists the compliance documents it wants for your products and where you submit or appeal them, one at a time or in bulk for up to 5,000 products per spreadsheet. Each product row shows the ASIN, SKU, the requirement, the approval status of what you sent, and an At-risk sales figure you can use to decide what to fix first. Its companion, Compliance Reference, lets you look up a product’s requirements before Amazon asks — which is the cheaper moment to find out. ...

Amazon Build International Listings is the Seller Central tool that copies your offers from one source store, usually Amazon.com, into other Amazon stores and then keeps their prices in step with your US price and the exchange rate. Amazon’s own wording is short: “Use the Build International Listings tool to cross-list your products in global Amazon stores,” and “In many cases, the tool will also automatically translate new listings into the local language” (sell.amazon.com, data checked 2026-10-03). The two weak points sit in those sentences: “in many cases” is not “always,” and a synchronized price is only as good as the rule behind it. This guide covers how the tool works, what its translation and price sync do and do not handle, and the checks to run before you push a catalogue abroad. Everything here comes from Amazon’s public pages; where Amazon publishes nothing, the guide says so. ...

Amazon vacation mode is the Vacation Settings page in Seller Central that switches your listing status to Inactive. Per Amazon’s own help page, it removes your self-fulfilled (FBM) listings from product detail pages and search results within one hour, while Fulfillment by Amazon listings stay active. It does not cancel pending orders, does not pause the 24-hour deadline for return requests and buyer messages, and does not stop the monthly Professional subscription fee (data checked 2026-10-02, Seller Central help G200135620). ...

The Amazon tax interview is a questionnaire every Amazon.com seller must complete, and your answers decide which IRS form Amazon keeps on file: a Form W-9 if you are a U.S. person, a Form W-8BEN if you are a non-U.S. individual, or a Form W-8BEN-E if you are a non-U.S. entity. Amazon says most e-signed submissions validate within 3-5 business days but the full process can take up to eight weeks, and a W-8 expires on December 31 three years after you provide it (Amazon U.S. tax identity FAQ, data checked 2026-10-02). ...

The Amazon Selling Partner Appstore is Amazon’s in-Seller-Central marketplace of third-party software that connects to your selling account, and it is where you find an app, read its detail page and grant it access to your data. Amazon says it reviews every app at registration and listing and keeps monitoring policy compliance afterwards; it also says it is “not directly involved in the development or sale of third-party apps” (data checked 2026-10-02). So the Appstore filters out apps that break Amazon’s rules. It does not pick the right app for you, set its price or support it, so that work stays with you. ...

Amazon Seller App (2026): What It Can and Cannot Do The Amazon Seller app is Amazon’s free, official mobile app for iPhone and Android, and it only works for people who already have an Amazon selling account. Amazon lists eight jobs it handles — policy and account updates, sales monitoring, finding products, creating and editing listings, inventory and returns, fulfillment, customer messages, and Sponsored Products-style advertising — plus barcode scanning, a Photo Studio, single sign-on across marketplaces, push notifications and Seller Support contact. It is a remote control for Seller Central, not a replacement: anything Amazon’s own app pages do not mention, plan to do on desktop. ...

When an Amazon product recall, stop sale, or safety alert hits one of your ASINs, Amazon suppresses the listing, makes the inventory unsellable, and gives you 30 days to act on the units in its fulfillment centers. Amazon’s seller policy says “Sellers must initiate removal orders within 30 days, either returning inventory or requesting Amazon destroy it at Seller’s cost” (Product safety alerts, recalls, stop sales, and market withdrawal policy for sellers, data checked 2026-10-02). Getting the ASIN back requires zero inventory in Amazon’s network plus a Letter of Compliance from the manufacturer, and Amazon states plainly that “All products may not be eligible for reinstatement.” ...