Classify your products with Product Classifier

Amazon uses values provided by sellers to determine where listings appear in the Amazon catalog. If this information is missing or incorrect, customers will have a difficult time finding, comparing, and purchasing your products.

Use the Product Classifier tool to do the following:

1. Select your products' classifications, and download the file containing the values required to classify your listings.
2. Populate your inventory file template or XML feed with the values from the Product Classifier file and with other offer data.

Select your products' classifications

Go to the Product Classifier tool and use either the Browse or Search method to identify the appropriate classifications for your products.

Browse

1. Select the store in which your product belongs.
2. Continue to narrow the classification options until the Select button appears.
3. Click Select to add the classification to your list.
4. Repeat the process to classify all of your products.
5. Click Download List, and save the file.

Search

1. Type a keyword into the Search box.
2. Click the "+" (plus) sign to the left of the category name to select classifications for your products.
3. Repeat the process to classify all of your products.
4. Click Download List, and save the file.

Populate the classification and refinement fields

To add your selected classifications and refinements to your inventory file template files:

1. Open the customized inventory file template, go to the Template tab, and scroll to the Recommended Browse Node column.
2. In the drop-down menu in the Recommended Browse Node column, select the Browse Node ID for one of the products you are listing. You can download a file with all the Browse Node IDs by clicking here.
3. Fill in other data in a row where you selected Browse Node ID.
4. Repeat this process for all of the products you are listing.