Before Amplifier can receive or ship your product, you need to tell us what products you'll be storing at and shipping from Amplifier. You do this by Adding Items.
General Tips
Set up your SKUs first in your ecommerce platform, such as Shopify, before adding to My.Ampifier. This will ensure data flows effectively through system integrations and that inventory syncs properly recognize the items.
Everything that comes to Amplifier needs a SKU, including packaging. If you're providing your own branded boxes or have a sticker you drop into every order, for example, those items need a SKU.
Every SKU needs a Description, Cost, and Retail Price. Failure to add these will result in failure for the SKU to be added.
Check to make sure your supplier is set up under Supplies > Suppliers before trying to set up a new item.
You can also watch a video of adding a new item here.
Adding Items One At A Time
If you only plan on selling a few products, this is the easiest way.
1. Click the gold "+ Item" located in top right corner and choose Create Item
Then fill out the required fields.
When Adding Items, you must provide accurate information. Giving Amplifier bad data can result in expensive consequences – a typo on the SKU Field could result in the wrong item shipping out! Once you finish Adding your ITEM, Amplifier will let you review it before saving it.
A note on adding the Supplier the very first time: After adding the Supplier here, you'll need to go back as a second step to select (highlight) it at the Item level. If you forget to do this, it will result in not being able to create an ASN for the Item from that Supplier.
After adding a new Item, you can then configure it by clicking into it. Some common configurations are:
UPC / XREF: add the Item's UPC or alternative reference number
HTS Code: a required field for international shipping
COO: Country of Origin is critical for any international shipping. With the current state of international trade and tariffs, failure to accurately state this could result in your customers being charged extremely high duties and taxes.
Discontinued: indicates an item will no longer be restocked
Fragile: tells Amplifier to add additional protective packaging to ensure it arrives to customer undamaged
Ship Separately: tells Amplifier that this item is always to ship by itself, even if there are other items in the order, which is a common setting used for very large items that ship in their own boxes
Click Save and then Congratulations, your ITEM is live!
Adding Items All At Once
For those with large product catalogs, Amplifier recommends Import Items. Use the csv Template file to format your data.
Each row in the file will represent a SKU (item). Note that when selling variants, each needs its own SKU. For example, when selling a branded t-shirt, there will be a SKU for each color/size style combination. Here is an example for a shirt in color Orange, 6 different sizes.
Before importing your file, make sure you've already added your suppliers. Our Import Status page will show you how many ITEMS were successfully imported.
As a general statement, if you're not successful getting your items loaded after a few tries, reach out to us for support!