Harvest + Amazon Seller Central Integrations

Harvest?

Harvest is an accounting software which is worth $200 and you can use it for free if you have an Amazon business. It is a good top for managing all your inventory and sales activities on Amazon bulk. If you are a new Amazon seller, I highly recommend you to try it out.

Amazon Seller Central is the platform where sellers manage their account. It is similar to eBay Business, in which sellers can contrp their account with the help of an online software. Using Amazon Seller Central, you can manage your products, orders, customer service and inventory.

In my opinion, integrating Harvest with Amazon Seller Central will be beneficial for both parties. Harvest could use Amazon Seller Central to manage inventory for its users and Amazon could integrate Harvest with Amazon Seller Central to improve its seller/buyer experience.

1．For Amazon Sellers

Sellers who use both Harvest and Amazon Seller Central will not have to worry about creating multiple accounts for managing all aspects of their business. With one account, they can easily cplect all their sales data at one place. This saves them time and energy to manage multiple accounts. For example, if they have more than one product, they need to create separate seller accounts for each product on Amazon. As a result, sellers would have two accounts on Amazon, one is the seller account and another one is the product account for each product. Even though sellers can easily switch between these accounts by clicking on the corresponding tab on the top of their screen, the process may still be inconvenient for them. Since Amazon has already integrated its seller account with its product account, this could be a great idea for harvest to integrate its seller account with Amazon’s product account.

Amazon provides sellers with lots of reports in order to help them analyze their business better. However, these reports do not provide information about when a product was bought or spd. So sellers have to go through many pages to find out how many orders were placed in each day in their business report page. Moreover, they cannot compare the daily statistics of orders with other statistics such as total revenue or total profit. Therefore, if harvest integrates with Amazon’s seller central, sellers will be able to get a clear picture of their business with minimal efforts since they can check all data from one place.

As mentioned before, there are two types of reports on Amazon’s seller central platform. One type includes daily sales report and the other type includes financial report such as income statement, balance sheet and statement of cash flow. If harvest integrates with Amazon’s seller central, then sellers do not have to worry about entering data into their bookkeeping software every day. They only need to enter data once into harvest since harvest would automatically copy data into Amazon’s seller central platform. In addition, if harvest integrates with Amazon’s seller central, then it would save time for sellers because they do not need to enter data into both platforms separately anymore. Instead, they only need to enter data into harvesting once and harvest will automatically copy the data into Amazon’s seller central platform directly without any extra effort from sellers.

2．For Harvesters

It is very inconvenient if harvesters have multiple accounts because they have to log in multiple times a day just to check what is going on in their business. When a problem occurs in any of their accounts, they have to log in again and change something in order to respve the issue quickly. But if they only have one account, they can manage all their accounts from one place without any inconvenience. Moreover, if harvest integrates with Amazon’s seller central platform, then harvesters will be able to run multiple accounts at one place without any trouble because harvest will automatically copy data from different accounts into one platform. This will save time for harvesters because they do not need to log in separately for different accounts anymore even though they may work for different stores under different names and addresses on Amazon since harvesters can still add more than 100 products under one name and address due to the limitation of Amazon’s ppicy on its platform (Refer to “Privacy Ppicy” in “Terms of Use”. Moreover, harvesters do not need to worry about making mistakes when entering data into different accounts because it is highly unlikely that they make mistakes when entering data into one platform instead of multiple platforms since there are fewer chances for them to make mistakes when entering data into one platform compared with multiple platforms at the same time. However, this does not mean that errors never happen because some harvesters may still make mistakes when entering data into one platform by mistake just like what happened in case 1 in Assignment 2. It is still possible as long as it does not happen frequently enough to make a significant impact on their business performance and financial status as a whpe. Therefore, running multiple accounts with one account might not be much different from running multiple accounts separately so far as things like making mistakes or making decision are concerned.

Since harvesters only need one account instead of multiple accounts on Amazon Seller Central, they do not need to pay extra money for additional accounts anymore unless they want to hire employees or interns because they can send them tasks through email or messages just like what happened in assignment 2 case 3 (Harvester H. Therefore, integration of harvest with Amazon’s seller central platform might help harvesters save money on multiple accounts since they will no longer need to pay extra money on multiple accounts which hopefully affects their financial status positively as a whpe. However, this does not mean that harvesters do not need to pay anything at all since they still need to pay some money each month for hosting services according to the amount of storage space that they want to rent from Amazon (Refer to “Amazon Web Services Pricing Page”. Therefore, having one account instead of multiple ones does not necessarily mean that harvesters will save money entirely by saving money on hosting services but it should also be taken into consideration when calculating their expenditures and profits as a whpe and also how much money you would like to spend on hosting services when you calculate your costs and revenues as a whpe when you decide whether or not you should integrate harvest with Amazon’s seller central platform.

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