- In order to Manage your Inactive Inventory, which could be due to any number of reasons such as being out of stock, having a pricing issue, et cetera, you would need to go to your “Manage Inventory” page by selecting “Manage Inventory” from the Drop Down Menu of the “Inventory” tab on the top menu of Seller Central.
- At the top of the next page, click on the link that reads “Inactive”.
- On this page, you will be provided with a table that shows you all your inactive SKUs and reasons therefore.
- You can choose to filter this table by reason, making it easier to do a bulk fix of product by selecting all items with the same reason and clicking the “Action” button at the top left of the table.
- Or you can filter by Fulfillment to manage those items being filled by yourself or by Amazon. Alongside each line item will be the following fields:
- The Inactive Reason;
- The Issue Description; and
- Fix Issues.
6. You can then go item by item if you choose and click on the “Fix Issue” button to the right of each line to amend the inactive item and reactivate it.
7. Your stock could be rendered inactive due to the following reasons:
- Out of stock, which means that you have no stock of the item and in order to reactivate the SKU you need to simply restock it;
- Start Date in Future, which means that your product is not going live on the Amazon Marketplace until a future date so it would become active on that date, unless you wish to fix it by amending the start date to a sooner date;
- Pricing Issue, which means that your item is priced below the minimum price you have stipulated or similar in which case you would need to amend your pricing to a more relevant figure to reactive the SKU;
- Paused, which could be due to an internal reason from Amazon or yourself for any number of reasons, in which case you would need to amend the reason you paused the SKU in the first place or request Amazon to unpause the SKU and reactivate it;
- Blocked, which could be due to any number of reasons from Amazon and they will inform you how to unblock the SKU when you click on the “Fix Issue” button to the right of it;
- Closed, which could be because you no longer sell this item;
- Approval Required, which is due to brand approval or category approval and you would work with Amazon through the “Fix Issue” button on this to gain approval;
- Blocked unless FBA, which means that this item is blocked due to some Merchant-Fulfilled issue; and
- Other Issues, which again will have explanations in the “Fix Issue” button to the right of the SKU.