Overview
As an Amazon Seller, the last thing you want is having your account suspended or even banned. Your valuable business coming to a screeching halt and your income depleting to a stand-still is every Seller’s worst nightmare! Yet we see it happening all too often to the best of us.
A suspension or a ban doesn’t happen out of the blue. There are always underlying and crucial reasons behind it. Some serious mistakes can breakdown a successful business.
So what’s the solution? Prevention is better than cure!
The Requirement
The need for effective functional, growth and development solutions in online business and eCommerce through a refined, revolutionary and winning approach is utmost crucial. Understanding, applying and maintaining this dynamic, whilst obtaining consistent success with valuable resources, tools, knowledge, and a results-driven approach is what is truly necessary.
Here are some fundamentally common reasonswhy even the best, most profitable and highly reputed of accounts on Amazon can get suspended or banned when one least expects it:
- Poor product quality
- Selling products that are restricted or prohibited by Amazon
- Opening a new account when the old account was suspended
- Shipping related issues
- Creating more than one Seller account to sell the same products
- Poor performance metrics
- Negative customer reviews or soliciting for good reviews
- Illegal or banned substances
- Not meeting the product listing guidelines or uploading inaccurate listing
- Dangerous goods
- Intoxicants or narcotics of any kind
- Copyright infringement
- Poor customer service
- Canceling orders
Now, given the above critical areas that can cause account suspension or ban, it is important to maintain healthy account metrics. It all boils down to that! How do you accomplish this? We discuss below.
Healthy Account Metrics
So how does one determine a healthy, strong, viable and effective set of metrics that adhere and align with Amazon’s TOS (Terms of Service) policies, without infringing the rules, guidelines, and protocols outlined for Sellers?
Amazon considers the following stipulated metrics and parameters that regulate and robustly determine a Seller’s account legitimacy and its health:
- Order defect rates
- Valid track rates
- Cancellation rates
- Buyer message-response time
According to Amazon, all sellers should be working towards achieving and maintaining a level of customer service that meets the performance targets. Failure to meet these targets does not necessarily put your seller account in negative standing, but failure to improve may negatively affect your account.
- Order defect rate: < 1%
- Pre-fulfilment cancel rate: < 2.5%
- Late shipment rate: < 4%
These are baseline goals. Sellers with exemplary performance have the opportunity to distinguish themselves to buyers through the feedback rating that appears next to each of their listings.
Most sellers are exceeding these targets, so the better your performance, the better your chance of building a stronger, more competitive business. Amazon state you should monitor your customer metrics closely on a regular basis. This is because the report informs you of the following:
- Your Customer Metrics indicate how you are doing with respect to customer satisfaction. Monitor your metrics frequently so you can spot and resolve operational problems promptly. Excessive order defect rates (negative feedback, A-to-Z Guarantee claims, and chargeback) can cause account suspensions and even account closures.
- Check your feedback and A-to-Z Guarantee claim pages daily, and proactively resolve any issues.
Getting Help
In business and eCommerce in general, time is money. What you save on time, you directly save and increase in money. Thus, Urtasker.com has accomplished this by providing businesses with highly trained and skilled E-commerce specialists that handle the daily tasks, processes and crucial functions of various aspects of the business - virtually and in real-time from anywhere in the world!
This has helped business owners gain more time to work on growing their businesses, whilst seeing increased productivity, decreased downtime, lowered costs and unparalleled profit generation.
As a truly unique, professional and globally relevant eCommerce end-to-end business solutions provider, Urtasker.com takes immense pride in our passion for helping its clients reach their goals.
It doesn’t require heavy upfront fees or long-term contracts/commitments. Its rates are very affordable, and its clients are rapidly growing small-medium sized businesses at a dramatic rate.
Urtasker’s elite team of eCommerce and Amazon Specialist and Experts will help Sellers with:
- Free account audit
- Provide a plan of action
- Trained team is aware of all prohibited activities
- Manage and monitor performance metrics
- Follow-ups and consistent optimization
- Customer service
In Conclusion, one of the biggest trending Amazon seller concerns is Seller Account Suspension or Ban scenarios. It is no doubt the most dreaded issue for Amazon sellers.
The first approach should take to protect the Amazon seller account from hackers is to prevent suspensions and bans altogether. Most sellers get in trouble because they don’t stay on top of their customer metrics.
The consequence often is that you lose the Buy Box share for some or all products, losing your account altogether to suspension or worse such as a ban! It’s always advisable to save time, money and hassle by enlisting the help of a professional E-commerce specialist agency that knows exactly what areas your business could use help in.
Published by Omer Riaz at Urtasker Urtasker