New Look And Feel
We’ve updated the Zonmaster website! When you log in you’ll see that we’ve made some visual changes. All of this sits on top of some big internal changes. But most if not all the features you used should still be where they were, and working pretty much the same. Please let us know if you…
Coming Soon – Auto Review Requests – Beta Testers Needed
We are close to releasing an exciting new feature Automatic Review Requests What is it? Well, you know Amazon has rolled out this new little button called ‘Request a Review’. It looks like this: This is Amazon’s new way that they want you to use to request a review from your customers. You shouldn’t…
Update Your Templates: Remove Buyer Name shortcodes
In the wake of yesterday’s news, we are STRONGLY recommending (i.e please do it!) you remove any buyer name related shortcodes/variables from your email templates. These are: %%buyer_name%% %%buyer_first_name%% %%buyer_last_name%% For orders placed after September 4th or so, that data will not be available. Also, to those of you who just signed up to ZonMaster,…
Amazon REMOVES Buyer Name and Address From Data
Some of you may have noticed that Buyer Name (and exact shipping address) are no longer available for your orders. The reason for this change is because Amazon published a new Data Protection Policy earlier this year. This policy announced that Amazon will no longer provide Amazon seller software companies (such as ZonMaster) with identifiable…
Landing Pages will be landing soon!
It’s been a long time in development, but we’re finally almost ready to take the wrapping off our Landing Pages service – and we’re looking for people to give it a try and give us their advice on how it works. If you’re interested please use the Contact Us form to request access to the…
Amazon Changes Third-Party Seller Pricing Policy
An article in “The Street” reports that at long last Amazon has changed one of it’s more painful pricing policies – that third-party sellers have to have their lowest price available on Amazon. The clauses prevented sellers who listed on Amazon’s marketplace from listing their products more cheaply on other websites. See the full article here…
Selling Beauty Products on Amazon? It’s the place to be!
A recent survey puts Amazon as the place that over 70% of respondents go to to buy beauty products. Especially interesting is the statistics that 65% use Amaon’s search to find the products. Read the full article over on RetailDive.com. https://www.retaildive.com/news/amazon-is-the-top-destination-for-buying-beauty/549830/
Amazon ramping up “samples” program?
Amazon has allowed some companies to send out samples to buyers that Amazon determines might be interested in their products. It looks like maybe Amazon is stepping up those relationships, if this NBC News article is anything to go on. BSN North America, makers of protein bars and such, sent out 100,000 samples just last…
Amazon pulls the plug on thousands of vendors
Digiday.com, out of the UK, are reporting that Amazon is changing the way they purchase stock. Looks like Amazon is exerting more control over how companies sell on their platform. It does seem targeted at certain brands for now, but who know what the future will bring! You can read the whole article here…
Temporary Suspension of Review Matching
Amazon has taken more advanced measures to prevent services like Zonmaster from matching reviews to orders. We are working on a fix for this but temporary we are suspending the matching of reviews to orders. We apologize for the inconvenience.