Where to start on Amazon
The Amazon job we’d start with is the Monday morning one: finding out what broke over the weekend without clicking through eight Seller Central pages to get there. Which listings went inactive, and Amazon’s reason for each. Whether you still hold the featured offer on your best sellers (still the Buy Box to most sellers, whatever Amazon’s help pages call it now). What the three competitors you watch are charging today, and last week’s units and sessions sitting in the sheet where you actually look at numbers.
dassi works inside the Seller Central session you already have open, so nobody has to register as an SP-API developer or authorize a third-party app to get at data that was on your screen all along.
One Monday check, step by step
Taught once, then scheduled for 8am:
- Open Manage All Inventory, filter to inactive, and copy each SKU, ASIN and stated reason into the “Listing health” tab.
- Look at Account Health and note anything that changed since last week.
- For the 12 SKUs marked “watch”, open each product page and record who holds the featured offer, your price and the lowest other offer.
- Pull last week’s units, sessions and conversion for those 12 from Business Reports.
- Write a few lines at the top of the sheet about what moved, with proposed fixes marked as proposals.
Nothing in that run touches your account. The fixes it proposes (a missing attribute, a replacement image, a price that slipped under your floor) wait for your approval one by one, and if your listing data lives in a catalog sheet, that’s where dassi takes them from.
Where dassi stops on Amazon
Reviews are the clearest line. Amazon treats review manipulation as a serious violation, and dassi doesn’t write, buy or swap reviews, doesn’t offer anything for one, and doesn’t ask a buyer to change or remove what they wrote. Choosing who gets asked based on how their order went is out as well. The one review action inside Amazon’s rules is the Request a Review button on the order page, which sends Amazon’s own standard wording, and dassi can press it for eligible orders once you’ve approved the list. Drafting public review replies is something we do on Etsy or a Google Business Profile. On Amazon we leave reviews alone.
Buyer messages go out only after you’ve read them, and the drafts follow Amazon’s communication guidelines, which means no marketing and no outside links.
It doesn’t crawl Amazon either. The Conditions of Use prohibit robots and data-gathering tools on the retail site, so competitor checks should stay a short watch list you’d otherwise open by hand, run at a person’s pace. Whether a teammate working inside your own session at that pace looks like a “robot” to Amazon is a question we can’t answer on Amazon’s behalf. If a particular step makes you uneasy, leave it out of the workflow.
Sign-in and what the model sees
Seller Central insists on two-step verification. When your session has expired, dassi signs in with what the password manager fills in, then waits while you enter the code. Scheduled runs need the browser open. The pages dassi reads, sales figures and buyer names included, go to the AI model you picked (through dassi’s relay if you’re on included credits), so pick a provider you’re comfortable with or run a local model.
If you ship through a 3PL, a decent second workflow is copying shipment details into its web portal once the Monday check runs on its own. Plenty of sellers run two or three channels at once, and one sheet can sit behind all of them.