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Wholesale Search with Tactical Arbitrage
This post shows you how to set up and run a wholesale search. By the end of this article, you’ll know how to:
customize product search settings
create and edit a list of categories to search
use Rapid Search
use filters to focus on profitable products
track searches
1. Activating Advanced
The Wholesale Search page has two states: Advanced and Basic.
This article shows you how to use the Advanced search page. For information about the Basic tools, see:
To display Advanced on the Wholesale Search page:
Click Wholesale Search on the side menu bar. The Wholesale Search page displays.
In the top left corner, click the toggle towards Advanced. The Advanced tools page displays.
2. Customize product search settings
The next step is to customise search settings at the top of Wholesale Search panel. There are four settings on the top part of the panel:
UPC Sites and Products Only
Also Check UPC Products for Image Matches
Set Cache
Cache Only Search
2.1 UPC Sites and Products Only
Use this switch to change the type of websites and products that appear in the search panel.
Toggle ON to limit your search to websites and products with a UPC (Universal Product Code) that matches items on Amazon. Toggle ON means the search ignores titles and images.
Toggle OFF does not include product titles or images on Amazon. However, you can search titles or images if you click ON the below switch.
What’s the difference?
Toggle ON generates more accurate search results. This is a good thing because you spend less time scanning results with doubtful matches. This is a bad thing because this option generally produces fewer options in the search results.
We suggest new Tactical Arbitrage users toggle ON while learning how to manage search results. Advanced users should toggle OFF to maximize results.
2.2 Also Check UPC Products for Image Matches
Toggle ON this switch if you want the search tool to check image and title matches at Amazon for products where Amazon has a matching image but is missing a matching UPC codes.
Toggling ON is good because this tool can discover hard-to-find items. It’s bad because Toggling ON can double the search time.
Note: This switch is hidden when you toggle ON UPC Sites and Products Only.
2.3 Set Cache
Before making a selection here, you need to understand the difference between a live search and a cache search.
A live search scans company websites looking for product information. This search looks at current information. That’s a good thing. The downside is that it takes more time than a cache search.
A cache search checks data in the Tactical Arbitrage cache memory to see if any scan data is available to return a result much more quickly, within the period selected. Every search run by our users is temporarily stored in cache memory.
Searching the cache has good and bad points. The good point is speed. A cache search produces results faster than a live search.
A cache search has three drawbacks.
Product data (e.g. prices, availability, etc.) in the cache might have changed since the data was cached.
The list of products that meet your search filter thresholds might be incomplete.
Product promotions are generally captured during a live search. Relying on cache only searches could you missing special deals.
Suggested use
New Tactical Arbitrage users run cache only searches until they get a feel for the search and analysis process.
Run a cache search with a long cache period (3 to 5 days). This produces a comparatively long list of search results. Later on the View Data panel, click the Update All button to get current information.
2.4 Set Cache
Toggle ON this switch and your search looks only at data in the cache memory, skipping any not in cache, to accelerate the speed of search even further. Be sure to select a period on the Set Cache drop-down menu.
Toggle OFF this switch to run a regular search. That means for any products not found quickly in the cache period set, Tactical Arbitrage will check a slower live data analysis for those products as they are encountered.
3. Sourcing From and Selling At
3.1 Sourcing From
Select a country from which you’ll source products. That means you’re telling the platform the source country of the products or manifest you are looking at checking.
Click the box beside Sourcing From. A drop-down menu displays.
Select a country.
Generally, you’d select your base country, but that’s not required. You’re free to select any country from the drop-down menu. You could, for example, select Germany wenn du deutsch lesen kannst.
3.2 Selling at Amazon
Click here to decide where you’ll sell products. The list of countries in the drop-down menu is the same as above (i.e. Sourcing From).
Generally, you’d select your home base country, but that’s not required. If the Sourcing From and Selling At countries are different, you’ll need to pay attention to currency conversations and other matters later on.
Note: We suggest users specify the same country in the two boxes until they develop an advanced understanding of the platform.
Also remember that you will need to have entered the MWS keys of each region you want to sell at.
4. Sourcing
Now it’s time to begin the fun work. You’re going to input the sources you want to search.
There are six input options available on a drop-down menu:
Import Manifest