I sell on the Amazon Europe marketplaces using the Arbitrage/Wholesale model. To prepare for the upcoming GPSR (General Product Safety Regulation) rules, we have taken the necessary steps and partnered with a legal European Authorized Representative (Responsible Person). We have all their contact and address details ready to go.
However, with an inventory of over 10,000 ASINs, we are facing a massive operational bottleneck. My questions are for experienced sellers who have already navigated this process:
1. The Bulk Upload (Flat File) Issue: As you can imagine, manually entering the legal representative details for tens of thousands of products via Seller Central is physically impossible. When we try to update these details using Flat File (Bulk Upload) templates, we keep getting format and matching errors. Has anyone successfully bulk-uploaded GPSR representative details for thousands of ASINs via template in one go? What exact method or specific template did you use?
2. The “Manufacturer Address” Dilemma (My main concern): Because we do Arbitrage and Wholesale, our inventory consists of hundreds of different brands. In Amazon’s GPSR information entry section (or the Excel template), are we absolutely REQUIRED to enter the actual, legal address of the original brand/manufacturer for each specific ASIN in the “Manufacturer” field?
If we have to manually search the internet for the original manufacturer’s address for every single product and brand, it means months of data entry for 10,000+ items. How are other arbitrage sellers with massive ASIN counts overcoming this? Is there a way to bypass this by entering a single legal entity in the manufacturer section, or is there a systemic shortcut you are using?
Sharing your experiences and the path you took would shed a lot of light for me and many other sellers facing this exact same roadblock.
Thank you in advance for your valuable insights. Wishing you all great sales!
I am doing just that. Turn on some Netflix series on my other iPad and then go through the compliance requests, uploading them and filing them one by one. It works.
I also have thousands of products in my inventory and this is how I am doing it.
If you enter the details once, you should have them saved and available for choosing next time.
Thank you for sharing your experience! I genuinely admire your patience with the Netflix method. And you are absolutely right, having the manufacturer saved in the dropdown menu definitely speeds things up a bit.
However, we are literally staring at over 10,000+ ASINs in our compliance dashboard. Even if it takes just 30 seconds per ASIN using the saved dropdown, that is over 80 hours of non-stop, repetitive manual clicking. It’s simply not feasible for an operation of our scale.
Is there truly no working Flat File (bulk upload) workaround for this? We keep getting Error 100632 or 5995 when we try the official templates. Alternatively, do you (or anyone else reading) know of any paid third-party tools, SP-API integrations, or compliance services that can automate this specific data entry?We are more than willing to pay for a working software/solution rather than completely halting our business to spend weeks clicking manually.
Hi @Kika and @Kru_Ko thank you both for your input.
@Kru_Ko , I checked out those videos, but the Excel templates they show are overly complicated and they continuously throw errors (specifically Error 5995 and 8541) the moment a non-brand owner tries to submit them. It really shouldn’t be this difficult just to provide basic safety compliance data.
Let’s not kid ourselves here—doing this manually for tens of thousands of ASINs is physically and mathematically impossible. Nobody with 50,000 or 100,000 listings is sitting at a desk manually clicking drop-down menus for 6 months straight. There has to be a bulk workaround.
I actually managed to reach out to a massive seller who uploads tens of thousands of products. They explicitly admitted that there is a “tactical workaround” for this, but they told me they are keeping it strictly secret. Who could possibly know this? Is there really no one you know, or any advanced seller community that might have the answer to this?
I am making a genuine call for help to anyone in this community. There must be a specific flat-file trick, a third-party software, or a bypass for that 5995 error when uploading in bulk.
If anyone has cracked this, please share. We are desperate for a real, scalable solution.
And you are absolutely right, having the manufacturer saved in the dropdown menu definitely speeds things up a bit.