Release Notes
December 2024
New Features
- Improved the catalog upload feature to better handle different CSV formats and file types.
- Resolved an issue where extra empty rows created by Excel caused upload errors.
- Added status updates for uploaded files, allowing you to see whether a file is ingesting, published, or encountering issues.
- We've introduced new user roles to provide clearer control over access and responsibilities within the platform. The roles are defined as follows:
- Admin: Full Access
- Billing Admin: Make payments and manage payment documents.
- Data Admin: Create and update Amazon API authorizations, and add or remove data products from your subscription.
- Data Buyer: Add or remove data products from your subscription.
- Reader: View-only access to dashboards and data connections.
- Dashboards: Manage user access to specific dashboards.
Note: If you believe your permissions are incorrect, please contact your account admin for assistance.
Analytics
- New Vendor Profit Toolkit features, including unit economics, and product-level profitability including sell-in and sell-out, and all common P&L leaks e.g. shortages and reversals.
November 2024
General Improvements
- Made firewall updates improving security for Reason Automation Services.
Schema Updates
- Added new columns for all Sponsored Display reports: promoted_asin, promoted_sku, asin_brand_halo, and campaign_budget_currency_code columns.
Amazon Bug Fixes
- Addressed an Amazon bug affecting Japan and Germany marketplaces, that caused incorrect column names for Seller Sales & Traffic by SKU and Sales & Traffic by Child ASIN Reports.
- Addressed an Amazon bug that was creating duplication in the Transactions Standard Orders Report and the Seller Profit Toolkit.
October 2024
New Features
- Launched improvements to app.reasonautomation.com to provide more control over user management, billing, and dashboards, making it easier to manage your account. See more about these features and how use them here.
Amazon Bug Fixes
- Addressed an Amazon bug that impacted updates to Brand Store Advertising Reports.
- Addressed an Amazon bug that caused latency issues with Vendor invoice details report
- Fixed field names after Addressing an Amazon bug that caused ingestion issues for Seller Sales and Traffic by SKU report in the JP marketplace
- Addressed an Amazon bug that caused ingestion issues with the Seller settlement report.
- Addressed an Amazon bug that caused duplication issues from Amazon’s feed for Subscribe and Save reports
- Addressed an Amazon bug that affected EU, DE, UK marketplace column names for the Seller Sales & Traffic report
- Addressed an Amazon bug that affected updates to Ads DSP creatives report
September 2024
New Features
- Launched new billing management capabilities in app.reasonautomation.com
- New Reports: Amazon Warehouse Distribution (AWD) Reports that can be added to your data pipeline:
Amazon Bug Fixes
- Addressed an Amazon bug that caused an incorrect date parsing issue from Amazon for Seller Subscribe and Save report.
- Addressed an Amazon bug that caused duplicate headers to appear in the Invoices details report.
Analytics
- Version 3.0 of the Vendor Profit Toolkit (VPT) is now available for the UK as of 9.27.24
August 2024
General Improvements
- Improved backfill efficiency for Vendor Invoice details report.
- Improved backfill service time, and visibility by changing the server with which we used to process backfill requests.
- Fixed bug at app.reasonautomation.com for managing API connections.
- Our table log now captures columns that are new or changed by Amazon. We’re now able to prevent these from affecting your data quality
Amazon Bug Fixes
- Addressed an Amazon bug that changed the unique id structure used to label data updates, causing inaccuracies in customer data.
July 2024
General Improvements
- Improved the accuracy of customer data by updating our auditing process.
Amazon Bug Fixes
- Vendor Central Payment report updates are no longer blocked by a previous Amazon Update that was impacting data .