Catalog Manager: Frequently Asked Questions

To determine the publishing status of your title(s), go to the Avails tab. Within this tab, refer to these three columns:

• Publish Ready Status
• Publishing Requirements
• Amazon Internal Reviews

A comprehensive status that tells you whether your title has been published. This column shows one of the following values:

• Ready: Indicates that all of your required delivery obligations have been fulfilled AND Amazon has completed its required internal processes. This value is accompanied by a green check mark icon, or a yellow exclamation point icon if the Amazon internal review is not yet complete.
• Not Ready: Indicates that at least one of your required delivery obligations have not yet been fulfilled AND/OR Amazon has not yet completed its required internal processes. This value is accompanied by a red exclamation mark icon.

A granular status that tells you the number of publishing requirements you’ve completed out of the total number of publishing requirements. This column’s values are represented as a ratio.

Click the icon next to the status to open a Publishing Requirements popover with a detailed breakdown of those requirements and view which ones still need approval if the Publish Ready Status is set to Not Ready.

At the bottom of the Publishing Requirements popover is a View Details button. In this view you can find more actionable details on what failed for each requirement.

A granular status that tells you whether Amazon has completed its required internal processes for a given title. This column will read one of the following two values:

• Complete: Indicates that Amazon has completed its required internal processes. This value is accompanied by a green check mark.
• Incomplete: Indicates that Amazon has not yet completed its required internal processes. This value is accompanied by a red exclamation mark.

Within the Avails tab, you can set advanced search filters to find the avails that are launching in a given time, and set a filter for a specific publishing requirement.

1. Click the filters icon next to the simple search bar to open a dialog box with the filter configuration options. In the first dropdown, choose Publishing Requirement.

   

2. Next, add a filter for the date and time range you want, and click Apply.
   

   

In the Titles tab is a Title Submission State column. This refers to a title’s current status within the browser-based title creation flow. Possible values are Draft, Ready, In review, and Error. This column does not include offer publishing or delivery-level statutes, or titles submitted through bulk delivery.

If there is an error, the Title Submission State column will show the value Error, as in the following screenshot.

This column is hyperlinked. Click the status to go to the Title Hub, where you can view detailed information about the title’s basic info and avails.

For any title that was added via Bulk Upload, this column shows a View Status link instead. Click it to open a filtered view for this title in the Avails tab. You can view errors there.

You can search by Season or Series in one of two ways:

• Option 1: Type in the simple search bar to search by series name or season name.
• Option 2: Perform an advanced search. Click the filters icon next to the simple search bar, and set the filter criteria to Season Name or Series Name.

To add a title from Catalog Manager, click the Add title button in the top action bar. This takes you to the Title Hub. There you can enter the add title workflow and upload via the form submission, or access the Bulk Upload options.

Business aliases are the unique vendor ID that defines which business your account has access to. Some partners may have more than one business alias.

To filter for titles unique to a business alias, click the filters icon to open the Advanced Filter dialog box. Select Business Alias in the search criteria, and then select one or more business aliases, if applicable.