How to Use AMZ Analyzer for Amazon Wholesale (Full Walkthrough)

AMZ Analyzer's whole job is turning a distributor's price list into a filtered, ranked shortlist without you checking a single product by hand. Here is the actual bulk-upload workflow, and how to read the results table without getting lost in it.

Most beginners find AMZ Analyzer after they've already burned a weekend checking products one at a time on Amazon and Keepa. That's the problem it solves. You upload the whole price list, it matches every UPC to an Amazon listing, and it hands you back BSR, Buy Box price, seller count, and ROI for all of them at once.

AMZ Analyzer (code Jakub26 for 25% off) is built around this bulk workflow specifically. You can check a single ASIN too, but the reason people use it for wholesale is the price list upload, not the one-off lookup.

Uploading a price list

This is the core workflow. Everything else in this post is about reading and filtering what comes back from this step.

01
Pull UPC and cost into a clean file
Take the distributor's price list and get it down to two columns that matter: UPC and your cost per unit. Strip out anything else before you upload.
02
Upload the file to AMZ Analyzer
It matches each UPC to an Amazon listing automatically. Anything it can't match (no Amazon listing exists, or the UPC is wrong) gets flagged rather than silently dropped.
03
Confirm your cost column mapped correctly
Before you run the calculation, double check the cost per unit pulled in matches your file. A misaligned column here throws off every ROI number that follows.
04
Let it calculate fees for the whole list
Referral fee, FBA fulfillment fee, and ROI get calculated per row using the current Buy Box price and your cost, all in one pass across the whole file.
05
Sort by net profit, not gross margin
The results table has a column for the price-list comparison and a column for what's left after fees. Sort by the after-fees number, always.

Reading the results table

Once a list finishes processing, you get a row per product with several columns pulled in automatically. Here's what a single row is actually telling you:

Column What it means Example
Buy Box price Current selling price on Amazon $18.50
Your cost Pulled from your uploaded file −$7.20
Referral fee Category-based, calculated automatically −$2.78
FBA fee Based on size and weight tier −$4.35
Net profit What's left after fees, before your own shipping/prep $4.17

Two columns matter most for a first-pass filter: seller count and BSR. A high seller count means you'll be splitting the Buy Box, which drags down realistic per-unit profit even if the math looks fine on paper. A BSR with no rank at all, or one that looks unusually good for the category, is worth a manual Keepa check before you trust it.

Net profit here does not include your prep and inbound shipping. AMZ Analyzer's fee calculation covers Amazon's cut, not what it costs you to get the product prepped and shipped to a fulfillment center. Subtract that separately, or the whole shortlist will look more profitable than it actually is. This is covered in more detail in real Amazon wholesale profit margins.

Filtering hundreds of rows down to a real shortlist

A full price list can return anywhere from dozens to thousands of matched rows. Scrolling through all of them defeats the point. Filter before you start reviewing:

Worth a closer look

  • Net profit and ROI clear your minimum after fees
  • Seller count is low enough to hold a real Buy Box share
  • BSR is present and consistent with a category that actually sells
  • Not hazmat, and size/weight fits standard FBA

Filter these out first

  • No BSR at all, or BSR that looks suspiciously good
  • High seller count on a thin-margin product
  • ROI below your floor even before prep and shipping
  • Oversized or hazmat unless you specifically source those

What survives that filter is your real shortlist, usually a small fraction of the original list. That's expected. A distributor's catalog was never built specifically for Amazon resale, so most of it won't clear a real profit once fees are in, the same pattern covered in more depth in the SellerAmp walkthrough.

Watch: uploading and screening a price list in AMZ Analyzer

From shortlist to order

AMZ Analyzer tells you what's mathematically worth ordering today. It doesn't tell you whether that math will still hold up next month. Before committing to an order:

  • Take the shortlist into Keepa and check that BSR and Buy Box price have actually been stable, not just profitable in this exact moment. This post covers exactly what to check.
  • Add your real prep and shipping cost per unit before you finalize the ROI, since AMZ Analyzer's number stops at Amazon's fees.
  • Re-check seller count right before ordering, since a new seller can join a listing between when you screened it and when you actually place the order.
Set your minimum before you start

Decide your ROI floor before you upload the list, not after you've already seen a few good-looking rows. Screening without a number in mind is how a disappointing list talks you into a thinner product than you'd normally accept.

Once you're placing real orders, Sellerboard picks up where AMZ Analyzer leaves off, tracking your actual realized profit after the sale instead of the pre-order estimate. The full end-to-end process, from raw price list to placed order, is also covered in how to analyze a wholesale price list.

Common questions
What is AMZ Analyzer used for in Amazon wholesale?
AMZ Analyzer matches a distributor's price list to Amazon listings in bulk and calculates BSR, Buy Box price, seller count, ROI, and net profit for every product at once. For wholesale it's used to turn a raw price list of hundreds of UPCs into a short list of products actually worth ordering, without checking each one by hand.
How does AMZ Analyzer's bulk upload work?
You upload a file with UPCs (and ideally your cost per unit) from the distributor's price list. AMZ Analyzer matches each UPC to an Amazon listing automatically and returns a results table with BSR, Buy Box price, number of sellers, referral and FBA fees, and the ROI and net profit for each product, all in one pass.
What ROI or profit number should I filter for in AMZ Analyzer?
Sort or filter by net profit and ROI after fees, not gross margin. A common floor is not going below 15-20% ROI, since anything thinner leaves too little room for a price drop or fee increase. Decide your minimum before you run the list, not after you've already seen the results.
Does AMZ Analyzer replace Keepa?
No, they do different jobs. AMZ Analyzer tells you which products in a price list are profitable right now. Keepa shows whether that product's sales rank and Buy Box price have actually been stable over time. Run AMZ Analyzer first to shortlist the whole list, then check that shortlist in Keepa before you order.
Is AMZ Analyzer better than SellerAmp for wholesale?
They calculate the same core numbers and either works well. AMZ Analyzer's bulk upload is built specifically around matching a whole price list file at once, which makes it a fast first pass on a new distributor list. SellerAmp is equally strong for bulk UPC checks and has a browser extension that's convenient for checking single listings while browsing Amazon. Many sellers end up using whichever one they tried first and stick with it.
Jakub Filipcsik
Jakub Filipcsik

9 years selling Amazon wholesale. $1.79M generated for one client in 2024. 60+ people coached. I work with beginners starting from zero and agencies that need better systems. US marketplace only.

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