Your first Amazon India listing, start to finish
Search first, create only if the product is not already there, then fill the form section by section. Here is the whole path, with the places it usually goes wrong.
In Seller Central go to Catalog, then Add Products. Search for the product first: if it already exists, add your offer to that ASIN. If it does not, choose the product type, fill the required fields in each section, give a barcode or GTIN exemption, set price and stock, and save.
- Always search the catalogue before creating anything. If the product already has an ASIN, you add an offer to it, you do not make a new page.
- A new listing starts from the product type. It decides which fields are required and which category, and so which fee, the product sits in.
- Have the barcode (EAN) or an approved GTIN exemption, HSN code, MRP, images, title, bullets and package details ready before you open the form.
- The offer fields are yours alone: seller SKU, your price, MRP, quantity, handling time and fulfilment channel.
- Saving is not the same as live. Check the status in Manage All Inventory and fix anything Inactive or Incomplete.
The Add a Product form looks like one long questionnaire, and most first listings go wrong before a single field is typed: a product created twice, a barcode bought from the wrong place, a brand spelled two ways. Do the preparation, do the search, and the form itself takes far less time than it seems to.
Before you open the form
A barcode. Amazon India expects a GTIN, normally an EAN, for most products. Buy it from GS1 India in your company's name. Barcodes bought cheaply from resellers often carry another company's prefix and fail the check. If your product genuinely has no barcode, apply for a GTIN exemption first, because the form will not accept an empty product ID.
Your brand, approved if needed. Some brands and categories need approval before you can list. Decide the exact spelling of your brand now and use it on the packaging, the trademark, Brand Registry and the listing, identical in all four.
The tax and price facts: HSN code, MRP, your selling price, and the stock you can actually ship. Package dimensions and weight, measured packed. Images on a pure white background at 1,000 pixels or more on the longest side, which also lets buyers zoom. A title, five bullets and a description written before you start, so the form is a paste job rather than a writing session.
Step one: search the catalogue first
Go to Catalog, then Add Products, and search by product name, by EAN or by ASIN. If the identical product already exists, the right action is to sell it on that ASIN. Choose it, pick the condition, and you go straight to the offer fields.
Creating a fresh ASIN for a product that already has one is a duplicate listing. It is the most common way a new seller makes trouble for themselves on the first day. Search by the EAN as well as the name, because names vary and barcodes do not.
If what you find is your own brand's product created by someone else, do not create a second page. Take that ASIN back through Brand Registry instead.
Step two: choose the product type
When nothing matches, choose the option to add a product not sold on Amazon. You are asked for a product type. Search for it with plain words, and read the full category path before you choose.
The product type decides which attributes are required, which browse category the product shows in, and which referral fee category it falls into. A wrong choice is not cosmetic. It can hide the product from the buyers browsing for it and charge you a different fee.
Step three: the form, section by section
Product identity: the product ID and its type (EAN), the title, the brand name, the manufacturer, and a few type-specific basics. If you have an exemption, the product ID field is where it comes into play. The brand here must match your approved or registered brand exactly.
Product details and variations: the attributes for that type, such as material, colour, size and model number. If the product comes in sizes or colours, you set the variation theme here, so build the family deliberately rather than as separate listings.
Offer: the commercial terms, covered in the next section. Images: the main image first, then the rest in the order a buyer should see them. Description and keywords: bullets, description, and the backend search terms. Safety and compliance: country of origin and the manufacturer and packer details the type asks for.
Required fields carry a marker, and an advanced view shows every optional attribute. Fill the optional ones that a buyer would filter on, because a missing size or colour attribute can keep a product out of the filtered results even when the title says it.
Step four: the offer fields
Seller SKU is your own code for the item. Pick a scheme you can live with, because changing a SKU later effectively means a new offer. Something like brand, product, colour and size in short form works.
Your price is the selling price. MRP is the printed maximum retail price, and your price cannot sit above it. Quantity is the stock you can dispatch, not stock you expect. Handling time is the number of days you need to dispatch, and it feeds the delivery promise the buyer sees.
Fulfilment channel is where the stock ships from: you shipping yourself, Easy Ship, where Amazon's courier collects from you, or FBA, where you send stock to an Amazon warehouse first. A first listing on Easy Ship keeps the stock with you while you learn.
Step five: save, then check it is really live
Save and finish. The listing goes into Manage All Inventory with a status. Active means it can sell. Inactive comes with a reason, often a pricing alert or missing information. Incomplete means a required field is still missing.
A new listing can take a while to appear in search even when it is Active. Search the ASIN directly before searching keywords, and give it time before deciding something is wrong.
Where first listings go wrong
The brand name does not match Amazon's records, which returns error 5665. The product ID matches an existing ASIN with different attributes, which returns error 8541. The brand or category needs approval you do not have yet, which returns error 5461. The price is outside a range Amazon considers fair, which marks the offer Inactive with a pricing error. The main image breaks the white background rule and the listing is suppressed.
Each of these has a guide below. Read the processing message word for word before changing anything, because the fix for each one is different and changing the wrong field adds a second problem.
What a finished listing carries
Identity, offer, images and copy, each checked before the page goes live.
When to stop using the form
The single form is the right tool for the first few products. Once you have a range of sizes and colours, or more than a handful of SKUs, a category spreadsheet is faster and makes mistakes easier to see, because every row is side by side. The bulk listing guide covers that route.
The part of this Robnu does for you
Robnu reads your Amazon account and reconciles every settlement line back to the order that caused it, so a wrong deduction is visible the day it lands.
- Orders, returns, payouts and inventory synced
- Every settlement line matched to its order
- FBA units Amazon has not made good, listed
Where this sits in the rest of your Amazon operation
On Amazon, Robnu syncs your orders, returns, payouts and inventory, reconciles every settlement line back to the order that caused it, lists the FBA units Amazon's own ledger has not made good, flags a return that never came back before the SAFE-T window closes, and scans returns in at your dock. It reads your Amazon account rather than writing to it, so accepting orders and making labels run on AJIO and Meesho today. Related reading:
Sources & further reading
- Amazon India, how to list your products the one publicly readable Amazon.in page that states listing figures: title 200 characters, images 500x500 or 1,000x1,000. Read 6 November 2026.
- Amazon listing and image style guides login-gated. It redirects to Amazon sign-in, so the detailed rules it holds are not quoted here and are described as market convention instead. Read 6 November 2026.
- Amazon India seller forums where the failure shapes described here are reported by sellers. Read 6 November 2026.
Not legal or tax advice. Amazon changes fees, windows and policies without notice, and the detailed style guides and account-health thresholds sit behind a Seller Central login, so any figure quoted here as convention is not Amazon-published. Check anything you plan to act on against your own Seller Central account first.
Questions sellers ask
In Seller Central go to Catalog, then Add Products. Search for the product, and if it already exists add your offer to that ASIN. If not, choose to add a product not sold on Amazon, pick the product type, fill the required fields in each section, and save.
For most products, yes: a GTIN, usually an EAN bought from GS1 India in your company name. If your product has no barcode, apply for a GTIN exemption before you create the listing.
No. If the identical product exists, sell it on that ASIN. Creating another ASIN for the same product is a duplicate listing. If it is your brand and someone else created the page, use Brand Registry to take control of it.
Your own code for the item, used in your inventory, reports and orders. Choose a readable scheme before you list, because changing a SKU later effectively creates a new offer.
Check its status in Manage All Inventory first. If it is Active, search the ASIN directly, because a new listing can take time to appear for keywords. If it is Inactive or Incomplete, the status shows the reason to fix.
Products sold without a brand use the generic brand option where the product type allows it, but you lose Brand Registry tools such as A+ Content. If you are building a brand, register the trademark and enrol first.
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