Configure a GCID code exemption
You sell products that do not have EAN code, Amazon has registered your brand in its register and granted you a GCID exemption.
If you reached this page but you have not received a GCID exemption from Amazon, do not follow the instructions.
To send your feed with this exemption, you must enable Expert Mode, please follow our tutorial on : Activate the Expert Mode.
Then, in Features tab, turn on “Code Exemption” feature:
Afterward :
Amazon has sent you a standard email that starts like this:
Dear seller,
Congratulations! Your brand was successfully added to the Register of Trademarks from Amazon. It is possible that it takes 48 hours for this addition to be listed by our systems. Once this is done, all the products you're selling for the brand will be automatically added to the Register of Trademarks from Amazon and a Global Catalog ID (GCID) will be assigned. Please read this email carefully to understand how to sell your products and avoid mistakes.
Brand name: Your Brand
About the brand, you will just verify that the brand that appears on your product pages is the brand indicated by Amazon, the uppercase/lowercase differences being important (case sensitive), as well as spaces:
Note that on Prestashop 1.6 it’s indicated Manufacturer, and on Prestashop 1.5 Brand, in both cases, it is the same field.
Key Attributes: All categories: Manufacturer Part Number.
It may be the manufacturer part number, model name etc. Keep this information to configure your profiles.
You specify in the profiles concerned by the exemption, therefore the profiles in which products are exempt, the attribute specified in paragraph 2.2:
The most common case is “Manufacturer Part Number”, you will indicate then “Manufacturer Part Number”.
Then you send a product feed in creation mode, if you have a problem and an error is displayed in the report you will then contact technical support.
If you reached this page but you have not received a GCID exemption from Amazon, do not follow the instructions.
To send your feed with this exemption, you must enable Expert Mode, please follow our tutorial on : Activate the Expert Mode.
Then, in Features tab, turn on “Code Exemption” feature:
Afterward :
1. Collect information about the exemption
Amazon has sent you a standard email that starts like this:
Dear seller,
Congratulations! Your brand was successfully added to the Register of Trademarks from Amazon. It is possible that it takes 48 hours for this addition to be listed by our systems. Once this is done, all the products you're selling for the brand will be automatically added to the Register of Trademarks from Amazon and a Global Catalog ID (GCID) will be assigned. Please read this email carefully to understand how to sell your products and avoid mistakes.
1.1 Looking for the line about your brand
Brand name: Your Brand
About the brand, you will just verify that the brand that appears on your product pages is the brand indicated by Amazon, the uppercase/lowercase differences being important (case sensitive), as well as spaces:
Note that on Prestashop 1.6 it’s indicated Manufacturer, and on Prestashop 1.5 Brand, in both cases, it is the same field.
1.2 Looking for the line on Amazon attribute
Key Attributes: All categories: Manufacturer Part Number.
It may be the manufacturer part number, model name etc. Keep this information to configure your profiles.
2. Configure your profiles
You specify in the profiles concerned by the exemption, therefore the profiles in which products are exempt, the attribute specified in paragraph 2.2:
The most common case is “Manufacturer Part Number”, you will indicate then “Manufacturer Part Number”.
Then you send a product feed in creation mode, if you have a problem and an error is displayed in the report you will then contact technical support.
Updated on: 20/05/2025
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