How to manage your product inventory
Managing your inventory in JUMIA is one of the most important steps in order to become a trusted seller
How to become a Trusted seller
Success in JUMIA relies greatly on managing your product inventory. You customer would not want to purchase out of stock products from your store.
- Update your stock at least once a day to make sure your product stock on the Seller Center matches your actual stock.
- The customer is satisfied when the products he orders are available.
- Customer satisfaction will result in repurchasing from the same store, as he will guarantee product availability when ordering from you.
How to update your stock “one by one”
- Step one
A: Connect to your Seller Center account, and click on: Orders → Manage Orders
- Step two
B: Click on the pen icon in the “Available” column, then type the stock currently available in “Allocated Stock”
How to update your stock “in bulk”
- Step one
A: Connect to your Seller Center account, and click on: Products → Import Products
- Step two
B: Then choose “Stock update (All SKUs)” to download an Excel file.
- Step three
C: In the Excel file, choose column A, then click on “Data”, and “Text to columns”
- Step four
D: In a new page, choose “Delimited” then click on “Next.
- Step five
F: Click on “Other’ in the “Delimiters” field, then click on “;”.
- Step six
G: Click on “Next” then “Finish” Your Excel file now contains 4 different columns, you can update column C named “Quantity” with all of your product’s stocks.
H: Finally, go back to your Seller Center account. In the “Import Products” section, click on “Upload your file” and choose the file that contains all the stock you have updated. Click on “upload file”. (The file must be in. xslx or .csv format)
If the upload is successful, you will receive a confirmation message in green color.
If the upload fails, you will receive a message in blue on top: To know the errors, you can either wait for a full report (at the bottom of the page), or click on “Show Preview”.
