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AMZScout Review

Summary

AMZScout is a company that offers product research tools for Amazon sellers on the nine marketplaces. If you’re a start-up seller and are looking for an affordable yet helpful tool, AMZScout is one of the best choices. It has relevant features to help you move on your Amazon journey from finding the product to sell to product sourcing and listing optimization. If you’re already an established seller and just need help to spy on competitors’ performance, their high-ranking keywords to improve your product listing, or find new product opportunities, feel free to try this tool. If you finish this article, you can look at what you can see and expect with AMZScout tools in helping your business.

  1. Pros
  2. Cons
  3. How does it work?
  4. AMZScout Web Application
  5. Product Database
  6. Product Tracker
  7. Keyword Search
  8. Reverse ASIN Lookup
  9. AMZScout PRO Extension
  10. Alibaba Integration
  11. Common complaints

Pros

Cover everything for a beginner and advanced Amazon seller

AMZScout tools menu: product research, Amazon keyword tools and education courses

A user-friendly and straightforward tool with a large number of tutorials and Videos for Beginners

AMZScout Step-By-Step Amazon Seller Course page with free video lessons, starting with Lesson 1: Intro

Affordable price and has a FREE trial option to test and play with the tool.

AMZScout pricing plans: Free at $0, Light at $16.49/month, Full at $29/month and Lifetime at $1499.99




Search results can export to excel for data mining.

AMZScout search results exported to Excel, with columns for category, sellers, rank, est. sales and revenue

More accessible to product sourcing on Alibaba.com

Five-star review by Rick Ellis, "Number #1 for a reason": AMZScout makes sourcing decisions easy for any selling model

Cons

AMZScout does unlock all its features in the Limited Free trial. But the number of product searches is limited.

How does it work?

Amazon sellers typically use AMZScout for the following reasons;

  1. To conduct product research and discover new product opportunities.

  2. To perform Amazon market analysis and competition research.

  3. To get impressive product data for data mining that help sellers decide. AMZScout has many valuable features; the AMZScout Chrome Extension and the AMZScout Web Application are their most vital features.

AMZScout Web Application

The AMZScout web app dashboard is simple and not overwhelming. It is where you do most of the product research process from start to finish. The dashboard menu has three sections: product research tools, keyword tools, and educational resources for Amazon sellers.

AMZScout web app showing the free Step-by-Step Amazon Seller Course beside the tools menu

Product Database

The product database requires you to set your product criteria, like choosing the business marketplace and categories you are interested in, up to setting more detailed filters to get a list of results based on the specified requirements.

AMZScout Product Database during the trial, with "3 FREE searches left" under the Find Products button
AMZScout Product Database filters for category, keywords, price, sales, rank and rating, with a Find Products button

During the trial period, AMZScout gives 10 FREE searches on the product database. That’s pretty awesome.

Free trial users should also be patient in trying to get results. I tried it a few times and set a different value for filters and categories before getting results.

AMZScout Product Database search filtered by price $15–49 and 75–150 reviews, returning no matching products

Finally, I got a bunch of product ideas from different categories. In total, I got 51 product results with their product information such as product name, pictures, estimated sales, revenue, rank, reviews, rating, and fees, etc.

AMZScout Product Database results for $15–49 and 75–150 reviews, mixing Electronics and Health & Household products

One thing I noticed with the results is that products are showing different categories. It’s good that the AMZScout database can provide you with a different niche, but it will be more interesting if the products are under one category.

On the other hand, since the database dashboard is simple, you can quickly see products that meet your criteria. You can also export the product information to excel for data mining. Below are the terms and simple explanations of what you can see on the database.

AMZScout Profit Calculator: $25.49 price, $6.24 total fees, $19.25 profit and $43,586.40 estimated monthly revenue

Collecting that information will help you proceed to the in-depth study and analysis. There’s an extra feature of the database that you may also want to use.

AMZScout product result with its four action buttons outlined in red

The first button is if you want to add the product to the tracker, the second one is a button to refresh the page; the next button is to direct you to the Alibaba platform and search that product, while the last one is to remove the product from the list.

Product Tracker

The product tracker tool works to track a particular product’s daily information from stock level to sales volume. Free trial users can get a one-time limit to follow their chosen product.

AMZScout Product Tracker search bar with the 0 tracked / 1 limit counter underlined

You can see something similar to this screenshot when you access the product tracker. It shows the product’s essential details on the header, especially if you want to know if it is competitive. You can also take advantage of this tool to keep an eye on your competitors.

AMZScout Product Tracker with one tracked product: its averages, a one-month rank graph and Additional Info
AMZScout Product Tracker entry for pampas grass, with the three icons to the left of the product highlighted

On the left side of the product information, you can see three icons. If you click the first one, it will show you the product’s sales graph over time.

AMZScout Product Tracker set to All time, with a sales and rank history graph and product details

Keyword Search

The keyword search helps you optimize your listings and find keywords to help you appear in search results. You can hover the cursor to the question mark icon to see what to enter in each field. Free trial users have 10 FREE searches in total, similar to my screenshot below.

AMZScout Amazon Keyword Search with an empty search box, keyword length set to 2–5 words and a Find Keywords button



The screenshot shows what I got after I fill in each field with the keywords people are searching.

AMZScout Amazon Keyword Search results for “dried pampas grass”, with monthly search volume and page 1 sales per keyword

I like that you can see each keyword’s search volume history so you can decide whether to use it on your listings or not.

Reverse ASIN Lookup

The Reverse ASIN Lookup functions the same as a keyword search. The only difference is that it snaps up competitors' keywords to improve your product listings.

AMZScout Reverse ASIN Lookup with an ASIN entered, keyword length set to 2–5 words and a Find Keywords button

Here, you can find out what high-ranking keywords your competitors are using. Analyze each keyword’s search volume, then use them for your product listing. As easy as that!

AMZScout PRO Extension

AMZScout PRO Extension is their flagship tool and comprises heavy means and processes data from the Amazon product database.


When you open the Amazon website, search for a particular product name or keywords and click the AMZScout extension to get valuable product information similar to my screenshot below.

AMZScout PRO Extension on pampas grass results: averages of 393 monthly sales, $8,814 revenue, rank 96,101, niche score 8


If you are a start-up seller, don’t be overwhelmed. It looks like information overload, but that helps validate the product’s demand, competition, profit, or overall potential. You can also notice options for personalizing views, google trends, niche keywords, and suppliers on Alibaba.com. I have highlighted sections that you are most likely to pay attention to; the Avg. Monthly sales, Monthly revenue, Avg. Sales Rank, and Avg. Reviews.
Are incorporated into one metric called Product Score that shows you how hot is the product/niche. The Product score breakdown is following:

AMZScout product scores for a pen set: 4 of 10 for private label and 10 of 10 for reselling

Of course, don’t miss checking the niche score; it shows how easy or hard it is to succeed in your chosen niche. An overall score of eight and above is the good one.

AMZScout PRO Extension niche score for “pampas grass”: 8 of 10, Likely to succeed, with high profit and light competition

A niche historical graph gives you insight into how competitive the niche is, based on the sales, price, and rank history. It’s showing data for two years.

AMZScout PRO Niche History chart of daily sales, rank and price for a niche from February 2020 to April 2021

With the extension you can also see how many other users have found this niche, this metric is called Visibility Score.

AMZScout PRO results for a gel pen niche, with the Visibility Score tooltip saying 0.006% of users have found this niche

By using the PRO Niche keywords feature you can export all keywords into a csv as seen below.

AMZScout PRO extension over Amazon results for pens, with the Niche Keywords button highlighted
AMZScout PRO Niche Keywords cloud led by Pen (70), Marker (25) and Gel (21), with an Export to CSV button

AMZScout has an extra feature called Quick view. Upon browsing the Amazon page, in just one glance, you can see the primary information of a particular product; category, ASIN, rank, type of seller, and calculate fees through a profitability calculator.

Amazon search results for packing cubes with AMZScout boxes showing FBA fees, margin, sellers and rank under each product
AMZScout PRO Extension Product tab for a packing cubes listing, rated 4.7 from 2,347 reviews
AMZScout PRO Extension History tab: price and sales rank chart from May 2020 to May 2021
AMZScout PRO Extension Keywords tab listing packing cube keywords, with a 'Get more keywords' upgrade button

Alibaba Integration


AMZScout is an official partner of Alibaba. A feature is built into the PRO with the search for local and international suppliers on Alibaba in one click as you can see in the screenshots below.

Five-star AMZScout review titled “Number #1 for a reason”, praising how it makes sourcing decisions easy
AMZScout PRO extension with an arrow on the “Local and global suppliers on Alibaba.com” button
AMZScout Alibaba supplier search for promotional pens, showing price, MOQ and verified suppliers, with a country filter open


Membership Pricing & Features

AMZScout offers a monthly, annual, or lifetime subscription plan which shows the below chart in detail.

AMZScout Pricing plans heading with Monthly and Yearly options
AMZScout plans: Free $0, Light $45.99 a month, Full $49.99 a month (most popular) and Lifetime $1499.99
AMZScout plan comparison, continued: 2 to 2,500 tracked keywords and 1 to 150 tracked products by plan, 9 marketplaces on all

Note: Price may change over time as they update and improve the tool's features.

On monthly and annual tariffs, users will receive a monthly selection of trend reports for the month, which will allow them to stay up to date on the latest news and trends on Amazon, and in the eCommerce industry in general.

On the full annual tariff, users will receive Selected Top 1% of Products, selected from millions of items on Amazon - delivered weekly to their inbox. This will allow them to avoid wasting time searching for a product and quickly focus on launching it.



Analysis of reviews available on the Internet

AMZScout garnered 76% of positive reviews being "excellent," 12% bad, 10% great, and a percentage of average and poor with a star rating of 4.2 based on the reviewer's feedback on Trustpilot.

AMZScout on Trustpilot: 4.2 stars, rated Great, from 338 reviews
Breakdown of 338 AMZScout reviews: 76% Excellent, 10% Great, 1% Poor and 12% Bad

Below are some reviews from the people who have used AMZScout's tools as of this moment;

Five-star review by NUMBER 3 LLC, "Must-Have for Amazon Market Research", calling the extension accurate and affordable
5-star AMZScout review titled “very good tool”, praising its accuracy and the PRO extension working on any Amazon page
5-star AMZScout review: “so close to accurate that it is the only tool I would recommend for anyone starting out with FBA”
5-star AMZScout review on Trustpilot calling the tool “so nice and helpful for work”

One more cool thing about Amzscout is that the amount of FBA materials they have floating around their website and app. Webinars are held almost every week, replays of which are constantly replenishing the collection of masterclasses which will be accessible both on the website and in the WEB application.

AMZScout Amazon Seller Masterclasses page with free and premium video classes from successful sellers




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Conclusion

After an in-depth review, AMZScout is undoubtedly worth its price. It's super helpful for start-up sellers, from getting good product ideas to product sourcing to product launching. It's one of the most recommended tools for beginners since it's cheap and user-friendly. There are over 500,000 customers all over the globe who’s using it. Training and courses are helpful and very informative, although those are a bit focused on beginners.

AMZScout is kind enough to incorporate a few extra tools in the package, even for free users, to improve performance, sales, and selling strategy. The Chrome Pro Extension and the web app have a free trial option, which other tools or apps don't provide. Anyone can test this tool's features and worth before purchasing and using it, although some parts are limited.