In short: Create Similar makes a new draft product that carries over everything from the product you copied — except the identifiers that tie it to a channel. The copy starts with no ASIN, no Amazon SKU and no eBay item ID, so it is a brand-new Amazon listing, not a second copy of the old one.
Two things catch people out: give the copy its own GUID in the pop-up (leave it alone and SureDone assigns a generated one), and clear or change the UPC if the copy is genuinely a different product — Amazon matches on it.
Need to list an item that is very similar to something you already sell on Amazon? Copy the existing product instead of building a new one from scratch.
Make the copy
- Go to Products > All Products, and find the product you want to copy (the search box at the top of the page searches your catalog).
- Click the small arrow next to the product's GUID to open the row's action menu, then click Create Similar.
- SureDone opens the product and shows the Create Similarpop-up, pre-filled with the original's title and GUID.
- Change the Title and the GUID to describe the new product. Two GUIDs can never be the same, so the copy cannot keep the original's. If you leave the GUID as it is, SureDone ignores it and assigns a generated SKU and GUID from your account's SKU generator instead — the copy still gets created, but with an identifier you did not choose.
- Click + Create. SureDone saves the copy as a draft and opens it in the product editor.
You can also start a copy from inside a product: open it and choose - Select Action - > Create Similar at the bottom of the editor.
What the copy does and does not carry over
Everything on the product is copied, apart from the fields that identify it to SureDone or to a sales channel:
| Copied to the new product | Cleared on the new product |
|---|---|
| Title, price, stock, brand, condition, description UPC and other product identifiers Images (the copy points at the same image URLs) Amazon title, price, product type, category / item type, search terms, FBA setting eBay, Shopify, BigCommerce and Walmart fields Your custom fields | SureDone SKU and page URL (regenerated) Amazon ASIN and Amazon status Amazon SKU eBay item ID, eBay SKU and relist ID Walmart status and listed flags BigCommerce variant and custom field IDs |
Because the channel identifiers are cleared, the draft is not connected to Amazon in any way. Nothing you do to it affects the product you copied it from.
Publish the copy to Amazon
- Make whatever edits the new product needs. If you are adding an offer on an Amazon catalog item that already exists, type its ASIN into the ASIN field in the Amazon section — the copy does not inherit it.
- Check the Send to column on the right of the editor. Every channel you have connected is listed with its own dropdown, and a new draft picks up each channel's default setting, which is often Always Skip. Set Amazon to a value that sends (see the table below), and leave the channels you do not want on Always Skip or Skip Once.
- Optional but recommended: choose - Select Action - > Validate Listing With Amazon. For a product that is not listed yet, SureDone sends the listing to Amazon for validation and shows the errors and warnings Amazon returns, without creating anything.
- Click Relist/Publish Itemat the bottom right to send the product to the channels that are set to send.
- Amazon does not process listings in real time. Come back after 30 minutes and check the product's History for the result.
Send to values
| Value | What it does |
|---|---|
| (blank) | Sends to the channel |
| Send Once | Sends this one time, then goes back to the stored setting |
| Skip Once | Skips this one time only |
| Always Send | Sends every update from now on |
| Always Skip | Never sends to this channel |
| Always Skip Stock | Sends updates but never the stock quantity |
| Always Skip Price | Sends updates but never the price |
| Always Skip Stock/Price | Sends updates but never stock or price |
Skip All and Send All, next to the buttons at the bottom, set every dropdown in the column to Skip Once or Send Once in one click.
Things that surprise people
- The UPC is copied. Amazon uses the ASIN if there is one, and otherwise the product's UPC (or whichever field your Amazon UPC mapping points at) to decide which catalog item you are selling. A copy that keeps the original's UPC will be matched to the same Amazon catalog item. If the copy is a genuinely different product, give it its own UPC.
- The ASIN is not copied. That is deliberate — it stops the copy from silently attaching itself to the original's listing. Type the ASIN back in when you do want both products on the same catalog item.
- Images are shared, not duplicated. The copy points at the same image URLs as the original. Replace them on the copy if it needs its own photos.
- The GUID is cleaned up as you type it. Anything other than letters, numbers, spaces and the characters - + _ / . ( ) : ; # | is dropped, and a GUID over 100 characters is rejected.
- Create Similar copies one product. If the product you copy has variations, the copy is created on its own; the variations do not come with it. Add them to the copy with Create Variation.
- Drafts sit in your product list. Until you publish it, the copy shows a status of draft and is on no channel at all.
Troubleshooting
- The copy was never created. The GUID you typed is already used by another product. GUIDs are unique across your account, including on ended and draft products.
- Relist/Publish Item is greyed out. The SKU or GUID on screen has been changed since the product was loaded, and neither can be modified on a relist. Save with Update and reload the product, or put the identifier back.
- Nothing reached Amazon. Check the Send to value for Amazon on the product: Always Skip or Skip Once stops the update at SureDone. The product's History records the skip.
- Amazon rejected the copy as a duplicate. The copy still carries the original's UPC or ASIN, so Amazon sees it as the same product. Change the identifier, or list the copy as an offer on the existing ASIN instead.
- Amazon reports missing required fields. Run - Select Action - > Validate Listing With Amazon; it names the attributes Amazon wants for that product type.
