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A schedule is an import that runs itself, so the costs and price limits your supplier publishes go into your listings without you uploading anything.

A schedule is an import that runs itself. You point it at a price file on the web and say which of its columns your costs and your price limits are in. Then you pick how often it runs, and from then on the Repricer downloads that file on its own and imports it for you.

People set one up because the numbers come from somewhere else. A supplier publishes a cost list every night, or your own system writes one out every morning, and those costs are what a strategy builds a price from. A schedule keeps them current, so nobody has to open a spreadsheet and upload it.

You find all of this under Uploads in the left sidebar, in the Schedules entry of the second list. The Create schedule button above the table opens a dialog over the page with four steps in it. The table under it lists every schedule your organization has, with a status on each one.

Before you start

What your role lets you do

What you want to do	The lowest role that can
Read the schedules table	`Analyst`
Create, edit, pause, run or delete a schedule	`Manager`

Roles are set in team, roles and permissions. Below Manager there is no Create schedule button and no Delete in a row. Pause and Run now still appear in the row, and clicking either one gives you a message about permission.

Deleting a schedule is permanent

Delete in a row removes the schedule and everything you set up in it, and there is no undo. You are asked to confirm first. Pause it instead if you only want it to stop for a while.

How to create a schedule

Open the schedule dialog
Click Uploads in the left sidebar, click Schedules in the second list, and click Create schedule above the table.
Name it
The first screen inside the dialog is called Basics. Type a name in the Name box. That name is what you look for in the table later.
Point it at your file
On Source, leave Source Type on URL (HTTP/HTTPS) and paste the web address of your file into Source URL. Click Next and the Repricer downloads the file.
Match your columns
On Map Columns, check that SKU / Product ID on the left has the right column of your file beside it, and do the same for every number you are sending.
Choose how often it runs
On Schedule, set Frequency to Interval, Daily or Weekly, fill in the boxes it opens, and click Save.

That is the whole flow. Your schedule appears in the table right away, reading Active, with its first run in the Next Run column. Every run after that puts a row in the imports table, which is where you read what actually changed.

Everything below explains those four screens one at a time. You do not need any of it for a simple schedule.

Every option in detail

The dialog has four screens of its own: Basics, Source, Map Columns and Schedule. The sections below follow them in order. You can always click Back at the bottom left, or click an earlier step marker at the top of the dialog, to change something.

Closing the dialog loses everything you set up. The × at the top right is the only way to close it. Clicking outside the dialog and pressing Escape both do nothing here, and nothing asks you to confirm first.

Step 1: Name your schedule

Basics is the first screen inside the schedule dialog. It is where you say what this schedule is and which of your listings it is allowed to touch.

Box	What it does
`Name`	What the schedule is called in the table. `Next` stays gray until you type one
`Description (optional)`	A longer note for your team, with a character count under the box
`Integration Account`	Limits the schedule to one of your accounts
`Integration Region`	Limits it further to one region of that account

Set the account and the region whenever you have more than one. The two dropdowns only appear when there is a choice to make. An organization with a single account and a single region never sees them.

Leaving them on All Accounts and All Regions matches your file against every listing you have. A SKU you sell in two regions then has no single answer, and those rows come back as errors on the import telling you to narrow the scope.

Step 2: Point it at your file

Source is the second screen of the schedule dialog, and it is where the file comes from. Source Type is a dropdown at the top of it with three choices, and the boxes under it change with the one you pick.

A run can only download from a web address. FTP and SFTP read your file inside this dialog, so you can map its columns, but a run cannot use either one and the schedule fails and stops itself.

Pick URL (HTTP/HTTPS). It takes one box, Source URL, and what goes in it is the full web address of a CSV or Excel file, starting with http:// or https://. The address has to open on its own, with no sign-in and no address inside your own network.

FTP and SFTP take five boxes instead:

Box	What it does
`Host`	The server name or its IP address
`Port`	Starts at 21 for `FTP` and 22 for `SFTP`
`Username`	`FTP` connects as anonymous when you leave it empty, and most SFTP servers need one
`Password`	The password for that server. Click the eye at the right of the box to read what you typed
`File Path`	The full path to the file on that server, such as `/exports/daily/prices.csv`

The password is the one your file server gave you, and it never leaves this box. When you reopen a schedule to edit it the box is empty, and leaving it empty keeps the password you saved before.

Next downloads the file and reads the first rows of it, which is why it takes a moment. A file it cannot get gives you a message and leaves you on this screen. Change the address, the path or any connection box and the Repricer forgets the file it already read, so the next Next fetches it again.

Step 3: Match your columns

Map Columns is the third screen of the schedule dialog, and it is where you say which column of your file is which number in the Repricer. It is a split screen: your fields down the left, and a Live Preview down the right showing three rows of your own data as the Repricer reads them.

Each field on the left has a dropdown beside it listing every column heading in your file, plus (Skip). The Repricer fills these in for you first, matching common column names, so the work here is usually checking rather than picking. Clear All, above the list, empties every one of them.

What you see	What it means
A `Required` badge	Only on `SKU / Product ID`, which is the column that matches a row to a listing
A field with a colored border	A value in your sample rows is wrong for that field. Hover the count to read why
`2 errors` on a field	Those rows would fail. `Next` stays gray until you fix or skip the field
`1 warning` on a field	The Repricer thinks the number looks odd and imports it anyway
`File has headers?`	Turn it off and the dropdowns show a sample value beside each column name
`+2 more`	Your file has more rows than the three shown

Next needs SKU / Product ID mapped, at least one other field mapped, and no errors left. A field you have no column for is fine on (Skip).

The full list of fields you can map

Field	What goes in the column
`SKU / Product ID`	Your SKU, or the ID the sales channel uses, such as an ASIN
`Cost`	What the item costs you
`Min Price`	The lowest price a strategy is allowed to publish
`Max Price`	The highest price a strategy is allowed to publish
`MAP`	Your minimum advertised price
`MSRP`	Your recommended retail price
`Manual Price`	One fixed price that replaces everything a strategy would calculate
`Strategy`	The name of a strategy, which has to match one you already have
`Paused`	Whether repricing is off for that listing
`B2B Price`	A fixed business price
`B2B Minimum Price`	The lowest business price
`B2B Maximum Price`	The highest business price
`Compare Price`	The struck-through price beside your selling price

The last four only work on a listing whose strategy is set up for them, and the dialog tells you so on the field when nothing you have qualifies.

How the Repricer guesses your columns for you

Every field knows a handful of column names people use for it. Cost matches a heading called cost, unit_cost, cogs, cost_price or landed_cost, and Min Price matches floor, min_price, minimum_price or min. Capital letters and spaces make no difference.

A heading it does not know is left for you to pick, and no column is used twice. Guessing only happens on a file the Repricer has not read before, so reopening a schedule you already saved keeps the columns you chose.

Step 4: Choose how often it runs

Schedule is the last screen of the schedule dialog. Frequency is a dropdown at the top of it with three choices, and each one opens different boxes.

`Frequency`	What you set	When it runs
`Interval`	`Run Every`	Over and over, on a gap you pick
`Daily`	`Run at`	At those times, every day
`Weekly`	`Days of the week`, then `Run at`	At those times, on those days

Run Every has six choices, from Every 1 hour to Every 24 hours, going through 2, 3, 6 and 12 hours.

Run at is a list of times you check, on the half hour, and you can pick up to 4 of them. On Weekly it stays grayed out until you pick a day, because a time with no day has nothing to run on.

Pick Interval when the file is rewritten all day. Pick Daily or Weekly when it is written once, at a time you know. A supplier who publishes at 2 in the morning wants a Daily schedule at 3. An hourly one would spend 23 of its runs importing the same numbers.

Which time of day a daily or weekly schedule uses

Run at reads in your own time, taken from Timezone under Profile in your settings when you save the schedule. That timezone is saved onto the schedule, so a teammate in another country reads the same run time you set. Changing your own timezone later leaves your saved schedules alone.

To move a schedule to a different timezone, change your Timezone first, then open the schedule and save it again.

Reading the schedules table

The table under the Create schedule button, on Schedules in the Uploads list, is every schedule your organization has, one row each.

Column	What it shows
`Name`	What you called it
`Description`	Your note, cut off at the width of the column
`Source`	`URL`, `FTP` or `SFTP`
`Job Type`	`Import` on every schedule you can make
`Frequency`	How often it runs, written out, such as `Every 6 hours` or `Mon, Thu at 9:00 AM`
`Account` and `Region`	What you set on `Basics`, or `All Accounts` and `All Regions`
`Status`	Whether it is running, and whether the last run worked
`Last Run`	When the Repricer last downloaded the file
`Next Run`	When it is due again. Empty on a schedule that is not running

The toolbar above the table has the same Search, Columns, Filter and Density as every other table in the Repricer, and filters explains all four. This table cannot be saved as a view.

Editing, pausing and running a schedule

Click any row of the schedules table and it opens in the same four-step dialog, with every step already filled in. You can click straight to the step you want at the top, change one thing, and click Update. Editing changes nothing about the runs that already happened.

Everything else you can do to a schedule is in the actions at the right end of its row.

Action	What it does
`Pause`	Stops the schedule. `Next Run` empties and nothing runs until you turn it back on
`Enable`	Starts it again, and clears the count of failures behind it
`Run now`	Downloads the file and imports it once, without touching the schedule
`Delete`	Removes the schedule, after a confirmation

Run now spins while it works and stops when Last Run changes, so a slow file leaves the button spinning for up to 30 seconds. Your schedule keeps its own timing, so the run you already had coming still happens.

Limits

What	Limit
File formats	CSV and Excel
File size	250 MB
Shortest interval	1 hour
Longest interval	24 hours
Times on a daily or weekly schedule	4
Name	100 characters
Description	500 characters
Failures before a schedule stops itself	5
Schedules per organization	No limit

What a schedule cannot do

You cannot	Do this instead
Have a run read from an FTP or SFTP server	Publish the file to a web address and use `URL (HTTP/HTTPS)`
Schedule an export	Run an export yourself each time
Create listings, or change a SKU, a title or an ASIN	Nothing you send here creates anything. A row with no listing behind it is an error
Read a file behind a sign-in page	Publish it at an address that opens on its own
Get an email when a run finishes	Read the `Status` column, or the imports table
See what a past run did, from this table	Open imports, where every run left a row
Send a copy of the file to a teammate	Download it from your own source

What happens on each run

Each run does the same three things. It downloads the file from your address, it turns that file into an ordinary import, and it updates the schedule’s own row.

The import it creates is exactly the one you would get by uploading the file yourself. It appears in the imports table under a name built from your schedule, such as scheduled_Supplier_costs_20260816_030000.csv. It counts its rows, reports its errors and emails you the same way, and your columns and your account and region come across from the schedule.

Active is not the same as a successful import. The Status on your schedule says whether the file was handed over, and nothing more. A run that downloaded the file and started the import reads Active even when every row in that file then failed. To see what changed on your listings, open the imports table and read the row that run created.

When your next run happens

The first run is one full cycle away. Save an hourly schedule and it runs in an hour. Save a daily one at 4 in the afternoon and it runs at 4 tomorrow, whatever times you set. From the second run on it settles onto the times you chose, so a daily schedule set to 9:00 AM runs at that time from then on.

Enable on a paused schedule works the same way and puts the next run one full cycle out. Click Run now if you do not want to wait for it.

An interval schedule counts from when it was due, not from when it finished, so a run that takes 4 minutes does not push the following one 4 minutes later.

When something goes wrong

The four statuses

The Status column of the schedules table has four answers in it.

Status	What it means
`Active`	Running on its own timing, and the last run handed its file over
`Paused`	You turned it off. Nothing runs
`Error`	The last run could not get the file. It will try again on the next one
`Disabled`	5 runs failed one after another, so the Repricer stopped it

Error is one bad run and it clears itself the moment a good one goes through. Disabled needs you: click Enable in the row, which clears the count and starts it running again.

A schedule that stopped on its own

A run that cannot get the file counts as a failure, and 5 in a row is what turns a schedule off. That is roughly 5 hours on an hourly schedule and 5 days on a daily one. A supplier who moves a file on a Monday can leave you with a Disabled schedule by Friday.

The row does not tell you which of the 5 went wrong. Open the schedule, go to Source, and click Next: the Repricer downloads the file while you watch, and the message it gives is the same one the run got. Work through these in order.

What to check	How
The address still works	Paste it into a browser tab. A file should download
It opens without signing in	Try it in a private window
The file is still a CSV or an Excel file	An address that answers with a web page instead is the common cause
The columns still have the same headings	The preview on `Map Columns` shows you what the Repricer reads today
It is under 250 MB	Read the file size where you download it

Fix the schedule, click Update, then click Enable in the row.

Error messages

Message	What to do
`Please enter a valid URL.`	The address needs a scheme. Start it with `http://` or `https://`
`That URL points to a restricted address.`	The address is inside a private network. Use one that opens from anywhere
`Request timed out. Check the URL is accessible.`	The server took too long. Try again, then check it in a browser
`Failed to download file. Check the URL is accessible.`	Nothing answered at that address
`The server returned an error (404 Not Found).`	The address is right and the file is not there. The status is the one your own server gave
`File exceeds the 250 MB size limit.`	Split the file, or publish a smaller one
`The file does not contain any data.`	The file downloaded and had no rows in it
`The first row of the file is empty.`	Delete the empty rows above your headings
`That host points to a restricted address.`	Your `Host` is inside a private network
`Connection failed: {message}.`	The server did not accept the connection. The message is the one it gave
`The downloaded file is empty.`	The path is right and the file has nothing in it
`Some fields are invalid. Please review and try again.`	The dialog moves you to the step that has the problem
`Failed to create schedule. Please try again.`	Nothing was saved. Click `Save` again
`Schedule not found, or you don't have access to it.`	Somebody deleted it while you had the table open. Reload the page
`You don't have permission to run schedules.`	Your role is below `Manager`