Live Tracker for Amazon Prime Day Sales

zentail.com

26 points·dsugarman··6 comments

Hey everyone, Zentail (YC S12) is an all-in-one SaaS platform for ecommerce sellers, it's our mission to make ecommerce simple. Our customers are online merchants who sell on a variety of sales channels including Amazon (their third party merchants, think "Shipped and sold by ..").

Amazon has created a great buying holiday in the middle of the summer and we wanted to provide insight into what we are seeing to anyone who might be curious about how much business actually happens on prime day. Happy to answer any questions about our model or company!

What exactly is this supposed to be tracking? Feels like just an opportunity to get the affiliate click-through.

Removing the affiliate link. The main goal of this is to provide insight into the buying holiday for people that are interested. We added the affiliate link so we can track how effective we are at pushing people over there, but we just want to draw attention to Prime Day as it's great for our customers (third party amazon sellers)

> Check out this up-to-the-minute prediction of Prime Day GMV Sales to find out. This prediction is based on a sophisticated data model taking in last year's estimated $2.3 billion total sales, and our unique view of Amazon sales trend data

So not a live tracker at all?

Great question! It is based on live data as well as historic data. We only have access to a % of total Amazon sales through our SaaS platform for 3rd party sellers. We have confidence in our model to hit within 10% of the total Prime Day Sales.

How do we know this is not anything more than a gimmick to get a 'zentail-20' affiliate tag on the way to shopping on one of Amazon's busiest day so they can get their referral commissions?

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