Are you looking to buy products wholesale and resell them directly to customers on Amazon? If so, you are in the right place.

We’ve been selling products we source wholesale on Amazon for the last few years and hit six figures in revenue about a year ago. Here’s a screenshot of a recent 30 days sales from our Seller Central.

From my experience of selling on Amazon since 2017, I’ve found that knowing what to buy – and most importantly knowing what not to buy – is one of the keys to successfully selling on Amazon. In fact, I would say this applies to achieving success in any business.

‘How do you find the right products to buy?’ I hear you asking.

Well, there are many methods you can use to find in-demand and profitable products. But in this article, we’ll show you how to use a software called Scan Unlimited, a wholesale product list scanner, to find products that you can resell.

What is Scan Unlimited

If you have experience sourcing products to buy wholesale, you’ll know that it’s incredibly monotonous and laborious. 

Solution? A software that could scan price lists based on some preferences you feed it. This is where Scan Unlimited comes in. 

Scan Unlimited is a wholesale price list scanner software that was invented with the goal of making wholesale sourcing more efficient for resellers.

How Scan Unlimited works

The way Scan Unlimited works is super easy to understand.

Once you get hold of a price list (in spreadsheet format), all you have to do is upload it, set some preferences and hit ‘Start’.

The software will then work its magic and return a spreadsheet with all the information you need to determine the profitability of the products. More specifically, it will provide average sales rank, Keepa chart, profit margin and more for each product. 

Scan Unlimited basically searches each product on Amazon (using its UPC/EAN code) and calculates their profitability. Then it returns the profitability of each product along with all the other relevant information you need to make decisions. 

The best part? It takes Scan Unlimited less than 10 minutes to process a 10,000 line file. Which means you can search for over 300,000 products within an hour and identify profitable and in-demand products on Amazon while you faff around on YouTube (It’s what I’ll be doing anyway).

Why use a wholesale product price list scanner?

When we first started sourcing the wholesale way, we would spend countless hours manually going through price lists – and we still do sometimes.

There’s nothing wrong with manually searching a price list for profitable products. In fact, I would suggest you do if you are just getting started. It will help develop your skills, intuition and save you money at the same time.

But, from experience, I know most price lists are huge and at least 90% of their products are unlikely be profitable. This, therefore, makes manual scanning very tedious.

The solution? A price list scanner.

We’ve recently started using Scan Unlimited price scanner and I have to say it’s an amazing innovation. It points me towards products profitable brands, then I use manual methods to find even more products.

If you ever find time fleeting, definitely consider using a price list scanner. It will help you save time, find even more products and importantly help your business grow quicker.

That being said, let’s look at one of the best wholesale price list scanners on the market and the one that we are using, Scan Unlimited.

Scan Unlimited features

• Average sales rank. This is a fantastic feature. It gives you access to 30, 90 and 365-day average sales rank so that you get a more complete picture of a product’s demand.
• Web app. I find this feature to be particularly convenient. It lets you upload and scan a price list on any browser on any computer, PC or Mac.
• Foreign currencies. At first glance this feature doesn’t sound useful but I assure it is. It lets you upload price lists in any currency, saving you time and hassle of converting between currencies.
• IP Warning. There’s nothing worse than sourcing and sending a product to FBA that you later find the brand is known to file IP complaints.
• Folders. Another excellent feature of Scan Unlimited is that it allows you to sort products into folders. Extremely convenient.

My favourite feature: Cloud-hosted

Scan Unlimited is hosted on the cloud.  This means the tool is always working regardless of whether your computer or device is switched on or not.

All uploaded scans are hosted on the cloud, allowing for multiple uploads and 24/7 processing of your product list. You can have access to your scans from any location and with any device.

I find this feature convenient as it means I don’t have to download Scan Unlimited every time I want to access it from a different computer. Especially as I do work from different computers.

Pricing – How much does ScoutIQ cost? And is it worth it?

There are three Scan Unlimited pricing plans.

• Free. The free plan lets you upload one file per month – which is great if you are unsure and want to try it out without making a commitment first.  
• 2-Day Pass – $20 per month. As the name suggests, this plan is a 2-day pass that you can use to upload as many files as you want. I would sign up to this plan if I were just getting started with sourcing the wholesale way. 
• Unlimited – $50 per month. This plan gives you access to unlimited scans. 

I really like the pricing structure of Scan Unlimited. It’s structured in a way that gives plenty of time to try it without making a commitment but at the same it’s also super affordable if you do decide to sign up straightaway. 

You can easily downgrade from a paid plan to a free membership at any time, and there is a 20% discount if you decide to go for the annual plan.

Pros

• It is very quick to use as you can search for thousands of products within minutes.
• It is easy to use, and you can analyze, sort, and filter your scans within your browser and download them if you want to.
• Stop competing with Amazon by knowing the competitor that will win the buy box and compare feedback and fulfillment methods.
• Switch between Amazon marketplaces in different countries, including the UK, US, Germany, Spain, France, and Italy.

Cons

• There are cheaper alternatives with similar functions.
• No mobile apps version available.
• Unless downloaded, scans are stored on the web and require an internet connection to access.

Scan Unlimited Alternatives

In terms of Scan Unlimited alternatives, there aren’t many.

The only other software that I can think of is AMZ Analyzer.

Scan Unlimited vs AMZ analyzer

AMZ analyzer is very similar to Scan Unlimited in terms of function. The only major difference is that Amz Analyzer can be downloaded.

In terms of pricing, Amz Analyzer only $29 per month while also requiring MWS credentials from a professional Amazon seller account. But it doesn’t offer a free trial, which Scan Unlimited does offer. But Scan Unlimited is slightly more expensive at $50 per month.

I haven’t personally used Amz Analyzer but it does look good at first glance.

Verdict

Opening accounts with suppliers is not as hard as you might think. Let’s face it, who doesn’t want to do business? But finding suppliers with profitable products is a lot more difficult. If you don’t have suppliers with profitable products, you have no business.

I know for a fact that you will open hundreds of wholesale accounts with suppliers but most of them prove of no use to you. This raises the question: ‘How do you efficiently find the suppliers with the profitable products?’

Well, you can manually go through price lists or use a wholesale price list scanner, like Scan Unlimited.