Was editing an entire group of children and was hoping to just update the parent title, but saw Offer was required for me to save.
Not sure I’ve encountered a parent ASIN with an Offer Price requirement before.
What should I put?
I’ve never ever had to put that in … however, I have had clients put it in and it has had no effect.
Very odd though that it is requiring it.
ETA - I just went and tested on 2 parents. I could edit the title without needing to enter that.
Possibly you’ve done something else to the parent, although I can’t think what, that now requires it, or is making it act like a child/variation.
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Does it still look normal in the “Manage All Inventory” screen, or are the pricing boxes showing there too? I’d also be interested to see whether the Status column shows the number of variations.
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top row is the parent I’m trying to hit “EDIT” on.
Looks fine, presents like a parent with variations.
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Sorry but I can’t duplicate or explain this.
Can you just do a file upload to fix the title?
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trying that next
wanted to complete some other child edits first
I have another parent with same issue, demanding an offer price at time of edit
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Super weird. Hopefully the load file works, per @oneida_books . That would be our next attempt, too. 
for you!
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uploaded. got a processing error, but the name still updated.
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Sorry this is an old thread but I have the exact same problem on every item in the clothing category.
All child ASINs have their own List Price (different for sleeve length and some sizes are higher/lower etc). I wanted to edit the parent because using the flat file only allowed me 250 bytes for keywords (so I wanted to test to see if I could add more on the website because I’ve been able to get the new 500 bytes when I list directly on Amazon).
But the parent has the List Price missing error (even though I put one on the flat file when I first made the listing). I’m afraid if I add one that it will update all the child listings to that number.
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List Price is the manufacturer’s suggested price and doesn’t set your selling price.
Your Price is the price that the items sell for.
If you do not know the manufacturer’s suggested price, Amazon states to enter 0 (zero) in the List Price.
Since your variations likely would have different manufacturer’s suggested price because of variation of style (ie: short sleeve vs 3/4 sleeve), we would think that you would input 0 (zero) in the List Price.
Customer sees these prices and can buy for …
Your Price = what you sell the item for.
Sale Price = what you sell the item for when discounting from your normal Your Price during a specific time period that you set.
Customer may see this price but it is only a reference price shown to show value against the Your Price and/or Sale Price …
List Price = manufacturer’s suggested price for item.
Show a reference price on your products by providing a List Price
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I am aware. I set my own list price because I am handmade. The purpose for doing this is to establish a base price (the item must sell a few times to establish this) then if I put it at a lower price it shows up on the listing.
But the parent is not a real item, it should not need a list price. But it forces me to add it (or 0) in order to edit the parent. I’m just concerned that it will affect the child listings to add anything to that field.
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This is one of the downfalls of using Seller Central’s Manage Inventory to manage your inventory. It’s not really designed for Parent’s.
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Do the child variations have a unique List Price per variation? If not, then setting the parent List Price to 0 (zero) should have no effect.
As do we … we do custom items …
For us, the List Price is never shown and we never get the strike through price showing when it is on sale …
The excel templates and the inventory edit page haven’t been in sync for sometime. It might happen that when you put in 0 (zero) and try to save that the system will then want a Your Price (which you wouldn’t want to do with it being a parent). If that happens, then you would not be able to acheive your goal of attaining the 500 bytes.
Have your excel template ready with the parent to upload should the attempt on the manage inventory edit page goes south.
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Yes they do. I thought about entering “0” but then was worried they would all revert to the selling price (I think I tried that once) rather than the list price I entered (established list price).
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That is what I will have to experiment with. I just can’t get the 500 bytes using a flat file upload for search terms!
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Thats what I figured. They might get around to it sometime this decade?
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