Expiration date must match this lot

Cartons from this inbound are on the dock. The factory printed a new expiration or best-if-used-by stamp. The live ASIN still shows last quarter’s date, or the attribute is blank and someone wants to type the PO date. If you receive against that leftover number, a shopper who needed the window on this pack will return the unit, and Amazon can treat the listing as a mismatch. Digital Dignity’s Transformation Kit is the check before anyone prints FNSKUs: open a carton from this lot, write the date as this pack prints it, then only that date goes on the listing.

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This is not a one-line rule. You have a real inbound job: a dated lot, a live child ASIN, and a receive that will mix two windows if you skip the pad. The kit does not restamp the carton. It makes you write what this lot actually shows, then you decide save or hold.

Open a carton from this lot, not the leftover pile

Pull one sealed unit from the inbound you are about to receive. Do not use a leftover carton from the last lot, a factory PDF, or the date on the master pallet label. Write type, size or count, material, and what is in the box. Then write the expiration or best-if-used-by exactly as this pack prints it — digits, month format, and lot code if this carton has one. Photo of the pad next to that stamp. If two cartons in the pile disagree, stop and sort before anyone labels.

If Amazon has an expiration attribute for this product type, that field comes from this carton. The PO, the supplier email, and last quarter’s listing are not sources. Mixing two windows on one FNSKU is how you buy a compliance case. You stay responsible for Amazon compliance.

How a seller kits this dated inbound

Name the child ASIN this inbound will land on. If the live listing already names a date, write that date on a scratch line so you can compare.
Open one carton from this lot. Fill the four-fact pad: type, size or count, material, what is in the box. Add the expiration exactly as this pack prints it.
Photo the pad next to the stamp. If the stamp is on an inner unit and the outer only has a lot code, write both and keep them together.
Walk the Transformation Kit against this pad. Title still leads with product type and the count you ship. First bullet is what is in the box. Put the date in a later bullet or the expiration attribute if the category needs it. Do not write “fresh,” “new lot,” or a longer window than this stamp.
If leftover dated units still sit in FBA on this same child, do not receive the new window onto that FNSKU. Hold, split, or remove the leftover first. The kit does not merge lots for you.
Run free optimize only if the English still hedges or the date line reads like a catalog dump. The free pass does not invent a date. It only cleans the words you already wrote from this carton.
Save the listing, then create the inbound. If you want the paid pass on this child after the pad is honest, use Pro checkout. Paying does not restamp the carton and does not promise rank.

Old dated leftover stays on its own pad until it is gone

If FBA still holds last quarter’s window, that leftover is a different inbound job. Do not “average” dates. Do not put the newer stamp on the listing while older units can still ship. Digital Dignity will not tell you the next lot is safe because this one was. When this inbound is honest and the next dated lot is waiting, run the kit again on that carton.

No fake reviews. No rank promise. You stay responsible for Amazon compliance.