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Factory color code is not the shopper color

A seller’s factory PDF uses an internal color code — BK-03, a Pantone, or “C/N.” They almost paste that code into the Amazon color field and the title because the spec sheet is already open and the factory talks in those letters. If you do that, a US shopper who searches “matte black” or “navy” never finds you, and the page names a factory SKU this carton does not show. Digital Dignity’s Transformation Kit is the check on THIS carton: photograph the shopper-facing color name (or the unit you will ship), kit from the color a US shopper will search, then free optimize, then Pro.

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This is a listing and inbound job, not a factory-SKU translation. The PDF code is how the plant picks paint. The shopper-facing name is how a US buyer shops the child. The kit does not invent a prettier color. It makes you write the name THIS pack prints — or the color of the unit you will actually ship — then you decide save or hold.

Read THIS carton. The PDF code stays on the spec

Pull one sealed unit from the lot you will list or receive. Read the shopper-facing color name on the face, hang tag, or color callout this carton prints. Write type, size or count, material, and what is in the box from that face and the insert. Then write the color exactly as a US shopper would search it — matte black, not BK-03; navy, not Pantone 19-4052. Photo of the pad next to this carton. After that, open the factory PDF. If it still says BK-03, C/N, or a dye lot, leave that string on a scratch note. It is not the color field and it is not the title.

If the carton has no English color name, photograph the unit you will ship and name the color you can see — the finish the shopper will get, not the factory letter. If two cartons in the pile print two shopper names under the same factory code, stop and split. You stay responsible for Amazon compliance. Pasting BK-03 “so the catalog matches the factory” is how you buy a child no US shopper will type.

How a seller kits the shopper color on this carton

  1. Name the child ASIN this carton will land on. Write the factory code from the PDF — BK-03, Pantone, or C/N — on a scratch line so you can compare it to THIS pack. Do not paste that code into Seller Central yet.
  2. Photograph THIS carton’s shopper-facing color name, or the unit you will ship if the carton has no English callout. Fill the four-fact pad from that face and the insert. Add the color a US shopper will search. If a second carton in the pile prints a different shopper name, that carton is a different child.
  3. Photo the pad next to this carton. A screenshot of the factory PDF or a Pantone chip is not the exhibit. If you need a new color swatch or hero, shoot this unit — not the factory render that still says BK-03.
  4. Walk the Transformation Kit against this pad. Title leads with product type, the count you ship, and the shopper color. The color field uses that same name. Do not write the factory code, “C/N,” or a Pantone number so the spec sheet still looks synced.
  5. If leftover units labeled only with the factory code already sit on this same child, do not receive THIS pack onto that FNSKU until the live color field matches the shopper name. The kit does not relabel the warehouse for you. Mixed factory codes on one child are mixed defects.
  6. Run free optimize only if the English still hedges or the factory code leaked into a bullet. The free pass does not invent a color. It only cleans the words you already wrote from this carton.
  7. Save the listing, then create the inbound against this pad. If you want the paid pass on this child after the shopper color is honest, use Pro checkout. Paying does not turn BK-03 into matte black and does not promise rank.

The factory code stays in the folder. This shopper color is the listing

Keep the PDF for purchasing and dye-lot checks. Do not leave BK-03 in the title, the color field, or the backend if THIS carton prints a shopper name. If Friday’s next inbound is a new factory code that still maps to the same shopper color, confirm the unit, then keep this pad. If it maps to a different shopper name, that carton is a new child. Digital Dignity will not tell you the factory code is fine because the plant uses it. When this carton is honest and the next color is waiting, run the kit again on that unit.

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