What is the required operating system?

TURBO PIRANHA™ currently runs on any Windows operating system. On the other hand, we highly recommend Windows 10 as the main operating system for the best performance.

What else do we need?

You need an Amazon Professional Seller account and an internet connection. You can either use your own developer account if you have or you can authorize TURBO PIRANHA™ and use our credentials by entering your MWS Auth token.

Do you offer perpetual license?

No, because we always improve our product, keep it up-to-date if Amazon changes anything and we want you to benefit from all updates immediately. On the other hand, if you want to subscribe yearly, we can offer 25% discount. Just contact us!

Do you have Mac or Web version?

Not yet but we’re currently working on both of them. Don’t forget to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Instagram and Pinterest to get latest updates!

Which marketplaces are supported?

You can authorize TURBO PIRANHA™ for North America (US, CA, MX, BR) and Europe (AE, DE, EG, ES, FR, GB, IN, IT, SA and TR) marketplaces. For other marketplaces, you must have your own developer account. For further questions, please contact us.

What is your refund and upgrade policy?

We don’t offer any full or partial refund. For this reason, we suggest you to start with our free version. You can test full functionality with our sample files. If you like it, you can subscribe one of our monthly models.

How can I contact you for support?

You can contact us using the contact form on this web site or you can email us using our support email address. We don’t offer any phone or live chat support at this time but if necessary we may call you to get more detail, so please share your contact information on your account page or in your message.

How fast can I get support?

If you contact us via email in our business hours, we usually reply your emails in 1-2 hours. Otherwise, it may take more but it usually doesn’t exceed 24 hours. If there is any technical issue which requires a patch or update and prevents you to use TURBO PIRANHA™, we extend your license for those days.

Invest in Profitable Products with Amazon Sales Estimator

For Amazon sellers, Best Seller Rank (BSR) and estimated monthly sales (EMS) are very important while deciding to invest in a product or not.

BSR information is shared by Amazon, but this is not true for the estimated monthly sales numbers. They are kept as a secret. For this reason, the estimated monthly sales numbers given by different sources always conflict with each other, so most of the Amazon sellers do not trust these numbers at all, including our numbers.

In this article, we’ll discuss the reasons for these differences and discrepancies and explain our approach to give you more flexibility.

Amazon Product Categories

There are many product categories and subcategories of them on Amazon. Most of the products are listed under more than one category or subcategory by default. On the other hand, there is no balance in the listing counts of these categories. Some popular categories like books and clothing have more than 50,000,000 items but some others like Appliances have less than a half-million listings. For this reason, knowing only the best seller ranking information can be misleading most of the time, because even a 1 million BSR may mean a decent monthly sales amount in the Books category but 5,000 BSR may mean almost zero sales in the Appliances category.

Estimated Monthly Sales (EMS) Calculation Methods

Due to the need that we explained above, many software solutions that serve Amazon Professional Sellers have their own algorithms to estimate the sales numbers for these categories and subcategories. There are many methods to estimate these numbers and also verification algorithms. For instance, picking some private label products in each category as a reference point and following their real sales numbers from the sales reports or tracking the total inventory of the products of many items in different categories by web scraping, etc. Since each and every company uses different approaches, there is no way to list all of them here and evaluate if they are good at this or they are just “guesstimates”.

The most critical point is that EMS numbers are always changing in each and every month. Regular months are totally different than special time periods like Prime Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. For this reason, even if one of these solutions gives you a perfect number for a regular month, it most probably fails for the next month. That’s the main reason why we hear from our customers that “the numbers of Software X is better than the numbers of Software Y” in some months and the exact opposite in some other months. Even better, if the seller sells in more than one marketplace, they may say that Software X is better in the UK and Germany but in the US and Canada, software Y is definitely the best.

Amazon Sellers say these very frequently because they know their own real sales numbers and when these estimates are in parallel with the real numbers they support a software solution or start to criticize if there is a huge difference between the real and estimated numbers.

What is the approach of Turbo Piranha?

We’re doing our best to give you the most accurate numbers all the time using various data collection and verification methods and update these numbers as needed but as we explained some of the reasons above, there is no perfect way to give you 100% correct numbers and make you fully satisfied with just numbers even if we update them regularly and frequently.

For this reason, we have gone a little bit further and made our numbers editable. In this way, if you appreciate our estimations you can continue to use our numbers but if you are pretty sure about your numbers are better for some categories based on your experience or real sales numbers, you can just edit those numbers and Turbo Piranha calculates estimated monthly sales using your numbers after that point. Even better, you can replace all these numbers with the numbers of another software company, if you trust their numbers more.

How to edit the estimated monthly sales?

To change these numbers per your needs, please follow the steps and also check the images carefully. In the sample below, we will update the numbers of the Beauty category in Amazon Germany (DE) marketplace.

Open C:\ProgramData\TURBOPiranha\BSR.json file with a decent free text editor, such as Notepad++. (Notepad is also good and enough, but you can easily collapse or expand the nodes with Notepad++ which makes your edits easier)
There are categories and BSR numbers for each country. Please find DE for the DE marketplace and collapse other nodes.
Now, find the Beauty category and their BSR numbers.
Change the numbers based on your sales numbers and save your changes.
Restart the Turbo Piranha if it was already running. It will start to use your updated numbers in the next analysis processes.

Return to Factory Settings

At some point, if you want to return to our default values, just delete this file (BSR.json) and Turbo Piranha will create it from scratch with its default values.

If you have further questions, please contact us.