Amazon Marketplace Web Service (Amazon MWS) is
an integrated web service API that helps Amazon sellers to
programmatically exchange data on listings, orders, payments, reports,
and more. Data integration with Amazon enables high levels of selling
automation, which can help sellers grow their business. By using Amazon MWS, sellers can increase selling efficiency,
reduce labor requirements, and improve response time to customers.
There are no fees associated with Amazon MWS,
but to use the Amazon MWS API you must have an
Amazon MWS-eligible seller account and you must
register to use Amazon MWS.
With Amazon MWS, you can build applications for
your own Amazon seller account. You can also build applications for
other sellers to help them manage their online business. Using Amazon MWS you can create applications that look up
products for sale, download orders for fulfillment, confirm shipment,
and schedule and receive reports. These API operations are accessible by
using a web service interface.
Amazon MWS provides the following features:
- Inventory management — You can perform batch uploads of inventory,
add products, check inventory levels, examine pricing information,
and other inventory management tasks.
- Order management — You can download order information, obtain
payment data, acknowledge orders, and schedule reports.
- Reports management — You can request a variety of reports as well as
query the status of these reports, and then download them.
For Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) sellers, Amazon MWS also allows you to:
- Create inbound shipments to an Amazon fulfillment center — You can
automate the process for creating labels for units you ship to a
fulfillment center.
- Check status of inbound shipments — You can check to see if your
shipment has reached a fulfillment center and, if so, whether the
shipment has been processed.
- Submit fulfillment orders — By integrating your system with Amazon MWS, you can enable your customers to
submit multi-channel fulfillment orders at any time. There is no lag
time while you process or batch orders.
- Track and manage outbound shipment requests — Once orders have left
an Amazon fulfillment center, you can track shipments and keep your
customers aware of arrival times.
The Amazon MWS API is divided into sections
based on functionality. The following is a summary of the API
organization. Further information can be found in the Amazon MWS API References.
| Feeds API |
| The Amazon MWS Feeds API lets you upload inventory and order data to Amazon. |
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| Finances API |
| The Finances API enables you to obtain financial information relevant to your business with Amazon. |
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| Fulfillment Inbound Shipment API |
| With the Fulfillment Inbound Shipment API, you can create and update inbound shipments of inventory in Amazon's fulfillment network. |
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| Fulfillment Inventory API |
| The Fulfillment Inventory API can help you stay up-to-date on the availability of your inventory in Amazon's fulfillment network. |
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| Fulfillment Outbound Shipment API |
| The Fulfillment Outbound Shipment API enables you to fulfill Multi-Channel Fulfillment orders, using your inventory in Amazon's fulfillment network. |
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| Merchant Fulfillment API |
| The Merchant Fulfillment API provides programmatic access to Buy Shipping Services for sellers, including competitive rates from Amazon-partnered carriers. |
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| Orders API |
| With the Orders API, you can build simple applications that retrieve only the order information that you need. |
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| Products API |
| The Products API helps you get information to match your products to existing product listings on Amazon Marketplace websites and to make sourcing and pricing decisions for listing those products on Amazon Marketplace websites. |
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| Recommendations API |
| The Recommendations API enables you to programmatically retrieve Amazon Selling Coach recommendations by recommendation category. |
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| Reports API |
| The Reports API lets you request various reports that help you manage your sales on Amazon. |
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| Sellers API |
| The Sellers API lets sellers retrieve information about their seller account, such as the marketplaces they participate in. Along with listing the marketplaces that a seller can sell in, the API also provides additional information about the marketplace such as the default language and the default currency. |
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| Subscriptions API |
| The Subscriptions API enables you to subscribe to receive notifications that are relevant to your business with Amazon. |
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| Push Notifications Schemas |
| The Amazon MWS push notifications enable you to receive information that is relevant to your business with Amazon without having to poll the Amazon MWS service. Instead, the information is sent directly to you when an event occurs to which you are subscribed (see the Subscriptions API). |
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