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Amazon Marketplace Web Service (Amazon MWS) enables sellers to easily exchange data supporting their listings and sales on Amazon.com through an integrated Web service API. Sellers can programmatically exchange data on listings, orders, payments, reports, and more. XML data integration with Amazon enables higher levels of selling automation, which helps sellers grow their business. By using Amazon MWS, sellers can increase selling efficiency, reduce labor requirements, and improve response time to customers.

Amazon MWS supports seller API functions that are broader in scope and functionality than any API functionality previously offered to sellers by Amazon, which will ultimately help sellers gain efficiency and scale their business. With Amazon MWS, Amazon listing, order, and payment data can be integrated into a seller's existing workflow so that selling on Amazon fits seamlessly with a seller's current business practices.

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Amazon MWS Functionality
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Amazon MWS Functionality

With Amazon MWS, sellers can integrate Amazon inventory, order, and reporting functionality to make it easier to list new products, manage inventory, and fulfill orders. The functionality MWS provides to sellers can be summarized as follows.

Listing Management

Amazon MWS supports the management of seller listings for items to be sold on Amazon.com. Listings can be added, deleted, or modified with Amazon MWS. A variety of specialized feed formats are supported to meet a wide range of seller needs. For example, new products can be added to the Amazon catalog by using MWS supported feeds to define new product detail pages on Amazon.com. High volume changes such as product price and quantity updates can be updated using a simplified price and quantity feed that minimizes the data that sellers must provide.

Order Management

Amazon MWS supports the management of seller orders for items sold on Amazon.com. Orders received can be downloaded and acknowledged using Amazon MWS. A variety of order report formats and actions are supported to meet specific seller needs. For example, order reports can be set up for automatic generation following a schedule that's optimized to match seller workflow.

Feeds and Reports Management

Amazon MWS supports data exchange using more than 20 feed and report types.

Supported Feed Types

Supported feed types include; product feed, relationships feed, single format feed, shipping override feed, product image feed, pricing feed, inventory feed, and various order feeds.

Supported Report Types

Supported report types include; order reports, open listing reports, fulfilled inventory reports, and various merchant listings reports.

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Service Highlights

Flexible

Amazon MWS offers a compelling opportunity for developers to integrate with Amazon's selling platform. Amazon MWS functionality exceeds that of previous seller-oriented APIs from Amazon. Amazon MWS represents an extensible set of API functions, which accommodate functionality that grows over time. Amazon MWS allows you to manage all aspects of seller business: listings, orders, payments, refunds, and more.

Scalable

Amazon MWS scales with your business, allowing you to manage just a few items a week up to millions of orders per year. Amazon MWS enables your business to grow by supporting programmatic data exchange and increased selling automation.

Secure

Amazon MWS requires encrypted data exchange with data integrity checking to protect against compromises in data security and loss of data quality during transmission.

Pricing

There is no additional charge to use Amazon MWS. However, either a Pro Merchant or Seller Central account is required (unfortunately, Amazon MWS is not available to individual Marketplace sellers at this time). To learn more about getting an Amazon selling account, please visit Amazon Services.

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Getting Started Guide (HTML) (PDF) (CHM)
Developer Guide (HTML) (PDF) (CHM)
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Detailed Description

Feeds

SubmitFeed: The SubmitFeed operation uploads a file for processing together with the necessary metadata to process the file.

GetFeedSubmissionList: The GetFeedSubmissionList operation returns a list of feed submission IDs that match the query parameters.

GetFeedSubmissionListbyNextToken: The GetFeedSubmissionListByNextToken operation returns a list of feed submissions that match the query parameters, using the NextToken.

GetFeedSubmissionCount: The GetFeedSubmissionCount operation returns a count of feed submissions.

CancelFeedSubmissions: The CancelFeedSubmission operation cancels one or more feed submissions.

GetFeedSubmissionResult: The GetFeedSubmissionResult operation downloads one of the documents created as the result of submitting a feed, including the feed processing report.

Reports

RequestReport: The RequestReport operation requests the generation of a report, which creates a report request.

GetReportRequestList: The GetReportRequestList operation returns a list of report requests.

GetReportRequestListByNextToken: The GetReportRequestListByNextToken operation returns a list of report requests that match the query parameters, using the NextToken.

GetReportRequestCount: The GetReportRequestCount returns a count of report requests.

CancelReportRequests: The CancelReportRequests operation cancels one or more report requests.

GetReportList: The GetReportList operation returns a list of reports that are available for the seller to download.

GetReportListByNextToken: The GetReportListByNextToken operation returns a list of reports that match the query parameters,using the NextToken.

GetReportCount: The GetReportCount operation returns a count of reports available for the seller to download.

GetReport: The GetReport operation returns the contents of a report.

UpdateReportAcknowledgements: The UpdateReportAcknowledgements operation updates the acknowledged status of one or more reports.

ManageReportSchedule: The ManageReportSchedule operation creates, updates, or deletes a report schedule for a particular report type.

GetReportScheduleList: The GetReportScheduleList operation returns a list of report schedules.

GetReportScheduleListByNextToken: The GetReportScheduleListByNextToken operation returns a list of report schedules that match the query parameters, using the NextToken.

GetReportScheduleCount: The GetReportScheduleCount operation returns a count of report schedules.

Intended Usage and Restrictions

Your use of this service is subject to Amazon Services Terms of Use

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