I'm a Amazon seller and sell dozens of different products.
Everyday I'm doing the same job: choose ASIN, send/replenish inventory, choose address, packing-type, quantity, box weight and dimensions, get UPS shipping label.
Trying to find some service to automate this process or maybe there is some ready script that I can give to my php developer and he could create this product.
By the way, I know about docs.mws .com and manuals (from 2009-2011).
Please advice
We were doing that manually at first, but a couple years ago, I created an application that uses the Fulfillment Inbound Shipment API. We pick the ASIN's, input weight/dimensions, get guidance, create shipping plans, shipments, download .pdf labels, everything from the API. There is a PHP client SDK that can help your developer get started very quickly.
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I'm looking into how to process customisation fields for Amazon orders and according to their MWS API Docs, if a customer chooses to personalise his order, then a URL to download this data comes down in the Order Item XML's BuyerCustomizedInfo node:
<OrderItem xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<ASIN>ABC123</ASIN>
...
<ConditionSubtypeId>New</ConditionSubtypeId>
<BuyerCustomizedInfo>
<CustomizedURL>https://zme-caps.amazon.com/t/ABC123/ABC123/1</CustomizedURL>
</BuyerCustomizedInfo>
</OrderItem>
My client has given me two such orders to look at, and when I click on those links all I get is
NoSuchURL: Url id 'ABC123' has expired or does not exist!
I know that the ZIP will contain JSON which I will have to parse and may also contain references to SVGs, and that I must also make the code extra robust when dealing with customisation fields.
Am I getting this error because these links are time sensitive or one time use only? Or is it something else?
First off I'm not a Developer, I'm an Amazon Seller - I found your question while doing research as I'm trying to figure out what is possible and sketch a plan for a similar system and then hire a Developer.
I've pasted some info that I had found from the US below - the implementation of Amazon Custom in the European Marketplaces may not be the same as in the US though.
In general it is very hard to get good info on anything to do with Amazon Custom and it seems to have a messed up logic of its own - feel free to ask anything though and I will help if I can.
First of all, make sure you have the most up to date Amazon MWS Orders API SDK. If you don’t and refuse to update, you can make a reports API for orders, and that’ll include the ZIP URL, but you’ll have to parse it and life will be hell.
Next, for the order, call ListOrderItems which you probably already do. You’ll see the customization in the response XML under BuyerCustomizedInfo -> CustomizedURL.
This is a ZIP. Download the zip using CURL, put plenty of checks and fallbacks in place because it will fail sometimes.
Extract the ZIP to a folder. Inside that folder there will be a json file.
Parse that JSON file and you’ll probably know where to go from there for putting that information into your system.
Depending on how you’ve configured your product, there may also be an SVG file that you’ll want to parse to get some customization info. Specially json->{‘version3.0’}->customizationInfo->surfaces (each surface)->areas. Each area should be a text line or image. At least that is how it is for how we’ve set up products.
As always, put lots of checks, try catches, fallbacks, and error alerts.
The links are time sensitive and expire after 6 months I think.
The links should be a little more complex and if that is exactly the link you are seeing it's incorrect.
You don't require any auth to download them and the easiest way to test them is via the MWS Scratchpad.
I'm trying to search some guidelines to create my first app for a price list. If I search on Google I find only ready system but I'd like to make something customized. My needs are to import a 3-4000 lines excel sheet for products with different measures and give to customers the possibility to make a quotation with their personal discount and place an order our make only a quotation for logged users. Instead for not logged user to see only product without prices. Then I don't know if it's better to make contents downloadable or to load all contents inside the app. I think it's better to download contents, so I can update prices directly without make them download each time an app update. Then a possibility to show some pop-up with products news, sometimes in a month. I'm yet practice with magento, WordPress and sql queries. I think The best for me is to find some kind of cms, for phone app, if they exist. Cross platform maybe the best. To understand something like wish or geek. I wait for your replies. Thank you guys!
I want to train nlc in such way that -
If I give an input as - "Sharpies" or "Cakes" or "iPhone6" then it should result in order as intent.
But it's not working for all the products, as intent should come for all the product names, where I would need to train NLC with few of product name and it will work for all the products (dynamically).
As we have thousands of products, how can get the intent as "order" for all products instead of adding all in ".csv" (Don't want to hard code all the product names)?
Can you please help me with this to retrieve the exact intent for all dyanmical products name as input to NLC?
What you are trying to do is not what NLC is intended for.
The purpose of intent is to understand what it is the end user is trying to achieve, not what products/keywords may appear in a sentence.
For example "I want to buy an iPhone" vs "I want to unlock my iPhone". Both mention iPhone but have two very different intents. In this case with training, you can distinguish between wanting to purchase, vs wanting to unlock.
One option you can try is looking at the Alchemy API entity extraction.
Another option is to use Watson Explorer Studio. But you will need Watson explorer to get it. There is Watson Knowledge Studio coming soon, which like WEX-Studio allows you to build custom annotators. You can use these annotators with UIMA to parse your text.
So you could easily build something to understand that "I don't want to buy an iPhone" is not the same as "I want to buy an iPhone", and have it extract iPhone as a product.
There is unsupported old free version of WEX-Studio called Languageware, if you want to see if that can help. That site contains manual and videos. Here is a video which I did that gives an example of how you would use it.
I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction. I'm pretty new to this, so forgive the newbyness.
I want to creat an auto response email based on what product my customer shows interest in. For example, if I fill out a form on a car dealership website for their Internet Pricing...I get an email telling me what that price is.
Right now when a customer fills out a form I receive an email as administrator that tells me the make, model and stock number.
I'm thinking I want to build a program that can recognize that stock number, affiliate it with a vehicle in a database along with the Internet price and return that value via an Email to the customer.
What direction should I go? Where should I start? Like I said I'm pretty new at this. I would maybe even be willing to hire this out if it's too overwhelming. Thank for the help!
Without any form of disrespect or anything - it probably is a wise idea to hire someone :)
you need to learn about databases, about using for example ASP.NET to develop the website, HTML/CSS for the layout of the website. you need to purchase products like Visual Studio which contains everything you need to start developing your idea/website and also the database engine like SQL Server. It really depends on what your current environment is like (i.e what database engine you are using) and what platform you want to use to develop your idea. This is pretty simple stuff from what you are describing to do but it sounds like you don't know how to start to develop simple code/software.... that's all. I am sure you can do it but requires a lot of training/teaching for you to "get there" :)
I am currently designing a reviews site for video games similar to gamespot am wondering where and if there is an online database that contains information such as name, publisher, release date etc with an API. I dont really want to have to enter each title manually or let users enter the title manually.
Where do these large sites get information like this? I wouldn't think it would be manually. I know for movies IMDB exists.
How would I go about adding it to my database?
Thanks
May I point you to web scraping?
Be sure to read the section legal issues and on well-behaved bots.
There's always Amazon and their product advertising API. Some older, but interesting code snippets can be found on this page.
If you know Perl, there is an amzing module called WWW::Mechanize
Pretty much you can write a script to get to any website and grab any data you need.
So for example you can go to www.gamespot.com, get list like the one below and put them in your database.
http://www.gamespot.com/games.html?platform=1029&mode=all&sort=views&dlx_type=all&sortdir=asc&official=all&tag=games%3Bfooter%3Bmore