I intend to develop a client for Amazon's Marketplace webservices (MWS). My requirements would be to update the order, synchronize the order status, get the order details using the APIs they have.
However, I could not find a Sandbox environment to test these scenarios. Amazon has a payment Sandbox I understand, but is there a sandbox available to test these web-services? If not, are there any pointers on how to go about testing the above mentioned scenarios with Amazon MWS?
UPDATE
As seen in the comments to this post, Amazon no longer provides a staging / test environment.
I just had a conversation via sellercentral ticket with an amazon employee.
They said:
We can provide you with a free Seller Central test account to be used in ungated categories only, which are the Amazon categories that do not require approval to sell in. For a list of ungated categories, please scroll down to the middle of the page here: http://www.amazonservices.com/content/sell-on-amazon.htm.
For orders:
After you’ve logged into the staging site, you then need to log into a real Amazon buyer account (not your staging account) to buy items. Then, navigate to the offers you’ve created. If you want to buy anything from your staging account (in order to test MWS order functionality) you will be using real credit card data, so make sure your offers are priced at only one cent, and your shipping is also set to one cent. These offers will not be visible on Amazon .com. Do not buy from any other sellers on the staging site.
So (conclusion): Just file a ticket** and tell them you want a seller central test account like this!
First register** for an account that you can access seller central with (please note, that some kind of accounts have a monthly fee, so choose a "per sale" plan. This fee won't be charged with your test account), then you can file the ticket (click the link above).
All resources about the MWS API are here.
** Replace ".com" with your local Domain for the Amazon Site you want a test (staging) account for.
You can use the scratchpad of Amazon:
scratchpad
good luck
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I recently configured Service Cloud for my organization and for the most part it is working great. We do have an issue I can seem to solve though. The first time an internal employee submits a case (email-to-case), there is not a contact record to associate with the case, so the help desk must spend time creating a contact record for the employee before they can proceed with resolving the case. Is there a way to automate or sync with Office 365 to create a contact record for each employee?
I have considered and/tested the options below, but none do what I want:
I have already set up and tested Einstein Activity Capture. This is a great tool but will not sync internal (same email domain) contacts into Salesforce.
I know I can automate an export from Office 365 into an AWS S3 Bucket and then use AWS AppFlow to create/update contact records. This one is feasible, but I have to imaging there is a way to integrate the two platforms without exporting data into a staging area.
I can't use anything that requires manual intervention, like Data Loader.
We have a java client for downloading orders from Amazon MWS.
We use:
MaWSJavaClientLibrary-1.1.jar
MWSClientJavaRuntime-1.0.jar
MWSOrders_2013-09-01_v2020-10-20.jar
We download an xml with users data, with also shipping details (address, city, zipcode and so on...)
Begining from half 2020, we didn't receive customer name and address anymore. I mean that those 2 tags in xml were not passed anymore. We realized that something was changed in Amazon MWS for GDPR and security reasons.
We compiled a form online where we sent to amazon lots of informations about how we use those data.
However, we have not understand what we have to do in order to get those data again in xml.
Our client continues to work as usual, beu we continue to get xml without customer name and address.
Last email from amazon says:
Good morning,
thank you for your reply. As this issue is unrelated to your Developer Profile role assignments, we recommend that you review the information available in the links below for information on this topic.
Since the new API for Sales Partners (SP-API) is officially available, we are no longer issuing new credentials for MWS and are not updating existing MWS access roles. From now on, it is possible to develop applications in multiple regions with a single set of SP-API credentials.
More information on SP-API can be found here:
https://developer.amazonservices.it
SP-API documentation on GitHub: https://github.com/amzn/selling-partner-api-docs
If you still need assistance on this topic, you can submit a MWS or SP-API technical support request here: https://developer.amazonservices.it/gp/mws/contactus.html
Thank you for selling with Amazon.
is there anyone that had same problem and can help us to retrieve those information again please?
Thanks
I'm trying to automate the addition to and management of our products on Amazon. Looking at the API documentation for the MWS API it doesn't look like there's a way to determine if a product has already been added to Amazon by another seller and if so what its attributes are.
We are building a new product database for all the products we sell and have a table specifically for Amazon attribute data fields (ASIN, etc.). If Product information is already on Amazon, we'd like to pull that data via API and store it to our own database as well.
If you attempt to add a product via CSV and that product already exists on Amazon (and your attributes are in any way different ("m" != "medium") you'll receive and error. In that case you can just piggy back that existing product information and just upload a CSV with your price and quantity for a particular ASIN/SKU/UPC. We'd like to do away with uploading CSV files and again, have our own product table for Amazon attributes.
Will I need to also leverage Amazon's Product Advertising API to determine this or can it be done via MWS?
The documentation for Amazon's APIs aren't exactly fantastic and it's been slow going trying to sort through it all.
We're working with Ruby.
Amazon's Merchant Web Services API is limited to your Merchant account. So the answer to your question is that yes you will need to use Amazon's Product Advertising API to get information about products that aren't already listed.
That being said you should be aware that there are new restrictions being placed on the Product Advertising API that will limit the number of calls that you can make on a daily basis to 2,000. In addition to this you will have to get an Associate ID that will be tied to your account and needs to be sent with any request.
Also, I find that the information collected using the Product Advertising API is sometimes out of sync with the site and have resorted to scraping the info from the site itself. This has more overhead but you can be assured that the data is current. Of course this is only useful if you already have an ASIN or are dealing strictly with books (which use the ISBN as an ASIN) or Music CDs (which I believe use the UPC as an ASIN).
The MWS Products API is where you will find this functionality. Specifically the GetMatchingProductForId operation.
http://docs.developer.amazonservices.com/en_US/products/Products_GetMatchingProductForId.html
(This API probably wasn't available at the time of the original question)
I have a website and I would like to implement a paid subscription service. Its a simple service with only 2 types of plans. For now, ill just use Paypal. But im a little lost before start, mainly with the data model.
My main question for now is, what information do I need to keep for each subscription? Do I need to implement a shopping cart for this (dont think so)? Im not asking for a detailed explanation, just a few lights or resources to find a way to start. Thanks.
Depends on what technology you're using. Basic payments work a bit like this
-> You send them to paypal with a plan (you define the plan on paypal)
they know which amount to charge
you can pass custom parameters which they will pass back
Customer fills in application
<- paypal tells you that your predefined plan got purchased
in this same request, they send a lot of info about the payment including a GUID and your params
-> you ask paypal "hey, some one just told me this plan GUID got purchased, can you confirm"
<- paypal service returns 'yes'
-> you take the customer's ID from the params that you attached when you sent them to the paypal service and update them to "paid" in the database, or whatever
That's it in a nutshell...
Look at any subscription card mailer from any magazine and you can get an idea of what kind of data you will have to record. Start and end date for the subscription would be a good thing to keep, and what kind of plan the user is subscribed to. Once you have the end date, you just need to run a query to get the records of the users that have access. Something like
Select * from users where subscription_end_date is >= today
I'm sure there will be a lot of other columns that will go into your final product, but that will be up to you to decide what data you want to keep. What are the different states that a subscription can be in? Can someone be subscribed to both services at the same time?
PayPal does a decent job if you want to charge the same amount every month. However, if you anticipate your users making changes to their subscription plans (upgrades/downgrades) or needing to provide credits to their account for customer support purposes, PayPal would require that you cancel the subscription...and then have the customer re-subscribe.
[Full disclosure - I am a co-founder of Recurly.com]
Recurly handles the upgrades and downgrades, and provides automated customer emails to be sent out to your customers (on your behalf) for every event confirmation, and invoice that occurs. You also have a full account management dashboard and reporting so that you don't need to build this yourself.
Best of all, if you ever decide to leave PayPal, and move your business to a standalone payment gateway, Recurly stores all of your credit cards in a PCI compliant vault so you don't need to ask you customers to come back and re-subscribe. (PayPal will not return your customer credit card information). You simply configure your new gateway in Recurly, and payments will be processed without any interruption to your business.
Here is a blog post we wrote on the topic:
http://blog.recurly.com/2010/08/top-ten-reasons-to-use-recurly-vs-paypal-for-recurring-billing/
-Best of luck.
-Dan
i am developing an affiliate site.
it uses linkshare and commission junction.
it is for our client. so i do not have any account with any network or agent. either with popshops or the networks.
the client has registered with popshops to display merchants.
when users click links we need to know which user had purchased which product by sending some information to affiliate networks using the sid option.
every thing fine except a sandbox.
how do we do a test drive with link share and commission junction?
else we have to wait till an user purchases a product.
any suggestion and comments would be helpful.
They don't offer a sandbox, you will need to just know what the API results will be.
It is pretty well documented, but that's all they offer.
If you want, I recommend buying something from one of your affiliates and use that piece of info for testing. Most affiliates don't mind, and I have never found anything in a contract that mentions the affiliate using their own link.