Amazon Selling Partner API for Sellers and Vendors

Amazon Selling Partner API (SP-API) is the new API that replaces the legacy Amazon Marketplace Web Service (MWS) API. The Selling Partner API is a REST-based API that helps Amazon selling partners programmatically access their data on orders, shipments, payments, etc.

For more detailed technical information, please refer to the SP-API documentation.

Pre-requisites

You need your email and password.

For OEM Customers Developing Their Own Applications

Select a Selling Region, Marketplace, and provide your LWA credentials (client identifier, client secret, refresh token), AWS credentials (access key ID, secret key, IAM ARN, STS region), and click on the Connect button. For information on registering as a developer for SP-API, please refer to the SP-API documentation. If you have any questions, please get in touch with our support team.

How to Connect

Select a Selling Region, Marketplace, and click the Login with Amazon button. Log in with your Amazon Seller Central primary account, and finish the integration.

Usage

1. Select the Amazon Selling Partner data source:

2. Connect the Amazon Selling Partner data source:

3. Select a template or a table from the created data source:

4. Fill in template properties. Please note that the marketplace identifier specifies the marketplace where the product will be stored. If you need to have more than one marketplace, leave the field empty:

5. Configure your data pipeline and create a job. The template/table will be in a running state once it has been created, and the data will be loaded to the configured Data Warehouse:

6. Now you can run jobs, edit jobs, view history, disable jobs, and delete jobs from the Jobs menu anytime:

7. Job execution status can be checked using the Dashboard, where you also have the options to run the job, edit job, view history, disable job, and delete job:

Best Practices for Using Amazon Selling Partner 

Best Practices Templates

Best practices template sets create several replication jobs and schedules at once, according to the known best practices for the connector:

Order data (via slow API), popular FBA reports, and settlement data best practice template includes the following job templates:

• Active Listings

• FBA Fee Preview

• FBA Manage Inventory

• FBA Reserved Inventory

• Financial Events

• Flat File Orders by Last Update

• Orders

• Restock Inventory

• Settlement

Fine order data, delivered via slow API best practice template includes the following job templates:

• Orders

Slow Order API's slowness is due to Amazon's rate limitations. The documentation for the rate limits is available at the following links:

https://developer-docs.amazon.com/sp-api/docs/orders-api-v0-reference#getorders
https://developer-docs.amazon.com/sp-api/docs/orders-api-v0-reference#get-ordersv0ordersorderidbuyerinfo
https://developer-docs.amazon.com/sp-api/docs/orders-api-v0-reference#get-ordersv0ordersorderidaddress
https://developer-docs.amazon.com/sp-api/docs/orders-api-v0-reference#get-ordersv0ordersorderidorderitems
https://developer-docs.amazon.com/sp-api/docs/orders-api-v0-reference#get-ordersv0ordersorderidorderitemsbuyerinfo

Suggested Frequencies for Different Job Templates

The expected performance of the Orders job template is 10,000 orders per 24 hours according to API rate limits. We recommend considering the Flat File Report job template as an alternative.

Jobs Templates

For usage information, please refer to the Jobs Templates subpage.

Help

Should you have any questions, we are always happy to help! Please email or contact us via the support chat inside the product.