Amazon Seller Central
Learn about our Amazon Seller Central integration
Amazon Seller Central
is a platform that independent merchants use to sell their products on Amazon.
Our Commerce APIAPI A set of rules and protocols that allows different software applications to communicate with each other. Codat provides APIs for accessing financial data from accounting, banking, and commerce platforms. supports Amazon Seller Central and allows your linked customers to share their Amazon Seller Central data through Codat. You can then retrieve this data in the same standardized format as our other commerce integrations.
Set up the integration
See Set up the Amazon Seller Central Integration to learn how to set up and enable the integration.
Before setting up your Amazon Seller Central integration, you must complete all the requirements described in Amazon Web Services, IAM & Developer Registration.
Note that your application must be reviewed before you can start using the integration.
Important definitions
Amazon Seller Central is the platform that Amazon sellers use to run their Amazon business.
The Amazon Selling Partner APIAPI A set of rules and protocols that allows different software applications to communicate with each other. Codat provides APIs for accessing financial data from accounting, banking, and commerce platforms. is the APIAPI A set of rules and protocols that allows different software applications to communicate with each other. Codat provides APIs for accessing financial data from accounting, banking, and commerce platforms. on which Amazon Seller Central is built. This APIAPI A set of rules and protocols that allows different software applications to communicate with each other. Codat provides APIs for accessing financial data from accounting, banking, and commerce platforms. is an upgrade to the legacy Amazon Marketplace Web Service (MWS) APIsAPI A set of rules and protocols that allows different software applications to communicate with each other. Codat provides APIs for accessing financial data from accounting, banking, and commerce platforms., which are due to be deprecated at an unspecified date in the future.
Both in general and in this documentation, Codat refers to our Amazon integration as an integration with Amazon Seller Central. However it is important to note that the required developer registration with Amazon is for developer rights to the Amazon Selling Partner APIAPI A set of rules and protocols that allows different software applications to communicate with each other. Codat provides APIs for accessing financial data from accounting, banking, and commerce platforms..
For the sake of clarity when discussing developer registration in particular, this guide will use the exact name of the APIAPI A set of rules and protocols that allows different software applications to communicate with each other. Codat provides APIs for accessing financial data from accounting, banking, and commerce platforms..
The Selling Partner APIAPI A set of rules and protocols that allows different software applications to communicate with each other. Codat provides APIs for accessing financial data from accounting, banking, and commerce platforms. enforces rate limiting on incoming requests. Effectively, these limits work out to allowing 1 request per minute. Syncing commerce data at a high frequency – for example, once every 15 minutes – will likely exceed the rate limit and cause poor performance due to throttled requests. For optimal performance, we recommend setting the syncSync The process of fetching the latest data from a connected data source. Syncs can be triggered manually or run automatically on a schedule. frequency of the Amazon Seller Central integration to a long interval, such as daily or weekly.
Amazon Seller Central is a global platform with separate marketplaces in separate territories around the world. While merchants can sell in multiple marketplaces, each data connectionConnection A link between a Codat company and a data source (like an accounting platform). Each connection represents authorized access to pull or push data from that platform. is limited to a single marketplace being served by the Amazon merchant.
Your customers who sell in multiple territories can connect all their Amazon Seller Central marketplaces to Codat, but will need to go through the LinkLink The authorization flow that allows end users to connect their accounting, banking, or commerce platforms to your application via Codat. flow separately for each regional marketplace.