Amazon Webservices

Amazon Fulfillment Web Service (Amazon FWS) allows merchants to access Amazon.com’s world-class fulfillment capabilities through a simple web services interface. Merchants can programmatically send order information to Amazon with instructions to physically fulfill customer orders.

Functionality

With Amazon FWS, merchants can directly integrate with the FBA system, allowing them to automatically process shipments to Amazon and then out to customers. This functionality is contained in three key APIs: the inbound service, the outbound service, and the inventory service.

Inbound Service

The inbound service allows merchants to create and send inbound shipments of inventory to Amazon’s fulfillment centers.

Create shipments of inventory to Amazon fulfillment centers

Amazons tools make it easy for merchants to ship inventory to Amazon with everything from label creation to packing slips. Merchants in the U.S. can also take advantage of Amazon’s discounted UPS shipping rates.

Outbound Service

The outbound service allows merchants to use Amazon’s fulfillment processing for orders sold on the merchant’s website or other non-Amazon channels.

Submit fulfilment order/shipment requests

By integrating the outbound service API into merchant software, customer orders are processed in real time, informing Amazon what to ship and where to ship it.

Track and manage shipment requests

After orders leave our fulfillment centers, merchants can track shipments and keep their customers aware of arrival times.

Upload branding information

Merchants have the option of branding the packing slips on Amazon.com boxes so their customers always know who they are buying from.

Inventory Service

The inventory service allows merchants to stay up to date on the status of inventory in Amazon’s fulfillment centers.

Check Inventory Status

Merchants can discover when inventory items change status and get the current availability status to keep product listing information up to date.