Using Amazon MWS as an e-commerce solution

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I'm currently looking into using Amazon Marketplace Web Services (MWS, https://developer.amazonservices.com/) as e-commerce solution for a client's website.

We will be putting this client's products on Amazon, the questions I have about MWS I have are as follows:

  • Is it possible to pull products from an Amazon Seller Account onto a non-Amazon seller website using MWS?
  • Is it possible to submit orders for those products on the non-Amazon seller website and have Amazon do all the payment processing and shipping?
  • Following the previous question, would it be possible to receive shipping updates for products customers order through this non-Amazon seller website?

I have been reading the MWS documentation and overview pages and it seems like MWS might be able to do everything I need, I just thought it would be nice to receive verification from someone who has worked with MWS before.

Thanks in advance.

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@ethankar a few month later, did it work out as you expected? Thank you - François Romain

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Is it possible to pull products from an Amazon Seller Account onto a non-Amazon seller website using MWS?

Yes. You can use MWS to "download" data from Amazon. I haven't done that myself (all integrations I've done are the other way around), but it seems, that there may be considerable lag if you do this through the reporting API.

Is it possible to submit orders for those products on the non-Amazon seller website and have Amazon do all the payment processing and shipping?

Yes. For payment processing, look at Amazon's payment solutions which are not part of MWS. Shipping can be done through MWS using the FBA (Fulfillment by Amazon) calls, such as CreateFulfillmentOrder.

Following the previous question, would it be possible to receive shipping updates for products customers order through this non-Amazon seller website?

Yes. You can get at least some shipping and tracking information for FBA shipments from Amazon, see GetPackageTrackingDetails. I'm not sure if the included tracking number will always be valid - and this may very well depend on your country / region / other stuff. Depending on the level of detail you require, you might have to integrate with that shipping service's API as well.