As we all know, Amazon is one of the biggest eCommerce marketplaces in the world. Amazon’s net sales revenue in 2022 was 513.98 billions of U.S. Dollars and it continues to grow exponentially every year.
You are maybe a seller on Amazon, or at least probably heard there are many sellers on this huge marketplace. Did you ever wonder if you can access the data on Amazon programmatically and build custom softwares on it? Today we’ll talk about how you can achieve this and what you can do with it.
Amazon SP (Selling Partner) API
As stated in Amazon’s official website, Amazon SP API is:
REST-based API that helps Amazon selling partners programmatically access their data on orders, shipments, payments, and much more. Applications using the SP-API can increase selling efficiency, reduce labor requirements, and improve response time to customers, helping selling partners grow their businesses.
This means you can build applications that can help you to scale your business, various automatization and data analytics & visualization interfaces, and anything you can think of using the data on a seller’s account.
These are some of the APIs you can find on Amazon SP API:
Finances, Listings, Product Pricing, Messaging, Sales, Reports, Orders, Shipping, Notifications, …
Please check out here to see all the available options you have: https://developer-docs.amazon.com/sp-api/
How You Can Access to Amazon SP API?
Before diving into this topic, please note that registering as a developer varies slightly depending on the type of application that you plan to create:
- Private Seller Applications: For sellers who want to create custom (private) applications.
- Private Vendor Applications: For vendors who want to create custom (private) applications.
- Public Seller and Vendor Applications: For sellers or vendors who can authorize using OAuth to a publicly available application.
As stated in Amazon’s official website, Only Professional Selling Accounts can register to develop or integrate with Selling Partner API. Individual accounts are not eligible.
To get started as a Private Developer, you should follow these steps:
- Register as an Amazon Seller
- Create Developer Profile
- Request Data Access
- Create and self-authorize a private SP-API application
- Connect to SP-API and call SP-API endpoints
- Start automating!
More info about registering as a private developer: https://developer.amazonservices.com/private-developer
More info about registering as a public developer: https://developer.amazonservices.com/getting-started-guide
What You Can Build With It?
When it comes to building applications to increase seller performance and making their lives easier with custom softwares, I’d say there is no limit on what you can build. It is crucial to note that different sellers have different types of needs and addressing them separately needs a professional approach to create applications which are both efficient & scalable.
Here’s some examples that you can achieve to build with SP API:
- Custom Reports & Dashboards
- Web Scraping and Data Analytics & Visualization Tools
- Automatic Invoice Generation
- Orders and Shipment Management
- Fully Automatized Emails to Stay in Contact with Customers
- Listings Management
You can always reach out to us to learn more and to build applications that is specific to your needs as a seller. We, EcommerceTechHub, are a software agency helping sellers to create custom software solutions and developing high-level, customized Web & Desktop applications that will help your efficiency and performance while selling on Amazon & other eCommerce marketplaces.
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