Guidelines for Exporting Products To Amazon Seller Central using Amazon Marketplace Web Service (MWS)

In this blog we will learn about some important points that must be followed when we want to export products to Amazon Seller Central using Amazon MWS.

Suppose we have a prestashop site and also have a seller account at amazon. Now we want to export our prestashop catalog products to our amazon seller central.

So there are some points that must be followed when we will export our products.

1. For exporting product from prestashop to amazon, our product must have a valid UPC barcode, EAN-13 barcode or ISBN code.
2. We can also export product by any ASIN number of any amazon product.
3. Now we have to create a XML file with our product details i.e. product title, product description etc.
4. After XML file creation, we have to call submitFeed operation of Amazon MWS with Feed Type  _POST_PRODUCT_DATA_

Format of XML file for exporting products –

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<AmazonEnvelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="amzn-envelope.xsd">
  <Header>
    <DocumentVersion>1.01</DocumentVersion>
    <MerchantIdentifier>M_EXAMPLE_123456</MerchantIdentifier>
  </Header>
  <MessageType>Product</MessageType>
  <PurgeAndReplace>false</PurgeAndReplace>
  <Message>
    <MessageID>1</MessageID>
    <OperationType>Update</OperationType>
    <Product>
      <SKU>56789</SKU>
      <StandardProductID>
        <Type>UPC</Type>
        <Value>215452154215</Value>
      </StandardProductID>
      <DescriptionData>
        <Title>Example Product Title</Title>
        <Description>This is an example product description.</Description>
      </DescriptionData>
    </Product>
  </Message>
</AmazonEnvelope>

Update quantity and price of amazon product –

After submit feed of product, we have to update our product quantity and price and for this we need our product’s SKU (Reference code).

So we will again call submitFeed operation with Feed Type –

A.  _POST_INVENTORY_AVAILABILITY_DATA_ for Quantity update –

Format of XML file for updating Quantity –

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<AmazonEnvelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="amzn-envelope.xsd">
  <Header>
    <DocumentVersion>1.01</DocumentVersion>
    <MerchantIdentifier>M_EXAMPLE_123456</MerchantIdentifier>
  </Header>
  <MessageType>Inventory</MessageType>
  <PurgeAndReplace>false</PurgeAndReplace>
  <Message>
    <MessageID>1</MessageID>
    <OperationType>Update</OperationType>
    <Inventory>
      <SKU>56789</SKU>
      <Quantity>26</Quantity>
    </Inventory>
  </Message>
</AmazonEnvelope>

B.)  _POST_PRODUCT_PRICING_DATA_  for Price update –

Format of XML file for updating price –

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<AmazonEnvelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="amzn-envelope.xsd">
  <Header>
    <DocumentVersion>1.01</DocumentVersion>
    <MerchantIdentifier>M_EXAMPLE_123456</MerchantIdentifier>
  </Header>
  <MessageType>Price</MessageType>
  <PurgeAndReplace>false</PurgeAndReplace>
  <Message>
    <MessageID>1</MessageID>
    <OperationType>Update</OperationType>
    <Inventory>
      <SKU>56789</SKU>
      <StandardPrice currency="USD">100</StandardPrice>
    </Inventory>
  </Message>
</AmazonEnvelope>

You can get more information about submit Feed operation through Amazon MWS documentation – http://docs.developer.amazonservices.com/en_IN/feeds/Feeds_SubmitFeed.html