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Sell on Amazon out of the catalogue your shops already use

Sign in at Seller Central once. Orders come in with their lines and the tax the marketplace charges, stock goes back on the offers you fulfil yourself, and the ones Amazon fulfils are tagged and left alone.

app.channekt.com - Amazon - acme_uk
Order 203-1234567-1234567£59.97 · three lines, fetched one call after the order imported
Stock sent for JK-4471-Mquantity 7, on the offer you fulfil yourself accepted
Stock not sent for LG-2210Amazon fulfils this one, so the quantity is Amazon’s FBA
Getting started

One sign-in at Seller Central, and nothing to paste here

1 one press

Sign in at Amazon

One consent screen in Seller Central. No password is typed here and none is kept, and you can withdraw the permission from your own account whenever you like.

Sign inconsentconnected
2 runs on its own

Orders come in

Every order with its lines, its tax read the way the marketplace charges it, and the ones Amazon fulfils tagged so they are never picked from your shelves.

Orders today 34 · fulfilled by Amazon 11
3 after every change

Stock goes back

One figure behind every channel, so a sale on eBay moves the Amazon offer too. A refusal is read out of Amazon’s answer and shown as one.

Offers kept in step 2,140
What moves

What Amazon sends, and what goes back

Orders

in

Incremental by last change. Amazon returns an order without its lines, so the lines are fetched for each one rather than assumed to have arrived.

Stock

out

Absolute quantities on the offers you fulfil yourself, and read back for the nightly comparison. Anything Amazon fulfils is left alone.

Listings

in

Read, so a SKU here can be matched to the offer it already has. Creating a new Amazon listing from this catalogue is not built, and is not claimed.

Worth knowing

Four things about Amazon that decide how this behaves

An order Amazon fulfils is imported and tagged, and never picked here or deducted from your own stock
Tax follows the marketplace, not the seller: amazon.co.uk prices include VAT and amazon.com prices do not, and the order is read accordingly
Amazon can refuse a stock update while still answering that the request succeeded, so the answer is read rather than the status code, and a refusal is shown as one
Amazon publishes a different rate limit for each operation - reading orders is one call a minute - and every answer is read for it rather than a fixed figure being assumed
Questions

Amazon, asked and answered

What do I need on the Amazon side?

A Seller Central account and one consent screen. You approve Channekt from your own account, nothing is typed here that Amazon did not issue, and the permission can be withdrawn from Seller Central at any time.

Will it handle FBA?

FBA orders come in and are tagged, so your sales and your reporting are whole. Their stock is not written: those units sit in Amazon’s warehouse and the quantity is Amazon’s to set, so anything sent would be overwritten within the hour. Stock goes out only on the offers you fulfil yourself.

Can I create new Amazon listings from my catalogue?

Not yet. Amazon’s product types each demand their own attributes, and doing that badly produces listings that are rejected or wrong. Stock, price and orders work against the listings you already have.

Why does an order sometimes show a town but no street?

Amazon treats a buyer’s name and street as restricted data and releases it only against a token issued for that order. Where it withholds it, Amazon answers with the town alone and no error at all, so the order says on its face that the address is incomplete rather than looking ready to ship.

Put your Amazon orders on the same list as the rest

14 days free, the whole product. Amazon, Shopify, eBay, WooCommerce and Magento behind one catalogue, one stock figure and one order book.