Amazon Product Advertising API Developer's Manual page 476

marketplace
MarketplaceId
minimum advertised price
(MAP)
offer
Offering
OfferListing
Product
SaveForLater
Secret Access Key
seller
Seller Central
Single Detail Page (SDP)
Product Advertising API Developer Guide
identified in the Amazon retail catalogs. Examples include Circuit City (both from
a drop ship and in-store pickup point of view) and Ingram Micro (PC Store). For
the purposes of the Bulk DP Creation project, "Merchant" does not include Toys
R Us (since we carry all of their online inventory in our DCs).
a place, physical or otherwise, where merchants offer goods for sale, and
customers accept offers, place orders and make purchases. It is the logical
container for all data and attributes associated with an eCommerce site. A
marketplace is identified by a globally unique MarketplaceId. Marketplaces may
be specific to data centers, but they should be considered global. They have a
default language code and currency code, but they should be considered capable
of multi-lingual and multi-currency support in designs. Only Amazon's Marketplaces
are country-specific due to legacy reasons.
An alphanumeric token that identifies a locale, for example, DE:
A1PA6795UKMFR9), FR: A13V1IB3VIYZZH, or a large merchant, for example,
Amazon: ATVPDKIKX0DER.
The minimum price that a manufacturer allows a product to be advertised at.
Item offered for sale. An offer is not associated with a merchant.
Offerings are the specific instances of a Merchant's possible stock items. A
Merchant "can" have unique offerings for each product they carry and have either.
A specific quantity associated with each product A stock availability state {In-Stock,
Out-Of-Stock, Back-Ordered, Discontinued, Obsolete, On-Order, etc?} Saleable
status is determined by positive inventory states of available quantity > 0, or ?In
stock?. Offerings will have transactional rules (max quantity purchasable), condition
types ('new', 'used'), and tax codes associated with them An offering is not a
buyable entity on its own. An offering with an immediate availability relationship
can be purchased. An Offering with a delayed availability relationship can only
be ordered.
An item offered for sale by a specific seller or merchant.This is the inventory level
specific buyable entity. It ties the merchant/customer, item, item location, pricing,
and availability together. These currently represent items ?in-stock? that are
essentially shipped at point of sale.
Something offered for sale. Each product has an ASIN. There may be many
offerings for a particular product. Product is synonymous with "item".
Contains items that a customer has chosen to buy but are currently unavailable,
or items that a customer has designated they want to save and buy later.
A key assigned to you by Amazon Web Services (AWS) when you sign up for an
AWS account. Used for request authentication.
Sellers are individuals or companies that sell their own items. For most sellers,
the items they sell must already be for sale on Amazon. The exception is the
Amazon Advantage seller, who sells items that are not on Amazon.
A web site that allows merchants to manage their web sites and listings. Go to
http://sellercentral.amazon.com
The purpose of Single Detail Page is to expose, for any given retail ASIN, all
instances of a product that can be purchased from the Amazon.com site. The
display for an ASIN would incorporate links to alternate purchase channels for
the same item. For example a books detail page would list a new book from
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