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Amazon-MWS-0.120
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NAME

Amazon::MWS - Perl interface to Amazon Marketplace Web Services

VERSION

0.120

DESCRIPTION

See Amazon::MWS::Client

MWS in practice

Product price

Every product uploaded needs a price of 0.01 or higher, otherwise you get the following error:

0.00 price (standard or sales) will not be accepted.
Please ensure that every SKU in your feed has a price at least equal to or greater than 0.01

Shipping costs

You need to configure the shipping costs in Amazon Seller Central, you can't pass them through MWS:

https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/shipping/dispatch.html

Stuck uploads

There is no guarantee that Amazon finishes your uploads at all. We had uploads stuck for at least a week.

Multiple marketplaces

You can use this module and the uploader for multiple Amazon marketplaces. Please make sure that you disable Amazon's synchronisation between marketplaces.

For marketplaces with a different currency you need to convert your price first.

The list of marketplaces can be found at:

http://docs.developer.amazonservices.com/en_US/dev_guide/DG_Endpoints.html

Throttling and Quota

With Amazon MWS you have to deal with Amazon throttling your uploads and imposing quotas.

Possible reasons:

Upload too often
Stuck uploads
Orders with orderlines

Throttle Reponse

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<ErrorResponse xmlns="http://mws.amazonaws.com/doc/2009-01-01/">
  <Error>
  <Type></Type>
  <Code>RequestThrottled</Code>
  <Message>Request is throttled</Message>
</Error>
<RequestID>a7b39ee6-4f76-48ee-92f1-43bc54f693df</RequestID>
</ErrorResponse>

Quota Exceeded Error Response

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<ErrorResponse xmlns="http://mws.amazonaws.com/doc/2009-01-01/">
  <Error>
    <Type></Type>
    <Code>QuotaExceeded</Code>
    <Message>You exceeded your quota of 80.0 requests per 1 hour for operation Feeds/2009-01-01/GetFeedSubmissionList.  Your quota will reset on Thu Dec 18 07:39:00 UTC 2014</Message>
  </Error>
  <RequestID>5115e00d-35a8-4589-8083-f0ef998f76ef</RequestID>
</ErrorResponse>

Upload Errors

Error 8572: Incorrect UPCs/EANs/...

error: You are using UPCs, EANs, ISBNs, ASINs, or JAN codes
that do not match the products you are trying to list. Using incorrect UPCs,
EANs, ISBNs, ASINs or JAN codes is prohibited and it can result in your ASIN
creation privileges being suspended or permanently removed.

This happened in our case with products having self assigned EAN codes, but with a well known manufacturer. Apparently Amazon knows about the EAN ranges for this manufacturer.

Uploader Module

Amazon::MWS::Uploader is an upload agent for Amazon::MWS.

XML Modules

Generic Feed

Amazon::MWS::XML::GenericFeed

Feed

Amazon::MWS::XML::Feed

Product

Amazon::MWS::XML::Product

Address

Amazon::MWS::XML::Address

Order

Amazon::MWS::XML::Order

OrderlineItem

Amazon::MWS::XML::OrderlineItem

AUTHORS

Paul Driver Phil Smith Marco Pessotto Stefan Hornburg (Racke)

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.