Automating Selling on Amazon

Amazon's Home Page for MWS appears to be here aws.amazon.com
Amazon's developers page for their API: Amazon Marketplace Web Service (Amazon MWS)
login here under my amazon merchant email and passwor, then select "want to access my own Amazon seller account with MWS" and accept their agreement and it should yields all of my access codes.
apparently the Forum: Amazon Marketplace Web Service (Amazon MWS) is here. ... might need to be logged on to a webstore account to access.
the top of the MWS documentation is here.

Using the Amazon MWS client libraries

the next question: where do i get the php libraries? and their documentation?
found on stack overflow here, the following looks like good pointers ...

read the Developer Guide
read the Reports API Reference
RequestReport with some ReportType that will return order data (page 51 or so, look the reports api reference)
you can test this with the MWS Scratchpad
you can also post to the Amazon MWS community forum to get additional help

in particular Forum: Amazon Marketplace Web Service (Amazon MWS)

you can even write to the Amazon Tech Support

this writeup appears to be the best so far

: Access Orders with the Amazon Marketplace API from a ecommerce developer site outside of amazon.

the actual php library is here for download

the mws zip file has been unzipped on local mac under

~/speaktomecatalog.com/db/amazon_lib_unzipped/
~/speaktomecatalog.com/db/amazon1 ... where my app is progressing with the idental directory structure as the example
the program is here getAmazonOrders1.php

To confirm orders, follow the directions here,

modify tome/usps_respond.prg to output tab delimited template format
denise will upload that file to amazon here

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Seth says

seth 2013-05-02 14:54:31 16496

the first hurdle is getting the actual php library ... see request on forum

ok, Amazon fixed the download and i got the library now and my credentials to use it via the registration. Next, install it and see if i can run some of the examples. The plan is to allow denise to hit our php program which will put the amazon orders into our normal stream of orders from our own website. then our back office should't even be needed to be changed at all.

Seth says

i'm half way through editing ~db/amazon/.config.inc.php

Seth says

testing ~ListOrdersSample.php ... trouble with pathing

Seth says

seth 2013-08-01 13:51:21 16496

testing ~ListOrdersSample.php ... trouble with pathing

hung up on not being able to auto load the classess ... something wrong with the path

Seth says

if i get stuck ... freelancer ?

Seth says

trying to figure out how to change

set_include_path(get_include_path() . PATH_SEPARATOR . '../../.')

Seth says

testing ListOrdersSample.php

Seth says

seth 2013-08-09 12:03:08 16496

testing uploading the library just exactly with the same identical directory sturcture ... and then to test it invivo .... test here.

the good news, of course, is that i got way beyond my cannot find resources plauge.

Seth says

get order request still has a quiek in it ... but ListOrdersSample works

... ahhh sweet progress

Seth says

introduction to AWS from twitter.

Seth says

unfortunately amazon does not provide merchants with a unique identifier for the customer. so when we need to determine if we are shipping to the buyer, rather than somone the buyer is gifting, we need to guess. here are some guessing rules ... assume that there are two names

if the first name is the same, then there is no shipto
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Automating Selling on Amazon

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