CodeStart – Amazon Seller Central
Seller Central is Amazon Services' suite of Web Site and Storefront management tools. The storefront management tools can be used to upload and manage products on the Amazon.com Web site. The technology used for this process is done by exchanging XML feeds via the SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) message.
LANSA’s Amazon Web Services
LANSA’s Amazon Seller Central SOAP CodeStart offering leverages the powerful LANSA Integrator product to provide a professional automated solution to access Amazon.com's merchant platform functionality.
LANSA’s Amazon connector is built based on Amazon Services’ defined WSDL that processes multiple transaction types including:
- Product Catalog, which include pricing, images, and inventory management
- Order related feeds for order retrieval, adjustments, acknowledgement
- Order fulfillment and settlement
- Metric reports
Become an Amazon.com merchant
Amazon.com, widely renowned, international e-Commerce site, offering “Earth's Biggest Selection” enables access to their marketplace so that small and large businesses can advertise their products using web services.
Amazon.com deploys a variety of business models:
- Enabling sale of products from Amazon.com via other web sites
- Retailers post products on Amazon site, but process fulfillment directly
- Amazon builds and maintains branded sites for retailers.
Using these various models, Amazon.com gets sales commissions based on product sold while merchants get marketing exposure from ”Earth’s biggest” store.
About the LANSA CodeStart Program
CodeStart applications, frameworks and modules are licensed on an as-is basis with the source code included. There are no warranty or ongoing software maintenance fees or upgrades for these solutions. However, LANSA Professional Services provides implementation and technical support for the CodeStart applications on a billable time and material basis.