| SP-API |
The Selling Partner API (SP-API) is a suite of REST-based APIs that provides Amazon selling partners with programmatic access to their Amazon Seller Central account data. Among other things, data can be exchanged on listings, orders, payments, reports and more. The data integration with Amazon enables a high level of sales automation, which can help sellers grow their business. Additionally, the SP API can be used to create applications that help sellers manage their Amazon business. We have leveraged this opportunity to increase seller efficiency, reduce workload, and improve response time to customers by using the SP API. We use SP API data to connect to a seller's account in a secure way and import product details (prices, quantity, competitor list, etc.). The Selling Partner API is a modernization of Amazon MWS and includes all functionality previously available from Amazon MWS. |
| UPC |
Universal Product Code Is a up to 12 digit long code for trade items assigned by the manufacturer of the products, its successor is the 13-digit EAN. You can find them on the products as barcode. |
| EAN |
European Product Number Is a up to 13 digit code for trade items assigned by the manufacturer of the products, its successor is the up to 14-digit GTIN. You can find them on the products as barcode. |
| GTIN |
Global Trade Item Number Is a up to 14 digit code for trade items assigned by the manufacturer of the products, which it serves for classification on the world market. You can find them on the products as barcode. For example, each item in the supermarket has its own number, which is the same in all supermarkets. |
| ASIN |
Amazon Standard Identification Number is the Amazon catalogue number under which the items and offers are summarized. If a manufacturer from different factory locations supplies the same product, it may be that he assigns different EANs, even if, for example, a product receives a new design of the packaging.In this case, Amazon combines all EANs into one ASIN. Each individual item and each of its variations which is listed on Amazon has got a unique ASIN. This if how an ASIN looks like B082DDNXTM. |
| SKU |
The Stock Keeping Unit is the stock number or article number of the seller. So if a merchant offers his offer on Amazon, he assigns his SKU to an ASIN. It is possible that the seller receives the same product from 2 suppliers. Then he creates 2 SKUs for this. |
| MFN / FBM |
Merchant Fulfilled Network / FBM Fulfillment By Merchant Items on Amazon shipped by the seller himself are identified as MFN items. |
| FBA / AFN |
Fulfillment by Amazon / AFN Amazon Fulfilled Network Items on Amazon that are sold by individual sellers but shipped from Amazon's warehouse are identified as FBA items |
| SFP |
Stands for Seller Fullfilled Prime. Sellers on Amazon can use the Prime status for their items if they can provide same day delivery. In this case seller ships the item from his own warehouse but uses the Prime badge. |
| BuyBox |
When there are multiple sellers on Amazon based on the Amazon's metrics (Feedback, delivery time, Prime status, Stocks, Defect rate etc..) Amazon puts one seller in the buybox. "The Buy Box refers to the white box on the right side of the Amazon product detail page, where customers can add items for purchase to their cart. more than 80% of Amazon’s sales go through the Buy Box, and the percentage is even higher for mobile purchases. |
| Featured Merchant |
Sellers on Amazon who are eligible for the buybox are called Featured Merchants. |
| Sales Rank |
establishes how popular an item is on Amazon. The lower the rank the more popular that item is. Hence the rank is per category an item can have several sales rankings. |
| ePID |
eBay Product ID The epid is eBay's equivalent to Amazon's ASIN |
| Cassini |
Cassini is the search engine developed and used by eBay to find production on ebay. Cassini not only looks at the title and description of an item. It also looks at other characteristics such as category, price, item views, sales, etc. |
| MWS |
Amazon Marketplace Web Service (Amazon MWS) is an integrated web service API that helps Amazon sellers to programmatically exchange data on listings, orders, payments, reports, and more. Data integration with Amazon enables high levels of selling automation, which can help sellers grow their business. By using Amazon MWS, sellers can increase selling efficiency, reduce labor requirements, and improve response time to customers. We use MWS data to connect with a seller's account to import his product details (prices, quantity, competitors list etc…). Amazon MWS has been superseded by the Amazon Selling Partner API (SP API). |