Welcome to the Amazon External FulFillment API Documentation¶
Welcome to External FulFillment API Documentation. Learn how to get started and build applications with Amazon's REST-based External FulFillment-API.This guide will help you integrate External FulFillment API to connect a seller’s ERP/WMS/POS system with the Amazon SmartConnect product using a set of RESTful APIs. Apart from the Amazon External API documentation, sections in this guide will describe how to on-board with Amazon SmartConnect and how to enable sellers to authorize your application to invoke Amazon External FulFillment APIs on their behalf.
How to get help¶
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What is External FulFillment API?¶
The external fulfilment API (also known as SmartConnect API) enables selling partners to fetch customer orders across multiple fulfilment programs (Eg. Seller Flex, Easy Ship, Pharmacy, MLF) and process them using a standard set of APIs. Additionally, selling partner can also manage their inventory updates and reconcile their returns using same set of APIs. SmartConnect offer 3 APIs – a) Inventory APIs – to update inventory; b) Shipment API – to fetch customer orders and process them; and c) Returns API – to get return details. These are Synchronous and Rest APIs. Currently SmartConnect supports 8 different fulfilment programs within Amazon.