Thursday, March 20, 2008

Amazon Rolls Out Fulfillment Service API

Amazon.com has rolled out a new interface for the firm's fulfillment service for online merchants. The new service, dubbed Amazon Fulfillment Web Service (Amazon FWS), provides a web application programming interface (API) that allow the firm's merchants to access information and integrate with Amazon's fulfillment service, Fulfillment By Amazon (FBA). Fulfillment By Amazon--which has been running since last fall--lets Amazon handle all of the fulfillment, packing, and shipping of inventory for online retailers. The new API is free for Amazon's Fulfillment By Amazon customers, who already pay fees for using FBA. The latest API is one of many from Amazon, which let third party programmers access Amazon inventory and product information, store data, and run applications.