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Amazon Fulfillment Web Service is comprised of three APIs, inbound, outbound, and inventory, each with its own WSDL. This API Reference contains a section for each API. For a description of what's new in this release of Amazon FWS API Reference, see What's New.

Audience

This guide is intended for developers who are building web-enabled applications that will use Amazon FWS to integrate listing, payment, or reconciliation tools with Amazon either to send inventory to Amazon fulfillment centers or to request the centers to ship inventory to recipients.

To use the Amazon FWS, you must have an Amazon AWS account and be signed up to use Amazon FWS. See the Amazon Fulfillment Web Service Getting Started Guide for instructions.

Required Knowledge and Skills

Use of this guide assumes you are familiar with the following:

You should also have read the Amazon Fulfillment Web Service Getting Started Guide, which includes a tutorial showing you how to set up the service and perform a basic request to get the service status.

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How This Guide Is Organized

This guide is organized into several major sections described in the following table.

Information Relevant Sections

Recent changes to the documentation

What's New

Comprehensive reference for the inbound API

Inbound API Reference

Comprehensive reference for the outbound API

Outbound API Reference

Comprehensive reference for the inventory API

Inventory API Reference

Error code information

Common Errors

Amazon FWS Resources

The following table lists related resources that you'll find useful as you work with this service.

Resource Description

Amazon FWS Getting Started Guide

The Getting Started Guide provides a quick tutorial of the service based on a simple use case. Examples and instructions for Java, C#, and PHP are included.

Amazon FWS Developer Guide

The Developer Guide describes how to use the service and all its features through its application programming interface

Amazon FWS Inbound Quick Reference Card

The inbound quick reference card gives a concise listing of parameters used for the inbound operations

Amazon FWS Outbound Quick Reference Card

The outbound quick reference card gives a concise listing of parameters used for the outbound operations

Amazon FWS Inventory Quick Reference Card

The inventory quick reference card gives a concise listing of parameters used for the inventory operations

Amazon FWS Release Notes

The Release Notes give a high-level overview of the current release. They specifically note any new features, corrections, and known issues.

Seller Central Help

The Seller Central Help page contains topical help and answers to common questions for tasks relating to selling on Amazon and using Amazon for fulfillment.

AWS Developer Resource Center

A central starting point to find documentation, code samples, release notes, and other information to help you build innovative applications with AWS.

Discussion Forums

A community-based forum for developers to discuss technical questions related to Amazon Web Services.

AWS Support Center

The home page for AWS Technical Support, including access to our Developer Forums, Technical FAQs, Service Status page, and (if you’re subscribed to this program) AWS Premium Support.

Product information about Amazon FWS

The primary web page for information about Amazon FWS.

Contact Us A central contact point for inquiries concerning AWS billing, account, events, abuse, etc.
Conditions of Use Detailed information about the copyright and trademark usage at Amazon.com and other topics.