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An alphanumeric token that uniquely identifies a request sender. This ID is associated with your Secret Access Key.

An related items, such as a camera, its carrying case and USB cord.

In a shopping cart, this area contains the items that are ready to be purchased.

The feature by which Amazon relates seller items directly to retail catalog items and content. This feature leverages the retail buying experience and content to third-party seller items. .

(Amazon Standard Item Number ) An alphanumeric token generated and assigned by Amazon that uniquely identifies an item for sale by Amazon. ASINs are unique within a locale, not across locales..

A person(s) agreeing to exchange money for an item delivered by a seller.

An ensemble of related items, such as a coordinated set of sheets, pillow cases, and curtains.

(International Standardized Book Number) An alphanumeric token that uniquely identifies a book. A book's EAN is typically set equal to the book's ISBN

(Japanese Article Number) The equivalent of the EAN that is used in Japan for products and barcodes.

A region in which Product Advertising API is offered. In each locale, Product Advertising API offers support in the local language, currency, customs, and local shipping. Currently, there are six locales: CA, DE, FR, JP, UK, and US.

For the purposes of this document, a merchant is a third party who is selling on the Amazon.com web site but handles their own fulfillment. Merchants help expand the Amazon.com catalog of sellable items by providing Product Data for products Amazon.com currently has no data on, or relate their products to products already identified in the Amazon retail catalogs. Examples include Circuit City (both from a drop ship and in-store pickup point of view) and Ingram Micro (PC Store). For the purposes of the Bulk DP Creation project, "Merchant" does not include Toys R Us (since we carry all of their online inventory in our DCs).

a place, physical or otherwise, where merchants offer goods for sale, and customers accept offers, place orders and make purchases. It is the logical container for all data and attributes associated with an eCommerce site. A marketplace is identified by a globally unique MarketplaceId. Marketplaces may be specific to data centers, but they should be considered global. They have a default language code and currency code, but they should be considered capable of multi-lingual and multi-currency support in designs. Only Amazon's Marketplaces are country-specific due to legacy reasons.

An alphanumeric token that identifies a locale, for example, DE: A1PA6795UKMFR9), FR: A13V1IB3VIYZZH, or a large merchant, for example, Amazon: ATVPDKIKX0DER.

Item offered for sale. An offer is not associated with a merchant.

Offerings are the specific instances of a Merchant's possible stock items. A Merchant "can" have unique offerings for each product they carry and have either. A specific quantity associated with each product A stock availability state {In-Stock, Out-Of-Stock, Back-Ordered, Discontinued, Obsolete, On-Order, etc?} Saleable status is determined by positive inventory states of available quantity > 0, or ?In stock?. Offerings will have transactional rules (max quantity purchasable), condition types ('new', 'used'), and tax codes associated with them An offering is not a buyable entity on its own. An offering with an immediate availability relationship can be purchased. An Offering with a delayed availability relationship can only be ordered.

An item offered for sale by a specific seller or merchant.This is the inventory level specific buyable entity. It ties the merchant/customer, item, item location, pricing, and availability together. These currently represent items ?in-stock? that are essentially shipped at point of sale.

Something offered for sale. Each product has an ASIN. There may be many offerings for a particular product. Product is synonymous with "item".

Contains items that a customer has chosen to buy but are currently unavailable, or items that a customer has designated they want to save and buy later.

A key assigned to you by Amazon Web Services (AWS) when you sign up for an AWS account. Used for request authentication.

Sellers are individuals or companies that sell their own items. For most sellers, the items they sell must already be for sale on Amazon. The exception is the Amazon Advantage seller, who sells items that are not on Amazon.

A web site that allows merchants to manage their web sites and listings. Go to http://sellercentral.amazon.com

The purpose of Single Detail Page is to expose, for any given retail ASIN, all instances of a product that can be purchased from the Amazon.com site. The display for an ASIN would incorporate links to alternate purchase channels for the same item. For example a books detail page would list a new book from Amazon.com and used/rare/collectable editions from fixed price MarketPlace sellers.

(Stock Keeping Unit ) A merchant-specific identifier for a purchasable good, like a shirt or chair. Amazon's version of the SKU is the ASIN.

(Universal Product Code) A 12-digit item identifier used in the US and CA locales. The UPC is identifier used in barcodes.

A single version of a given product that has variations. A variant is an item defined by its product, and the unique set of property values from each property in the full set of required properties for that item.

Different versions of a given product. If a pair of pants is available in khaki and olive, then the pants are said to have two variations. Variations are one of the two types of product relationships we support (ensembles is the other).