Welcome to the Selling Partner API Blog

Welcome to the Selling Partner API Blog. Here you'll find articles from Amazon Solutions Architects and API experts covering a range of topics including customer stories, migration, best practices, tips and tricks, and much more.

Featured posts

• Streamlining Analytics with Amazon Selling Partner API Data Ingestion into a Data Lake
  Using SP-API with AWS serverless and managed services to easily process all your data
• Rotate your SP-API credentials using AWS
  This blog post explains how to rotate your SP-API credentials programmatically with AWS.
• Use a single SP-API application to authorize multiple Vendor Central accounts
  Use the self-authorization page in Vendor Central to authorize multiple vendor groups/Vendor Central accounts to a single application.

Getting started

• Getting started with Selling Partner API for vendors
  Summary of the APIs available for vendors on Selling Partner API and information on how to get started using the Selling Partner API.
• Choosing roles for your developer profile and SP-API application Understand what SP-API roles are and how to select the roles you need for your profile and application.
• Guidance to address key security controls in SP-API integration
  Guidance for developers to address ten key security controls when integrating with Selling Partner API and correlation of these controls to the applicable Data Protection Policy (DPP).
• How Vendors can use Selling Partner APIs to increase their performance SP-API solutions makes it easier to manage and optimize the vendor sales channel.
• Troubleshooting Selling Partner API authorization errors
  Context and troubleshooting tips for common error messages and codes that developers may encounter during the application authorization process for Selling Partner API.

Tutorials

• Use a single SP-API application to authorize multiple Vendor Central accounts
  Use the self-authorization page in Vendor Central to authorize multiple vendor groups/Vendor Central accounts to a single application.
• Automate your SP-API calls using C# SDK
  Tutorial to automate your SP-API calls with C# SDK with Login with Amazon (LWA) token exchange and authentication.
• Automate your SP-API calls using Java SDK
  Tutorial to automate your SP-API calls with Java SDK with Login with Amazon (LWA) token exchange and authentication.
• Create custom monitoring dashboards for SP-API apps in Postman describes how to use Postman to create a custom monitoring dashboard for Selling Partner API (SP-API) apps.
• How to Test Selling Partner API Endpoints explains how to test SP-API calls using selling partner sandbox endpoints.
• Event-driven architecture in Selling Partner API
  Use the Notifications API to to build an event-driven architecture.
• Manage your product listings lifecycle with Selling Partner API Simplify and manage your product listings lifecycle with SP-API.

Guidance and best practices

• Rotate your SP-API credentials using AWS
  This blog post explains how to rotate your SP-API credentials programmatically with AWS.
• Overview of usage plans and rate limits
  Overview of usage plans and rate limits and best practices for managing resources.
• Strategies to optimize rate limits for your application workloads
  How to use the defined rate limits for each SP-API operation in an optimized manner and strategies for managing API throttling in your applications workloads.
• Reducing API Calls with Batch Functionality
  Use the batch operations available in SP-API to reduce call volume and save resources.
• Ensuring Healthy Seller Account Status Seller account maintenance for maintaining a healthy status for SP-API calls.
• Manage your product listings lifecycle with Selling Partner API Simplify and manage your product listings lifecycle with SP-API.
• How Vendors can use Selling Partner APIs to increase their performance SP-API solutions makes it easier to manage and optimize the vendor sales channel.
• Security Audits: Best Practices and Readiness How to prepare for and successfully complete a security audit
• Prepare Your SP-API Application for Holiday Shoppers offers some tips to make sure your existing SP-API application is prepared for holiday shopping peaks that could potentially performance test your app.

Migration

• Selling Partner API migration for private developers
  Migrate from MWS to Selling Partner API.
• Migrate seller authorizations from MWS to SP-API
  Seamlessly migrate your seller authorizations to SP-API using the Selling Partner API for Authorization.

Troubleshooting

• Troubleshooting Selling Partner API authorization errors
  Context and troubleshooting tips for common error messages and codes that developers may encounter during the application authorization process for Selling Partner API.
• Strategies to optimize rate limits for your application workloads
  How to use the defined rate limits for each SP-API operation in an optimized manner and strategies for managing API throttling in your applications workloads.