SP-API General FAQ

Yes, only Professional Selling Accounts can register to develop or integrate with Selling Partner API. Individual accounts are not eligible. You can upgrade your account to a professional plan at any time. You can view your selling plan type and the marketplace information under Your Services in Account info. Vendors can register as private developers on Vendor Central. For more information, refer to Registering as a developer.

Yes, Making sandbox calls to the SP-API is identical to making production calls except you direct the calls to the SP-API sandbox endpoints. Calling the sandbox endpoints returns static, mocked responses for all Selling Partner APIs. Sandbox endpoint allows you to test your applications without affecting production data or triggering real-world events. Vendors can register as private developers on Vendor Central. For more information, refer to Registering as a developer.

No. When you submit changes to update a developer profile, a new case will be created. Depending on the feedback you get on the case, you will need to update/modify your profile by the due date provided in the reply.

Review usually takes at least two weeks. If you don’t have restricted (PII) roles and are applying to them for the first time, review will take longer. Amazon needs to review the restricted (PII) roles with the latest ADP, which is frequently updated.

For the Authorization workflow to work correctly (in both the Amazon Selling Partner Appstore and Website workflows), the SP-API application must include both the OAuth Login URI and Redirect URI details. Failure to add information for either of these fields results in the Confirm button not working.

When you authorize your own seller account using the OAuth workflow process, no MWS Auth Token is returned.

The OAuth Login URI defines the login page of your website during authorization. This URI is shown after a seller consents to authorize your application.

The OAuth Redirect URI is used to redirect the browser to your application after authorization. You can specify more than one redirect by including the redirect_uri parameter in the OAuth URL. If the redirect_uri parameter is not specified, it will default to the first OAuth Redirect URI you’ve defined.

Note: OAuth Redirect URI does not support localhost: URIs. You must specify both the OAuth Login URI and the OAuth Redirect URI to successfully save them to your App registration.

No. However, sellers will receive an email with a reminder to re-authorize their SP-API app 30 days before the expiration.

You can implement OAuth authorization with either the Selling Partner Appstore authorization workflow or the Website authorization workflow.

The process to publish your application:

1. Access Developer Central.
2. For the existing app to be updated, select Create listing from the pull down list Edit App for the app you want to list.
3. Enter the app info.
4. Submit your app.

Note: It usually takes more than two weeks to complete the whole process and publish the app.

No. The existing application will not be affected during the publishing process. After the changes are approved and published, the new version will display to customers.

No. As of May 2024, we have shut off all usage of MWS for selling on Amazon. You can no longer use MWS Access Keys in apps. For more information on the MWS to SP-API migration, refer to the July 2022 MWS deprecation announcement.

When a selling partner signs in to your website (Step 3 in the Selling Partner Appstore authorization workflow), your application loads the Amazon callback URI into the browser and adds the redirect URI, the amazon_state parameter, and the state parameter.

To use multiple redirect URIs for your app, you must add the OAuth Redirect URIs when you register your app. Note that both the OAuth Login URI and the OAuth Redirect URI(s) values must be specified to successfully save them to your app registration. OAuth Redirect URI does not accept localhost: URIs.

When your app is configured with multiple redirect URIs, pass the redirect URI that you want to use as a query parameter in Step 3 in the Selling Partner Appstore authorization workflow. If you do not include the redirect_uri parameter, the default is the first OAuth Redirect URI you specified when you registered your application.

No. Amazon does not support a client library for Ruby/PHP.