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Amazon Connector Features
Amazon Connector features
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The **Amazon Connector** synchronizes the orders between Amazon and your Odoo database, which
reduces considerably the amount of time spent on your Amazon Seller Central dashboard, making your
daily routine a lot easier.
The *Amazon Connector* synchronizes orders between Amazon and Odoo, which considerably reduces the
amount of time spent manually entering Amazon orders (from the Amazon Seller account) into Odoo. It
also allows users to accurately keep track of Amazon sales in Odoo.
Supported Features
Supported features
==================
The connector is able to:
The Amazon Connector is able to:
- Synchronize (Amazon to Odoo) all confirmed orders (both FBA and FBM) and their order items which
- Synchronize (Amazon to Odoo) all confirmed orders (both FBA and FBM), and their order items, which
include:
- the products name, description and quantity
- the shipping costs for the product
- the gift wrapping charges
- product name, description, and quantity
- shipping costs for the product
- gift wrapping charges
- Create on Odoo any missing partner related to an order (contact types supported: contact and
delivery).
- Notify Amazon of a shipping confirmed on Odoo (FBM) in order to get paid.
- Create any missing partner related to an order in Odoo (contact types supported: contact and
delivery address).
- Notify Amazon of confirmed shipment in Odoo (FBM) to get paid.
- Support multiple seller accounts.
- Support multiple marketplaces per seller account.
+----------------------+----------------------------+-------------------------------------+
| | Fulfilled By Amazon (FBA) | Fulfilled By Merchant (FBM) |
+======================+============================+=====================================+
| **Orders** | Synchronize shipped and | Synchronize unshipped and canceled |
| | canceled orders | orders |
+----------------------+----------------------------+-------------------------------------+
| **Shipping** | - Charges | - Charges |
| | | - Delivery created |
+----------------------+----------------------------+-------------------------------------+
| **Gift Wrapping** | Handled by Amazon | - Gift wrapping charges |
| | | - Gift message |
+----------------------+----------------------------+-------------------------------------+
| **Stock Management** | One stock move created | Handled by the delivery |
| | per sales order item | |
+----------------------+----------------------------+-------------------------------------+
| **Confirmation** | Handled by Amazon | Notify Amazon when confirming |
| | | delivery |
+----------------------+----------------------------+-------------------------------------+
The following table lists capabilities provided by Odoo when using the Amazon Connector:
+---------------------------+----------------------------+-------------------------------------+
| | Fulfilled By Amazon (FBA) | Fulfilled By Merchant (FBM) |
+===========================+============================+=====================================+
| **Orders** | Synchronize shipped and | Synchronize unshipped and canceled |
| | canceled orders. | orders. |
+---------------------------+----------------------------+-------------------------------------+
| **Shipping** | Shipping cost is computed | Shipping cost is computed by Amazon |
| | by Amazon, and included in | and included in the synchronized |
| | the synchronized order. | orders. |
| +----------------------------+-------------------------------------+
| | Shipping done by Amazon. | A delivery order is automatically |
| | | created in Odoo for each new order. |
| | | Once it has been processed in Odoo, |
| | | the status is then synchronized in |
| | | Amazon. |
+---------------------------+----------------------------+-------------------------------------+
| **Gift Wrapping** | Handled by Amazon. | Cost is computed by Amazon, and |
| | | included in the synchronized order. |
| | | Gift message is added on a line of |
| | | the order and on the delivery order.|
| | | Then it is up to the user. |
+---------------------------+----------------------------+-------------------------------------+
| **Stock Management** | Managed by Amazon, and | Managed in Odoo Inventory app, and |
| | synchronized with a virtual| synchronized with Amazon. |
| | location to follow it in | |
| | Odoo. | |
+---------------------------+----------------------------+-------------------------------------+
| **Delivery Notifications**| Handled by Amazon. | Send by Amazon, based on delivery |
| | | status synchronized from Odoo. |
+---------------------------+----------------------------+-------------------------------------+
.. note::
The connector is designed to synchronize orders' data as detailed above. Other actions, such as
downloading monthly fees reports, handling disputes, or issuing refunds must be managed from
Amazon Seller Central, as usual.
The Amazon Connector is designed to synchronize the data of sales orders. Other actions, such as
downloading monthly fees reports, handling disputes, or issuing refunds, **must** be managed from
the *Amazon Seller Central*, as usual.
.. _amazon/supported-marketplaces:
Supported Marketplaces
Supported marketplaces
======================
The Amazon Connector supports all the current marketplaces.
If a marketplace is not listed in your Amazon marketplaces, you can :ref:`add a new marketplace
<amazon/add-new-marketplace>`.
If a marketplace is not listed in your Amazon marketplaces, it's possible to :ref:`add a new
marketplace <amazon/add-new-marketplace>`.
.. seealso::
- :doc:`setup`