Catalog Upload

As your company uses Amazon’s retail technology, you will need to provide Amazon with a catalog of detailed product information for the products you sell and keep this information up-to-date. You can update your catalog manually using the 3PCC Portal or you can use our Catalog API, which allows you to programmatically update your catalog through a simple REST API. This spec will assist you in automating your catalog updates using the Amazon Catalog API.

Note: In the future, new attributes might be added. We recommend that you structure your code so that it can handle new attributes gracefully

Upload Catalog

POST /v1/catalog/upload

This method is used for JWO stores. The UploadCatalog API method allows you to upload list of items available for sale in your JWO store to the Amazon systems

Body parameter

{
  "catalogItems": [
    {
      "item_sku": "string",
      "external_product_id": "string",
      "external_product_id_type": "string",
      "item_name": "string",
      "store_id": "string",
      "standard_price": "string",
      "brand_name": "string",
      "product_tax_code": "string",
      "product_category": "string",
      "product_subcategory": "string"
    }
  ]
}

Data Field	Required	Description
item_sku	Required	<= 255 characters. A unique identifier for the product, assigned by the retailer. The SKU must be unique for each product listed.
external_product_id	Required	<= 255 characters. A standard, alphanumeric string that uniquely identifies the product and should match the barcode value that will be scanned as part of inventory stocking. Scannable barcodes can either be 12/8 digits (UPC), 13 digits (EAN), 8 digits (EAN8), 10 digits (ISBN), 14 digits (GTIN) or PLU (Integer).
external_product_id_type	Optional	<= 255 characters. The type of standard, unique identifier entered in the scannable barcode field. For example it can be UPC, ISBN, EAN, EAN8, GTIN or PLU
item_name	Required	<= 255 characters. A short title for a product.
store_id	Required	<= 255 characters. The store_id field contains a unique identifier for your store defined during your onboarding process with Amazon. The storeId is also used when uploading the store catalog into the JWO portal
standard_price	Optional	<= 10 characters. This price can either include price without tax or price with tax at which an item is being sold in the local currency.
brand_name	Optional	<= 255 characters The brand name of the product.
product_tax_code	Optional	<= 255 characters. Amazon Standard code to identify the tax properties of a product.
product_category	Optional	<= 50 characters. This is a custom field you can use to categorize your products and enable grouping and filtering in analytics dashboards and reports.
product_subcategory	Optional	<= 50 characters.This is a custom field you can use to categorize your products and enable grouping and filtering in analytics dashboards and reports.

Example responses

201 Response

{
  "ingestionId": "string"
}

Data Field	Description
ingestionId	<= 255 characters. Unique ID for a catalog upload to Amazon systems. Amazon will generate a unique id for each catalog upload

Status	Meaning	Description
201	OK	Unique ID for a catalog upload to Amazon systems. Amazon will generate a unique id for each catalog upload
400	Bad Request	You will receive a 400 error message when the API call fails due to a validation error.
429	Too Many Requests	You will receive a 429 error message when the API is called too many times. When you receive a 429 error due to multiple calls to the API you will receive the following response. errorMsg: Too Many Requests
500	Internal Server Error	You will receive a 500 error message when the API call fails due to an error.

Code sample

Upload Cart Catalog Code sample

Python

         import requests
         from requests_aws4auth import AWS4Auth
         # There is a chance that the requests and AWS4Auth will require to be included in the Lambda layer.
         import json
         import boto3
         # Sample catalog update
         # Replace with Catalog input JSON source
         request_parameters =json.dumps(<INSERT CATALOG JSON>)
         # ARN of IAM allow listed by Amazon
         roleArn = <INSERT IAM ROLE> 
         # Get temp credentials using STS
         client_sts = boto3.client('sts')
         response = client_sts.assume_role(
         RoleArn=roleArn,
         RoleSessionName='CatalogAPI'
         ) 
         ACCESS_KEY = response['Credentials']['AccessKeyId']
         SECRET_KEY = response['Credentials']['SecretAccessKey']
         SESSION_TOKEN = response['Credentials']['SessionToken'] 
         # Auth the outgoing API call
         auth = AWS4Auth(ACCESS_KEY, SECRET_KEY, 'us-east-1', 'execute-api',
         session_token=SESSION_TOKEN) 
         # Use requests library to post to the API end point
         response = requests.post(<URL to API end point>, auth=auth) 
         # Check response code and act accordingly
         resonseCode = response.status_code
         if resonseCode == 201:
         reponsetext = (json.loads(response.text))
         print(reponsetext['ingestionId']) 
         elif resonseCode == 403:
         print("Error authenticating to the API")
         print(response.status_code) 
         elif resonseCode == 400:
         print("Error: Bad request")
         print(response.status_code)
         # Note: please ensure you handle the error codes listed in the API spec for more complete error handling 
         else:
         print("Not recognized code")
         print(response.status_code)