Welcome to Just Walk Out reporting
Overview
Amazon provides merchants with multiple methods to access and integrate their store-specific data offering enhanced flexibility to accommodate diverse business requirements. By allowing merchants to choose their preferred mode and frequency for receiving reporting data, businesses can customize their data access approach to align with their specific operational needs.
Reporting mode considerations
Below are a set of common considerations to guide which solution is best fit for your organization. It is recommended that you follow your organization reporting and data ingestion guidelines and practices. For more information on reporting modes, see the data exchange option section here
1) Frequency of data refresh: Stay current with flexible data refresh schedules that match your business rhythm. Choose from daily updates, hourly updates, or custom frequencies to match your specific needs.
For example, if you're running a time-sensitive sales event, frequent data updates help you track inventory in near real-time, allowing you to monitor sold items throughout the event, make timely restocking decisions, and maintain optimal inventory levels.
2) Scale considerations: When considering scale, your specific use case will guide your choice of solution. For single-merchant, one-off implementations, the intra-day option is often the best fit, though it requires a more involved setup process in collaboration with Amazon.
However, if you're planning to manage multiple merchants or aggregate data across several accounts, the event-based solution offers significant advantages. It streamlines the onboarding process, reducing friction and complexity, and provides greater flexibility for adding new merchants over time. This scalability makes the event-based approach particularly well-suited for growing businesses or those managing a diverse portfolio of merchant accounts.
3) Data ingestion interface: Your existing data infrastructure should inform your choice of data ingestion interface. The Intra-Day reporting is particularly well-suited for organizations that have already invested in CSV-based data ingestion platforms. If you have built an API or JSON format interface for your data ingestion, then the Event-feed soluion may be a better fit as it offers multiple integration modes. Considering your current ingestion requirements will ensure seamless integration with your current systems and minimizes additional development work or infrastructure changes.
Merchant portal
Today, Amazon JWO team curates a set of reports made available to merchants through the JWO self-service portal on a daily/weekly cadence. Reports are downloaded by merchants who use them to gain insights into overall business trends, support data-driven decisions, and in some cases support store operations. A dashboard is also accessible in the portal for a near-real-time view, and sales and item details can be exported.
For a full reference on each portal report — what it contains, the columns you can expect, how often it refreshes, when to use one report over another, and why the set of available reports can differ between stores — see Merchant portal reports. You can also browse the full list of available reports and the dashboard walkthrough.
Which reports are available for my store?
The reports available to a store depend on how that store is configured with Amazon. As a result, not every report applies to every store, and two stores may have a different set of reports. The Merchant portal reports page lists each report, its refresh cadence, and whether it applies broadly or to selected store configurations, along with the most common reasons a report may not appear. If your store's configuration changes, the set of reports available to it can change as well.
Data exchange
Intra-day report delivered via AWS S3 receive a .csv file four times an hour for merchants subscribed to the service. For solution overview click here
Event feed delivered via AWS EventBridge for more control over the time and format of the reporting data, the Event feed solution is available, for more information click here
