April 2022 SP-API Release Announcement
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New Vendor Direct Fulfillment Dynamic Sandbox
The Selling Partner API dynamic sandbox environment allows you to test your applications without affecting production data or triggering real-world events. The dynamic sandbox routes requests to a sandbox backend that can return realistic responses based on the request parameters. By sending requests to the sandbox endpoints instead of the production endpoints, you can test standard workflows without impacting production data. For more information, see the new Vendor Direct Fulfillment Dynamic Sandbox Guide.
New Migration Guide for Vendor Retail Analytics Reports
In March, we announced new versions of four vendor retail analytics reports and a requirement to migrate to new versions of these reports by June 27, 2022. To assist with migration efforts, we released a new Vendor Retail Analytics Reports Migration Guide. This guide explains changes to the vendor retail analytics reports and provides steps for migration.
FBA Inventory API Now Available Globally
FBA Inventory API is now available globally! The FBA Inventory API lets you track the real-time availability of your inventory in Amazon's fulfillment network at the marketplace level. You can get details such as listing condition and inventory quantities such as fulfillable, inbound, reserved, unfulfillable, and researching. For more information, see the FBA Inventory API and the new FBA Inventory API Use Case Guide.
API Releases
New Easy Ship API helps you build applications that help sellers manage and ship Amazon Easy Ship orders. Your Easy Ship applications can:
- Get available time slots for packages to be scheduled for delivery.
- Schedule, reschedule, and cancel Easy Ship orders.
- Print labels, invoices, and warranties.
Easy Ship operations are only available in select marketplaces and support for specific operations varies in each marketplace. See the following table for supported operations by marketplace.
Easy Ship marketplace support
| Marketplace | Region | Supported Handover Methods | Get Time Slots | Create Package | Update Package | Get Package Status | Shipping Label | Invoice | Warranty |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mexico | NA | Pickup only | Unscheduled Orders only | Supported | Not Supported | Supported | Supported | Not Supported | Not Supported |
| India | EU | Pickup only | Scheduled & Unscheduled Orders | Supported | Supported | Supported | Supported | Supported | Supported |
| Turkey | EU | Pickup & Dropoff | Unscheduled Orders only | Supported | Not Supported | Supported | Supported | Not Supported | Not Supported |
| Australia | FE | Pickup only | Unscheduled Orders only | Supported | Not Supported | Supported | Supported | Not Supported | Not Supported |
| Singapore | FE | Pickup only | Unscheduled Orders only | Supported | Not Supported | Supported | Supported | Not Supported | Not Supported |
- Updated FBA Inventory API for global availability and published FBA Inventory Use Case Guide.
- New
PRICING_HEALTHnotification is sent whenever a seller offer is ineligible to be the Featured Offer (Buy Box offer) because of an uncompetitive price. - New
FulfillmentChannelproperty in theORDER_STATUS_CHANGEnotification allows you to filter order status change notifications based on whether the order is fulfilled by Amazon (AFN) or fulfilled by seller (MFN).
Vendor Direct Fulfillment APIs
The following vendor direct fulfillment APIs add support for testing using the new dynamic sandbox feature. For more information, see the Vendor Direct Fulfillment Dynamic Sandbox guide.
- New Vendor Direct Fulfillment Orders API v2021-12-28 provides programmatic access to a direct fulfillment vendor's order data. This v2021-12-28 release adds support for dynamic sandbox testing.
- New Vendor Direct Fulfillment Sandbox Test Data API v2021-10-28 provides programmatic access to vendor direct fulfillment sandbox test data.
- New Vendor Direct Fulfillment Shipping API v2021-12-28 reference provides programmatic access to a direct fulfillment vendor's shipping data. This v2021-12-28 release adds support for dynamic sandbox testing.
- New Vendor Direct Fulfillment Transactions API v2021-12-28 provides programmatic access to a direct fulfillment vendor's transaction status. This v2021-12-28 release adds support for dynamic sandbox testing.
Report Deprecation
The following brand analytics reports are announcing deprecation and will be unavailable for both sellers and vendors as of June 30, 2022:
GET_BRAND_ANALYTICS_ITEM_COMPARISON_REPORTGET_BRAND_ANALYTICS_ALTERNATE_PURCHASE_REPORT
There are no planned replacements for these reports. If you have an application that is affected by this change, be sure to ensure your applications no longer use the deprecated report types after June 30, 2022.
Best regards,
The Selling Partner API team