Amazon recommends this workflow for using the Merchant Fulfillment service to fulfill Seller Fulfilled Prime
orders. This workflow is meant to supplement an order fulfillment system that retrieves
scheduled order reports using the Reports service. See Working with order reports. Incoming orders that are not fulfilled using
the workflow described here must be fulfilled by the seller using some other method.
Important: This success of this workflow requires that incoming order reports
contain the optional IsPrime and LatestShipDate
elements (for XML order reports) or the optional is-prime and
latest-ship-date fields (for flat file order reports). If these
elements or fields do not appear in a seller's order reports, Prime orders cannot be
identified and ship dates cannot be determined. This could lead to sellers missing the
shipping SLAs for their Prime orders. Sellers using an application that you develop based on
this workflow must add these columns to their order reports using the Optional
columns area of the in Seller Central.
For definitions, see Terminology.
To fulfill Seller Fulfilled Prime orders
- Identify Prime orders
Identify the Prime orders in incoming order reports. Prime orders have the
IsPrime element (for XML order reports) or the
is-prime column (for flat file order reports) marked as true.
Do not use the FulfillmentServiceLevel element or the
ship-service-level column in order reports to attempt to identify
Prime orders.
- Determine the latest ship date for the Prime orders
Use the LatestShipDate element (from an XML order report) or the
latest-ship-date column (from a flat file order report) to
determine the date by which Prime orders need to be shipped.
- Get shipping service offers
Call the GetEligibleShippingServices operation to get
shipping service offers for the Prime orders identified in Step 1.
Note:
- For the ShipDate parameter, use the
LatestShipDate value (XML report) or the
latest-ship-date value (flat file report) from the order
report.
- Do not specify the MustArriveByDate parameter, as this will
unnecessarily limit the number of shipping service offers that are returned.
- Save the ShippingServiceId value from each shipping service
offer that is returned. Use this for subsequent calls to the
CreateShipment operation to create shipments for specific
shipping service offers.
- Create a shipment
Call the CreateShipment operation for one of the shipping
service offers returned in the previous step. Use these parameter values:
- ShipmentRequestDetails. Use the same values that were included
in the call to the GetEligibleShippingServices operation in the
previous step.
- ShippingServiceId. Use the value associated with this shipping
service offer.
Calling the
CreateShipment operation:
- Triggers payment for shipping, which is deducted from the seller’s Amazon seller
account.
- Confirms the shipment. The seller does not have to confirm the shipment by other
means.
Important: Save the
ShipmentId value returned by the
CreateShipment operation to identify the shipment in case the
seller wants to print a new label, cancel a shipment, or check shipment status at a
later time. Consider saving the item list along with each shipment ID to help the seller
identify a shipment at a later time. See
How to reprint a shipping label and
How to cancel a shipment.
- Extract and print the shipping label
Extract the shipping label from the FileContents element returned
by the CreateShipment operation. Print the shipping label. See How to extract a shipping label file.
- Create shipments for the remaining Prime orders
Repeat steps 3 through 5 until you have created shipments for all of the Prime orders
identified in Step 1.