Amazon MWS API - Currency
I have a problem with amazons selling API. I have an account with amazon.co.uk and send products ok. I have a new account with amazon.de and everything is also different from currency.
I have a product that sells for £ 10 (GBP), I ship to amazon.de as:
<StandardPrice currency="GBP">10.00</StandardPrice>
But when I go to Amazon.de server, it transferred € 10 (EUR).
Am I missing something? Of course Amazon has to convert GBP to EUR if I am sending to a German account. Otherwise, what does "currency" mean?
Any ideas?
thank
Mike
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As far as I can see, Amazon MWS doesn't do currency conversions when it comes to product price - I couldn't find a link to exchange rates in the docs. Thus, you will have to set these prices yourself, explicitly setting the EUR price. It also gives you the ability to decide when to react to exchange rates and choose a good price. Today (21 February 2013), 10 GBP = 11.55 EUR - 11 EUR, 12 EUR or maybe 11.99 EUR is perfect for you. After all, you are targeting a different market by submitting your data to Amazon.de - deciding on pricing is a very important step in this, besides providing German descriptions, international shipping and support.
At the same time, I think Amazon MWS should have probably rejected your price by making a mistake, or at least leaving the EUR price blank, but not "converting" it to Euros. I think this is a mistake.
Edit: There seems to be only one way to find out what currency is expected by the MWS system that goes through the challenge ListMarketplaceParticipations
. It will return the default country code, default currency, and default language code along with the corresponding Amazon domain name.
For Amazon.com it should return US, USD, en_US and www.amazon.com
For Amazon.co.uk it should return GB, GBP, en_GB and www.amazon.co.uk
For Amazon.de it should return DE, EUR, de_DE and www.amazon.de
... etc ...
Unfortunately, you will have to hard-code the associated MWS data endpoints in your software:
CA - Canada : https://mws.amazonservices.ca
CN - China : https://mws.amazonservices.com.cn
DE - Germany : https://mws-eu.amazonservices.com
ES - Spain : https://mws-eu.amazonservices.com
FR - France : https://mws-eu.amazonservices.com
IN - India : https://mws.amazonservices.in
IT - Italy : https://mws-eu.amazonservices.com
JP - Japan : https://mws.amazonservices.jp
UK - United Kingdom : https://mws-eu.amazonservices.com
US - USA : https://mws.amazonservices.com
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