Question: Paulo is an Amazon.com vendor who wants to programmatically access their retail information on listings, orders, payments, and reports as they scale. Which API would be appropriate for Paulo to use?
- Amazon Retail API API
- Selling Partner API
- Amazon Ads API
Explanation
The SP-API is built for programmatic access to selling operations data. It supports scalable integrations for catalog, orders, finances, and reports. This makes it appropriate when retail operations need automation beyond the Seller Central or Vendor Central interface. It is not designed for paid media campaign management, so its scope is separate from Amazon Ads systems.
Why the other options are incorrect
Amazon Retail API is not the official Amazon interface used for broad selling partner retail operations.
Amazon Ads API manages advertising campaigns, reporting, and optimization, not core retail operations data.
Source for verification
https://developer-docs.amazon.com/sp-api/docs/what-is-the-selling-partner-api
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