MWS (Marketplace Web Services) is a new data feed API from Amazon which will be required to be used at a future date (you may have received an email from Amazon regarding this). To use this API requires a seller to sign up for the service to obtain their credentials. AMan provides a Wizard to take sellers through the sign-up process and automatically configure AMan to use the new data feeds. The MWS sign-up procedure should only take a few minutes and will not impact your Amazon account. This change does not require a new version of AMan to be installed.

If you have previously signed up for MWS, signing up through AMan will not affect your previous sign-up and will not affect your Amazon account or other software using your credentials. However, you still must go through the procedure in AMan in order to allow AMan to configure your credentials.

Notes:

• Signing up for MWS and configuring AMan to use MWS will not cause any visible changes to the operation of AMan. The process of generating reports and uploading order confirmations and inventory will use the same procedures as before.

• If you have already signed up for MWS (e.g. because of using other software that uses MWS), you will still need to go through the AMan process. Doing so will not affect previous sign-ups you may have done.

• This procedure must be run on every copy of AMan.

• This procedure may be run more than once without any impact on AMan or other Amazon software.

• If the final test of credentials (see below) fails the first time you are using this procedure, you should shut down AMan and retry in a few minutes. The reason for this is that at times there is a delay at Amazon in registering credentials.

To use the AMan Web Wizard to sign up for MWS, please use the following procedure:

1. You may be prompted when AMan is starting up to configure MWS Options. If so you will get the following message which you should reply OK to:
   
   
    

2. To access the Web Wizard dialog manually, click on Configure->Amazon Services Settings->MWS Options

3. The following dialog will appear:
   
    

4. Click on "Use AMan Web Wizard to sign up for MWS"

5. A message will appear that you should reply OK to:
   
   
    

6. A browser page will be displayed where you will need to select an option and agree to the Amazon MWS license:

• If prompted to sign onto your Amazon seller account , please enter your Amazon primary seller account email address and password.

• On the first page select the option "I want to access my own Amazon seller account with MWS" and click on .. Please note that you may need to scroll down and across to show the button. Also, this button will not be enabled until you select the option.

• The next page will require you to agree to the Amazon MWS License Agreement. Check the box and click on . Please note that you may need to scroll down and across to show the button. Also, this button will not be enabled until you select the option.

• The final page will be displayed which will look something like:
  
  
   

• At this point AMan will copy the information from this page to the AMan MWS configuration screen page and display:
  
  
  
  Please note that this may take some minutes to complete.
   

7. Once your MWS credentials have been verified, the following will appear and the process is complete:
   
   
   
   
   Note: If the final test of credentials fails the first time you are using this procedure, you should shut down AMan and retry in a few minutes. The reason for this is that at times there is a delay at Amazon in registering credentials.
   
    

8. The AMan MWS Options dialog should look something like:
   
   
   
    

9. Click on Close or Save and Exit to exit the AMan MWS Options dialog.

10. AMan will now use MWS for uploads and report generation. You may use your normal procedures to perform these functions.