Amazon module

This module requires you to have active API access. Check what are alternatives to Amazon API.

How to get Associate Tag

To obtain an Associate Tag, refer to Becoming an Associate.

Some recommendation to get Amazon affiliate program approval:

• Site must have finished look and actual content.

• Don't try to add just affiliate products. Make your site more useful for visitors, add some content, videos, images, articles, news, blog section.

• Site must follow Associates Program Policies.

How to get Access Key and Secret Key

To obtain an Access Key and Secret Key, refer to Register for Product Advertising API.

Product Advertising API sign up is available only to associates who have referred qualified sales and have been accepted into the program. Check what are alternatives for Amazon API.

API Rates

Your account will lose access to Product Advertising API if it has not generated referring sales for a consecutive 30-day period.

If your API access has been revoked you will receive a TooManyRequests error message:

For more information, please refer to API Rates.

If you have just signed up for the PA-API, allow for 24 to 48 hours for Amazon to activate your API access.

You will regain access to Product Advertising within 2 days after your referred sales are shipped.

How to check your API access

You can check your API credentials using Product Advertising API Scratchpad.

Search by ASIN or URL

The best way to choose the right product is to search by product URL:

or ASIN:

What are alternatives to Amazon API

We offer 4 alternative ways which don't require API keys and they will help you to make first sales more faster and get regular API access.

1. Amazon No API module

Amazon No API module

2. Affiliate Egg plugin

You can use Affiliate Egg plugin and CE + AE integration. Affiliate Egg plugin uses direct parsing without API. You can use direct links from Amazon as keyword to import product:

Please note, all Amazon parsers are marked as "unstable" at the moment and may not work on some servers. Read more...

3. Offer module

Use Offer module to manually add Amazon products to your site.

Multiple locales

1. Amazon OneLink

Amazon OneLink is a tool in your Associate dashboard that allows you to link your multiple Amazon associate accounts. When visitors on your web pages click on a link to buy a product on Amazon, OneLink will take them to their local, or nearest Amazon store. This is the easiest way at the moment.

No additional scripts required anymore. You just link accounts and you are ready.

2. Geolocation IP detection

Your Amazon Associates tag works only in the locale in which you register. If you want to be an Amazon Associate in more than one locale, you must register separately for each locale.

You can add your tags in the following fields:

Next, when you search for amazon products, you can choose the locale to search:

So after searching from one locale, you can add another products to list from another locale. Then, if you want to separate products from different locales, add locale parameter to shortcode like:

[content-egg module=Amazon locale=US]

locale=US will show all products from US locale.

Note: CE plugin doesn't have inner geo IP detection, but you can use the plugin in combination with third-party geo IP plugins.

For example, you can use free GeoIP Detection. You can try any other plugin which supports shortcodes and wrap Content Egg shortcode with geo IP detection shortcode, so only users from a specific country or region can see items from the relevant locale.

You can show content to US visitors only by using a shortcode like:

[geoip_detect2_show_if country="US"]
[content-egg module=Amazon locale=US]
[/geoip_detect2_show_if]

Another example with a default block:

My country: [geoip_detect2 property="country.isoCode"]

[geoip_detect2_show_if country="GB"]
This block will be shown if the visitor is in the GB (UK): 
[content-egg-block template=offers_list locale=GB]
[/geoip_detect2_show_if]

[geoip_detect2_show_if country="DE"]
This block will be shown if the user is in the DE: 
[content-egg-block template=offers_list locale=DE]
[/geoip_detect2_show_if]

[geoip_detect2_show_if not_country="GB,DE"]
Amazon US by default for all users except GB and DE: 
[content-egg-block template=offers_list locale=US]
[/geoip_detect2_show_if]

See Geolocation IP Detection documentation for more examples.

Troubleshooting

TooManyRequests error

Please refer to API Rates.

Error Codes and Messages

For more information about all API errors, please refer to Error Messages.

Product Advertising API Scratchpad

You can check your API credentials and raw API's responses using Product Advertising API Scratchpad.

How to Fix a "Not found" error

The most common cause of this error is that you have set too many search filters like Merchant, Free Shipping, Minimal price, etc. Try to disable all search filters.

Product has no price

Please refer to Minimum Advertising Price.

Amazon Associates Customer Service

To raise a request for Amazon Associates account related concerns, please perform the following steps.