Amazon, the biggest name in online shopping, is among the many eCommerce platforms Fishbowl integrates with. This integration is available through a Fishbowl plugin that is part of the Fishbowl interface, and so it is simple to activate without having to download anything.
Benefits of Fishbowl's integration with Amazon
Fishbowl integrates with Amazon to keep your inventory management system in sync with your Amazon Seller account. You can schedule regular order imports as often as you like so that order items, location groups, customers, carriers, payments, and taxes will be added to Fishbowl in preparation for order fulfillment.
Fishbowl’s Amazon integration enables you to handle order management in the U.S., as well as Canada, Australia, and other international markets. Selling on Amazon and other sales channels is easier with Fishbowl.
This integration does far more than simply accept orders into Fishbowl. Once an order is fulfilled, its fulfillment will be scheduled to be exported back to Amazon. This helps businesses update their customers on the status of their orders. Fishbowl makes it quick and simple to fulfill orders from Amazon and many other eCommerce platforms in one place.
Plus, Fishbowl acts as the source of truth for product and inventory quantities in your Amazon Seller account. And you can import products into Fishbowl from Amazon so that they will be recorded in your inventory management system and not just Amazon Seller Central. This helps you reorder items, avoid overstocking and understocking, and take care of other warehouse and inventory management tasks.
If you use Amazon FBA, you will find that Fishbowl comes in handy. Instead of FBA orders being imported into Fishbowl for fulfillment, they are simply marked as shipped in your inventory management system upon import. That’s because FBA orders don’t need to be fulfilled in Fishbowl, but they do still need to be recorded as sales to update your inventory records.
There are two ways to integrate with Amazon in Fishbowl Advanced. The first way is to go to the Plugin module and click the Install button next to the Amazon icon. You’ll then need to restart the Fishbowl Server. Be sure to warn everyone who is running the Fishbowl Client to close it before you do that. Once you’re back in the client, you’ll find a new Amazon module under the Integrations module group.
Make sure that you have an Amazon Seller Professional account in order to have access to the Selling Partner API. You will need to authorize a new developer in Amazon Seller Central under the Partner Network and Manage Your Apps headers. You must also copy your Seller ID and Authorization Token for your Amazon Marketplace and paste them into the appropriate Amazon Settings fields in Fishbowl’s Amazon module.
If you’re in the U.S. or Canada, you can simply click the Connect Amazon button after that. However, if you’re connecting to a European or Australian Amazon Marketplace, you’ll need to enter one of the developer account numbers found in our documentation.
The other way you can integrate with Amazon is to download the Fishbowl Commerce module. It works very similar to Fishbowl’s Amazon integration except that it can integrate with not only your Amazon store but every other online sales channel you sell items through.
In addition, Fishbowl Commerce enables Fishbowl Drive users to integrate with their Amazon sales channel and other eCommerce stores.
Once you have set up the integration, you will be able to schedule Amazon orders to be imported into the inventory software. And you can also sync up your Fishbowl fulfillments, products, Amazon FBA orders, and more.
Fishbowl & Amazon Integration for Inventory Management FAQs
When you use Amazon FBA, it means that you yourself don’t fulfill orders that come in; Amazon does that through its fulfillment centers. When you get paid for Amazon orders, Amazon takes a bigger cut of each sale than they would in other circumstances because they’re doing most of the work. You just need to restock their fulfillment centers with the right number of goods so they don’t have an overstock or understock.
Yes. Many website platforms, including WordPress, Wix, and Drupal, enable you to link Amazon products to them. You can list Amazon products on them and synchronize them. There are many how-to guides on various websites that give step-by-step instructions on this process.
And the great thing is that when you integrate your Amazon Marketplace with Fishbowl, you ensure your inventory quantities are kept up to date in both your Amazon store and any website you list products on.
In Fishbowl, you can add a prefix to each Amazon order number that is imported. This is done under Order Settings in the Amazon module. For example, you could add “AMZ” or “AZN” so that all Amazon orders are easy to spot among all of your sales orders. When you run the Sales Order Summary report in Fishbowl, you will easily be able to see which sales orders have the Amazon prefix you set up.
The On Hand report in Fishbowl shows you how much inventory is available to sell at specific locations. And there are plenty of other Fishbowl inventory reports that will help you manage inventory on Amazon.
To integrate with Fishbowl’s inventory management software, make sure that you have an Amazon Seller Professional account. Then follow the instructions laid out under the “How to use” section of this integration page. Or visit our Amazon Documentation article to find even more information on this topic.
Absolutely. Fishbowl enables you to check the amount of inventory you have available to sell on your Amazon store and every other online sales channel. In fact, the Fishbowl Commerce plugin enables you to set a Maximum Stock to List quantity to limit how much inventory you want to show as available on your Amazon store if you want it to be lower than what is currently in Fishbowl.
The best way to manage inventory on Amazon Seller Central is to integrate your Amazon Marketplace with Fishbowl’s inventory management system. Fishbowl will act as the source of truth for all inventory items, quantities, locations, and additional related information. Amazon will then draw upon this data and keep Fishbowl updated with all sales orders it processes. Whether you use a fulfillment center, your own warehouse, Amazon FBA, or any other means of selling on Amazon, you will be able to manage inventory efficiently with the best Amazon inventory management software, Fishbowl.
Yes. While Fishbowl Drive doesn’t have a direct integration with Amazon like Fishbowl Advanced does, it is able to integrate with Amazon via the Fishbowl Commerce plugin. It can also integrate with BigCommerce, eBay, Shopify, Walmart, and WooCommerce via that same plugin.
