Initial Configuration: General Information

Before you can start using the e-commerce functionality of MYOB Acumatica Retail Connectors, you need to establish a connection between the MYOB Acumatica instance and the Amazon seller account, and perform the initial configuration.

Learning Objectives

In this section, you will learn what general steps are involved in establishing a connection between MYOB Acumatica and the Amazon seller account and in performing the initial configuration of these systems.

Steps for Establishing the Store Connection and Performing the Initial Configuration

In order to connect the MYOB Acumatica instance to the Amazon seller account, you perform the following general steps:

  1. Establish the connection to the Amazon seller account.
  2. Activate the entities that need to be synchronized.

Each of these steps is described in greater detail below.

Establishing the Connection to the Amazon Seller Account

Before you can connect MYOB Acumatica to an Amazon seller account, you need to set it up first. For details on creating and setting up an Amazon seller account, see the Amazon documentation.

Once the seller account is ready, you perform the following general steps to connect your Amazon seller account to MYOB Acumatica:

  1. On the Amazon Stores (BC201020) form, create an Amazon store to represent your Amazon seller account. You do this by specifying the name for the new store in the Summary area and by filling out the Region and Marketplace boxes on the Connection Settings tab.

    The region and marketplace you specify on this tab must match the region and marketplace of your Amazon seller account.

    Note:
    MYOB Acumatica supports synchronization for the following marketplaces in the North America region:
    • United States of America
    • Canada
    • Mexico
  2. On the Amazon Stores (BC201020) form, connect the new store to the Amazon seller account. You initiate the connection by clicking Authorize on the form toolbar. In the new browser window, which opens with the Amazon Seller Central sign-in page, you sign in to your Amazon seller account. Once the sign-in is completed, Amazon Seller Central prompts you to review and confirm the access rights that will be granted to MYOB Acumatica. The Amazon connector will access this data during the data synchronization between MYOB Acumatica and the Amazon seller account.

    As soon as the connection is established, the Seller Partner ID box will show the seller partner ID associated with your Amazon seller account. You can test the connection to the seller account any time by clicking Test Connection on the form toolbar.

Activating and Setting Up the Supported Entities

For the entities that need to be synchronized between the MYOB Acumatica instance and the Amazon seller account, you select the Active check box on the Entity Settings tab of the Amazon Stores (BC201020) form.

The following table lists the entities that can be activated on the Entity Settings tab, along with the supported synchronization direction. The synchronization direction is predefined for each entity and cannot be changed.

Table 1. The Entities Supported by the Amazon Connector
Entity Sync Direction Description
Product (Linking Only) Import Establishes a link with seller-fulfilled products added to the Amazon seller account.
Product Availability Export Exports information about the items' available quantities to the Amazon seller account.
Sales Order Import Imports seller-fulfilled orders from Amazon to MYOB Acumatica.
Marketplace-Fulfilled Order Import Imports marketplace-fulfilled orders from Amazon to MYOB Acumatica.
Sales Invoice (Obsolete) Import Resynchronizes marketplace-fulfilled orders imported as invoices in previous versions of MYOB Acumatica.
Payment Import Imports payments for seller-fulfilled and marketplace-fulfilled orders from Amazon to MYOB Acumatica.
Non-Order Fees Import Imports fees that are not associated with seller-fulfilled or marketplace-fulfilled orders from Amazon to MYOB Acumatica.
Shipment Export Exports information about shipments for seller-fulfilled orders from MYOB Acumatica to Amazon.

You use the Inventory Settings, Order Settings, Payment Settings, and Shipping Settings tabs to specify the synchronization settings for the activated entities.

After the initial configuration has been completed, you can configure the mapping and filtering for active entities on the Entities (BC202000) form. You can create filters to narrow the data to be synchronized, override the default mappings, or define additional mappings of data fields between the MYOB Acumatica instance and the Amazon seller account. Then you can start synchronizing data.

Note:
On the Entities form, filtering and mapping are not available for the Product (Linking Only) and Product Availability entities.

Synchronization of Data

After you have performed the initial configuration, you can start to synchronize data between MYOB Acumatica and the Amazon seller account. For information about synchronization, see Overview of Data Synchronization.