Amazon EDI integration, both paths: Vendor and Marketplace.
Whether you sell to Amazon as an Approved Vendor or on Amazon through Seller Central and FBA, Comparatio runs the integration — X12 EDI against Amazon EDI requirements on one side, the Selling Partner API on the other — with the validation and monitoring that keep chargebacks off your scorecard.
- Vendor Central X12 EDI
- Selling Partner API
- 753/754 routing handled
The Amazon distinction
Vendor and Marketplace are two different integrations
They get conflated constantly, and they share almost nothing technically. Comparatio supports both on the same platform.
Approved Vendor
Amazon Vendor Central EDI integration (X12)
Selling to Amazon means exchanging X12 documents against Amazon EDI requirements: 850 purchase orders, 855 acknowledgements, 856 advance ship notices, 810 invoices — plus the routing-instruction flow, where Comparatio handles the 753/754 request-and-response cycle that tells Amazon how your freight moves.
Marketplace Selling
Amazon Marketplace (Selling Partner API)
Selling on Amazon — Seller Central and FBA — runs through the Selling Partner API, the successor to MWS. It isn’t X12 EDI at all, and Comparatio integrates it through the API alongside your other marketplaces and storefronts.
Why it matters
What Amazon EDI integration does for your operation
Automated order processing
The order-to-cash cycle with Amazon runs document-to-document without re-keying — 850 in, 855, 856, and 810 back out.
Real-time inventory
Amazon inventory levels stay accurate and current, fed from your ERP rather than a spreadsheet cadence.
Amazon EDI requirements, met
Field-by-field validation against Amazon EDI requirements before documents move — errors get caught on your side of the wire.
A clean vendor scorecard
Late and missing documents are what chargebacks are made of — monitoring catches them before Amazon does.
Chargebacks & scorecard
Compliance that shows up on your Vendor Central scorecard
Amazon grades vendors on document timeliness and accuracy, and grades them in dollars. Comparatio attacks both failure modes: the validation engine catches wrong documents before they transmit, and Monitoratio catches missing ones — the 997 that never came back, the 856 that never went out — and opens the ticket before the chargeback exists.
FAQ
Amazon EDI, in practice
What is Amazon EDI?
Amazon EDI is the electronic document exchange Amazon requires of its Approved Vendors: purchase orders (850), acknowledgements (855), advance ship notices (856), invoices (810), and the 753/754 routing-instruction flow, all as X12 documents against Amazon EDI requirements. Selling on the marketplace instead uses the Selling Partner API — a different integration Comparatio also supports.
Am I an Amazon Vendor or an Amazon Seller — and does it change the integration?
It changes everything. Vendors sell TO Amazon and exchange X12 EDI documents through Vendor Central. Sellers sell ON Amazon — Seller Central and FBA — through the Selling Partner API, the successor to MWS. Comparatio runs both paths on the same platform, so being both at once is fine too.
How does Comparatio help avoid Amazon chargebacks?
Chargebacks mostly come from documents that are late, missing, or wrong. Comparatio validates every document field-by-field before it moves, and Monitoratio watches for what never arrived — the missing 997, the unsent 856 — and opens a ticket before Amazon notices, keeping your Vendor Central scorecard clean.
Can Comparatio handle Amazon EDI payments and invoicing?
Yes — 810 invoices and 820 payment/remittance documents are in production across the platform, and the Amazon Order Report gives you marketplace-specific tracking so Vendor and Seller order flows stay separated.
Selling to Amazon, on Amazon, or both?
Tell us which paths you run — Vendor Central EDI, Selling Partner API, or the two together — and we’ll show you the integration live.