Does Amazon affiliate program allow you to hotlink or use ASIN to sell products on your website that can be drop ship from an Amazon warehouse near the customer's location?
You can add any item that amazon.com, co.uk, .jp or any other locale with an api to your own blog or Amazon store. I don't think you can get information if it's near the customer’s house but the great thing is Amazon will handle all of that. If you have a USA locale and getting US traffic or any traffic that amazon.com will ship to then you will get commission if the user purchases the item from your website.
So you're restricted to selling the Amazon items only through a Astore and not your own stand-a-lone ecommerce website? I'm a bit confused. I don't intend to collect the buyer's payment because I believe this violates Amazon's Affiliate program. I'd like any Amazon product I select to be shown on my website with the associated Buy Now at Amazon button for that specific product utilizing a cookie with my Amazon Affiliate ID embedded in the url link that redirects customers to Amazon's website to complete their purchase using their Amazon account. I'd earn whatever the Advertising fee commission percentage is based on the product sold thru Amazon's site. Can I do this under the Amazon Affiliates Program what I describe above with Amazon API for any of the Amazon products?
I think your question using the phrases "drop ship" and "your own stand-a-lone ecommerce website" are confusing. As "drop ship" implies that you collect the payment, so it is not clear what you are really asking. And ecommerce store also usually implies your own cart and check out system. Part of your last post seems to indicate that is not really what you meant so it is hard to know what you are really asking. You can set up a site that shows any products you want with links for the customer to buy those products at Amazon.
Yes I know what drop shipping is and how a shopping cart works! I did not imply in my OP that I would be drop shipping any products but that Amazon would drop ship the item to the customer's location after they click Buy Now at Amazon button on my stand-a-alone (eCommerce) site which redirects them to Amazon's site to complete their purchase using their Amazon account. So I wouldn't be collecting any money from the customers. I'm trying to find out if I can use my shopping cart site much like an Astore verses setting up a separate Astore on Wordpress or Blogger.
@muffet, I'm sorry for the confusion. This is a stand-alone e-commerce script using the amazon api. You can see live stores at www.thepressurecookershop.com , www.1shopelectronics.com , www.childrenlearningtoys.net and there are many others. The above stores have the Amazon Shopping Cart and Amazon Link Enable and it will show the "Buy Now at Amazon" and also add to the cart. When the user adds the item in the cart and confirms it on amazon the cookie will last 90 days if the user goes back into the cart and purchase the item. I prefer the "Buy Now at Amazon" feature but leave the add to cart and it has worked for me. You could disable the cart feature and only use buy from amazon if you want. This script will send your amazon tracking id over to amazon when users click and anything they buy from amazon you will get credit for the sale and will see it under the tracking id for that store. It's why I recommend creating amazon tracking id's for each store so you can see which ones are making money Please let me know if you have any other questions.
Ah ok I'm looking for an Amazon Affiliates module which will allow me to embed or link to Amazon products on my shopping cart site running on one of the open-source eCommerce applications (e.g. Prestashop) then I can utilize my Amazon Affiliates ID on my eCommerce site. Instead of separately setting up another site running on a script.
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