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I was just going to say, working for one of the largest destributors in the world, this is still how many large corps buy stuff: by downloading a catalog through FTP and sending the order with XML. I know, shocking but not everyone is Amazon.



> I know, shocking but not everyone is Amazon.

Amazon Vendor Central only has support for EDI (at least in the UK) - as in EDIFACT files sent over FTP.

If you want to do business with them you either need to talk that or be comfortable farming out to a 3rd party (I'm 1 day into a project where I'm finding all this out, and the hell of EDI file formats).


You may want to look at MWS then. It's the same batch processed feeds and XML over https instead of sftp.




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