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Extracting orders from Google,Amazon,E-Bay

Some method of retrieving orders into our system

         

salewit

1:30 am on Apr 10, 2008 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



We have a custom shopping cart system and our products are on Amazon, E-Bay and (in a sense) Google Checkout. When we get an order on any of these systems, we need to manually go to the site and almost word for word copy and paste the info into our shopping cart system. The volume isn't huge, but it's picking up to 3 or 4 a day and it's getting to be a drag copying over every field one at a time.

Does anyone know where I might look to learn on how to extract this info? I know a good amount of PHP and MySQL, but don't know enough on how to extract info from a page.

Thanks

camorra

11:28 am on Apr 12, 2008 (gmt 0)

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Why don't you manage your orders via a partner third party software like marketplaceadvisor (part of Channel Advisor). You pay them a few cents per order, but it is worth it for the hassel saved in listing and managing orders on eBay,Amazon,Froogle,Shopping.com,Kellkoo,Shopzilla & Next Tag (all optional). You can also accept/manage Google Checkout from this software.

Oliver Henniges

6:01 pm on Apr 14, 2008 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



I don't know about Amazon or ebay specifically, but I think this is what SOAP has been designed for:

[en.wikipedia.org...]

Maybe you'll find some info on their pages on this? If these companies offer you to do sales for you, they are supposed to provide some interfaces for data-exchange; otherwise the whole thing doesn't make any sense.

I also found
[amazon.com...]
seems to lead to what you are looking for.

But what camorra suggested seems to cover much more. It's your decision whether you want to pay another fee for a fourth party software, which you also don't control, or whether you want to invest some time in programming the necessary interfaces on your own.