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What is the Amazon Affiliate Program?
The Amazon Affiliate program, or Amazon Associates, is an affiliate marketing program. It's free for website owners and bloggers to become Amazon Associates. They advertise products from Amazon.com on their sites by creating links. When customers click the links and buy products from Amazon, they earn referral fees.
Amazon Affiliate Program Rules and Requirements
Being an Amazon Associate is a great way to monetize passion projects or make supplementary income from your brand. However, Amazon has guidelines for associates to follow, so it's best to understand those before you dive in. Noncompliance may result in being banned from the program.
The majority of the rules are in place for ethical promotion as well as preventing associates from gaming the system. Here are some of the big ones to keep in mind:
The majority of the rules are in place for ethical promotion as well as preventing associates from gaming the system. Here are some of the big ones to keep in mind:
- You must disclose on your site or in your communication that you may be eligible to earn from your recommendations.
- You must not make false or deceptive claims in your recommendations.
- Avoid referring to prices (with some exceptions) since prices frequently change.
- Do not use Amazon affiliate links in offline promotions, eBooks, or email.
- Do not use link shorteners on affiliate links.
- You can read Amazon's full policy here.
https://imteg.weebly.com/amazon-affiliate.html
What is the Product Advertising API (PA API)?
The Product Advertising API (PA API) provides programmatic access for users to search and get detailed product information. Users can get detailed information about products such as product title, description, image urls, prices, similar products, prime eligibility, offers and many other details that can be used to monetize their websites by giving recommendations and promoting the products.
Things to know before you start
Is the Amazon PA API right tool for me?
Product Advertising API is intended to get programmatic access to retrieve and process Amazon product information for hundreds of products programmatically.
Is there an alternative to PA API to build links?
Yes, if you do not need programmatic access to Amazon's products, you can use SiteStripe to build links from Amazon.in that can be used to monetise your website.
Do I need programming skills to use PA API?
Yes, you are required to have programming skills to use PA API.
How do I get access to PA API?
In order to qualify for requesting access to PA API, you will need an associate account, you will have to complete 3 qualifying sales in the first 180 days and you will have to comply with the Operating Agreement. Once your account is approved as an associate account, you will see a 'Request for PA API access' button below. You can click the button to get access to PA API.
Associates Program Advertising Fee Schedule
This Associates Program Advertising Fee Schedule (“Schedule”) is part of the Operating Agreement that governs your participation in the Associates Program. This Schedule describes the advertising fee rates you may earn as a participant in the Program. It also describes the limitations that apply to earning advertising fees on certain Products.
From time to time, we may modify this Schedule in accordance with the Operating Agreement. All capitalized terms used below that are not defined on this page have the meanings given to them in the Operating Agreement.
During each calendar month, you may earn advertising fees for Qualifying Purchases. Most advertising fees are calculated as a percentage of Qualifying Revenues based on the tables below and are subject to the limitations described in the “Limitations on Advertising Fee Rates for Certain Products” section below. We also may offer advertising fees in the form of bounties or other special offers as described in the “Special Offers and Promotions” section below. “Qualifying Revenues” mean amounts we receive from customers’ Qualifying Purchases, excluding shipping, handling, and gift-wrapping fees, taxes, and service charges, and less any rebates, credit card processing fees, returns, and bad debt.
The Program’s standard advertising fee structure is described in Table 1. The advertising fee rates you may earn will vary depending on the category of Products that are shipped, streamed, or downloaded (as applicable) in a given calendar month that constitute Qualifying Purchases. We will determine the classification of Products in each category set forth in Table 1 below or otherwise described on this page.
From time to time, we may modify this Schedule in accordance with the Operating Agreement. All capitalized terms used below that are not defined on this page have the meanings given to them in the Operating Agreement.
During each calendar month, you may earn advertising fees for Qualifying Purchases. Most advertising fees are calculated as a percentage of Qualifying Revenues based on the tables below and are subject to the limitations described in the “Limitations on Advertising Fee Rates for Certain Products” section below. We also may offer advertising fees in the form of bounties or other special offers as described in the “Special Offers and Promotions” section below. “Qualifying Revenues” mean amounts we receive from customers’ Qualifying Purchases, excluding shipping, handling, and gift-wrapping fees, taxes, and service charges, and less any rebates, credit card processing fees, returns, and bad debt.
The Program’s standard advertising fee structure is described in Table 1. The advertising fee rates you may earn will vary depending on the category of Products that are shipped, streamed, or downloaded (as applicable) in a given calendar month that constitute Qualifying Purchases. We will determine the classification of Products in each category set forth in Table 1 below or otherwise described on this page.
TABLE 1 – Fixed Advertising Rates for Specific Product Categorie |
Product Category |
Fixed Advertising Rates |
Apparel & Accessories | Luggage & Bags | Watches | Shoe |
9% |
Toys & Baby Products | Home | Kitchen Appliances | Kitchen & Housewares |
9% |
Sports, Fitness & Outdoors | DIY & Tool |
9% |
Books | Grocery & Gourmet | Pantry | Office & Stationer |
8% |
Health, Beauty & Personal care | Personal Care Appliance |
8% |
Jewellery (Excluding silver & Gold coins) | Car, Motorbike, Industrial & Scientific Products | Musical Instrument |
8% |
Large Appliances | Movies | Music | Software | Video Game |
5% |
Televisions | Computers |Consumer Electronics & Accessories (excl. Data Storage Devices) | Mobile Accessorie |
4% |
Mobile Phones* | Bicycles & Heavy Gym Equipment | Tyres & Rim |
2.5% |
Data Storage Device |
2% |
Gold & Silver Coins |
0.2% |
All Other Categories (Furniture| Kindle devices & E-books| Fire TV stick & other Amazon devices | Others) |
10% |
NEW: Mobile Phones at 1% Fixed Advertising Fee |
1) OnePlus: 8, 8Pro, 7T Pro, 7T Pro McLaren, 7T, 7 Pro, OnePlus Nord |
2) Samsung: S10 |
3) OPPO: Find X2, X2 Pro |
Excluded Products: Limitations on Advertising Fee Rates for Certain Products You will not receive any advertising fees from Qualifying Purchases of the following products:
1) Flight Bookings, Gift Cards, Bill Payments & Recharges
2) Video Gaming Consoles & Hardware
3) Prime Membership
4) Amazon Pay Balance
5) Xiaomi: Redmi Note 8, Redmi Note 8 Pro, Redmi Note 9 Pro, Redmi Note 9 Pro Max, Redmi 8A Dual, Redmi Note 9, Redmi 9 Prime
6) Samsung: M31, M21, M31s
7) Apple: All iPhones