Overview of Amazon FPS Marketplace Quick Start

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This overview describes the business model and major features of Amazon FPS Marketplace Quick Start.

Business Model

Amazon FPS Marketplace Quick Start provides a three-party selling environment that includes the buyer, the seller, and you, the developer. In this scenario, you host the seller's e-commerce store and charge the seller a marketplace fee for the service. You can charge a flat fee, a percentage of each transaction, or both. You receive the marketplace functionality as an addition to the complete functionality of Amazon FPS.

Features

Amazon FPS Marketplace Quick Start provides the following major features.

Transfer payments between buyer and seller—Transfer money from the buyer's account to the seller's.
Collect a marketplace fee—Host a merchant's e-commerce store and handle the payment transactions. For that service, you can charge a marketplace fee, which can be a fixed fee, a percentage of each transaction, or a combination of the two.
Reserve payments—Reserve a payment against a buyer's payment instrument but charge it only after the merchant completes the order.
Get payment authorization from your sellers—Your sellers must authorize payments for you to be able to charge them. You can get this authorization by redirecting your seller to the Amazon Payments web site. Your seller logs in to Amazon Payments and agrees to make the payment using a specified payment instrument.
Refund payments—Refund some or all of the purchase price.
Cancel transactions—Cancel transactions before you fulfill the order.
Get transaction status—Retrieve the transaction status, such as "completed" or "pending." For more information, see GetTransactionStatus.
Get Notification—Get notified automatically when transactions succeed or fail. For more information, see Setting Up Instant Payment Notification.