Automated integration can not only reduce a lot of manual work, but also automatically connect and synchronize your order management, inventory management, and order fulfillment systems. Whether they plan to outsource order fulfillment or handle it themselves, sellers can use automated integration to simplify order fulfillment operations.

In terms of order fulfillment, you can use automated integration to connect to:

Currently, most independent websites’ application ecosystems are supported by solutions provided by their software design service providers, and these online applications are the “pillars” of sellers’ direct-to-consumer websites (DTC), serving important functions, including managing product catalogs and detail pages, enabling catalog rankings, shopping carts, checkout, customer notifications, and sending orders to order fulfillment systems.

The purpose of these apps is to give consumers a seamless shopping experience, thereby increasing your DTC site’s conversion rate and revenue.

Many cross-border sellers sell not only through Amazon, but also through multiple other online channels, such as Facebook, Instagram, or other social media channels. In many cases, sellers will direct these social media shoppers to their website to check out.

A free-to-use app built by Amazon that provides a direct connection between Multi-Channel Fulfillment (MCF) and e-commerce websites and can be used free of charge.

Amazon Multi-Channel Fulfillment (MCF) offers more than 100 third-party applications built by independent software vendors (ISVs) that connect Amazon Multi-Channel Fulfillment (MCF) with e-commerce solutions on DTC websites, other e-commerce websites, social media stores, and inventory and order management systems.

For example: ERP systems such as the third-party order/inventory management systems “店小蜜” and “赛盒,” which Chinese sellers are familiar with, have already achieved automatic integration with Multi-Channel Fulfillment (MCF). Sellers only need to set up their store information to boost productivity.

Linnworks is an example of an app that can help you streamline and automate order processing and inventory management across all sales channels.

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Amazon Multi-Channel Fulfillment (MCF) offers more than 100 third-party inventory and order management systems, including ChannelAdvisor, ShipStation, Listing Mirror, Sellercloud, and Pipe17, which can simplify and automate order processing and inventory management across all sales channels.

These inventory and order management systems are aggregators that receive orders from different channels and send fulfillment requests to Amazon Multi-Channel Fulfillment (MCF) or other fulfillment methods, enabling you to track inventory levels, customer orders, and tracking information across all sales channels, and support complex fulfillment rules.

For some large sellers with their own in-house developers or who hire external developers, you can choose to build a custom API integration that better fits your order needs to connect your e-commerce website and order and inventory management systems directly to the Multi-Channel Fulfillment (MCF) API.

*Amazon Multi-Channel Fulfillment (MCF) developer-friendly API makes it easier to create custom API integrations.

With automated integration, sellers can significantly reduce the amount of manual work needed to handle order fulfillment operations. There’s no need to manually enter and monitor every order received in Amazon Multi-Channel Fulfillment (MCF)’s order fulfillment system; instead, you can automate this process. Sellers can use the time saved to focus on more important areas of their business.

Using automated integration, sellers can use Amazon Multi-Channel Fulfillment (MCF) to automatically create inbound and outbound shipments, synchronize inventory across different sales channels, and track orders in real time, streamlining the order fulfillment process. As a result, this not only improves efficiency, delivers faster, more reliable performance, and reduces out-of-stock rates, but also increases customer satisfaction and retention.

With automated integration, sellers can easily set up and integrate sales across multiple online channels, including direct-to-consumer (DTC) sites, various e-commerce sites, and social media stores.
Through these integrations, sellers can automatically adjust orders and inventory across sales channels and easily expand to new sales channels so they can successfully manage and grow their multichannel business.

Using automated integration, sellers can use Amazon Multi-Channel Fulfillment (MCF)’s Order Promise feature to provide consumers with accurate delivery times at checkout.
According to data from the Baymard Institute, 22% of online shoppers abandon their carts at checkout because shipping is too slow.
By combining automatic integration with Amazon Multi-Channel Fulfillment (MCF), you can offer shipping as fast as 1-Day, provide real-time estimated delivery times at checkout, and make delivery promises, which can greatly increase conversion rates and reduce cart abandonment.