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How to Connect Your Amazon Seller Central Account to Luminous

In this article:
  • Step 1: Create the Amazon App Account
  • Step 2: Connect to Seller Central
  • Step 3: Map Your Amazon SKUs
  • Step 4: Set Up the Warehouse and Warehouse Group
  • Step 5: Set Up the FBA or FBM Sales Channel
  • Key Takeaways
  • Common Questions

This guide walks through connecting your Amazon Seller Central account to Luminous, so inventory and sales orders from your FBA and FBM channels flow into Luminous automatically. There are four parts: create the connection, map your SKUs, set up the warehouse group, and set up the sales channel.

Step 1: Create the Amazon App Account

  1. In the bottom-left corner of Luminous, click your name, then System Settings.
  2. Under App Integration, open Account Settings and click New App Account.
  3. Choose Trackstar as the app type and give it a label, such as Amazon.
  4. Set the inventory quantity type to On Hand or Sellable. On Hand is usually recommended, because Luminous also pulls in pending orders, which gets you to the sellable number.
  5. If you only want fulfilled orders, turn on the option to pull fulfilled orders only.
  6. Toggle on Get Products and Show Inventory Location so inventory pulls in accurately.

Step 2: Connect to Seller Central

  1. Click Connect WMS, then Continue, and select Amazon.
  2. Choose your region. Select North America if you sell across the U.S., Mexico and Canada, or pick another region such as Europe or the Far East.
  3. Click Connect Amazon. You'll be taken to Seller Central, where one click authenticates the connection.

Step 3: Map Your Amazon SKUs

From the connection, click Manage Products. You'll see each Amazon product name and SKU, along with the Luminous SKU it's mapped to, if any. You can map SKUs in three ways:

  • One by one on the Manage Products screen.
  • Export and import: export the list, fill in the mappings, and import it back.
  • Automap Product SKUs: any SKU that matches a Luminous SKU is mapped automatically.

Step 4: Set Up the Warehouse and Warehouse Group

  1. Create a warehouse for your Amazon inventory, such as FBA US, and a matching warehouse group.
  2. Edit the warehouse group, select your Amazon connection, and choose the inventory it represents (for example FBA US, Canada or Brazil).
  3. Toggle on Pull Stocks to start pulling inventory from Amazon.
  4. Optionally, toggle on Pull Shipments. Shipments you create in Seller Central then come into Luminous as inbound shipments that can be reconciled against a transfer order or purchase order.

Step 5: Set Up the FBA or FBM Sales Channel

  1. On the Channels page, click Create (or edit an existing channel).
  2. Add a channel label, such as FBA US or FBM US, and tie it to the warehouse group it should deduct inventory from.
  3. Toggle on Pull Sales Orders and select your Amazon connection.
  4. Choose the fulfillment network: AFN_US (Amazon Fulfillment Network) for FBA, or MFN for FBM.
  5. Save the channel. Sales orders for that channel will start coming into Luminous.

Key Takeaways

  • The Amazon connection uses the Trackstar app type and pulls both inventory and sales orders.
  • Pulling On Hand plus pending orders gives you an accurate sellable number.
  • SKU mapping is what ties Amazon listings to your Luminous products. Use Automap first, then fix any gaps.
  • Inventory flows through the warehouse group (Pull Stocks); sales orders flow through the channel (Pull Sales Orders). You need both.
  • AFN = FBA, MFN = FBM.

Common Questions

My Amazon inventory isn't showing in Luminous. What should I check? Make sure the warehouse group is linked to the Amazon connection with Pull Stocks turned on, and that your Amazon SKUs are mapped in Manage Products.

Do I need separate channels for FBA and FBM? Set up a channel for each fulfillment network you sell through, such as FBA US and FBM US, each tied to the warehouse group it should deduct inventory from.

Can Luminous track my inbound shipments to Amazon? Yes. With Pull Shipments on, shipments created in Seller Central come into Luminous as inbound shipments you can reconcile against a transfer order or purchase order.

Related videos: Amazon Integration and How to Connect Stores via eCart API in Luminous.

Video transcript

Create the Amazon app account

This video is going to be about how to connect your Amazon Seller Central account to Luminous. In Luminous, in the bottom left, I'm going to click my name and click System Settings. Underneath App Integration, in Account Settings, I can click New App Account. The app type will be Trackstar, and we can give it the label of Amazon, for example.

Choose the inventory quantity type

Now I can configure the inventory quantity type. We can pull in either sellable or on hand from Amazon. I typically recommend pulling on hand, because we will most likely be pulling in pending orders as well, which will also get you to that sellable number.

We do have the ability to pull fulfilled orders only from Amazon, if you'd like to do that as well. We will toggle on Get Products and Show Inventory Location for this Amazon connection to make sure inventory is pulling in accurately and everything is up to date.

Connect to Seller Central

Next, click Connect WMS, click Continue and select Amazon. If you're selling across the U.S., Mexico and Canada, you're going to choose North America. If you're in any other region, such as Europe or the Far East, you can select that instead.

When I click North America, I can then click Connect Amazon. It'll take me to my Seller Central account, where you click a button to authenticate the connection, and the connection will be set up.

Map your Amazon SKUs

I have an existing connection here. I can edit or delete the connection, but most importantly, I can click Manage Products. This is where I make sure the SKUs in Luminous are mapped to the SKUs pulling in from Amazon.

In the first two columns, you'll see the product name and SKU. You can also see the Luminous SKU it's mapped to, if there is one. You can map them one by one here, or you can export from here and then import back in. We also have Automap Product SKUs: anything that matches will automatically map over to what's in Luminous. That sets you up for success pulling inventory.

Set up the warehouse and warehouse group

The initial setup is important, but to make sure we're pulling inventory, you also want to set up the warehouse. For example, we have this FBA US warehouse, and we also have a warehouse group for FBA US.

If we edit the warehouse group, we can say we're pulling from this Amazon connection, and choose whether this is FBA US inventory or maybe Canada or Brazil, whatever options you want. We'll toggle on Pull Stocks to begin pulling inventory from Amazon.

There's also a toggle to Pull Shipments. If you create a shipment in Seller Central, we can pull it into Luminous automatically as an inbound shipment, which can then be reconciled against a transfer order or a purchase order.

Set up the FBA sales channel

The next step is to make sure sales orders are flowing in by setting up your channel for FBA. On the Channels page you can click Create; I'm going to edit the existing one. We'll put in a channel label, such as FBA US or FBM US, and tie it to the warehouse group it should deduct inventory from.

Then we'll toggle on Pull Sales Orders. We're pulling from Simply Wrappers, which is our Amazon connection, and within that we can choose whether we're pulling from FBA US or FBM US. You'll notice AFN_US here. AFN is Amazon Fulfillment Network, which is synonymous with FBA. MFN is synonymous with FBM.

Now if I save this channel, sales orders will begin coming in for the FBA US sales channel. That's how you connect to Amazon and make sure you're pulling inventory and sales orders into Luminous. Thanks.

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