Best Plugin For Price Fetching?

[AmNovice]

Currently setting up a website for amazon associates products and I'm trying to figure out how to fetch prices for the products I'll be promoting.

Is there a WP plugin that allows you to fetch real-time prices from Amazon? Furthermore, what's the best way to ensure that currencies are region specific (ie visitors from UK see price in pounds, visitors from Germany see price in Euros etc)?

Many thanks!

 

[Honeybadger]

Currently setting up a website for amazon associates products and I'm trying to figure out how to fetch prices for the products I'll be promoting.

Is there a WP plugin that allows you to fetch real-time prices from Amazon? Furthermore, what's the best way to ensure that currencies are region specific (ie visitors from UK see price in pounds, visitors from Germany see price in Euros etc)?

Many thanks!

@AmNovice
It's not perfect, but WZone works

• You can click-and-add products
• Prices are updated automatically

You will maybe need developer help to understand set-up
(ask expert like @Graybeard maybe he knows someone who is specialist)
Depending on your skill level, maybe you can set-up on your own?
But I recommend for Amazon Associates this plug-in
You have to pay something (less than $100/yr.)
I didn't find a You Tube channel so no videos, sorry for that
wzone-plugin.com

 

[Honeybadger]

@AmNovice
I found a video for WZone

 

[Honeybadger]

@AmNovice
Problem with showing multiple prices is Amazon Associates US, UK, Germany, so on, they are all separate affiliate programs
Maybe there can be a way to find the same product listing on US, UK, Germany and show all three ??
I don't know how to do it, or even it's possible
You need to ask expert developer, or WZone support --> wzone-plugin.com/contact-us/
Now I sound like their sales rep !! (am not)

 

[Honeybadger]

@AmNovice

Another problem with different currencies on one site is different language (all text for product descriptions)
For me I will have subdomain OR separate website

• de.myjeansandjackets.com
• us.myjeansandjackets.com
• uk.myjeansandjackets.com

or

• my-jeans-and-jackets.de (Germans use separator)
  
• myjeansandjackets.com (OR .us)
  
• myjeansandjackets.uk (OR .co.uk)

 

[AmNovice]

@AmNovice

Another problem with different currencies on one site is different language (all text for product descriptions)
For me I will have subdomain OR separate website

• de.myjeansandjackets.com
• us.myjeansandjackets.com
• uk.myjeansandjackets.com

or

• my-jeans-and-jackets.de (Germans use separator)
  
• myjeansandjackets.com (OR .us)
  
• myjeansandjackets.uk (OR .co.uk)

Thanks for all of the tips! I've been reading that it's against Amazon's TOS to post prices? Is that true?

 

[Graybeard]

This look like DIY?

WZone - Woocommerce Amazon Affiliates Archives - AA-Team Documentation Center
This may require a lot of server resources IDK?

 

[Honeybadger]

This look like DIY?
This may require a lot of server resources IDK?

That's another problem
Doesn't load fast on mobile (10 > seconds)
Desktop loads fine (< 2 seconds)

@AmNovice how many products will you promote?
If 10-20 products suggest you add manually

 

[Honeybadger]

Thanks for all of the tips! I've been reading that it's against Amazon's TOS to post prices? Is that true?

@AmNovice
Haven't seen that
Pls can you share link?
I post prices & 100% from my competitors post prices
Without prices (and offers) customers wouldn't click as much
.. and I wouldn't be Amazon Associate !!
Amazon would lose alot of affiliates

 

[AmNovice]

That's another problem
Doesn't load fast on mobile (10 > seconds)
Desktop loads fine (< 2 seconds)

@AmNovice how many products will you promote?
If 10-20 products suggest you add manually

It's a very specific niche site so over time I'll have many articles promoting many of the products in that niche. I'm looking to break everything down into specific segments so if that's factored in we're looking at a lot more than 20 products over time.

 

[Graybeard]

>>>Product prices and availability may vary from time to time. Because prices for and availability of Products that you have listed on your Site may change, your Site may only show prices and availability if: (a) we serve the link in which that price and availability data are displayed, or (b) you obtain Product pricing and availability data via PA API and you comply with the requirements regarding use of PA API in the License.

In addition, if you choose to display prices for any Product on your Site in any “comparison” format (including through the use of any price-comparison tool or engine) together with prices for the same or similar products offered through any web site or other means other than an Amazon Site, you must display both the lowest “new” price and, if we provide it to you, the lowest “used” price at which the Product is available on the Amazon Site.

(y) Unless otherwise agreed by Amazon, your Site must not have price tracking and/or price alerting functionality.



Product prices and availability may vary from time to time. Because prices for and availability of Products that you have listed on your Site may change, your Site may only show prices and availability if: (a) we serve the link in which that price and availability data are displayed, or (b) you obtain Product pricing and availability data via PA API and you comply with the requirements regarding use of PA API in the License.</quote>

Amazon.com Associates Central

**edited read (z) again and determined its real intent --not to use their product's images and descriptions to sell someone else's product --poorly written IMHO

 

[Strickland]

What you're doing is using Amazon as a dropshipping service.
Maybe this might help www.wpamazonshop.com

 

[AmNovice]

What you're doing is using Amazon as a dropshipping service.
Maybe this might help www.wpamazonshop.com

Thing is, the products in my niche are not only on Amazon but the owners also have their own separate sites and affiliate programs separately from Amazon. A few of the other companies that compete with each other (of which I also plan to promote) aren't on Amazon.

My logic is to promote those that are on Amazon so that I can rank my website and start getting some traffic. Once I have the traffic the goal is to approach the product owners and go directly through their affiliate program and not just Amazon. But I figure I have to have some traffic to be approved.

 

[Graybeard]

I would just download the feed CSV file (json or xml) and search that niches terms once week.
Using a LINUX terminal and grep is the easy was to extract 10 lines from a huge feed and is fast to do.
Learn to use the Amazon API would work well too.
WordPress is not the 'Swiss knife' of the internet ...

If that program only runs once a day and can be scheduled in a low traffic time --it may also work out.
If that program makes your site very slow during off-peak times it won't really matter for ad traffic.

For SEO that program is the kiss-of-death if the indexing robot comes at 3 in the morning when that program runs. now all of a sudden you have terrible slow load times for the bot --Yikes WTF!!!