phluXMerchant (e-Commerce Integration with Amazon.com)
Amazon.com's third-party sellers channel provides companies a set of e-commerce services and tools for the sale of their goods and services. Amazon.com has third-party seller arrangements with Toysrus.com, Inc., Target Corporation, Circuit City Stores, Inc., the Borders Group, Waterstones, Expedia, Inc., Hotwire, National Leisure Group, Inc., Virgin Wines, and others.
Merchant@Amazon.com integration platform offers:
• Strong, global brand recognition.
• Web merchandising, including patented search technologies, personalization, 1-Click e.t.c • Ordering, editorial content and customer reviews, data-driven automation.
• Technology infrastructure • Customer service, including a global 24-hour customer support network, customer self-service technology, and proprietary e-commerce call center technology • Global fulfillment capabilities fully integrated to a Web site, and • Customer traffic and acquisition involving millions of customers and the Associates Program.
Introducing phluXMerchant
phluXMerchant is an Ephlux's end-to-end Merchant Integration Platform for the Merchant@Amazon Web Service framework. phluXMerchant acts as a client to the Amazon Merchant Integration web services. • Flat File XML Mapping • DB XML Mapping • Amazon Merchant Integration Web-Service client • Process Manager • Scheduler • Administration Module
Merchant Benefits • Ephlux offers implementation of its phluXMerchant technology, thus making the merchant go live with Amazon within a month. • Merchant requires NO in-house IT Development team.
• Ephlux offers Support agreement starting at $ 1,000 / month.
• phluXMerchant technology provides instant integration of Merchant's Inventory information with Amazon. • No Web/Application Server License cost involved • Instant integration of Merchant's Inventory with Amazon and automatic Order/Settlement Reports
phluXMerchant Modules
Administration Module
Performs administrative tasks such as • Schedule Management
• Error logging
• Fail over and Error recovery
Scheduler
Schedules the execution of various processes.
Examples include :
• Post Product Data
• Post Fulfillment Data
• Post Inventory Availability Data
• Get Order Report
• Get Settlement Reports
Process Manager
• Process Manager controls execution, fault recovery and error logging of various processes
• Execution of each process involves various actions
• Each action involves posting to, or receiving a document from Amazon.com servers
MIP Web Service Client
• Platform independent implementation of MIP Web Service clients
• MIP call invocations, error logging and recovery
• Fully compliant to SOAP v1.1 standard and MIP v1.0 standard
• Runs WITH and WITHOUT web / application servers
• Supports web-servers IIS, Tomcat, Reisin
• Supports all Java application servers including IBM WebSphere, BEA
• WebLogic, Oracle 9i AS, OAS, JRun, Reisin and many others
DB XML Mapping Engine
•Maps Amazon XML documents to the merchant's underlying DB Schema
• Supports databases including MS Access, MS SQL Server 7.0/2000,
• Oracle 7/8/8i/9i, IBM DB2, SyBase
• Supports both XML-aware and XML-unaware databases
Flat File XML
Mapping Engine
• Converts Amazon XML documents into flat files, excel sheets, html, wml (mobile devices) and vice versa
Solution
phluXPress 
