Amazon Pay is a payment plug-in for online shops that you can use as payment option in your various online shops.
In Xentral you can handle incoming Amazon Pay payments as well as refunds via Amazon Pay. Incoming payments and refunds are dealt with separately:
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For incoming Amazon Pay payments you use the Bank via CSV import business account. You can find more information on this type of business account and how you create it here.
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For refunds via Amazon Pay you use the Amazon Pay business account.
Incoming Amazon Pay payments are processed using the Bank via CSV import business account.
This article describes how you set up your Bank via CSV import business account.
Please note the following for Amazon Pay:
Field in CSV import section in Xentral |
Column in Amazon Pay CSV template |
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Date |
TransactionPostedDate |
Amount |
TransactionAmount |
Booking text |
AmazonTransactionId |
Currency |
CurrencyCode |
You can use the Access data field in the Live import section to pre-define accounts that should be used for the various postings.
To retrieve your Amazon Pay statement:
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Log in to your Amazon Pay account on Amazon Seller Central.
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Click Reports in the menu and select the Payments option from the drop-down. The Statement View tab on the Payment Dashboard is displayed.
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Open the Date Range Reports tab from the menu.
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In the Date Range Reports tab click Generate Report. The Generate date range report dialog is displayed.
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Select the Transaction report type. Select the reporting range:
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Monthly. Here you can select a statement per month.
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Custom. Enter the date range you want to create a statement for into the relevant fields.
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If you enter the current date or a date in the future in the To field, the report will only be created once that date has passed.
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Click Generate. Your Amazon Pay report ist generated and displayed in the Date Range Report Reports tab.
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Click the Refresh link for your report. The Download button is displayed. Download the generated Amazon Pay statement to your computer.
You can now import the Amazon Pay statement into Xentral .
To import incoming Amazon Pay transactions:
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Go to Accounting > Receipt of payment.
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Click in the Menu column for the bank account, that you have created for the import of Amazon Pay statements.
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Click Datei auswählen (select file) and select the Amazon Pay CSV-file you have downloaded from your Amazon Pay account for import.
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Click Import.
Your Amazon Pay statement is imported and the transactions are displayed in the Kontoauszüge (bank statements) tab. You can now process your statements further as required.
App Center > Accounting > Business accounts
To create a new business account for Amazon Pay:
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Click +New and select the Account: Amazon Pay (API) tile from the Selection section. The Amazonpay credentials form is displayed.
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If you have already stored your Amazon access data in your Amazon interface, that is the Amazon Seller ID and the Amazon AWS Access Key ID, you can select the relevant Amazon interface in Daten aus Schnittstelle (data from interface).
Alternatively copy or enter the relevant info from your Amazon seller account and enter them under Amazon SellerID and Amazon AWSAccessKeyID.
The account is created. In the confirmation message click Great. The Account settings page is displayed. Here you can maintain your account settings. How you maintain your account settings for Amazon Pay is described in the next section.
App Center > Accounting > Business accounts > Open the Amazon Pay business account by clicking on .
To modify your Amazon business account:
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The sections Bank details and CSV import are not relevant for Amazon Pay business accounts.
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By default Xentral adds a name for the business account in the Designation field when a new business account is created. If you want to use a different name, you can change it in this field.
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Make sure the Type field contains the option Account: AmazonPay (API).
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Select the relevant project in the Project field.
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Make sure that the Active check box is selected. If this check box is not selected, you cannot use the account.
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Select the No email check box if you do not want an email to be sent to the customer when payment has been received. By default the customer will receive an email.
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Select the Allow changes check box if you want to allow subsequent changes to the postings.
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Scroll down to the DATEV section and enter your DATEV account.
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Scroll down to the Live import section. Live imports are not possible for Amazon Pay business accounts. Nonetheless, you can enter the following in the Access data field in order to be able to process refunds through this account:
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Option 1:
SellerId=>XXXXXXX; MWSAuthToken=>amzn.mws.XXXXXXX;
Here you can find out, how you can create the MWS authorization token.
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Option 2:
SellerId=>XXXXXXX; AWSAccessKeyId=>XXXXXXX; AWSSecretKey=>XXXXXXXXXX;
You can find this information in your Amazon seller account.
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Click Save.
Your Amazon Pay account is now ready for use.
The processing of refunds via Amazon Pay is identical to the processing of refunds for PayPal. More information on how to handle refunds for Paypal can be found here.