Connect TikTok Shop to Amazon Seller Central

This article covers connecting Amazon Seller Central as a sales channel. If you want to use Amazon as a fulfillment provider only (no sales channel), see Connecting TikTok Shop to Amazon MCF.

This article covers:

• Required Amazon Seller Central permissions
• How product data flows through the app
• Connecting both integrations (including selecting the Amazon marketplace)
• Matching products by SKU and the limits of cross-channel SKU mapping
• Configuring fulfillment locations across the two connectors

Before you begin

• Connect TikTok Shop to the app. See Getting Started with TikTok Shop.
• Confirm the Amazon Seller Central connector is added to your account. Added connectors appear under Integrations in the Admin.
• The user authorizing the Amazon connection must have the required Amazon Seller Central permissions (listed below).
• Identify the correct Amazon marketplace region (Global, Europe, Canada, etc.) before starting authorization.
• Decide which platform will hold the primary catalog - the source of truth for product data.

Required Amazon Seller Central permissions

The user who authorizes the Amazon Seller Central connection must have the following access in their Amazon account:

Inventory and products

• Manage Inventory / Add a Product - Full Control
• Manage Seller Fulfilled Product - View
• Manage FBA Inventory / Shipments - Full Control
• Inventory Planning - Full Control
• Upload Inventory - Full Control
• Item Classification Guide - Full Control
• Image Management - View
• Image Uploading - Full Control

Orders, returns, and transactions

• Manage Orders - Full Control
• Manage Refunds - Full Control
• Manage Returns - Full Control
• Transactions - Full Control

Fulfillment

• Fulfillment Programs - Full Control
• Fulfillment Settings - Full Control
• Fulfillment Reports - View

Reports

• Business Reports, Sales Summary - Full Control
• Custom Reports - View

Apps and integrations

• Selling Applications - Full Control
• Selling Partner Appstore - Full Control

How product sync works

The app is always the intermediary. Each connector handles its own half of the flow:

• Amazon Seller Central → App: The Amazon connector pulls product data into the app via the Pull products from Amazon Seller Central setting.
• App → TikTok Shop: The TikTok Shop connector pushes product data from the app to TikTok Shop.
• TikTok Shop → App: The TikTok Shop connector pulls product data into the app.
• App → Amazon Seller Central: The Amazon connector pushes product data from the app to Amazon Seller Central.

Constraint to be aware of:

• Pushing products to TikTok Shop is available only for US and UK regions. If you sell on TikTok Shop outside the US or UK, use TikTok Shop as the primary catalog so the data flows out to Amazon instead of into TikTok Shop.

Choose your primary catalog

The primary catalog determines the direction of product data flow.

• Amazon Seller Central as primary: Use this when Amazon holds your master product list. The Amazon connector pulls products into the app, and the TikTok Shop connector pushes them to TikTok Shop. Requires a US or UK TikTok Shop.
• TikTok Shop as primary: Use this when products are already set up in TikTok Shop and Amazon has little or no product data, or when you sell on TikTok Shop outside the US/UK. The TikTok Shop connector pulls products into the app, and the Amazon connector pushes them out to Amazon Seller Central.
• Both platforms already populated: When products exist on both sides, the app matches them by SKU. Identical SKUs are linked automatically.

Choose one platform as primary before you push or pull product data. Switching direction after products exist on both sides can produce duplicates or mismatched records.

Connect the integrations

1. Confirm the Amazon Seller Central connector is added to your account. If it is not, add it from the connector catalog.

2. Open the Amazon Seller Central settings in the app and configure the product sync direction. If Amazon will be the primary catalog, enable Pull products from Amazon Seller Central. Otherwise, enable the equivalent push setting so the app sends products out to Amazon.

3. Open the TikTok Shop settings in the app. Under Products → Process product catalog updates, select the option matching your primary catalog choice:

• Disabled - do not sync products through TikTok Shop.
• Pull products from Tiktok to Pipe17 - TikTok Shop is the primary catalog.
• Push products from Pipe17 to Tiktok - Amazon (or another channel) is the primary catalog and the app pushes products out to TikTok Shop. Available for US and UK TikTok Shops only.

4. Open the Connection Details tab on the Amazon Seller Central integration.

5. In the Authorize in marketplace setting, select the correct Amazon marketplace URL for your account (for example, Global, Europe, or Canada). Authorization will fail if the marketplace does not match the account.

6. Click Connect and complete the Amazon OAuth authorization. The user signing in to Amazon must hold all permissions listed above.

7. Open the Connection Details tab on the TikTok Shop integration and click Connect to complete its OAuth flow.

8. Confirm both integrations show a connected status with no errors.

How SKU matching works

The app uses SKU as the unique identifier for product matching across channels.

• Identical SKUs across Amazon Seller Central and TikTok Shop are linked automatically and treated as the same product.
• Identical SKUs assigned to different products will be incorrectly merged. Audit your catalogs for SKU uniqueness before connecting the channels.
• Manual SKU mapping in the app's Channel Options is supported only for connectors that declare the SKU mapping capability. The Amazon Seller Central connector supports it; the TikTok Shop connector does not. See the next section for what this means in practice.

Map SKUs in Channel Options

The Channel Options section on a product record lets you map a channel-specific SKU per integration row. The section displays a row for each connected integration with four columns: Integration Name, Sync to Channel, Inventory Buffer, and Channel SKU.

What you can and cannot do:

• The Channel SKU column does appear on the Amazon Seller Central row. Use it to map the Pipe17 master SKU to the Amazon SKU when they differ.
• The Channel SKU column does not appear on the TikTok Shop row, because the TikTok Shop connector does not currently declare the SKU mapping capability. The SKU received from TikTok Shop must align with the master SKU in the app for matching to occur.
• The entire Channel SKU column is hidden for parent products with no existing channel SKU values set. Open a child or variant product to set channel SKUs.

To map an Amazon SKU:

1. Navigate to Products and open the product you want to map.
2. Scroll to the Channel Options section on the product page.
3. In the Amazon Seller Central row, enter the Amazon-specific SKU in the Channel SKU column.
4. Save your changes.

Cross-channel SKU mapping between TikTok Shop and Amazon Seller Central - when the SKUs differ on both sides - is not handled by Channel Options alone. If you need to bridge mismatched SKUs across these two channels, contact support to confirm the supported approach for your account.

Note: The Amazon Seller Central connector also has a separate skuMapping setting (Mapping between Amazon Seller Central SKUs and fulfillment channel SKUs). That setting maps FBA SKUs to FBM fulfillment SKUs within Amazon - it is unrelated to the cross-channel Channel SKU field in Channel Options.

Configure locations

Fulfillment routing is handled by the Order Routing Engine (ORE) based on the location configuration of each connector. SKU matching links product records across channels, but it does not determine where an order is fulfilled - location settings on the connectors do.

To align fulfillment across TikTok Shop and Amazon Seller Central:

• Configure location preferences on each connector individually so orders from each channel route to the correct fulfillment destination.
• Decide whether Amazon orders will be fulfilled through Fulfilled by Amazon (FBA), Fulfilled by Merchant (FBM), or both, and configure the Amazon Seller Central connector's location settings to match.
• If you fulfill from multiple physical locations, enable the Amazon Multi-Location Inventory (MLI) setting (inventoryMultipleLocations) so the app reports inventory per location to Amazon. Without it, the app aggregates inventory to a single location.
• TikTok Shop orders fulfilled by TikTok (TTS or FBT) are ingested as already fulfilled and do not pass through the ORE. See Testing orders with TikTok Shop.
• Verify each channel's location mapping for routing to a 3PL or warehouse before going live.

Best practices

• Verify the user authorizing the Amazon Seller Central connection has every required permission before starting - partial permissions will cause authorization to fail or sync to break later.
• Confirm the correct Amazon marketplace before clicking Connect.
• Decide your primary catalog before pushing or pulling product data.
• Audit SKUs for uniqueness across both platforms before connecting them. Because TikTok Shop rows do not support Channel SKU mapping, alignment at the source is especially important on the TikTok Shop side.
• For non-US/UK TikTok Shops, plan around the push limitation by making TikTok Shop the primary catalog.
• Test with a single product before syncing the full catalog.

Troubleshooting

• Amazon authorization fails or returns a permissions error
  The user authorizing the connection is missing one or more required permissions. Review the permissions list above with your Amazon account administrator and re-authorize.
• Amazon authorization completes but data does not appear
  The wrong marketplace may have been selected in Authorize in marketplace. Open the Amazon Seller Central Connection Details tab, confirm the marketplace matches the Amazon account, and re-authorize if needed.
• Products are not syncing between Amazon Seller Central and TikTok Shop
  Confirm both connectors are enabled and that the configured product sync direction matches your primary catalog choice. Check that SKUs match exactly on both sides - including case and any leading or trailing characters.
• Products are not pushing to TikTok Shop
  Pushing products to TikTok Shop is available only for US and UK regions. Confirm your TikTok Shop region. If you sell outside the US or UK, use TikTok Shop as the primary catalog and have Amazon pull from the app instead.
• The wrong product is being matched across channels
  Two different products likely share a SKU. Update the SKU on one of them, then re-map manually on the Amazon row of the product page in the app.
• The Channel SKU column does not appear on the TikTok Shop row in Channel Options
  This is expected. The TikTok Shop connector does not currently declare the SKU mapping capability, so its row does not include a Channel SKU input. The SKU received from TikTok Shop must match the master SKU in the app for matching to occur.
• The Channel SKU column is hidden entirely on a parent product
  The column is hidden for parent products with no existing channel SKU values set. Open a child or variant product to set channel SKUs.
• An Amazon or TikTok Shop order is routing to the wrong fulfillment location
  SKU matching links product records but does not control fulfillment routing. Review the location configuration on the relevant connector and confirm the ORE has the correct routing rules. If you use Multi-Location Inventory (MLI) on Amazon, confirm each Pipe17 location is mapped to the correct Amazon location.

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