Amazon is one of the biggest eCommerce platforms which sells a wide variety of products through its online platform.
It has brought a major revolution in the digital scape by providing door to door service of goods and physical products.
This has changed the conventional system of buying products from a physical store.
Apparels, household items, electronic items or gadgets, on Amazon you can find nearly any product which you need.
Apart from delivering physical products from business to customers, it also hosts a very popular affiliate program known as the Amazon Associate Program.
Using this affiliate program, you can promote products from the Amazon’s catalog of items and earn commissions when someone buys the products through your referral links.
You can even set up your online store using the WooCommerce plugin and sell products.
Every product in your online store will have your unique Amazon ID using which you can track your sales and manage your commissions from Amazon.
Sign Up for the Amazon Associate Program -> Click Here
In this post, we will tell you how to set up your online store and host Amazon products on that using the free WooCommerce plugin.
We will use a simple WordPress site for setting up our online store
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After setting up your WordPress website, the second most important thing is to have a neat and professional eCommerce theme.
In the below tutorial, we have used our latest, professionally designed, eCommerce theme for setting up eCommerce stores.
Let us first see how to set up the WooCommerce plugin on our WordPress website:
1 WooCommerce Plugin Installation Guide:
1.1 Step 1: Add New Plugin
- In your WordPress Dashboard, hover to “Plugins.”
- Click on “Add New” to add a new plugin to your WordPress system.
1.2 Step 2: Install and Activate WooCommerce Plugin
- Search for the “WooCommerce” plugin in the search area.
- Install and activate the WooCommerce plugin.
Your online shop is ready. You can now add the affiliate products from Amazon and start promoting them through your online store.
Let’s begin with the tutorial and learn how to add the Amazon affiliate products to WooCommerce and start selling through our online shop.
2 How To Add Amazon Affiliate Products To WooCommerce
We hope you are ready with your WordPress website and installed the WooCommerce plugin as directed above.
So are you excited to add your first product? Let us see how to do that in the below steps.
2.1 Step 1: Find products on Amazon
- Log in to your Amazon Associate Dashboard to start your search for products which you want to promote on your online store.
- Search products and click on the “Go” button
2.2 Step 2: Choose a Product
If you have searched for a generic term like “shirts” in the above example, you will get various products in a list.
Choose a relevant product that you want to add and click on the “Get link” button to get your affiliate product link.
2.3 Step 3: Get Product Link
Now, you can select a relevant product link. This section is especially useful for those who are promoting the products as banners on their website.
We are adding the product to our store so; we need more product details.
The best option is to click on the text and image link which will lead you to the official product page on Amazon.
You can see in the picture itself; we have all the necessary product details that we need to add this product to our online store.
2.4 Step 4: Add Product to WooCommerce
To add a new product, hover to the drop-down menu “New” and click on “Product.”
You will be directed to a screen similar to the one in the above image.
Enter the relevant details that you had noted in Step 3 in the mentioned fields.
- Enter the name of the product that you are promoting.
- Enter the product description.
- Choose an appropriate Product Category. In the above example, we have selected “Apparels” as we are promoting a shirt.
Now, scroll down to add some more details.
- From Product Data, choose the option “External/Affiliate product” as we are promoting an affiliate product from Amazon.
- Enter the details such as product URL and price. Product URL is the same Affiliate Product Link that we had noted in Step 3.
- In the Product Short Description, you can add the same product description from Step 3.
- Featured Image is like the cover page of a magazine. You should use a neat and professional image of the product. We would suggest you save the picture of the product from your affiliate account. Refer to the below image for guidance.
- Product gallery consists of the images of the product from different angles. This helps the customer to understand the product better.
- Lastly, use the appropriate tags that define the product. This is same as what you give while writing a blog post on WordPress.
2.5 Step 5: Publish the Product
In the end, you need to publish the product to make it live on your online store.
After posting the product, you can check it on your website.
Similarly, you can add more products to your online store and earn good commissions by promoting them.
To conclude in the end, we would just want to point some minute details you should pay heed while adding and publishing affiliate products from Amazon.
Things to take care while promoting Amazon affiliate products:
- Choose an eCommerce optimized theme. This will help you to differ from an average e-store. We would recommend you to use eCommerce optimized themes like Wooshop and eCommerce.
- Always choose products which have good reviews from present customers.
- Always give a proper product description. This helps the users to make a quick judgment and buy the enlisted product.
- Setup your website with the essential plugins. Your website should load fast and offer a great response to the user.
- Do check your Amazon affiliate link while promoting products. If you miss the affiliate tag, any products bought won’t be counted in your affiliate dashboard.
- Categorizing the products helps your user to find them easily. It also helps in better conversion rates. Do give proper tags and assign a relevant category.
Believe us, setting up an eCommerce store is not that difficult. The WooCommerce plugin has made it possible for anyone to set up their online store. In the end, who doesn’t want to earn money!
Do share your views about the above tutorial. We would be glad to see you succeed.
Wow, this is one of the best ways to earn good commissions from Amazon Affiliate.
The guide is newbie friendly and I must attest to it.
Thanks and do have a nice day.
Hi Joseph,
Thanks for your comment and appreciation.
Do tell us how it worked for you.
Keep visiting 😀
Is there a way to add products in bulk using Amazon API?
Hello,
Yes, can we add Amazon products along with reviews in bulk?
Is there a way to do so? please let us know, good question by the way, thank you
Denis
Hello Denis,
Thanks a lot for your comment.
You can do that if you use Amazon API but that is outside the scope of this article. You can find plenty of resources on the internet about that though.
Thank you.
I need to change my API keys on my existing website.
Is there a way to do it in WordPress easily?
Hi Ram,
Thanks for your comment.
Why would you want to change the API keys? Would you please elaborate and explain in detail.
Although, you can always contact the WooCommerce team directly and ask them your technical queries.
I hope that solves your problem.
Have a great day ahead.
Nice article! Having Amazon products in WooCommerce opens an entire world of addons from the Woo ecosystem (sliders, wishlists, related products etc.). You can also do this automatically with a product like Prosociate and even add Ebay listings to WooCommerce. Bulk products can be added via a csv file.
Hi Mark,
Thanks for your comment and suggestion.
Keep visiting!
Nice Article… Thank you very much for Sharing..
Please Help me…
How do I earn More Sale On Shareasale Affiliate Marketing?
Hi Rose,
Thanks for your comment.
We would be able to answer your question better if you could tell us about your problem precisely. Exactly what problem are you facing as of now? Is it regarding traffic, SEO, conversion optimization, brand building or anything else?
what happens when the product is out of stock from amazon
Hi Bhikki,
Thanks for your comment.
You will have to monitor that manually.
Hi. Do you have an example store? I want to know if the products are added to the basket or whether the customer is redirected to amazon for payment of each item.
Hi Penny,
Thanks for your comment.
Once the customer adds all the products, the end payment would be done through Amazon.
This probably gets asked quite often, but is there a way to automate this? For example, I like to write reviews and add an amazon affiliate link to the item I\’m reviewing. Is there a way for all the items I link to automatically show up on the woocommerce \’Shop\’ Page?
Hi Drake,
We aren\’t sure about it but you can check the AAWP plugin if it works for you.
Thanks, awesome article about amazon woocommerce.
Hi Edward,
You are welcome!
Hi! Many thanks for this article!
However, I have read in other pages that you are not allowed to show prices just by introducing the data in the “product Data” section as you are showing here. That is done to prevent people from using wrong or misleading information for potential buyers.
Amazon’s policy clearly states:
“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 the PA API and you comply with the requirements regarding use of the PA API in the License”
Could you clarify, please? I am bit confused.
Many thanks!
Maria.
Hi, great article.
I would also like to know regarding the above question on manually adding price.
Essentially I would like to have multiple amazon products on my site and add them to my own woo commerce basket while fetching the latest correct price for my products then when my customers are done selecting there products and want to check out they can complete the payment process through amazon.
This would require fetching the latest price as the affiliate link process does and not publishing the price manually myself, is this possible?
Kind regards.
Vinny
Hello Vinny,
Thank you for your comment.
Sorry to disappoint but that is not possible without some extensive customization or preferably using a plugin on top of WooCommerce.
Hope that helps. If you have any further question(s), please let us know. Thank you.
Do you have any plugin to suggest?
Thanks
Hello Alessio,
Thank you for your comment.
We do not know of any such plugin.
Now, can you set woo commerce such that, some items sell on your store and others sell on Amazon?
Hello Duncan,
Thank you for your comment.
Yes, you can link out to external links and let your users purchase from websites like Amazon.
Hope that helps.
Hello Smith,
Thank you for stopping by and leaving a comment.
Did you check our article on traffic generation methods?
https://mythemeshop.com/blog/increase-website-traffic/
Hope that helps.
Can I add this into my existing regular WordPress site, i.e. I don’t need a separate “link to” WordPress site?
Hello Margie
Yes, you can add Amazon Affiliate Products to your existing WordPress site.
All you need to install is the WooCommerce plugin but the theme has to be compatible with WooCommerce.
Let us know if you need further assistance, we are here to help. Thank you.
Thank you for your quick reply. Now can you tell me how we know if our theme is compatible with WooCommerce? I am using Supernova child … Thank You again.
Hello Margie
We recommend contacting the theme provider, or you can visit the theme’s homepage to know about its features.
Let us know if you need any further assistance; we are here to help.
nice blog…keep up the good work….I want to start affiliate on my blog. Can you tell me which is better Amazon or Flipkart?
Hello Deepika,
Thank you for your comment.
That depends on the kind of traffic you are bringing to your website. For traffic outside India, Flipkart won’t work but Amazon works and operates in almost all the countries.
Hope that helps. If you have any further question(s), please let us know. Thank you.
Hello Bren
Glad you found the article helpful and implemented it.
Thank you for leaving a comment. Feel free to share it across.
Hello,
From what I understand, it is not legal to save and host the product images from Amazon and to link to the associate product I am only supposed to use the embed codes that Amazon provides. Do you have any more insight into this?
Hello Archie,
Thank you for leaving a comment.
As long as you are promoting the product you are taking the images from, you should be okay. Product owners want you to promote their products and they are okay if you use their marketing material to push their stuff.
However, please consult a lawyer before proceeding as these things tend to differ from country to
country.
Let us know if you need any more assistance, we are here to help.
You CAN NOT download images from amazon to promote affiliate links. All image must be acquire through the Amazon Advertising API.
You also can’t copy and paste amazon descriptions into your site.
These are sure ways to get banned.
helpful article, I am looking forward to selling products online on my blog, I am sure this article will help me, and also I bookmarked your site for my further reference, keep doing this great work, keep sharing with us.
Hello Harish,
Thank you for your comment, and we are glad you found this helpful.
Let us know if you need any help, and we are here to help you.
Hi ,
Thankyou for sharing this article
It great way to may great affiliate store.
Have a great day.
Hello Raghvir,
Glad you liked the article and found this helpful.
Let us know if you need any assistance, we are here to help.
Hi, is there a way to update prices automatically? Prices on amazon change very often and i don’t want to show old prices on my site
Hello Alex,
Thank you for leaving a comment. You can use this plugin to automatically update the price of products mentioned in your blog posts: https://getaawp.com/
We hope that it helps.
What was kinda of reply this? Your pointing to a whole different plugin altogether that has nothing to do with WooCommerce and this is the same old dusty article I have seen before on other sites telling you how the violate Amazon’s TOS using WooCommerce, by using static pricing. If you omit the price you can’t use the price sort.
Hello Lonnie,
Thank you for your comment.
We are sorry.
However, we don’t know any plugin to do that.
Hi,
I have a question. Is it ok to use Amazon’s product description on your website? Doesn’t it violate amazon policy?
Please reply!
Hello Nootan,
Thank you for leaving a comment.
You should avoid using any sort of copied content on your website regardless of whether it complies with Amazon’s policies or not. Some product owners are okay with you copying their product description to promote their products but some might not like it.
You shouldn’t copy in either cases because Google will not rank your page above the original Amazon page because of copied content. Come up with your own original content if you want to get any chance of ranking in Google.
We hope that it helps.
Thank you very much for your quick reply.
Keep up the good work!
Hello Nootan,
Glad we could help.
Amazon sells merchandise now as it is print to order, the link button doesn’t seem to be available, are there other options to add these products to my site?
Hello Nichole,
Thank you for leaving a comment.
Please contact Amazon as they will be in a better position to help with this query. We do not have any experience with Amazon Merchandise’s affiliate guidelines as of now.
how could i import all the product of my own store? Is there any plugin ? I need it very urgent please suggest me .
Hello Shahriar,
Thank you for getting in touch. Please add the following code to your wp-config.php file in order to do that: `define(‘WP_POST_REVISIONS’, 10);`
Hope that helps and do let us know if you need help with anything else.
I have a question about this method.
Will a customer on a website be able to add multiple Amazon affiliate products into a woocommerce cart and checkout multiple Amazon affiliate products at once?
Hello Calvin,
Thank you for leaving a comment.
Unfortunately, that is not possible with WordPress. Only a single product can be added to cart and point to affiliate link. Amazon does not allow developers to add an item to cart from outside their website.
Hope that helps.
Looks easy enopugh to follow 🙂
Can I ask however what happens if a product you have added is no longer available, how do you manage that? If it is deleted on Amazon can we be notified in any way so we can remove it form our store?
Hello Greg,
Unless you are promoting something super-specific, there is little chance that an item won’t be available on Amazon albeit from a different seller.
If it is out or stock or delete or discontinued, you can mention that on your website or remove the product altogether if it isn’t receiving any traffic.
Is wzone/woozone compatible with mts ecommerce themes?
Hello Denise,
Thank you for leaving a comment.
Yes, eCommerce theme is compatible with those plugins.
In fact, our theme is compatible with all plugins out there that follow WordPress coding standards.
Hope that helps.
I am thinking of adding a affiliate plugin to my blog cause it’s been a while that i had adsense On and it’s not making me much. There are so many options out there for affiliate plugins that it’s such a headache.
Can you suggest me something out of these free plugins that i found revglue(.)com/free-wordpress-plugins
Should i go for these free ones that are promised with great service or some premium ones like we are debating up in thread?
Any help is appreciated
Hello Smith,
Thank you for leaving a comment.
There are indeed quite a few you can use. Here are a couple we recommend.
1. EasyAzon
2. SkimLinks or VigLink
Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
Is this a plugin that allows you to customize the size of the blocks? I’ve been considering this plugin (at first I just thought it was for people who were selling their own products) but I’ve been thinking of replacing Amazon’s standard custom ads with WooCommerce blocks.
What are your thoughts on this?
Hello Aria,
Thank you for leaving a comment.
No, it does not do that. It simply helps you add Amazon products to your WooCommerce website easily. Gutenberg just came out and this article is quite old.
Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
So, just to be sure. Since I’m selling affiliate products via Amazon, I don’t need to put in my address and stuff for the WooCommerce setup?
Hello Aria,
You can but it is not essential. Simply select the option that you are an online goods store.
Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
Hello. I tried linking to the “large image” from amazon, but it is under 200×200 pixels. I received an error message within WordPress that social media and search engines need that minimum for images to be picked up. Additionally, when I use the large image as my product image, it’s blurry. Any ideas how to solve this?
Hello Scott,
Thank you for leaving a comment.
Instead of resizing the small image to make it bigger, please use a different image with higher resolution. If you upscale the small image, there is bound to be some loss of quality.
Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
Hello i follow the steps on your blog but do you know if there is a way to link direct to amazon without going to my product page
Hello,
Where do you want to place the direct link? If you are simply creating a showcase of Amazon products, you can directly place links inside the post without having to use WooCommerce.
Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
why is there no way to add the product to cart and why isn’t the buy button showing? The product was added correctly but there’s no way for my customers to purchase it. Anyone else facing this extreme issue?
Hello Melissa,
Thank you for leaving a comment,
Do you mean on our website or on one of our themes? If you are facing an issue with our themes, please open a ticket here so we can investigate this further:
https://community.mythemeshop.com/forum/7-theme-support/
Looking forward to helping you.
You will have to install & activate WooCommerce plug-in for this purpose.
This is great but how do I remove the Paypal Button on the page after publishing? I can’t see an option for disabling the button as obviously as an affiliate I don’t really want to take payments through paypal. I supply free downloads too so this would be really helpful
Hello Traice,
Thank you for leaving a comment.
You can disable that pretty easily by settings up your product as an external product: http://i.mythemeshop.com/pGfJ9b or by disabling the PayPal option in WP > WooCommerce > Payments.
Hope this helps. If you have any other doubts, let us know we are here to help you.
While setting up WooCommerce change payment method to cash on delivery.
Hey this very useful post buddy…. I was struggling to place my affiliate product. I followed the steps and I am successful. Thank you.
Hello Ravi,
Thank you for your comment.
Glad you liked the article and found it helpful.
you put price manually? and if yes, how can i update the price ? and is amazon allow to put price manually ?
is there some sort of program or plugin which grabs the prices from Amazon without using API key.
Hello Nikhil,
Thank you for leaving a comment.
Yes, you have to manually update the price. Yes, Amazon allows you to enter the price manually for as long as the price you enter matches the one on their listing. You can use getaawp plugin to grab the prices automatically.
Hope that helps. Do not hesitate to let us know if you need any further assistance, we are here to help.
This is amazing! Finally, I found the correct article, Thank you very much!
Hello Minosh,
Thank you for leaving a comment.
Glad you liked the article and found it helpful.
HI! Great article.
Quick question: Did you save the featured image in your computer? Is it allowed by Amazon?
Hello Brenda,
Thank you for leaving a comment, and we are glad you liked the post.
Yes, we did and it is allowed as long as you are promoting the product whose image you are using.
Hope that helps, please donot hesitate to let us know if you need any other assistance.
When you say to WooCommerce the product is external, the button redirects to amazon, not to the WooCommerce cart.
When your product is external the paypal button is still there, when it shouldn’t.
If you have external and internal products, there is no way to take out the paypal button only for the external.
Hello,
When setting a product page, please choose these settings in order for it to work properly: http://i.mythemeshop.com/UPH1cl
Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
When setting up WooCommerce change payment method to cash on delivery.
Are there any plugins that will automate creating the products? IE, something that will fetch the images so they’re served locally, product name, description, globally set the affiliate tag, etc?
Hello,
Unfortunately, we are not familiar with a plugin that does all that automatically. Sorry.
Woozone. Google it.
do not take image and text from amazon like this tutorial this is against amazons terms of service and your affiliate account will get shut down if you do this.
You need to use API to get some information or image.
Hi Sir,
How I can check that I have already added this product to my site or you may say, how to avoid adding the one item twice.
Hello Javed,
Thanks for leaving a comment.
You can check that by checking your product pages. If it already exists, you will see it in the list.
Hi,
What does the experience look like? The customer picks the product from your store, then adds to cart, and wants to checkout. At what stage, does the store divert to Amazon? For purchase of each item, or at the time of checkout? Lastly, it is possible to integrate other marketplaces like Etsey and Alibaba to create a multi-affiliate store?
Thanks,
Amir
Thank you for sharing such a nice blog. It’s really impressive. I appreciate your intelligence and knowledge.
Hello David,
Glad you liked the article and found it helpful.
Is there a way for the external (Amazon) product to display its price? Amazon does not want you to add a price in manually, as their prices fluctuate.
Also is there a way in Woocommerce for affiliate products to enable items to be added to a cart and only go to Amazon at checkout?
Hello Greg,
Thank you for your comment.
There might be a solution but we are not familiar with a working script/plugin that does that reliably.
Please try searching on Google. There is bound to be a solution that is in line with your requirements.
I just had a long chat with amazon affiliates and most of this post violates the amazon affiliates terms. You can’t copy their images, nor can you copy the product description. Do you know any work arounds, because if i had followed this directly, I would have been at risk of having my account suspended.
Hello Michelle,
Thank you for your comment.
Although it is officially against the Amazon ToS, they do not force this restriction. We have never heard of anyone getting banned by using Amazon images/description but please feel free to source your own images and write your own descriptions to be on the safer side.
Since it is illegal to download an Amazon Affiliate image to your computer for usage, how do I link an affiliate image to the product image or gallery image? I know how to add the code and the image pops up in my description just not for the WooCommerce featured “set product image”. Sitestripe seems rather convenient except for this one problem that I can’t solve. Help?
Hello Dani,
Thank you for your comment.
You should try looking at Amazon’s Advertising API. That should help you get started.
There are plenty of articles on the internet that dissect the topic pretty well.
Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
Too bad this method would get your account in trouble as you are not allowed to directly download the image from Amazon. It has to be taken with sitestrip or the API, so while this tutorial is useful, you can get in trouble with the image.
Hello Kiril,
Thanks for your comment.
We have already answered this concern in the past 🙂
Hi,
How to add products in Bulk? instead of adding products one by one, how can I import 100 products for example using the WooCommerce plugin? is it possible?
Thanks,
Denis
Hello Denis,
Thanks for your comment. It might be possible with some paid plugin but we have not given it a try.
You can try the Amazon Advertising API as well.
Hi,
I didn’t understand something:
What if the price is changing or is not on sale anymore, you have to change manually the price?
Thanks
Hello Biro,
Thanks for your comment.
Yes, you need to keep an eye on prices and update them frequently.