Setting up Amazon Business Punchout in iplicit

This article covers requesting and setting up an Amazon Business Punchout integration in iplicit. Punchout lets you order from Amazon Business' own catalogue while the order still comes back into iplicit as a Purchase Order. Setting this up starts with a request to the Support Team, including details from both Amazon and your own iplicit configuration.

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What punchout means for Amazon Business orders

Punchout (sometimes written as "punch out" or "punch-out") is a connection between iplicit and a supplier's own website. Instead of building a catalogue inside iplicit, you go to the Amazon Business site, choose your items there, and iplicit picks the order back up as a Purchase Order once you've finished shopping. Setting up Amazon Business punchout needs details from two places: Amazon and your own iplicit configuration.

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Details Amazon Business needs to provide

Ask your Amazon Business representative or Amazon support for these four items:

1. Identity – the login or identifier iplicit uses to authenticate the punchout connection
2. Shared secret (API key) – the password linked to that identity, stored securely within iplicit
3. Punchout URL – the Amazon Business punchout endpoint address
4. Purchase order request URL – the address Amazon gives iplicit to send approved purchase orders back to Amazon Business

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Details your iplicit administrator needs to confirm

Alongside the Amazon details, we need your team to confirm the following for the Amazon Business punchout setup:

1. Supplier record – which supplier record in iplicit punchout orders should be raised against
2. Default purchase order document type – the document type applied to purchase orders generated through Amazon Business punchout
3. Delivery charge account (optional) – if delivery charges should post to a specific account, provide the account details
4. Group accounts (if applicable) – whether you need multiple sub-accounts under one Amazon Business account, for example separate schools within a trust, departments or cost centres. If so, Amazon may need to issue separate account references or punchout URLs for each group

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Requesting a new punchout supplier

To set up punchout for a new supplier, including Amazon Business, contact the Support Team by raising a ticket including the requested information outlined above. 

Once support has both the Amazon Business punchout details and your iplicit configuration confirmations, the punchout integration can be configured against your account.