How to place an Amazon product order through the Alexa API

I am trying to create an Amazon Alexa Skill that allows users to find and order specific products on Amazon.

Is there a way to order products through amazon via the Alexa API, or at least add them to Alexa 's user list?

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Not. The Alexa API provides the ability to receive Intents based on what the user said, and you can provide verbal feedback, a map in the Alexa application, and process or call API requests for web services. Alexa does not provide third-party access to view or manage Amazon users.

I don’t know how Amazon provides third-party APIs for managing user purchases.

However, the way you would use Alexa to manage such a shopping experience would be to first use the integration of Alexa OAuth 2.0 to authorize skills for a merchant service. Then, when users ask or say something to Alexa, you can make API calls to search for products, add them to the shopping card, and complete the checkout process.

The problem with what you ask is that Amazon already provides this functionality on the Alexa platform, and as I mentioned, I do not believe that Amazon provides APIs to manage your shopping experience the way you say. Even if Amazon provided these APIs, I feel that this skill is unlikely to go through the review process since Amazon already provides Alexa shopping experience.

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