Overview

Amazon has postponed the shutdown of its legacy XML and flat‑file listing feeds to July 31 2025, giving sellers and developers an extra month to transition to the newer SP‑API endpoints. The deadline shift does not alter the requirement that all old feed types will stop working after the new cutoff, and there will be no grace period. Sellers who rely on automated listing, inventory, or pricing updates need to complete the migration before the end of July to avoid service interruptions.

Key Points

• New deadline — The retirement date moves from June 30 to July 31 2025, adding 31 days for migration work.
• Legacy feeds affected — Twelve feed types, such as POST_PRODUCT_DATA, POST_INVENTORY_AVAILABILITY_DATA, POST_PRODUCT_PRICING_DATA, and POST_PRODUCT_IMAGE_DATA, plus their flat‑file versions, will be disabled after the deadline.
• Hard stop — Submissions using any of the deprecated feeds will be rejected instantly on August 1, with no manual overrides.
• Two migration routes — Sellers can adopt the Listings Items API for real‑time per‑item updates or use the JSON_LISTINGS_FEED via the Feeds API for bulk processing.
• Support resources — Amazon supplies XSD‑to‑JSON mapping files, video tutorials, and a troubleshooting guide that address common conversion hurdles.

What's Changing

1. Extended timeline — The cutoff moves to July 31 2025; for example, a seller who planned to finish migration by June 15 now has an additional six weeks to validate large‑scale uploads.
2. Retired feed list — Twelve specific feed endpoints stop functioning; a developer who still calls POST_PRODUCT_PRICING_DATA on August 2 will receive an immediate error response indicating the feed is unsupported.
3. Mandatory switch to SP‑API — All listing, inventory, and pricing actions must be performed through either the Listings Items API or the JSON_LISTINGS_FEED; a seller using a third‑party tool that only supports XML will see those calls fail after the deadline.

Context (Before vs. After)