Overview

Amazon has broadened the reach of the Product Pricing API version 2022‑05‑01 by enabling the getFeaturedOfferExpectedPriceBatch operation across all marketplaces except Japan. Effective immediately, the new endpoint allows sellers to request the projected featured‑offer price for up to 40 SKUs in a single call, dramatically reducing the number of round‑trips required for large inventories. Sellers who rely on pricing intelligence should adopt the batch call to keep their repricing logic fast and cost‑effective.

Key Points

• Global availability (excluding Japan) — The batch operation is live in North America, Europe, the Middle East and India, but remains unavailable for the Japanese marketplace.
• Maximum 40 SKUs per request — Each API call can contain up to 40 distinct product identifiers, cutting the request count for a 200‑item catalog from 200 separate calls to just five.
• Featured Offer Expected Price (FOEP) — The response returns the price Amazon anticipates the current featured offer will carry during the next pricing update cycle.
• Competitive benchmarking — By juxtaposing their own listing price with the FOEP, sellers can gauge how close they are to the “Buy Box” price range and adjust accordingly.
• No new authentication steps — The batch endpoint reuses the existing Login With Amazon (LWA) token and AWS Signature V4 signing process, so no additional credentials are needed.
• Rate‑limit parity — Throttling limits for the batch call match those of other Product Pricing API operations, preserving existing usage patterns and preventing unexpected quota spikes.
• Partial‑success handling — If a subset of SKUs is invalid, Amazon returns error objects for those items while still delivering FOEP data for the valid ones.

How getFeaturedOfferExpectedPriceBatch Works

1. Assemble the payload — Sellers create a JSON array that lists each SKU together with its marketplace identifier.