Amazon Qualifying Product: A product that is sold and fulfiled by Amazon or fulfiled on behalf of Amazon and that, according to the terms of the Operating Agreement, qualifies for a referral commission.

Amazon Item : An item that is sold and fulfiled by Amazon, not by one of our third-party merchants.

ASIN: Short for "Amazon Standard Item Number." Every item in our catalog has a unique 10-digit ASIN. You can find items' ASINs on their product pages under Product Details, along with other information like sales rank and release date. Although Books' ASINs used to be the same as their ISBNs, this is no longer guaranteed because of the introduction of 13-digit ISBNs. See the ISBN-13 FAQ for more information.

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Associates Central: This Web site offers you a multitude of services, including report- and link-generation tools, a graphics library, and marketing tips.

Associates ID: An automatically generated, unique ID that is used to identify your Associates account.

Basic Display Product Link: A link to a specific item that is hosted by the Associate. Associates may download an image or use the text description of the product. Most Basic Display Product Links send visitors to a page with product information. A Basic Display Third-Party Link sends visitors to the product's offer listing page, which includes all new and used items offered by individual sellers.

Clicks: The number of clicks visitors have made on your Associates links.

Click-through Rate: The number of clicks on your links divided by the number of impressions, expressed as a percentage. For example, if your links got 50 clicks for 1000 impressions, your click-through rate would be 50/1000 = 0.05, or 5%. Click-through rate can be used to judge how effective an Amazon link is at generating traffic.

Conversion: The number of items dispatched divided by the number of clicks on your links, expressed as a percentage. For example, if your links got 200 clicks and those referrals generated 18 dispatched items, your conversion would be 18/200=0.09, or 9%.

CSV: (Comma Separated Values) A tabular data format in which you can download your reports. In reports downloads from Associates Central, the various values are separated by tabs, not commas, in the resulting text file.

Daily Trends Report: A report that displays your daily click total, ordered items total, and conversion, allowing you to quickly judge how your Web site is performing.

Direct Link: A link that takes a visitor from your Web site to the Amazon.co.uk detail page of a product you've specifically chosen. Direct links include Product Links, add-to-basket links, and links constructed using Amazon Web Services. Links that are not considered direct include those to the Amazon.co.uk home page, to search-result pages, to product category pages (e.g. Music), and to lists (e.g., Top Sellers). Also excluded are automatically generated Recommended Product Links.

Direct Link Clicks: The number of clicks visitors have made on direct links to specific products you've chosen.

Direct Link Conversion: An indication of how frequently visitors click on direct links and then order the featured products, calculated by dividing the number of featured items ordered by the number of direct-link clicks and expressed as a percentage. For example, if a visitor clicks on one of your direct links to a camcorder and then orders it, your Direct Link Conversion is 100%. If a second visitor were to click on the camcorder link but order a watch instead, your conversion would drop to 50% (1 item ordered/2 direct-link clicks).

Dispatched Items Revenue: The money paid to Amazon or a third-party vendor for the purchase of products that were actually dispatched to customers.

Earnings: Referral commissions earned on completed sales, including premiums.

Earnings Reports: Reports that show how much you have earned in referral commissions over a given period of time. Figures are based on items paid for and dispatched.

Earnings Summary: A month-to-date total of items dispatched, completed sales, and earnings. Figures are based on items paid for and dispatched.

Effective Referral Commission Rate: Commission Rate Your base referral commission rate plus the effect of any premiums.

Enhanced Display Product Link: A link to a specific item that is served by Amazon.co.uk and includes the product image, title, best price, new price, and a button so that customers can add the item to their shopping baskets.

Favourite Destinations: A link that takes a visitor from your Web site to specific featured pages at Amazon.co.uk, such as Top Sellers, Help, and various category pages.

Commission Plans: Associates can select to participate in either the Classic Commission Plan or the Performance Commission Plan.

Home Page Link: A link that takes a visitor from your Web site to the Amazon.co.uk home page.

Impressions: The number of times your Amazon links are viewed. We are only able to count impressions for certain link types.

ISBN-13: Although Books' ASINs used to be the same as their ISBNs, this is no longer guaranteed because of the introduction of 13-digit ISBNs. See the ISBN-13 FAQ for more information.

Items Ordered: The number of items ordered at Amazon.co.uk through your Associates links. This is not necessarily equivalent to Items Dispatched. In fact, Items Ordered will often exceed Items Dispatch, because some orders end up getting canceled before dispatch.

Items Dispatched: The number of items ordered at Amazon.co.uk through your Associates links that have been dispatched to customers. An item's referral commission is only credited to your Associates account after the item is dispatched.

Link Type: We offer numerous ways for you to link from your site to Amazon.co.uk. A brief description of each link type is written below. Visit the Build Links section for more information on the different linking methods we offer. Product Links: Links to detail pages of individual products offered by Amazon or one of our third-party sellers. Recommended Products Links: Links that are updated every time your Web page loads with new content that matches a product category or keyword you've chosen. Search Box Links: Links in which users can enter search terms and get Amazon.co.uk results. Banner Links: These are links that send customers directly to the Amazon.co.uk Home Page, an Amazon.co.uk product category, or feature a special promotional message. Easy Links, which are dynamically updated links, and Home Page links are included in this category Text Links: Any link that redirects customers to specific pages on Amazon.co.uk, such as "Favourite Destinations" and "Link to Any Page" links. Text Links: Any link that redirects customers to specific pages on Amazon.co.uk, such as "Favourite Destinations" and "Link to Any Page" links..

Link-Type Reports: Reports that show you the performance of the different link types used on your Web site, in terms of clicks, items ordered, items dispatched, conversion, and referral commissions.

Month to Date: The period from the first day of the current month through today.

Month-to-Date Earnings: Your total earnings from the first day of the current month through yesterday.

New Customer: An Amazon.co.uk customer who, during the checkout process, enters an e-mail address and password not previously registered with Amazon.co.uk and then pays for and receives an item.

Offer Listing Page: A product page that lists all the third-party vendors that offer the product and the price each one is charging. If Amazon offers the product itself, it will be included in the list as well. These pages include both new and used products and allow customers to quickly make price comparisons.

Orders Reports: Reports that show the items your visitors have ordered and the link types that have worked best. Figures are based on items ordered but not necessarily dispatched.

Payee: The person or entity to whom we make payments. If you are a resident of the United Kingdom and choose to be paid by direct deposit, we will use the bank account information you provided under "Payment Method" when you registered. If you choose to be paid by check, we will make the check payable to the name you provided under "Payee Contact Information" and mail it to that address. If you choose to be paid by gift certificate, we will send them to the account's primary e-mail address. Regardless of payment method, notification that your monthly statement is available online is sent to the account's primary e-mail address.

Price: The amount a customer pays for an item: the list price minus any discount.

Primary E-mail Address: The e-mail address of the primary user.

Primary User: The user on your account that has the power to select compensation plans, change payment information, and confirm the addition of new users to the account.

Product Detail Page: The page where customers read details about a product for sale on Amazon.co.uk, including its name, ASIN, image, price, description, customer reviews, and ordering options. It also includes a link to the offer listing page, which includes offers from third-party sellers as well as Amazon and allows customers to quickly make price comparisons.

Product Link: A link to a specific item. There are two types: Enhanced Display and Basic Display.

Quarter: Each year is divided into four quarters: Q1 (January 1 to March 31), Q2 (April 1 to June 30), Q3 (July 1 to September 30), and Q4 (October 1 to December 31).

Referral Commission Rate: The percentage of dispatched items revenue that you earn for referring sales, prior to the addition of any premiums.

Referral Commissions: The sum of base referral commissions and premium commissions generated from the sale of products at Amazon.co.uk.

Refunded: Third-party sellers may refund their customers in part or in full for a variety of reasons: their items may have arrived damaged or not at all, the wrong items might have been sent, there may have been a delay in shipping, or the items may have been misrepresented. We mark these items "refunded," not "returned," because we have no way of knowing if products have been returned, only if refunds have been issued.

Returned: When customers are dissatisfied with purchases from Amazon, they can return the products to our warehouses for a refund. We mark such items "returned."

Revenue: The money paid to Amazon or a third-party vendor for the purchase of products.

Search Box Link: A link through which visitors can use Amazon.co.uk's powerful search engine to locate products they're interested in.

Seller: Whoever fulfils the order, whether Amazon or a third-party merchant

Third-Party Qualifying Product: A product that is sold and fulfiled by a third-party vendor and that, according to the terms of the Operating Agreement, qualifies for a referral commission.

Tracking ID: You may request these IDs from Associates Customer Service to track the performance of multiple Web sites or even individual links. Like Associates IDs, they appear in the links you use to refer traffic to Amazon.co.uk. Tracking IDs remain associated with your main Associates ID and do not constitute separate accounts.

Tracking ID Summary Reports: Reports that show you the performance of your individual Tracking IDs, in terms of clicks, items ordered, items dispatched, dispatched items revenue, referral commissions, and total earnings.

Unique Visitors: The number of visitors on your Web site who have clicked on Associates links to Amazon.co.uk. Repeat clickthroughs on the same day from the same individual are not counted as unique visits.

XML: Extensible Markup Language, a set of rules for encoding documents that enables us to create files that can easily be shared across systems. You can download your reports in XML, and then transfer this information to your internal applications and systems.