Amazon Vendor Central MCP: vendor sales in 
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ChatGPTPorter Metrics connects Amazon Vendor Central to Claude, ChatGPT and other AI clients through one hosted MCP server. MCP is the Model Context Protocol, the open standard AI apps use to reach other tools. Ask which ASINs shipped the most, how today is selling or what customers send back, and the answer comes from Amazon’s own vendor sales reports.
Every field and its definition is in the Amazon Vendor Central fields list.
One server, every vendor connection: Porter connects Vendor Central to the AI clients, fields and workflows Amazon brand teams already use. The same Porter server URL works in Claude, ChatGPT and any MCP client that supports remote servers. Porter requests Amazon’s vendor sales reports through the Selling Partner API (SP-API), so you never register an app.
Works in: Claude (Claude.ai, Claude Desktop, Cowork and Claude Code), ChatGPT and any MCP client that supports remote servers.
Manufacturing view: Ordered revenue (Manufacturing) · Ordered units (Manufacturing) · Shipped revenue (Manufacturing) · Shipped COGS (Manufacturing) · Shipped units (Manufacturing) · Customer returns (Manufacturing)
Sourcing view: Shipped revenue (Sourcing) · Shipped COGS (Sourcing) · Shipped units (Sourcing) · Customer returns (Sourcing)
Hourly: Ordered units (hourly) · Ordered revenue (hourly)
Product: ASIN
Time: Date · Date (UTC) · Date + hour (UTC)
Money: Currency
Porter has 17 ready-made Amazon Vendor Central fields, 12 metrics and 5 dimensions. Each one is in the full Amazon Vendor Central field reference.
Daily sales (Manufacturing) · Daily sales (Sourcing) · Hourly sales. One question reads one table, so ask daily and hourly numbers, or the two views, as separate tables. Claude lines the answers up for you.
Send work from Claude or ChatGPT to: email on a schedule
Turn answers into: live dashboards · client reports · weekly summaries
More servers for the same chat: all MCP connectors
Amazon’s Vendor Retail Analytics report docs set the rules every vendor sales report follows. A daily report covers at most 15 days, and a day becomes available 72 hours after it closes. Porter reads daily sales up to the last day Amazon has published and says where it stopped.
Porter’s Amazon Vendor Central MCP reads vendor sales reports and leaves your account as it is. Claude asks about ASINs, revenue and returns while purchase orders, prices and products stay exactly as you set them. You approve Porter on Amazon’s own page, one marketplace at a time, and you can remove that approval whenever you like.
Every Vendor Central question is a report. Purchase orders, invoices, inventory and catalog changes stay in Vendor Central, where you handle them as usual.
You approve Porter on Amazon’s Vendor Central consent page, through the flow in Amazon’s guide to authorizing SP-API applications. Porter never sees your Vendor Central password.
Porter asks Amazon only for vendor sales reports, by day and by hour. Claude queries Porter, not Amazon directly, and Porter waits and retries when Amazon throttles report requests.
Remove Porter’s authorization in Vendor Central and the connection stops at once. You can approve it again later, marketplace by marketplace.
Porter’s Amazon Vendor Central MCP uses one server URL in every AI client, plus one approval on Vendor Central for each marketplace. Claude takes Porter as a plugin or a custom connector. ChatGPT takes it through the Porter Metrics app or developer mode. Both read the same vendor accounts, with the same 17 fields.
Use the Claude plugin for the guided setup. Claude keeps the Porter plugin synced when new tools ship.
portermetrics/porter.portermetrics/porter.Anthropic’s guide to custom connectors using remote MCP walks through the same path, and custom connectors work on Free plans with a limit of one. The Claude-specific setup and use cases live on the Amazon Vendor Central connector for Claude page.
Use manual setup when Claude asks for a custom connector instead of a plugin.
Porter.https://mcp.portermetrics.com/mcp.Use the Porter Metrics app for the fastest ChatGPT route.
OpenAI documents connected apps in ChatGPT and custom MCP servers in ChatGPT developer mode.
Use developer mode when you want the full Porter setup in ChatGPT: connector plus skill.
Porter Metrics.https://mcp.portermetrics.com/mcp as the MCP Server URL.https://mcp.portermetrics.com/skill.zip.skill.zip to your ChatGPT project.Amazon hasn’t published a hosted MCP server for Vendor Central as of November 2026. Vendor sales data comes through the Selling Partner API, which every Vendor Central MCP builds on. Use Porter’s URL above for a hosted server you approve on Vendor Central, next to your other channels.
Try this one once you’re connected:
Each Amazon Vendor Central skill in Porter’s MCP is a ready-made prompt for one question a 1P brand asks every week. A skill turns Amazon’s vendor sales reports into a ranked ASIN list, a returns check, a cross-channel answer or a scheduled email. Copy a prompt into Claude or ChatGPT, then change the dates, ASINs or thresholds.
The research skills blend Vendor Central with your ad accounts or other stores, so connect Meta Ads, Google Ads, Shopify or the Amazon Seller Central connector for Claude in Porter first.
These run on a schedule and send what they find, while your Vendor Central account stays as it is.
Brand marketers who sell to Amazon as a 1P vendor get the most from Porter’s MCP. E-commerce marketers, agencies, paid media teams and marketing analysts use it to turn a Vendor Central question into a ranked ASIN list, a returns check or a cross-channel answer, without downloading another sales report.
Marketers who sell to Amazon wholesale and still answer for what it sells.
Your Monday starts with one question: did Amazon ship more last week, and which ASIN carried it?
You want an assistant to read or acknowledge purchase orders, invoices or shipments. A server you build on SP-API’s vendor operations covers that job, and you can run it next to Porter.
“Amazon Vendor Central MCP” names a few different setups, and Amazon hasn’t published a hosted one as of November 2026. Every option builds on the Selling Partner API, which needs a registered developer app before it returns vendor data. Porter covers vendor sales reporting from one hosted server and adds your other channels, dashboards and scheduled emails.
A self-built server hands your AI the Selling Partner API. Porter’s MCP hands it your vendor sales next to everything that drives them.
Both read Amazon’s vendor sales reports with your approval. Here is where they part.
| Porter | Your own server on SP-API | |
|---|---|---|
| Same job, different reach | ||
| Server | Hosted by Porter at mcp.portermetrics.com/mcp | You host it on your machine or server |
| Before you start | A Vendor Central login to approve Porter | Register as an SP-API developer and create an app (Amazon’s SP-API registration overview) |
| Sign-in | Approve Porter on Vendor Central | Your own client ID, client secret and refresh token |
| Reporting | 17 named fields in three tables, daily and hourly | Raw report files, 15 days per daily report |
| Purchase orders and invoices | You handle them in Vendor Central as usual | Whatever your app’s SP-API roles allow |
| Works in | Claude, ChatGPT and any remote MCP client | The clients you configure it for |
| Price | Included in every Porter plan, the free plan too | Free to build; you maintain it |
| Only one side | ||
| Meta, Google, Shopify and Seller Central in the same answer | Yes, from Porter’s 30+ data sources | — |
| Live dashboards at their own link | Yes | — |
| Scheduled reports by email | Yes | — |
| Skills: whole vendor tasks, already written | Yes | — |
The right column follows Amazon’s SP-API docs (as of November 2026).
Build your own if you need purchase orders or invoices in the chat and have the time to maintain it. Porter’s rows under Only one side are what happens when Amazon is one channel among several.
The two names point to different Amazon businesses, and most “Amazon MCP” results answer for sellers.
A handful rank for this search, and they split three ways.
Porter reads vendor sales next to your marketing from one hosted server, starting on the free plan.
Every Porter plan includes the Amazon Vendor Central MCP at no extra cost, the free-forever plan too. Porter bills Reporting per connected data source account, and each vendor and marketplace connection counts as one. Vendor Central questions are reads, so they use no automation credits. Full details are on Porter pricing.
| What you use | What you pay | What is included |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon Vendor Central MCP | Included in every plan | The server URL, Claude and ChatGPT setup, reports, skills and scheduled emails |
| Reporting | From $12.50/mo per data source account, billed annually | Reports and dashboards across Vendor Central and your other sources. The free plan keeps unlimited connected accounts, up to 30 days of history and 15 days in AI chats |
| Automation | By credits | Approved changes on your other sources, such as pausing a Meta ad. The free plan includes 100 credits a month |
Free means usable: the free plan connects unlimited vendor accounts, keeps up to 30 days of history and gives you 100 credits a month.
Amazon hasn’t published a hosted Vendor Central MCP server as of November 2026. It offers the Selling Partner API, and every Vendor Central MCP builds on it. Porter’s Amazon Vendor Central MCP runs at https://mcp.portermetrics.com/mcp, connects with one approval on Vendor Central and puts vendor sales next to your other channels.
Porter’s server URL is https://mcp.portermetrics.com/mcp. Paste it into Claude, ChatGPT or another AI client as a custom connector, then ask the client to connect your Amazon Vendor Central account and approve Porter. The same URL also reaches your Seller Central, ad and store accounts in Porter.
Porter’s Amazon Vendor Central MCP is included in every Porter plan, the free-forever plan too. The free plan covers unlimited connected accounts, up to 30 days of history, 15 days in AI chats and 100 automation credits a month. Paid Reporting starts at $12.50 a month per data source account, billed annually, and the 14-day trial needs no card.
Not with Porter. You approve Porter on Amazon’s Vendor Central consent page, and Porter handles the SP-API side. A server you build yourself needs a registered developer app, plus your own client ID, client secret and refresh token, before Amazon returns any vendor data.
Yes. Each connection is one vendor in one marketplace, and Porter offers all 23 Vendor Central marketplaces. Connect each one on its own, then ask about them together with the marketplace as a column. Each connection bills as one data source account, and the free plan connects unlimited accounts.
Manufacturing covers the ASINs you manufacture, whoever sourced them to Amazon. Sourcing covers the ASINs your vendor group sourced to Amazon directly. Porter keeps each in its own table: Manufacturing adds ordered revenue and ordered units, and both views have shipped revenue, shipped COGS, shipped units and customer returns.
MCP is the Model Context Protocol, an open standard for connecting AI applications to tools like Vendor Central. MCP isn’t the agent. Claude and ChatGPT are the agents, and Porter’s MCP is how they reach your vendor sales reports.
Amazon publishes a day of vendor sales about three days after it closes, so yesterday isn’t there yet. Porter reads up to the last day Amazon has published and tells you where it stopped, instead of showing empty days that look like zero sales. For today, ask for hourly sales.
Amazon’s report carries its own account total, and for shipped revenue and shipped COGS it doesn’t always match the sum of the ASINs to the cent. Porter publishes the rows by ASIN, so the totals Claude gives are the sum of the ASINs. Compare like with like.
Amazon serves daily vendor sales in reports of at most 15 days and builds each one before Porter can read it. A year of daily sales is 25 reports read one after another, and hourly sales go back 29 days. Shorter ranges answer faster.
Connect Amazon Vendor Central to Claude or ChatGPT and start with ASIN reports, returns checks and dashboards that land in your inbox.
Start free: unlimited connected accounts on the free-forever plan, or a 14-day trial with everything unlimited and no card.