ShipStream Data Border

A secure API gateway that acts as a "data border" between Amazon's Selling Partner API (SP-API) and your Warehouse Management System.

Why Data Border?

When integrating with Amazon's marketplace, your WMS needs access to order data including customer shipping addresses. But Amazon requires strict controls over how Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is handled, stored, and accessed.

Data Border solves this by:

• Keeping PII inside the border - Customer data stays within controlled boundaries
• Providing audit trails - Every PII access is logged with order ID, timestamp, and context
• Enabling seamless carrier integration - Generate shipping labels without your WMS ever seeing customer addresses
• Simplifying compliance - Built-in rate limiting, suspicious activity detection, and data attribution

How It Works

graph LR
    WMS[Your WMS] --> ADB[ShipStream Data Border]
    ADB --> Amazon[Amazon SP-API]
    ADB --> Carrier[Carrier APIs]
    ADB --> DeviceHub[Device Hub]
    
    subgraph "Inside the Border"
        ADB
        PII[(PII Data)]
        Labels[(Labels)]
    end

Your WMS communicates with Data Border using placeholders like {{ship_to_name}}. Data Border fetches the real PII from Amazon, injects it into carrier requests, and returns scrubbed responses. Labels with customer addresses are stored securely and sent directly to printers—never to your WMS.

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Key Features

PII Protection

Customer data is fetched from Amazon only when needed, logged comprehensively, and never exposed to your WMS unless absolutely necessary.

Label Proxy

Send carrier label requests with placeholders. Data Border handles PII injection, generates the label, scrubs the response, and stores the original for secure printing.

Secure Printing

Labels with customer addresses go directly from Data Border to your Device Hub printers—your WMS only sees tracking numbers and shipment IDs.

Compliance Ready

Built-in audit logging, rate limiting, and data attribution meet Amazon's requirements for SP-API integrations.