Amazon Reporting API Changes: Sales Scout Temporarily Affected

What Is Happening

Starting March 9, 2026, Amazon has rolled out significant changes to their Associates reporting infrastructure. These changes affect the underlying API endpoints that HALO Maximizer's Sales Scout relies on to retrieve your product sales data. As a result, Sales Scout is currently returning zero sales for all users.

This is not a bug in HALO Maximizer. Amazon has restructured how earnings and order data is served through their reporting system, and the endpoints that previously provided per-product sales information are no longer returning data in the expected format.

We want to be fully transparent about what is happening, what still works, and what we are doing to resolve it.

What Changed on Amazon's Side

Amazon's Associates reporting system has undergone a structural overhaul. Based on our investigation so far, here is what we know:

Endpoints That No Longer Return Data

• Earnings and Orders reports — The reporting endpoints that previously returned per-ASIN sales records now return empty result sets (zero records, null data). The endpoints still respond with HTTP 200 status codes, but the response bodies contain no usable sales information.

• Real-time reporting — The real-time earnings endpoint has been completely removed and now returns HTTP 400 errors.

• Overview-type reports — New report types visible in Amazon's updated dashboard do not yet respond to the same API parameters used by third-party tools.

What Still Works

• Commission summary data — Amazon's summary endpoint still returns daily aggregate figures (total clicks, ordered items, shipped items, revenue, and commission earnings). However, this data is aggregated at the account level and does not include per-product breakdowns.

• Authentication — All authentication mechanisms (CSRF tokens, session state, bearer tokens) continue to function normally. The issue is purely about the data format and availability of specific report types.

Dashboard Changes

Amazon has also changed the Associates dashboard URL structure. The reports section now redirects from the previous /home/reports path to a new /p/reporting/earnings path, and the dashboard interface itself appears to have been rebuilt with a different data layer.

How This Affects HALO Maximizer

Sales Scout — Temporarily Impacted

Sales Scout works by scanning the ASINs of products you have already sold through your Associates account and matching them against active Creator Connections campaigns. To do this, it needs access to your per-product sales data from Amazon's reporting API.

Because Amazon's endpoints are no longer returning per-ASIN sales records, Sales Scout currently has no product-level data to scan. This means:

• Sales Scout runs will complete but report zero matched ASINs. The scan itself runs normally and does not produce errors, but it finds no sales data to work with because Amazon is not providing it.
• No sales data is being lost. Amazon is still tracking your sales internally. The data simply is not being exposed through the API endpoints that HALO (and other third-party tools) previously relied on.
• Your accepted campaigns are unaffected. Any Creator Connections campaigns you have already accepted remain active. You continue to earn bonus commissions on qualifying sales regardless of whether Sales Scout can currently scan new matches.

Video Scout — Fully Operational

Video Scout is completely unaffected by these changes. Video Scout scans your Amazon Influencer storefront videos and matches product ASINs to Creator Connections campaigns. It does not rely on Amazon's reporting API at all — it pulls data directly from your public storefront page.

If you rely on HALO primarily for campaign matching, Video Scout remains your best tool during this period. It continues to find and match campaigns across your entire video library, and the Auto-Pilot scheduler will continue running Video Scout scans on your configured interval.

For a detailed comparison of how these two features work differently, see our Sales Scout vs Video Scout guide.

Pinterest Auto-Pin — Fully Operational

Pinterest integration, including both thumbnail and video pin posting, is entirely unaffected. You can continue to discover, select, and pin content from your storefront to Pinterest as usual.

What We Are Doing

Our team is actively investigating Amazon's new reporting infrastructure to understand the updated API structure. Here is our current plan:

Immediate Steps

1. Monitoring Amazon's new dashboard — We are analyzing the network requests made by Amazon's redesigned reporting interface to identify the new endpoints and data formats they are using internally.

2. Testing new report types — Amazon appears to have introduced new report type identifiers. We are systematically testing these to find which ones return per-product data.

3. Engaging with Amazon's documentation — We are checking for any official announcements, migration guides, or updated API documentation from the Amazon Associates program.

What to Expect

Once we identify the new endpoint structure, we will release an update to Sales Scout that works with Amazon's updated reporting system. We expect this to be a relatively focused change — the campaign matching logic, auto-accept behavior, and all other HALO features remain fully functional. Only the data retrieval layer for sales reports needs to be adapted.

We will publish an update on this blog as soon as we have a working solution or significant new information.

What You Should Do in the Meantime

Keep Using Video Scout

Video Scout is unaffected and continues to be the most comprehensive way to match your products to Creator Connections campaigns. If you have not been running Video Scout regularly, now is an excellent time to start. Video Scout typically finds more total campaign matches than Sales Scout because it scans your entire video library rather than just recent sales.

Do Not Change Your Settings

There is no need to modify your HALO configuration, disconnect your account, or reinstall the extension. Sales Scout will automatically begin working again once we push the update to support Amazon's new reporting format. Your settings, accepted campaigns, and scan history will all be preserved.

Check Back for Updates

We will update this post and publish new announcements as the situation develops. You can also check for extension updates in Chrome's extension management page (chrome://extensions).

Timeline

| Date | Status | |------|--------| | March 9, 2026 | Amazon reporting API changes detected | | March 9, 2026 | Investigation begun, this advisory published | | TBD | Sales Scout update released with new API support |

We understand that Sales Scout is a critical feature for many of our users, and we are treating this with the urgency it deserves. Thank you for your patience as we work through Amazon's changes.

If you have questions or are experiencing other issues, reach out through our support channels. We are here to help.