Adding your charity's Amazon wishlist to your website
Howard Lake | 3 February 2006 | News
Adding your charity’s Amazon wishlist to your website can now be done easily using edazzle’s free amazonbox tool. If it can be bought from Amazon, you can display it on your site and ask supporters to buy it for you. UK Fundraising shows you how.
An Amazon wishlist is a handy way of listing the various items that individuals plan to buy for themselves one day. There is, however, nothing stopping a charity or voluntary organisation creating a wishlist or indeed several wishlists. Indeed, some charity’s publish a “shopping list” of donations and occasionally gifts in kind that they require.
Nothing on Amazon that your charity needs? You don’t need software? Training books for staff? Books for your school? Toys and games for your nursery? Kettles and vacuum cleaners for your care home? Or if none of those are appropriate, how about items to be auctioned for your charity?
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This article was published in February 2006. The bad news – the edazzle.com service it mentions is no longer operating. The good news – you can still list and link to your Amazon wishlist from your website or social channels.
Find out more about the Amazon wishlist.
A new tool from edazzle.com makes sharing this wishlist on your website even easier. Indeed it will let you display not only your Amazon wishlist, but also your listmania list, your wedding registry, your baby registry or your marketplace seller items on your website. Explore Amazon some more if these don’t mean much to you.
The amazonbox tool uses the Amazon API or programming interface, a method of exporting Amazon’s content with its permission to create new and different information services.
Even better, it lets you add your Amazon associate ID number which means that if your charity earns a percentage of sales it generates by listing and linking to Amazon on its website, it can also earn that percentage on sales from the wishlist.
In other words, your charity can earn income every time a supporter gives you what you ask for.
To publish your charity’s wishlist on your site first you need a wishlist, which is easy to set up at Amazon.co.uk.
Then visit the edazzle.com amazonbox page and fill in the form, detailing your wishlist ID and your country location.
The basic version will list just the first 10, but some further programming could no doubt tease out the rest of the wishlist onto your site.
This is UK Fundraising’s Howard Lake’s wishlist.
[The Edazzle.net service is no longer available. 22 January 2023]
And since Howard also sells items on Amazon.co.uk as a marketplace seller, here are those items:
[The Edazzle.net service is no longer available. 22 January 2023]
Where you place these lists on your charity’s website is your choice, but note that they automatically arrive with a RSS feed. So supporters can keep up with need additions to your wishlist.
If your charity enjoys success using the amazonbox then do let UK Fundraising know.
- How much do UK charities receive from AmazonSmile? (29 June 2020)
- Amazon to double AmazonSmile donations this Prime Day (7 July 2022)
- 2000 UK charities now live on AmazonSmile (15 March 2018)
- AmazonSmile lets UK shoppers donate to charity as they shop (10 November 2017)
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.