Amazon mini works by using our Site-In-Site™ platform to create a miniature, web site for Amazon Web Services (AWS), which provides direct, online access to the Amazon.com platform and product data. The combination of Amazon mini and AWS produce a dynamic, customizable window into the complete Amazon.com web site. A web site that installs Amazon mini makes money from Amazon.com for any of their products sold through their Amazon mini. All payments and all related revenue reporting is done directly by Amazon.com as part of their Associates program (no payments are made directly by SiteInSite.biz).

To cover costs associated with running Amazon mini servers and infrastructure, an 80% / 20% revenue split applies to all Amazon mini accounts. An account owner will receive payments directly from Amazon.com for 80% of the sales processed through their Amazon mini account and SiteInSite.biz will receive the additional 20%. To receive payments from Amazon.com, your Associate ID (issued by Amazon.com) is added to Amazon mini transactions. To achieve the 80% / 20% revenue split, the SiteInSite.biz Associate ID is added to every fifth purchase (i.e., 20% of the sales) processed through your Amazon mini account.

There are no direct costs for opening and using an Amazon mini account, and there are no ongoing commitments. Simply add an Amazon mini to your web pages, and as long as it is live you will receive 80% of the Amazon.com Associates revenue produced by the Amazon mini.

As part of their Associates program, Amazon.com offers a few static banner ads and links that can be copied into web pages. When a customer clicks one of their static ads or links, the Amazon.com site opens so that the customer can purchase the item. You then receive Associates revenue for all completed sales.

Since you receive 100% of the Associates revenue generated by the free static ads and links from Amazon.com, why would you use Amazon mini and receive only 80% of Associates revenue? The answer is simple:

The combination of significantly improved user experience without forcing a customer to leave a web site until they are ready to purchase all selected items means that 80% of the Associates revenue generated through Amazon mini will always be larger than 100% of the Associates revenue generated using their static banner ads and links.

As required by Amazon.com and AWS, the checkout and purchase process must be done on the Amazon.com site using an Amazon.com account. The main advantage of this approach is that it provides complete security for customers using Amazon mini. No secure information is ever entered directly into the Amazon mini window. Instead, Amazon mini is essentially a non-secure window to the product search and shopping cart features of the Amazon.com site. It allows customers to search Amazon.com products, create and manage a shopping cart, etc., and it is all done without leaving the original web site that contains the Amazon mini. When a customer is ready to complete an Amazon.com purchase, they click the "Proceed to Checkout" button on the Shopping Cart page (or any "Buy Now" button on any Amazon mini page) and a new browser window opens with an Amazon.com login page. At this point, they log into the Amazon.com site (using their Amazon.com account) and complete the purchase using the normal Amazon.com checkout and purchase process. As soon as a purchase is completed, your Amazon.com Associates account will immediately be credited for the purchase.