Amazon Turk

Mechanical Turk is a service offered by Amazon that allows you to hire workers for small projects (i.e., writing copy for your website) without ever having to directly interface with your workers. You create the Human Intelligence Task (HIT), set the price, and the work just happens. When the result comes back you simply decide whether you approve or not.

UltraCart's Mechanical Turk integration allows you to take this concept one step further without leaving the UltraCart system. You can create jobs on Mechanical Turk directly from UltraCart, which allows you to do things like having an article written about each product in your catalog for better search engine optimization. Once you send the job off, you simply wait. When the resultant work comes back (i.e., articles for each product) - which typically takes less than a day - you examine and approve them, and the results go directly into your catalog.

At the configuration screen, you simply enter your Access Key Id and Secret Access Key. Click the Save button when finished. The actual project is defined at Main Menu → Mechanical Turk.