"My eBay" in the sandbox and managing business policies

Hey all,

As part of an attempt to build eBay integration for a marketplace, I'm trying to just get as far as using the inventory api to post a listing. As far as I can tell, I've satisfied all the requirements that should mean the offer I've created can be published but the publish api call is failing (the ever informative 400 bad request).

I suspect it's down to my business policies which I've managed to create but with only the bare minimum required fields, so I'm trying to fill those out with more attributes defined, however it's rather tedious trying to do this via the API when most like in a live environment you'd just have the user manage them on eBay.

And so, on the subject of "my ebay" - should we have access to a sandbox version of that for our test users? As I can't seem to get to one. It'd also be really useful after creating an offer to be able to go and see what it would be like as a user browsing their account.

Or maybe is this going to one of those situations where you end up having to do your in depth development working with production keys and dummy listings?

Interested to hear others' approaches to building this stuff out.

Cheers,

Jon

jongilbraith

Posted 11 months ago·Last reply 11 months ago

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jongilbraith

OP11 months ago

Right, have made some progress. Got some production keys setup and was then able to just retrieve some ready to go policy payloads from there that has made setting them up in the sandbox fairly straight forward.

Also realised my testing setup was swallowing error response bodies so finding debugging somewhat easier now I can see those. 😀