06-18-2025 04:13 AM
Hi,
My company makes logistics and other labeling or database software. In looking at the ebay API at first I was surprised they had a developer API Keys rather than user API Keys.
It has raised some questions that I couldn't easily find answers to although I am sure they have come up in the past.
For the following software scenarios, what is the best or most common way they are delt with for ebay integration:
1. a logistics program for which is an SAAS, there are lots of customers using it, does the SAAS provider put in their developer API Keys and have access to all their customer's data somehow or... do customers have to sign up for developer accounts in order to integrate their SAAS accounts with ebay?
2. a logistics program which a customer can download, install, perhaps inhance (whether open sourced or not), does every user of ebay wanting to use such software to manage their ebay sales need to sign up as an ebay developer? or is there some type of ebay User API keys? (I couldn't find any reference to that)
Thanks, Julian