Charitable Donation Headers for CSV Upload, and question about imageURL.

[thebrickrystore]

I'm wondering if there is a header that can be used for the CSV upload that allows a user to designate their charity of choice as well as the percentage of the sale.  

Also, when using a CSV there is a header for imageUrl.   I am curious does EBAY stores the images locally or always call them from the specified URL?   

TIA!


Aaron

[shipscript · Accepted solution]

Uploading a CSV file (File Exchange) via Seller Hub > Reports > Uploads

Charity:

The 2015 File Exchange manual provides this example for a charity

StartPrice	CharityNumber	DonationPercentage
53.99	21220	50
48.24	112817	10

Click a charity on this page to find it's charity number:

https://charity.ebay.com/search  

The fields are also referenced in the Trading API: 

https://developer.ebay.com/devzone/xml/docs/reference/ebay/additem.html 

The ImgURL is a tougher question.

To upload multiple images for one listing, put all URLs in the same cell, separated by the vertical pipe "|" symbol.

It was eBay's intent to rehost those images on eBay's own server. However, if the external host can not supply those images fast enough in response to eBay's requests, eBay won't try to refetch or host those photos. Instead, the externally hosted images will be displayed in listings and a thumbnail may fail to appear in search. 

More recently, staff has mentioned that variation photo URLs won't be rehosted on eBay, and my recent tests have shown that to be true, although the master record image was rehosted with an eBay URL.

Also, eBay does not allow a mix of eBay hosted (usually manually uploaded) and externally hosted images. So you can't upload a single photo one way and the remainder the other way, although you can redo the entire set of photos as all external or all manually uploaded.

This seems contrary to my observation that my variations remained externally hosted, while the master was eBay hosted. The CSV upload included all URLs, and eBay converted only the master record's URL to obtain the search thumbnail. This is a limited example of only a single test, so not definitive.

[thebrickrystore]

Basically, you're my hero, thank you! 

[thebrickrystore]

Hmm, I think I might be a bit daft.  

I thought I added the headers correctly

CharityNumber	DonationPercentage
112817	10

But I'm getting this error:

Add,Failure,10096|10096,Error - Charity tag <CharityID> must be provided for charity items.|<CharityID>||Error - Charity tag <DonationPercent> must be provided for charity items.|<DonationPercent>|

You had another post with the error numbers but I couldn't find 10096.  

I dropped the charity tags and there were no problems.  

Any ideas?

[shipscript]

The errors are spelled out, which is good.

Try changing the headings to

"CharityID" and "DonationPercent"

The older names were from File Exchange and may need to be updated to:

CharityID	DonationPercent
112817	10

[thebrickrystore]

*facepalm.   It's the simple errors that are the toughest to find.   I'm the guy that looks for my glasses for about an hour before realizing they are on the top of my head . . .