Question about integration with selling REST APIs

[Anonymous]

Hi everyone, I'm developing an integration using selling REST APIs (inventory, offer...). I want to know if it's possible to use both APIs and account/store panel to manage listings. For example, is it possible to do all steps with APIs and the last part, listing/publishing products from store panel (I mean just the last step to going live the listings)?? Or if it's not possible, should I develop a GUI/panel to be used to select which products to publish? Thanks

[Anonymous]

I try to be more clear: is it possible selling on ebay using APIs and store/seller consolle? 

[developer_support@ebay]

Hi @Anonymous 

If you want to use the API to list an item then you need to list the item using the API calls only. The basic flow of using the Inventory API to publish an single-variation offer involves the use of the following three calls:

1. The createOrReplaceInventoryItem call to create the inventory item record;
2. The createOffer call to add details of the listing, including price, eBay marketplace, eBay category, quantity, and listing polices (payment, fulfillment, and return policy);
3. The publishOffer call to activate the offer on the eBay marketplace.

For more details, please have a look on guide "Managing inventory and offers". 

[Anonymous]

Yeah I've readed documentation... So you are confirming that I cannot use APIs and manage listings from ebay.com; if I want a GUI "to manage all the process" I would have to develop it from scratch based on the API to use, is it correct? Thanks 

[developer_support@ebay]

Hi @Anonymous 

You can list the item using the API calls and mange them from eBay seller hub as well. 

[shipscript]

@Anonymous 

Somewhere in my reading of the APIs, I came across a statement that Items created with the RESTful APIs could not be manipulated with the Traditional APIs, or the other way around, presumably because one is SKU-based and the other is ItemID-based. But that should not preclude managing items on Seller Hub after they become site listings.

To clarify, when you create inventory with the REST APIs, those inventory items can only be published to the site using the REST APIs.  Once published and assigned an ItemID, the listings become available to Seller Hub for listing management (which is management after an item is listed). Raw inventory is not available on the site.

Thus, if you want to create inventory that a user would access to launch listings, you would need to write your own GUI to access the API to complete the item details and launch the listing. Since publishing the listing is a step by itself, the GUI could encompass just that last step if the offer was already prepared.  However, I suspect the preparation of the offer is the control you plan to give to the user.

[river_house_books]

createOffer is deprecated as of 07/19/2024

How to create an offer now?

[developer_support@ebay]

Hi @river_house_books 

Inventory API calls like bulkCreateOffer, createOffer, getOffer, getOffers and updateOffer or Trading API calls like Add/Revise/Relist/Verify and GetItem family calls are not being deprecated. 

As mentioned in the API Deprecation Status page:

Only the economicOperator/EconomicOperator container in the Inventory API/ Trading API calls have been deprecated on 2024/07/19 and only the economicOperator/EconomicOperator container will be  decommissioned on January 30, 2025.