Trouble creating an Inventory Location to create an Offer in Inventory API

[vandelaybreaks]

Prior to creating an inventory item, I am attempting to create an inventory location (which is an odd requirement considering how many of us sellers don't have a 'warehouse', 'store' or 'fulfillment center', but I digress), which from what I can tell is required in order to publish an offer (which comes after creating an offer for a created inventory item...?)

I'm getting this fantastically unhelpful error:

2024-12-10 01:30:32,174 - urllib3.connectionpool - DEBUG - https://api.sandbox.ebay.com:443 "PUT /sell/inventory/v1/location/user_105987699652522530866_location HTTP/1.1" 400 182
2024-12-10 01:30:32,056 - celery_app - DEBUG - Location Payload: {'name': 'XXXXX Shipping Location', 'location': {'address': {'postalCode': 'XXXXX', 'country': 'US'}}, 'merchantLocationStatus': 'ENABLED', 'locationTypes': ['WAREHOUSE'], 'locationInstructions': 'Default shipping location'}
2024-12-10 01:30:32,057 - urllib3.connectionpool - DEBUG - Starting new HTTPS connection (1): api.sandbox.ebay.com:443
2024-12-10 01:40:51,294 - celery_app - ERROR - Failed to create/update inventory location: {'errors': [{'errorId': 2004, 'domain': 'ACCESS', 'category': 'REQUEST', 'message': 'Invalid request', 'longMessage': 'The request has errors. For help, see the documentation for this API.'}]}

Here's my code:

 # Create or update inventory location with user's address
        inventory_location_key = f"user_{user_id}_location"

        location_payload = {
            "location": {
                "address": {
                    "postalCode": user.postal_code,
                    "country": "US"  # Required field
                }
            },
            "phone": "5555555555",  # Required field per API docs
            "merchantLocationStatus": "ENABLED",
            "locationTypes": ["WAREHOUSE"],  # Using WAREHOUSE as the simplest type
            "name": f"Shipping Location {user.postal_code}"  # Optional for WAREHOUSE type
        }

        current_app.logger.debug(f"Location Payload: {location_payload}")

        # Create or replace inventory location
        location_response = client.put(
            get_api_endpoint(f'sell/inventory/v1/location/{inventory_location_key}'),
            json=location_payload,
            headers={
                'Content-Language': 'en-US',
                'Content-Type': 'application/json',
                'Accept': 'application/json'
            }
        )

        if not location_response.ok:
            error_details = location_response.json()
            current_app.logger.error(f"Failed to create/update inventory location: {error_details}")
            return jsonify({
                'success': False,
                'message': 'Failed to create/update inventory location',
                'error': error_details
            }), location_response.status_code

[ryaborasha-0]

Same issue: did you ever find a solution? Thanks! 

[addyrosedist]

Use a current active location pull one using this python script
Im using a .env file to store things like EBAY_ACCESS_TOKEN

import os
import requests
from dotenv import load_dotenv

load_dotenv("inputs.env")
TOKEN = os.getenv("EBAY_ACCESS_TOKEN")

headers = {
"Authorization": f"Bearer {TOKEN}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.get("https://api.ebay.com/sell/inventory/v1/location", headers=headers)

print("📍 Status Code:", response.status_code)
print("📦 Response:", response.text)