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Summary

An online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell a wide variety of goods and services worldwide.

Availability

Account setup

How to set up a developer account?

Step1: Create an application Id for every app

step2: Fill out the form

step3: generate your production keys

step4: use production appID for making calls in production

Details for account owner:

 

2 forms of environments available on Ebay both of which need to be provided by our customer:

  1. Test environment on Sandbox - Similar to production
  2. Production environments on EBay platform

Requirements by Cresco for integration:

Developer accounts - Customer to provide Cresco data

Test Accounts - Customer to provide (staging env details)

Merchant Account (Production Env - if needed)

 

Account details required to allow cresco to gain access into all accounts:

  1. API key
  2. Client ID
  3. Client Secret key

Integration

Available features

Feature
Status
Real-time updates (tick)
Monitoring (tick)
Alerts (tick)

Access

Access to CrescoData can be granted via following these steps.

Rate limits and update frequency

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Features
add
update
delete
get
resize
categorise
enrich
images (tick)(error) (tick)(error) (tick)(error) (tick)(error) (tick)(error) (tick)(error) (tick)(error)
orders (tick)(error) (tick)(error) (tick)(error) (tick)(error) (tick)(error) (tick)(error) (tick)(error)
price (tick)(error) (tick)(error) (tick)(error) (tick)(error) (tick)(error) (tick)(error) (tick)(error)
products (tick)(error) (tick)(error) (tick)(error) (tick)(error) (tick)(error) (tick)(error) (tick)(error)
status (tick)(error) (tick)(error) (tick)(error) (tick)(error) (tick)(error) (tick)(error) (tick)(error)
stock (tick)(error) (tick)(error) (tick)(error) (tick)(error) (tick)(error) (tick)(error) (tick)(error)

Taxonomy

Categories

Type Channel own taxonomy
Cresco update frequency 24 hours
Channel update frequency Irregular

Category attributes

Type Category specific attributes
Cresco update frequency 24 hours
Channel update frequency Irregular
Cresco feature support Auto-populateDirect match

Images

Image requirements:

Rules
All listings* on eBay.com.au and most other eBay sites must meet these requirements
  • Every listing must have at least one photo.
  • Photos need to be at least 500 pixels on the longest side.
  • You can't use a catalogue or stock photo if you're listing an item as 'used'.
Recommendations
To make sure buyers get a good look at the item they're thinking about purchasing
  • Optimise for mobile – make your pictures 1600 pixels on the longest side.
  • Keep your images clean – no text, borders or uncluttered backgrounds.
  • Use watermarks sparingly – make sure they don't distract a buyer's eye from your product.

 

  • The minimum size for images on eBay is 500x500 pixels;
    • The maximum image size is 9,000 x 9,000 pixels;
    • The maximum file size is 12MB;
    • Don't scale up thumbnail images to the required size as they will look pixelated and distorted;

Other best practice tips:

  • We recommend uploading photos as a .jpg file, but you can upload photos in any of these file formats:
    • JPEG (.jpg file extension)
    • PNG (.png file extension)
    • TIFF (.tif file extension)
    • BMP (.bmp file extension)
    • GIF (.gif file extension)
  • If your photo is in JPEG format, it should have a quality of 90 or higher on the 0-99 JPEG quality scale. We'll then optimise it for display in your listing.
  • Before you start uploading, rename your photo files with names that will help you remember what they are, and put them in a folder on your computer where you can find them quickly and easily in case you need them again.

Custom features

Unique Ebay site ID you must specify a global ID for each API call.

Fees structure charged for fixed price items sold on Ebay:

History

Founded in 1995, it was from the start meant to be a marketplace for the sale of goods and services for individuals.

Known issues

Validation error sometimes occurs because the eBay category that the products it is mapped to does not allow products with variations to be listed within it.

To resolve this, you will need to remap the product to a category that does support variations.

Variations Specifics and Item Specifics entered for a Multi-SKU item should be different:

  • If you have products that have this error then it is likely that your product has been set up in your eCommerce store as a product with variations/options (eBay call this Multi-SKU) so eBay is expecting a variation but you don't have them.