eBay API fundamentals

In this session, we're learning about eBay's API's and what we can do with them.

The eBay API's are the largest eCommerce opportunities
90 million users
27 million sellers

Find and purchase irked
List items and manage inventory

API offerrings
Trading API: targeted to he seller
Large merchant services API: targeted to merchants with large volumes of inventory and transactions
Best Match: analyze areas of improvements, what is the competetition doing
Product Services: metadata service, create selling applications
Finding: find items on eBay
Platform notifications: an item sells, you find out
Client Alerts: make a Json request to pick up notifications
Open eBay Applications: embed your web applications right on the eBay production site

You can get started using the API's by going to developer.eBay.com

1. Sign up
2. Get your keysets
3. Create a user token

Remember that we also have great testing environment in the sandbox. Test your apps before they go live. It's free to list and buy your items on sandbox, take advantage of it!

You're ready to go!