Enhance Buyer Engagement: Add Videos to eBay Listings
Use new Media API and Trading API to enhance listings with videos.
Importance of Postal Code for Item Location
eBay requires sellers to specify the item location when they list an item. Although sellers can specify item location as either a valid postal code or as a free-text string identifying the location, sellers should use postal code to specify item location, whenever possible.
Changes to the way eBay-collected taxes are processed
eBay announced changes to the way taxes are processed in situations where eBay collects and remits taxes on behalf of sellers. eBay is responsible for collecting and remitting internet sales tax (IST) for many US states and also collects and remits goods and services taxes (GST) in Australia and New Zealand.
There are corresponding API changes to address this new behavior.
Sellers can now programmatically send exclusive discount offers to buyers
eBay releases the Negotiation API, which lets sellers send discount offers to the buyers who have shown an interest in the seller's listings.
Finding API Discontinuing Support for HTTP
Starting on October 1, 2019, the eBay Finding API will work over HTTPS only. Any requests submitted via HTTP will fail. The requirement to use HTTPS only will apply to both sandbox and production environments. Both environments support HTTPS currently.
eBay Open-Sourced Tools for Integrating with eBay's APIs
At eBay Connect last summer, we announced that OpenAPI documents are available for all our RESTful APIs. We demonstrated that integration with read-only capabilities takes a few minutes. OAuth client libraries work very well when used alongside API clients generated from the OpenAPI documents.
Our SDKs are open-sourced and provide a full transparency to developers into what is happening in their integrations.