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iwazovsky
iwazovsky

Reputation: 1927

Does ebay API allows to create a listing draft?

I would like to create a listing ebay draft as it is possible to do manually using this flow:

  1. Go to the new listing sell creation page
  2. Choose category id
  3. Put some random data (title, description, etc.)
  4. Close tab

You will see now unfinished draft, when you go to the new listing sell creation page. Can I do the same thing using eBay api?

The reason of it is that I don't want to implement all functionality of addItem, currently.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1802

Answers (3)

Zaid Pathan
Zaid Pathan

Reputation: 16820

As of now, I can confirm eBay does provide the API to create listing draft, though it's in beta at the moment.

POST - /item_draft/

Official doc is here

Upvotes: 1

Emipro Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Emipro Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Reputation: 14746

eBay API will not allow to create draft listing.

when you call API for creating new listing, API needs all required fields value.

eBay Listing API provide one attribute PrivateListing.it will hide your product for selling.

If PrivateListing is true, designates the listing as private.customer can't see private listing.

eBay Listing API provide one more attribute ScheduleTime.

When you export product in eBay via API you can give ScheduleTime as well, eBay will active product for selling based on ScheduleTime.

You can make product inactive/draft using this alternative way.

http://developer.ebay.com/devzone/xml/docs/Reference/eBay/AddItem.html#AddItem

You can refer above link for eBay API.

Upvotes: -1

Nate M.
Nate M.

Reputation: 842

To my knowledge this cannot be done, since there are some pretty strict constraints around using the addItem API call, and eBay will throw an error if you don't complete the all the required fields. The required fields of addItem are numerous enough that if you could populate these fields, then you are already 90% of the way to completing your listing anyways.

If you are using Selling Manager Pro, you can create product templates which may be a way to accomplish what you are looking for.

Upvotes: 0

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