updateItemPromotion

This flag is relevant in only when promotionType is set to VOLUME_DISCOUNT. For details on volume pricing promotions, see Configuring volume pricing discounts.

If set to true, the discount is applied only when the buyer purchases multiple quantities of a single item in the promotion. Otherwise, the promotional discount applies to multiple quantities of any items in the promotion. Different variations of a multi-variation item are considered to be the same item. Note that this flag is not relevant if the inventoryCriterion container identifies a single listing ID for the promotion.

Occurrence: Optional

This sets the budget for the CODED_COUPON promotion type. Supported values range from 100-1000000. Supported currency codes include USD, GBP, EUR, and AUD.

Note: The budget value for an active or paused promotion can not be decreased.

Note: The Currency Code for 'budget' must be the same as the Currency Code for 'maxDiscountAmount'.

Occurrence: Optional

The base currency applied to the value field to establish a monetary amount.

The currency is represented as a 3-letter ISO 4217 currency code. For example, the code for the Canadian Dollar is CAD.

Default: The default currency of the eBay marketplace that hosts the listing.

Occurrence: Optional

The monetary amount in the specified currency.

Required in the amount type.

Occurrence: Conditional

The configuration of a coded coupon promotion.

Occurrence: Conditional

A unique code that buyers can use during checkout to receive a discount. The code must be unique across eBay.

The code must be from 8-15 alphanumeric characters and can contain no more than two dashes ( - ).

This is required when the promotion type is CODED_COUPON.

Occurrence: Conditional

This indicates the type of Coded Coupon promotion, and is required when the promotion type is CODED_COUPON.

Supported types:

• PRIVATE_SINGLE_SELLER_COUPON: Anyone can use and share the coupon code, but it isn't posted on eBay.
• PUBLIC_SINGLE_SELLER_COUPON: Anyone can find the coupon code on eBay and use it.

Occurrence: Conditional

This sets the limit on the number of times a buyer can use this coupon. The range of values is 1-10. If no value is provided, a buyer can use the coupon an unlimited number of times.

Occurrence: Optional

This is the seller-defined "tag line" for the offer, such as "Save on designer shoes."

The tag line appears under the "offer-type text" that is generated for the promotion and is displayed on the offer tile that's shown on the seller's All Offers page, and on the event page for the promotion.

Note: Offer-type text is a teaser that's presented throughout the buyer's journey through the sales flow and is generated by eBay. The offer-type text is not editable by the seller—it's derived from the settings in the discountRules and discountSpecification fields—and can be, for example, "Extra 20% off when you buy 3+".

Occurrence: Conditional

This container defines a promotion using the following two required fields:

• discountBenefit – Defines a discount as either a monetary amount or a percentage that is subtracted from the sales price of an item, a set of items, or an order.
• discountSpecification – Defines a set of rules that determine when the promotion is applied.

Note: For volume pricing, you must specify at least two and not more than four discountBenefit/discountSpecification pairs. In addition, you must define each set of rules with a ruleOrder value that corresponds with the order of volume discounts you present.

Tip: Refer to Specifying item promotion discounts for information and examples on how to combine discountBenefit and discountSpecification to create different types of promotions.

Occurrence: Required

This container defines the promotional discount as either a monetary amount or a percentage of the sales price.

Note: When configuring promotion benefits, populate just one of the following fields in the discountBenefit container:

• amountOffItem
• amountOffOrder
• percentageOffItem
• percentageOffOrder

For volume pricing, only percentageOffOrder is applicable as a discountBenefit. Also, the first discountBenefit container in a volume pricing configuration must set percentageOffOrder to 0.

Tip: Refer to Configuring discounts for threshold promotions for information and examples on how to combine discountBenefit and discountSpecification to create different types of promotions.

Occurrence: Required

The monetary amount that is discounted off an item (or items) when the promotion criteria is met.

For threshold promotions, where the buyer triggers the discount, the valid values for this field are:
  5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, 20, 25,
  30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65,
  70, 75, 80, 85, 90, 95, 100, 110,
  120, 125, 150, 200, 250

For markdown promotions, the range is greater, as outlined below and detailed more precisely here:

• $1 increments from $5 to $100
• $5 increments from $105 to $1,000
• $100 increments from $1,100 to $15,000

Occurrence: Optional

The base currency applied to the value field to establish a monetary amount.

The currency is represented as a 3-letter ISO 4217 currency code. For example, the code for the Canadian Dollar is CAD.

Default: The default currency of the eBay marketplace that hosts the listing.

Occurrence: Optional

The monetary amount in the specified currency.

Required in the amount type.

Occurrence: Conditional

Used for threshold promotions, this is the monetary amount that is discounted off an order when the promotion criteria is met. Because this field is valid only for orders, it's not a valid combination to use with markdown promotions.

Valid values for the associated amountOffOrder.value field:
  5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, 20, 25,
  30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65,
  70, 75, 80, 85, 90, 95, 100, 110,
  120, 125, 150, 200, 250

Occurrence: Optional

The base currency applied to the value field to establish a monetary amount.

The currency is represented as a 3-letter ISO 4217 currency code. For example, the code for the Canadian Dollar is CAD.

Default: The default currency of the eBay marketplace that hosts the listing.

Occurrence: Optional

The monetary amount in the specified currency.

Required in the amount type.

Occurrence: Conditional

The percentage applied to the sales price that is discounted off the promoted item (or items) when the promotion criteria is met.

Valid integer values for percentage off:   Min: 5   Max: 80

Occurrence: Optional

Used for threshold promotions, this is the percentage of the order price that is discounted off the order when the promotion criteria is met. This field is not value for markdown promotions.

Valid integer values for ORDER_DISCOUNT promotions:   Min: 5   Max: 80

For VOLUME_DISCOUNT promotions: Must be set to 0 for the first discount rule.

Occurrence: Optional

This container defines the criteria for when the discounts of a promotion trigger, such as the minimum quantity that the buyer must purchase before the promotion kicks in. The promotional discount is applied each time the criteria defined by this container is met.

When configuring the rules that govern when the discounts are applied, populate just one of the following fields in the discountSpecification container:

• minAmount
• minQuantity
• forEachQuantity
• forEachAmount

Important: When configuring volume pricing promotions, only minQuantity is applicable as a discountSpecification. Also, the configuration for minQuantity in a volume pricing configuration is specific. In the first discountSpecification container, set minQuantity to 1, and in the second, set minQuantity to 2. If you include a third discountRules pair, minQuantity must be set to 3, and in a fourth, it must be set to 4. Also, you must set a ruleOrder value in each discountRules container. In the first container, discountRules must be set to 1, and in each subsequent container, the value be be incremented by 1. For more, see Configuring volume pricing discounts.

Tip: see Configuring discounts for threshold promotions for information and examples on how to combine discountBenefit and discountSpecification to create different types of promotions.

Occurrence: Required

The monetary amount that must be spent on promoted items before the promotional discount is applied.

Valid values for the associated forEachAmount.value field:
  5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 49,
  50, 55, 59, 60, 65, 69, 70, 75, 79, 80,
  85, 89, 90, 95, 99, 100, 110, 120, 125,
  149, 150, 175, 199, 200, 249, 250, 299,
  300, 350, 399, 400, 450, 499, 500

Occurrence: Optional

The base currency applied to the value field to establish a monetary amount.

The currency is represented as a 3-letter ISO 4217 currency code. For example, the code for the Canadian Dollar is CAD.

Default: The default currency of the eBay marketplace that hosts the listing.

Occurrence: Optional

The monetary amount in the specified currency.

Required in the amount type.

Occurrence: Conditional

The number of items that must be purchased in order to qualify for the discount.

Valid values:
  1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11,
  12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19
  20, 25, 50, 75, 100

Occurrence: Optional

Known as the "threshold amount", the minimum dollar amount that needs to be spent on promoted items in order to qualify for the promotion's discount.

Valid values for the associated minAmount.value field:
  5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 49,
  50, 55, 59, 60, 65, 69, 70, 75, 79, 80,
  85, 89, 90, 95, 99, 100, 110, 120,
  125, 149, 150, 175, 199, 200, 249, 250, 299,
  300, 350, 399, 400, 450, 499, 500

Occurrence: Optional

The base currency applied to the value field to establish a monetary amount.

The currency is represented as a 3-letter ISO 4217 currency code. For example, the code for the Canadian Dollar is CAD.

Default: The default currency of the eBay marketplace that hosts the listing.

Occurrence: Optional

The monetary amount in the specified currency.

Required in the amount type.

Occurrence: Conditional

The minimum quantity of promoted items that needs to be bought in order to qualify for the promotion's discount.

Valid values:
  1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11,
  12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19
  20, 25, 50, 75, 100

Occurrence: Optional

Use this field to configure "Buy One Get One" (or BOGO) promotions.

You must couple this field with forEachQuantity and an amountOffItem or percentOffItem field to configure your BOGO promotion. This field is not valid with order-based promotions.

The value of this field represents the number of items to be discounted when other promotion criteria is met. For example, when the buyer adds the number of items identified by the forEachQuantity value to their cart, they are then eligible to receive the stated discount from an additional number of like items (the number of which is identified by this field) when they add those items to their cart. To receive the discount, the buyer must purchase the number of items indicated by forEachQuantity plus the number indicated by this field.

Valid values:
  1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Occurrence: Optional

The limit on how much a buyer can save using a CODED_COUPON promotion type. Permitted values are 1-1000. Supported currency codes include USD, GBP, EUR, and AUD.

Note: The Currency Code for 'maxDiscountAmount' must be the same as the Currency Code for 'budget'.

Occurrence: Conditional

The base currency applied to the value field to establish a monetary amount.

The currency is represented as a 3-letter ISO 4217 currency code. For example, the code for the Canadian Dollar is CAD.

Default: The default currency of the eBay marketplace that hosts the listing.

Occurrence: Optional

The monetary amount in the specified currency.

Required in the amount type.

Occurrence: Conditional

This field indicates the order in which the discountRules are presented. The value specified for this field must equal the associated minQuantity value.

Required if you are creating a volume pricing promotion.

Occurrence: Conditional

The date and time the promotion ends in UTC format (yyyy-MM-ddThh:mm:ssZ). For display purposes, convert this time into the local time of the seller.

Occurrence: Required

A container that defines either the listing IDs or the selection rules that specify the items to include in the promotion. Listing IDs can be either eBay listing IDs or a list of the seller's inventory reference IDs (know as SKUs or custom labels). See the selectionRules container for the rule criteria you can use to select inventory.

Note: All listings in Promotions Manager promotions must support an electronic payment method.

Occurrence: Required

Indicates how the items to include in the promotion are selected. You can include inventory by ID, using rules, or globally include all your inventory.

Occurrence: Required

An array of containers for the seller's inventory reference IDs (also known as an "SKU" or "custom label") to be added to the promotion.

Note: The request can have either inventoryItems or listingIds, but not both.

Occurrence: Conditional

The seller's inventory reference ID for a listing. Also known as the "SKU" or "custom label," an inventory reference ID is either the ID of the listing or, if the listing has variations (such as a shirt that's available in multiple sizes and colors), the ID of the parent listing.

Occurrence: Optional

Indicates the type of the inventoryReferenceId, which can be either a single-SKU or a multi-SKU listing (INVENTORY_ITEM and INVENTORY_ITEM_GROUP, respectively).

Note: This value is not currently returned in the response.

Occurrence: Optional

An array of eBay listing IDs to be added to the promotion.

Note: The request can have either inventoryItems or listingIds, but not both.

Occurrence: Conditional

This container defines a set of inventory selection rules for a promotion.

When defining rule criteria, you must limit item exclusions to 100 IDs when you choose from live inventory.

Required if InventoryCriterionEnum is set to INVENTORY_BY_RULE or INVENTORY_ANY.

Occurrence: Conditional

A list of seller inventory reference IDs to exclude from the promotion.

Note: The request can have either excludeInventoryItems or excludeListingIds but not both.

Occurrence: Optional

The seller's inventory reference ID for a listing. Also known as the "SKU" or "custom label," an inventory reference ID is either the ID of the listing or, if the listing has variations (such as a shirt that's available in multiple sizes and colors), the ID of the parent listing.

Occurrence: Optional

Indicates the type of the inventoryReferenceId, which can be either a single-SKU or a multi-SKU listing (INVENTORY_ITEM and INVENTORY_ITEM_GROUP, respectively).

Note: This value is not currently returned in the response.

Occurrence: Optional

A list of eBay listing IDs to exclude from the promotion.

Note: The request can have either excludeInventoryItems or excludeListingIds but not both.

Occurrence: Optional

A list of SKUs to remove from a markdown promotion. The listed SKUs are 'marked up' to their standard price after being part of the markdown promotion.

Occurrence: Optional

The seller's inventory reference ID for a listing. Also known as the "SKU" or "custom label," an inventory reference ID is either the ID of the listing or, if the listing has variations (such as a shirt that's available in multiple sizes and colors), the ID of the parent listing.

Occurrence: Optional

Indicates the type of the inventoryReferenceId, which can be either a single-SKU or a multi-SKU listing (INVENTORY_ITEM and INVENTORY_ITEM_GROUP, respectively).

Note: This value is not currently returned in the response.

Occurrence: Optional

A list of listing IDs to remove from a markdown promotion. The listed items are 'marked up' to their standard price after being part of the markdown promotion.

Occurrence: Optional

The container for the rules that select the items to include in a promotion.

Required if inventoryCriterionType is set to INVENTORY_BY_RULE.

Occurrence: Conditional

The list of brands in the seller's inventory to include in the promotion.

This field is applicable only when categoryScope is set to MARKETPLACE.

Occurrence: Optional

Each selectionRules container can specify only a single category ID to include in the promotion. The ID can be either an eBay category ID or a seller's store category ID.

Marketplace (eBay) category IDs
While we do not publish a list of eBay category IDs, you can retrieve the list of IDs as follows:

• Get the category ID from the marketplace site:
  1. Use the Taxonomy API to retrieve a list of category IDs for any marketplace.
  2. For any marketplace, add /sch/allcategories/all-categories to the URL of the marketplace and navigate to that page.
     For example: http://www.ebay.com.au/sch/allcategories/all-categories
  3. Navigate to the category that you want and copy the ID from the URL.
• For the US: See Category Changes for the latest list of category IDs.

1. Go to Seller Hub > Marketing.
2. Click Manage store categories.
   You will see a list of your store categories.
3. At the bottom of the list, click All Categories.
   A complete list of your Store categories and their associated Store category IDs displays.

Occurrence: Conditional

The type of the category ID for the item(s) to be included in the promotion. You must always supply both categoryIds and categoryScope. Note: A request can have only one categoryScope.

Required: When inventoryCriterionType is set to INVENTORY_BY_RULE.

Occurrence: Optional

A list of IDs that describe the condition of the items included in the promotion. For more information, see Item condition ID and name values.

Note: This value is not currently returned in the response.

Occurrence: Optional

This sets the maximum value of the price range for the items included in the promotion. Only items whose price is equal to or less than maxPrice are included in the promotion.

Important: You must set minPrice if you set maxPrice.

Occurrence: Optional

The base currency applied to the value field to establish a monetary amount.

The currency is represented as a 3-letter ISO 4217 currency code. For example, the code for the Canadian Dollar is CAD.

Default: The default currency of the eBay marketplace that hosts the listing.

Occurrence: Optional

The monetary amount in the specified currency.

Required in the amount type.

Occurrence: Conditional

This sets the minimum value of the price range for the items included in the promotion. Only items whose price is equal to or greater than minPrice are included in the promotion.

Important: You must set maxPrice if you set minPrice.

Occurrence: Optional

The base currency applied to the value field to establish a monetary amount.

The currency is represented as a 3-letter ISO 4217 currency code. For example, the code for the Canadian Dollar is CAD.

Default: The default currency of the eBay marketplace that hosts the listing.

Occurrence: Optional

The monetary amount in the specified currency.

Required in the amount type.

Occurrence: Conditional

The eBay marketplace ID of the site where the threshold promotion is hosted. Threshold promotions are currently supported on a limited number of eBay marketplaces.

Valid values:

• EBAY_AU = Australia
• EBAY_DE = Germany
• EBAY_ES = Spain
• EBAY_FR = France
• EBAY_GB = Great Britain
• EBAY_IT = Italy
• EBAY_US = United States

Occurrence: Required

The seller-defined name or "title" of the promotion that the seller can use to identify a promotion. This label is not displayed in end-user flows.

Maximum length: 90

Occurrence: Required

Applicable for only ORDER_DISCOUNT promotions, this field indicates the precedence of the promotion, which is used to determine the position of a promotion on the seller's All Offers page. If an item is associated with multiple promotions, the promotion with the higher priority takes precedence.

Occurrence: Optional

Required for CODED_COUPON, MARKDOWN_SALE, and ORDER_DISCOUNT promotions, and not valid for VOLUME_DISCOUNT promotions.

Populate this field with a URL that points to an image to be used with the promotion. This image is displayed on the seller's All Offers page. The URL must point to either JPEG or PNG image and it must be a minimum of 500x500 pixels in dimension and cannot exceed 12Mb in size.

Occurrence: Conditional

The current status of the promotion. When creating a new promotion, this value must be set to either DRAFT or SCHEDULED.

Note that you must set this value to SCHEDULED when you update a RUNNING promotion.

Occurrence: Required

Use this field to specify the type of the promotion you are creating.

The supported types are:

• CODED_COUPON – A coupon code promotion set with createItemPromotion.
• MARKDOWN_SALE – A markdown promotion set with createItemPriceMarkdownPromotion.
• ORDER_DISCOUNT – A threshold promotion set with createItemPromotion.
• VOLUME_DISCOUNT – A volume pricing promotion set with createItemPromotion.

See the Promotions Manager documentation for details.

Required if you are creating a volume pricing promotion (VOLUME_DISCOUNT).

Occurrence: Conditional

The date and time the promotion starts in UTC format (yyyy-MM-ddThh:mm:ssZ). For display purposes, convert this time into the local time of the seller.

Occurrence: Required