Home
The Buy APIs let you create buying experiences outside of the eBay.com site. Users can search for, select, and purchase eBay items. Sellers can mirror and curate the contents of the items in an eBay category, provide marketing information to buyers to encourage conversion, and track their orders, all from within your own site. The following are the Buy APIs:
Note: You can also use the Commerce Taxonomy API to discover and use appropriate categories to filter items retrieved by the Buy APIs.
The Buy APIs listed above are intended for certain approved eBay partners based on their application. Acceptance of applications is based on the proposed business model, as well as a formal agreement to abide by the policies and requirements stipulated by eBay.
Complete these primary steps to request access to eBay’s Buy APIs:
Note: Some steps might not apply to your integration.
You must have an eBay Developer account and be familiar with the material and complete developer account procedures in the Get Started with eBay APIs Guide.
Depending on your use case, your application must meet requirements defined by eBay. Buy API integrations can fall into one of the below categories:
eBay Affiliate and eBay guest checkouts (Checkout with eBay) need to be a member of the eBay Partner Network.
Both eBay Affiliate and eBay guest checkouts (Checkout with eBay) need to be a member of the eBay Partner Network.
If your business model is approved by eBay Partner Network, you will be informed on the next steps. Please take a look at the minimum production eligibility requirements for guest checkout for more details.
To obtain eBay member checkout access, your business use case should be approved by eBay. This approval will give you access for member checkout in both the Sandbox and Production API environments. Member checkout requires you to be an eBay member.
Complete these steps to request Production access. Within this process, you will:
Please take a look at the minimum production eligibility requirements for more details. This includes the eBay User Agreement, Privacy Policy and API License Agreement.
Offer API allows you to place bids on auction listings as an eBay member. To obtain access to this API in Production, your business use case should be approved by eBay.
Complete these steps to request Production access. Within this process, you will:
At this point in the process, you should be able to integrate and test your application within the Sandbox environment with the exception of the methods for accessing member checkout APIs. However, there is an additional process required to use the checkout APIs in Sandbox. Please refer to the Production access process for more details.
The Application Growth Check is a mandatory step for using restricted Buy APIs in Production. This is done by the eBay team as a final step before granting Production access to the partner’s production keyset to access Buy APIs. For more information, please refer to the Application Growth Check process.
You can go live with your application once all approvals and contracts are in place.