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.
Important Changes to the eBay API License Agreement
The eBay Developers Program has updated the eBay API License Agreement. The focus of this update is improved security, especially with regard to data protection and eBay member privacy concerns.
All eBay RESTful APIs Leverage OpenAPI Specification
On August 14, 2018, we announced that we are leveraging the OpenAPI Specification (OAS) for all of our RESTful public APIs. The APIs are described using both 2.0 and 3.0 versions of the OAS. With OpenAPI, developers can download an eBay OpenAPI contract, generate clients in one of 40+ supported programming languages, and successfully invoke an eBay API in minutes.