GetPromotionalSaleDetails

Note: While the Trading API continues to support item promotions for an eBay store owner, the Trading API will no longer be enhanced with any new item promotion capabilities as they are developed by eBay. In addition, Promoted Listings are also not supported by the Trading API. For these two reasons, it is recommended that sellers/developers make plans to migrate to the Marketing API, which provides all Promotions Manager and Promoted Listings capabilities, and this API will continue to be improved and enhanced as more marketing features become available to sellers.

Use this call to retrieve information about promotional sales set up by an eBay store owner (the authenticated caller). Promotional sales are discounts that eBay store owners apply to items listed in their stores. This call is part of the Promotional Price Display feature, which enables sellers to apply discounts across many listings.

If you do not specify a PromotionalSaleID value in the request, GetPromotionalSaleDetails returns all promotional sales for the authenticated user. Promotional sales apply regular fixed-price format, auction, and auction/BIN formats. Auction and auction/BIN format listings can include only free shipping as a promotional discount.

You can test this call in the Sandbox environment. However, you (or the test user) must be a registered store owner to use this call.

See Putting Store Items on Sale.

See also the reference documentation for these calls:

SetPromotionalSale - Creates or modifies a promotional sale. Promotional sales enable sellers to apply discounts and/or free shipping across many listings.
SetPromotionalSaleListings - Modifies the list of items that are eligible for a specific promotional sale. Seller has an option of applying the promotional sale to more items, or removing some items from the promotional sale.

Input

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The XML prototype does not include requester credentials. This is a documentation limitation only (see Standard Requester Credentials for Making Calls).

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<GetPromotionalSaleDetailsRequest xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents">
  <!-- Call-specific Input Fields -->
  <PromotionalSaleID> long </PromotionalSaleID>
  <PromotionalSaleStatus> PromotionalSaleStatusCodeType </PromotionalSaleStatus>
  <!-- ... more PromotionalSaleStatus values allowed here ... -->
  <!-- Standard Input Fields -->
  <ErrorLanguage> string </ErrorLanguage>
  <MessageID> string </MessageID>
  <Version> string </Version>
  <WarningLevel> WarningLevelCodeType </WarningLevel>
</GetPromotionalSaleDetailsRequest>

Argument	Type	Occurrence	Meaning

Call-specific Input Fields [Jump to standard fields]

PromotionalSaleID	long	Optional	The unique identifier of the promotional sale to retrieve. This field is used if the eBay store owner only wants to retrieve a specific promotional sale. Any PromotionalSaleStatus fields that are included will be ignored if the PromotionalSaleID field is used. If neither the PromotionalSaleID nor a PromotionalSaleStatus field is used, then all promotional sales for the eBay store owner are returned.
PromotionalSaleStatus	PromotionalSaleStatusCodeType	Optional, repeatable: [0..*]	One or more PromotionalSaleStatus fields are used if the eBay store owner wants to retrieve promotional sales in a specific state, such as `Active`, `Scheduled`, or `Deleted`. A PromotionalSaleStatus field is included for each status. See PromotionalSaleStatusCodeType for a description of the status values that can be used in this field. If neither the PromotionalSaleID nor a PromotionalSaleStatus field is used, then all promotional sales for the eBay store owner are returned. Applicable values: See PromotionalSaleStatus.

Standard Input Fields

ErrorLanguage

string

Optional

Use ErrorLanguage to return error strings for the call in a different language from the language commonly associated with the site that the requesting user is registered with. Below are some examples from different countries.

ID	Country
en_AU	Australia
de_AT	Austria
nl_BE	Belgium (Dutch)
fr_BE	Belgium (French)
en_CA	Canada
fr_CA	Canada (French)
zh_CN	China
fr_FR	France
de_DE	Germany
zh_HK	Hong Kong
en_IN	India
en_IE	Ireland
it_IT	Italy
nl_NL	Netherlands
en_SG	Singapore
es_ES	Spain
de_CH	Switzerland
en_GB	United Kingdom
en_US	United States

MessageID string Optional Most Trading API calls support a MessageID element in the request and a CorrelationID element in the response. If you pass in a MessageID in a request, the same value will be returned in the CorrelationID field in the response. Pairing these values can help you track and confirm that a response is returned for every request and to match specific responses to specific requests. If you do not pass a MessageID value in the request, CorrelationID is not returned.

Note: GetCategories is designed to retrieve very large sets of metadata that change once a day or less often. To improve performance, these calls return cached responses when you request all available data (with no filters). When this occurs, the MessageID and CorrelationID fields aren't applicable. However, if you specify an input filter to reduce the amount of data returned, the calls retrieve the latest data (not cached). When this occurs, MessageID and CorrelationID are applicable.

Version

string

Conditional

The version number of the API code that you are programming against (e.g., 1149). The version you specify for a call has these basic effects:

It indicates the version of the code lists and other data that eBay should use to process your request.
It indicates the schema version you are using.

You need to use a version that is greater than or equal to the lowest supported version.
For the SOAP API: If you are using the SOAP API, this field is required. Specify the version of the WSDL your application is using.

For the XML API: If you are using the XML API, this field has no effect. Instead, specify the version in the X-EBAY-API-COMPATIBILITY-LEVEL HTTP header. (If you specify Version in the body of an XML API request and it is different from the value in the HTTP header, eBay returns an informational warning that the value in the HTTP header was used instead.)

See:
    HTTP Headers
    eBay Schema Versioning Strategy
    Lowest Supported Version

WarningLevel

WarningLevelCodeType

Optional

Controls whether or not to return warnings when the application passes unrecognized or deprecated elements in a request.

An unrecognized element is one that is not defined in any supported version of the schema. Schema element names are case-sensitive, so using WarningLevel can also help you remove any potential hidden bugs within your application due to incorrect case or spelling in field names before you put your application into the Production environment.

WarningLevel only validates elements; it doesn't validate XML attributes. It also doesn't control warnings related to user-entered strings or numbers, or warnings for logical errors.

We recommend that you only use this during development and debugging. Do not use this in requests performed in the Production environment.

Applicable values:

High

(in) The WarningLevel value is set to High if the user wishes to receive warnings when the application passes unrecognized or deprecated elements in an API call request. Setting the WarningLevel value to High is not recommended in a production environment. Instead, it should only be used during the development/debugging stage.

Low

(in) The WarningLevel value is set to Low if the user does not wish to receive warnings when the application passes unrecognized or deprecated elements in an API call request. This is the default value if WarningLevel is not specified in the call request.

See Warning Level.

Output

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The box below lists all fields that might be returned in the response. To learn more about an individual field or its type, click its name in the box (or scroll down to find it in the table below the box).

See also the Deprecated Objects link above. Fields presented in this color are deprecated, and fields presented in this color are not returned (or soon will not be returned) or are not operational (or soon will be non-operational).

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<GetPromotionalSaleDetailsResponse xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents">
  <!-- Call-specific Output Fields -->
  <PromotionalSaleDetails> PromotionalSaleArrayType
    <PromotionalSale> PromotionalSaleType
      <DiscountType> DiscountCodeType </DiscountType>
      <DiscountValue> double </DiscountValue>
      <PromotionalSaleEndTime> dateTime </PromotionalSaleEndTime>
      <PromotionalSaleID> long </PromotionalSaleID>
      <PromotionalSaleItemIDArray> ItemIDArrayType
        <ItemID> ItemIDType (string) </ItemID>
        <!-- ... more ItemID values allowed here ... -->
      </PromotionalSaleItemIDArray>
      <PromotionalSaleName> string </PromotionalSaleName>
      <PromotionalSaleStartTime> dateTime </PromotionalSaleStartTime>
      <PromotionalSaleType> PromotionalSaleTypeCodeType </PromotionalSaleType>
      <Status> PromotionalSaleStatusCodeType </Status>
    </PromotionalSale>
    <!-- ... more PromotionalSale nodes allowed here ... -->
  </PromotionalSaleDetails>
  <!-- Standard Output Fields -->
  <Ack> AckCodeType </Ack>
  <Build> string </Build>
  <CorrelationID> string </CorrelationID>
  <Errors> ErrorType
    <ErrorClassification> ErrorClassificationCodeType </ErrorClassification>
    <ErrorCode> token </ErrorCode>
    <ErrorParameters ParamID="string"> ErrorParameterType
      <Value> string </Value>
    </ErrorParameters>
    <!-- ... more ErrorParameters nodes allowed here ... -->
    <LongMessage> string </LongMessage>
    <SeverityCode> SeverityCodeType </SeverityCode>
    <ShortMessage> string </ShortMessage>
  </Errors>
  <!-- ... more Errors nodes allowed here ... -->
  <HardExpirationWarning> string </HardExpirationWarning>
  <Timestamp> dateTime </Timestamp>
  <Version> string </Version>
</GetPromotionalSaleDetailsResponse>

Return Value	Type	Occurrence	Meaning

Call-specific Output Fields [Jump to standard fields]

PromotionalSaleDetails	PromotionalSaleArrayType	Conditionally	This container consists of an array of one or more promotional sales for an eBay store owner. A PromotionalSaleDetails.PromotionalSale container is returned for each promotional sale that matches the input criteria in the call request.
PromotionalSaleDetails .PromotionalSale	PromotionalSaleType	Conditionally, repeatable: [0..*]	Each PromotionalSale container consists of detailed information on a seller's promotional sale. Each promotional sale that matches the input criteria is returned. Promotional Sales are only available to eBay sellers who are eBay Store subscribers.
PromotionalSaleDetails .PromotionalSale.DiscountType	DiscountCodeType	Conditionally	Type of a promotional sale discount for items (for example, percentage). Applies to price discount sales only. Applicable values: CustomCode (in/out) This value is reserved for future use. Percentage (in/out) The enumeration value indicates that the discount being offered is a percentage discount, which means a percentage of the total price to the buyer is being discounted. So, if the total price for an order line item is $100, the DiscountType is `Percentage`, and the DiscountValue is `15.0` (percent), the buyer will pay just $85.00 for the order line item. Price (in/out) The enumeration value indicates that the discount being offered is a price discount, which means the total price to the buyer is being reduced by this amount. So, if the total price for an order line item is $100, the DiscountType is `Price`, and the DiscountValue is `20.0` (dollars), the buyer will pay just $80.00 for the order line item. Code so that your app gracefully handles any future changes to this list.
PromotionalSaleDetails .PromotionalSale.DiscountValue	double	Conditionally	Value of a promotional sale discount for items, a percentage discount or a fixed amount reduction. Percentage discounts must be at least 5% and cannot exceed 75% of the original listing price. Fixed amount discounts will be in the currency of the original listing. Applies to price discount sales only.
PromotionalSaleDetails .PromotionalSale .PromotionalSaleEndTime	dateTime	Conditionally	End date of a promotional sale discount for items. Maximum listing durations vary by site from 14 days to 45 days. The minimum promotional sale duration is 1 day for most sites, but 3 days on some sites.
PromotionalSaleDetails .PromotionalSale .PromotionalSaleID	long	Conditionally	Unique ID of a promotional sale (discount and/or free shipping) for items. This field is an input field only for the SetPromotionalSale call and only if you are not adding a new promotional sale.
PromotionalSaleDetails .PromotionalSale .PromotionalSaleItemIDArray	ItemIDArrayType	Conditionally	Items covered by a promotional sale.
PromotionalSaleDetails .PromotionalSale .PromotionalSaleItemIDArray .ItemID	ItemIDType (string)	Conditionally, repeatable: [0..*]	A unique identifier for an item listing. For SetPromotionalSaleListings, the seller passes in the ItemID value for each listing that he/she wishes to become part of the Promotional Sale identified by the PromotionalSaleID value. For GetPromotionalSaleDetails, each listing returned in the response is a part of the Promotional Sale identified by the PromotionalSaleID value.
PromotionalSaleDetails .PromotionalSale .PromotionalSaleName	string	Conditionally	Name of a promotional sale for items.
PromotionalSaleDetails .PromotionalSale .PromotionalSaleStartTime	dateTime	Conditionally	Start date of a promotional sale for items. Promotional sales can start immediately or be scheduled to start at a later date. Some sites require items to have been listed for a specific duration before they can be added to a promotional sale (for example, on the US site, items must have been listed for a day before they can be added to a promotional sale).
PromotionalSaleDetails .PromotionalSale .PromotionalSaleType	PromotionalSaleTypeCodeType	Conditionally	Type of promotional sale: price discount, free shipping, or both. Applicable values: CustomCode (in/out) Reserved for internal or future use. FreeShippingOnly (in/out) Sale offers free shipping only. PriceDiscountAndFreeShipping (in/out) Sale offers both price discount and free shipping. PriceDiscountOnly (in/out) Sale offers price discount only. Code so that your app gracefully handles any future changes to this list.
PromotionalSaleDetails .PromotionalSale.Status	PromotionalSaleStatusCodeType	Conditionally	Status of a promotional sale for items. Applicable values: See Status. Code so that your app gracefully handles any future changes to this list.

Standard Output Fields

Ack	AckCodeType	Always	A token representing the application-level acknowledgement code that indicates the response status (e.g., success). The AckCodeType list specifies the possible values for the Ack field. Applicable values: CustomCode (out) Reserved for internal or future use. Failure (out) This value indicates that the call request processing failed. Success (out) This value indicates that the call request was processed successfully without any issues. Warning (out) This value indicates that the call request was successful, but processing was not without any issues. These issues can be checked in the Errors container, that will also be returned when one or more known issues occur with the call request. (Not all values in AckCodeType apply to this field.) Code so that your app gracefully handles any future changes to this list.
Build	string	Always	This refers to the specific software build that eBay used when processing the request and generating the response. This includes the version number plus additional information. eBay Developer Support may request the build information when helping you resolve technical issues.
CorrelationID	string	Conditionally	Most Trading API calls support a MessageID element in the request and a CorrelationID element in the response. If you pass in a MessageID in a request, the same value will be returned in the CorrelationID field in the response. Pairing these values can help you track and confirm that a response is returned for every request and to match specific responses to specific requests. If you do not pass a MessageID value in the request, CorrelationID is not returned. Note: GetCategories is designed to retrieve very large sets of metadata that change once a day or less often. To improve performance, these calls return cached responses when you request all available data (with no filters). When this occurs, the MessageID and CorrelationID fields aren't applicable. However, if you specify an input filter to reduce the amount of data returned, the calls retrieve the latest data (not cached). When this occurs, MessageID and CorrelationID are applicable.
Errors	ErrorType	Conditionally, repeatable: [0..*]	A list of application-level errors (if any) that occurred when eBay processed the request. See Error Handling.
Errors.ErrorClassification	ErrorClassificationCodeType	Conditionally	API errors are divided between two classes: system errors and request errors. Applicable values: CustomCode (out) Reserved for internal or future use. RequestError (out) An error has occurred either as a result of a problem in the sending application or because the application's end-user has attempted to submit invalid data (or missing data). In these cases, do not retry the request. The problem must be corrected before the request can be made again. If the problem is due to something in the application (such as a missing required field), the application must be changed. If the problem is a result of end-user data, the application must alert the end-user to the problem and provide the means for the end-user to correct the data. Once the problem in the application or data is resolved, resend the request to eBay with the corrected data. SystemError (out) Indicates that an error has occurred on the eBay system side, such as a database or server down. An application can retry the request as-is a reasonable number of times (eBay recommends twice). If the error persists, contact Developer Technical Support. Once the problem has been resolved, the request may be resent in its original form. Code so that your app gracefully handles any future changes to this list.
Errors.ErrorCode	token	Conditionally	A unique code that identifies the particular error condition that occurred. Your application can use error codes as identifiers in your customized error-handling algorithms. See the "Errors by Number" document.
Errors.ErrorParameters	ErrorParameterType	Conditionally, repeatable: [0..*]	This optional element carries a list of context-specific error variables that indicate details about the error condition. These are useful when multiple instances of ErrorType are returned.
Errors.ErrorParameters [ attribute ParamID ]	string	Conditionally	This optional element carries a list of context-specific error variables that indicate details about the error condition. These are useful when multiple instances of ErrorType are returned.
Errors.ErrorParameters.Value	string	Conditionally	This is the value of the request parameter noted in the ParamID attribute. So, if the ParamID value was ItemID, the value in this field would be the actual value of that ItemID.
Errors.LongMessage	string	Conditionally	A more detailed description of the condition that raised the error.
Errors.SeverityCode	SeverityCodeType	Conditionally	Indicates whether the error is a severe error (causing the request to fail) or an informational error (a warning) that should be communicated to the user. Applicable values: CustomCode (out) Reserved for internal or future use. Error (out) The request that triggered the error was not processed successfully. When a serious application-level error occurs, the error is returned instead of the business data. If the source of the problem is within the application (such as a missing required element), change the application before you retry the request. If the problem is due to end-user input data, please alert the end-user to the problem and provide the means for them to correct the data. Once the problem in the application or data is resolved, you can attempt to re-send the request to eBay. If the source of the problem is on eBay's side, An application can retry the request as-is a reasonable number of times (eBay recommends twice). If the error persists, contact Developer Technical Support. Once the problem has been resolved, the request may be resent in its original form. See the Compatible Application Check section of the eBay Features Guide for more information. Warning (out) The request was processed successfully, but something occurred that may affect your application or the user. For example, eBay may have changed a value the user sent in. In this case, eBay returns a normal, successful response and also returns the warning. When a warning occurs, the error is returned in addition to the business data. In this case, you do not need to retry the request (as the original request was successful). However, depending on the cause or nature of the warning, you might need to contact either the end user or eBay to effect a long term solution to the problem to prevent it from reoccurring in the future. Code so that your app gracefully handles any future changes to this list.
Errors.ShortMessage	string	Conditionally	A brief description of the condition that raised the error.
HardExpirationWarning	string	Conditionally	Expiration date of the user's authentication token. Only returned within the 7-day period prior to a token's expiration. To ensure that user authentication tokens are secure and to help avoid a user's token being compromised, tokens have a limited life span. A token is only valid for a period of time (set by eBay). After this amount of time has passed, the token expires and must be replaced with a new token.
Timestamp	dateTime	Always	This value represents the date and time when eBay processed the request. The time zone of this value is GMT and the format is the ISO 8601 date and time format (YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.SSSZ). See the Time Values section in the eBay Features Guide for information about this time format and converting to and from the GMT time zone. Note: GetCategories and other Trading API calls are designed to retrieve very large sets of metadata that change once a day or less often. To improve performance, these calls return cached responses when you request all available data (with no filters). When this occurs, this time value reflects the time the cached response was created. Thus, this value is not necessarily when the request was processed. However, if you specify an input filter to reduce the amount of data returned, the calls retrieve the latest data (not cached). When this occurs, this time value does reflect when the request was processed.
Version	string	Always	The version of the response payload schema. Indicates the version of the schema that eBay used to process the request. See the Standard Data for All Calls section in the eBay Features Guide for information on using the response version when troubleshooting CustomCode values that appear in the response.

Detail Controls

DetailLevel

This call does not support varying Detail Levels. You do not need to pass DetailLevel in the request.

Samples

New to making API calls? Please see Making a Call.

Note: Some item IDs, user IDs, or other data in these samples might no longer be active on eBay. If necessary, you can substitute current eBay data in your requests.

Sample: Basic Call

Gets seller's promotional sales with the specified status values.

Description

User magicalbookseller has defined multiple promotional sales over time. For planning purposes, she wants to review only those sales that are active, pending, or scheduled. That is, she's not interested in deleted or ended/inactive sales.

Input

The PromotionalSaleStatus fields specify the status values her promotional sales must match to be returned.

XML format.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<GetPromotionalSaleDetailsRequest xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents">
   <RequesterCredentials>
      <eBayAuthToken>ABC...123</eBayAuthToken>
   </RequesterCredentials>
   <ErrorLanguage>en_US</ErrorLanguage>
  <WarningLevel>High</WarningLevel>
  <PromotionalSaleStatus>Active</PromotionalSaleStatus>
  <PromotionalSaleStatus>Scheduled</PromotionalSaleStatus>
  <PromotionalSaleStatus>Processing</PromotionalSaleStatus>
</GetPromotionalSaleDetailsRequest>

Output

The Status field indicates that status of a given promotional sale. The PromotionalSaleID field is reqquired to edit the promotional sale with either SetPromotionalSale or SetPromotionalSaleListing.

XML format.
<GetPromotionalSaleDetailsResponse xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents">
   <Timestamp>2019-11-04T22:47:32.180Z</Timestamp>
   <Ack>Success</Ack>
   <Version>1131</Version>
   <Build>E1131_CORE_APISELLING_19099826_R1</Build>
   <PromotionalSaleDetails>
      <PromotionalSale>
         <PromotionalSaleID>6001618015</PromotionalSaleID>
         <PromotionalSaleName>Valentine's Day Sale</PromotionalSaleName>
         <PromotionalSaleItemIDArray>
            <ItemID>230000912912</ItemID>
         </PromotionalSaleItemIDArray>
         <Status>Scheduled</Status>
         <DiscountType>Percentage</DiscountType>
         <DiscountValue>10.0</DiscountValue>
         <PromotionalSaleStartTime>2019-10-01T00:00:00.000Z</PromotionalSaleStartTime>
         <PromotionalSaleEndTime>2019-11-01T11:59:00.000Z</PromotionalSaleEndTime>
         <PromotionalSaleType>PriceDiscountOnly</PromotionalSaleType>
      </PromotionalSale>
      <PromotionalSale>
         <PromotionalSaleID>6001619015</PromotionalSaleID>
         <PromotionalSaleName>Free Shipping</PromotionalSaleName>
         <PromotionalSaleItemIDArray>
            <ItemID>230001339257</ItemID>
         </PromotionalSaleItemIDArray>
         <Status>Scheduled</Status>
         <PromotionalSaleStartTime>2019-10-25T00:00:00.000Z</PromotionalSaleStartTime>
         <PromotionalSaleEndTime>2019-10-31T11:59:00.000Z</PromotionalSaleEndTime>
         <PromotionalSaleType>FreeShippingOnly</PromotionalSaleType>
      </PromotionalSale>
      <PromotionalSale>
         <PromotionalSaleID>6001691015</PromotionalSaleID>
         <PromotionalSaleName>Winter Clearance</PromotionalSaleName>
         <PromotionalSaleItemIDArray>
            <ItemID>230000957369</ItemID>
         </PromotionalSaleItemIDArray>
         <Status>Active</Status>
         <DiscountType>Price</DiscountType>
         <DiscountValue>5.0</DiscountValue>
         <PromotionalSaleStartTime>2019-10-21T23:15:00.000Z</PromotionalSaleStartTime>
         <PromotionalSaleEndTime>2019-11-21T11:59:00.000Z</PromotionalSaleEndTime>
         <PromotionalSaleType>PriceDiscountOnly</PromotionalSaleType>
      </PromotionalSale>
   </PromotionalSaleDetails>
</GetPromotionalSaleDetailsResponse>

Change History

Change Date	Description
653 2010-01-20	PromotionalSaleStatus (added): Specifies which promotional sales to retrieve, based upon status. Can be repeated to retrieve promotional sales for multiple status values.
555 2008-03-05	PromotionalSaleType.PromotionalSaleType, PromotionalSaleTypeCodeType (added): Indicates the type of promotional sale being offered: price discount only, free shipping only (new), and price discount and free shipping (new).
497 2007-01-24	(added) New call.