Selling Manager Applications

Embed your application directly within Selling Manager & Selling Manager Pro on eBay.com

Selling Manager Applications (SM Apps) allows developers to integrate applications directly in the eBay.com interface. Your application can appear within Selling Manager and Selling Manager Pro, eBay's most popular tools for managing selling activities. Embed your application directly within Selling Manager and Selling Manager Pro for US sellers on eBay.com

eBay's professional sellers benefit from a streamlined and trusted site experience with access to advanced selling tools that meet their specific needs. Developers benefit by integrating, promoting, and monetizing their applications on the world's largest e-commerce site.

For more information, please see the Selling Manager Applications product overview and participation requirements.

Benefits

• Exposure to hundreds of thousands of professional sellers
  Be listed in our applications directory, viewable from My eBay.
• Robust integration
  Have your application be an integrated part of sellers Selling Manager experience.
• Simplified billing
  Focus on building great applications and eBay will manage subscription and billing.
• Enhanced access
  Selling Manager Applications provides developers with access to a set of enhanced and exclusive seller-focused APIs.
• Make money
  You choose how much to charge, whether a one-time fee, ongoing subscription, or pay-as-you-go.

Features

• Use Selling Manager APIs and also the Trading, Shopping, Merchandising, Feedback, and Notifications & Alerts APIs
• Advertise your application to millions of sellers for free in the applications directory
• Support a seamless and rich subscription flow and plan management by implementing the Open eBay Participant Interface
• Integrate your application directly into the new My eBay Applications Tab, with the flexibility of the full width and custom height
• Build one or more optional summary views of your application, integrated directly into the main Selling Manager summary page
• Bill your customers through our managed billing platform and make it simple to collect payments

Getting Started and Resources

Overview

• User Guide: Overview of key concepts, the APIs that constitute the SM Apps product, and what you can do with them
• Participation Requirements
• Technical Overview
• Meeting Sellers' Needs
• Getting an Application Running in the Sandbox
• Getting Your Application into Production
• Developing Your Application
• Authentication and Processing Requests from eBay
• Preparing Your Deployment Descriptor
• Gadgets Features
• Offering Subscription Plans
• Usage-Based Billing
• Submitting Your Application Directory Entry

• Submit and manage your application on the Embedded Applications tab of the My Account page
• User Interface Guidelines [PDF] make sure your app looks great
  

Samples

• Sample deployment descriptor
  
• Code samples: find samples to jumpstart your application development

Call Reference

Supported input and output fields, plus samples.

• Open eBay Participant Interface Call Reference
• Open eBay Application Integration Call Reference
• Open eBay Identity Provider Call Reference

Release Notes

View enhancements in each release.

• Selling Manager Applications Release Notes
  
• Open eBay Participant Interface Release Notes
  
• Open eBay Application Integration Release Notes
  
• Open eBay Identity Provider Release Notes
  

Complete Docs

• SM Apps Archive: A single download
• Managed Billing Platform: user guide [PDF]
  
• Open eBay Participant Interface Archive: A single download

Support

• Production System Announcements: See the Production system announcements
• Sandbox System Announcements: See the Sandbox system announcements
• Selling Manager Applications Forum: Free support from your fellow developers and Developer Technical Support
• Embedded Applications Tools Status: information regarding the availability and status of tools for SM Apps
  
• Developer Support: Choose from paid support offerings, including Support Requests and Live Help.