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The Sell Feed API allows you to customize and download order and customer service metrics reports, to acknowledge fulfilled orders, and feed files associated with existing LMS API and Seller Hub flows. The following feed flows are available (see the specific flows for integration details):

Note: For basic information on the Sell Feed API flow, see General Sell Feed API Tasks (Flows).

  • Working with Order Feeds - The Sell Feed API lets you generate and retrieve order reports, and to acknowledge and clear fulfilled orders from the report.
  • Creating Schedules - Create a schedule (based on a template) that generates reports for a specified feed type.
  • Customer Service Metrics Report - Customize and download customer service metrics reports.
  • LMS Feed API Guide - The Sell Feed API provides feed types for sellers looking for a complete and scalable deep integration workflow with existing/in-house ERP.
  • Seller Hub Feed API Guide - The Sell Feed API provides feed types for sellers having a hybrid-business workflow. These feed types leverage Seller Hubs' UI-based file feeds and adds programmatic integrations.

Requirements and restrictions

The following are the requirements and restrictions for the Sell Feed API.

File retention

The number of days that files are retained (and available) depends on the feed type. See the following table for specifics.

File availability

LMS feedType *

Retention (availability in days)

Task request

Task response **

LMS_ORDER_REPORT

Not applicable

30

LMS_ACTIVE_INVENTORY_REPORT

Not applicable

90

All other LMS feedTypes

3

90

* See Available feed types for a complete list of upload and download feed types.

** Includes either the report or the error response for download tasks, or the response payload for upload tasks.

Note: For task requests and responses:

Scope restrictions

The following table lists the Sell Feed API scopes and use cases they support.

Scope Use Case
https://api.ebay.com/oauth/api_scope/sell.inventory Active Inventory Report
https://api.ebay.com/oauth/api_scope/sell.fulfillment LMS Order Ack and Order Report
https://api.ebay.com/oauth/api_scope/sell.marketing For future use
https://api.ebay.com/oauth/api_scope/commerce.catalog.readonly For future use
https://api.ebay.com/oauth/api_scope/sell.analytics.readonly Customer Service Metrics Report