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  • New Feature: The Inventory Mapping API helps you turn your existing product data into high-quality listings with AI-powered recommendations. Learn more here.
  • Important Update: eBay's API integrations will be modified to address data handling requirements for select developers. Usernames will be replaced with immutable user IDs, and financial data will be protected for certain users. Learn more here.
  • Action required: From early May, API users must include standardized condition details when creating or updating listings. Update your integration to stay compliant. Learn more here.
  • Size Standardization Update: Apparel & Footwear listings with non-standard or missing sizes may be blocked or hidden starting August 2026. Normalization begins in June. Learn more here.

You can use the eBay Developers Program to build and offer any of the following tools or services:

  • Selling—create listings, manage inventory, and post-order activities
  • Buying—discover inventory and manage checkout and bidding tasks
  • Searching—customized interfaces for searching the eBay marketplace
  • Affiliate—tools to drive buyers to eBay
  • Customer service functionality—feedback, customer communications
  • Marketing—promoted listings, coupons, discounts, and item promotions

Some of our available services and program resources include:

  • Loyalty Program—The Loyalty Program recognizes and rewards our partners based on a developer's eBay business scale and solution sophistication.
  • EPN Program—Join the eBay Partner Network to earn money by driving traffic and prompting sales across one of the world's largest and most diverse marketplaces.
  • SDKs—Use our downloadable SDKs (software development kits) to make application development easier and more efficient via our SDKs pre-coded solutions for common programming tasks.
  • OpenAPI—Use our Open API to generate clients in one of 40+ supported programming languages, and successfully invoke an eBay API in minutes.
  • WSDLs—Every traditional API has an XML-based WSDL available that will help a user get up and running making API calls. The location of the WSDLs for each API can be found on the "Making a Call" page of that API's documentation set.
  • Support—Explore our support page to learn more about account and technical support available for developers, our API status page, knowledge base, and various partner solutions.
  • Forums—Interact with and ask questions of the eBay developer community. Explore the numerous categories such as Buy APIs - Browse, New Sell APIs - Marketing, Analytics, Metadata, and Token, Messaging, Sandbox related issues.
  • Development resources—Explore our free resources to help in your development process including API reference docs, samples, tutorials, and user guides.