Suggested Merchant Listing Lifecycle for fixed priced items.

What is the best lifecycle for a fixed price listing if I am a merchant?

Summary

Merchants listing on eBay will want to maintain a listing lifecycle that maximizes their sales score and ensure their listings do not fall off searches for hours at a time. The diagram below shows the suggest lifecycle of a listing and which Trading APIs to call. Make these calls in bulk using the LMS APIs. Links to the documentation for each of the API calls mentioned in the diagram are listed in the Additional Information section below. This include a link to some documentation that explains why you would want to relist instead of adding new items.

 Additional Information

Documentation:

• Why is relisting important: http://developer.ebay.com/devzone/guides/ebayfeatures/Development/Listing-AnItem.html#ConsideringBestMatchWhenRevisingandRelis
• AddFixedPriceItem
• ReviseInventoryStatus
• EndFixedPriceItem
• RelistFixedPriceItem
• ReviseFixedPriceItem
• LMS APIs
  

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