eBay
Purpose
eBay becomes a sales channel. The decisive difference from a shop: on eBay, item and offer are two things — and missing that overwrites the price on every stock run.
Scope
- Item, offer, publish — three calls where a shop needs one: an inventory item describes the
goods, an offer describes the sale on a marketplace, and only publishing turns it into a visible listing.
- Quantity on the item, price on the offer. A stock run therefore does not touch the offer, and a
price run does not touch the item.
- Orders and fulfilment.
- Seven settings per channel: sandbox or production, marketplace, merchant location and the ids
for fulfilment, payment and return policy plus the category.
Interplay
The channel is a sales channel in the sense of Channels — not a special path beside the document. Items, prices and stock come from the product catalogue and stock; incoming orders become regular sales orders and travel through warehouse, shipping and invoicing like any other order. Credentials live as an integration under Integrations in the encrypted store. Flows and mappings at the system boundary — which field goes where, when a sync runs — belong to OctiConnect; conditions and waiting times remain the business of automations.
Limits
- The external id carries the offer id, not the item id: on eBay the SKU is already the item's
key, but the price hangs on the offer.
- The real run is still outstanding. What is verified is that we ask correctly and read the
answer correctly — not that eBay accepts the request. A real seller account is missing.