createOffer

This integer value sets the quantity of the inventory item (specified by the sku value) that will be available for purchase by buyers shopping on the eBay site specified in the marketplaceId field. Quantity must be set to 1 or more in order for the inventory item to be purchasable, but this field is not necessarily required, even for published offers, if the general quantity of the inventory item has already been set in the inventory item record.

For auction listings, this value must be 1.

Note: The availableQuantity field if set here overrides the quantity field set in the inventory item. See the note in Offer fields for details.

Occurrence: Conditional

The unique identifier of the eBay category that the product will be listed under. This field is not immediately required upon creating an offer, but will be required before publishing the offer.

Sellers can use the getCategorySuggestions method of the Taxonomy API to retrieve suggested category ID values. The seller passes in a query string like "iPhone 6", and category ID values for suggested categories are returned in the response.

Note: When listing in categoryID 173651 (Auto Performance Tuning Devices & Software), use of catalog products is required. For more information, see Tuning devices and software.

Occurrence: Conditional

This container is used if the seller wishes to select a charitable organization that will receive a percentage of sale proceeds for each sale generated by the eBay listing. This container consists of the charityId field to identify the charitable organization, and the donationPercentage field that indicates the percentage of the sales proceeds that will be donated to the charitable organization for each sale. Both fields in this container are conditionally required for charitable listings.

Occurrence: Optional

The eBay-assigned unique identifier of the charitable organization that will receive a percentage of the sales proceeds. The charitable organization must be reqistered with the PayPal Giving Fund in order to receive sales proceeds through eBay listings.

This field is conditionally required if a seller is planning on donating a percentage of the sale proceeds to a charitable organization.

The eBay-assigned unique identifier of a charitable organization can be found using the getCharityOrgs method of the Charity API. In the getCharityOrgs response, this unique identifier is shown in the charityOrgId field.

Occurrence: Conditional

This field is the percentage of the purchase price that the charitable organization (identified in the charityId field) will receive for each sale that the listing generates. This field is conditionally required if a seller is planning on donating a percentage of the sale proceeds to a charitable organization. This numeric value can range from 10 to 100, and in any 5 (percent) increments in between this range (e.g. 10, 15, 20...95,... 100). The seller would pass in 10 for 10 percent, 15 for 15 percent, 20 for 20 percent, and so on, all the way to 100 for 100 percent.

Occurrence: Conditional

This container is used to provide the eco-participation fee for a product.

Use the getExtendedProducerResponsibilityPolicies method of the Sell Metadata API to retrieve categories that support eco-participation fee for a specified marketplace.

Occurrence: Optional

This is the fee paid for new items to the eco-organization (for example, "eco-organisme" in France). It is a contribution to the financing of the elimination of the item responsibly.

Note: 0 should not be used as a default value.
Minimum: 0.0

Occurrence: Optional

A three-digit string value representing the type of currency being used. Both the value and currency fields are required/always returned when expressing prices.

See the CurrencyCodeEnum type for the full list of currencies and their corresponding three-digit string values.

Occurrence: Conditional

A string representation of a dollar value expressed in the currency specified in the currency field. Both the value and currency fields are required/always returned when expressing prices.

Occurrence: Conditional

Note: THIS FIELD IS DEPRECATED AND NO LONGER SUPPORTED. For sellers selling on the eBay France Marketplace, Extended Producer Responsibility ID fields are no longer set at the listing level. Instead, sellers must provide these IDs for each applicable category in their My eBay accounts. The URL will be based on the seller's home/registration site, and will use this pattern: https://accountsettings./epr-fr. Sellers based in the US will use https://accountsettings.ebay.com/epr-fr, sellers based in France will use https://accountsettings.ebay.fr/epr-fr, and so on.

Occurrence: Optional

Note: THIS FIELD IS DEPRECATED AND NO LONGER SUPPORTED. For sellers selling on the eBay France Marketplace, Extended Producer Responsibility ID fields are no longer set at the listing level. Instead, sellers must provide these IDs for each applicable category in their My eBay accounts. The URL will be based on the seller's home/registration site, and will use this pattern: https://accountsettings./epr-fr. Sellers based in the US will use https://accountsettings.ebay.com/epr-fr, sellers based in France will use https://accountsettings.ebay.fr/epr-fr, and so on.

Occurrence: Optional

Note: THIS FIELD IS DEPRECATED AND NO LONGER SUPPORTED. For sellers selling on the eBay France Marketplace, Extended Producer Responsibility ID fields are no longer set at the listing level. Instead, sellers must provide these IDs for each applicable category in their My eBay accounts. The URL will be based on the seller's home/registration site, and will use this pattern: https://accountsettings./epr-fr. Sellers based in the US will use https://accountsettings.ebay.com/epr-fr, sellers based in France will use https://accountsettings.ebay.fr/epr-fr, and so on.

Occurrence: Optional

Note: THIS FIELD IS DEPRECATED AND NO LONGER SUPPORTED. For sellers selling on the eBay France Marketplace, Extended Producer Responsibility ID fields are no longer set at the listing level. Instead, sellers must provide these IDs for each applicable category in their My eBay accounts. The URL will be based on the seller's home/registration site, and will use this pattern: https://accountsettings./epr-fr. Sellers based in the US will use https://accountsettings.ebay.com/epr-fr, sellers based in France will use https://accountsettings.ebay.fr/epr-fr, and so on.

Occurrence: Optional

This enumerated value indicates the listing format of the offer.

Supported values are FIXED_PRICE and AUCTION.

Occurrence: Required

This field is included and set to true if the seller wishes to create a private listing.

Sellers may want to use this option when they believe that a listing's potential bidders/buyers would not want their obfuscated user IDs (and feedback scores) exposed to other users.

Occurrence: Optional

This field indicates whether or not eBay product catalog details are applied to a listing. A value of true indicates the listing corresponds to the eBay product associated with the provided product identifier. The product identifier is provided in createOrReplaceInventoryItem.

Default: true

Note: Though the includeCatalogProductDetails parameter is not required to be submitted in the request, the parameter defaults to true if omitted.

Occurrence: Optional

The text in this field is (published offers), or will become (unpublished offers) the description of the eBay listing. This field is not immediately required for an unpublished offer, but will be required before publishing the offer. Note that if the listingDescription field was omitted in the createOffer call for the offer, the offer entity should have picked up the text provided in the product.description field of the inventory item record, or if the inventory item is part of a group, the offer entity should have picked up the text provided in the description field of the inventory item group record.

HTML tags and markup can be used in listing descriptions, but each character counts toward the max length limit.

Note: To ensure that their short listing description is optimized when viewed on mobile devices, sellers should strongly consider using eBay's View Item description summary feature when listing their items. Keep in mind that the 'short' listing description is what prospective buyers first see when they view the listing on a mobile device. The 'full' listing description is also available to mobile users when they click on the short listing description, but the full description is not automatically optimized for viewing in mobile devices, and many users won't even drill down to the full description.

Using HTML div and span tag attributes, this feature allows sellers to customize and fully control the short listing description that is displayed to prospective buyers when viewing the listing on a mobile device. The short listing description on mobile devices is limited to 800 characters, and whenever the full listing description (provided in this field, in UI, or seller tool) exceeds this limit, eBay uses a special algorithm to derive the best possible short listing description within the 800-character limit. However, due to some short listing description content being removed, it is definitely not ideal for the seller, and could lead to a bad buyer experience and possibly to a Significantly not as described (SNAD) case, since the buyer may not get complete details on the item when viewing the short listing description. See the eBay help page for more details on using the HTML div and span tags.

Max length: 500000 (which includes HTML markup/tags)

Occurrence: Conditional

This field indicates the number of days that the listing will be active. For fixed-price listings, this value must be set to GTC, but auction listings support different listing durations.

The GTC (Good 'Til Cancelled) listings are automatically renewed each calendar month until the seller decides to end the listing.

Note: If the listing duration expires for an auction offer without a winning bidder, the listing then becomes available as a fixed-price offer and listing duration will be GTC.

Occurrence: Conditional

This container sets listing policies that will be used to construct the listing. Listing policies include business policies, custom listing policies, and fields that override shipping costs, enable eBay Plus eligibility, or enable the Best Offer feature. This container is not initially required when creating an offer but will become required before the offer can be published. Busines policies (payment, return, fulfillment policies) will always be required before publishing an offer. Other policies, including the seller created compliance policies and seller created take-back policy, will be required as needed by the marketplace, category, or product.

It is required that the seller be opted into Business Policies before being able to create live eBay listings through the Inventory API. Sellers can opt-in to Business Policies through My eBay or by using the Account API's optInToProgram call. Payment, return, and fulfillment listing policies may be created/managed in My eBay or by using the listing policy calls of the sell Account API. The sell Account API can also be used to create and manage custom policies. For more information, see the sell Account API.

Occurrence: Conditional

This container is used if the seller would like to support the Best Offer feature on their listing. To enable the Best Offer feature, the seller will have to set the bestOfferEnabled field to true, and the seller also has the option of setting 'auto-accept' and 'auto-decline' price thresholds.

Note: Best Offer is unavailable for multi-variation listings.
This container is only returned if Best Offer is enabled on listing.

Occurrence: Optional

This is the price at which Best Offers are automatically accepted. If a buyer submits a Best Offer that is equal to or above this value, the offer is automatically accepted on behalf of the seller. This field is only applicable if the bestOfferEnabled value is set to true.

The price set here must be lower than the current 'Buy it Now' price. This field is only returned by getOffer and getOffers if set.

Occurrence: Optional

A three-digit string value representing the type of currency being used. Both the value and currency fields are required/always returned when expressing prices.

See the CurrencyCodeEnum type for the full list of currencies and their corresponding three-digit string values.

Occurrence: Conditional

A string representation of a dollar value expressed in the currency specified in the currency field. Both the value and currency fields are required/always returned when expressing prices.

Occurrence: Conditional

This is the price at which Best Offers are automatically declined. If a buyer submits a Best Offer that is equal to or below this value, the offer is automatically declined on behalf of the seller. This field is only applicable if the bestOfferEnabled value is set to true.

The price set here must be lower than the current 'Buy it Now' price and the price set in the autoAcceptPrice field (if used). This field is only returned by getOffer and getOffers if set.

Occurrence: Optional

A three-digit string value representing the type of currency being used. Both the value and currency fields are required/always returned when expressing prices.

See the CurrencyCodeEnum type for the full list of currencies and their corresponding three-digit string values.

Occurrence: Conditional

A string representation of a dollar value expressed in the currency specified in the currency field. Both the value and currency fields are required/always returned when expressing prices.

Occurrence: Conditional

This field indicates whether or not the Best Offer feature is enabled for the listing. A seller can enable the Best Offer feature for a listing as long as the category supports the Best Offer feature.

The seller includes this field and sets its value to true to enable Best Offer feature.

Note: Best Offer is not available for multi-variation listings.

Occurrence: Optional

This field is included in an offer and set to true if a Top-Rated seller is opted in to the eBay Plus program. With the eBay Plus program, qualified sellers must commit to next-day delivery of the item, and the buyers must have an eBay Plus subscription to be eligible to receive the benefits of this program, which are free, next-day delivery, as well as free returns.

Note: Currently, this program is only available on the Germany and Australian sites.
This field will be returned in the getOffer and getOffers methods if set for the offer.

Occurrence: Optional

This unique identifier indicates the fulfillment business policy that will be used once an offer is published and converted to an eBay listing. This fulfillment business policy will set all fulfillment-related settings for the eBay listing.

Business policies are not immediately required for offers, but are required before an offer can be published. The seller should review the fulfillment business policy before assigning it to the offer to make sure it is compatible with the inventory item and the offer settings. The seller may also want to review the shipping service costs in the fulfillment policy, and that seller might decide to override the shipping costs for one or more shipping service options by using the shippingCostOverrides container.

Business policies can be created and managed in My eBay or with the Account API. To get a list of all return policies associated with a seller's account on a specific eBay Marketplace, use the Account API's getFulfillmentPolicies method. There are also calls in the Account API to retrieve a fulfillment policy by policy ID or policy name.

This field will be returned in the getOffer and getOffers methods if set for the offer.

Occurrence: Conditional

This unique identifier indicates the payment business policy that will be used once an offer is published and converted to an eBay listing. This payment business policy will set all payment-related settings for the eBay listing.

Business policies are not immediately required for offers, but are required before an offer can be published. The seller should review the payment business policy to make sure that it is compatible with the marketplace and listing category before assigning it to the offer.

Business policies can be created and managed in My eBay or with the Account API. To get a list of all payment policies associated with a seller's account on a specific eBay Marketplace, use the Account API's getPaymentPolicies method. There are also calls in the Account API to retrieve a payment policy by policy ID or policy name.

This field will be returned in the getOffer and getOffers methods if set for the offer.

Occurrence: Conditional

This field contains the array of unique identifiers indicating the seller-created global product compliance policies that will be used once an offer is published and converted to a listing.

Product compliance policies provide buyers with important information and disclosures about products. For example, if you sell batteries and specific disclosures are required to be shared with all potential buyers, your global product compliance policy could contain the required disclosures.

A maximum of six (6) global product compliance policies may apply to each offer.Note: For countries that support country-specific policies, use regionalProductCompliancePolicies to apply them to an offer.

Occurrence: Optional

A comma-delimited list of unique identifiers indicating the seller-created country-specific product compliance policies that that will be used once an offer is published and converted to a listing.

Product compliance policies provide buyers with important information and disclosures about products. For example, if you sell batteries in a country requiring disclosures that apply only to that country, a country-specific product compliance policy could contain this information.

Each offer may include up to six (6) product compliance policies for each of the following countries:

• United Kingdom [GB]
• Germany [DE]
• France [FR]
• Italy [IT]
• Spain [ES]

Occurrence: Optional

The array of country-specific product compliance policies to be used by an offer when it is published and converted to a listing.

Occurrence: Conditional

The two-letter ISO 3166-1 country code identifying the country to which the policy or policies specified in the corresponding policyIds array will apply.

Occurrence: Conditional

An array of custom policy identifiers that apply to the country specified by listingPolicies.regionalTakeBackPolicies.countryPolicies.country.

Product compliance and take-back policy information may be returned using the following methods:

• getCustomPolicies
  
  Set policy_types to:
  • PRODUCT_COMPLIANCE for product compliance policies
  • TAKE_BACK for takeback policies
  
  This returns the list of specified policies and corresponding customPolicyId values a seller has created.
• getCustomPolicy with custom_policy_id = customPolicyId
  
  Returns the details of the the policy specified by customPolicyId

Occurrence: Conditional

The list of unique identifiers indicating the seller-created country-specific take-back policies that will be used once an offer is published and converted to a listing. The law in some countries may require sellers to take back a used product when the buyer buys a new product.

Each offer may include one (1) country-specific take-back policy for each of the following countries:

• United Kingdom [GB]
• Germany [DE]
• France [FR]
• Italy [IT]
• Spain [ES]

Occurrence: Optional

The array of country-specific take-back policies to be used by an offer when it is published and converted to a listing.

Occurrence: Conditional

The two-letter ISO 3166-1 country code identifying the country to which the policy or policies specified in the corresponding policyIds array will apply.

Occurrence: Conditional

An array of custom policy identifiers that apply to the country specified by listingPolicies.regionalTakeBackPolicies.countryPolicies.country.

Product compliance and take-back policy information may be returned using the following methods:

• getCustomPolicies
  
  Set policy_types to:
  • PRODUCT_COMPLIANCE for product compliance policies
  • TAKE_BACK for takeback policies
  
  This returns the list of specified policies and corresponding customPolicyId values a seller has created.
• getCustomPolicy with custom_policy_id = customPolicyId
  
  Returns the details of the the policy specified by customPolicyId

Occurrence: Conditional

This unique identifier indicates the return business policy that will be used once an offer is published and converted to an eBay listing. This return business policy will set all return policy settings for the eBay listing.

Note: As a part of Digital Services Act (DSA) requirements, as of April 3, 2023, buyers in the EU must be allowed to return an item within 14 days or more, unless the item is exempt. Where applicable, sellers should update their return policies to reflect this requirement of accepting returns from EU buyers.
Business policies are not immediately required for offers, but are required before an offer can be published. The seller should review the return business policy before assigning it to the offer to make sure it is compatible with the inventory item and the offer settings.

Business policies can be created and managed in My eBay or with the Account API. To get a list of all return policies associated with a seller's account on a specific eBay Marketplace, use the Account API's getReturnPolicies call. There are also calls in the Account API to retrieve a return policy by policy ID or policy name.

This field will be returned in the getOffer and getOffers methods if set for the offer.

Occurrence: Conditional

This container is used if the seller wishes to override the shipping costs or surcharge for one or more domestic or international shipping service options defined in the fulfillment listing policy. To override the costs of a specific domestic or international shipping service option, the seller must know the priority/order of that shipping service in the fulfillment listing policy. The name of a shipping service option can be found in the shippingOptions.shippingServices.shippingServiceCode field of the fulfillment policy, and the priority/order of that shipping service option is found in the shippingOptions.shippingServices.sortOrderId field. Both of these values can be retrieved by searching for that fulfillment policy with the getFulfillmentPolicies or getFulfillmentPolicyByName calls of the Account API. The shippingCostOverrides.priority value should match the shippingOptions.shippingServices.sortOrderId in order to override the shipping costs for that shipping service option. The seller must also ensure that the shippingServiceType value is set to DOMESTIC to override a domestic shipping service option, or to INTERNATIONAL to override an international shipping service option.

A separate ShippingCostOverrides node is needed for each shipping service option whose costs are being overridden. All defined fields of the shippingCostOverrides container should be included, even if the shipping costs and surcharge values are not changing.

The shippingCostOverrides container is returned in the getOffer and getOffers calls if one or more shipping cost overrides are being applied to the fulfillment policy.

Occurrence: Optional

The dollar value passed into this field will override the additional shipping cost that is currently set for the applicable shipping service option. The "Additional shipping cost" is the cost to ship each additional identical product to the buyer using the corresponding shipping service. The shipping service option in the fulfillment policy to override is controlled by the shippingServiceType and priority values.

If using an updateOffer call, and this field is defined for the offer being updated, this field must be supplied again, even if its value is not changing.

This field is returned in the getOffer and getOffers calls if defined.

Occurrence: Conditional

A three-digit string value representing the type of currency being used. Both the value and currency fields are required/always returned when expressing prices.

See the CurrencyCodeEnum type for the full list of currencies and their corresponding three-digit string values.

Occurrence: Conditional

A string representation of a dollar value expressed in the currency specified in the currency field. Both the value and currency fields are required/always returned when expressing prices.

Occurrence: Conditional

The integer value input into this field, along with the shippingServiceType value, sets which domestic or international shipping service option in the fulfillment policy will be modified with updated shipping costs. Specifically, the shippingCostOverrides.shippingServiceType value in a createOffer or updateOffer call must match the shippingOptions.optionType value in a fulfillment listing policy, and the shippingCostOverrides.priority value in a createOffer or updateOffer call must match the shippingOptions.shippingServices.sortOrderId value in a fulfillment listing policy.

This field is always required when overriding the shipping costs of a shipping service option, and will be always be returned for each shipping service option whose costs are being overridden.

Occurrence: Conditional

The dollar value passed into this field will override the shipping cost that is currently set for the applicable shipping service option. This value will be the cost to ship one item to the buyer using the corresponding shipping service. The shipping service option in the fulfillment policy to override is controlled by the shippingServiceType and priority values.

If using an updateOffer call, and this field is defined for the offer being updated, this field must be supplied again, even if its value is not changing.

This field is returned in the getOffer and getOffers calls if defined.

Occurrence: Conditional

A three-digit string value representing the type of currency being used. Both the value and currency fields are required/always returned when expressing prices.

See the CurrencyCodeEnum type for the full list of currencies and their corresponding three-digit string values.

Occurrence: Conditional

A string representation of a dollar value expressed in the currency specified in the currency field. Both the value and currency fields are required/always returned when expressing prices.

Occurrence: Conditional

This enumerated value indicates whether the shipping service specified in the priority field is a domestic or an international shipping service option. To override the shipping costs for a specific domestic shipping service in the fulfillment listing policy, this field should be set to DOMESTIC, and to override the shipping costs for each international shipping service, this field should be set to INTERNATIONAL. This value, along with priority value, sets which domestic or international shipping service option in the fulfillment policy that will be modified with updated shipping costs. Specifically, the shippingCostOverrides.shippingServiceType value in a createOffer or updateOffer call must match the shippingOptions.optionType value in a fulfillment listing policy, and the shippingCostOverrides.priority value in a createOffer or updateOffer call must match the shippingOptions.shippingServices.sortOrderId value in a fulfillment listing policy.

This field is always required when overriding the shipping costs of a shipping service option, and will be always be returned for each shipping service option whose costs are being overridden.

Occurrence: Conditional

Note: DO NOT USE THIS FIELD. Shipping surcharges for shipping service options can no longer be set with fulfillment business policies. To set a shipping surcharge for a shipping service option, only the Shipping rate tables tool in My eBay can be used.

The dollar value passed into this field will override the shipping surcharge that is currently set for the applicable shipping service option. The shipping service option in the fulfillment policy to override is controlled by the shippingServiceType and priority values.

If using an updateOffer call, and this field is defined for the offer being updated, this field must be supplied again, even if its value is not changing.

This field is returned in the getOffer and getOffers calls if defined.

Occurrence: Conditional

A three-digit string value representing the type of currency being used. Both the value and currency fields are required/always returned when expressing prices.

See the CurrencyCodeEnum type for the full list of currencies and their corresponding three-digit string values.

Occurrence: Conditional

A string representation of a dollar value expressed in the currency specified in the currency field. Both the value and currency fields are required/always returned when expressing prices.

Occurrence: Conditional

This unique identifier indicates the seller-created global take-back policy that will be used once an offer is published and converted to a listing.

One (1) global take-back policy may be specified per offer.
Note: For countries that support country-specific policies, use regionalTakeBackPolicies to apply them to an offer.

Occurrence: Optional

This field can be used if the seller wants to specify a time in the future that the listing will become active on eBay. The timestamp supplied in this field should be in UTC format, and it should be far enough in the future so that the seller will have enough time to publish the listing with the publishOffer method.

For example: 2023-05-30T19:08:00Z.

This field is optional. If this field is not provided, the listing starts immediately after a successful publishOffer method.

Occurrence: Optional

This field is only applicable if the listing is a lot listing. A lot listing is a listing that has multiple quantity of the same item, such as four identical tires being sold as a single offer, or it can be a mixed lot of similar items, such as used clothing items or an assortment of baseball cards. Whether the lot listing involved identical items or a mixed lot, the integer value passed into this field is the total number of items in the lot. Lots can be used for auction and fixed-price listings.

Occurrence: Conditional

This enumeration value is the unique identifier of the eBay site for which the offer will be made available. See MarketplaceEnum for the list of supported enumeration values. This field is required.

Occurrence: Required

The unique identifier of a merchant's inventory location (where the inventory item in the offer is located).

To get more information about inventory locations, the getInventoryLocations method can be used.

Note: This field is not initially required upon first creating an offer, but will become required before an offer can be published.

Occurrence: Conditional

This container shows the listing price for the product offer, and if applicable, the settings for the Minimum Advertised Price and Strikethrough Pricing features. The Minimum Advertised Price feature is only available on the US site. Strikethrough Pricing is available on the US, eBay Motors, UK, Germany, Canada (English and French), France, Italy, and Spain sites.

This container is not initially required upon first creating an offer, but the price of the offer will become required before an offer can be published.

Occurrence: Conditional

This field indicates the lowest price at which the seller is willing to sell an item through an auction listing. Note that setting a Reserve Price will incur a listing fee of $5 or 7.5% of the Reserve Price, whichever is greater. The minimum fee is $5.

Important: This fee is charged regardless of whether or not the item is sold.

Occurrence: Optional

A three-digit string value representing the type of currency being used. Both the value and currency fields are required/always returned when expressing prices.

See the CurrencyCodeEnum type for the full list of currencies and their corresponding three-digit string values.

Occurrence: Conditional

A string representation of a dollar value expressed in the currency specified in the currency field. Both the value and currency fields are required/always returned when expressing prices.

Occurrence: Conditional

This field indicates the minimum bidding price for the auction. The bidding starts at this price.

Note: If the auctionReservePrice is also specified, the value of auctionStartPrice must be lower than the value of auctionReservePrice.

Occurrence: Optional

A three-digit string value representing the type of currency being used. Both the value and currency fields are required/always returned when expressing prices.

See the CurrencyCodeEnum type for the full list of currencies and their corresponding three-digit string values.

Occurrence: Conditional

A string representation of a dollar value expressed in the currency specified in the currency field. Both the value and currency fields are required/always returned when expressing prices.

Occurrence: Conditional

This container is needed if the Minimum Advertised Price (MAP) feature will be used in the offer. Minimum Advertised Price (MAP) is an agreement between suppliers (or manufacturers (OEM)) and the retailers (sellers) stipulating the lowest price an item is allowed to be advertised at. Sellers can only offer prices below this price through the use of other discounts. The MAP feature is only available to eligible US sellers. This field will be ignored if the seller and or the listing is not eligible for the MAP feature.

This container will be returned by getOffer and getOffers if set for the offer.

Occurrence: Conditional

A three-digit string value representing the type of currency being used. Both the value and currency fields are required/always returned when expressing prices.

See the CurrencyCodeEnum type for the full list of currencies and their corresponding three-digit string values.

Occurrence: Conditional

A string representation of a dollar value expressed in the currency specified in the currency field. Both the value and currency fields are required/always returned when expressing prices.

Occurrence: Conditional

This field is needed if the Strikethrough Pricing (STP) feature will be used in the offer. This field indicates that the product was sold for the price in the originalRetailPrice field on an eBay site, or sold for that price by a third-party retailer. When using the createOffer or updateOffer calls, the seller will pass in a value of ON_EBAY to indicate that the product was sold for the originalRetailPrice on an eBay site, or the seller will pass in a value of OFF_EBAY to indicate that the product was sold for the originalRetailPrice through a third-party retailer. This field and the originalRetailPrice field are only applicable if the seller and listing are eligible to use the Strikethrough Pricing feature, a feature which is limited to the US (core site and Motors), UK, Germany, Canada (English and French versions), France, Italy, and Spain sites.

This field will be returned by getOffer and getOffers if set for the offer.

Occurrence: Conditional

This container is needed if the Strikethrough Pricing (STP) feature will be used in the offer. The dollar value passed into this field indicates the original retail price set by the manufacturer (OEM). eBay does not maintain or validate the value supplied here by the seller. The dollar value in this field should always be more than the dollar value in the price container. This field and the originallySoldForRetailPriceOn field are only applicable if the seller and listing are eligible to use the Strikethrough Pricing feature, a feature which is limited to the US (core site and Motors), UK, Germany, Canada (English and French versions), France, Italy, and Spain sites. Compare the originalRetailPrice and the dollar value in the price field to determine the amount of savings to the buyer. This Original Retail Price will have a strikethrough line through for a marketing affect.

This container will be returned by getOffer and getOffers if set for the offer.

Occurrence: Conditional

A three-digit string value representing the type of currency being used. Both the value and currency fields are required/always returned when expressing prices.

See the CurrencyCodeEnum type for the full list of currencies and their corresponding three-digit string values.

Occurrence: Conditional

A string representation of a dollar value expressed in the currency specified in the currency field. Both the value and currency fields are required/always returned when expressing prices.

Occurrence: Conditional

This is the listing price of the product. A listing price must be specified before publishing an offer, but it is possible to create an offer without a price.

For published offers, this container will always be returned, but for unpublished offers, this container will only be returned if set for the offer.

Occurrence: Conditional

A three-digit string value representing the type of currency being used. Both the value and currency fields are required/always returned when expressing prices.

See the CurrencyCodeEnum type for the full list of currencies and their corresponding three-digit string values.

Occurrence: Conditional

A string representation of a dollar value expressed in the currency specified in the currency field. Both the value and currency fields are required/always returned when expressing prices.

Occurrence: Conditional

This field is needed if the Minimum Advertised Price (MAP) feature will be used in the offer. This field is only applicable if an eligible US seller is using the Minimum Advertised Price (MAP) feature and a minimumAdvertisedPrice has been specified. The value set in this field will determine whether the MAP price is shown to a prospective buyer prior to checkout through a pop-up window accessed from the View Item page, or if the MAP price is not shown until the checkout flow after the buyer has already committed to buying the item. To show the MAP price prior to checkout, the seller will set this value to PRE_CHECKOUT. To show the MAP price after the buyer already commits to buy the item, the seller will set this value to DURING_CHECKOUT. This field will be ignored if the seller and/or the listing is not eligible for the MAP feature.

This field will be returned by getOffer and getOffers if set for the offer.

Occurrence: Conditional

This field is only applicable and set if the seller wishes to set a restriction on the purchase quantity per seller. If this field is set by the seller for the offer, then each distinct buyer may purchase up to, but not exceed the quantity specified for this field. So, if this field's value is 5, each buyer may purchase between one to five of these products, and the purchases can occur in one multiple-quantity purchase, or over multiple transactions. If a buyer attempts to purchase one or more of these products, and the cumulative quantity will take the buyer beyond the quantity limit, that buyer will be blocked from that purchase.

Occurrence: Optional

This container is used by the seller to provide regulatory information.

Occurrence: Optional

This container provides a collection of regulatory documents associated with the listing.

For information on removing one or more files from a listing using the updateOffer method, see Remove documents from listings. .

Note: As a part of General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR) requirements effective on December 13th, 2024, sellers operating in, or shipping to, EU-based countries or Northern Ireland are conditionally required to provide regulatory document information in their eBay listings. For more information on GPSR, see General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR).

Occurrence: Optional

The unique identifier of a regulatory document associated with the listing.

This value can be found in the response of the createDocument method of the Media API.

Occurrence: Conditional

This container provides information about the energy efficiency for certain durable goods.

Note: Sellers in the EU and UK can use this container to provide European energy efficiency (EEK) information for listings in the Tyres and Appliance categories. If no EEK information is specified through this container, it will be retrieved through a third party vendor. For more information, see Energy efficiency information.
Note: Energy efficiency information is not required for all categories. Use the getRegulatoryPolicies method of the Metadata API to return metadata on the eBay categories that recommend or require energy efficiency-related fields.

Occurrence: Optional

A brief verbal summary of the information included on the Energy Efficiency Label for an item.

For example, On a scale of A to G the rating is E.

Occurrence: Conditional

The URL to the Energy Efficiency Label image that is applicable to an item.

Occurrence: Conditional

The URL to the Product Information Sheet that provides complete manufacturer-provided efficiency information about an item.

Occurrence: Conditional

This container is used by the seller to provide hazardous material information for the listing.

The statements element is required to complete the Hazmat section of a listing.

The following elements are optional:

• pictograms
• signalWord
• component

Occurrence: Optional

This field is used by the seller to provide component information for the listing. For example, component information can provide the specific material of Hazmat concern.

Max length: 120

Occurrence: Optional

An array of comma-separated string values listing applicable pictogram code(s) for Hazard Pictogram(s).

If your product contains hazardous substances or mixtures, please select the values corresponding to the hazard pictograms that are stated on your product's Safety Data Sheet. The selected hazard information will be displayed on your listing.

Note: Use the getHazardousMaterialsLabels method in the Metadata API to find supported values for a specific marketplace/site. Refer to Pictogram sample values for additional information.

Occurrence: Optional

This field sets the signal word for hazardous materials in the listing.

If your product contains hazardous substances or mixtures, please select a value corresponding to the signal word that is stated on your product's Safety Data Sheet. The selected hazard information will be displayed on your listing.

Note: Use the getHazardousMaterialsLabels method in the Metadata API to find supported values for a specific marketplace/site. Refer to Signal word information for additional information.

Occurrence: Optional

An array of comma-separated string values specifying applicable statement code(s) for hazard statement(s) for the listing.

If your product contains hazardous substances or mixtures, please select the values corresponding to the hazard statements that are stated on your product's Safety Data Sheet. The selected hazard information will be displayed on your listing.

Note: Use the getHazardousMaterialsLabels method in the Metadata API to find supported values for a specific marketplace/site. Refer to Hazard statement sample values for additional information.
This field is required if hazardous material information is provided for the listing.

Occurrence: Conditional

This container provides information about the manufacturer of the item.

Note: As a part of General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR) requirements effective on December 13th, 2024, sellers operating in, or shipping to, EU-based countries or Northern Ireland are conditionally required to provide regulatory manufacturer information in their eBay listings. Manufacturer information is not required for all categories. Use the getRegulatoryPolicies method of the Metadata API to return metadata on the eBay categories that recommend or require manufacturer-related fields. For more information on GPSR, see General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR).

Occurrence: Optional

The first line of the product manufacturer's street address.

Max length: 180 characters

Occurrence: Conditional

The second line of the product manufacturer's street address. This field is not always used, but can be used for secondary address information such as 'Suite Number' or 'Apt Number'.

Max length: 180 characters

Occurrence: Optional

The city of the product manufacturer's street address.

Max length: 64 characters

Occurrence: Conditional

The company name of the the product manufacturer.

Max length: 100 characters

Occurrence: Conditional

This defines the list of valid country codes, adapted from http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes, ISO 3166-1 country code. List elements take the following form to identify a two-letter code with a short name in English, a three-digit code, and a three-letter code: For example, the entry for Japan includes Japan, 392, JPN. Short codes provide uniform recognition, avoiding language-dependent country names. The number code is helpful where Latin script may be problematic. Not all listed codes are universally recognized as countries, for example: code AQ is Antarctica, 010, ATA

Occurrence: Conditional

The product manufacturer's business email address.

Max length: 180 characters

Occurrence: Conditional

The product manufacturer's business phone number.

Max length: 64 characters

Occurrence: Conditional

The postal code of the product manufacturer's street address.

Max length: 9 characters

Occurrence: Conditional

The state or province of the product manufacturer's street address.

Max length: 64 characters

Occurrence: Conditional

This container is used to provide product safety information for the listing. One of the following elements is required to complete the Product Safety section for a listing: pictograms or statements. The component element is optional.

Note: As a part of General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR) requirements effective on December 13th, 2024, sellers operating in, or shipping to, EU-based countries or Northern Ireland are conditionally required to provide regulatory product safety information in their eBay listings. Product safety information is not required for all categories. Use the getRegulatoryPolicies method of the Metadata API to return metadata on the eBay categories that recommend or require product safety-related fields. For more information on GPSR, see General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR).

Occurrence: Optional

This field is used by the seller to provide product safety component information for the listing. For example, component information can include specific warnings related to product safety, such as 'Tipping hazard'.

Note: Component information can only be specified if used with the pictograms and/or statements field; if the component is provided without one or both of these fields, an error will occur.
Max length: 120 characters

Occurrence: Optional

An array of comma-separated string values used to provide product safety pictogram(s) for the listing.

If your product shows universal product safety or compliance symbols, please select the values corresponding to the product safety pictograms for display in the product safety section of the listing. The seller specifies the identifier of each pictogram in this field.

Note: For product safety pictograms, use the getProductSafetyLabels method of the Metadata API to find supported values for a specific marketplace/site.
A maximum of 2 pictograms are allowed for product safety.

Occurrence: Conditional

An array of comma-separated string values used to provide product safety statement(s) for the listing.

If your product shows universal product safety or compliance warnings, please select the values corresponding to the product safety statements for display in the product safety section of the listing. The seller specifies the identifier of each statement in this field.

Note: For product safety statements, use the getProductSafetyLabels method of the Metadata API to find supported values for a specific marketplace/site.
A maximum of 8 statements are allowed for product safety.

Occurrence: Conditional

This field represents the repair index for the listing.

The repair index identifies the manufacturer's repair score for a product (i.e., how easy is it to repair the product.) This field is a floating point value between 0.0 (i.e., difficult to repair,) and 10.0 (i.e., easily repaired.)

Note: 0 should not be used as a default value, as it implies the product is not repairable.
The format for repairScore is limited to one decimal place. For example:

• 7.9 and 0.0 are both valid scores
• 5.645 and 2.10 are both invalid scores

Occurrence: Optional

This container provides information about the EU-based Responsible Persons or entities associated with the listing.

A maximum of 5 EU Responsible Persons are supported.

Note: As a part of General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR) requirements effective on December 13th, 2024, sellers operating in, or shipping to, EU-based countries or Northern Ireland are conditionally required to provide regulatory Responsible Persons information in their eBay listings. For more information on GPSR, see General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR).

Occurrence: Optional

The first line of the Responsible Person's street address.

Max length: 180 characters

Occurrence: Conditional

The second line of the Responsible Person's address. This field is not always used, but can be used for secondary address information such as 'Suite Number' or 'Apt Number'.

Max length: 180 characters

Occurrence: Optional

The city of the Responsible Person's street address.

Max length: 64 characters

Occurrence: Conditional

The name of the the Responsible Person or entity.

Max length: 100 characters

Occurrence: Conditional

This defines the list of valid country codes, adapted from http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes, ISO 3166-1 country code. List elements take the following form to identify a two-letter code with a short name in English, a three-digit code, and a three-letter code: For example, the entry for Japan includes Japan, 392, JPN. Short codes provide uniform recognition, avoiding language-dependent country names. The number code is helpful where Latin script may be problematic. Not all listed codes are universally recognized as countries, for example: code AQ is Antarctica, 010, ATA

Occurrence: Conditional

The Responsible Person's email address.

Max length: 180 characters

Occurrence: Conditional

The Responsible Person's business phone number.

Max length: 64 characters

Occurrence: Conditional

The postal code of the Responsible Person's street address.

Max length: 9 characters

Occurrence: Conditional

The state of province of the Responsible Person's street address.

Max length: 64 characters

Occurrence: Conditional

The type(s) associated with the Responsible Person or entity.

Note: Currently, the only supported value is EUResponsiblePerson.

Occurrence: Conditional

The unique identifier for a secondary category. This field is applicable if the seller decides to list the item under two categories. Sellers can use the getCategorySuggestions method of the Taxonomy API to retrieve suggested category ID values. A fee may be charged when adding a secondary category to a listing.

Note: You cannot list US eBay Motors vehicles in two categories. However, you can list Parts & Accessories in two categories.

Note: When listing in categoryID 173651 (Auto Performance Tuning Devices & Software), use of catalog products is required. For more information, see Tuning devices and software.

Occurrence: Optional

The seller-defined SKU value of the product that will be listed on the eBay site (specified in the marketplaceId field). Only one offer (in unpublished or published state) may exist for each sku/marketplaceId/format combination. This field is required.

Use the getInventoryItems method to retrieve SKU values.

Max Length: 50

Occurrence: Required

This container is used if the seller would like to place the inventory item into one or two eBay store categories that the seller has set up for their eBay store. The string value(s) passed in to this container will be the full path(s) to the eBay store categories, as shown below:

"storeCategoryNames": [
 "/Fashion/Men/Shirts", 
 "/Fashion/Men/Accessories" ], 

Occurrence: Optional

This container is applicable and used only if a sales-tax table, a Value-Added Tax (VAT) rate, or a tax exception category code will be applied to the offer. Only Business Sellers can apply VAT to their listings. It is possible that the applyTax field will be included with a value of true, but a buyer's purchase will not involve sales tax.

A sales-tax rate must be set up in the seller's sales-tax table for the buyer's state/tax jurisdiction in order for that buyer to be subject to sales tax. Sales-tax rates for different jurisdictions can be added/modified in the Payment Preferences section of My eBay, or the seller can use the sales tax calls of the Account API.

Note: Sales-tax tables are available only for the US and Canada marketplaces.
Refer to Taxes and import charges for more information on setting up and using a sales tax table.

Occurrence: Optional

When set to true, the seller's account-level sales-tax table will be used to calculate sales tax for an order.

Note: Sales-tax tables are available only for the US and Canada marketplaces.

Occurrence: Conditional

The tax exception category code. If this field is used, sales tax will also apply to a service/fee, and not just the item price. This is to be used only by sellers who have opted into sales tax being calculated by a sales tax calculation vendor. If you are interested in becoming a tax calculation vendor partner with eBay, contact developer-relations@ebay.com. One supported value for this field is WASTE_RECYCLING_FEE. If this field is used, the applyTax field must also be used and set to true

This field will be returned by getOffer and getOffers if set for the offer.

Occurrence: Optional

This value is the Value Add Tax (VAT) rate for the item, if any. When a VAT percentage is specified, the item's VAT information appears on the listing's View Item page. In addition, the seller can choose to print an invoice that includes the item's net price, VAT percent, VAT amount, and total price. Since VAT rates vary depending on the item and on the user's country of residence, a seller is responsible for entering the correct VAT rate; it is not calculated by eBay.

To use VAT, a seller must be a business seller with a VAT-ID registered with eBay, and must be listing the item on a VAT-enabled site. Max applicable length is 6 characters, including the decimal (e.g., 12.345). The scale is 3 decimal places. (If you pass in 12.3456, eBay may round up the value to 12.346).

This field will be returned by getOffer and getOffers if set for the offer.

Occurrence: Optional