We’re pleased to announced that the Call for Papers for this year’s DevCon has been opened and we’d like your participation. We are looking for interesting subjects and points of view that address real world challenges and advancements in e-commerce, from both business and technical perspectives.
Share experiences you encountered in learning or building applications on the eBay or PayPal API platforms. Speak on topics of interest to developers who are involved in all the elements of e-commerce, including shipping, security, storage, checkout or marketing your solution to your customers.
By submitting your topic no later than February 26, 2010, you may be chosen to lead a conference session! Plus, selected speakers receive free registration for DevCon and one night hotel stay.
Where? When? Stay tuned -- we’ll be releasing details about dates and location soon!
Today, Dinesh Lathi posted an important announcement about the Spring 2010 Release (SR10.1). Here is the developer impact for those features. More details will follow in the documentation as each feature is released.
Topics covered in the full post are:
Lowest insertion fees ever
New buyer protection program
More updates to boost Seller Efficiency
We recommend taking advantage of the resources that Dinesh mentions in the blog post. eBay developers can also get their questions answered:
On a special technical discussion thread hosted by the eBay Developers Program.
At an upcoming technical webinar on Thursday, January 28 immediately following the general one.
We are pleased to introduce you to the newest member of our eBay Developers Program Team: JoAnn Peach!
JoAnn is our new eBay Developers Program Marketing Manager. Prior to joining eBay, JoAnn worked in marketing and communications for several startups in the Silicon Valley and in France including Six Apart, Wikimedia, Modu, Palm, Zannel and Macromedia (now Adobe). She also guest lectures on social media
at George Washington University for the marketing program. JoAnn is also an active member of Girls In Tech and She's Geeky, focusing on mentoring outreach to middle and high school girls in science and technology magnet schools in the Silicon Valley.
A San Jose native, JoAnn pursued a degree in Journalism at San Jose State University before moving to San Francisco. In 2005, she moved to Paris, France where she consulted with a technology PR agency, introducing French startups to the American media. She also studied French language and civilization at La Sorbonne Universite. During her two and a half years in Paris, JoAnn fed her travel bug by traveling to a different European country each month.
JoAnn is married (Nico) and she and her husband have a large Pitbull mastiff puppy (Milo). In her spare time, she spends as much time as she can outdoors hiking, snowboarding or camping. Indoors, she spends her time cooking and learning the recipes inherited from her husband's Italian grandmother.
Snapshots of JoAnn's days can be seen at www.twitter.com/joannpeach. Most common hashtags are #awesomesauce, #fempire and #meh.
Previously, eBay did not validate the CONTEXT-TYPE header. As of January 15, 2010, eBay's systems validate CONTENT-TYPE more strictly. This means if your CONTENT-TYPE doesn't match your call payload's format, your call may fail.
However, the CONTENT-TYPE is optional, so you can work around this issue by deleting it from your SOA headers.
If you do include the CONTENT-TYPE header, it must have the correct value (see options below):
Header: CONTENT-TYPE
(Use only one of the following): Payload Type: XML Value: text/xml
Payload Type: SOAP12 Value: application/soap+xml
Payload Type: SOAP11 Value: text/xml (in conjection with SOAPAction header you are sending
- SOAPAction value can be anything)
Shipping: Tracking Number and Carrier Used
Tracking Number and Carrier Used are now returned by GetOrders and GetOrderTransactions for both Trading and Half.com. On Half.com, you can use the GetOrders and GetOrderTransactions calls to retrieve unshipped Half.com orders, such as orders that the seller has received but has not yet processed.
New VerifyRelistItem Call
The new VerifyRelistItem request allows you to preview the response and fees for an item you want to relist, before you make the actual RelistItem call. This call requests and returns the same data as RelistItem (same inputs, same outputs, and same usage rules), but without actually listing the item to an eBay site.
Applications can use this call to test the definition of an item before actually listing it to eBay with RelistItem, reducing item listing-related errors.
VerifyOnly Field for ReviseItem
You can use the VerifyOnly boolean field with the flag set to 'true', if you want the response to include the calculated listing price change (if there is an increase in the BIN/Start price) but you do not want the values to persist in the database. See ReviseItem for more details.
Including the VerifyOnly field in ReviseItem is similar to using VerifyAddItem or VerifyRelistItem.
GetPromotionalSaleDetails Enhancement to Filter by Status
A new input field, PromotionalSaleStatus, has been added to GetPromotionalSaleDetails call to restrict the promotional sales returned to those that match the specified status only.
Updates to GetMyeBaySelling
In response to your product feedback, these enhancements have been made to GetMyeBaySelling:
Listings with variations now return Variation.StartPrice.
A new OrderStatusFilter in the request enables you to filter SoldList based on whether transactions have been marked as Paid and/or Shipped in My eBay.
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