eBay rolled out a number of changes during the third quarter (July, August, September 2025), and it recently summarized the changes for third-party developers that offer tools and services for buyers and sellers. For example, this summer, eBay mandated sellers Read more
eBay developers may not use its content or its data to train Artificial Intelligence (AI), nor may developers ingest eBay data into gen-AI models or tools. On June 24th, eBay updated its API license agreement where it added the new Read more
A popular tool used by eBay sellers for marketplace research is being forced to close its app and pivot to a new offering called ShelfTrend AI, which it’s calling “an innovative, AI-powered approach to ecommerce intelligence.” In an email to Read more
eBay is making changes to its loyalty program for third-party developers, such as Seller Sourcebook Development LLC, a company that offers inventory-management and image-hosting services to sellers on eBay and other marketplaces. The eBay Developers Loyalty Program is designed for Read more
eBay moved the discussion board for third-party developers who develop tools for eBay buyers and sellers (and for sellers who use eBay developer tools directly). The new board is “exclusively for collaborating with your fellow developers using APIs,” eBay explained Read more
eBay announced in March that sellers could add video to their listings on a restricted basis and promised to expand the availability throughout 2021. On Thursday, it rolled out the functionality to Canada in a similarly limited basis. As in Read more
eBay launched a new tool for developers so they can display eBay listings across the web. The eBay Items widget is open-source and lets developers choose from several layout options to display eBay inventory in third-party shopping experiences. eBay said Read more
eBay reached a major milestone this month, surpassing $1 billion in cumulative “Gross Merchandise Bought” (GMB) through its Buy APIs over the past 3 years. The head of eBay’s developer program Gail Frederick touted the statistic in a post on Read more
In an unusual occurrence, Amazon’s search engine went haywire on Wednesday, and according to CNBC, it was followed by outages impacting the back-end system for tracking sellers’ orders and sales. Some recent shipping news struck a nerve with sellers who Read more
eBay kicked off this year’s developers conference with news of new APIs and AI capabilities for companies that make tools and apps for eBay buyers and sellers. Image Search, Machine Translation and Marketplace Feeds are all now available for developers Read more
