Going live with the eBay API
In July we let individual developers get started using the eBay API for free. As a result, pretty much everybody signs up for an “individual” account, even people who were working for corporations who intend to get real commercial licenses later on. That’s totally no sweat — the “free trial” aspect of the individual license is one of the reasons why we created it.
But let’s say you’re written all your code and want to launch a real application. How do you do it? Two options:
1) Retain your individual tier license: Do a self-certification and pay $100 via Paypal. Under the individual tier, you’re limited to fifty API calls per day (except for AddItem and RelistItem, which don’t incur any API fees or limits at any tier)
2) Upgrade to a commercial license, go through eBay DTS certification ($200; free for Enterprise licensees). At the Basic commercial tier you get 30,000 API calls per month for free; you can pay for additional calls on an a la carte basis.
After you do either of these two things, you’ll get production keys and your application can start working against the production site. And at that point, you are happening.
To upgrade your license, go to the “Manage My Account” link on the developers site and click on the Upgrade License link.
Pricing and benefits for all four flavors of our API license are summarized here.
Updated Thanks for Oliver Thylmann for reporting the mistyped link.
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