custom payment process in ebay to go via your ecommerce site

[AffiliateDreamer]

Greetings,

I've noticed on ebay that some sellers use a 3rd party company to manage their store, specifically during the payment process. One time I was making a purchase on ebay, I was routed to the sellers ecommerce website (not on ebay, their own url) and I was given the option to add additional items to my order before checkout.

Is there a specific name to this type of process, and is there an open API that I could tap into if I wanted to code this myself?

[gabidi]

I believe eBay offer API access , that allows purchase details retrieval and token passing and thus 3rd party checking out.

It's not free though..

More info can be found here
http://developer.ebay.com/common/api

[edited by: lorax at 3:12 pm (utc) on Jan. 26, 2007]
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[sun818]

> Is there a specific name to this type of process

I think its called upselling. ;)

Seriously, some third party services like ChannelAdvisor and Andale have this capability. I believe there are specific eBay rules about not allowing Google Checkout for transactions that contain eBay items.

[AffiliateDreamer]

Yeah it looks like most API calls are free, but 3rd party checkout is $5K/year.

See: [developer.ebay.com...]