AddItem

Create and publish a new Item Listing on an eBay site.

Stored Procedure Specific Information

Upon the successful creation of an Item Listing, an Item Id is returned in the response along with the estimated fees for listing the Item. After adding an item, you can use the ItemListing table to update, delete, and query.

The inputs required to add any item are the following: Title, Description, CategoryId, StartPrice, ConditionId, Country, Currency, DispatchTimeMax, ListingDuration, ListingType, PaymentMethod, PayPalEmailAddress, Quantity, Location, and ReturnsAcceptedOption.

You also need to specify several inputs required to select a shipping type: Flat or Calculated. Both shipping types require a ShippingService to be specified.

Add an Item

You can follow the procedure below to obtain the required values and add an item through SQL:

Use the Categories view to select a top-level category; for example, Books. You can use the following query:
```
SELECT * FROM Categories
```
Use the Categories view to select a leaf category; for example, Fiction & Literature. A leaf category Id is required to add an item. You can use a query like the following:
```
SELECT * FROM Categories WHERE CategoryParentId = '267'
```
Use the ShippingServices view to select a Shipping Service. The value of the ValidForSellingFlow column must be true; otherwise, that particular shipping service option is no longer valid and cannot be offered to buyers through a listing.

Selecting Flat Shipping

The following inputs are required for the Flat shipping type: ShippingType, ShippingService, ShippingServicePriority, and ShippingServiceCost.

Selecting CalculatedShipping

The Calculated shipping type requires additional information related to package stats. The following inputs are required for this shipping type: ShippingType, WeightMajor, WeightMinor, OriginatingPostalCode, ShippingService, and ShippingServicePriority.

Note: This procedure makes use of indexed parameters. Indexed parameters facilitate providing multiple instances a single parameter as inputs for the procedure.

Suppose there is an input parameter named Param#. To input multiple instances of an indexed parameter like this, execute:

EXEC ProcedureName Param#1 = "value1", Param#2 = "value2", Param#3 = "value3"

In the table below, indexed parameters are denoted with a '#' character at the end of their names.

Input

Name	Type	Required	Description
Title	String	False	Name of the item as it appears in the listing or search results.
Description	String	False	The description of the item by the seller. In listing requests, you can use CDATA tags to submit your description if you want to use HTML or XML-reserved characters in the description.
CategoryId	String	False	Category Id for the first (or only) category in which the item is listed (or will be listed, if the item is new).
StartPrice	String	False	The original price of the item at listing or relisting time. If this value changes when the item is revised, the new value becomes the original price.
ConditionId	String	False	An identifier for the condition of the item. For example, 1000 for New or 3000 for Used.
Country	String	False	Defines the 2-letter ISO 3166 country code.
Currency	String	False	Currency associated with the price information of the item. 3-letter ISO 4217 currency code.
DispatchTimeMax	String	False	Specifies the maximum number of business days the seller commits to for preparing an item to be shipped after receiving a cleared payment. This time does not include the shipping time (the transit time of the carrier). Including this field fulfills 'Handling time' being required for input.
ListingDuration	String	False	Describes the number of days the seller wants the listing to be active (available for bidding/buying).
ListingType	String	False	The format of the listing the seller wants to use, such as Chinese auction or fixed price.
Location	String	False	Indicates the geographical location of the item (along with Country). When you revise a listing, you can add or change this value only if the listing has no bids (or no items have sold), and it does not end within 12 hours.
ReturnsAcceptedOption	String	False	Indicates whether the seller allows the buyer to return the item. One of the following values: ReturnsAccepted or ReturnsNotAccepted. If you specify ReturnsNotAccepted, the View Item page will indicate that returns are not accepted instead.
SubTitle	String	False	Subtitle to use in addition to the title.
Quantity	String	False	The Quantity value for auction listings must always be 1. For a fixed-price listing, the Quantity value indicates the number of identical items the seller has available for sale in the listing.
Sku	String	False	A SKU (Stock Keeping Unit) value is a seller-defined identifier for a product.
UUID	String	False	Universally unique constraint tag. Use UUID to ensure that you only list a particular item once, particularly if you are listing many items at once.
ScheduleTime	String	False	Allows the user to specify the time that the listing becomes active on eBay.
PaymentMethod	String	False	Identifies the payment method (such as PayPal) that the seller will accept when the buyer pays for the item. Use the CategoryFeatures view to find the available payment methods for a category.
PayPalEmailAddress	String	False	The PayPal email address of the seller.
LiveAuction	String	False	This field must be included and set to true if the listing will be a part of a Live Auction. This boolean field is returned as true in the ItemList table if the listing is part of a Live Auction. See the eBay Live Auctions home page for more information about Live Auctions on eBay.com.
LotSize	String	False	A lot is a set of two or more similar items included in a single listing that must be purchased together in a single order line item. The LotSize value is the number of items in the lot. This field is required if two or more items are including in one listing.
PostalCode	String	False	Postal code of the place where the item is located. This value is used for proximity searches.
TaxCategory	String	False	Tax exception category code.
UseTaxTable	String	False	Indicates whether the tax table of the seller is to be used when applying and calculating sales tax for an order line item.
VIN	String	False	This field displays the Vehicle Identification Number, which is a unique serial number for a motor vehicle.
VRM	String	False	Vehicle Registration Mark, which is a unique identifier for a motor vehicle in the UK.
CategoryMappingAllowed	String	False	Controls how eBay handles cases in which the category no longer exists in the current category structure: If true, eBay will use the new Id for the listing; if false, an error is returned.
UseRecommendedProduct	String	False	If true, and the item details in the request match a product in the eBay catalog, the matching product is used to list the item.
ShippingType	String	False	The shipping cost model offered by the seller.
ShippingService	String	False	A shipping service option being offered by the seller to ship an item to a buyer. For a list of valid ShippingService values, query the ShippingServices view; the ShippingService returned must have a value of true in the ValidForSellingFlow column.
ShippingServicePriority	String	False	This integer value controls the order (relative to other shipping services) in which the corresponding ShippingService will appear in the View Item and Checkout page. Sellers can specify up to four domestic shipping services.
ShippingServiceCost	String	False	The base cost of shipping the item by using the shipping service specified in the ShippingService field, if one was specified. This column includes the packaging and handling cost for flat and calculated shipping. If this is for calculated shipping for a listing that has not yet ended, note that the cost cannot be determined until the listing has ended and the buyer has specified a postal code. This value reflects savings from a promotional shipping service option. Also applicable to Half.com.
ShippingServiceAdditionalCost	String	False	The cost of shipping each additional item if the same buyer purchases multiple quantities of the same line item. If less than ShippingServiceCost, this column gives the buyer a shipping discount. This field is required when creating a multiple-quantity fixed-price listing. This field is not applicable for single-quantity listings.
FreeShipping	String	False	Specifies that the seller wants to offer free shipping. This applies only to the first specified domestic shipping service and is ignored if set for any other shipping service.
ShippingPackage	String	False	The nature of the package used to ship the item(s). Required for calculated shipping only.
ShippingIrregular	String	False	Whether a package is irregular and therefore cannot go through the stamping machine at the shipping service office and thus requires special or fragile handling.
MeasurementUnit	String	False	Specifies the unit type of the weight and dimensions of a shipping package. If MeasurementUnit is used, it overrides the system specified by measurementSystem. If MeasurementUnit and measurementSystem are not specified, the following defaults will be used: English: US Metric: CA, CAFR, AU.
MeasurementSystem	String	False	System of Measurement for PackageDepth, PackageLength, PackageWidth, WeightMajor, and WeightMinor (English or Metric).
PackageDepth	String	False	Depth of the package needed to ship the item.
PackageDepthUnit	String	False	Unit of measurement for PackageDepth (e.g., in, cm).
PackageLength	String	False	Length of the package needed to ship the item.
PackageLengthUnit	String	False	Unit of measurement for PackageLength (e.g., in, cm).
PackageWidth	String	False	Width of the package needed to ship the item.
PackageWidthUnit	String	False	Unit of measurement for PackageWidth (e.g., in, cm).
WeightMajor	String	False	The major unit used to specify the weight of a shipping package. For example, lbs.
WeightMajorUnit	String	False	Unit of measurement for WeightMajor.
WeightMinor	String	False	The minor unit used to specify the weight of a shipping package. For example, oz.
WeightMinorUnit	String	False	Unit of measurement for WeightMinor.
BestOfferEnabled	String	False	This field indicates whether or not the Best Offer feature is enabled for this item.
ShipToRegistrationCountry	String	False	The seller includes and sets this field to true as a mechanism to block bidders who reside (according to their eBay primary shipping address) in countries that are on the ship-to exclusion list.
StoreCategoryId	String	False	Unique identifier of a primary custom category in which to list the item.
StoreCategoryName	String	False	Category name of a primary custom category in which to list the item.
StoreCategoryId2	String	False	Unique identifier for the secondary custom category in which to list the item.
StoreCategoryName2	String	False	Name of the secondary custom category in which to list the item.
DaysToFullPayment	String	False	This integer value indicates the number of days that a buyer has (after he/she commits to buy) to make full payment to the seller and close the remaining balance on a motor vehicle. Valid values are 3, 7 (default), 10, and 14.
Brand	String	False	The brand of the product. eBay searches against the names that are publicly available in its product catalogs. This means you can specify the well-known brand name that an average user would recognize. Both Brand and MPN must be specified if the BrandMPN column is used.
BrandMPN	String	False	The manufacturer part number of the product. Use the value specified by the manufacturer.
EAN	String	False	Applicable for listing use cases only (not buy-side searching). EAN is a unique 8 or 13 digit identifier that many industries (such as book publishers) use to identify products.
IncludeeBayProductDetails	String	False	This boolean field controls whether or not an eBay catalog product is used to help create or revise an item listing.
IncludeStockPhotoURL	String	False	If true, indicates that the item listing includes the stock photo.
ISBN	String	False	Applicable for listing use cases only (not buy-side searching). ISBN is a unique identifer for books (an international standard). Specify a 10 or 13 character ISBN.
ProductReferenceId	String	False	The short global reference Id for a catalog product.
UPC	String	False	Applicable for listing use cases only (not buy-side searching). UPC is a unique, 12-character identifier that many industries use to identify products.
UseStockPhotoURLAsGallery	String	False	If true, indicates that the stock photo for an item (if available) is used as the gallery thumbnail. IncludeStockPhotoURL must also be true and Item.
PaymentProfileId	String	False	The unique identifier of a Business Policies payment profile. A PaymentProfileId or PaymentProfileName can be specified.
PaymentProfileName	String	False	The name of a Business Policies payment profile. A PaymentProfileId or PaymentProfileName can be specified.
ReturnProfileId	String	False	The unique identifier of a Business Policies return policy profile. A ReturnProfileId or ReturnProfileName can be specified.
ReturnProfileName	String	False	The name of a Business Policies return policy profile. A ReturnProfileId or ReturnProfileName can be specified.
ShippingProfileId	String	False	The unique identifier of a Business Policies shipping policy profile. A ShippingProfileId or ShippingProfileName can be specified.
ShippingProfileName	String	False	The name of a Business Policies shipping policy profile. A ShippingProfileId or ShippingProfileName can be specified.
BusinessSeller	String	False	If true, this indicates that the seller is a business user and intends to use listing features that are offered to business users only.
RestrictedToBusiness	String	False	If true, this indicates that the seller elects to offer the item exclusively to business users. If false or not specified, this indicates that the seller elects to offer the item to all users.
VATPercent	String	False	VAT rate for the item, if any.
PhotoDisplay	String	False	Specifies the type of image display used in a listing. Some options are only available if images are hosted through eBay Picture Services (EPS).
PictureUrl#	String	False	Source of the picture. Use this input to add multiple pictures. PictureUrl#1, PictureUrl#2, PictureUrl#3 etc.
GalleryURL	String	False	This field is used internally only. The Gallery image is always the first PictureURL passed in and this field is set to that value.
ItemSpecificName#	String	False	Item specifics' name (for example ItemSpecificName#1 Release Title, ItemSpecificName#2 Publisher...). Combine this with ItemSpecificValue.
ItemSpecificValue#	String	False	Item specifics' value (for example ItemSpecificValue#1 Title, ItemSpecificValue#2 PublisherName...). Combine this with ItemSpecificName.
ProductCompliancePolicyId	String	False	This field is used if the seller wants to apply one or more seller-created global product compliance policies that will be used in a listing.
ProductCountryPolicy	String	False	Defines the 2-letter country code set.
ProductCountryPolicyId	String	False	The policy Id specifying product compliance policy information.
TakeBackCountryPolicy	String	False	Defines the 2-letter country code set.
TakeBackCountryPolicyId	String	False	The policy Id specifying take-back policy information.
TakeBackPolicyId	String	False	This field is used if the seller wants to apply a global take-back policy to the listing.
ConditionAdditionalInfo	String	False	This text provides additional information about a condition descriptor.
ConditionName	String	False	A numeric ID is passed in this field. This numeric ID maps to the name of a condition descriptor.
ConditionValue	String	False	A numeric ID is passed in this field. This numeric ID maps to the value associated with a condition descriptor name.

Result Set Columns

Name	Type	Description
ItemId	String	The unique identifier of the created item.
StartTime	String	Starting date and time for the new listing.
EndTime	String	Date and time when the new listing is scheduled to end based on the start time and the listing duration value that was set in the ListingDuration field at listing time.
FeesAggregate	String	An array of fees associated with the creation of the listing.
DiscountReason	String	One or more listing fee/upgrade discount types being offered by eBay to the seller. Applicable values: CustomCode, Promotion, SpecialOffer.