Account API v2 Overview

The Account API v2 provides sellers with advanced methods for managing their shipping rate tables. Using these methods, sellers can:

• retrieve a shipping rate table specified by a rate table ID;
• quickly update shipping cost information for a shipping rate table specified by the rate table ID.

Technical overview

The Account API v2 provides methods in the following resource:

• rate_table

See the Business use cases section that follows for the details on how you can use these resources.

Business use cases

This section outlines the high-level use cases addressed by this API.

Manage shipping rate tables created by the seller

Sellers can create shipping rate tables that establish the shipping rates they use to ship items which can then be referenced in their fulfillment policies.

The getRateTable method returns the shipping rate table specified by the rate table ID.

The updateShippingCost method is used to quickly update shipping cost information for a shipping rate table specified by the rate table ID.

Account API v2 requirements and restrictions

The Account API v2 is currently supported by the following eBay marketplaces:

• EBAY_AU

• EBAY_CA

• EBAY_DE

• EBAY_ES

• EBAY_FR

• EBAY_GB

• EBAY_IT

• EBAY_US