The table below lists the API capabilities that are, or will soon be, deprecated.
| API | Method(s) | Deprecation Date | Decommission Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Large Merchant Services | All methods are migrated to the LMS Feeds API | 2021/04/01 | 2022/04/30 | Large Merchant Services (LMS) functionality as a SOAP service is deprecated and will be decommissioned by the end of April 2022. It is fully migrated into the REST-based Sell Feed API. The Sell Feed API supports the same XML data files that LMS supported but through REST methods. For more information, see the LMS Migration Guide. |
| Business Policies Management API | All | 2021/03/23 | 2022/01/31 | The Business Policies Management API is deprecated and will be decommissioned on January 31, 2022. We recommend that you migrate to the fulfillment_policy, payment_policy, and return_policy resources of the Account API to set up and manage all of your fulfillment, payment, and return business policies. |
| Finding API | findCompletedItems | 2020/10/15 | TBD | The findCompletedItems call is deprecated as of October 15, 2020, and access is restricted. An alternative to the findCompletedItems call is the Marketplace Insights API, but please note that this API is restricted and requires eBay Business approval for access. Please contact the Developer Technical Support team if you are interested in getting access to the Marketplace Insights API. |
| Trading API | GetCategorySpecifics | 2020/08/01 | 2022/01/31 | eBay recommends that large sellers and developers migrate to the Taxonomy API RESTful methods. Refer to the Taxonomy API Migration Guide for more information. |
| Trading API | ReviseInventoryStatus * | 2020/08/01 | 2022/04/30 | eBay has found that the values returned for the Quantity and StartPrice response fields in the InventoryStatusType are not reliably accurate and recommends that the response for these fields be ignored. These response fields will no longer be returned after April 30, 2022.The Quantity and StartPrice request fields can still be used, and sellers can leverage the GetItem Trading API call to verify that the requested quantity and/or price updates were successful. |
* Only a partial deprecation; please read Notes column.