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Published: --Updated: December 04 2024, 1:55:21 AM

Question

When listing/revising an item, I am not selecting GalleryType as Plus but the item is still getting listed/revised with the Gallery Plus feature. What can be the reason for this?


Answer

Some of the categories of an eBay marketplace supports free and automatic upgrades for Gallery Plus, which enhances pictures in search results. You can execute the GetCategoryFeatures call with FeatureID as FreeGalleryPlusEnabled to know if a eBay category supports the free Gallery Plus feature for the marketplace.

For example: CategoryID 2518 supports the free Gallery Plus feature for the Australia (SiteID 15) marketplace.


Sample Request Body: 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<GetCategoryFeaturesRequest xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents">
  <RequesterCredentials>
    <eBayAuthToken></eBayAuthToken>
  </RequesterCredentials>
    <ErrorLanguage>en_US</ErrorLanguage>
    <WarningLevel>High</WarningLevel>
  <CategoryID>2518</CategoryID>
  <FeatureID>FreeGalleryPlusEnabled</FeatureID>
  <DetailLevel>ReturnAll</DetailLevel>
</GetCategoryFeaturesRequest>


Response Body: 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<GetCategoryFeaturesResponse 
  xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents">
  <Timestamp>2024-05-09T22:43:22.430Z</Timestamp>
  <Ack>Success</Ack>
  <Version>1347</Version>
  <Build>E1347_CORE_APICATALOG_19146446_R1</Build>
  <CategoryVersion>3446</CategoryVersion>
  <UpdateTime>2024-05-07T05:26:37.000Z</UpdateTime>
  <Category>
    <CategoryID>2518</CategoryID>
    <FreeGalleryPlusEnabled>true</FreeGalleryPlusEnabled>
  </Category>
  <SiteDefaults>
    <FreeGalleryPlusEnabled>false</FreeGalleryPlusEnabled>
  </SiteDefaults>
  <FeatureDefinitions>
    <FreeGalleryPlusEnabled/>
  </FeatureDefinitions>
</GetCategoryFeaturesResponse>


Also, when any item gets listed/revised with the free Gallery Plus feature, GalleryPlusFee will return as 0 in the response. 

    <Fee>
     <Name>GalleryPlusFee</Name>
     <Fee currencyID="AUD">0.0</Fee>
    </Fee>


Additional Resources

https://developer.ebay.com/devzone/xml/docs/reference/ebay/additem.html#Request.Item.PictureDetails.GalleryType 

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