Hopefully this will be Great News....

[hotandvintage]

A lot of big sellers require APIs as they use a program to monitor everything, which generally includes their own site, and they can set it to add and remove stock, depending how many sales they have on any venue.
A lot of them send out automatic orders to suppliers when stocks are running low, so to have to monitor one site that is not part of the system would be just too much trouble.

I think ebid are reluctant to release it until they can make sure the API they create is safe and secure, as if they did it wrong then it could potentially allow the wrong people access to parts of the database that they should never be allowed access to.

So for me in this case I just hope they do it right rather than fast

Plus they have a lot of other jobs that they may consider as more important.

Does anyone know how many programmers ebid have? Just wondering when people are talking about lists of changes.

[bykimbo]

I agree with all of those

I thought Bykimbo was going to do a Gazza wishlist poll !
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She is, but real life keeps getting in the way!

[HerMajesty]

API stands for Application Programming Interface.

What it means is that it allows other programs to interact with your program.

Thanks, Julie........it's nice to learn something new.....well expained, too! (There is such a great amount of smart and helpful people on eBid !!!)

[darklisruthven]

oh excellent! I like ebid, I look foward to improvements!

[FBNeNotes]

Could we see....
1- A Bid Column when scrolling along the eBid road

2- Views only see-able by the seller of the item, not by lookers.

Those two are my main wants.

Sadly... they were not added

[Juliebabe25]

Yes I'd love to see their To Do List to see what they are thinking of doing.

I know that when it comes to software somethings are easy to do, others are harder, and some are just plain impossible unless you rewrite the whole thing.

[madelaine]

Allowing sellers to use two different paypal accounts is on the to do list, or so we were promised on the thread on that subject.

[MADMAX666]

Any news on adding an API anyone.