Before there were solutions that simplified international transactions, eBay buyers were reluctant to purchase merchandise that required international shipping. Borderfree worked with the eBay Developers Program to integrate its cross-border logistics and fulfillment service with the eBay platform, and made it significantly easier for eBay sellers to ship internationally. Learn More »
Bonfire co-founders Richard Chen and Alex Poon believed that buyers and sellers should not have to be tied to their computers to use eBay. So they joined the eBay Developers Program and created Pocket Auctions for eBay®, a software application that lets users shop, search, compare prices, bid, buy, check My eBay and receive outbid alerts using a mobile phone. Learn More »
Marketworks provides software and professional services that automate and manage all of the tasks associated with online marketplace selling. In order to quickly and easily adapt their software solutions to new eBay Platform upgrades, they engaged with the eBay Developers Program. Now their interface to eBay executes efficiently and effectively, and their customers can take advantage of the consistent improvements made to the eBay Platform. Learn more about how Marketworks launches 2,000,000 items on eBay each month. Learn More »
A City Discount initially turned to the Internet to extend their sales past their local market. After attending an eBay Seller Summit, they learned more about the eBay Developers Program and the value of tapping into the eBay API. Within just a few months, they developed a software application that integrated with the eBay API and increased their eBay sales by almost 75%. Learn More »
As a growing number of eBay traders line up their auctions to begin or end when they’re not behind their computers, they’re looking for ways to track their auctions remotely. Waymobile.com’s AwayAuction addresses this challenge by downloading auction information to traders’ phones and setting alarms to remind them when auctions are ending. The downloads are faster than dial up and the user gets all of the pertinent auction information in just a couple of seconds. Learn More »
When computer liquidator Consumer Depot began selling merchandise on eBay, their sales were healthy, but they quickly found they didn’t have the manpower to keep up with all of the potential orders. They looked for a tool to automate the process, and ended up working with the eBay Developers Program to develop an ecommerce solution that posts and processes items directly through a back-end inventory and accounting system. Now their system constantly produces “unattended” auctions based on surplus inventory levels. Learn More »
SpareDollar offered auction management solutions to eBay users beginning in early 2002. Learn More »
A PC can be configured in 500 different ways by the time you're done with processors, memory modules and different add-ons," says Bjorn Espenes of Infopia. So working closely with the eBay Developers Program, Infopia created Configurator, which enables eBay buyers to use drop-down menus to select the components they want within an eBay listing. The Configurator then creates a listing in the seller's eBay store and adjusts the price, and the buyer can click a "Buy It Now" button. Learn More »
With the evolution of the Internet, automotive dealers struggled to take sales from the lot to the Web. Highline joined the eBay Developers Program and gained access to the eBay API, the eBay SDK and other technical resources that provided the basics for launching an application that enables a dealer to produce a highly professional automotive ad on eBay quickly and easily. Learn More »
As the online auction industry grows, businesses are challenged by the tasks of listing, managing and fulfilling their own auctions. Zoovy offers a solutions that automates the process of listing items and addresses many of the other issues involved with an ecommerce storefront. By working with the eBay Developers Program, Zoovy develops custom solutions for everything from auction management to sales-order processing. Learn More »
In response to eBay Stores merchants seeking advanced merchandising and design for their stores, WebAssist developed a new software extension for Macromedia Contribute 3 that converts eBay listings to a professionally designed online storefront quickly and easily. Read how WebAssist leverages eBay Web Services to deliver current information to Stores owners to help them optimize their presence on the eBay platform. Learn More »
TestMart had customers that were sitting on thousands of dollars worth of unused equipment that was not yet obsolete. TestMart wanted a solution to help their customers find buyers and to help potential buyers find equipment that best fit their requirements. TestMart joined the eBay Developers Program and leveraged the Program’s assets and support to create new listing tools and a set of enhanced buying and selling services for its customers. Read more about TestMart’s solution. Learn More »
Integrating with a new platform can be a daunting task for a mid- or large-sized company managing multiple facilities, sales channels and business processes. MainStreet Commerce is helping large companies take advantage of the eBay opportunity with a structure, technology and testing environment that enables functions like inventory management and auction automation. Learn More »
SuperPawn wanted to extend the reach of its resale storefronts and maximize sales efficiency, but it faced some business challenges like lack of brand recognition online and a high per-item transaction cost. Learn more about how the eBay Developers Program enabled SuperPawn to develop an application that streamlined their process for listing, categorizing and fulfilling merchandise using eBay, and reduced their costs significantly. Learn More »
When eBay sellers in Europe want to grow their eBay businesses, they often look for ways to alleviate the burden of manually processing orders. Krescendo developed a solution tailored for European resellers that integrates back-office databases and transactional systems with the eBay Platform. Now European sellers can automate many of the systems that were previously manual. Learn More »
