eBay sellers can establish partnerships with other companies, such as product search engines, to help drive traffic to their listings. If you're a seller and you need a way to provide your partners with up-to-date information on your listings and Web addresses, eBay can create a file with information about your Store Inventory listings and make the file available for your partners to download. (Information about your Auction-style or Fixed Price listings that appear in regular eBay searches and categories will not be included.) 

The file contains the following information about each listing and in this order:

• Item title

• Item description

• The Web address of the item page

• Whether the item can be ordered

• Current price

• Availability

• Item number

• Shipping cost (if you specified it in the Shipping & Handling field)

• Gallery picture (if included)

• Quantity

• Price currency

This is an XML file, and it is in the ebay Store listing export XML format.

Within 12 hours, eBay will create the file and post it to a URL based on your Store's URL. For example, if your Store's name is "Fine Jewelry," the file will be posted to: http://esssl.ebay.com/GetListings/finejewelry .

Your Google Base-specific file will be located at:
http://esssl.ebay.com/GetListings/finejewelry?fmt=g.

The file will be available at the URL for anyone to download your file. It is then up to you to make arrangements with third-party partners to download the file from the URL. The file can be downloaded a maximum of 50 times per day.

eBay will keep the file up to date. However, eBay is not responsible for coordinating how the file will be used by a third party.

When you first have eBay create the file, it may take as many as 12 hours for the new file to become available for download. Once created (or re-created), it will remain available indefinitely, and eBay will keep it up to date. Whenever a third party goes to the URL to download the file, it will contain the latest information about your Store Inventory listings. The file can be downloaded a maximum of 50 times per day. Repeated attempts to download the file beyond this maximum number may disqualify you from using this feature.

Listings in the Mature Audiences category will not be in the file.

Note: Use of information that you allow eBay to make available to a third party will be in accordance with such third party's terms and conditions. eBay is not responsible for how the information in your file is used by the third party. Some partners may charge fees to promote your listings. If your listings are unavailable on eBay or on a third-party Web site through the use of this feature, eBay will only credit eBay fees as outlined in the eBay Outage Policy. eBay cannot reimburse any fees that you may owe to third parties.