eBay sellers can set up 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 ith information about your Shop 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 is an XML file, in the eBay Shop listing export XML format. It 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

• Postage cost (if you specified it in the P&P field)

• Gallery picture (if included)

• Quantity

• Price currency

Within 12 hours, eBay will create the file and post it to a URL based on your Shop's URL.

For example, if your Shop's name is "Fine Jewellery," the file will be posted to: http://esssl.ebay.com/GetListings/finejewellery

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. 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 co-ordinating how the file will be used with 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 recreated), 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 Shop 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.

This is an XML file, and it is in the eBay Shop listing export XML format.

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

Note: Use of the information you permit eBay to make available to any third party will be in accordance with such third party's terms and conditions. eBay is not responsible for how information contained 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 you may owe to third parties.