eBay opening up Merchant Tool to third party developers

E-Commerce giant eBay has announced that they are now going to open their merchant tools to third party developers!

The company hopes to lure developers to write applications for their online marketplace.

eBay said in a statement: “We’re taking our open platform to the next level”.

The company would feature these third party applications within Selling Manager which is used by 700,000 of its merchants.

They are however yet not sure whether the developers of these tools would be charged for promotion of their services on the network.

Max Mancini, eBay’s senior director of mobile platform and disruptive innovation said: “One of the biggest requests from developers is how we can help them to promote and distribute their applications to sellers.”

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