Q: What is API?
Application Programming Interface (API) is a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software and applications.
Q: Why do I need to connect to Lazada API?
When you have a professional seller account (i.e., Seller Center) you can use API to sell products and manage your online business on Lazada.
Lazada Open Platform enables you to link your internal systems or third party applications via APIs to your Lazada store. You might use APIs to manage a variety of functions such as importing products, or migrating orders into your accounting or EPR system, etc.
Q: What is Lazada Open Platform?
Lazada Open Platform is an integrated open platform, which provides end-to-end API generation and provision services for our sellers like yourself, to build apps or connect your existing apps to Lazada. This means if you have development capabilities or use third party APPs, you can better manage your business by connecting them directly to your Lazada store via APIs.
Q: Why is Lazada introducing the open platform?
- To enables developers (ISVs and sellers) to develop and manage several types of applications for Lazada sellers, such as ERP system, omni-channel system, marketing APPs, accounting software, cataloguing tools, image enhancement tools, order management system, and warehouse management system.
- Solid security framework like user authorization and hosting environment is deployed to protect business data.
Q: What are my benefits to move to Lazada Open Platform?
- Rich API endpoints for all the areas of e-commerce, including product, order, user, marketing, and payment management. Besides, more APIs will be open to meet the business requirements.
- Higher concurrency and success rate of API calls, ensuring your application performance.
- The dashboard provides view of successful and failed API calls initiated by your applications, helping your monitor the performance of your applications.
- A migration guide is provided to ensure the smooth migration of your applications.
Q: I want more information. How can I get it?
- Please direct any further questions to the Partner Support Center, or through the Lazada Open Platform Contact Us menu.
- You can also get more support through the community. For details, see Community.
Working with Lazada Open Platform
Q: How to become a developer on Lazada Open Platform.
- On the home page of Lazada Open Platform, click the Create Account button, and then follow the registration process to verify your email ID and sign up the developer agreement to become a developer on the platform.
- After logging in Lazada Open Platform, complete your profile information and upload related documents in the User ID -> Profile menu.
- For detailed instructions, see Become a developer.
Q: How to register my application?
- Firstly, apply for the APP category of your application. You will need to provide business justification and related documents (such as description of functions and features of your APP, design documentation, data flow diagrams, etc) to get the approval because the category defines the API groups that your application can access.
- After the category is approved, register your application by providing some basic information, like APP name, APP logo, and the callback URL.
- Download the official SDK for your application and start the development.
- For detailed instructions, see Register an application.
Q: How does it take to approve my APP category request?
It usually takes 1-2 working days. Please do provide detailed description of your application when submitting the APP category request.
Q: Which programming languages does Lazada Open Platform support?
Lazada Open Platform provides official SDK packages for Java, C#, and PHP. Ruby and Python will also be supported (by the end of March, 2018). For details about the SDK packages, see Call API with official SDK.
API protocol changes
Q: What are the technical changes to the APIs?
The API protocol is changed to RESTful API. For technical details, see Reconfigure Existing APP.
Q: Where can I find the full list of API changes?
Refer to the following topics in the documentation:
Summary of changes
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