注:下文所有链接及API名称待新平台上线后进行替换
Overall view of product management
This document is an overall view of the scenarios related with product management, which the developers will probably needs to integrate with, inculding product posting/editing, price/stock updating, products online/offline, products query. Please read carefully about this document to choose the best scenario which matches your scenario. The end of the document listed the FAQs for the Product management.
To successfully post a product, please first make sure below prerequisites are ready.
1. Obtain Aliexpress categories and do the category mapping.
2. Sellers need toapply for necessary brand permissions.
3. Set up shipping templates (also called freight templates)
6. (If needed) Set up size chart templates
For product posting, currently we have the following three solutions. Please based on your specific scenarios to choose.
1. Product Schema Post. (Snchronously)
2. Feed solution.(Asynchronously)
3. Normal product posting. (Synchronously)
For editing an existed product in Aliexpress, we also have the following three solutions.
1. Product Schema Full edit. (Synchronously)
2. Partial edit.(Synchronously)
Note: Currently the group of the product does not support editing through the solutions above.
Please refer to https://developers.aliexpress.com/en/doc.htm?docId=30184&docType=2 to separately set the product group.
For updating only the price of a product, we have the following two solutions.
1. Feed solution. (Batch,asynchronously). Please, migrate the the 2nd API, this one will be deprecated in the near future
2.Batch Product Price Update(Synchrounously). Recommended
For updating only the stock of a product, we have the following two solutions.
1. Feed Solution. (Batch, asynchronously). Please, migrate the the 2nd API, this one will be deprecated in the near future
2. Batch Product Inventory Update(Batch, synchrounously). Recommended
Batch online products. (Batch,synchrounously)
Batch offline products. (Batch,synchrounously)