Negotiation API

Name: Negotiation API API
Brand: eBay Negotiation API
Availability: InStock

✓ Official Vendor SpecE CommerceOrder Managementoauth22 EndpointsREST

For Agents

Find eBay listings eligible for Send Offer to Interested Buyers and send discounted offers to those interested buyers in bulk.

Quickstart

Get started with Negotiation API in minutes using your preferred integration method.

# Add to your MCP client config (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf)
{
  "jentic": {
    "url": "https://api.jentic.com/mcp",
    "auth": "oauth"
  }
}

# Then ask your agent:
"send ebay offer to interested buyers"

# → Jentic returns the GET /events tool with parameter schema, agent executes.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with Negotiation API API.

Identify listings eligible for Send Offer to Interested Buyers based on buyer engagement signals

Send a discounted offer to all buyers who watched or expressed interest in a specific listing

Apply percentage-based or fixed-amount discounts in a single batch offer

Trigger time-limited offers that expire automatically if buyers do not accept

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Use for: Find all of my eBay listings that are eligible for a Send Offer promotion, Send a 10 percent discount offer to interested buyers for a specific listing, Check whether a listing has any interested buyers I can send an offer to, List listings that have at least 5 watchers and qualify for SOIB

Not supported: Does not handle storewide promotions, coupons, or Promoted Listings campaigns — use for eBay Send Offer to Interested Buyers (SOIB) flows only.

The eBay Negotiation API lets sellers proactively send discounted offers to buyers who have shown interest in their listings, such as adding an item to a watchlist. With two endpoints it identifies eligible items and sends a Send Offer to Interested Buyers (SOIB) discount on those listings. Sellers use it to recover stalled watch-list interest and convert it into completed sales without negotiating one-on-one.

Use Cases

Patterns agents use Negotiation API API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Win Back Stalled Watch-List Buyers

Buyers add items to their watchlist but often do not check out without a nudge. The Negotiation API lets sellers use findEligibleItems to identify which listings have interested buyers and sendOfferToInterestedBuyers to deliver a discounted offer to them. Conversion typically improves on listings with multiple watchers because the offer arrives in the buyer's eBay messages with a one-click accept flow.

Call GET /find_eligible_items, pick listings with at least 3 watchers, and POST /send_offer_to_interested_buyers with a 10 percent discount on each.

Programmatic Slow-Inventory Clearance

Sellers with seasonal or aging stock can run a scheduled job that scans for SOIB-eligible listings each week and sends graduated discounts to interested buyers. Rather than relying on listing edits or storewide markdowns, this approach targets the buyers most likely to convert and preserves margin elsewhere. Each offer is tied to a listing and limited to its current pool of interested buyers.

Schedule a weekly job that calls findEligibleItems, filters listings older than 30 days, and sends a 15 percent SOIB offer to interested buyers.

Targeted Discount Campaigns Without Storewide Markdowns

When sellers want to discount a small group of listings without affecting their broader pricing strategy, the Negotiation API delivers offers only to buyers already engaged with those specific listings. It is narrower than a storewide promotion and does not require a coupon code. This is useful for high-value items where a public discount would erode the perceived value.

Send a fixed-amount $25-off offer to interested buyers on a single high-value listing through POST /send_offer_to_interested_buyers.

AI Agent Conversion Recovery

An AI agent integrated with a seller's commerce stack can use Jentic to discover and call the Negotiation API on a recurring basis, automatically scanning for SOIB-eligible listings and sending offers based on buyer engagement signals. The agent can also coordinate with the seller's analytics to choose discount levels that protect margin.

Through Jentic, search 'send ebay offer to interested buyers', load the operation schema, and execute it for a list of eligible listingIds with a chosen discount.

Key Endpoints

2 endpoints — the ebay negotiation api lets sellers proactively send discounted offers to buyers who have shown interest in their listings, such as adding an item to a watchlist.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/find_eligible_items

List the seller's listings eligible for SOIB

POST

/send_offer_to_interested_buyers

Send a discounted offer to interested buyers for chosen listings

GET

/find_eligible_items

List the seller's listings eligible for SOIB

POST

/send_offer_to_interested_buyers

Send a discounted offer to interested buyers for chosen listings

Why though Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

OAuth 2.0 client credentials and refresh tokens for the sell.negotiation scope are stored encrypted in the Jentic vault. Agents receive short-lived scoped access tokens at call time and never see the raw client secret.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search 'send ebay offer to interested buyers' or 'find ebay eligible listings' and Jentic returns the matching find_eligible_items and send_offer_to_interested_buyers operations with input schemas, so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing eBay developer docs.

Time to first call

Direct eBay Negotiation integration takes 1-3 days for OAuth, bulk-listing payload handling, and offer-status reconciliation. Through Jentic the search-load-execute path is under an hour once the seller account is connected.

Related APIs

Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.

Complementary

eBay Marketing API

Storewide promotions, coupons, and Promoted Listings while Negotiation targets specific watchers

Use Marketing for broad campaigns and Negotiation for narrowly targeted discounts to interested buyers.

Complementary

eBay Fulfillment API

Order management for completed sales triggered by accepted SOIB offers

Use Fulfillment to read and ship orders that result from buyers accepting SOIB offers.

Complementary

eBay Account API

Configures seller policies that govern eligible listings

Use Account to confirm seller payment, return, and fulfillment policies before sending offers.

FAQs

Specific to using Negotiation API API through Jentic.

What authentication does the eBay Negotiation API use?

The eBay Negotiation API uses OAuth 2.0 (the api_auth scheme) with seller-scoped tokens. Through Jentic, the OAuth client credentials are kept encrypted in the Jentic vault and the agent only receives short-lived scoped access tokens for each call.

Can I send discounted offers to interested buyers with the eBay Negotiation API?

Yes. POST /send_offer_to_interested_buyers accepts a listingId list, a discount percentage or amount, and an optional expiry. eBay then notifies eligible interested buyers with a one-click accept flow.

How do I find listings eligible for the Send Offer feature?

Call GET /find_eligible_items. It returns the seller's listings that qualify for SOIB, including the count of interested buyers per listing so you can prioritise which ones to send offers on.

What are the rate limits for the eBay Negotiation API?

The Negotiation API shares the eBay Sell API call quota tied to the seller's Application Growth Check tier rather than per-endpoint limits in the spec. Bulk-listing payloads on send_offer_to_interested_buyers reduce call volume at scale.

How do I send an SOIB offer through Jentic?

Search 'send ebay offer to interested buyers' in Jentic, load the POST /send_offer_to_interested_buyers schema, pass the listingIds and discount, and Jentic executes the call against api.ebay.com on the seller's behalf.