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Category aspects from the Taxonomy API — plus two things eBay demands that nothing else does.

eBay resolves your product to a leaf category and asks for that category's aspects. Then it asks for two things no feed channel does: a set of business policies and an item location. Without both, the listing is rejected outright, whatever else is right.

TypeMarketplace

Connects viaOAuth + marketplace selection

Who sells hereMerchants listing on eBay who want categories and aspects resolved live and the two eBay-only prerequisites checked before submission.

A feed channel takes your catalog as you send it. A marketplace makes you conform to its own. That difference is why this page — and Scout's work here — looks different from the feed channels. How Scout handles marketplaces →

How Scout connects

3 steps, in the app.

Scout holds only the credential the channel issues for this connection, encrypted at rest. Disconnecting the channel deletes it.

01Authorize with eBayOAuth sign-in to the eBay seller account.
02Pick the marketplaceeBay.com, eBay.co.uk, and so on — categories and aspects differ per site.
03Scout checks business policies and locationIt reads whether fulfillment, payment, and return policies exist on the account and whether an item location is set — and tells you before you try to list.

What makes eBay different

The gate every eBay listing has to pass — before category and aspects even matter.

eBay.com · account prerequisites

✓Fulfillment policy"Standard · 2-day handling"

✓Payment policy"Managed payments"

✕Return policyNone on account — create in Seller Hub

✕Item locationNo postal code set

2 prerequisites missing. Submission blocked until both exist — no category or aspect check can rescue it.

Then: category and aspects

Men's Athletic Shoes · 15709

High confidence

Because: the Taxonomy API returned a single leaf for the title; the "men" tag agrees with the gendered category.

Brand ✓
US Shoe Size ✓
Type ✓
UPC ✓
Style, Department — recommended, not required

What Scout does for eBay

Resolves each product to a leaf category through eBay's Taxonomy API, with confidence and reason, and validates the category's required aspects.

Checks for the three business policies and an item location up front, and blocks submission with a plain explanation if any is missing.

Translates listing errors into Scout's vocabulary and names the aspect or policy behind each.

What eBay requires that others don't

Business policies — fulfillment, payment, and return — created on the eBay account and assigned per listing.
An item location: the country and postal code the item ships from.
Required aspects per leaf category, from eBay's Taxonomy API for the marketplace you're listing on.

Scout's starter template for eBay pre-maps these from Shopify where a mapping exists, and its diagnostics name the field when one is missing.

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