eBay drops charges for developers network
14th November 2005
By CBR Staff Writer
Seeking to make its presence in third-party rebranded commerce applications more ubiquitous, eBay Inc is lifting all of its API and transaction charges for developers.
It's the latest ion a series of moves to expand the eBay developer community. Last summer, the company opened up a collaborative website, the eBay Community Codebase, to provide a hosted project developer site for anyone willing to open source their code.
Applications developed by third parties, in effect, extend the eBay brand to other channels and marketplaces. It's similar to programs already in place at Amazon, which offers web services hooks so third parties can embed the Amazon engine in their own commerce sites.
When it opened its developers program, eBay set charges because it wanted to ensure that developers used its resources efficiently, because each application developed ultimately executes on the eBay infrastructure.