On October 1st, the new version of the Retailer API will be released.
Next to several improvements, the new API adds a Subscription API that sends updates to a webhook, and the ability to retrieve information about Promotions.
New features:
Promotions: creates the ability to list information about bol.com campaigns and promotions that are applicable to a partner’s products.
Partners use Promotions to increase the visibility of their products. To read more about Promotions in general, click here (in Dutch)
Subscriptions: with the Subscriptions API you can subscribe to changes on orders, creating the opportunity to pro-actively inform your partners about changes in orders and removes the need of polling for changes.
Improvements:
Shipping labels:
- When retrieving delivery options, a recommendation by bol.com for the best delivery type has been added
- When retrieving delivery options, the shipping label type has been added
Shipments
- ‘transport events’ have been added for Verzenden via bol.com orders, providing more insight into shipments
Subscriptions
- Moved from BETA to General Availability in the V6
Other improvements include streamlining of multiple endpoints to consistent behavior
For more information, please visit the release notes here