Athenian eBay Connector
Overview
Product overview
Selling on eBay from WooCommerce often breaks down at the point where catalog management, marketplace requirements, and fulfillment workflows stop lining up. Product data has to be transformed for eBay, category-specific item specifics have to be supplied, seller policies have to be attached correctly, orders have to be pulled back into WooCommerce, and tracking has to be reflected on the marketplace side after shipment.
Athenian eBay WooCommerce Connector solves that by turning WooCommerce into the operational source of truth for eBay-connected commerce. It adds the authentication flow, product mapping controls, publishing pipeline, order import routines, tracking push, diagnostics, and admin tooling needed to run eBay as part of the store's day-to-day workflow instead of as a separate manual channel.
Use cases
- Marketplace listings
- eBay order sync
- Inventory synchronization
- Catalog operations
Developer
Developer starting point
This baseline documents the eBay Connector architecture. It does not claim that an eBay API request, listing mutation, inventory update, order import, or marketplace callback has been exercised.
Ecosystem integration story
WooCommerce
The connector is built as a native WooCommerce extension rather than as an external connector service. It works with WooCommerce product meta, order objects, admin screens, cron scheduling, and HPOS compatibility declarations so marketplace workflows remain inside the commerce system merchants already use.
eBay Inventory and Offer APIs
The connector uses eBay's inventory model to create and update inventory items, manage offers, and publish listings with the appropriate marketplace and seller policy context.
eBay Fulfillment APIs
On the post-purchase side, the connector uses eBay fulfillment APIs to pull marketplace orders into WooCommerce and push shipment tracking back to eBay.
Merchant operations
This connector is not just a listing bridge. It is an operations layer for marketplace-enabled WooCommerce stores, covering product readiness, listing publication, order intake, shipment updates, and diagnostics in one workflow.
Install
- Reviewed source folder: athenian-ebay-connector
- Plugin version reviewed: 0.1.0
- Local source inventory: 19 files (temporary, test, and Git metadata excluded).
- GitHub baseline: https://github.com/Athenian-Brands/athenian-ebay-connector at baseline/devdocs-0.1.0-20261006g / a80dbeca07675db14b6be60d5396fb0af981eb81.
- WordPress, WooCommerce, and eBay credentials/API access.
- External API calls, listing writes, inventory updates, order imports, and marketplace effects require separate authenticated verification.
Configuration
- Working positioning — see the linked technical reference excerpt.
- Executive summary — see the linked technical reference excerpt.
- Core marketing message — see the linked technical reference excerpt.
- The problem this connector solves — see the linked technical reference excerpt.
- What the connector does — see the linked technical reference excerpt.
- Ecosystem integration story — see the linked technical reference excerpt.
- Why this matters commercially — see the linked technical reference excerpt.
- Key differentiators — see the linked technical reference excerpt.
- Suggested messaging pillars — see the linked technical reference excerpt.
- Short-form copy options — see the linked technical reference excerpt.
- Sales narrative — see the linked technical reference excerpt.
- Best-fit use cases — see the linked technical reference excerpt.
- Positioning statement — see the linked technical reference excerpt.
- Platform-focused primary functionality copy — see the linked technical reference excerpt.
Usage
- Shortcodes detected in local PHP source: 0
- Static action/filter hooks detected in local PHP source: 40
- REST route registrations detected in local PHP source: 1
Shortcodes
- No static add_shortcode registrations were detected by the baseline scanner.
REST Endpoints
- ath-ebay-wc/v1 — includes/class-ath-ebay-wc-rest.php
Hooks
- add_meta_boxes_woocommerce_page_wc-orders — includes/class-ath-ebay-wc-orders-ui.php
- add_meta_boxes — includes/class-ath-ebay-wc-admin.php
- add_meta_boxes — includes/class-ath-ebay-wc-orders-ui.php
- admin_enqueue_scripts — includes/class-ath-ebay-wc-admin.php
- admin_enqueue_scripts — includes/class-ath-ebay-wc-orders-ui.php
- admin_enqueue_scripts — includes/class-ath-ebay-wc-product-fields.php
- admin_head-edit.php — includes/class-ath-ebay-wc-admin.php
- admin_init — includes/class-ath-ebay-wc-admin.php
- admin_menu — includes/class-ath-ebay-wc-admin.php
- admin_notices — athenian-ebay-woocommerce-connector.php
- ath_ebay_wc_log_cleanup — includes/class-ath-ebay-wc-sync.php
- before_woocommerce_init — athenian-ebay-woocommerce-connector.php
- cron_schedules — includes/class-ath-ebay-wc.php
- init — includes/class-ath-ebay-wc-meta.php
- init — includes/class-ath-ebay-wc.php
- manage_edit-product_columns — includes/class-ath-ebay-wc-admin.php
- manage_edit-shop_order_columns — includes/class-ath-ebay-wc-orders-ui.php
- manage_product_posts_custom_column — includes/class-ath-ebay-wc-admin.php
- manage_shop_order_posts_custom_column — includes/class-ath-ebay-wc-orders-ui.php
- manage_woocommerce_page_wc-orders_columns — includes/class-ath-ebay-wc-orders-ui.php
- manage_woocommerce_page_wc-orders_custom_column — includes/class-ath-ebay-wc-orders-ui.php
- plugins_loaded — athenian-ebay-woocommerce-connector.php
- plugin_action_links_ — includes/class-ath-ebay-wc.php
- pre_get_posts — includes/class-ath-ebay-wc-orders-ui.php
- restrict_manage_posts — includes/class-ath-ebay-wc-orders-ui.php
- rest_api_init — includes/class-ath-ebay-wc-rest.php
- save_post_product — includes/class-ath-ebay-wc-admin.php
- woocommerce_admin_process_product_object — includes/class-ath-ebay-wc-admin.php
- woocommerce_order_list_table_prepare_items_query_args — includes/class-ath-ebay-wc-orders-ui.php
- woocommerce_order_list_table_restrict_manage_orders — includes/class-ath-ebay-wc-orders-ui.php
- woocommerce_order_status_changed — includes/class-ath-ebay-wc-sync.php
- woocommerce_process_product_meta — includes/class-ath-ebay-wc-admin.php
- woocommerce_process_product_meta — includes/class-ath-ebay-wc-product-fields.php
- woocommerce_product_after_variable_attributes — includes/class-ath-ebay-wc-admin.php
- woocommerce_product_data_panels — includes/class-ath-ebay-wc-product-fields.php
- woocommerce_product_data_tabs — includes/class-ath-ebay-wc-product-fields.php
- woocommerce_save_product_variation — includes/class-ath-ebay-wc-admin.php
- wp_ajax_ath_ebay_wc_category_suggest — includes/class-ath-ebay-wc-product-fields.php
- wp_ajax_ath_ebay_wc_item_aspects — includes/class-ath-ebay-wc-product-fields.php
- wp_ajax_ath_ebay_wc_sync_now — includes/class-ath-ebay-wc-admin.php
Data Model
- Ecosystem integration story — described in the local technical reference.
API Reference
- Local source digest: b87ae6916e6a12722054e0f6697b2a63f8c00768c223dc6be1d4d1793711b17a
- Repository URL: https://github.com/Athenian-Brands/athenian-ebay-connector
- Repository reference: baseline/devdocs-0.1.0-20261006g
- Repository commit: a80dbeca07675db14b6be60d5396fb0af981eb81
Source files include: .gitignore, assets/admin.css, assets/admin.js, athenian-ebay-connector-icon.png, athenian-ebay-woocommerce-connector.php, athenian-ebay-woocommerce-connector.zip, docs/ath-ebay-wc-marketing-document.md, docs/athenian-platform-marketing.md, docs/athenian-platform-technical.md, includes/class-ath-ebay-wc-admin.php, includes/class-ath-ebay-wc-client.php, includes/class-ath-ebay-wc-logger.php, includes/class-ath-ebay-wc-meta.php, includes/class-ath-ebay-wc-orders-ui.php, includes/class-ath-ebay-wc-product-fields.php, includes/class-ath-ebay-wc-rest.php, includes/class-ath-ebay-wc-sync.php, includes/class-ath-ebay-wc-utils.php, includes/class-ath-ebay-wc.php
Troubleshooting
This baseline documents the eBay Connector architecture. It does not claim that an eBay API request, listing mutation, inventory update, order import, or marketplace callback has been exercised.
- Confirm the deployed plugin version, active dependencies, and current repository tree before using implementation details as a release contract.
Treat payment, carrier, vendor, shipment, inventory, account, credential, tax, AI, and external-provider behavior as integration-dependent until exercised in the target environment.
FAQ
What is this page intended to establish?
A versioned, product-linked starting point for iterative developer documentation. It combines the local implementation reference with a detected-code inventory and a committed GitHub baseline.
Is the linked repository baseline verified?
Yes. The repository URL, ref, and commit recorded on this page were verified from the clean GitHub baseline prepared for this documentation pass. That does not by itself prove fleet deployment parity.
What remains for release-grade documentation?
Reconcile the recorded source baseline with the deployed plugin version, then exercise the relevant authenticated, store, provider, payment, tax, carrier, or generated-artifact paths in the target environment.