Is Large Merchant Services the only way to upload tracking numbers into eBay?

Hi,

I have successfully managed to download orders from eBay using the API using PHP, but now I am trying to upload tracking numbers to eBay using the API. Initially I thought uploading order updates such as tracking numbers and downloading orders would follow very similar procedure, but as it turns out I have Large Merchant Services (LMS) to upload tracking numbers.

I found this link which contains PHP samples to LMS: https://ebaydts.com/eBayKBDetails?KBid=1472

Is LMS the only way to upload tracking numbers into eBay? From the search I have been doing it seems that LMS is the only way.

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customfitautoaccess commented · Feb 25, 2012 at 05:27 AM

It took me two days to get Amazon API to upload tracking numbers and download orders. With eBay API it has been two weeks struggle and counting, I am still no where in trying to upload tracking numbers.

May be, just may be eBay needs to look on how Amazon does its web services. Look and learn.

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customfitautoaccess commented · Feb 25, 2012 at 02:28 PM

I am using the LMS sample I found here https://ebaydts.com/eBayKBDetails?KBid=1472 to upload tracking numbers for an order and I am using the sandbox to test it. The request is as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<BulkDataExchangeRequests>
<Header>
<Version>591</Version>
<SiteID>0</SiteID>
</Header>
<SetShipmentTrackingInfoRequest xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents">
<OrderID>110096496858-26896837001</OrderID>
<OrderLineItemID>110096496858-26896837001</OrderLineItemID>
<Shipment>
<ShipmentTrackingNumber>1Z 999 999 99 9999 999 9</ShipmentTrackingNumber>
<ShippedTime>2012-25-25T12:00:00.000Z</ShippedTime>
<ShippingCarrierUsed>UPS</ShippingCarrierUsed>
</Shipment>
</SetShipmentTrackingInfoRequest>
</BulkDataExchangeRequests>

But eBay response always returns the following error: There is failure during file upload and post-upload checking (Error ID 16). Any idea what am I doing wrong?

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