Focus on expanding extensibility by exposing structured access points that supported deeper integrations, extensions, and custom marketplace behaviour. This set the groundwork for the platform’s evolution into a more API-first, headless platform.
Key foundational capabilities include:
- Early API coverage for core marketplace entities (introduced 2017–2019, expanded 2019–2020): Programmatic access to users, items, transactions, locations, and selected marketplace configurations.
- Transaction-related APIs and status endpoints (expanded 2019–2020): Improved access to transaction states, payment statuses, and related metadata to support external reporting and integrations.
- Webhook and event-based notifications (introduced 2018–2019): Initial support for event-driven notifications tied to transaction and system events.
- Custom field support across APIs (expanded 2019–2020): Ability for custom listing and service fields to be surfaced and managed through API-accessible data models.
- Frontend template extensibility (iterated 2017–2020): Template-level adjustments and configuration options that enabled use-case specific marketplace experiences without direct modification of core platform code.