ChannelEngine’s Developer Hub

Welcome to our Developer Hub, your gateway to integration excellence! Explore the APIs, tools, and resources on offer to seamlessly integrate with the ChannelEngine ecosystem.

Read our API documentation

Access OpenAPI specification

Build an integration with ChannelEngine’s APIs

OpenAPI specification

API types

ChannelEngine maintains three APIs, each catering to a different purpose.
This enables us to provide more focused and efficient services.

Merchant API

Channel API

Channel Management API

Explore our developer resources

API documentation

Explore the complete ChannelEngine API documentation, which walks you through API authentication, setting up a testing environment, available endpoints and methods, and testing scenarios.

Data flows

Get a visual understanding of how the synchronization of product content, offers, orders, shipments, and returns occurs between integrated systems.

Client libraries

Streamline the integration by generating language-specific client libraries. You can also benefit from pre-built code and functions to reduce the time spent on an otherwise manual implementation.

Before you start

Trying to figure out where to start? Lost in ecommerce terminology? Learn the key concepts that revolve around the ecommerce world and ChannelEngine.

Getting started

Get up and running quickly with our basics on authentication, webhooks, and handy tools.

API conventions

Learn the API conventions related to property naming, output formats, URL length limit, and HTTP request methods.

Best practices

Improve the quality of your integration by checking out our best practices. Learn how to navigate through paginated responses from the API, why it is essential to acknowledge orders and returns, and how to submit data updates best.

Main resources

Get familiar with the resources that you can access via the API. Learn to distinguish between different endpoints, and apply this to your own setup.

Testing flow

Test your API integration to identify and resolve any issues before going live. Implement various testing scenarios that range from creating new products and updating offers, to fetching returns.

Rate limits

Ensure you experience a high level of performance when using our platform. Learn how to monitor API response headers and find out what the rate limits are.

Benefit from prebuilt integrations

Get the support you need

Should you encounter any integration hurdles or have technical questions, our implementation specialists and dedicated support team are here to assist.

Reach out for timely technical guidance