The Bidvise API

Bidvise has a REST API for custom workflows and integrations with other systems, up to a complete auction website built on the Bidvise backbone. The documentation below covers keys, conventions and every available endpoint.

API documentation

Basics

API overview A REST API for your catalogue: auctions, sessions, lots, items and images.
Authentication API keys, how a key scopes what you can read, and what a failed request looks like.
Conventions IDs, money, pagination, expansion, errors and versioning: the rules every endpoint follows.

Core resources

Auctions & sessions The sale event and the sittings inside it: read, filter and expand.
Lots, items & images What is on offer, the object behind it, and its photographs.
Sellers Resolve a seller number to a stable seller reference.
Category references Find existing categories for catalogue import reconciliation.
Catalogue references Resolve catalogue categories, makers, delivery instructions and bid increments.
Create and update items Atomic item metadata, translations and reference assignments.