Accessing our inventory information from the Ingram-hosted Web Service is best for customers who would like to retrieve real-time inventory information, such as availability and pricing.
If you are needing to upload your pricing and availability via template to an ecommerce store, or if you would like to update stock information for a large number of titles at once, please see our FTP Inventory Access.
Web Service Inventory Benefits
- Let us hold that for you. — The Web Service eliminates the need for you to have systems capable of storing and maintaining large amounts of data. Ingram holds and maintains that data for you, and you send a request to our server when you need it.
- Good to know! You can retrieve inventory information for up to 25 items per request using this service. There is no limit to the number of inventory queries that you can send to us in a given period of time.
- Quick! Is it really available? — If you send a live stock check in your query to our Web Service, you will get up-to-the-minute stock information returned.
- Fail-safe activated! — Our live stock check is great for sending one last availability check right before your customer is ready to purchase the items in their online cart.