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Introduction

(Web) shops selling physical products to their customers place great value in fulfilling their client commitments. Important aspect is understanding the currently available stock. On this basis, the (web) shop is able to provide their customers with the correct delivery indication.

This operation allows the (web) shop to request the physically available stock of one or multiple products.  

Requirements:

• This operation concerns physically available stock ready to be delivered within 24 or 48 hours, products that do not meet this criteria show a stock of 0 (zero). 
• No account is taken of buyer restrictions such as delivery agreements, credit checks etc.
• Product ownership is irrelevant in this operation. The only relevance is the physically available stock.
• The QuantityAvailable24hrs availability is valid only during requests on workdays before the cut-off time.
• Requests on workdays after the cut-off time and requests on non-workdays have to use the QuantityAvailable48hrs availability.

This operation only supports REST.

Authentication for this webservice

This operation does not need authentication. The UserName is only used for logging.

Operation getStockAvailability

Request

POST https://testservices.cb.nl/rest/api/v1/PhysicalProductStockService/getStockAvailability HTTP/1.1
UserName: _SNIP_
Content-Type: application/json
  
{
    "Product": [
    {"ProductId": "9780582275225","ProductIdType": "EAN"},
    {"ProductId": "9783259011928","ProductIdType": "EAN"}
    ]
}

Reply

{
  "StockAvailability": [
    {
      "ProductId": "9780582275225",
      "ProductIdType": "EAN",
      "QuantityAvailable24hrs": "54",
      "QuantityAvailable48hrs": "1554"
    },
    {
      "ProductId": "9783259011928",
      "ProductIdType": "EAN",
      "QuantityAvailable24hrs": "11",
      "QuantityAvailable48hrs": "11"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "Message": {
    "MessageType": "E",
    "MessageCode": "WMS-00011",
    "MessageText": "Invalid value for productIdType."
  }
}

Specific messages (type/code/text) for this webservice

Volume limits and performance requirements

Availability

* The general availability of the service equals an average of 99.95% in prime time (08:00 - 01:00) in the standard time zone: UTC GMT +1. 

Outside this window, the web service availability may be lower, but never less than 95%. Planned maintenance by CB will be executed outside prime time and will be announced at least five working days in advance.

Exception: CB can start planned maintenance four times a year at 23:00 hours.

Performance

The average service response time is no less than 2 seconds in prime time (08:00 -01:00). Inside this window, 99.95% of the requests will be dealt with. Outside prime time, 99% of the requests will be dealt with within 6 seconds.