# Lightspeed — Ecommerce API: overview

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- Status: beta
- Authentication: oauth2

- **consumer access level:** Store owner; Ecwid does not document a lower role that can authorise apps.
- **important to know:** 
- **supported resource categories:**   - **name:** Store
  - **resources:** stores
  - **resources:** products
  - **name:** Catalog
  - **name:** Sales
  - **resources:** orders
  - **resources:** customers
  - **name:** Customers
- **account type required:** An Ecwid by Lightspeed store (Lightspeed eCom E-Series).
- **environment notes:**   - **environment:** Testing and production
  - **description:** Every Ecwid store is reached through the same API host, and the Store ID decides which store a connection reads, so a test connection differs from a live one only by the store it authorises. Keep test flows on a dedicated test store rather than a live merchant's store. Apideck has no temporary shared test credentials for this connector. Questions about testing options: Apideck Support (https://help.apideck.com/en/articles/7774658).
- **external guides:**   - **title:** Ecwid API documentation
  - **source:** Ecwid
  - **url:** https://docs.ecwid.com/api-reference
  - **source:** Ecwid
  - **title:** Steps to go live with a public app
  - **url:** https://docs.ecwid.com/launch-apps/steps-to-go-live-with-a-public-app
- **sandbox url:** https://portal.ecwid.com/en-us/app-market-request
- **partnership required:** true
- **apideck credentials available:** false
- **difficulty reason:** Ecwid App Registration + Review Required
- **apideck credentials note:** Ecwid issues OAuth client credentials per registered app, so you register your own.
- **authentication note:** Authorization Code flow against the merchant's Ecwid store.
- **difficulty:** moderate
- **costs:** Only stores on a paid Ecwid plan can access the API.
- **partnership url:** https://docs.ecwid.com/develop-apps/private-and-public-ecwid-apps
- **partnership note:** Registering an app with Ecwid is what lets your integration connect to other merchants' stores; App Market listing adds a revenue-share partner contract.
- **webhooks:** No webhooks - event delivery is not wired up for this connector.
- **rate limits:** 600 requests per minute per token.
- **sandbox available:** true
- **sandbox note:** Ecwid has no API test mode: an approved app request comes with a free Premium-plan test store and a development app; more staging stores on request.
- **responsibility matrix:**   - **area:** Register an app with Ecwid and get it approved
  - **customer:** ✓
  - **customer:** ✓
  - **area:** Add the app's OAuth credentials in the Apideck Dashboard
  - **consumer:** ✓
  - **area:** Keep the store on a paid Ecwid plan
  - **consumer:** ✓
  - **area:** Provide the Store ID and authorise the app in Vault
  - **area:** Store and manage connection tokens
  - **apideck:** ✓ Automatic
  - **area:** Maintain the connector and the unified Ecommerce API
  - **apideck:** ✓
- **beta:** true

## Supported resources

- **custom field support:** false
- **status:** live
- **downstream name:** Store Profile
- **id:** stores
- **downstream id:** store-profile
- **name:** Stores
- **id:** customers
- **name:** Customers
- **downstream id:** customers
- **downstream name:** Customers
- **status:** live
- **custom field support:** false
- **id:** orders
- **status:** live
- **downstream name:** Orders
- **name:** Orders
- **downstream id:** orders
- **custom field support:** false
- **downstream id:** products
- **id:** products
- **status:** live
- **downstream name:** Products
- **custom field support:** false
- **name:** Products

An omitted operation list does not establish operation support. Verify the selected operation in the coverage matrix.

[API reference](https://developers.apideck.com/apis/ecommerce/reference.md) · [Coverage matrix](https://developers.apideck.com/apis/ecommerce/coverage)