Practical guides, implementation tutorials and API updates for teams building product discovery, procurement, warehouse fulfillment and international shipping workflows with HioBuy.
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Sandbox keys (hio_test_*) return fixtures, not your assigned warehouse. Test WH-DEV with hio_live_* plus the bound WH-DEV code, and know which errors are expected along the way.
Read guide →An open-source, self-hosted parcel forwarding app on Cloudflare Workers. Run it locally, keep the HioBuy key on the server, deploy it, and see how pre-alerts, consolidation, HioBuy Pay, tracking, and webhooks map to the HioBuy Fulfillment API.
Sandbox (hio_test_*) product search returns fixture rows for contract testing—not live 1688/Taobao keyword relevance. Spot sbc_ ids, then retest on hio_live_* with channel auth.
Guides, tutorials and platform updates from the HioBuy team.
An open-source Next.js + React Three Fiber demo that follows one package from receiving to outbound. Run it, rebrand it, deploy it on Cloudflare, and map its six stages to HioBuy package tracking events.
Bind a VISA or Mastercard in the TaoWorld purchasing console, including sub-accounts, so HioBuy order pay uses that account’s current payment method. The card is not an API field.
HTTP 429 QUOTA_EXCEEDED usually means daily billable units are exhausted—often because every storefront page view hits Product APIs live. Cache first; distinguish rate limits from daily quota.
Map your B2B workflow to HioBuy Order, Package, and Shipment objects — covering assisted purchasing, inbound pre-alerts, VAS, service requests, consolidation, and international tracking.
Production product and image search return CHANNEL_NOT_AUTHORIZED until your app authorizes 1688 or Taobao in the portal. API key alone is not enough.
Open-source Cloudflare demo that receives HIOBuy fulfillment webhooks, verifies HioBuy-Signature on the raw body, deduplicates by event.id, and inspects test events in a developer dashboard.
Step-by-step Buyer Workbench guide for B2B teams to enable 1688 Alipay password-free (batch) payment—with Chinese UI labels, safety caveats, screenshots, and video.
Open-source Next.js demo that looks up normalized shipment status and tracking events via GET /v1/fulfillment/tracking — logistics, warehouse order, or client order number, key stays server-side.
Open-source Next.js demo that lists shipping channels, inspects channel configuration, and estimates international shipping costs with the HIOBuy Fulfillment API — key stays server-side.
New open-source Python example that plugs live 1688 and Taobao product tools into Anthropic's commerce-agents blueprint via HIOBuy Agent API or MCP — clone, set Live keys, run locally.
Search and detail return an opaque id. Order lines must use that id — not the numeric marketplace item_id. How 1688, Taobao, and Weidian identifiers map from catalog to procurement.
Can you buy on 1688 or Taobao yourself — or have HioBuy buy — and still use a China warehouse plus international shipping via API? Two layers of choice, three paths, and the exact order of calls.
Open-source Next.js demo that maps a prompt or photo to HIOBuy Agent API tool calls (product.search / product.search_by_image) so teams can put conversational 1688/Taobao search on their own frontend.
If you already have a site, the missing piece is live Taobao and 1688 catalog data on your own frontend — search, image search, paste a link, SKU detail — without scraping. Walk through HIOBuy’s open-source Next.js starter and the four Product API calls it actually makes.
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