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Access Guide

I. Introduction to APP Label

Buyer Business

Buyer Mobile APP:the APP provides buyers with VIP shopping guide at mobile end
Buyer Website APP:Buyer Website APP: cooperating with external cooperation websites, the APP provides VIP flow inlet, shopping guide, brand recommendation, activity promotion, overseas business and other services, and provides the buyers with query and snap-up tools for VIP special offer commodities which are running on third party platforms.

Vendor

The Vendor-self-developed APP:the APP provides interconnection services of ERP System and VIP System, or VIP EPR System and Vendor System.
The Vendor-ISV APP:ISV provides the vendors with APP services.

II. Description of APP Selection

Please properly select access process according to applicable service targets and realized functions referring to the following description.

- If you are an ISV and wants to provide applications so as to serve VIP vendors, please refer to “The Vendor-Access Process of ISV APP”;

- If you are a channel partner or third party website, and wants to provide VIP buyers with shopping guide, please refer to “Access of Buyer APP”;

- If you are a VIP vendor, and wants to interconnect with VIP System perfectly, please visit vop@vipshop.com.

III. Description of Callback Address

Callback address is for receiving data relating to callback authorization from VOP, and it may be the application visit address. If the APP is under development and testing and without extranet IP or domain name, it can be configured with an address which can be visited locally (like http://192.168.1.88:8080/myapp/index.jsp) so as to complete development and testing before being revised upon approval of the domain name.

IV.. Description of Extension of Authorization Duration

The APP of production environment testing phase is ordered on line, and the authorization (i.e.Access Token) duration is set for 24 hours (24-hour extension at most), which shall be authorized again when it expires.

V. Ways to Improve APP Traffic

Default APP traffic of production environment testing phase is 5,000 times/day, which cannot be improved; after the development, issuing of approval and launch, it will automatically improve to 1,000,000 times/day. In case of insufficient traffic after the launch of APP, it is allowable to apply for flow package to improve traffic.

VI. Interface Calling Traffic Limit

In the production environment testing phase, besides the traffic limit of 5,000 times/day, traffic limit for specific API, such as com.vip.ospserver.sync.CategorySyncAPI-1.0.0. The calling must not exceed 10 times, otherwise a reminder will be present, i.e. “This ban will last for 12345 more seconds”. And a second calling will be impossible once there is an error, unless you wait for 5 seconds.