VIPShop

VIPShop (唯品会, vip.com) is a Chinese e-commerce company specializing in branded flash sales and discount retail, connecting brands with consumers through time-limited special-offer events. For partners it runs VOP (VIPShop Open Platform, vop.vip.com), a developer/open platform that lets vendors, individual developers, and ISVs integrate with VIPShop's e-commerce systems — covering orders, products/commodities, inventory, warehouse and logistics, marketplace, multi-channel and new-retail services. VOP exposes a signed, service-based JSON API through the gw.vipapis.com gateway (with a sandbox.vipapis.com test environment), ships official Java, PHP, and C# SDKs, and authenticates callers with an app-key + secret credential and per-request signature.

VIPShop publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Consumer, E-commerce, Retail, and Flash Sales.

VIPShop’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, signup flow, changelog, sandbox, and 10 more developer resources.

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26.5/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 17/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.5
AccessSelf serve
1 APIs
CompanyConsumerE-commerceRetailFlash SalesOpen PlatformChinaOrdersInventoryLogistics

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 26.5/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 12.6 / 20
Commercial Clarity 2.6 / 20
Operational Transparency 2.1 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 10
Agent readiness — 17/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

VIPShop Open Platform (VOP)

Signed, service-based JSON API for vendors, developers, and ISVs to integrate with VIPShop's e-commerce systems — orders, commodities/products, inventory, warehouse & logistics,...

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Vipshop Authentication

apiKey/signature · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Vipshop Domain Security

TLSv1.2

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 5

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal
DeveloperPortal
 GettingStarted
GettingStarted
 SignUp
SignUp
 Login
Login
 Sandbox
Sandbox

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation
 APIReference
APIReference

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions
Conventions
 ErrorCatalog
ErrorCatalog
 Lifecycle
Lifecycle

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages
Packages
 SDKs
SDKs

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication
Authentication
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support
Support
 ChangeLog
ChangeLog

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website
Website

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: vipshop
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/vipshop.png
name: VIPShop
description: VIPShop (唯品会, vip.com) is a Chinese e-commerce company specializing in branded flash sales and discount retail,
  connecting brands with consumers through time-limited special-offer events. For partners it runs VOP (VIPShop Open Platform,
  vop.vip.com), a developer/open platform that lets vendors, individual developers, and ISVs integrate with VIPShop's e-commerce
  systems — covering orders, products/commodities, inventory, warehouse and logistics, marketplace, multi-channel and new-retail
  services. VOP exposes a signed, service-based JSON API through the gw.vipapis.com gateway (with a sandbox.vipapis.com test
  environment), ships official Java, PHP, and C# SDKs, and authenticates callers with an app-key + secret credential and per-request
  signature.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/vipshop/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- dcm-ventures
- hongshan
x-tier: profile
x-tier-reason: enriched-from-portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Consumer
- E-commerce
- Retail
- Flash Sales
- Open Platform
- China
- Orders
- Inventory
- Logistics
apis:
- name: VIPShop Open Platform (VOP)
  description: Signed, service-based JSON API for vendors, developers, and ISVs to integrate with VIPShop's e-commerce systems
    — orders, commodities/products, inventory, warehouse & logistics, marketplace, multi-channel, new-retail, and JITX services.
    Requests route through the gw.vipapis.com gateway by a service parameter and are authenticated with an app-key + secret
    and per-request signature.
  humanURL: https://vop.vip.com/apicenter/index
  baseURL: https://gw.vipapis.com
  tags:
  - E-commerce
  - Orders
  - Inventory
  - Logistics
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://vop.vip.com/doccenter/index
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://vop.vip.com/apicenter/index
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/vipshop-authentication.yml
  - type: Sandbox
    url: sandbox/vipshop-sandbox.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 8
  pass: local-v1
common:
- type: Website
  url: http://www.vip.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://vop.vip.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://vop.vip.com/doccenter/index
- type: APIReference
  url: https://vop.vip.com/apicenter/index
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://vop.vip.com/doccenter/viewdoc/42
- type: Support
  url: https://vop.vip.com/support/index
- type: SignUp
  url: https://vop.vip.com/member/console/index
- type: Login
  url: https://vop.vip.com/login/loginSystem
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://vop.vip.com/home#/announcement
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/vipshop-sandbox.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/vipshop-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/vipshop-packages.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/vipshop-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/vipshop-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/vipshop-error-codes.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/vipshop-lifecycle.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/vipshop-domain-security.yml