manage a grocery or convenience store's item catalog on doordash using the marketplace for retailers (v2) item management api
domain: developer.doordash.com · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Confirm the store is onboarded under DoorDash's retail-centric integration (Convenience, Alcohol, Grocery, Retail) rather than the standard restaurant Marketplace API
Use the v2 Item Management API to add new items to the catalog with item-specific data (unique identifiers, brand, size, images)
Separately submit store-level data (availability, pricing, balance-on-hand/inventory count, in-store location) since retail items require both item-level and store-level attributes
Keep pricing and inventory near-real-time via API rather than batch upload, since DoorDash recommends API integration specifically to mirror in-store availability
Validate against DoorDash's merchant onboarding requirements for API-integrated retail stores before going live
Known gotchas
The v2 Marketplace for Retailers API and the restaurant Marketplace API are separate specifications with different schemas — a restaurant menu-sync integration cannot be reused for grocery/retail catalogs
Retail items require both item-level (brand/size/UPC) and store-level (price, stock, aisle location) data submitted through related but distinct payloads, which is easy to conflate
Balance-on-hand inventory counts must be kept current or items risk appearing orderable when actually out of stock in-store
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