Buyer’s Guide Transaction

The Buyer’s Guide is used to request vehicle fitment information for a given SKU Number. This Buyer’s Guide must be used in conjunction with a SKU Search Request to get valid FederatedLInk.com SKU numbers since they are not publicly available.

Experian® VIO (Vehicles in Operation) market data is only available if you have setup VIO models on FederatedLink.com.

Request JSON Example (Version 1.0)

The following is an example of the JSON string that will be posted requesting Buyer’s Guide data.

{
   "buyersguiderequest": {
      "version": "1.0",
      "transid": "f163bdef-0adb-4973-b5cb-0e94e7af8f72",
      "integrationtype": "FLK",
      "utctime": "2014-07-04 11:00:26",
      "username": "username",
      "password": "password",
      "memberno": "123",
      "sku": "123456"
   }
}

Response JSON Example (Version 1.0)

The following is an example of the JSON string to be returned.

{
   "buyersguideresponse": {
      "version": "1.0",
      "transid": "f163bdef-0adb-4973-b5cb-0e94e7af8f72",
      "utctime": "2014-07-04 11:00:27",
      "status": "success",
      "errordescription": "",
      "viomodels": [
         {
            "id": 1,
            "name": "Greater NYC Area",
            "isdefault": 1,
            "totalvehicles": 9738134,
            "vehicleswithpart": 12834
         },
         {
            "id": 2,
            "name": "Manhattan",
            "isdefault": 0,
            "totalvehicles": 293712,
            "vehicleswithpart": 2184
         }
      ],
      "vehicles": [
         {
            "year": "1987",
            "make": "Ford",
            "model": "Mustang",
            "vio": [
               {
                  "modelid": 1,
                  "count": 7194
               },
               {
                  "modelid": 2,
                  "count": 1773
               }
            ]
         },
         {
            "year": "1988",
            "make": "Ford",
            "model": "Mustang",
            "vio": [
               {
                  "modelid": 1,
                  "count": 5640
               },
               {
                  "modelid": 2,
                  "count": 411
               }
            ]
         }
      ]
   }
}