Errors & Status Codes

Domain/Currency Mapping

Domain Currency
AbeBooks.com USD
AbeBooks.co.uk GBP
AbeBooks.it EUR
AbeBooks.fr EUR
AbeBooks.de EUR
IberLibro.com EUR
ZVAB.com EUR

Order Status Descriptions

Status Code Description
04 Extra Shipping Accepted
05 Ordered
14 Item Unavailable
17 Cancelled By Buyer
19 Credit Card Rejected
24 Refunded
35 Shipped
53 Max Price Exceeded
54 Inactive Seller
90 Extra Shipping Rejected
93 Extra Shipping Requested

Response Status Codes

Success codes returned in the Abe-Status response header:

Status Code Description
2000 Order status successfully retrieved
2002 Dryrun succeeded
2003 Duplicate request received for order currently being processed
2010 Order created successfully

Error Codes

Error codes returned in the Abe-Status response header:

Status Code Description
4000 Malformed message
4001 The credit card token provided did not match a credit card on your account
4002 No listings were included with the request
4002 One or more listings had a quantity less than 1
4002 The total number of items ordered exceeded the limit of 250
4003 Unable to parse JSON
4010 Authentication failure
4011 The Abe-Date header was missing
4012 Unable to parse the Abe-Date header
4013 Request expired
4014 Invalid access key
4015 Access key expired
4016 The Abe-Signature header was missing
4017 Invalid request signature
4018 The Abe-RequestId header was missing or invalid
4030 Not permitted to access
4041 Order not found
4042 Could not find the resource/malformed URI
4050 HTTP method not supported
4060 Requested mediatype not supported
4090 Received duplicate RequestID with different content
4150 Submitted mediatype not supported
4220 The request was malformed, details can be found in the response body
4291 Request exceeds rate limit
4292 Too many failed authentication attempts were made
4293 Too many requests with an invalid CCToken were made
5000 Server error, this incident has been recorded
5030 Server is temporarily unavailable or busy