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A seller account can read its whole setup picture in one call: the checklist it still has to finish, whether it is live, how much demand its inventory covers, how many wholesale products it has, and what is wrong with its sources. It is opt-in. A get of the seller that does not ask for it returns exactly what it returned before.

Read it

Call get with kind: "seller", no id, and include: ["readiness"]:
The include belongs to the seller account that is reading itself. It is refused on any other kind, on a seller read that names an id, and for a buyer account. It is the largest seller include, so ask for it only when you need the checklist. To see only what is blocking the account, call the status tool.

Phase

phase is where the seller is in setup: crawl, walk or run. pass_through is accepted for older records and is not normally returned.

Checks

Each entry in checks is one setup step. action has the same shape as an entry in the status tool’s nextActions: a tool to call, a page to open for a step a model must not drive (a credential or an access grant), a url, and the arguments to pass.

Go-live

goLive.state is one of setup, live, live_attention or live_critical. reasonCode says why it landed there. progress counts the go-live steps: required steps the seller is held to, how many are completed, how many open ones are inProgress, and the nextStepId (a check id) to take next. nextStepId is null once the seller is live or nothing is left. issues counts the open problems behind the live states. Both are 0 while the state is setup. This is not the same answer as whether buyers can use the seller right now, which the status tool reports as state. The go-live state adds setup progress and post-live health to it.

Demand coverage and products

demandCoverage says how many starter briefs the seller’s inventory could cover. eligibleCombinations is how many category, market and channel combinations the seller’s profile makes it eligible for, and coveredCombinations is how many of them its products cover. sampleBriefs shows up to four of them, each with a category, market, channel, a status of covered or needs_inventory, and a rationale. They are derived from the seller’s own profile and inventory. They carry no buyer data. wholesaleProductCount is the number of wholesale products the seller has authored across its inventory sources. It is null when no source reports a count, which is different from 0.

Diagnoses

diagnoses lists what is wrong with the seller’s inventory sources. Each entry has a diagnosisId, sourceName, failureMode, owner, severity, a one-sentence summary, optional detail and docsAnchor, and the action that fixes it. Only an entry with owner: "seller" is something the seller has to do. Its severity is blocking when it stops selling, attention when it degrades selling, and advisory when it will only matter later. The list is capped at 10 entries, most severe first (blocking, then attention, then advisory, and in the order Apostra found them within a severity). A seller with more than 10 problems sees the 10 that matter most. Read the full per-source list with get for kind: "inventory_source" and include: ["diagnostics"], or open the source diagnostics page.

When a read fails

There is no “unknown” value. If Apostra cannot work out any part of the readiness, the call fails with SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE and returns none of it, so you never act on a partial checklist. Retry the same call.