How do you dynamically update Ebay Categories on Products

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How do you dynamically update Ebay Categories on Products

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We are now looking at a system to add products to Ebay stores. We have seen many companies doing it, but we have been asked if we can construct something similar. Perhaps not as advanced as others, but one that is still simple to use.

My initial thought was to have iframe embed code. They create the products in a Store section they login on our website, add images, descriptions, generic content about the company....

Then they add their product on Ebay, and copy/paste the Embed iframe code into the HTML Tab.

This has two issues.
1) how do you ensure the iframe always fits the height of it's content?
2) how do we put in the categories that are in the Ebay Subscribed store, into our iframe page?

I've been told you add HTML code instead to the page, and paste the hosted images into each HTML tab. Fine.
But how do you get the categories in the top of the "frame" area, to link to your Shop Categories? That's possibly the biggest issue here.

I'm sure I can embed a Stylesheet that is generated from a remote database, so they can alter colours and sizes from our website, which updates it on Ebay. But it's the categories that's stumping me.

I was told by one company that the HTML updates automatically.... how?

ps Apologies if this is in the wrong category on 'here'.
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