Listing on eBay is generally straight forward until you need to do more complex tasks like:
List 1000's of items on to eBay or you have a good business on the web that you wish to extend on to eBay and either need automated or help on setting this up.
This is when you need to invest in a good listing tool that can allow you to bulk upload listings quickly and easily without taking up your time best spent elsewhere. Saving time is such an important part of a sellers business as well as selling more!Tools should provide urgent revisions for example changing yours price or postage on several live listings in seconds! As any of these options in eBay can be tedious especially if the information is also displayed in the body of the description.
My advice is look into tools that can do this.
Investigate in software listing solutions that can offer imports from your website to save time adding new or updating existing items automatically.
There are several good tools available to purchase. Research them fully and always ask the company for a demo.
To recap the tools you can look into are:
- Ad-Lister
- Turbo Lister
- Auctiva
- Frooition
- Blackthorne
- ChannelAdvisor
Just a few pointers:
- Bulk revise postage, price by % as well as +/- increments
- Manage store categories with ebay
- Cross-sell related products easily with direct links from the listing
- Link store/eBay categories with your product inventory
- Upload xls/csv files in Bulk and post to eBay
- Upload products on to eBay without any limit
- Add common text to template tags (Returns Policy, Postage etc.)
- Push to Facebook and Twitter to increase product interest
- Automatic relist facility
- Email stock level warnings
- Audit trail of all listings
- Scheduled listings