eBay seller guides

How-to guides

1. Choose how you sell

   Reselling and dropshipping each have their own eBay rules. Read them before you start.

   • Reselling on eBay: how to start with second-hand items

     9 steps

   • eBay dropshipping policy: what is allowed and how to follow it

     7 steps

2. Find what to sell

   Check what sold on eBay and what you keep after costs. Do it before you buy stock.

   • eBay product research: how to find items worth testing

     8 steps

   • eBay sold listings: how to see what items sold for

     5 steps

   • Terapeak on eBay: how to use every filter and figure

     8 steps

   • Best selling items on eBay: how to find them yourself

     7 steps

   Tools for this job

   • Product research
   • Competitor hijack

3. Make one listing right

   Check the title, photos, item specifics and policies before you publish.

   • eBay listing checklist: optimize each listing before you publish

     9 steps

   Tools for this job

   • Listing Optimizer
   • Listing templates

4. List many at once

   Prepare a file, upload it, then fix the rows that fail.

   • How to bulk list on eBay and fix the rows that fail

     8 steps

   Tools for this job

   • Product imports
   • Bulk publishing

5. Price and reprice

   Set a minimum price that keeps your profit. Then decide when your price should change.

   • eBay pricing strategy: set a minimum price and repricing rules

     6 steps

   • eBay fee calculator: work out your fees and money left

     5 steps

   Tools for this job

   • Repricer
   • Smart Repricer

Set up your store

Set up each part of Productivo in this order. Tick a topic when it is done.

1. 1Connect your eBay store

   1. Open Stores and connect through eBay’s own sign-in. Productivo never asks for your eBay password.
   2. A new store needs an active plan or the 7-day free trial. You can connect several stores; one subscription covers them all.
   3. Before anything publishes, eBay needs business policies (payment, shipping, returns) and a shipping address, which you set under Settings › Store.
2. 2Add your products

   1. Amazon products: paste ASINs or Amazon links on the Products page, up to 5,000 at once.
   2. Your own inventory: add a product by hand, or upload the CSV template with up to 1,000 products per file. The preview shows every row error before anything is saved.
   3. Already selling on eBay or in another app: use Transfer products on the Stores page to bring your listings in.
3. 3Set your prices

   1. Settings › Pricing holds the store’s fees, profit bands and minimum profit. Productivo works out the price that leaves your profit after every cost.
   2. Review and save shows how many live listings would change before anything is sent to eBay.
   3. The Price updates switch stops every price change for the store while stock updates continue.
4. 4Publish to eBay

   1. Approve a product’s price to say “list it at this price”. Nothing publishes without an approval, given by you or by Settings › Auto-approve.
   2. Ready products are published every 15 minutes, with the store’s listing template and business policies.
   3. Blacklist (VeRO) rules keep matching brands, keywords and ASINs off eBay.
5. 5Handle orders

   1. Orders arrive from eBay on their own and show what each one needs next.
   2. Buy an Amazon order with the Chrome extension, by typing the Amazon order number, or let Auto Buy do it (Pro plan and up).
   3. Tracking from Amazon goes back to the eBay order by itself.
6. 6Read your results

   1. Reports show revenue and profit by day or month, for the store selected in the dashboard.
   2. Add store expenses, such as software or packaging, and the totals end on net profit.