First impressions are very important; this could not be truer when listing your products on eBay. Optimally listing your products is essential to finding success on the platform. In a sea of products similar to your own, having listings that stand out and are easy to navigate could mean the potential for more sales.
So, how can you optimize your product listings? From the keywords in your product description to the template you’ve created, every detail in a listing is important to generating sales and gaining attention. A good listing tool will help you achieve this, but since eBay discontinued Turbo Lister, online sellers have been searching for alternatives. Check out these free eBay listing tools and increase your listings’ effectiveness.
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Selling Manager
TYPE: Listing and Analytics tool
PRICE: Free. Already integrated for sellers with a Basic eBay Store subscription.
ACCESS: Online, integrated into your eBay account.
BEST FOR: Mid-size businesses, medium volume sellers.
SUMMARY: Selling Manager is an all-in-one solution for creating, managing and tracking your eBay listings. Below is a detailed chart provided by eBay that details what Selling Manager offers:
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: eBay seller account.
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File Exchange
TYPE: Listing and Analytics tool
PRICE: Free
ACCESS: Online, through my eBay.
BEST FOR: High-volume sellers.
SUMMARY: File exchange offers a range of full-scale listing capabilities. According to the File Exchange menu, you can
- Add, revise, re-list, and end a listing or update the status and leave feedback for a listing all in a single file.
- Download active listings and sales history reports in a flat file format for importing to your own software package.
- Creates the file template you need for any category, including the columns for any item-specifics.
- Here is an example of file exchange process:
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: List items using a flat file from an Excel spreadsheet, MS Access, or other inventory software.
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Supreme Lister
TYPE: Listing tool
PRICE: Free basic package, with premium packages for a monthly fee.
ACCESS: Online, register via eBay account.
BEST FOR: Small to mid-size sellers.
SUMMARY: Create and manage your listings. The free version includes:
- 100 free designs
- Four images per item
- Starting-time planner
- Cross-marketing
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: All eBay requirements.
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Listing Analytics
TYPE: Analytics tool
PRICE: Free.
ACCESS: Online, through my eBay.
BEST FOR: Mid to high volume sellers.
SUMMARY: Learn about your visibility, clicks, sales made, and your best and worst performing listings.
- Search keywords to see where your listing ranks
- View analytics based upon your listings to see how to optimize them to generate sales
- See how your listings are doing compared to similar fixed price listings
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
- Internet Connection
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Mozilla Firefox 1.5 or later, Apple Safari 2 or later.
- Supports any operating system, including Macintosh
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We Are Phoenix Team
TYPE: Listing tool
PRICE: Free.
ACCESS: Online.
BEST FOR: Small to mid volume sellers.
SUMMARY: Create free responsive eBay templates.
- Choose from pre-made designs
- Enter in your product information
- Upload the listing directly to your eBay account
- Here is an example of their template designer:
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: All eBay requirements.
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As you have now learned, your listings are a huge part of finding success on eBay. Designing them to be appealing, easily understandable, and 100% eBay compliant are keys to attracting and retaining customers.
Luckily for you, over here at ecomdash, we had that in mind. To make your eBay selling experience even better, we partnered up with eBay experts, CrazyLister, to bring you a new integration. CrazyLister allows sellers to design professional, mobile-responsive eBay templates with their easy-to-use drag-and-drop tool. With this new integration, you can create custom eBay templates and publish those templates directly to eBay with our eBay listing tool. Say goodbye to copy-pasting and say hello to your new faster, more efficient business.
What is your favorite listing tool? Or, what would your perfect listing tool be able to accomplish? Let us know in the comments.
Editor’s Note: This blog post was originally published November 2014 and was updated in June 2020 to reflect more accurate and relevant information.
How can i manage all ebay inboxes in one place for free? I have multiple ebay accounts
Hey Tommy,
Thanks for reaching out! Ecomdash supports all eBay inventory, listing and order management. We do not currently integrate with the in-marketplace messaging from buyers to sellers to manage the communications. You can use the ecomdash email marketing to send promotions or emails to buyers but we do not import or manage the in-marketplace emails.
Thanks,
Tiana
Excellent information!! It has been really useful!
Thanks! We are happy to hear that you’ve found this to be useful. We wish you the best with your company.
Thanks,
Liz
Turbo Lister is being discontinued with no replacement as of June 2017. Might be time to update this article. Not quite clear if that means it’ll stop working altogether, or if it’ll keep working until the next platform update, but it’s on the way out either way.
As a seller who has recently thrown himself into selling in the last few months, I’m really disappointed that this simple tool is being discontinued.
Hi Andy,
Thanks for the information. Yes, you are correct, they will discontinue Turbo Lister in June 2017. It will continue to work for those who’ve been using it. No one know how long. I agree that it is disappointing. eBay is moving everyone over to their new eBay Seller Hub. Here are a few links with updates:
https://sellercentre.ebay.co.uk/business/news/spring2017/seller-hub
https://tamebay.com/2017/05/ebay-uk-spring-2017-seller-release-seller-hub-turbolister-retirement.html
Thanks,
Liz
We sell a lot of seasonal items. Turbo Lister, located on our hard drive, was a perfect location to store out of season items, avoiding paying ‘rent’ to eBay each month.
Do you have a solution to our problem?
Al, great question!
Within ecomdash, you can store your product and listing details without the product being on eBay. This way, you can easily re-submit your listing to eBay whenever you’re ready. If you’d like to speak to an ecomdash team member in more deatil, please email support@ecomdash.com.
Hope this helps!
I, too, am disgruntled with eBay discontinuing the Turbo Lister tool. I am interested in a bulk storage for inactive listings that will need to be usable with eBay (seasonal items, etc.). I am a small seller, but with great aspirations! I see that all the comments are not current, are the aforementioned sites/tools still available? Thanks in advance for your time.
Pam
Hi Pam,
Agreed – the discontinuation of the Turbo Lister is a huge disappointment. All of the other mentioned tools are still available! The only thing that has changed is the listing analytics tool from eBay has a new link.
Hope this helps!
Haley
Hello,
Can I save my ended listing for more them 60-90 days and re list them later ?
Hey Barry,
That’s a good question, if you have listings through ecomdash, ending the listing will not remove the information. Once you open your listings again, the info will still be there. Let us know if you have any more questions.
Happy Selling!