topic Re: exporting activite listings in Selling

exporting activite listings

futurefun21 — Wed, 08 May 2019 04:44:53 GMT

Does anyone know of a way to export current active listing from one account and import them into another?

Thankyou

Shane

Re: exporting activite listings

kopenhagen5 — Wed, 08 May 2019 06:49:03 GMT

Only suggestion I can make is when you are logged into the account you want the listing in search for it then select 'sell one like this'.

I don't know how much of the listing transfers but most things, pics and description used to show that way.

Otherwise if you are already using a listing host (equivelant to Turbolister) I think you can upload listings to multiple accounts.

Re: exporting activite listings

futurefun21 — Wed, 08 May 2019 08:00:53 GMT

I need to get all my lists out of my existing account to put into another first

Re: exporting activite listings

brerrabbit585 — Wed, 08 May 2019 09:05:37 GMT

kopes, when you click on that link it only transfers the title, item specifics and the number. You still have to upload the photo/s, do the description from scratch, and put the price in. When I read your reply I thought I might try it as I also have a few listings I'd like to transfer, but alas, it doesn't work like it used to years ago.

I don't know of any shortcuts but I usually open the listings I want to transfer in their own separate tabs, sign out of that ID, then sign in to the new ID and copy and paste any relevant details from the original listing. Opening them in the 'edit' page means I can copy and paste the descriptions in html.

Re: exporting activite listings

davewil1964 — Wed, 08 May 2019 11:51:30 GMT

I believe you can use file exchange. I know nothing about it, but a board search for 'file exchange' should give you some tips.

Otherwise do what I do - create new listings on the relevant account from the full information I keep stored on my computer.

Re: exporting activite listings

purplemon18 — Wed, 08 May 2019 11:58:13 GMT

Well... I have done it once before, but I don't recomend it. It screwed up my listings and I had to spend a long time fixing them all. I think from memory it duplicated the MPNs, but it may have been my fault. I may have run the tool twice.

At the time I was toying with opening my own website with shopify, they have a 14 day trial or something.I found an app that would import from ebay to shopify, but it's a 3rd party tool and pretty clunky. I don't remember what it's called but you should be able to find it on the shopify app store.

Once everything was in shopify I could not find a free way to upload to ebay again, so I signed up to inkfrog. I imported from shopify to inkfrog and finally I could easily move listings from one ebay account to another, or to shopify, it has ways to share inventory with shopify btw, so you can have the same item listed on shopify and ebay. I would not do that with listings that only have 1 in stock though.

I can even select what ebay site I want to list the item on for example .co.uk or .com.

Anyway, long story short, I found a very circuitus way to move everything accross, but it was a big headache. Also it turns out that the exported items are really only any good for ebay because the data that ebay want for a listing does not match very well with the data that shopify wants.

I like inkfrog though, it's not perfect, but I feel like I have more freedom. Also, if ebay ever shut me down, I already have everything saved somewhere else. Inkfrog support ebay, shopify, big commerce and amazon.

Re: exporting activite listings

clarry100 — Wed, 08 May 2019 20:47:02 GMT

Using File Exchange via a CSV file can do this.

Down side....

Very difficult system to use and images will not transfer via CSV files.

The only other way would be to use some kind of external 3rd party software.

But these cost.

Re: exporting activite listings

fred_foofighter — Wed, 08 May 2019 23:32:39 GMT

@clarry100 wrote:
Using File Exchange via a CSV file can do this.

Down side....
Very difficult system to use and images will not transfer via CSV files.

The only other way would be to use some kind of external 3rd party software.
But these cost.

Clarry not sure you can download listings directly using File Exchange. If you already have the file you can upload to a different account, but if not, I don't think there's any direct method to download a listing. You can use File Exchange to download your Listing Templates, but the numbers of templates is limited and the descriptions are max 500 characters (I think).

It can be done using the eBay API but not straight forward, or for the faint hearted.

If you have your listings in Turbo Lister you can download them as a csv File in File Exchange format and upload to a different user account using File Exchange.

Re: exporting activite listings

clarry100 — Thu, 09 May 2019 00:00:29 GMT

When you go into File Exchange Create a Download Request...

Then select Active in the dropdown.

Then Standard

Then All active listings

The data you get in the CSV file is all you will need to create a CSV upload file to reupload the listings. Except...

The problem is that there is no listing image data in the CSV download, not even URLs.

So listing images cannot be migrated in this way.

When uploading listing images you need to place the image files on a remote file server (outside ebay) somewhere first.

Then reference those image files by URL in the CSV upload file.

The next problem is that during the upload process the main product images transfer to the Ebay Picture Server (EPS) as they should, but if you have variations with images they remain located on the remote server referenced by the URL.

This creates a mixed mode image listing which is not allowed by ebay rules.

The end listing actually works and looks OK.

But... some time later when you come to manually edit the listing the problem shows up and all variation images are then deleted from the listing.

I spoke with the TurboData people about this problem and they acknowledged it but had no plans to fix it.

...and its not for the feint-hearted as the migration of the data across to an upload CSV file format is quite difficult (can be done tho).

And the ebay TurboData handbook for File Exchange is full of omissions and errors.

A couple of years back I set about doing just this and reached a point where I gave up in the end.

The one thing I did find out tho is that the sponsors of File Exchange in USA were very helpful.

email them: turbodata@ebay.com

Re: exporting activite listings

fred_foofighter — Thu, 09 May 2019 00:38:35 GMT

@clarry100 wrote:
When you go into File Exchange Create a Download Request...
Then select Active in the dropdown.
Then Standard
Then All active listings

The data you get in the CSV file is all you will need to create a CSV upload file to reupload the listings. Except...
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Clarry that only provides

Item ID, Custom Label, Qty Purchases, Price Start, Date, Condition, Item Title, Category, Leaf Name, Category Number, Private Notes, Site Listed, Download Date, Variation Details, Product Reference ID, Condition ID, Out Of Stock Control

Not only missing Picture URL but also importantly the Description. For very short descriptions this may be not an issue but for any long or complex descriptions its a game breaker.

Re: exporting activite listings

futurefun21 — Thu, 09 May 2019 01:17:15 GMT

I used turbo lister for the best part of 15 years......now it is gone. Having turbo list would solve my problem as you could import existing listings into it.

Since its decommissioning I have created bout 100 new items on my ebay account and want to move these to another account.

I have tried file exchange but item descriptions etc dont export.

Still trying to find a way do export from one account and import into another....even using a third party application

Re: exporting activite listings

fred_foofighter — Thu, 09 May 2019 01:32:24 GMT

@futurefun21 wrote:
I used turbo lister for the best part of 15 years......now it is gone. Having turbo list would solve my problem as you could import existing listings into it.

Since its decommissioning I have created bout 100 new items on my ebay account and want to move these to another account.

I have tried file exchange but item descriptions etc dont export.

Still trying to find a way do export from one account and import into another....even using a third party application

I believe while you can no longer upload listings to eBay you can still download them. Go to Turbo Lister File -- Import -- From eBay Listing (Just checked and could import OK)

Then export them a File Exchange csv. You need to modify a few heading, but once sorted you can upload your complete listing. As Clarry stated you need to use an external file server for images, or manually insert them after you have uploaded the listings.

The import using Turbo Lister is very slow and I don't know how long you will be able to continue using it

Re: exporting activite listings

clarry100 — Thu, 09 May 2019 03:03:04 GMT

Ah yes... sorry forgot about the Description Field. Has been a few years since I was fiddling with it.

At that time we had all our descriptions in a separate Excel file along with some basic HTML tags to make it look pretty. Nothing complex but sufficient for our stuff. So linking that data into the Excel file that created the uploadable CSV file was not a problem.

The deal breaker for us was the fact that the variation images failed to upload to the ebay EPS server from the external file server location, and ebay had no plans to correct that. To this day I don't know if/not they have fixed it.

Most of our products have variations and associated images.

But a quick email to TurboData would confirm that. They were always pretty quick to respond when I was tinkering with it.