Fixed price or auction
Sell at a set price, or run an auction for a single item.
- An auction of 1, 3, 5, 7 or 10 days
- An opening bid, and an optional reserve price
- Listings with variations use fixed price, as eBay requires
eBay
From product to live eBay listing, in one flow.
Choose eBay in the listing builder and you get eBay's own version: auction or fixed price, Best Offer, the item specifics eBay asks for, and ads. The Design Studio then lays out the description buyers read.
Six steps
One flow, from product to live listing
No copying between tabs, and no uploading the same photos twice.
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Stores
Choose where to publish. One listing can go to several stores at once, and eBay gets its own tailored version.
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Source
Start from a product we are sourcing for you, or from stock you already hold with us. Listing from your own stock uses no sourcing credit.
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Images
Choose, reorder and edit the photos, and pick the main one.
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Details
The title, the description, the category and eBay's item specifics.
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Variations and price
Colours, sizes and other options, each with its own price, and how many units each store may sell.
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Publish
A summary of anything still missing, then publish. Your work saves as you go, and a half-finished listing waits for you in Listing Drafts.
A listing goes on sale once units are allocated to it, so you never sell what is not there yet.
Selling formats
Auction, Best Offer and ads, where you build the listing
The ways eBay lets you sell an item, set on the same screen as the listing itself.
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Best Offer, handled for you
Turn on Best Offer and let your rules answer. Accepted offers arrive in Sourship as ordinary orders.
- Accept offers above a level you choose
- Decline offers below another
- Both set as a percentage of your price, so every variation gets the right threshold
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Promoted Listings
Advertise the listing from the same screen. Sourship checks your eligibility first, and the ad starts as soon as the listing is live.
- General: you pay only when the ad leads to a sale, at a fixed or suggested rate
- Priority: a daily budget, with smart targeting
Item specifics
Listings eBay accepts first time
The required details come straight from eBay's own category rules.
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eBay's own categories
Search eBay's categories, and Sourship shows exactly which item specifics that category requires: usually two to six, such as Brand, Colour, Size or Department.
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eBay's permitted values
Where eBay only accepts its own values, you pick from eBay's list instead of typing.
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Your defaults, filled in
Store-wide defaults, such as your usual Brand, are filled in for you.
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Variations as one listing
Several colours or sizes become one listing, with a price and a stock level for each option, instead of several listings competing with each other.
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Your eBay settings
It uses your eBay shipping, payment and return policies, your item condition and your ship-from location.
The Design Studio
Design your eBay description on the page itself
A branded description in minutes, with no HTML and no designer.
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Start from your own product
Pick one of six designs, each shown with your own product photos, name and brand, so choosing one is seeing your real listing.
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Click to type
Every heading and paragraph is edited in place, and any picture is replaced with a click.
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Sections, your way
Add, remove and reorder sections from the panel beside the canvas, with undo and redo up to 100 steps.
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What you see is what eBay shows
The canvas is the real description, not an approximation of it.
Save a design as your store's design, and every new eBay listing for that store uses it automatically.
Styling
Styled in one click
Designs, colours and fonts that are made to go together.
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Six starting designs
Each one previewed with your own product.
- Classic
- Showcase
- Boutique
- Spec sheet
- Dark storefront
- Storyteller
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Twelve colour palettes
Ember, Ocean, Forest, Plum, Sand, Slate, Cherry, Mint, Noir, Sky, Terra and Royal. One click changes every colour of the design.
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Eight font options
Seven pairings, such as Playfair with Lato or Montserrat with Roboto, or one font throughout.
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Layout and spacing
Airy or compact, shaped header and footer edges, and the spacing, alignment and background colour of each section.
Building blocks
Eighteen blocks to build with
Everything a good description needs, from your header to a row of your other listings.
- Header
- Your logo, store name and banner.
- Product photos
- A gallery of the listing's images.
- Specifications
- The item specifics, laid out as a table.
- Options and prices
- The variations and their prices.
- Shipping, returns, about
- Panels for your policies and your story.
- Text section
- Free text with a heading.
- Accordion
- Questions and answers that fold open.
- Tabs
- Several sections in tabbed form.
- Image
- A single full-width picture.
- Image and text
- A picture beside a paragraph.
- Two columns
- Any two blocks side by side.
- Trust badges
- Ready-made badges such as fast shipping or quality checked.
- Button
- A call to action that links within eBay.
- Featured items
- Your other live listings as cards, for cross-selling.
- Divider
- A line between sections.
- Spacer
- Room to breathe.
- Footer
- A closing band, mirroring the header.
- Custom HTML
- For sellers who want their own code.
Built for eBay
Made for eBay's rules
The details that keep a description working, and within eBay's policies.
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One design per store
Every new listing for that store uses it automatically.
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Links stay on eBay
Buttons and cross-sell cards never point off the platform, as eBay's rules require.
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Pictures that stay up
Images are served from Sourship's own storage, so they do not break the way pictures hosted elsewhere often do.
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Featured items fills itself
It shows your live listings automatically, and never links to one that has ended.
Questions
Selling on eBay, answered
What sellers ask before they build their first eBay listing with us.
Can I run an auction for an item with variations?
No. eBay only allows auctions for single items, so a listing with colours or sizes uses fixed price.
When does an eBay listing go on sale?
Once you publish it and units are allocated to it. You never sell stock that is not there yet.
Does listing my own stock use a sourcing credit?
No. Only a product you ask us to source uses sourcing credits. Listing stock you already hold with us costs none.
What happens when a Best Offer is accepted?
It arrives in Sourship as an ordinary order, and we pack and ship it like any other.
Can I use the Design Studio for my other stores?
Not at the moment. The Design Studio is for eBay listings; WooCommerce and Shopify listings use their own description format.
Which of my eBay settings does Sourship use?
Your eBay shipping, payment and return policies, your item condition and your ship-from location, so they need to be set up on your eBay account first.
Your next eBay listing, designed and live.
Apply for an account, connect your eBay store, and build your first listing in one flow.
Independence and trademarks
Sourship is an independent service. It is not operated, endorsed, certified or sponsored by any marketplace. The term "Etsy" is a trademark of Etsy, Inc. This application uses the Etsy API but is not endorsed or certified by Etsy. Shopify, WooCommerce and eBay are trademarks of their respective owners and are used here only to say which stores Sourship can connect to.