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About the eBay Add-on
- eBay listing manager
- eBay order manager
- eBay payments manager
- eBay listing designer
- Listing scheduler
- Centralised inventory
Why Sell Through eBay?
- The eBay channel allows you to access 8 million unique visitors each month which makes the channel a great free marketing platform.
- 7 our of 10 of all online buyers in Australia shop on ebay.com.au
- Shopping is shifting to mobile purchasing and eBay allows you to get your products listed on the #1 eCommerce app in Australia through a free responsive design template with Maropost Commerce.
- eBay is now focused on becoming a merchant facility for B2C sales and C2C sales have been shifted to Gumtree.
- Some of the biggest retailers in Australia run eBay stores to complement their own websites. Target, Masters, Officeworks, Kmart, JB Hi-Fi, Harvey Norman.
- Purchasers off eBay can now pick up their items from Big W and Woolworths stores through their click and collect program.
- List your products to an international audience by directly listing to eBay US, UK and any other eBay international sites.
Key Benefits of Maropost Commerce for Existing eBay merchants
- Some of eBay’s biggest merchants use Maropost Commerce.
- Our specialist channels team can help you with your migration and initial setup to ensure that you are able to switch to Maropost Commerce from existing platform without affecting your existing sales and active listings.
- Our platform allows you to manage multiple eBay accounts and list products directly to them through the same SKU.
- We can automatically push tracking numbers from Maropost Commerce to eBay orders after they are generated.
- We can automate freight type listings with shipping costs without the need to manually send quotes.
- Out of stock functionality can be set up to ensure your listings do not get ended when out of stock and automatically restocked when they reach a certain level.
- You can use unique design and invoice templates for your different eBay accounts.
- We are able to unlock seller limits.
Please Note: Maropost Commerce supports around 100,000 individual listings. If you go over this amount you may experience synchronisation delays on stock levels, orders and listing detail updates.
Set up Instructions
In your control panel, click Addons and select Maropost Commerce Modules. Find eBay and move your cursor over the image. Then click on Install. The eBay module is an additional cost to your monthly subscription.
Check out our launch guides to start integrating with your eBay store.
Automatic Schedules
Maropost Commerce's eBay integration automatically runs processes behind the scenes to sync your data to eBay. The following are the automatic eBay processes and the schedule they run on.
| Process | Description | Interval |
|---|
| CompleteSale | Checks for any orders that have been dispatched to sync with eBay. | 15 mins |
| ReviseInventoryStatus | Updates any stock changes in the previous 15 minutes to eBay. Stock will only update on eBay if the quantity has fallen below what is currently listed. Refer to the stock control page on how thresholds and levels work. | 15 mins |
| GetTransactions | Downloads new orders from eBay into Maropost Commerce. | 30 mins |
| GetListing | Checks for any new listings that have been added to eBay and adds them to the eBay > Listings page. | 30 mins |
| GetPromotionalSaleDetail | Checks if any listings are on promotion through markdown manager, and flags the listings so that they aren’t revised (thus ending the promotion). | 30 mins |
| RelistItem:ADD_SCHEDULES | Checks for any listings that have ended but are flagged for relisting via the scheduler, and adds the relist processes to the queue. | 1 hour |
| AddItem:ADD_SCHEDULES | Checks for any products that are flagged for automatic listing via the scheduler, and adds the processes to list them to the queue. | 1 hour |