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eBay Listing Templates

Listing templates determine the appearance of your eBay listings.

Description

When you list your items on eBay, you can use the default listing templates in Monsoon, create new custom listing templates, or customize both default and custom listing templates with special tokens or an external HTML editor.

Inventory Group Criteria Editor

You can set up listing template criteria in the same way that you set up listing rule criteria. When an item matches a template's criteria, Monsoon Marketplace uploads it for listing using that template.

Add, edit, preview, and remove an eBay listing template

For every new listing template you add, Monsoon supplies a default template format. You can either use the default format or customize the default using the Content Editor or an HTML editor of your choice.

Throughout the day, Monsoon regularly evaluates your inventory, comparing each item to your listing template rules.

When you revise a listing template that's being used by an item already listed on eBay, an update is sent to eBay and your listing is revised.

An item does not need to delist and relist for a template update to be uploaded to eBay, although the time it takes for a listing to update is dependent on the size of your inventory and eBay processing speed.

eBay listing template Content box

To add an eBay listing template

  1. On the Settings tab, under eBay, click Listing Templates, and then click Add.
  2. Click the Expand Expand arrow buttonbutton for each criteria, select the criteria that define your inventory group, and then click OK.

eBay inventory group criteria editor

  1. In the template rule summary, click in the Name box, and then type the name of the listing template.

eBay listng template summary

  1. Click Preview to check the appearance of your template. If you want to make any changes to your listing template, click Edit, make your changes, and then click OK.

To edit an eBay listing template

  1. On the Settings tab, under eBay, click Listing Templates.
  2. Click the rule you want to edit, make your changes in the Title box or Content box, and then click OK.

eBay listing template

To preview an eBay listing template

  1. On the Settings tab, under eBay, click Listing Templates.
  2. Click the rule you want to preview, and then click Preview. In the Listing Preview window, your listing template displays exactly as it will appear on eBay.

eBay listing template preview

Note  If your template includes a picture, an image thumbnail appears in the upper-left corner. Place your mouse pointer on the thumbnail to preview the picture.

To remove an eBay listing template

  1. On the Settings tab, under eBay, click Listing Templates.
  2. Click the rule you want to remove, click Remove, and then click OK.

Customizing an eBay listing template

You can customize an existing default listing template or create and customize a new listing template by inserting HTML tags and special tokens that are available in Monsoon. You can also use an external HTML editor to customize the look of your listing template.

Before you make any changes to a custom listing template, we recommend making a backup copy first.

eBay special tokens

A special token can be inserted into a default or custom listing template. The token dynamically changes for every listing.

For example, let's say you carry a selection of toys and you want each listing to display the toy's dimensions.

You can insert the Height, Width, and Length tokens into a custom listing template.

To customize a listing template with an HTML editor

  1. On the Settings tab, under eBay, click Listing Templates. and then click Show Larger Content Editor.

eBay Show Larger Content Editor

  1. In the Content Editor window, click External Editor, or click the External Editor arrow to see more options.
  2. Make any changes, and then save. Saved changes appear in your customized listing template.

eBay listing template priority

Listing template priority is a key feature that can help you manage which templates are applied to which items.

Template priority is determined by its position in the rules list.

To change listing template priority

  1. On the Settings tab, under eBay, click Listing Templates.
  2. Right-click the rule you want to move, and then click Raise Priority or Lower Priority.

See also

eBay listing rule criteria

eBay listing rule overview

eBay overview

 

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