Good Morning,
I am hoping there is a way to bulk edit all my either saved or preferrably active BIN listings to take off the Immediate payment requirements.
Does anyone know of a way?
Thank You
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Hi!
There is a fairly easy way to Bulk Edit your Saved Listings to remove the immediate payment required. You seem to be familiar with how our Profiles work, but for those who may be reading this that aren't, here are the steps to do this:
These steps may seem time consuming, but it really won't take very long at all.
The first thing you need to do is create a Checkout Profile with the new information you want to replace on your Saved Listings.
To set up the Checkout profile, hover your mouse over the Profiles Tab, and click on Checkout. Enter your payment information/return policy just like you would when creating a new listing, name it and save.
Now go to your Saved Listings and check the boxes next to the listings you want to revise. You can revise up to 100 at a time with this method (click the box at the top of the saved listings to select "all" on that page.) When you have done that, click on the blue "Find & Replace" button at the top of the Saved Listings section.
On the next page, in the Field drop-down box, select "Checkout Fields." A new drop-down box will appear below that says "Checkout Profile:" and you can select the new checkout profile you just created to replace all the old checkout details in the saved listings.
Click Continue and on the next page, you will see the listings you are revising. If you are ready to update all of the saved listings, click the Confirm Selected Listings button. Or cancel if you change your mind.
Updating live eBay listings is a little trickier (as you know.) We do have a way to edit live listings via Auctiva, but the only areas of the Checkout field we currently support are the PayPal email address and the Return Policy. There are other eBay tools that you can use to bulk edit your listings, but not having tried those myself I wouldn't know which one to recommend.
I hope I at least helped you with your Saved listings
There is a fairly easy way to Bulk Edit your Saved Listings to remove the immediate payment required. You seem to be familiar with how our Profiles work, but for those who may be reading this that aren't, here are the steps to do this:
These steps may seem time consuming, but it really won't take very long at all.
The first thing you need to do is create a Checkout Profile with the new information you want to replace on your Saved Listings.
To set up the Checkout profile, hover your mouse over the Profiles Tab, and click on Checkout. Enter your payment information/return policy just like you would when creating a new listing, name it and save.
Now go to your Saved Listings and check the boxes next to the listings you want to revise. You can revise up to 100 at a time with this method (click the box at the top of the saved listings to select "all" on that page.) When you have done that, click on the blue "Find & Replace" button at the top of the Saved Listings section.
On the next page, in the Field drop-down box, select "Checkout Fields." A new drop-down box will appear below that says "Checkout Profile:" and you can select the new checkout profile you just created to replace all the old checkout details in the saved listings.
Click Continue and on the next page, you will see the listings you are revising. If you are ready to update all of the saved listings, click the Confirm Selected Listings button. Or cancel if you change your mind.
Updating live eBay listings is a little trickier (as you know.) We do have a way to edit live listings via Auctiva, but the only areas of the Checkout field we currently support are the PayPal email address and the Return Policy. There are other eBay tools that you can use to bulk edit your listings, but not having tried those myself I wouldn't know which one to recommend.
I hope I at least helped you with your Saved listings
PS: The Find & Replace feature for Saved listings is also a great tool to use when eBay makes policy changes (such as when they required a Return policy to be stated in all listings.) So keep it in mind the next time you have to make a lot of revisions to your Saved listings!
I do have a suggestion for those of you who have not made many changes.
Use profiles to put your rules. I would not put rules in the description of item area. Changing profiles is much easier than changing actual listings.
For example if listings part says:
"Buyer is responsible for insurance. If you want insurance you need to ask for rate" it is more complicated to take that off of actual listings than to change the profile and make the change on everything. Ebay now wants that off of all listings.. and it is pain to change. There are other examples.. that is just one.
Or at least that is my experience since I could not get the bulk change to work for me in the actual listing itself.
Hope this saves someone some time down the road. I learned the hard way!
My lisitngs now ONLY SHOW information on the actual item I am listing in the description area. Then profiles have any rules I may have.
Hope this makes sense.
Vickie
Use profiles to put your rules. I would not put rules in the description of item area. Changing profiles is much easier than changing actual listings.
For example if listings part says:
"Buyer is responsible for insurance. If you want insurance you need to ask for rate" it is more complicated to take that off of actual listings than to change the profile and make the change on everything. Ebay now wants that off of all listings.. and it is pain to change. There are other examples.. that is just one.
Or at least that is my experience since I could not get the bulk change to work for me in the actual listing itself.
Hope this saves someone some time down the road. I learned the hard way!
My lisitngs now ONLY SHOW information on the actual item I am listing in the description area. Then profiles have any rules I may have.
Hope this makes sense.
Vickie