Tools for Cross Listing on eBay / Amazon / Etsy

I’d be interested to hear the answers. As far as I know, there’s no simple tool that lets you manage and syncs listings on all three platforms.

All three platforms require different information in their listings so must be managed separately. Also there is no API that syncs all three sites.

I do know some scavengers are using Sixbit and Wonderlister which assists crosslisting, but its far from automated.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 7 months ago by Jay.

Jay is correct. SB & WL do some of the things to help keep them in synch and they both are making updates and improvements almost monthly, but 3 or 4 platforms fully automated, not yet but it is on the drawing board and forth coming from them. WonderLister has an Amazon interface, Shopify [which I am helping them with and am having some good success] and an Etsy interface.
SB has their Etsy interface up and going but Troy will have to tell you how much of it is automated.
WL also send all of our new listings to Twitter and we get followers from those almost everyday. They are also working on an InstaGram interface. That we are pushing WL on because as we start listing our portfolios of artwork [we are close to start listing those], we think IntaGram will be good to boost traffic to our Shopify store.
The Shopify interface is synching to some degree. As a test for the BETA testing experiment, I deleted all of our Shopify store day before yesterday. Then I did a synch from WL to Shopify and WL took all of our 1,136 litstings and did a Refresh of our Shopify store and all 1,136 listings were re-populated into our Shopify store in less than 3 minutes. Boom!
Another automated synch is I am experimenting with price and quantity chages in both Shopify and also Ebay and every 10 minutes WL does a scrape of data from both platforms and if it detects changes it changes the blck line of text to red and present a message that a change on one of the platforms was detected and will up date those changes. That is working from Shopify to Ebay and then from Ebay to Shopify.
Now what I am banging on is for the tech team to expedite this same process to include the Etsy platform. But as for now, I we are doing a manual process for our Etsy store.
What we do for an Etsy listing is we do a copy and paste from the Shopify listing directly off of a web browser where we have opened up our domain name. The Shopify listing has the complete Ebay data in it. Shopify holds the title, price, condition, description and Item specifics complete. WL when it creates a Shop. lisint can pull all of this data from Ebay and places it in our Shop. listing including photos. So all we do is copy that “full” listing from Shopify and then paste that whole thing into Etsy. Takes about 10 secs. But we do have to then attach the photos to the etsy listing. So a Shop. to Etsy only takes about 60 to 90 secs. and then publish it. But still a manual process.

But WL tech team is working on getting this to also work just like the Shopify module.
In SixBit [Troy and Veronica use it] along with other members, has the Etsy interface up and going better than WL but they do not have a Shopify module going at all and talking with the SB guru JC [Troy’s friend], not going to in the forseable future.

WL does already have an Amazon interface and I see a lot of “tabs” for moving data into Amazon but since we don’t have an Amazon store and Amazon doesn’t lean toward one of a kind used stuff, that feature is really of no interest to us.

Now there is a big hitter in the multiplatform field, I think they are called ASA Inventory Management systems, [unsure], but they are a big e-commerce application, and at the time I researched were hundreds of dollars per month=thousand per year and for large companies with, hundreds of thousands of items and listing them on several web sites and large reselling platforms. Way out of our league as well as an average Ebay, Etsy type seller.

I sort of rambled agagin, but maybe some of this will help.

The problem I found trying to decide on all of this is which is the best one to go with. Well, they are so diverse and both WL and SB do have a learning curve and they furnish different types of reports and offers different types of features it takes a long time to make a comparison. I used SixBit for 3 months, then 6 months with WL, both tria versions, was having to learn to navigate both the whole time. Then gradually went and stayed with WL. But I will say I did go back to SixBit a year or so ago due to thinking it would be faster to get the Etsy store going. But after deciding on our own store in our own domain name and seeing WL was further along on that venue I dropped SB agagin, [Sorry JC and John] and jumped back into WL.

But a word of advice and see if troy and Mark agree, it took me over a year to settle in and that is a long time of which I could have been just focusing listing within Ebay itself. So working with these programs will take up some time and I had to look at it as an investment into my full time business. AND I think once you finally decide, you will have to stick with one or the other. Bouncing around will cause some issues. But once lock and loaded with either WL or SB then a full time seller will never look back to just using a one platform approach and doing it all in either the Etsy, Shopify or Ebay internal forms and processes.

When we list in WL and Troy in SB, we use just one form, one style screen and we both have customizable controls to allow us to see only those sections we want and how we want to see them. SB being a little better at that for the time being.

OK that … was the mug and a half of coffee answer along with another wall of text for the Scavengerlife infrastructure!!! 🙂

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