Managing Listings
Once your listings are live, you'll spend most of your eBay time here: finding listings, fixing problems, making edits, and taking listings on or off eBay.
What you'll learn
- How to find any listing fast
- How to edit listings the right way
- When to repost, end, disable, or delete
- How to get a .csv export of your listings
🛑 Critical: Always end and edit listings in PSS, never directly in eBay Seller Hub. PSS is the system of record, so any change made in eBay is overwritten by the next daily revision feed.
View your listings
Go to eBay > Listing Management. Each row shows the eBay Item ID, status, template, title, and subtitle. Click any column header to sort.
Find listings fast
Use the filters to search by brand, MPN, or keyword:
| Filter | Use it to |
|---|---|
| Manufacturer Group, MPN | Find a brand or a specific part |
| Listing Status | Find problems: failed, offline, or error listings |
| Catalog Type | Show Aftermarket, OEM or Private products |
| Distributor, Distributor SKU | See what comes from a specific distributor |
| Listing Template | See everything on one template |
| Price Range, Created Date Range | Narrow by price or by when you listed |
| eBay Item ID, Listing Title | Jump to one exact listing |
💡 Pro Tip: Make filtering by error statuses part of your weekly routine. A listing stuck in an error status usually can't sell. See Listing Statuses, Errors, and Fixes.
Preview a listing
Click any row to open its preview. It shows the template, status, and price, a rendered description, and eBay's responses from when the listing was created or last revised, including any warnings or errors. Click the eBay Item ID to open the live listing on eBay.
Edit listings
- Title or subtitle: click it in the table to edit inline. This is the quickest fix for Title Length and Duplicate Title errors.
- Shipping, returns, category, and other template settings: reassign the listing to a different template. Changes go out in the next revision feed.
- Price, description, or images for one product: use an override.
To take listings down, Disable or Delete
Select one or more listings with the checkboxes, then choose an action.
| Action | What happens | Use it when |
|---|---|---|
| Disable | Ends the eBay listing and pauses syncing. Keeps the listing setup, and you can re-enable it anytime. | Seasonal items, supplier backorders, troubleshooting |
| Delete | Ends the eBay listing and permanently removes the PSS record. No undo. | Discontinued products, listings made in error, test listings |
⚠️ Warning: When in doubt, disable instead of delete. You can always delete a disabled listing later, but you can't get a deleted one back.
Export your listings
Exports are useful for modifying titles, subtitles, and templates. There are two ways to export your eBay listings to .csv so that you can make edits in bulk and reimport.
Export some listings
- From eBay > View All Listings, filter and highlight the products you want to export.
- Click the Export button. A job will start behind the scenes to produce the listings.
- From the main nav, click File Center. This brings up the .csv processing hub.
- Click into the export job that was recently created, then download the .csv file
Export all listings
- From the main nav, click File Center. This brings up the .csv processing hub.
- On the left nav, click Ebay: Export eBay Listings. This will start an export job in File Center.
- Click into the export job that was recently created, then download the .csv file
Next step
Continue to Overrides: Price, Title, Description & Images.