# Creating and Editing Items
Use the **Listing form** to create and edit items in Nifty, then post them to multiple marketplaces from one place.
### Where to find it
To add a new item, go to the [**Inventory Manager**](/inventory-management/inventory-manager.md) and click **Add item** (top right).
To edit an existing item, open the **Item menu** and click **Edit item**.
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**Important:** Before you start listing with Nifty, you must create at least one listing directly on the marketplace. This ensures your seller account is set up correctly.
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### How it works
The **Listing form** is designed so you enter the shared information about your item first, and Nifty uses AI to handle most of the marketplace-specific details.
1. You choose the **Marketplaces** where you want to list the item.
2. You add **Photos and video** that will be reused across those marketplaces.
3. You fill in the **Item overview** (title, description, price, condition, etc.).
4. You complete the **Item details** (category, brand, size, colors, style tags).
5. Nifty’s AI uses your overview and details to prefill the **Marketplace details** section for each selected marketplace.
6. You review and adjust **Marketplace details**, then publish when you’re ready.
To speed up listing even further, you can use **Similar listings**, **Create from…**, and **Shipping presets**. See [Listing Shortcuts](/crosslisting/listing-shortcuts.md) for details.
### Form sections
| Section | What it includes |
| ------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Marketplaces | Where you want to list this item |
| Photos and video | Up to 24 images and 1 video (order matters — first photo is the cover) |
| Item overview | Shared information for the item: title, description, condition, price, quantity, cost of goods, and SKU |
| Item details | General details that tend to apply to all marketplaces: category, brand, size, colors, and style tags. Nifty uses these fields to power AI mapping into marketplace-specific details |
| Nifty details | A place for Nifty-only information, such as **Private Notes**, **Inventory Labels**, and a **Shipping Preset** |
| Marketplace photos | Each marketplace allows a different number of photos; you can customize which photos each marketplace uses. See [Photo Editing and Management](/crosslisting/photo-editing-and-management.md) for details |
| Marketplace details | Marketplace-specific fields that Nifty pre-fills using AI based on your item overview and details (for example, mapping your general category and brand into each marketplace’s category) |
### Saving and publishing
There are two options at the bottom of the page:
* **Save draft** (requires one photo): Saves your work as a draft that you can return to later.
* **List item** (requires complete form): Publishes to each selected marketplace and links them to the same item row in your **Inventory Manager**.
When you click **List item**, you're taken back to the **Inventory Manager** right away — no need to wait. Your work is always saved, even if something goes wrong.
#### If something goes wrong
A **Publishing error** means Nifty tried to create or update a listing, but the marketplace rejected the request. Here's what you need to know:
* **One failure won't block the others.** Each marketplace is submitted separately — if some succeed and others fail, the successful ones still go live, and only the failed ones need your attention.
* **Existing listings are untouched.** If you were editing a listing that's already live, it stays exactly as it was — the update simply didn't go through.
* **Your work is saved.** Click the error icon on the listing to review the error from the marketplace alongside the details you submitted. You can either fix the issue and retry, or discard the change.
To find all listings with errors, use the **Publishing error** filter in **Issues**.
Our marketplace-specific guides outline the most common errors per marketplace:
* [Selling on Depop](/marketplace-guides/selling-on-depop.md)
* [Selling on eBay](/marketplace-guides/selling-on-ebay.md)
* [Selling on Etsy](/marketplace-guides/selling-on-etsy.md)
* [Selling on Mercari](/marketplace-guides/selling-on-mercari.md)
* [Selling on Poshmark](/marketplace-guides/selling-on-poshmark.md)
### Editing items
When you edit an item in Nifty and click **Update**, Nifty updates all connected marketplaces at once. This is the recommended way to make changes because it keeps everything in sync automatically.
If you edit directly on a marketplace (like on eBay's website), Nifty won't know about those changes until you **Sync** or **Refresh**. Even then, you'd need to edit in Nifty to push the change to your other platforms. Editing once within Nifty is more streamlined.
### eBay-specific fields
#### Condition description
For eBay listings, you can add extra details about the item's condition. Click **Add condition description** below the Condition field.
#### Item specifics
eBay organizes item specifics into three categories: required, recommended, and additional. To streamline the listing process, Nifty shows the required and recommended fields by default.
To show additional item specifics, click **Show all fields** at the top right of the Item Specifics section.
### Depop-specific fields
#### Title, description, and hashtags
Depop only has a Description field — there's no separate Title or Tags like other marketplaces. When creating a listing through Nifty, we construct the Description using all three fields in the **Listing form**:
```
Title
Description
#Hashtag1 #Hashtag2 etc.
```
We do it this way because the first few words on Depop are most important for search (SEO) — the same consideration you'd make when writing your title.
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**Important:** Depop only allows 5 hashtags per listing. If you include a hashtag directly in your title/description **and** 5 hashtags in the Listing Form, the listing will be rejected.
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### Limitations
| Limitation | Details |
| -------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Different titles per marketplace | Not available when creating. Workaround: create the listing on some marketplaces, then [crosslist to others](/crosslisting/list-on-marketplace.md) where you can customize |
| Different descriptions per marketplace | Not available when creating. Use the same workaround as above |
| Create multi-variant listings | Items with multiple variants (multiple sizes, colors, etc.) cannot be created or edited via Nifty. If you'd like, you can split the item into multiple listings (multi-quantity is fine) and manage it that way. |
| eBay Motors | We can import eBay Motors listings, but you won't be able to create new ones or choose the right category when editing them. |
| Trading cards (eBay) | We can import eBay trading card listings, but you won't be able to create new eBay trading card listings through Nifty. |
| Phones (Mercari) | We can import Mercari phone listings, but you won't be able to create new phone listings on Mercari through Nifty. |
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