Selling on eBay
Use this guide to get your eBay account ready to list with Nifty and understand how eBay’s listing limits, insertion fees, and auction rules interact with Nifty.
Business policies
To create new listings on eBay, you must first set up business policies. You need at least one of each:
Shipping policy
Return policy
Payment policy
To set up business policies:
Go to your eBay Business Policies
Create at least one policy for each type
Tip: We recommend watching this video tutorial created by one of our customers, which guides you through the process step-by-step.
Listing limits
eBay has two types of limits: a total number of listings, and their total value. eBay reviews your account every month and adjusts the limits automatically.
If you'd like to request a limit increase, you can follow the instructions on eBay's site.
Insertion fees
eBay allows 250 free listings per month. After that, eBay charges a $0.35 insertion fee every time an item is listed, and every time an item auto-renews (every 30 days by default).
If you have more than 250 items, consider upgrading to an eBay Store. This is a monthly subscription that allows for more "free" listings, and often works out cheaper than paying insertion fees.
How Nifty's recreate feature affects insertion fees
Using Nifty's automatic relist (recreate) feature will result in minimally more insertion fees than using eBay's auto-renewal alone. Here's why:
eBay charges an insertion fee when a listing is created and when it auto-renews
Nifty recreates listings one day before auto-renewal to give you a fresh listing ID
You pay the insertion fee one day early, but you'd pay it anyway at renewal
Important: If an item is listed on the first day of the month, it will be recreated on the last day of the month. This is the only time you'll pay two insertion fees for the same listing in the same calendar month.
For most sellers, the benefits of fresh listings outweigh this minimal cost difference.
Auction-style listings
Nifty's Inventory Manager supports fixed-price listings only. Auction-style listings cannot be modified or ended freely, so we can't manage them.
If you already have auction-style listings and want to bring them into Nifty, you'll need to:
End the auction (if eBay allows — auctions with bids can't be ended)
Use eBay's Sell similar to create a new listing
Choose fixed-price format instead of auction
Sales from auction listings can still be imported into Analytics.
Troubleshooting
“The item cannot be listed or modified…” error
When listing through Nifty, eBay may return an error that looks like this:
The item cannot be listed or modified. The title and/or description may contain improper words.
Unfortunately, we don't receive any extra detail beyond this message. eBay doesn't tell Nifty which word, field, or policy is causing the issue.
To resolve it: contact eBay Support and share the exact listing details and error text.
Limitations
Connect multiple eBay accounts
Only one eBay account per Nifty account
Manage auction-style listings
Fixed-price only; see above for how to convert
Extract all shipping fees
International orders, PayPal labels, and Bulk Shipping Tool labels aren't captured
Update "Your Cost" on eBay
This is a new feature and not yet supported by the eBay API
Scheduled listings status
eBay Scheduled listings are imported and shown as Listed in Nifty
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