# Selling on Mercari

Use this guide to prepare your Mercari account for Nifty and understand Mercari’s verification steps, listing limits, and quantity rules.

### Account verification

To safely use a third-party listing tool, you must first [verify your information](https://www.mercari.com/us/help_center/topics/account/guides/verification-and-badges/):

1. Go to [**Settings** → **Verifications**](https://www.mercari.com/mypage/verifications/) and verify your phone, email, and government ID
2. Go to [**Settings** → **Tax Center**](https://www.mercari.com/mypage/taxcenter/) and submit your W9
3. Go to [**Settings** → **Account Security**](https://www.mercari.com/mypage/security/) and ensure either SMS or email is selected
4. Sign out of Mercari and sign back in — ensure you receive the verification code

### Payment method

To create new listings on Mercari, you must first add a valid credit or debit card:

1. Add a credit/debit card to [**My Payment Methods**](https://www.mercari.com/mypage/card/)
2. Go to your [**Tax Center**](https://www.mercari.com/mypage/taxcenter/) and ensure the payment method is set to a credit/debit card
3. Confirm the changes by creating a test listing (you can delete it immediately after)

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**Note:** Other payment methods, like PayPal or Venmo, are not sufficient. It must be a card.
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### Listing limit

Mercari uses a progressive listing limit system:

* New accounts start with a 100 listing limit
* Your limit increases by 100 listings for each completed sale
* For example: after 1 sale your limit becomes 200, after 2 sales it becomes 300, and so on

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**Important:** Listing limits are handled directly by Mercari, and you'll need to reach out to their Support team with any issues.
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### Quantity

Mercari only supports quantity of 1 per listing. If you sell multi-quantity items and use **Auto-Adjust Quantity**, Nifty handles this automatically — see [Enabling Auto-Adjust Quantity](/auto-delisting/setup-guide.md#enabling-auto-adjust-quantity) for details.

### Duplicate listings

When listing via Mercari's API, sometimes two listings are created instead of one. This is a known issue and has already been raised to our Mercari counterparts.

If this happens, go to the **Duplicates** page in your **Inventory Manager** and follow the steps in [Finding and Fixing Duplicates](/inventory-management/finding-and-fixing-duplicates.md).

### Shipping labels

Mercari updates their shipping labels annually to account for postage increases. When editing a listing, you may need to select a new label if the previous price is no longer available.

### Limitations

| Limitation                        | Details                                                       |
| --------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------- |
| List more than quantity 1         | Mercari platform limitation                                   |
| Relist authenticated luxury items | Mercari Authenticate™ status doesn't transfer to new listings |


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