CSV bulk uploads worth the setup time?

[af_4686]

Hi 

Curious if people find CSV import actually faster long-term vs manual listing.

[jonathanbrightlight]

It depends on how many items you have to list and how adept you are at the formatting for the CSV uploads. They’re really finicky to get everything exactly correct, but if you’re trying to put up thousands of listings at once it’s definitely faster than doing them the normal way.

[svbooks]

I'm not sure about CSV uploads directly into eBay to create listings -- we do create CSV uploads into SixBit from our custom database ... and then use SixBit to manage nearly all aspects of our eBay listings.  This is much faster overall than adding/managing listings manually on eBay.

However, we do upload small CSV files (only 3 fields) to END listings on eBay when they sell (elsewhere).  That's very quick, the next best thing to having an API link from our database which isn't feasible.

[dealwithmenow]

Agree validating first is key. I use a tool that highlights CSV errors before pushing live.

[dealwithmenow]

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