How to switch from beginner Selling form to full version?

[a_c_green]

I've been mentoring a new seller for a couple of months now and all has been going fine (over a dozen sales totaling over $200 so far), but some of the earliest items that had been listed as auctions are now rolling off the relist queue and into the Unsold folder. The plan is to relist the Unsold items as Fixed Price (lower than their auction opening price that didn't fetch bids), but I cannot find the Immediate Payment Required checkbox in the simplified listing form (I seem to recall that it's not available there), nor can I find how to switch from that form to the full Listing form that I have been using for years myself in my own account.

So far this new seller has an Above Standard rating (next evaluation is March 20), 100% ratings on everything, and has already been included in eBay International Shipping. Is the full Listing form something that he still needs to qualify for, or am I just looking in the wrong place? Any guide or screenshots on how I can find a way to get from the newbie form to the Selling form that I use myself (which has the IPR checkbox near the bottom) would be welcome; thanks.

[b86fiero]

Isn't that under Manage My Store or Seller Account? Or listing policies?

[kensgiftshop]

On the listing form, there used to be a link in the upper right to switch to the advanced/business tool or whatever they are calling it today, but I don't see it any more.

Not sure where it's at now.

[mcdougle4248]

Are they using Seller Hub? AFAIK, the listing form accessed through Seller Hub is most likely what you are looking for.

Have them try starting a listing here:

https://www.ebay.com/sl/prelist/suggest?sr=shstart 

[chapeau-noir]

@a_c_green  Advanced listing tool.

The 'unified' listing tool is through the seller hub.

[a_c_green]

Ah - found it! Thanks for your replies. It is in fact Seller Hub... only I could not find any direct path to it via the new seller's somewhat simplified interface. 

We finally got there from the newbie page (this was a few minutes before your later replies above) by using the Help and Contact link to open a Search field, then typing in "Seller Hub," which brought us to a link for it:

Whacking that blue Seller Hub button took us directly to the big Seller Hub splash screen at https://www.ebay.com/sh/ovw, and then from there we revised all of our past browser links to point to the more-detailed Seller Hub versions of the Active listings, Scheduled, Sold, Unsold, etc.

We then brought up the Unsold listings to edit, and the Seller Hub listing form then allowed us to see the Immediate Payment Required checkbox where I was expecting to find it. It turned out that the IPR option was already checked, although the newbie seller form doesn't show it at all.

All good now, but I am a little baffled about why Seller Hub is not directly accessible from any of the newbie listing pages as far as I could see. I only got there because the Seller Hub term finally popped into my head, and I went to the Help pages to see if we needed to qualify for it. Apparently you're qualified as soon as you have made one sale.

[chapeau-noir]

Those listing categories (active, sold, unsold, etc.) aren't really 'versions' of the seller hub, though - they can be accessed simply from the left sidebar on the 'listings' tab without having to deal with lists of URLs.

[a_c_green]

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@chapeau-noir wrote:

Those listing categories (active, sold, unsold, etc.) aren't really 'versions' of the seller hub, though - they can be accessed simply from the left sidebar on the 'listings' tab without having to deal with lists of URLs.

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Right, but what I mean is that the formats of those listing categories (Active, Sold, Unsold, etc.) are different depending on whether you're... um, using the Seller Hub "view" vs. what a new seller is handed initially.

I've been selling here non-stop for 20 years, so I had a bit of a learning curve myself when mentoring the new guy and looking over his shoulder, as I was seeing basic or simplified pages that new sellers are shown, and a lot of the details I take for granted when doing my own stuff were either shown differently or (in the case of the IPR checkbox) not shown at all.

Our plan with the items he's listing was to run each as an auction with a modest opening price, in case some turned out to be rarities that would trigger competitive bidding, and in a few cases that did happen. He uploads a few new items each day and lets the unsold auction listings re-list automatically, which they will do for a total of eight weeks, after which they will roll off into the Unsold folder. (eBay's explanation of the relisting process says that you get 3 relists per item, but in fact you get 7 relists, for a total of eight weeks' auction exposure.)

Once an item lands in the Unsold folder, as his very earliest auctions (opened 1st week of January) are now doing, the plan is to drop the price for each and relist as Fixed Price from then on. (No Make Offers as of now, maybe later, and all items are Free Shipping.) Once he's into a good daily routine, we can explore discounts, etc., for the older stuff.

[wastingtime101]

I realize you didn't ask about this @a_c_green , but I think it's worth mentioning.

The seller you are mentoring is probably defaulted to the simplified shipping label purchase page (assuming they are buying labels through eBay). Tell them to expand settings on the top right so they can see options like sig conf, insurance, changing ship from address, label size, etc. The setting is sticky so they should only have to expand options once.

[a_c_green]

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@wastingtime101 wrote:

The seller you are mentoring is probably defaulted to the simplified shipping label purchase page (assuming they are buying labels through eBay).

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Yes, thanks; we actually found the Advanced shipping form right away (there's a direct link to it from the simplified form), as soon as the first item sold, so we've been using the full label form since the beginning.

[native_sun_books]

OK, this doesn't work for me.  No matter what I do from the Seller Hub, I get the idiot-level multiple-choice guided listing form.  There are no options.  The "Advanced Listing Tool" help page isn't helpful here ans it offers no clue how to GET to the Advanced Listing Tool.  A link would be helpful.