For selling single books on eBay with your inventory as the source of truth. Stash works with eBay through files today: a list out, your sold report back. Needs a Seller plan or above and an eBay seller account.
1. Get your eBay account ready
In eBay Seller Hub, save a payment policy, a return policy, and a postage policy. eBay blocks fixed-price listings from accounts without them, whichever way you upload. Do this once, before you list anything.
2. Price and photograph the books
A listing is only as good as the record behind it. Set the asking price, grade honestly, put the flaws in the notes, and photograph your actual copy. Stock cover images sell a book you are not holding, which is how returns start.
Detail: Inventory.
3. Export the books you are listing
In Inventory, select the books, choose Sell, tick eBay, then Publish. You get a CSV of titles, issue numbers, publishers, conditions and prices, and the books are marked as listed on eBay so you can see what is out there.
4. Upload to eBay
Create the listings on eBay from that file, using Seller Hub’s bulk listing tools, and add your photos there. Keep the file: it is your read-out of grades and asking prices while you work.
5. Bring your sales back
When something sells, download your orders or sold report from eBay Seller Hub. In Settings → Marketplaces, open the eBay card and click Import CSV. Check the sold price, buyer and date columns are mapped to the right fields, then import. Matched books are marked sold and the orders are recorded.
Do this after each sale or at the end of a selling day. Importing is what keeps a sold book from still being offered somewhere else.
Detail: Marketplaces.
6. Ship it and count it
Buy a USPS or UPS label from the sale once EasyPost is connected, then check the profit. eBay fees and postage come out of the margin, so the honest number is the one after both.
Detail: Shipping labels, Orders and customers, and Dashboard.
Gotchas
- Rows that match nothing are skipped and reported. Usually a title that reads differently in the two systems. Fix the title in Stash, or log that sale by hand on the item.
- One physical copy, several channels. Recording the sale in Stash closes that book’s listings on your other channels, but you still end the listing at the marketplace itself.
- Direct listing to eBay is coming. Publishing straight from an item, without the file step, is waiting on eBay’s approval of our seller integration. This page will change when it lands, and nothing you do now is wasted: the inventory is the same.