If you operate an eBay shop or simply list your items as a private seller, it’s useful to know the advantages of using external eBay sales templates and the benefits of hosting your auctions externally.
Benefits of eBay sales templates and external hosting on eBay
- Professional appearance: templates look professional, leading to increased profits. An attractive template design attracts more buyers than eBay’s built-in templates.
- Cost savings: with an external host, you can upload more images to showcase your products down to the last detail. eBay charges additional fees for uploading more photos.
- Responsiveness: sales templates are responsive, adapting to every screen size. As customers increasingly use mobile devices for shopping, sellers must adapt to customer habits.
- Image security: you reduce the risk of your images being deleted or suddenly disappearing. Most hosting services routinely back up all photos. Our software also backs up templates with their descriptions.
- Quick recovery: in rare cases, your auctions may be removed for reasons like technical issues with eBay. With external hosting, you can quickly restore all your auctions. Complete templates with images and descriptions are saved, saving you the effort of recreating descriptions and reuploading images.
- Time savings: templates are ready shortly after you add images with corresponding descriptions. The entire process takes only a few minutes.
- Clone auctions: an interesting feature of our system is the ability to clone auctions. With one click, you can copy any of your eBay sales templates and use them for other products. This feature saves a lot of time when listing on eBay, as all descriptions are copied. This is especially valuable when selling multiple variations of the same product, such as T-shirts in different colors or shoes in all sizes.
What You Won’t Find in Our eBay Sales Templates
In designing our templates, we intentionally left out certain elements. We omitted the following features because we believe they bring more challenges than benefits to sellers:
- Cross selling gallery: to make such a gallery work flawlessly, you would need to use JavaScript or Flash. As we have previously mentioned, eBay has prohibited the use of active content. If someone still offers this type of image gallery, the template is not compliant with eBay or you would need to manually link the photos in the gallery.
- Social media sharing icons: why include icons for sharing on social networks when eBay provides these icons? eBay itself will provide these icons, so there’s no need to include them in the template.
- Dynamic menus or categories: dynamic menus or categories require JavaScript, so our templates do not include these elements. They are also not compliant with eBay. If someone offers menus or categories with drop-down menus, you would need to manually link everything, which naturally takes time.
Conclusion
External eBay sales templates allow for individual and colorful presentation of items you want to sell on eBay. If you also use an external host for your auctions, you can be assured that, in the worst case scenario, you can restore your auctions. It simply saves you time and money.
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