Copy Ebay listings to own website?

[Louis Winthorp]

Hi all,

I've got 1200 listings live on Ebay, and as a backup would love to copy them in full to my own shop website (I already own a domain name).

I really don't want to create another 1200 listings on my shop when time would be better spent creating new ebay listings instead.

None of the shop website companies offer a supported option to do this.

I dabbled with Wordpress many years ago and it was a faff. Would really like a simple way of transferring all my hard work on Ebay to my own shop site!

Thanks

 

[fisicx]

Tells you how to do it here:

Selling Manager and Selling Manager Pro: Frequently Asked Questions

 

[Louis Winthorp]

Thanks, but the report that is created is very basic, only containing the title, price etc.

No product description text is available unfortunately.

However, it may be worth me doing this on a daily basis so I at least know what I have, which is over 1300 items listed now.

Regards.

 

[fisicx]

EBay don't really want you to export all data mainly because of people doing what you want to do: take custom away from their platform.

Do all 1200 products sell? You already have a marketing mountain to climb as running your own site is multiple times harder than selling on eBay. Maybe just focus on products that sell well and have a good markup. Then if your new site gains traction start adding more products.

 

[Louis Winthorp]

Thanks for your thoughts. I'm looking to provide as much as possible variation in my niche which is vintage products so it's not really a case of just focussing on just the higher sell through items as there's not really that many overall, or many competitors doing what I'm doing. It's a profitable niche though.

Main reason for wanting to get my own site is last year I received 2x generic emails from Ebay explaining the requirement to provide provenance for my items, which is a bit difficult on 50+ year old used items.

 

[fisicx]

You can make your life a bit simpler. Most ecommerce platforms have an importer function. This means you can create the listings using a spreadsheet which creates the listings on the site.

It does need a bit of preparation but once you have all the attributes in place it's just a matter of copying from ebay and pasting into the spreadsheet.

I've recently helped someone do this for about 3000 products. Didn't take long as there was lots of repetition in some of the fields.

 

[Louis Winthorp]

^ That's exactly what I would be after. If the description was a field on a spreadsheet that would be fine.

I tried with EKM Powershop iirc but the import function didn't work.

Please can I ask which shop you used and which import app as I haven't found a shop that actually has it's own import app/support for it?

Thanks.

 

[fisicx]

I tend to use woo commerce because that what I’m used to. It’s not the best but I’m too old to learn how to use others.

This is the tool we used:

WP All Import – Product Import for WooCommerce

Drag & drop to import products from any CSV, XML, Excel, or Google Sheets file. Supports variations, images, attributes, brands, and more with pow …

wordpress.org

 

[Louis Winthorp]

Ok thanks for your help. I will take a look. Thanks for taking the time

 

[japancool]

I don't know what you mean by "import app", but almost all ecommerce systems have an import function. I use BigCommrtce, and I import products via CSV files all the tine.

 

[LPB 123]

There's some importing apps that you can use to import eBay listings to a Shopify store.

 

[makeusvisible]

Have you considered using a channel manager?

Installing a channel manager plugin onto the site would allow you to setup synchronisation between your stock/prices/product descriptions.

It maybe that you don't want to use all the features of a channel manager on-going, but the initial sync will solve you problem of creating products on the website.

Something like this....there are lots of alternatives.

Retired

Examining, refining and streamlining our product offering is of paramount importance to us at WooCommerce. Retiring older products helps to ensure you receive the best possible offering across our various product ranges.

woocommerce.com

 

[Louis Winthorp]

There's some importing apps that you can use to import eBay listings to a Shopify store.

Thanks. Have you had success with any?

 

[Louis Winthorp]

Have you considered using a channel manager?

Installing a channel manager plugin onto the site would allow you to setup synchronisation between your stock/prices/product descriptions.

It maybe that you don't want to use all the features of a channel manager on-going, but the initial sync will solve you problem of creating products on the website.

Something like this....there are lots of alternatives.

Thanks for your thoughts. I don't want to have anything that can physically affect any Ebay listings, just something that can copy them across with as simple a process as possible.

 

[makeusvisible]

Thanks for your thoughts. I don't want to have anything that can physically affect any Ebay listings, just something that can copy them across with as simple a process as possible.

Yeah you can setup channel managers so that its a one-way sync, thus your eBay listings are never altered.

 

[Louis Winthorp]

Yeah you can setup channel managers so that its a one-way sync, thus your eBay listings are never altered.

Ok thanks for that, will take a look into it. Cheers

 

[webjaved]

Ok thanks for that, will take a look into it. Cheers

Let us know how you get on. Good luck.

 

[Louis Winthorp]

Let us know how you get on. Good luck.

Thanks will do, just need to get my tax return out of the way first :-(

 

[antropy]

As others have said there are many channel managers like Channel Grabber, Channel Advisor, Linnworks, etc. and most connect to many shop platforms like OpenCart or Prestashop.

Would you like us to help you set up a shop? If so feel free to email [email protected]

Paul.

 

[Iain_Henderson]

I use WP>Woo and the eBay plugin from WPLister - would do exactly what you need re importing in your eBay listings (and can also sync sales and inventory!)