See Also

  1. Printing Listing Labels
  2. Rescheduling Listings
  3. Adding to a Listings Description
  4. Cancelling Listings
  5. Submitting Second Chance Offers
  6. Viewing Listings on an eCommerce Site
  7. Handling Failed Revisions
  8. Refreshing Listings
  9. Answering Buyer Questions

Revising a Listing

While a listing is running, there may be a need to update some information in the listing or the quantity available.  What can be modified in the listing will depend upon the rules of the eCommerce site which may restrict changes based on the amount of time left on the listing or other factors.

 

Revising listings can be performed either a listing at a time or in batches.  To revise a single listing, a listing record will be opened allowing for the requested changes to be made.  To revise a batch of listings at once, change actions can be specified and then applied to all selected listings at once.  By saving a batch change definition, similar batch changes can be made more quickly in the future.

 

To revise a single listing:

  1. Open the Check Listings mode.     How?How? From the Mode selector in the lower left, choose Check Listings.
  2. From the grid, select the listing that will be revised.
  3. From the Modify tab on the ribbon bar, click the Revise button.  
 		 Errors are reported when an listing fails to revise.  Warnings are reported when the site provides information about the submission that does not prevent it from listing.  Warnings can be suppressed from Options|General|Error/Warning Handling.

 

  1. A listing record is a copy of the original item record that was created at the time it was listed.  Any modifications that are made to the listing during a revision will not necessarily change the original item record.  To change the original item record at the same time the listing is being revised, check the Apply changes to item so it applies to all future listings box.
  2. SixBit cannot tell if pictures have changed. If modifications have been made to pictures or they must be uploaded again, for any reason, check the Resend pictures with revision box.
  3. Click OK to send the revision.  Depending on how the site handles revision requests, the revision will either be made immediately or the request will be submitted and the listing will be placed into the Submission Pending status until the site acknowledges the revision is complete.  See Interaction_with_the_Site for more information on how sites handle revision calls.

 

To revise multiple listings in a batch:

  1. Open the Check Listings mode.     How?How? From the Mode selector in the lower left, choose Check Listings.
  2. From the grid, select the running listings that will be revised.
  3. From the Modify tab on the ribbon bar, click the arrow under the Revise button and choose Batch Change.

  1. If a similar batch change has been saved as a Batch Change Definition in the past, it can be used as a starting point.  Choose it from the Batch Change Definition dropdown.
  2. To make changes to any listing field, select the Listing Fields tab.
  3. In the first Field Name dropdown on the left, select the field to be changed.
  4. In the Action dropdown just to the right of the field dropdown, choose the action that will be performed.  The following actions are allowed.
Action Applies to Description

Change to

 Numeric, Text, Boolean (True/False) Changes the field to the specified value
Add, Subtract, Multiply, Divide Numeric Performs the requested math operation on the original value
Percent Increase Numeric Increases the value by the specified percentage
Percent Decrease Numeric Decreases the value by the specified percentage

Undo Percent Increase

 Numeric This will undo a percent increase.  For example, increasing the price of a $100 item by 10% will set the price to $110.  Performing an immediate percent decrease of 10% will not return the value to $100, but instead will decrease the price by $11 to $99.   Use the Undo Percent Increase of 10% to return the $110 price back to $100.

Undo Percent Decrease

 Numeric This will undo a percent decrease.  For example, decreasing the price of a $100 item by 10% will set the price to $90.  Performing an immediate percent increase of 10% will not return the value to $100, but instead will increase the price by $9 to $99.   Use the Undo Percent Decrease of 10% to return the $90 price back to $100.
Append Text Adds the specified text to the end of the field.
Prepend Text Adds the specified text to the beginning of the field.
Replace Text Replaces the value in the field with the specified value
Assign from Text Assigns the field value with the value from another field

 

  1. In the last column on the right, enter the Action Value.
  2. Click the plus icon () to add additional changes.  
  3. The minus icon () can be used to remove changes at any time.
  4. To make changes to item specifics values, select the Item Specifics tab.

  1. Different categories can contain different item specifics.  Each unique category in the selected listings will be loaded into the batch change view.  Use the navigation arrows to navigate between categories.
  2. For each category that is to have item specifics changed, select the item specific and the value it will be changed to.
  3. Click the plus icon () to add additional changes.  
  4. The minus icon () can be used to remove changes at any time.
  5. The Advanced Expander can be expanded to see the details of the database query that will be performed.
  6. A listing record is a copy of the original item record that was created at the time it was listed.  Any modifications that are made to the listing during a revision will not necessarily change the original item record.  To change the original item record at the same time the listing is being revised, check the Apply changes to item so it applies to all future listings box.
  7. SixBit cannot tell if pictures have changed. If modifications have been made to pictures or they must be uploaded again, for any reason, check the Resend pictures with revision box.
  8. Check Save this Batch Change Definition to save these changes as a named definition.  This will allow them to be easily repeated in the future.
  9. Click OK to perform the change.  Depending on how the site handles revision requests, the revision will either be made immediately or the request will be submitted and the listing will be placed into the Submission Pending status until the site acknowledges the revision is complete.  See Interaction_with_the_Site for more information on how sites handle revision calls.
 		 Errors are reported when an listing fails to revise.  Warnings are reported when the site provides information about the submission that does not prevent it from listing.  Warnings can be suppressed from Options|General|Error/Warning Handling.

To revise the Custom Duration on Listings:

  1. Open the Check Listings mode.     How?How? From the Mode selector in the lower left, choose Check Listings.
  2. From the grid, select the running listings that will be revised.
  3. Right-click and choose "Set eBay Custom Duration".  Then enter the number of days for your custom duration and click OK

 

  1. After setting the custom duration, the listing will be ended and relisted based on the original Start Date.