EBay is a comprehensive ecommerce solution that provides comprehensive and wonderful services to millions of online shoppers and brings sellers and buyers in to one great platform. EBay creates a central shopping destination where buyers can learn about you, your policies and your products and you can achieve all this by showcasing all your merchandise in one location.

Most sellers who have used eBay services earlier agree to the fact that the store concept has increased their sales drastically. This accounts to about 75% of them. EBay has very comprehensive and resourceful tools and resources to help sellers build, manage, promote, track, list and all other activities one can commonly do in eBay. They also get access to Store Inventory listing format. This allows you to create listings for just $0.05 for a period of 30 days, which is also regardless of quantity.

Items listed on eBay automatically show up in your store within 24 hours. In order to list an item, click the SELL button at the top of any eBay page. EBay is highly comprehensive and they also have specific guidelines and special features that take you through step by step of the listing process. This includes finding appropriate category for your item. You can make use of TurboLister2, Selling Manager Pro, or other advanced selling tools as well to list items in bulk together.

Auction type, Fixed Price, and Store inventory automatically appears in your Store. These listings will appear in your store within 24 hours even when you have live listings and your store is yet to be opened. Every update you make such as adding new listings will automatically be updated to your store as well.

EBay makes use of several ways which are listed below.

1. Every listing has an eBay store icon which links your buyers back to your store.

   
   

2. The same icon also appears next your User ID for better and extra visibility purposes.

   
   

3. The store directory links buyers back to your store.

   
   

4. The stores rotates through the “Shop eBay Stores” section of all searches and other browse pages as well.

   
   

5. You get your own personalized website address which makes it easier for you to drive buyers directly to your store.

One can create up to 300 categories for his/her store. Store category total includes level1, level2 and level3 categories. This means one can have 300 level1 categories or 30 level1 categories with 10 subcategories. EBay automatically creates a default level 1 named “Other Items” that cannot be edited or altered and does not count towards the 300 category limit.

Of course not. This is not allowed. You must list the item only in a category at the bottom of your category structure. In other words, if you have a category named Men’s and another sub category under Men’s named pants, you can list your new pant item only in pants and not in men’s. However, if you initiate a change in the category structure to accommodate the necessary requirements and post your new items at the top of your listing, you would be prompted to move the listings into a new lower level category.

The Store Category for a listing can be changed at any time as per your convenience. However, make sure that the category under which you want to move the listings to has been created.

1. Go to My eBay-> Item’s I’m selling.

   
   

2. In order to find the listings you want to edit make use of the search box and filters at the top of the page.

   
   

3. Tick the checkbox for the listings you want to edit-> Click edit at the top of the table.

   
   

4. In the following screen, choose edit the Store primary and secondary category and click continue.

   
   

5. In the following screen or window, choose new Store primary and secondary categories from the dropdown menu.

Deleting categories will influence the following.

1. Listings : A notification will prompt you to move your listings to another category before deleting the existing category.

   
   

2. Subcategories : The subcategories will be deleted after verification process if in case it doesn’t contain listings.

   
   

3. URL’s : URL’s won’t exist anymore. Although the buyer will be redirected to the User’s Store homepage if in case they are used by the buyer.

The eBay store can be closed by signing into the site and you can do this as and when you please. You’ll have to visit the My eBay page in order to close your store. Click on subscriptions link under “My account” on the left side of the page. The following page will guide you through the closing store procedure and you can get done with the necessary.