eBay item specifics, filled infrom your supplier’s spreadsheet

No, we never sell or list for you. When eBay makes more item specifics required, it tells the main listing tool providers before the rules apply. Each reacts its own way: some handle the change, others tell you what to do. Either way, every product needs the values, and finding them is our part: brand, size, colour, material and the rest, checked and one per cell. You keep listing the way you do now.

It depends on the category. eBay UK labels each item specific Required, Recommended or Additional, and flags Required Soon where one is about to change. For a required one it gives Brand, Size and Colour as examples.

We clean and complete the data behind them. eBay’s Seller Hub will download a file of your active listings that are missing required or recommended item specifics, which you can fill from ours and upload back to eBay.

The detail your listing varies by is one eBay no longer accepts. Its own example is a kitchen tap listed by “Type” in Stainless steel, Rubbed Bronze and Chrome, which could go under “Finish” instead. Where no valid detail fits, eBay says to make separate listings. We find each version’s real finish, size or colour, spelt one way, ready for whichever detail fits.

An actual brand name, or “Unbranded” when the item has none, and never a value made only of symbols. In one listing every variation shares the same Brand. Where part numbers tell the variations apart, Brand goes in once for the listing and each variation carries its own MPN. We find each product’s brand on the maker’s and retailers’ pages, and spell it one way across the whole file.

Only the ones it is sure of. Under eBay’s plan for fashion sizes, high-confidence values are converted automatically, “Small” to “S” for example, which leaves your own records showing a different value from eBay’s. Missing sizes and ones it cannot read, such as “See description”, get no such help and face a block or a hold. New listings also lose the option of a custom size. We write each size in eBay’s own values from the start.

Because eBay can build part of a listing from it. It uses an EAN to look for a matching product in its catalogue, and a match brings that product’s title, description, item specifics and stock photo into the listing. A code that breaks eBay’s rules is not recognised as a product identifier. So we match every code to the real product, then find the details on the maker’s and retailers’ pages, whether eBay knows the product or not.

eBay UK has set words for that. Where the category requires a barcode and the product has none, the value is “Does not apply”, and the same goes for a maker’s part number that does not exist. Other eBay sites use their own language: “Nicht zutreffend” in Germany, “Non applicable” in France. Those words go in only after the maker’s code has been searched for and not found. A supplier’s stock code never goes in.