How to upload to eBay Store using ebay Turbolister

If you have an eBay account/store, you can download the Turbolister feed format to upload your feed in bulk to your account/store via the Turbolister listing tool provided for FREE by eBay.

If you do not currently have Turbolister, you can download it from here. At this point, the Turbolister application is only supported on Windows platform and cannot be used on Mac operating systems.

Download Turbolister and install it locally on your machine. (Double-click the setupUS.exe to start installation.)
Once installed, open up the application and set up your profile which will be the first prompt the software will give you.
Set up your first file as shown.

To import your product feed file, highlight the Inventory window on the top left panel.
- Go to File > Import Items > From File...
- Browse to and select your downloaded Turbolister product feed file.
To import your product feed file, highlight the Inventory window on the top left panel.
- Go to File > Import Items > From File...
- Browse to and select your downloaded Turbolister product feed file.
In the Import From File window box, under Import Selected Fields, Select All fields except for ProductID.
Click the Import button which will import your items into Turbolister.

Please note that the feed file should be closed and not in use while doing the import or this step will fail.

Once imported, you will see your product feed items appear at the right hand window panel. Highlight selected or all of the items that you wish to upload to your live eBay account and click on Add to Upload.
The items will then appear under the Waiting to Upload section on the left hand side panel.
From Waiting to Upload, you can either:
- Click on Calculate Fees if you wish to see the charges for your upload.
- Or click on Upload All to upload the items to your live eBay account. You will be prompted about the fees that you will be charged. Click Ok to continue.
Once the upload is complete, the items will appear under the Listing Activity window panel under Active Listings. You should now also be able to access your items via your storefront.

Customizing your Turbolister Feed File

You can make configurations to your turbolister feed file if you wish. Below are explanations of some of the fields to help you.

Columm Name	Explanation of usage
Site	This indicates the country site where you will be uploading your products to. 0 is for eBay US. See below for additional values for various countries: eBay Canada = 2 eBay UK = 3 eBay Australia = 15
Format	Indicates the format of your eBay listing. 9 indicates a Fixed Price format. You can set this to 1 for Auction format.
Currency	Indicates the currency of the listing. 1 indicates USD. Additional values: CAD = 2 GBP = 3 AUD = 5 EUR = 7
Title	The item title
Description	The item description
SubtitleText	A secondary field to the title, which appears in search results for an item. Max character length is 55. Additional fees apply for this field.
Category 1	This is the category in which your listing appears in. If you wish to edit this, you can look up the category ID options here.
Category 2	Additional category which you want your items to appear in. For a list of Category ID options, click here.
Store Category	If you have a custom store category, you can specify the custom ID here. By default this is set to 1 to indicate 'Other'.
Starting Price	Item price
Duration	The listing duration. By default this is set to GTC (Good Til Cancelled). Other possible values are: 1, 3, 5, 7, 10, 30 (days).
Payment Instructions	Any special payment instruction that you would like to add to your listings. Max character length is 500.
PayPal Email Address	Your paypal email address. By default this is set to your account email.
Location - Country	The location of the item. By default this is set to the Country specified in your account.
ThemeId	A list of themes available from eBay can be found here. By default, this is populated with 27 which is the 'Jewelry-Blue' theme
ShippingServiceOptions	This is an encrypted field and by default sets the Shipping & Handling to Free Shipping. If you want to modify this, edit one of your listings manually via Turbolister, then export the file into a Turbolister file (Under File>Export) and copy the encrypted value in your exported Turbolister file as the value in this field.
Zip	The location of the item. By default this is set to the zip code specified in your account.
DispatchTimeMax	Specifies the handling time in business days.
BuyerRequirementDetails/MaximumUnpaidItemStrikesInfo/Count	This specifies the maximum number of unpaid strikes a user can have during a specified period (see field below). By default this is set to 2. Other possible values are 3, 4 or 5.
BuyerRequirementDetails/ MaximumUnpaidItemStrikesInfo/Period	This specifies the period during which a user can incur a specific number of unpaid strikes (see field above). By default this is set to 30 days (Days_30).
SellerTags	This field contains details of Item Specifics that appear in your listing in XML format. These can be edited as you wish but need to be given in correct XML syntax. You can use an XML editor to validate the syntax.
ReturnsAccepted	Indicates whether returns are accepted or not. By default this is set to 1 to specify that returns are not accepted. Set to 0 if you accept returns.
ReturnsWithin	The length of time in which returns are accepted. Possible values are Days_14, Days_30, Days_60.
Refund	Indicates how a refund is given to a user. Possible options are MoneyBack or MoneyBackorExchange.
Variations	Specifies the size variations and any dependencies on size variations (such as gram weight). Can be edited, however syntax needs to be valid XML syntax.

You can also manually edit individual listings in Turbolister directly by right-clicking the listing under Waiting to Upload, and choosing Edit...

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