Tools you can trust

Overview

  • Use eBay’s AI background enhancement tool to create studio-quality photos for your listings
  • Easily manage your marketing with a simpler, streamlined experience
  • Our new sell-through rate metric allows you to see the demand for an item, making this tool more powerful than ever in determining the market value of your items to help you price and sell them.


Enhance your listing photos with AI

What you need to know

With eBay’s AI background enhancement tool, you can easily take your listing photos to the next level by placing them on high-quality professional backgrounds. This free tool is available on the eBay app, and allows you to generate studio-quality photos to help attract more buyers. There are multiple AI-generated backgrounds to choose from, including solid colors, outdoor scenes, and more, that’ll help your listings stand out.


How it works

  1. First, go to the Selling tab in the eBay mobile app and select List an item (or edit an existing one). Then, upload your product photo.
  2. Use the background removal tool to delete the original backdrop, isolating your item.
  3. Browse and select from a variety of AI-generated backgrounds that best suit your product.
  4. Apply your chosen background to create a professional-looking image that highlights your item.
  5. Review your photo and then proceed with the rest of your listing as usual, now with a more appealing visual presentation.
Series of 5 photos showing how to isolate your item, generate backgrounds, and then preview the final result before publishing.

Next steps

You can start using this tool right now. Just launch the eBay app and start listing.

New Summary and Discounts pages for Store subscribers

What you need to know

With an eBay Store subscription, you can unlock a powerful suite of marketing and discount tools designed to accelerate your sales. Now, you can experience an updated look and feel of your Store pages that make it easier for you to stay on top of your campaigns and monitor the success of your discounts.


Faster to find what you need

Featuring streamlined navigation and a crystal clear overview of your active discounts, your redesigned seller Marketing Tab puts you in the driver’s seat. The simplified left-hand navigation bar provides easy access to your Summary and Discounts pages, plus useful links to your buyer groups and social pages. We’ve also renamed “Promotions” as “Discounts” for more clarity. 


See how your discounts are impacting your sales

Your redesigned Summary page gives you an overall snapshot of your promotional activity, and highlights areas where you might be able to improve your sales. Also, the new Discounts page uses fresh new graphics and performance metrics to give you a clearer view of how your offers are performing, and ensures that you have all the information you need to optimize your business.

By offering different types of discounts, you can catch your buyers’ attention and encourage more sales.

You can choose from:

  • Sale events - Lower prices for a limited time to help your inventory sell faster
  • Coupons - Create coupon codes like “WOW10!” to give buyers a discount they can apply at checkout
  • Offers to buyers - Send exclusive discount offers to buyers interested in your items. This can now be fully automated
  • Volume pricing - Offer discounts for buying more than one of the same item 
  • Order discounts - Encourage larger orders with discounts like “Buy 2 get 1 free”
user experience of the Seller Hub performance metrics

Spread the word

Let your customers know about your new and featured products, share news about sales, coupons, and discounts. 

  • Store newsletter - Build your brand and connect with buyers over email with ready-made newsletter templates
  • Social sharing - Easily create posts to share with your buyers across your social platforms to drive more visits to your listings


Next steps

There’s nothing new for you to do, just enjoy the new experience as it gradually rolls out to all sellers over the next few weeks. If you’re an eBay Store subscriber, head over to your Seller Hub Marketing tab, try out the new features, and start creating and managing your discounts. 

Don’t have a Store subscription? Now’s the perfect time to give it a try and open your eBay Store. You'll have access to all of these marketing tools, plus more great features to help you grow your business.

Price your items like a pro with Product research

What you need to know

A few months ago, we announced that the Product research tool (formerly Terapeak) became available on mobile. To give you deeper insights, we’ve now added the brand new sell-through rate metric you’ve been asking for, so you can see the demand for an item. Read on to find out how the tool works, and what sellers are saying. 


How the tool works

Product research is a free, powerful tool that gives you access to three years of eBay sales and pricing data to help you make more informed decisions about your listings. It shows trends, buyer demand, and even sold listings from other sellers. This equips you with the insights you need to easily determine the popularity of your items, understand their market value, and decide how to price them. 

With the new sell-through rate metric, you’ll be able to see the percentage of similar items sold during a specific period of time. This means you can estimate the speed at which these items are selling, allowing you to quickly price your own items and get them on the market. 

Some of the other data you can see in the tool includes:

  • Actual sold price (incl. the accepted price for Best Offer listings)
  • Average sold price 
  • Sold price range
  • Percentage sold with free shipping/average shipping and number of sellers who have sold the product
  • A price trend graph

The tool also has tons of other features, like a time-saving “Sell one like this” option. It  does all of the hard work for you by creating a new listing and pre-populating it with information from a previously sold one. All you have to do is modify the listing to describe your own item. You can also use advanced filters to refine your search settings and view a custom number of days, so you only ever see what matters to you.


Product research is available to all sellers on desktop when opted in to Seller Hub. To be able to opt in, you’ll need to have made at least one sale, then just click “Start using Seller Hub.” You can also use the tool on mobile if you have one active listing or have previously listed and sold within the last 90 days. 

Start using Product research now to get the info you need to unlock your selling potential.

What sellers are saying

Read what sellers (across the US, UK, and Germany) think of the Product research tool:

“It saves me time researching what products will sell and what amount they will sell for!”

Get started

On mobile

On desktop

Make sure you have the latest version of the eBay app installed on iOS or Android. Click 'Start Now' below where you’ll be directed to the Selling tab in the app. Once here, scroll to the 'Jump to' section to see the 'Research' icon. Click Research and start your first search.

Head over to Seller Hub, and then go to the Research tab at the top of the page. Click the first option, Product research, and you’re ready to go.

You can also download the eBay app from your desktop.

FAQs

It’s a valuable tool for sellers of all levels of expertise and inventory.

We're currently developing new features, and will let you know as soon as these enhancements are ready to use.

Product research is available to all sellers who are opted in to Seller Hub. To be able to opt in, you’ll need to have made at least one sale, and then click “Start using Seller Hub.” Once you’ve done this, click the Research tab and then you’ll see Product research as the first option.

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