Categories & Aspects
Guide how Superlister picks eBay categories, and control the item specifics and conditions it uses.
Overview
Category Guidance
Blocked Categories
Aspect Preferences
Condition Preferences
Things to know
Click the screen or use the arrow keys to step through.
01Overview
02Category Guidance
Instructions Superlister follows when it lists an item in a category, such as what to mention or how to describe sizes.
- Search for a category
Type at least two letters to search eBay’s categories. Each result shows the category’s name, its ID and the categories above it. Pick one from the results. The other areas use the same search.
- Guidance
Write what Superlister should do for items in this category, for example: Always give the tape format and say whether the camcorder was tested with a tape.
- Add Guidance
Saves the guidance. It’s available once you’ve chosen a category and written something. A category has one set of guidance, so adding guidance for a category that already has some replaces it.
- Existing Guidance
Your saved guidance, listed by Category ID. The pencil lets you change the text, then choose Save or Cancel. The bin deletes it straight away.
03Blocked Categories
Categories Superlister will never list in.
- Block Category
Search for a category, pick it and choose Block Category. When an item would fit a blocked category, Superlister picks the next best one.
- Unblock
Blocked categories are listed by Category ID, with the date they were blocked. Unblock removes the block straight away.
04Aspect Preferences
Aspects are eBay’s item specifics, such as Brand, Format or Colour. Search for a category first. Only the most specific categories, the ones items are listed in, appear here.
- Select an aspect
Lists the category’s aspects. Each is marked Required or Optional by eBay.
- Block Aspect
Superlister never fills in this aspect.
- Block Value
Superlister never uses the values you choose for this aspect.
- Lock Value
Superlister always uses the values you choose for this aspect, instead of picking its own.
- Values
For Block Value and Lock Value, pick values from eBay’s list. Each one you pick appears below it, and the bin beside it removes it. For aspects that can have more than one value, Enter custom value lets you type your own and add it with the plus button. Select from predefined values goes back to the list.
- Add Preference
Saves the preference. It’s available once you’ve chosen a category, an aspect and, for Block Value or Lock Value, at least one value. Adding the same type again for the same aspect replaces its values.
- Existing Preferences
Each preference shows its Category ID, the aspect, its type and any values. The bin deletes it straight away.
05Condition Preferences
Control the condition Superlister chooses in a category. Search for a category first, then choose a preference type. As with aspects, only the most specific categories appear.
- Lock Condition
Always use this condition.
- Block Condition
Never use this condition.
- Custom Text
Use your own text as the condition description whenever Superlister chooses this condition.
- Select a condition
Lists the conditions eBay allows in the category.
- Custom condition text
Appears for Custom Text. Write the description to use, for example: Tested with film. Light wear consistent with age, see photos. Custom text can’t be set for the New condition.
- Add Preference
Saves the preference. It’s available once you’ve chosen a category and a condition and, for Custom Text, written the text. Each combination of condition and type can only be added once per category.
- Existing Condition Preferences
Grouped by Category ID, each showing its type and condition. The bin deletes a Lock Condition or Block Condition preference straight away. If a category has more than one Block Condition, the bin removes all of them.
06Things to know
- How preferences apply
Each change saves as soon as you add or remove it. Preferences apply to the whole workspace, and if two people set the same one, the latest wins. They affect listings written after you save them.