Scheduling

Choose when listings go live, and schedule them automatically once they pass quality control.

Overview

Turn scheduling on

Default schedule

QC auto-scheduling

The scheduling matrix

Saving

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Scheduling: Open Settings and choose Scheduling, under Listings. It sets when new listings go live on eBay, and can schedule listings automatically as soon as they pass quality control. The settings are shared by the whole workspace.

Scheduling is off until you turn it on.

Default scheduling preferences: Turn this on to give every new Capture a schedule, shown on its Settings tab under Schedule. You can still change the schedule for one item. Turning it off again, once saved, removes all of your scheduling settings straight away, including QC auto-scheduling and the scheduling matrix.

When new Captures are scheduled to go live.

Mode: Choose Daily to list at one time every day, or Weekly to list at set days and times. Daily is the default.
Time: With Daily, listings go live at this time, today if it hasn’t passed yet, otherwise tomorrow. It starts at 09:00.
Weekly slots: With Weekly, listings go live at the next of your slots. Each slot is a day and a time, such as Tuesday at 19:00 and Sunday at 18:00. The cross removes a slot. You need at least one slot to save.
Add slot: Adds a slot on the next day that doesn’t have one yet, at 09:00. Change the day and time to suit.

Schedules listings on eBay as soon as they’re approved in quality control, following your scheduling matrix.

Enable auto-scheduling: Turn this on to queue each listing for eBay automatically when it’s approved in quality control. You need a connected eBay account that can submit listings. If yours can’t, the switch is greyed out and the reason is shown below it. While auto-scheduling is on, batch submissions to eBay are switched off, because approvals are sent automatically.
Tenant timezone: The time zone your matrix rules and the preview use. Search the list and choose your zone, such as Europe/London. It starts as UTC.
Rollover to next schedule: What happens when an approval doesn’t fall in any rule’s window. On: it’s treated as the start of the next window. Off: the listing waits for someone to submit it. Off by default.
Default auction duration: How long auctions run, unless a rule sets its own duration. Choose 1, 3, 5, 7 or 10 days. The default is 7 days.

Shown once auto-scheduling is on. Each rule links when a listing is approved to when it goes live. You need at least one rule to save.

Add matrix rule: Adds a rule that starts as Monday 09:00 to 20:00, going live on Tuesday at 20:00 with the default auction duration. Change it to suit.
Source: The day, and optionally the start and end times, that approvals are matched on. Leave both times empty to match the whole day. If you set one, set both, with the start before the end.
Target: The day and time the listing goes live, and how long its auction runs. Default uses the default auction duration. If the target is the same day as the source and that time has already passed, the listing goes live a week later. The cross removes the rule.
Live windowOptional: Optional. A start and end time on the target day, so listings go live at a random moment within it instead of all at once. It must stay on the same day.
Example: This rule has Source Monday with no times, Target Thursday at 19:00 and a 7 day duration. Anything approved on a Monday goes live that Thursday evening and ends the following Thursday. With a Live window of 19:00 to 20:00, those listings spread across the hour.
Preview: Shows when a listing approved right now would go live, when its auction would end, and the time zone used. With a live window, it shows the middle of the window. If nothing would be scheduled, it says why, for example when no rule matches and rollover is off.

Save changes: Appears once you change something. Your changes apply only when you choose it. It’s greyed out while something is incomplete, such as a missing time, a start time after its end time, or auto-scheduling with no matrix rules.
For one Capture: To keep one Capture out of auto-scheduling, turn off QC auto-scheduling on its Settings tab.