***Adjustment to the expansion of our Shop by Product initiative***

11 September, 2018 | 01:11PM BST

We’re working towards providing your buyers with a product-based shopping experience. Since we started, thousands of shoppers have used this experience to shop on eBay and we’re receiving many great contributions to our catalogue. We’re confident that we’re on the right path.

However, as we approach the busiest trading period of the year, we know your workload is increasing - you’re bringing in new inventory and have more and more orders that need to be fulfilled in a timely manner.

With this in mind, we’ve decided to adjust our plans regarding the expansion of our Shop by Product initiative.

With the exception of Apple devices where the catalogue mandate is already in place , we’re no longer requiring you to match your items with the eBay catalogue in the Mobile & Smart Phones and the Tablets & eBook Readers categories by late September. In other words, there will be no changes to the current listing experience for items in those two categories. You’ll start receiving notifications via email and in Seller Hub when you should start to revise those listings, well in advance of when catalogue matches will be required in 2019.

For the other categories announced , you’ll need to match your new and revised listings to products in our catalogue by late September. Use Seller Hub to identify all of your listings that need revising. And as a reminder, if the product you’re selling is not catalogued or inaccurately described, you’ll need to submit changes or a new catalogue entry before making the match.

Find out more about the latest with Shop by Product in the Autumn business seller update.

 
Thanks
 
The eBay team