eBay Launch Profile

Scheduled launches allow you to create launch profiles for multiple item use. Most sellers have two or three different times/methods they like to use to list their items and rather than create a schedule for each item you list, you can use reusable launch profiles.

Once you have created and saved a launch profile, as you are listing your items, select that profile from the drop down menu.

There are three types of repeat launch schedules available:

Weekly Schedules

• Used to create schedules that repeat on a weekly basis.

• Used for multiple quantities (more than one in inventory) with more than one listing.

• Ideal for multiple quantities (more than one in inventory) where you want multiple listings on eBay.

Custom Schedules

• Used to create schedules that repeat on a custom basis, such as repeat the schedule every three days.

• Used for multiple quantities (more than one in inventory) with more than one listing.

• Ideal for multiple quantities (more than one in inventory) where you want multiple listings on eBay.

Launch Once Schedules

• Used to create a repeat schedule that is launched one time with auto relist.

• Ideal for multiple quantities (more than one in inventory) where you want to maintain one listing on eBay.

Weekly Schedule

Weekly schedules are ideal for merchants who have more than one item in inventory and want to run multiple eBay Listings for the same item.

Start On:  

Specify the date you wish to begin running your listing schedule. You can specify a date up to six months from the date you created the profile.

Type

Use Weekly Schedule to set a repeating launch schedule based on a 7 day week.

Run Schedule Every

Weekly schedules can be set to run every week , or every “x” weeks. For example, if you enter “1” in this field, the schedule will run every week, and if you enter “2” a bi-weekly schedule will be created. You can choose to run the schedule at any weekly interval using this option.

Listings Per Ad

Set the launch day and time for the schedule.  Determine how many listings will be launched at each specified time. “Listings per ad” refers to how many listings will be launched at each specified time (not how many items will be included in each listing).

For example, to launch five of the SAME listing, enter 5 in the Listings Per Ad box (The numbers of items in each listing is set under “Quantity per Listing” under eBay Info).

Limit Launches on Market

Using this option, you may control the number of listings you have on eBay.

Select No to allow unlimited listings to be launched according to your defined schedule.

Select Yes to hold launches when there are “x” Listings/Quantity per SKU on Market to allow you to inhibit launches once a certain number of items are on eBay.

When you do wish to halt the schedule, enter the quantity that you do not want to exceed. Once the quantity on market is less than the value “x”, the schedule will resume at the next upcoming day/time.

Keep in mind, the “Allow Overselling” setting in the main Item Info section will be factored into whether items launch. If “Do not allow overselling” is selected, we first check to determine if there is adequate inventory available. If there is not, we will not launch an item even if you do not limit the quantity on market.

When a Listing Ends

When using Best Offer or BIN, you can choose to have another launch as soon as the item ends without affecting your schedule. It is important to note that if you choose to “Launch Immediately (backfill), without affecting my schedule”, that your normal schedule will still apply. Thus, if you launch 10 listings, and have a repeat schedule, and 5 of them end with a BIN purchase, 5 additional listings would be placed on the marketplace. It is recommended that if you use this option, that you use “Limit Launches on Market” to prevent an unwanted amount of listings.

Time Between Launches

This allows you to specify a specific time interval between launches.

• Fixed Interval will launch items every “x” minutes apart (value for “x” is set by you). For example, if you enter “5” in this field, and your schedule specifies 4 listings every weekday at 12:00 pm, every Monday through Friday your first listing will launch at 12:00 pm, another listing will launch at 12:05 pm, another at 12:10 pm, another at 12:15 pm, and the last listing will launch at 12:20 pm.

• Calculated Interval will spread launches evenly across the specified number of minutes, starting from the earliest launch time in the schedule. Use this option if you want to ensure that you have an even distribution of listings available across a given time period.

For example, if you enter “240” minutes in this field, and your schedule specifies 6 listings every weekday starting with the first launch at 12:00 pm, then every Monday through Friday at 12:00 pm your first listing will launch, another listing will launch at 12:40, another at 1:20, another at 2:00, another at 2:40, with the sixth and last listing launching at 3:20. Effectively, this option takes the number of minutes you specify and adds it to the earliest launch time, and then divides by the number of items being launched. In the above example, 240 minutes (4 hours) was added to 12:00, and the 6 items were launched at a rate of 1 every 40 minutes, starting at 12:00.

Keep Launching  

You can specify when your launch schedule will end using the Keep Launching option. You can specify a date, an inventory quantity available, or simply choose “Forever” if you do not want the launch schedule to be ended automatically.

Custom Schedule

Custom schedules are ideal for merchants who have more than one item in inventory and want to run multiple eBay Listings for the same item but do not want to repeat the schedules on a 7 day basis or want to use Monday through Friday as their schedule.

Start On:

Specify the date you wish to begin running your listing schedule. You can specify a date up to six months from the date you created the profile.

Type

Use Custom Schedule to set a repeating launch schedule based number of days between Schedules. For example, create a custom schedule to run every 3 days.

Launch Every

With a custom schedule, you can choose to launch every “x” days, or every weekday (Monday – Friday). If you want to launch an item every day including weekends, you would enter a value of “1” in the “launch every “x” days” option (or you could use a weekly schedule instead).

Listings Per Ad

Set the launch day and time for the schedule.

Determine how many listings will be launched at each specified time. “Listings per ad” refers to how many listings will be launched at each specified time (not how many items will be included in each listing).

For example, to launch five of the SAME listing, enter 5 in the Listings Per Ad box (The numbers of items in each listing is set under “Quantity per Listing” under eBay Info).

Limit Launches on Market

Using this option, you may control the number of listings you have on eBay.

Select N0 to allow unlimited listings to be launched according to your defined schedule.

Select Yes to hold launches when there are “x” Listings/Quantity per SKU on market to allow you to inhibit launches once a certain number of items are on eBay. When you do wish to halt the schedule, enter the quantity that you do not want to exceed. Once the quantity on market is less than the value “x”, the schedule will resume at the next upcoming day/time. Keep in mind, the “Allow Overselling” setting in the main Item Info section will be factored into whether items launch. If “Do not allow overselling” is selected, we first check to determine if there is adequate inventory available. If there is not, we will not launch an item even if you do not limit the quantity on market.

When a Listing Ends

When using Best Offer or BIN, you can choose to have another launch as soon as the item ends without affecting your schedule. It is important to note that if you choose to “Launch Immediately (backfill), without affecting my schedule”, that your normal schedule will still apply. Thus, if you launch 10 listings, and have a repeat schedule, and 5 of them end with a BIN purchase, 5 additional listings would be placed on the marketplace. It is recommended that if you use this option, that you use “Limit Launches on Market” to prevent an unwanted amount of listings.

Time Between Launches

This allows you to specify a specific time interval between launches.

• Fixed Interval will launch items every “x” minutes apart (value for “x” is set by you).

For example, if you enter “5” in this field, and your schedule specifies 4 listings every weekday at 12:00 pm, every Monday through Friday your first listing will launch at 12:00 pm, another listing will launch at 12:05 pm, another at 12:10 pm, another at 12:15 pm, and the last listing will launch at 12:20 pm.

• Calculated Interval will spread launches evenly across the specified number of minutes, starting from the earliest launch time in the schedule. Use this option if you want to ensure that you have an even distribution of listings available across a given time period.

For example, if you enter “240” minutes in this field, and your schedule specifies 6 listings every weekday starting with the first launch at 12:00 pm, then every Monday through Friday at 12:00 pm your first listing will launch, another listing will launch at 12:40, another at 1:20, another at 2:00, another at 2:40, with the sixth and last listing launching at 3:20. Effectively, this option takes the number of minutes you specify and adds it to the earliest launch time, and then divides by the number of items being launched. In the above example, 240 minutes (4 hours) was added to 12:00, and the 6 items were launched at a rate of 1 every 40 minutes, starting at 12:00.

Keep Launching

You can specify when your launch schedule will end using the Keep Launching option. You can specify a date, an inventory quantity available, or simply choose “Forever” if you do not want the launch schedule to be ended automatically.

Launch Once Schedule

Launch once schedules are ideal for merchants who have multiple quantities of the same item and want to have only one listing at a time on the eBay Market.

Start On:

Specify the date you wish to begin running your listing schedule. You can specify a date up to six months from the date you created the profile.

Type

Use Launch Once Schedule to set a repeating launch schedules when you want only one listing on the eBay Market

Listings Per Ad

Set the launch day and time for the schedule. Determine how many listings will be launched at each specified time. “Listings per ad” refers to how many listings will be launched at each specified time (not how many items will be included in each listing). For example, to launch five of the SAME listing, enter 5 in the Listings Per Ad box (the numbers of items in each listing is set under “Quantity per Listing” under "eBay Info").

Replace Listings

When using Best Offer or BIN, you can choose to have another launch as soon as the item ends without affecting your schedule.

Time between Launches

This allows you to specify a specific time interval between launches.

• Fixed Interval will launch items every “x” minutes apart (value for “x” is set by you.)

For example, if you enter “5” in this field, and your schedule specifies 4 listings every weekday at 12:00 pm, every Monday through Friday your first listing will launch at 12:00 pm, another listing will launch at 12:05 pm, another at 12:10 pm, another at 12:15 pm, and the last listing will launch at 12:20 pm.

•  Calculated Interval will spread launches evenly across the specified number of minutes, starting from the earliest launch time in the schedule. Use this option if you want to ensure that you have an even distribution of listings available across a given time period.

For example, if you enter “240” minutes in this field, and your schedule specifies 6 listings every weekday starting with the first launch at 12:00 pm, then every Monday through Friday at 12:00 pm your first listing will launch, another listing will launch at 12:40, another at 1:20, another at 2:00, another at 2:40, with the sixth and last listing launching at 3:20. Effectively, this option takes the number of minutes you specify and adds it to the earliest launch time, and then divides by the number of items being launched. In the above example, 240 minutes (4 hours) was added to 12:00, and the 6 items were launched at a rate of 1 every 40 minutes, starting at 12:00.

Keep Launching

You can specify when your launch schedule will end using the Keep Launching option. You can specify a date, an inventory quantity available, or simply choose “Forever” if you do not want the launch schedule to be ended automatically.

Second Chance Offers

You can automatically send second chance offers (SCOs) to your bidders, according to eBay’s SCO rules and the criteria you set. Send to How Many Underbidders Specify how many SCOs are sent. You may elect to send SCOs to “all eligible” underbidders, or limit offers to a specific number of underbidders. If you are an inventory based seller, you may want to select “all eligible” unless your inventory is limited.

Base on Inventory

You may elect to send SCOs only if you have enough inventory to cover the possibility that all offers will be accepted. The default is set to quantity “1” in stock, but you may enter any amount in this field. Additionally, you may also elect to send SCOs to all eligible bidders regardless of inventory levels.

Duration of SCO

The SCO duration limits the availability of the offer to the number of days you specify. SCOs availability can be set to 1, 3, 5, or a maximum of 7 days. Keep in mind that if you are using Vendio to track inventory, the item will be reserved for eBay only, and will be considered an active listing during this duration.

Copy to Seller

Select “copy email to seller” if you would like to receive a copy of each automatically generated SCO.

Consider Feedback Rating

This option can be used if you want to limit SCOs to bidders with a minimum number of feedbacks eBay.

Send Second Chance Offers Based on

Select the pricing criteria on which you will base your SCOs. Multiple options are available for you to choose from, and you also have the ability to base your offers on a percentage or flat dollar amount.