Between inventory tracking, fulfilling orders, managing customer communications, and keeping listings up to date, the workload of managing an eBay store can become complex.
For many sellers, keeping up with eBay’s demands while also managing other sales channels can create an operational bottleneck.
Whether you’re exclusively selling on eBay or using it alongside other sales channels, Base offers an integrated solution designed to simplify and streamline your eBay operations, bringing all your e-commerce processes under one roof. With Base, managing multiple eBay accounts and listings becomes straightforward. Our platform automates inventory synchronisation, centralises order fulfilment, and provides robust analytics, helping you take full control of your eBay business without the usual headaches.
How Base helps you manage your eBay operations more efficiently
When you’re juggling multiple listings or multiple accounts on eBay, Base makes it simpler and faster. Here’s why our clients love it:
Centralised product data storage
Base provides a unified dashboard to keep all product information organised in one centralised location, giving you a unified view of your catalogue. This helps maintain consistency and accuracy in product data, which is essential for smooth cross-channel selling.
Simplified listing management
Updating product listings manually across channels is time-consuming and error-prone. With Base, you can automate stock levels and pricing, keeping your information consistently reflected across all platforms.
Repricing tools
Stay competitive with Base’s repricing capabilities, which automatically update product prices according to your criteria. This ensures that your prices stay relevant without manual adjustments.
Sync inventory across sales channels
Selling across multiple channels means that keeping inventory accurate can be challenging. Base automatically syncs inventory levels across each platform, ensuring stock quantities are always current. This real-time synchronisation empowers you to sell confidently, knowing your listings accurately reflect available stock.
Efficient order management
Fulfil orders quickly and accurately with Base’s centralised order management. By consolidating orders from all eBay accounts in one place, you minimise delays and mistakes, enhancing the customer experience.
Streamline your shipping processes
Base simplifies shipping by automatically generating shipping labels and invoices for each order, ensuring compliance with regional consumer laws. For sellers managing multiple eBay accounts, this automation alleviates administrative work and minimises shipping delays, providing a more efficient shipping experience for customers.
360° Reporting and analytics
The Base integration provides complete visibility into your eBay sales data, allowing you to track performance across accounts, monitor top-selling items, and identify growth opportunities. With these insights, you can make data-driven decisions that continually improve your eBay sales strategy.
Side-step these eBay selling mistakes with Base
Manual management of eBay accounts presents several pain points for most sellers. Here’s how Base helps address common pain points:
- Time-consuming listing updates: Manual updates are labour-intensive and increase the chance of errors. Base automates updates across all channels.
- Stock level and inventory tracking hassles: Tracking stock manually complicates accuracy. Base syncs inventory levels across all sales platforms.
- Shipping and fulfilment delays: Manual fulfilment processes create inefficiencies. Base automates these tasks to improve delivery speed and accuracy.
- Self-limiting business growth: Manually managing multiple accounts can limit your ability to scale. Base streamlines operations, facilitating growth.
Step-by-step instructions on integrating your eBay account with Base
Running a business is hard work, and Base aims to make it easier with a user-friendly interface, intuitive setup, quick integration, and a tool that requires minimal technical expertise.
From your Base seller hub, you can create new listings, add variations and updates to all the items in your inventory, check your inventory levels, and view metrics like your total sales. Here’s how to get started:
1. Login to Base
Log in to your Base account and select Integrations on the menu on the left hand side.
2. Setup a new integration
Select Add Integration.
3. Find the eBay integration
Select eBay on the list of available integrations.
4. Connect with eBay
Select Connect eBay account.
5. Complete the setup
You will be automatically redirected to log in to your eBay account, once you have, you will be asked to allow access to Base.
For more information on how to configure your eBay account with Base, please visit our dedicated Knowledge Base guidance here.
With your Base-eBay integration complete, you won’t believe how much easier it is to make updates to a listing, fulfil orders, ship and track your orders—the list goes on and on!
Base streamlines the workload for every single listing you create on eBay, allowing you to turn up the dial on your product listings and plot your eBay takeover.
For more on how to grow your eBay business, watch our webinar with eBay UK’s business development team.
And to experience the brilliance of Base for yourself, sign up for a free trial today.
