I actually had a number of doubts from the beginning, and it just got worse and worse.įirstly, why is this not built into eBay itself, so it’s an in-house tool, rather than something that’s handled by a third party?Īnd even if it was going to be outsourced to another company, who are i-ways and why have they been selected?

Overall, I’m incredibly disappointed by this tool. I honestly don’t know whether to laugh or cry, but I’m afraid to say that is the final product of my template creation. Yes, that’s right – literally all there is for me to choose is the template style (from a total of 4 options) and then set the colour scheme.Īt this point I’m already fearing the worst and the result pretty much confirmed my fears: So it’s now time to download my template as there are no other customisation options available.

I tried to persevere and chose Style 1 and the “orange-gray” colour theme, filled in my store name (Apple), my store slogan (Think Different) and lastly uploaded a logo. There are only 4 template styles, and they all look very basic and low-budget… but it’s actually hard to be too sure about that as it’s so difficult to actually see the design! Instead of having a nice big page so I can properly see my template, it’s bizarrely displayed on a little mac that takes up barely 10% of the page. Now I was really hoping for the best with this, but I have to be honest and say I found the interface absolutely awful and difficult to use! Once you’ve created your account, you have to fill in some basic business information and are then asked to link your eBay account to your i-ways account, but I skipped this step and went straight to the template creator. Now I have to say I was quite surprised to be taken off of eBay and to another site, to design my template as I thought this would be something built in to eBay itself, within the new seller hub… but it seems you have to create an account with i-ways specifically to use the new eBay template creator. Well, without any further ado – let’s test it then! This has come about in an attempt to provide a simple and clear option for all eBay sellers that is fully compliant with their upcoming rules on active content (check out my post on these changes if you missed it here). One was the eBay branded packaging that is now available for us sellers, which I’ll be covering in a post next week, and the other is the news that eBay is now offering FREE, mobile optimised listing templates!

Last week eBay sent out their November business seller newsletter and there were a couple of quite interesting points inside.

Make ebay description template