For sellers, you can choose to be a cross-border e-commerce platform and develop a better platform eBay. If you want to, you can choose to open a store on this platform. So does eBay charge for uploading products? Here’s the introduction. Do eBay sellers charge for opening a store and uploading products?
In addition to the basic fees that must be paid, companies can also choose additional payment functions according to their own business needs, such as bolding of important content in product descriptions, color and other functional upgrades and product advertising.
1. Basic expenses:
Publishing expenses:
Free releases for non-store sellers are the least, and the portion exceeding free is the most expensive;
For store sellers, the higher the store level, the greater the number of free releases. The gap is particularly large. Beyond the free portion, the higher the store level, the cheaper the charges. eBay platform image hosting, you can upload up to 12 images for each published product.
2. Optional fees
1. Subscription store (store opening fee) eBay sellers can choose not to open a store, but for sellers who want to operate for a long time, it is better to open a store because of the platform functions Also more.
If you open a store, you have to pay for a subscription store fee. Stores can be divided into three levels: basic stores, advanced stores and super stores. Different levels of stores will charge different fees.
Payment methods can be divided into monthly payment and annual payment. Annual payment is spread to monthly payment, which is lower than monthly payment.
2. Function upgrade (paid function)
When publishing products, many sellers will choose to highlight the important content of the product through functional upgrades to attract consumers and increase sales, such as adding subtitles, bold title fonts, selecting the second category of the product, etc.
①Subtitle
When buyers browse the page, each product will be displayed with a line of more detailed product description below the title. The font color and size are smaller than the main title. This is the product subtitle.
Buyers can better understand the product through the subtitle, and sellers can attract buyers to click through the content settings of the subtitle. The number of words in the subtitle must not exceed 55 characters.
This function charges based on the online time of product release, product pricing, etc.
②Bold font
This feature also specifies different charging standards based on the release time and price of the item.
③The second category
When listing a product, sellers can only choose one product category, but products can often belong to two or more categories. At this time, if the merchant wants to put the product into two categories, they need to use the second category. To do this, set up a second category, the platform needs to charge, and the costs for different categories are also different.
Under this premise, there is another question, will there be two transaction fees? No, you will be charged as Category 1.
3. Advertising fees
When merchants need to promote products on the shelves, there is a paid promotion service within the platform. Through promotion, increasing the exposure of products can increase the sales of products.
It is understood that there is no charge for uploading products to eBay, but a deposit needs to be paid. Different categories have different deposit requirements. Sellers can learn about store operation techniques.