eBay CSV Upload Template: Bulk Import Listings to Drafts

To bulk upload eBay listings from a CSV or Excel file, download the 3Dsellers eBay CSV template, add one row per item, and import it from Listings & Products > Listings > Import > Create Listings with CSV. Every row becomes a 3Dsellers Draft that you can review and edit, then publish to eBay in bulk with Publish to Channel. Nothing goes live on eBay until you publish it.

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There are two entry points in 3Dsellers, and both open the same Import New Products panel:

Download the Excel template (it includes instructions) or one of the CSV-only templates above. Keep one row per listing and one unique SKU per row. You do not need every column: only SKU and WarehouseQuantity are required to create a draft.

In the Import New Products panel, under Choose CSV file, pick how to upload. The file cannot exceed 50 MB or 100,000 rows.

After the upload, 3Dsellers uses AI to match your CSV headers to 3Dsellers fields, based on the headers and the first 3 rows of the file. You can then turn the file into a recurring import with Schedule.

The mapping table has four columns: the 3Dsellers Products field, the Matching Field From Uploaded CSV (the column the value comes from), a Preview of the value from the row you pick (Row 1, Row 2...) and a Fallback.

Full mapping guide: Complete Guide to CSV Mapping in 3Dsellers.

Click Start Import. Large files, long descriptions and many images take longer to process. Track progress and errors under Import history on the CSV Import page. When it is done, the new drafts are in the 3Dsellers Drafts segment (under Unpublished Drafts) on the Listings page.

By default, a 3Dsellers CSV import only creates drafts for new SKUs. A row whose SKU is already in your account as an active listing, a draft or a scheduled listing is skipped and left untouched, so importing the same growing spreadsheet again only brings in the new rows. Ended and deleted items do not count, so their SKUs are imported again as new drafts.

When rows are skipped, the import's details in Import history tell you how many, for example: "N row(s) were skipped because their SKU is already in the account as a listing, a draft or a scheduled listing."

Replace existing drafts changes this. When it is ticked, the import deletes the existing drafts for the file's SKUs and rebuilds them from the file. Use it when the file is your source of truth and you want the drafts to match it exactly.

Every row must have a unique SKU (except Car Compatibility child rows). The SKU is how 3Dsellers recognises the item, decides whether a row is new or already in your account, and matches the draft on later updates.

Leave ListingDuration blank for a fixed price (GTC) listing. To create an auction, set ListingDuration to 1, 3, 5, 7 or 10 and fill the auction prices:

If the template already has a column for the Item Specific (for example MPN, UPC, Brand, Color), just fill it in. For any other Item Specific, add a column and put C: before its name:

Enter the eBay Category ID (the template column is CategoryID). Always include it: the category decides which Item Specifics eBay requires. You can also add a second category and eBay Store categories:

Use eBay Condition IDs in Condition, and an optional note in ConditionNote:

If your shipping policy uses calculated shipping, the package size and weight are required:

3Dsellers sets shipping, return and payment settings through eBay Business Policies only. Add PolicyPayment, PolicyShipping and PolicyReturn columns with the policy ID or its exact name. Find them in Listings & Products > Listings Manager > Business Policies.

You can import up to 24 images per listing and 24 per variation. Use one column per image, in the order eBay should show them (Image 1 is the main image), or put every URL in one ImageURLs cell separated by commas.

A variation listing uses one parent row for the main listing details and one child row per variation:

Fields you need before eBay accepts the listing: a Category, a Condition, CountryCode and Location, business policies, at least one image, a title and a price, and the Item Specifics eBay requires for that category. You can import with fewer fields and fill the rest in the drafts.

To change drafts that already exist without deleting and rebuilding them, go to Listings Manager > CSV Import > Update Listings and choose Update 3Dsellers Draft Listings. It updates the drafts that match the SKUs in your file, using only the columns you map. Update Active Listings does the same for live eBay listings.

Read the red message at the bottom of the panel. Usually WarehouseQuantity is set to Don't import: map it to your quantity column, or set a Fallback value if all items have the same stock.

Open the Listings with Errors segment to see eBay's message for each listing, or check Listings Manager > Error Log. Each eBay error links to our eBay Error Resolve List. Fix the draft (or the CSV and re-import with Replace existing drafts) and publish again.

No, not by default. A 3Dsellers CSV import skips a row whose SKU is already in your account as an active listing, a draft or a scheduled listing, and keeps the existing draft as it is. Tick Replace existing drafts to delete and rebuild those drafts from the file, or use Update Listings > Update 3Dsellers Draft Listings to update them in place.

Only SKU and WarehouseQuantity (as a column or a Fallback) are required to create a draft. To publish the draft on eBay you also need a title, price, category, condition, item location, business policies, at least one image and the category's required Item Specifics. You can add these in the drafts after the import.

Use WarehouseQuantity for your real stock in 3Dsellers; it is required. Add UpToQuantity only if you want to cap the quantity eBay shows, for example 5 on eBay while you hold 100.

They are the same thing: your own cost price for the item. The current templates call the column Cost; older templates called it Wholesale. If your file still says Wholesale, map that column to the Cost field. Cost stays in 3Dsellers and is never sent to eBay.

In the mapping table, find the SKU field and pick your SKU column in Matching Field From Uploaded CSV. Always check the SKU mapping before you start the import, because the SKU decides which rows are new and which are skipped.

Yes, if you can get their details into a spreadsheet: put them in the 3Dsellers template and import it. 3Dsellers does not read the drafts saved in eBay Seller Hub, because they are not live eBay listings. All the ways to bring drafts in are in How do I get eBay drafts into 3Dsellers?.

Yes. After you upload the file, click Schedule to import it on a schedule from a link or an FTP/SFTP server. Because existing SKUs are skipped by default, each run only adds the new rows. You can also schedule CSV imports with an AI agent.