Phasing out old templates means you will leave the old templates on your listings, then apply new templates to new listings. Over time, as your old listings end or sell out, your new template will eventually be the only template on your eBay listings.
Steps to phasing out old templates:
Step 1) Tag all the listings with your old template
If you just signed up for 3Dsellers, and all of your old listings have the template, skip the next portion of Step 1 and simply apply Tags to all of your listings (tag name example: "Old Template")
a) Generate CSV report of descriptions and Item IDs
This step is to determine which listings have the old template, and create a CSV to upload and apply the tag.
Create a Custom CSV Report
Use "Listings - From eBay" as the Report Type
Choose "item_id" and "description" for Fields
Generate the report
b) Create a CSV to tag the listings with old templates
Open the CSV report in a spreadsheet app
Find any short HTML code that appears in all of the listing descriptions with the template.
Copy the code you choose.
Create a new worksheet
For Column Headers,
Label A1 as "Item ID"
and C1 as "Tags"
Leave B1 blank
In A2, use the FILTER function to import rows from the CSV report that include the template code in the description.
Guide to FILTER: https://www.statology.org/google-sheets-filter-contains-text/
Highlight everything an copy it:
Create one last worksheet
and paste as plain text:
In the new worksheet,
delete column B
Add your Tag to column C for all item rows
Save the worksheet as a CSV
c) Upload the CSV you created to 3Dsellers to apply the tags
Use the Update Listings CSV feature to apply the tags to your listings with the CSV.
Step 2) Filter out old template listings before applying the design
Before using Listing Designer to select all of your items and apply a template, apply a filter to remove listings with the Tag from the list:
