Start here: your first box on Point and Sell
This is the short version of everything, in the order you will meet it. The first box is the best way to learn the rest. If anything here does not match what you see, write to [email protected].
1. Sign in
Sign in with your email address. There is no password: the email carries a link and a six-digit code, and either one signs you in. The link opens a page in whichever browser your email app uses, and its button signs that browser in; to sign in on the page you started from, type the code there instead. Both stop working after 15 minutes; after that, ask for a fresh email.
2. The free trial
Your first 50 listings are free. A card goes on file before your first batch is read, and nothing is charged until the 50 are used or 30 days pass, whichever comes first. Cancel before either from the Plan page and nothing is charged at all. The Plan page shows how many of the 50 you have used, and when the approval in front of you would use the last of them, the review screen says so above the Approve button before you press it.
3. Settings: three things before the first box
Open Settings once before you shoot. The home page names anything still blank.
- Item location and postal code. The town eBay shows on your listings, and the code shipping is worked out from.
- Your shipping policy names. The exact names of your eBay shipping policies, as Seller Hub spells them. Without them eBay makes a new policy for every listing and combined shipping stops working.
- Store categories, if you have an eBay Store. The numeric id at the end of each category's address in Seller Hub, not its name. A name gets every row of an upload refused. No Store? Leave them blank.
The rest of Settings (your SKU pattern, the description text, how you shoot, the emails) starts with workable answers and can wait.
4. Shoot a box on your phone
For comics, open Shoot a box with your phone on the home page. Give the box a label, type one starting price for the whole box, and set how many shots each comic gets (the page starts at ten; set it to 1 for covers only). Then:
- Front cover first, every comic. The cover is the photo that gets read and the one buyers see first.
- The page counts your shots and moves to the next comic on its own. A comic with fewer shots: press Next comic.
- A lot: press Lot before you shoot it, and the page waits for Next comic however many shots it takes.
- Undo last shot works on the comic you are on. Each comic uploads when you move on to the next one.
- Press Done at the end. The covers are read, and an email tells you when the batch is ready to review.
The box label becomes every listing's custom label. Box
76 TR's twelfth comic is 76TR-012. When it sells, that label
tells you which box to walk to. The
custom labels guide says
more.
Not comics? Records, video games, Funko Pops, DVDs, Blu-rays, CDs and cassettes go through the New batch form on the home page: pick what is in the box and how many shots each, then the photos. Books go by their ISBN: type or paste a list, or use Scan book barcodes to read them off the back covers. Photos already on a computer? The same form takes them; set Settings, Photos to several photos per comic first, or every shot becomes its own row.
5. The review screen: check every row
Every row goes to eBay exactly as you approve it, so this is the one screen to read. Each row shows its cover beside the details eBay needs: title, issue, publisher, year, creators and the item specifics buyers filter on.
- Prices are yours. Every comic starts at the box price you typed. A WORTH MORE chip marks one that the key issue list says is worth more; repricing it is up to you. Nothing here sets a price for you.
- A run as one listing: tick lot, type the issues and give the lot its own price. A lot left at the box's single-comic price is refused.
- merge up joins a row's photos to the row above when one comic came out as two; remove drops a row.
- Save for later keeps everything you typed without approving.
Then press Approve and generate CSV. Approving checks every row against the rules eBay's upload enforces before the file is made; a refusal names the row, and no file is made until it is fixed.
6. Onto eBay
Two ways, and only ever one of them for a batch:
- Connect eBay once (the eBay page in the menu). Then the done page lists the approved batch on eBay for you: tick I checked every row and press the List button.
- Or download the eBay file and upload it yourself in Seller Hub, Reports, Upload. When eBay says the upload is complete, download its report there and drop it on the done page, so the batch knows which rows went live and which were refused.
Never both: the same file twice lists every row twice.
If eBay refuses a few rows, the done page names each one with eBay's reason; press Edit again, fix them and approve, and it offers a file of just those rows. The bulk upload guide walks through Seller Hub's side of it.
Selling comics or books on Whatnot or Shopify as well? Tick them where the box is created, and the done page has their files too. Records, games, Funko Pops, movies and CDs go to eBay only for now.
What it will not do
It will not price your comics, and it lists nothing you have not approved. It does not message buyers, ship or refund. Whatnot gets only the file you upload; Shopify gets the file, or the products themselves once you connect your store.