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List cards for sale

Publish cards to eBay from the card editor or a batch, then manage them from Listings.

Updated
2026-08-12
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7 min
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Current

Before you list

  • Connect eBay and select your payment, shipping, and return policies (all three are required).
  • Confirm the card's identity and photos are correct.
  • Confirm whether the card is Raw or Graded. Graded cards need a grader and grade supported by eBay; CardSense leaves unsupported grading text blank instead of guessing.
  • Set a condition — a card can't be listed without one.
  • Add a cost basis if you want accurate profit reporting.
  • Get comp prices so you're pricing against the market.

Where comp prices come from

Suggested prices are built from recent completed eBay sales for the same card — what buyers actually paid, not what sellers are asking.

Accepted Best Offer sales count at their real price, so a card that sold below its asking price pulls the suggestion down the way it should.

Two ways to list

List one card at a time from its editor, or list a whole batch of ready cards at once:

  • One card — open the card and choose List now (top right of the editor).
  • A batch — from batch review, choose List ready cards to publish every ready card in the batch.

List a single card, step by step

The Needs attention panel flags anything advisory (like a missing condition or a $0 price) but does not block listing.

Descriptions keep their line breaks and paragraphs when CardZen publishes or revises the listing on eBay.

  1. 1Open the card to reach its editor.
  2. 2Check the auto-generated Title and Description (each carries an AUTO badge until you edit it) and adjust if needed.
  3. 3Pick the Condition.
  4. 4Set your price — type an Asking price, or use Match suggested to take the comp price. Set a quantity if you have more than one. The pricing card shows what the selected shipping policy charges the buyer.
  5. 5Choose a Format: Buy It Now + Best Offer, Buy It Now, or Auction. With Best Offer on, set auto-accept and confirm the auto-decline threshold inherited from Settings.
  6. 6Confirm the eBay Shipping, Returns, Payment, and Store category shown under eBay listings — these come from your defaults.
  7. 7Choose List now. CardZen publishes to eBay and the card moves to Listed.

Manage listings on the Listings page

Listings (sidebar, under eBay) shows your live eBay listings, synced from eBay. On desktop, the top bar summarizes Listed value, Offers waiting, Active bids, Watchers, and Views (90d) for your active listings. On a phone, a swipeable summary shows Listed value, Offers waiting, Watchers, and Views (90d). Both follow your tag filter and search, so you can see the totals for just the slice you're looking at.

  • Filter by Active, Scheduled, Draft, Ended, Sold, Cancelled, Offers waiting, Auctions, Ending < 24h, Low traffic, or any card tag.
  • On a phone, swipe the status choices, then choose Filters for tags and listing signals such as offers waiting or low traffic.
  • Listings imported from eBay that are not linked to a CardZen card show the player, set, and card number when CardZen can read them from the listing, instead of the raw eBay title. The full title is always available by hovering the row or opening the listing.
  • The eBay sync column tells you where every listing stands: how many fields changed since the last push, In sync, Not checked, No card for imports without a CardZen card, and Not live for ended or scheduled listings. Hover a value for what to do next.
  • Search by player, set, or eBay item number.
  • Choose Sync from eBay to refresh status, prices, and traffic. Listings ended or removed directly on eBay move out of Active after sync, and linked cards return to inventory when there is no matching sale.
  • Select active listings without a linked card and choose Create cards to build a linked inventory card for each one in bulk — same rules as the single-listing action: 1 CardSense scan per card, one card per listing, and no changes on eBay.
  • On a phone, open a row's action menu to review an offer, end or reschedule the listing, or open it on eBay.
  • Import, Export CSV, and bulk repricing are available from the desktop app.
  • Cancel a scheduled listing from its row before it publishes. CardZen cancels it on eBay and returns the linked card to inventory.
  • Or keep a scheduled listing and change your mind about the timing: Start now publishes it immediately, and Reschedule moves it to a new date — one listing at a time, without cancelling the whole batch.

Schedule listings

Batch listings can be scheduled up to 30 days ahead. CardZen blocks dates beyond that limit so the schedule stays within eBay's supported window.

Edit a live listing

Open any synced eBay listing to see its full detail page, then edit it in place and send the changes straight to eBay — no need to leave CardZen.

  • Open the photo gallery full-size.
  • Edit the title, price, quantity, item specifics, description, and Best Offer settings inline.
  • Review the payment, shipping, and return policy names and descriptions currently attached to the eBay listing.
  • Choose Edit inventory card to open the linked card's editor; the back action returns to the listing.
  • When offers are waiting, accept, decline, or counter them from the listing detail page.
  • Listings on eBay's newer inventory system, including third-party custom labels, can be revised.
  • Link a synced listing to the matching card so cost and profit line up. Cards that are already listed on eBay stay out of the picker, so one card can't back two live listings.
  • No matching card yet? Choose Create card from this listing to build a linked inventory card from the listing's photo and details. It uses 1 CardSense scan, nothing changes on eBay, and lots or multi-quantity listings still create a single card from the first photo.
  • Some fields, such as the custom label or condition, can't be changed on inventory-based listings — CardZen tells you when eBay blocks an edit.

When a card no longer matches its listing

Editing a card that's already live on eBay changes the card in CardZen, not the listing buyers see. CardZen watches for that gap and tells you about it in both places.

  • Open a listed card and a bar at the top names exactly what differs — title, price, condition, description, or photos.
  • Choose Send to eBay from that bar to push the changes to the live listing in one step.
  • On the Listings page, an Out of date marker appears on every row whose card has moved on.
  • Select those rows and choose Push updates to send them all at once. CardZen reports each listing eBay accepted and each one it refused, so a partial run is never mistaken for a clean one.
  • Photos count as a difference too — CardZen records which images it sent, so a re-crop or a retake shows up here instead of going unnoticed.

Export listings to CSV

  1. 1The Export CSV button sits in the table toolbar next to Columns, and it always says exactly what it will download: your selected listings, or every listing in the current view (status, filters, and search applied) when nothing is selected.
  2. 2Your selection is kept when you switch status tabs or filters. If a filter is hiding some of your selected listings, the button says so, and those listings are still included in the file.

Bulk reprice

  1. 1On the Listings page, select the listings you want to change. With nothing selected, repricing targets every listing in the current view.
  2. 2Choose Bulk reprice in the table toolbar.
  3. 3Enter a percentage or fixed-price change.
  4. 4Review the preview — CardZen shows the current and new price for each listing.
  5. 5Apply. Updates are blocked on any listing whose new price would be zero, invalid, or outside eBay's supported range.

Bulk end listings

  1. 1On the Listings page, select the active listings you want to end and choose End selected.
  2. 2Review the confirmation — ending is not a sale. Linked cards return to your inventory. For imported listings without a linked card, CardZen creates an inventory card whether you end them here or they end on eBay and sync, so they remain available to re-list.
  3. 3Confirm. CardZen ends the listings one at a time (up to 50 per run) and reports the result for each, so a partial run is never mistaken for a clean one.
  4. 4Note that eBay may charge a fee for ending some listings early.

Custom labels (SKU)

CardZen enforces unique custom labels for listings. If eBay returns a duplicate custom-label error (409), choose a new label and try again.

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