How to cross list from eBay to Etsy, and back, in the UK

1. By hand. Open the eBay listing, create a new Etsy listing and copy the title, description, photos and price across. It costs nothing but time. Etsy's help page says it doesn't have a way to bulk upload new listings, although you can copy an Etsy listing you have already made and edit it, which saves time.

2. With Etsy's CSV as a reference. Etsy lets you download your active listings as a CSV file. Etsy has no way to upload it back as new listings, but it is a handy checklist and a quick place to copy text from when you are moving Etsy stock to eBay.

3. With cross-listing software. A cross-lister connects to both shops, imports your listings, lets you fill in what the other site needs, and publishes. Some also take an item down on one site when it sells on the other. Artifactly works this way, and other tools that connect eBay and Etsy are in the table further down.

Check this first. Etsy's vintage policy says an item must be at least 20 years old to count as vintage, and Etsy may ask how you sourced it, how you dated it, and for photos of the features that show its age. Its reselling page says reselling is not allowed apart from a few handpicked categories.

So note how you dated each piece while you remember, such as a maker's mark or a label. "It came from a house clearance" will not do.

By hand

1. Check the piece is at least 20 years old. If it is not, it cannot go on Etsy as vintage.
2. In your Etsy shop, set up a processing profile and a shipping profile first, so each new listing can use them.
3. Create the listing. Etsy allows a title of up to 140 characters, so you have room for the period, maker and material that eBay's 80 characters squeezed out. Add up to 13 tags and up to 20 photos and 2 videos (Etsy's listing guide).
4. Choose the Etsy category, and answer Etsy's questions about who made it and when it was made.
5. Set the price and a quantity of 1 for a one-off piece.
6. Decide whether to switch off auto-renew sold for one-off items. Etsy says it reposts a sold listing and charges another listing fee (Etsy fees).
7. Repeat for each item. Etsy lets you copy a listing you have already made, which saves time on the next one.

With Artifactly

1. Connect eBay and Etsy in Integrations. eBay UK is the default eBay site, and each account uses one eBay site.
2. Import your active eBay listings. You see a preview and pick the items you want by SKU.
3. Check what came across. The import brings the title, SKU, price, every photo at large size, the full description with its HTML formatting removed, condition, weight and dimensions. Listings with 0 available are skipped.
4. For each item, check the Etsy category (search for one, or take the suggestion), and set who made it and when it was made.
5. Set the stock quantity. It is not imported from eBay, so set 1 for a one-off piece.
6. Publish to Etsy. Artifactly needs a price, the Etsy category, and the processing and shipping profiles from your Etsy shop. It sends up to 10 photos and up to 13 tags, and cuts the title to 140 characters if it is longer.

Two honest limits. Item specifics come across only for eBay listings made through eBay's Inventory API, not ordinary Seller Hub listings. And Artifactly keeps one price for every marketplace, so you cannot charge more on Etsy to cover its fees.

By hand

1. Download your Etsy listings as a CSV if you want a checklist to work through (Etsy's CSV help page).
2. Copy the description and remove any mention of your Etsy shop, your website or your social accounts. eBay does not allow links to sites outside eBay, or mentioning the same or related items for sale elsewhere.
3. Rewrite the title to fit eBay's 80 characters. Anything longer gets cut, so put the words a buyer searches for first: the object, the maker or style, the period.
4. Pick the eBay category and fill in its item specifics. Some categories require them, and your Etsy tags do not carry over.
5. Add your photos. eBay takes up to 24 pictures per listing.
6. Set the price, postage and returns, and a quantity of 1 for a one-off piece.

With Artifactly

1. Connect Etsy and eBay in Integrations.
2. Import your Etsy listings. The import brings the title, description, price, full-size photos, tags, materials, when it was made, who made it, weight, dimensions and the Etsy category. The stock count does not come across, so set it.
3. Read each description and take out any line that points buyers to your Etsy shop or website.
4. Check the eBay category (search for one, or take the suggestion). Artifactly tells you which required item specifics are missing.
5. Make sure your eBay business policies for postage, payment and returns are set up. Artifactly needs them to publish.
6. Publish. The listing goes up as fixed price, Good 'Til Cancelled, with the title cut to 80 characters if it is longer.

Artifactly shortens titles to each site's limit rather than rewriting them, so keep the key words at the start of long Etsy titles.

Fees were read on 10 October 2026 from eBay's private seller fees, eBay's business seller fees, Etsy's fees page, Etsy's payment processing fees and Etsy's regulatory operating fee. eBay's business fee is set by category; Antiques is shown here. Some Etsy fees carry VAT. Fees change, so check the pages before you set prices.

Selling fees go to the site the item sells on. Being on both costs the listing fees and the time to keep two listings accurate.

For one-off antiques and vintage, list each piece with a quantity of 1 on both sites. Two rules matter here. eBay allows only one fixed-price listing of an identical item at a time, so if you have two identical items, list them once with a quantity of 2 rather than twice. And Etsy's auto-renew sold setting reposts a sold listing and charges a new listing fee, which is right for stock you can replace and wrong for a one-off.

Artifactly checks eBay and Etsy for sales about every 5 minutes. When the last one sells, it ends the eBay listing, removes the Etsy listing, archives the Shopify product and sets the WooCommerce product to draft. If you have more than one in stock, the count goes down on the other sites and the listings stay live.

That is not immediate. A few minutes is a short window, but it is a window, so keep an eye on both shops when a valuable piece is listed.

Two eBay policies cover this: the links policy and the offers to buy or sell outside eBay policy. The easy mistake is an Etsy description copied across with "see more in my Etsy shop" or a web address in the last line, so read the end of every description before it goes onto eBay.

eBay's page says the reporting does not change your tax obligations. In other words, these figures are when a platform tells HMRC, not when you start owing tax. Keep your own records of what you bought and sold on each site, because HMRC may get a report from both.

If you start by hand, keep a list of each item's SKU and where it is listed. When that list gets hard to keep up, it is time for software.

For a fuller side-by-side, compare cross-listing tools. If you are weighing up Vendoo in particular, our page on Vendoo alternatives covers its UK plans. If your stock is mostly antiques, see what we built as antique dealer software, including the specialist UK marketplaces.