eBay: include or exclude custom fields

About this article

This article describes how to add custom fields to eBay, as well as how to remove them.

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Introduction

Include or exclude custom fields

Introduction

It is useful to set up custom fields on your products to designate their margins or their fulfillment types. eBay gives you the option to publicly display your custom fields on your eBay product listings and remove them from your listings at any time. Custom fields are exported to eBay as aspects. 

Attributes that you map in Mappings, Content mappings are sent to eBay as aspects. Only 25 aspects are allowed in your data export to eBay, so:

• The Required attributes are added first,
• and then the Optional attributes,
• and then the attributes from the setting Extra fields to export.

If no maximum length is set on a text attribute that gets exported as an aspect, ChannelEngine truncates comma-separated values to 50 characters. If the text contains commas, each value that is separated by commas is truncated to 50 characters. 

Ensure that your key product attributes are described in 50-character, comma-separated snippets.

For overall guidance on setting up short and long product descriptions, check out eBay: how to set up product descriptions.

Include or exclude custom fields

To include or exclude custom fields in your eBay listings, go to the Setup page of your eBay marketplace plugin and configure the Extra fields to export setting.

Select the custom fields that you want to export to eBay, up to a maximum of 20. Alternatively, you can clear the custom fields that you no longer want to export. Custom fields are listed as item specifics on product detail pages (PDPs) on eBay.