Edit a part

How to open an existing part from Inventory and edit its listing, technical, package, description and policy fields, set a separate price and shipping policy for each eBay marketplace, and what saving does versus pushing changes to a live listing.

Every part in your inventory has a detail view where you change its listing information, technical specs, packaging, description and policies. You open the part from your Inventory list, switch the view into edit mode, change what you need and save. Saving updates the part inside GridX Connect. It does not automatically change a listing that is already live on eBay — that is a separate step, covered below.

> [!NOTE] > The detail view opens as a dialog over your inventory. On a phone it slides up as a full-screen sheet; on a larger screen it is a centred card. Its header shows the part's SKU once the part has loaded; it reads Loading… while the part is fetching, and only falls back to Inventory Details when there is no part data. Clicking the dark area outside the dialog, or pressing Escape, closes it — and closing this way discards an edit in progress.

Before you start

  • The part must already exist in your inventory. To create one first, see Add a part.
  • You need edit permission. Without it the detail view is read-only and no edit control appears.
  • The marketplace tabs (US, UK, DE, and AE for autotek.ae) only show if your account sells on two or more marketplaces. Single-marketplace accounts edit one set of fields.

Steps

  1. Open the part from your Inventory list. Its detail view opens read-only.
  2. Click the pencil control in the header — its label is Edit details. The fields become editable.
  3. Change the fields you need across the Listing, Technical and Package cards, plus the description and policies.
  4. Click Save Changes. While it works the button reads Saving..., and it stays greyed out until you have an unsaved change. On a phone, use the floating save bar that appears at the bottom in edit mode.
  5. To undo, click Reset to clear your edits (it only appears once you have unsaved changes), or Cancel to leave edit mode and discard everything.

In edit mode the SKU in the header also becomes editable (up to 50 characters by default). A live character counter sits beside each text field, turning amber as you near the limit and red when you are almost at it.

Just below the header, an identity bar shows the part type, the part number labelled Part #, and a warehouse-location control: Add location if none is set, or the location pill and a Print location label button once one exists. Location is edited in its own window, separate from the main save.

Listing details

The Listing Details card holds the fields that make up the eBay listing.

| Field | In edit mode | Notes | |---|---|---| | Title | Text box | Up to 80 characters. If a save is rejected on the title, the box turns red with the reason underneath; typing clears it. | | Brand | Text box | Up to 65 characters. | | Condition | Dropdown | Only New or Used. | | Part Type | Text box | Up to 65 characters. | | Price | Number field | Behaves per marketplace — see "Editing for each marketplace" below. | | Country of Origin | Text box | Up to 65 characters. For example, Japan or Germany. | | Quantity | Number field | Whole number. | | Shipping Policy | Dropdown | Pick the channel default or one of your saved policies. |

Two fields are shown here but are read-only: Stock Status (In Stock or Low Stock) and Category.

> [!NOTE] > Not every limit is fixed. Title and Part Type here — and the SKU in the header — follow your account's configured limits when set, and the counter reflects those. Brand and Country of Origin always use the fixed 65-character limit regardless of account configuration.

Description and policies

The Product Description box takes plain text — its placeholder reads Enter product description in plain text (no HTML needed). Max 500 words. A word counter shows your count out of 500 and turns red past it, but this is a soft guide: it does not stop you typing. When you save, GridX Connect builds the full HTML description automatically from this text, your fitments and your policies. In read-only view you can also see the generated Full HTML Description once one has been saved.

The policy section has five tabs — Payment, Shipping, Returns, Handling and International. Each is a text box (up to 2000 characters) for a per-item override. The active tab shows Custom when you have set an override or Default when it falls back to your account policy, and an overridden tab carries a small amber dot labelled Custom override. Leave a tab empty to use your account default; a blank one reads No policy set in read-only view.

Technical details

The Technical Details card is a grid of spec fields. Fitting Position, Material, OE Numbers and Features are always editable. Fitting Position, Material and Features each hold up to 65 characters. OE Numbers is a larger box for a comma-separated list and holds up to 2000 characters. In read-only view, OE Numbers is shown as separate chips, split on spaces, commas or semicolons.

Three fields appear only when the part already has a value for them, even in edit mode:

  • Brand Type — a dropdown offering Genuine OEM, Aftermarket Branded, Private Label and Unbranded, with Reset to auto-derived at the top. GridX Connect derives this value; picking the reset option hands it back to the automatic value.
  • Interchange Part Number and Superseded Part Number — pre-filled defaults you can overwrite as free text. Their placeholder, Clear to reset to auto-derived, tells you that emptying the box restores the automatic value.

Any custom item specifics on the part are shown here read-only; there is no edit box for them.

Package details

The Package Details card is optional — its sub-line reads Use if you have a calculated shipping policy. It appears only in edit mode, or when the part already has a weight or size saved.

The card uses the units set for your account, imperial or metric:

  • Weight: two boxes, lbs (whole pounds) and oz (0 to 15). On metric the label reads Weight (kg) and there is one box, kg.
  • Dimensions (inches), or Dimensions (cm) on metric: three boxes for length, width and height, labelled L, W and H.

Leaving a box empty clears that value. In read-only view, weight shows in your units, for example "2 lbs 4 oz" or "3.5 kg", and dimensions appear only once all three measurements are filled.

To switch units, a company admin opens Settings > Preferences and uses the Package weight & dimensions card: Imperial (lb, in) or Metric (kg, cm). Switching does not change any saved measurement. It only changes how you type measurements and how they are shown back to you.

Editing for each marketplace

If your account sells on more than one marketplace, a marketplace selector appears with one tab for each connected marketplace, each showing a logo and a short code: US, UK, DE or AE (the marketplaces eBay US, eBay UK, eBay Germany and autotek.ae). It scopes three things to one marketplace at a time: Price, Shipping Policy and the fitments. The AE tab has a price only: it shows Price (AED) with a Derived or Pinned badge, and has no Shipping Policy field and no fitment list. Switching tabs crossfades the panel without reloading, so an edit in progress keeps its place and photos do not re-fetch. A small amber dot labelled Unsaved edits marks a tab with changes you have not saved. On the US tab it shows for any unsaved change to the part; on the other tabs it shows for an unsaved price or shipping change on that marketplace.

Prices are independent per marketplace. On the US tab the field is Price; it shows a (USD) qualifier when multichannel selling is active. On the UK tab it is Price (GBP) (on the Germany tab, Price (EUR)) and carries a badge: Pinned means you have set a fixed price in that currency, FX-derived means it tracks the US dollar price through the exchange rate. Editing one marketplace's price never changes the others. Enter an amount in that tab's currency to pin it; clear the box to let it go back to tracking USD.

Shipping Policy works the same way: the UK tab has its own dropdown, with the hint Sets the eBay UK listing only (saved independently of US). Until you change it, the UK policy is left untouched and no update is sent for it.

Fitments are edited per marketplace here too, but that is covered in Edit the fitments on a part.

Saving, and what reaches eBay

Clicking Save Changes writes your edits to the part inside GridX Connect and, in doing so, rebuilds the item's HTML description from your plain-text description, fitments and policies. One exception: if the part is live on autotek.ae and you save a quantity of 0, the autotek.ae listing is taken down and you see Listing ended on autotek.ae.

Saving does not push your changes to a listing that is already live on eBay. If the part is live on eBay, a prompt titled Changes saved locally opens right after you save. Click Update eBay to send the changes to the live listing now, or Not Now to leave the listing as it is and revise it later. If your account sells on more than one eBay marketplace, the button names the marketplace, for example Update eBay US. Revise is run per marketplace. See Revise a live listing.

Publishing, revising and ending listings are company-admin actions, done from the channels panel near the top of the detail view. See Revise a live listing and Understand item statuses.

Handled elsewhere

If something goes wrong

| What you see | Why | What to do | |---|---|---| | No edit control in the header | You do not have edit permission | The detail view is read-only for your role. | | Save Changes stays greyed out | You have no unsaved change yet, or a save is already running | Change a field first, then save. | | The Title box turned red | The save was rejected on the title; the reason shows underneath | Fix the title and save again — typing clears the message. | | Error loading details | The part's details did not load | Close the dialog and reopen the part. | | No marketplace tabs (US, UK, DE) | Your account sells on only one marketplace | There is nothing to switch between; edit the single set of fields. | | No Package Details card | It only shows in edit mode or when a weight or size already exists | Switch to edit mode to add them. | | Your edits disappeared after closing | Pressing Escape or clicking outside discards an edit in progress | Reopen the part and use Save Changes before closing. |