Sell on eBay UK

How to enable the eBay UK marketplace on your existing eBay account, set UK business policies, price in GBP, and publish parts to eBay US and eBay UK as separate listings.

What selling on eBay UK means here

GridX Connect can list your parts on eBay UK (ebay.co.uk) alongside eBay US (ebay.com). Both run off the same eBay seller account — you do not create or link a second account. You connect eBay once, enable the United Kingdom marketplace, and then choose which marketplace each part goes to.

Selling on eBay UK is not the same as copying your US listings across. Each marketplace is its own listing, with its own status, its own price and its own vehicle compatibility. Ending or revising the US listing does not touch the UK one, and the reverse is true too. You also choose your shipping, return and payment policies per marketplace, not once for both.

Your stored (canonical) price is always in USD, and eBay bills in the local currency of each marketplace — USD on eBay US, GBP on eBay UK. Unless you set a GBP price yourself, your UK price is worked out from your USD price at the current exchange rate (see *Prices and currency* below). eBay Germany works the same way: it is a third marketplace on the same account, priced in EUR. eBay Australia shows as Coming soon.

> [!NOTE] > Your eBay connection lives on the Channels page in the left sidebar, not in Settings. Some older in-app messages say "Settings → Channels", but the page you want is Channels.

Before you start

Company admin access. Connecting eBay, editing policies and publishing are admin-only. Staff members see status but no action buttons, and non-admins get "Only admins can modify" on the policy panels.
eBay already connected, or ready to connect. eBay UK uses the same eBay login as eBay US.
Your eBay UK business policies created on eBay. GridX Connect reads your shipping, return and payment policies from eBay — it does not create them. If you have none for the UK, the panel shows "No eBay business policies yet".
A seller location. Set it in the Seller location card at the top of the Channels page; it applies to your whole account. A postal code is required if you are in the United States.
Once eBay UK is enabled, the extra controls appear on their own: the Publish to window, the US and UK tabs on a part, and the display-currency control.

Steps

In the left sidebar, open Channels.
If eBay is not connected yet, click Connect on the eBay card (admin only). A window headed Connect your eBay store opens and asks "Which marketplace is your primary store? Its business policies drive your setup. You can add the others later." Choose United States, United Kingdom or Germany, then click Continue.
Sign in to eBay in the popup that opens. If nothing appears, your browser blocked it — allow popups for this site and click Connect again. On success you see "eBay account connected successfully! Now configure your business policies."
Add eBay UK using the same eBay account. On the Marketplaces grid, the United Kingdom card reads Available until you click its Enable button, then Live; your main store carries a Primary badge.
Set eBay UK's business policies. Select the United Kingdom card, click Configure policies, then choose a Shipping Policy, Return Policy and Payment Policy from your eBay UK policies and click Save Policies.
Confirm your account settings are in place. Your seller location and your HTML Listing Policies both apply to every eBay marketplace on your account, so you set them once.
Publish a part to eBay UK. Open the part in Inventory, click Publish, and in the Publish to window tick eBay UK (or both eBay US and eBay UK), then click Publish.
Once the part is live on UK, open it and switch to the UK tab to review its K-Type vehicle compatibility.

How US and UK listings differ

| What | eBay US | eBay UK | |---|---|---| | Website | ebay.com | ebay.co.uk | | Currency eBay bills in | USD | GBP | | The listing | Its own listing | A separate listing | | Fitment identifier | ePID ("matched via ePID") | K-Type | | Business policies | Your eBay US policies | Your eBay UK policies, set separately | | Status and price | Tracked on its own | Tracked on its own |

Because the two are independent, you can be live on UK but not US, or the other way round. You can also end the listing on one marketplace and keep the other live.

Business policies, per marketplace

Business policies are chosen per marketplace on the Channels page. Select a marketplace card to see its policies. A marketplace with a saved set shows it read-only, with Change to edit it. One with nothing saved yet shows Configure policies, which opens the form so you can pick each policy and click Save Policies. Cancel drops an edit.

If the UK marketplace has no policies chosen yet, you see "No business policies set for eBay UK" with a Configure policies button. If your eBay account itself has no UK policies to choose from, you see "No eBay business policies yet" and the note "Create your shipping, return, and payment policies in eBay, then come back and refresh." — use Create policies on eBay, then Refresh.

Two settings are account-wide rather than per marketplace: your Seller location and your HTML Listing Policies (the free text shown in listing descriptions). You set each one once, and every marketplace uses it. A single part can override only its shipping policy per marketplace; return and payment policies are always taken from the marketplace-level choice above.

Prices and currency

Once a non-US marketplace is connected, a Display currency control appears in Settings → Preferences. It offers Auto and one option for each currency you sell in, for example USD ($) and GBP (£). Its description reads: "The currency you see across GridX and type prices in. Display-only — it never changes what eBay receives (each marketplace bills in its own currency) and your canonical price stays in USD." In other words, changing it changes what you see, not what eBay charges.

When you add a part or run a bulk upload on a multi-marketplace account, a listing-currency choice appears so you can set the price currency for that part or that file. You can also pre-select which marketplaces a Publish should tick by default, using the Publishing defaults card in Settings → Preferences: "Pre-select these marketplaces when you publish. You can still change them each time."

How your UK price is worked out

There are two cases, and the difference matters:

You did not set a GBP price. Your UK listing price is converted from your USD price at the exchange rate current when the listing is published. The rate is refreshed daily, so a part you publish next month can go up at a different £ figure than the same part published today, even though you never changed the price.
You set a GBP price yourself. That exact figure is used on the UK listing. Nothing is recalculated on top of it, and GridX Connect works the matching USD anchor backwards from it.

The conversion is a straight exchange-rate conversion. No VAT or fees are added on top by GridX Connect — eBay applies UK VAT itself, so a price that already included VAT would end up charged twice.

> [!TIP] > If you need your UK price to be an exact figure — to hit a round number or protect a margin — set the GBP price on the part rather than leaving it to convert. A converted price moves with the exchange rate; a price you set does not.

Publishing to each marketplace

On a multi-marketplace account, clicking Publish on a part opens a Publish to window where you tick the marketplaces you want. (When you select several parts and publish them together, the window is headed Publish listings and works the same way.) GridX Connect publishes to each ticked marketplace separately, so each one becomes its own listing with its own status and price. There is no single combined listing.

> [!TIP] > On the Inventory row, once a part is listed on at least one marketplace, a small channels control (for example 1/2) shows how many of your connected marketplaces are live. Click it for a Channels pop-up where you can view, publish or end each marketplace on its own. When a live listing has changes waiting, a Revise icon appears there too, and it opens the part.

Ending is per marketplace too. From the Channels pop-up the confirm reads "End the UK listing for "{title}"?", and from the part's page it reads "End eBay UK listing?". Both add "The item stays in your inventory and can be republished later.", so you can take the UK listing down and leave the US one selling.

Vehicle compatibility: US vs UK

US and UK compatibility are separate lists. US fitments are matched using the eBay product identifier (shown as "matched via ePID"); UK fitments carry K-Type numbers, which appear as their own column on the part's compatibility table. When you have two or more marketplaces connected, use the US and UK tabs above the part's details to switch which one you are viewing. Price, shipping and fitments all move together.

UK fitments are generated once the part is published to eBay UK. Before then, that tab shows "Not listed on eBay UK yet" and "Publish this item to eBay UK to generate and view its K-Type fitments." Saving UK fitment edits flags only the UK listing as needing revision, so use Revise on the UK listing to push them up.

If something goes wrong

"Popup was blocked. Please allow popups for this site and try again." — connecting eBay opens a sign-in popup that your browser blocked. Allow popups for GridX Connect, then click Connect again. (If the connection itself fails you may see "Failed to initiate eBay connection" or "Failed to connect to eBay".)
"Connect eBay first" / "Open Channels to link your eBay account." — you tried to publish with no eBay account connected. Connect it on the Channels page first.
"Only admins can modify" — policy and connection changes are admin-only. Ask a company admin, or ask to be made one.
"No business policies set for eBay UK" — select the United Kingdom card and use Configure policies to pick your shipping, return and payment policies.
"No eBay business policies yet" — create the policies on eBay, then use Create policies on eBay and Refresh to pull them in.
"Not listed on eBay UK yet" — the part has not been published to eBay UK; publish it there first to generate its K-Type fitments.
A publish or revise fails. GridX Connect shows eBay's own reason. Open the part and read it in red under that marketplace's row, fix the flagged issue on the part, then use the publish (retry) or revise icon on that same row to try again. There is no built-in error list in the app.

If you ever disconnect eBay, the confirm warns "You will need to reconnect before publishing listings again." — you reconnect on the same Channels page.