Introducing eBay's New Time Abroad Feature to Help Sellers Manage Selling on eBay While on a Break

Fourth dimension Away is at present available to all Sellers and automatically updates the aircraft date to make the experience more seamless.

Last month nosotros launched the new Time Away feature for all sellers so they tin permit their customers know about in existent-time when they're on holiday or abroad from selling.

Like an "out of office" reply, the new Time Away feature allows sellers to schedule their absences and notify customers with an automatic message while they're away, then buyers know what to look. Additionally, through the tool, sellers can choose if they'd like to break or continue their listings on eBay. For our buyers, they tin can see updated estimated delivery dates for items by a seller who has turned on the Time Away feature.

As we innovate on behalf of our customers in creating features like Time Away, nosotros strive to exist the seller platform of option across our marketplace equally part of our tech-led reimagination.

How Information technology Works

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Sellers can admission the Time Away feature through several ways, including their Business relationship Settings, the Seller Hub and My eBay pages.

For sellers who'd like to hibernate their listings while on break, they tin can apply the Pause Selling options in Time Away to automatically hide and unhide their listings based on their time away start and end dates, with only 1-two hours for the changes to take consequence.

Pausing sales will hide a seller's fixed-cost listings from search results on eBay and block checkout on their listings while they're away. Delight annotation that auctions volition continue unless a seller manually cancels them.

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Sellers who'd adopt to continue selling while abroad will no longer need to manually update their shipping and handling time for their inventory. Our new Time Away feature will automatically arrange the handling due/acceleration timeline and the estimated delivery date then that buyers know what to expect. A message will exist displayed on the listings letting buyers know nearly their absence, render date and the expected delays, including an updated estimated commitment date.

Sellers also tin adjust their settings, change their finish date or cancel their Fourth dimension Abroad status at any fourth dimension.

This characteristic rolled out in September every bit the holiday season approaches, so sellers tin can prepare in advance for whatsoever well-deserved breaks, allowing them to relax and enjoy their vacation.

The new feature is available to all eBay sellers worldwide on desktop and is an update of our original "Vacation Settings" feature experience, which previously had only been available to Store subscribers.