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5.1. Saved Listing Drafts: Overview
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Overview:
The Saved Listing Drafts page contains listing drafts that you have created and saved for later use. You may sort your drafts, search for them by category or keyword, and move them from one category to another. You may open a draft for editing, preview your listing draft, get your listing code, or prepare to launch it to eBay or Bonanza. If you have recently changed your profile, you may also change the profile info in one or more of your drafts.
Saved Listing Drafts:
Two different types of listing drafts may be found on the Saved Listing Drafts page, differing by which lister was used to make them: Advanced or Simple. (Drafts made using our Etsy Lister are not found here, but on the Etsy Items Draft & Active page, because Etsy Drafts are hosted by Etsy.com.)
Advanced drafts: Drafts saved in the Listing Generator. (If you have an SSB Deluxe subscription and your listing generator preference is set to Advanced, your account uses the Advanced Lister. The Advanced Lister is separated into the Listing Generator and the Listing Launcher.) An advanced draft can be used to directly launch a listing to eBay or Bonanza, or more quickly prepare a listing for Etsy (coming soon!), so long as you have a token for the relevant listing site. If you do not have a token (or simply prefer to copy and paste), the code of an Advanced draft may be copied to use on any listing sites that fully support HTML descriptions.
Advanced drafts made for eBay US profiles also have a "Simple" button, placed before the action icons. Clicking it will open the Advanced draft in Simple Lister. ([!] Warning: If the opened draft is saved again while in Simple Lister, it will become a simple draft. Simple drafts cannot be opened in the Advanced Lister.)
Simple drafts: Drafts saved in the Simple Lister. (If you have an SSB Basic subscription, or if your lister preference is set to Simple, your account uses the Simple Lister. The Simple Lister is for eBay US only.) A simple draft can only be used to launch a listing to eBay US. One advantage it has over advanced drafts is that it contains the entire listing (including item specifics).
Simple drafts are denoted by an orange star symbol, placed after the action icons: ☆
Action Icons:
Icons for various actions can be found to the left of each listing draft's name. Use these to Edit, Preview, Get Code for, Delete, or Prepare to Launch your listing drafts.
Edit this Listing:Clicking on the tools icon opens your draft for editing in the lister used to make it. (Advanced drafts open in the Listing Generator; Simple drafts open in the Simple Lister.)
Preview:The preview icon will show you a full page preview of your listing draft. Once you have previewed it, close the window with the close button.
Get Code:The Get Code button will open the HTML code page. There, you can click on the Copy Code button to obtain your listing code for sites that our not supported by our Listing Launcher. (Note: This icon will only be shown for Advanced drafts.)
Delete this listing only:
Prepare to Launch Listing:The Prepare to Launch Listing icon will open the Listing Launcher with the draft's info pre-loaded. (Note: This icon will only be shown for Advanced drafts that were made for listing sites supported by the Listing Launcher, such as eBay or Bonanza. If the selected profile's listing site is not supported by the Listing Launcher, or the token for that site is currently missing or invalid, the icon will not be displayed.)