{"id":3954,"date":"2021-05-28T10:35:07","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T10:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vendlab.com\/?p=3954"},"modified":"2021-05-28T10:36:50","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T10:36:50","slug":"ebay-seller-levels-and-performance-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vendlab.com\/ebay-seller-levels-and-performance-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"eBay Seller Levels and Performance Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Secrets of eBay Seller Levels &amp; Performance Standards\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cBFa5XjZZVs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure><p>Your performance as a seller is tracked by eBay and can be seen from Seller Hub &gt; Performance.<\/p><p>Maintaining a good seller rating and feedback rating is important for four reasons:<\/p><ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Sellers with better performance metrics will perform better in eBay&#8217;s best match search algorithm<\/li><li>Top rated sellers are eligible for eBay &#8216;Premium Listings which are eligible for a 10% fee discount<\/li><li>Your feedback profile forms part of your brand on eBay and the broader web.&nbsp; Great feedback with reassure buyers and increase conversion rate<\/li><li>Below standard sellers pay an additional 4% final value fees<\/li><\/ul><h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Seller Rating<\/h1><p>Seller Rating is eBay&#8217;s measure of the quality of a seller.&nbsp; There are three levels of seller rating.<\/p><ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Top rated. <\/strong>Providing an excellent level of service to customers<\/li><li><strong>Standard<\/strong>.&nbsp; Meeting minimum standards<\/li><li><strong>Below standard<\/strong>. Your seller level can fall to Below Standard if your transaction defect rate is above 2% or if your percentage of cases closed without seller resolution is above 0.3%.<\/li><\/ul><p>A different seller rating is given for each region the seller trades in.&nbsp; For the UK these are:<\/p><ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>UK + Ireland<\/li><li>EU<\/li><li>Global<\/li><\/ul><p>All sellers should aim for Top rated seller level.&nbsp; If your account is &#8216;Below Standard&#8217; the account may have restrictions placed on it as it is below the minimum standard that eBay expects.&nbsp; Four metrics affect your seller rating:<\/p><ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Transaction defect rate<\/li><li>Cases closed without seller resolution<\/li><li>Late delivery rate<\/li><li>Tracking uploaded on time and validated (Top-rated sellers only)<\/li><\/ul><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Transaction defect rate<\/h2><p>The transaction defect rate is the percentage of your transactions that have one or more of the following defects:<\/p><ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>eBay Money Back Guarantee and PayPal Purchase Protection cases closed without seller resolution<\/li><li>Seller-initiated transaction cancellation<\/li><\/ul><p>To be a top rated seller requires a transaction defect rate of &lt; 0.5% and standard sellers &lt; 2%<\/p><p>eBay does not count more than one defect per transaction.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Late delivery rate<\/h2><p>For top Deliveries will be considered late only when:<\/p><ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Tracking shows the item was delivered after the estimated delivery date and there&#8217;s no acceptance scan within your handling time<\/li><li>The buyer confirms the item was delivered after the estimated delivery date and there&#8217;s no tracking that shows it was on time<\/li><\/ul><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cases closed without seller resolution<\/h2><p>Cases closed without seller resolution are cases where eBay was asked to review the case and the seller was found responsible.&nbsp; Standard and top rated sellers must keep their rate &lt; 0.3% of sales.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tracking uploaded on time and validated<\/h2><p>Top rated sellers must send 95% of their orders via a tracked service.&nbsp; This is defined as transactions where you upload tracking details within your stated handling time, and the carrier scanned the shipping label either before or after your handling time, are on time and validated.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sales<\/h2><p>To be an eBay Top-rated Seller, you must have at least 100 transactions and \u00a31,000.00 in sales during the past 12 months in your business account<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your performance as a seller is tracked by eBay and can be seen from Seller Hub &gt; Performance. Maintaining a good seller rating and feedback rating is important for four reasons: Sellers with better performance metrics will perform better in eBay&#8217;s best match search algorithm Top rated sellers are eligible for eBay &#8216;Premium Listings which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","transcript_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"eBay Seller Levels and Performance Standards\n\n#eBay #ecommerce #ecommercetips","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebay-online-marketplace"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7zVGJ-11M","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vendlab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vendlab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vendlab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vendlab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vendlab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vendlab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3956,"href":"https:\/\/vendlab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3954\/revisions\/3956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vendlab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vendlab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vendlab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}