Advanced Settings – WP-Lister Pro

Contents

This section is about the advanced options which you can find at WP-Lister » Settings » Advanced.

In most cases you won’t need most of these options, but they can be useful to customize WP-Lister Pro to your needs.

Roles and Capabilities

Here you can control which features of WP-Lister are available for each user role. The available capabilities are: Manage Listings, Manage Settings, Prepare Listings and Publish Listings.

By default, Shop Managers have full access just like Administrators always do – but you could hide WP-Lister’s settings from Shop Owners to avoid confusing them, or you could allow other users to prepare eBay listings, even without allowing them to publish them.

roles and capabilities

Listing Templates

This section contain options that influence how WP-Lister will render your listing template and generate the item description on eBay.

listing templates hooks

Shortcode Processing

By default WP-Lister runs your product description through the usual WordPress content filters which enable you to use shortcodes in your product descriptions in WooCommerce. If a plugin causes trouble by adding unwanted HTML to your description on eBay, you should try setting this option to “off”.

Enable this if you want to use WordPress shortcodes in your product description or your listing template.

Options:

  • Off
  • Only in product description (default)
  • In description and listing template

Link Handling

Select whether WP-Lister should replace links within the product description with plain text.

Options:

  •  Remove all links from description (default)
  •  Allow all links

WP-Lister does remove links from product descriptions by default to avoid violating the eBay Links policy. Specifically you are not allowed to advertise products that you list on eBay by linking to their product pages on your site. Read more about eBay’s Link policy here.

Default Image Size

Select the image size WP-Lister should use on eBay. It is recommended to set this to “full” to upload the highest resolution available.

Product Gallery

In order to get additional product images, WP-Lister first checks if there is a dedicated Product Gallery (WC 2.0+). If there’s not, it can use all images which were uploaded (attached) to the product- as it was a usual behavior in WooCommerce 1.x.

If you find unwanted images in your listings try disabling this option.

Options available:

  • Use attached images if no Gallery found (default)
  • No fallback

User Interface

Customize the WP-Lister UI according to your needs.

user interface

Menu Label

You can change or main admin menu label in your dashboard from WP-Lister to anything you like. For example, you can enter “eBay” and the menu label below “WooCommerce” will read “eBay”.

Default: WP-Lister

Open preview in new tab

WP-Lister uses a Thickbox modal window to display the preview by default. However, this can cause issues in rare cases where you embed some JavaScript code (like NivoSlider) – or you might just want more screen estate to preview your listings.

Default: No

Disable WYSIWYG editor

Depending on your listing template content, you might want to disable the built in WP editor when you edit your template as it might cause issues with some code snippets in rare cases. You should keep in mind that you’re not supposed to copy and paste javascript snippets in the main content area – they should go in header.php or footer.php instead.

Default: No

Hide duplicate warning

Technically, WP-Lister allows you to list the same product multiple times on eBay-in order to increase your visibility. However, this is not recommended as WP-Lister Pro would not be able to decrease the stock on eBay accordingly when the product is sold in WooCommerce.

If you do not plan to use the inventory sync feature though, you can safely list one product multiple times and disable the warning about duplicate listings.

Default: No (recommended)

Order Processing

This section allows you to customize how WP-Lister Pro processes new orders on eBay. (only available in WP-Lister Pro)

order-processing

WooCommerce sends out various notifications when an order status is changed. WP-Lister can disable these notifications when creating eBay orders in WooCommerce:

Disable New Order emails

Disable New Order notifications being sent to the admin when an eBay order is created.

Disable Processing Order emails

Disable email notifications being sent to the customer when an eBay order is created with status processing.

Disable Completed Order emails

Disable email notifications being sent to the customer when an eBay order is created with status completed.

Complete sale on eBay automatically

Automatically complete the sale on eBay when an order is completed in WooCommerce.

Setting this to “Yes” will complete an eBay order with the default feedback text and shipping date set to today when the order status is changed to completed. Only applicable if the default status for new orders is processing.

Default: No

Default feedback text

This is where you can change the default feedback text to be used when auto complete option above is enabled. Leave empty to skip sending feedback. Note: Seller feedback is always positive.

Default: Thank you for your purchase

Create orders when

Orders can be created immediately when they are downloaded or when they have been marked as “completed” on eBay.

It is recommended to wait until the eBay purchase has been completed or combined orders can cause duplicates.

Options:

  • When purchased has been completed (default)
  • Immediately

Skip orders from foreign sites

Enable this option to process orders only from the selected eBay site.

If you use the same eBay account to sell on multiple sites, please enable this option to only process orders from the site selected in settings or you might get orders in the wrong currency as WooCommerce does not support multiple currencies.

Default: No

Miscellaneous Options

misc options

Local timezone

Select  your local time zone. This is currently used to convert the order creation date from UTC to local time.

Enable Item Compatibility tab

Enable this to show the eBay Item Compatibility List as new tab on a single product page – if it exists.

Default: Yes

Note: Item compatibility lists are currently only created for imported products. Future versions of WP-Lister Pro will allow to define compatibility lists in WooCommerce.

External products inventory

External products usually have no inventory in WooCommerce. This option is a workaround to enable inventory management on external products.

Default: No

Ignore backorders

Since eBay relies on each item having a definitive quantity, allowing backorders for WooCommerce products can cause issues when the last item is sold. WP-Lister can force WooCommerce to mark a product as out of stock when the quantity reaches zero, even with backorders allowed.

Enable this to mark a product as out of stock even when it has backorders enabled.

Default: No

Uninstalling WP-Lister

If you ever want to completely remove WP-Lister and all listings, orders and settings from your site, you can do so by enabling the Uninstall option before deactivating the plugin.

uninstall on deactivation

Note: This will not remove your listing templates to avoid loosing your customizations. If you want to remove your listing templates as well, please delete the folder wp-content/uploads/wp-lister/templates/.