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Automate eBay

eBay sellers set up automations around sold items and fulfillment: an email for every sale with the item and price, an afternoon reminder of orders not yet shipped, and weekly sales totals. Listing traffic, meaning impressions, views and conversion, can be compared week on week. Spell out what you want to your AI assistant, confirm the plan before it starts, and the checks carry on without you logging in to Seller Hub.

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Create a ClickRuntime automation: check my eBay account every 10 minutes and email me each new sale with the item title, quantity, price and buyer's username.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

Ideas

What you can automate in eBay

Sale notifications as they come in, a daily nudge on unshipped orders, and Monday numbers for both sales and listing traffic. These are ready-made starting points. Anything else you can describe works too.
Every 10 minutes

Get an email for every eBay sale

Each new eBay order is emailed once with the item title, quantity and sale price.

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Daily

Get an afternoon list of eBay orders to ship

Every afternoon you receive the eBay orders whose fulfillment has not started yet.

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Weekly

Get last week's eBay sales total on Monday

A Monday email shows how many orders came in last week and what they added up to.

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Weekly

Compare eBay listing traffic week on week

Each Monday you see impressions, views and conversion rate for last week next to the week before.

See how it works Your own logic

Any other automation you can describe in words

Your own rules, schedule and AI steps with eBay, plus any other app. Describe it and your assistant builds it.

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Build your own

Build any eBay automation you can describe

The ideas above are ready-made starting points, not a fixed list. Describe what eBay should do in your own words, with your conditions, other apps or an AI step, and your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

  • Your own rules

    Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.

  • Any number of apps

    One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.

  • AI where it helps

    Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.

  • On a schedule or on each event

    Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

For example, ask your assistant

Every hour, check my eBay listings that end in the next 24 hours with no bids and lower the price by 10%, but never below my floor price.

When an item sells on eBay, add the buyer, item and sale price to my Google Sheet.

When an eBay order is paid, log it in Google Sheets, create a shipping task in Todoist, and send me a Slack message.

Beyond chat

Have eBay work when you're not in the chat

Connecting eBay to ChatGPT or Claude lets you ask about it while you chat. ClickRuntime handles the part that should happen on its own: checks on a schedule and actions on each new event, set up from the same chat and running after you close it.

Setup

Connect eBay

eBay connects through an application keyset you create on the eBay Developers Program for your own seller account, plus a RuName that tells eBay where to return after you approve access.

eBay

Marketplace

  1. At developer.ebay.com, register and create a Production keyset under Application Keysets.
  2. On the User Tokens page, create a Production RuName and set its accept URL to https://clickruntime.com/oauth/callback.
  3. In the ClickRuntime dashboard, open Connections, choose eBay and enter the App ID (client ID), Cert ID (client secret) and RuName, then approve scopes such as https://api.ebay.com/oauth/api_scope/sell.fulfillment.readonly.

Good to know

eBay limits that affect automations

  • User access tokens expire after two hours and are renewed with the refresh token, which lasts much longer; if eBay ends the refresh token, the connection must be approved again.
  • Production keysets are separate from Sandbox ones, so a Sandbox App ID will not work against a live seller account.
  • Sales are detected by polling, typically every 10 minutes, so alerts arrive within one interval rather than instantly.
  • eBay applies daily call limits per application, which is why checks run on an interval instead of continuously.

FAQ

Questions about automating eBay

What does ClickRuntime see in my eBay account?
What the scopes you approved cover. The automations here use the read-only fulfillment scope for orders and the analytics scope for listing traffic, so they read sales and traffic but do not change listings.
What is a RuName and why do I need one?
It is eBay's name for a redirect setting attached to your keyset. eBay sends you back to ClickRuntime through it after you approve access, so it must use the ClickRuntime callback URL.
Will I be emailed the moment something sells?
Close to it. New orders are checked every 10 minutes and each one is emailed once with the item and price.
Can it report how my listings are performing?
Yes. A weekly report totals impressions, views and transactions from eBay's traffic report and compares them with the previous week.
Does this need an AI key?
No. AI comes with every ClickRuntime plan without a key of your own, and these eBay reports and alerts work on the order and traffic data alone.
Is this a eBay connector for ChatGPT or Claude?
Not for chatting with eBay data. A chat connector lets your assistant read and change eBay while you're in the conversation. ClickRuntime is for the work that should happen without you: you set up an automation from the chat once, and it keeps running on a schedule or on each eBay event.

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