Today I’m going to be reviewing 6 software companies that offer a different service than what I’ve reviewed in the past. These software programs take your current listings from one site, for example from Poshmark, then will list the item(s) for you on other sites such as eBay, Depop, Mercari and more!

Honestly I was rather excited to test these companies software programs out because when you have a lot of listings it can be extremely time consuming to list each item you have for sale over and over again. For example just 1 dress I’m currently selling can be listed on at least 10+ marketplaces (depending on the program I’m trying out). So 1 dress equals 10 listings (1 for each site). By the time you list 5 dresses on all 10 sites you’ve actually created 10 listings of the same item 5 times for a total of 50 listings! 50 listings for only 5 items is extremely time consuming and overwhelming to do manually. That is one of the biggest reasons why I stopped selling on all the sites I use to sell on & narrowed it down to between 1 to 3 sites depending on the items I’m selling. So, having a good program that can easily take your listings and list them on other platforms for me, well, that’s a huge time savor and a huge help….

 

Crosslist

Purchase Process, Downloading & Set Up

Crosslist has 3 different tiers, Bronze, Silver & Gold available to choose from for purchase on a monthly subscription basis & ranging from $19.99 per month to $34.99 per month. Each tier offers a little more than the first and they all offer the main function of this program which is to Crosslist your items from one selling platform to multiple other platforms of your choosing. (For my review of this program I will test it with 3 to 4 different platforms out of the 8 selling platforms they offer for you to use which are EBay, Poshmark, Mercari, Facebook, Kidizen, Depop, Grailed & Heroine). All tiers offer unlimited bulk listing to all marketplaces. However, depending on how many items you have and new items you list per month you will likely find, if you list a lot of items, that only being able to create 50 listings per month on Crosslist to not be sufficient enough. 50 listings per month is the maximum number of listings you are allowed to create with their Bronze tier.

Crosslist offers a 7 day free trial without having to give any of your credit card or payment information at all, something I was happy about. (This review is being based off the 7 day trial period). During the trial period you are only able to create 30 listings. Listings can be created by importing them from the marketplaces of your choosing (out of the 8 that are approved for their software) or manually composing them using the Crosslist software. Then you can post the 30 free trial listings an unlimited number of times to the marketplaces they offer (as listed above).

After opting for the 7 day free trial period from my laptop, creating an account which you’re only asked for an email & to create a password, the program then instructs you to download the extension from the google chrome store and from there I pinned the extension to my browser window. Honestly, this was easy enough for me & if you’ve ever read any of my other reviews it’s no secret I often need help when it comes to setting up programs on my computer.

Breakdown of Crosslist Software

Once you’ve downloaded the extension to google chrome on your laptop by following the prompts from the Crosslist site you have access to Crosslist & the ability to pull your listings from one site and list them to other sites.

Before you start the process make sure you have gone to each marketplace on your computer and log into every marketplace website you intend to utilize from the sites Crosslist is compatible with. If you’re not logged in then you won’t be able to move forward with the Crosslist process.

When you open your Crosslist extension you’ll find yourself on a page called “My Listings”. Here is where you’ll find any listing you have imported from one selling site that you plan to then “Crosslist” to other sites. On this same page is an “import listings” option & a “create” listings option. Let’s start with the “import listings” option. When you click on this option you’ll be directed to a new page where you select what site you’d like to import your listings from. You have 7 sites that you can select. In my case, I selected Poshmark because the majority of my listings are on Poshmark. Once you select the site you’d like to import from all your listings from the next page opens and all of your available listings appear in individual rows with the cover photo, the title and listing price. There’s a box to the left of each row/listing which you can click on to select that item as a listing you’d like to import to your Crosslist “My Listings” page. With the free trial you’re allowed to select up to 30 listings.

NOTE: Be advised if you opt to try the trial version and want to check out the next feature I’m going to tell you about then do not use all 30 listings here. Save some if you’d like to try to create brand new listings as well.

Once you select the listings you’d like to import you click on the “Import Listings” option and you’ll be automatically redirected back to the “my listings” page where you’ll find the listings you chose to transfer now waiting for you to prepare to list on multiple other sites. The listings will again appear in rows with the cover photo, listing title, price, date you “created” the listing and transferred it to the Crosslist software, “status” which will say either “draft” or “valid”. If the item(s) are shown to be in the draft category then this means you need to edit something in your listing details in order for it to be transferred to another site or sites. All of my listings were shown as drafts when imported to Crosslist & needed minor changes. Most times the title was too long for it to be listed on Mercari (they have a 40 letter maximum title) even though the title was fine for listing on the other sites I had selected to Crosslist the item to.

NOTE: When you have to edit a listing and click on the draft option you’re redirected to a page which is similar to a basic listing on most sites when you’re creating a listing. It shows the photos you’ve imported, your title, description & then there’s shipping options to fill in because some sites allow you to select your own shipping prices and allow for worldwide shipping. Worldwide shipping is not a mandatory field you need to fill in though. You can opt not to do worldwide shipping.

After you exit the listing you can immediately either select what sites you’d like to list the item on or save it back to your my listings page where it will show up as valid. When an item shows as valid this means you can now select that item and list it on the other platforms of your choosing.

Listing/Crosslisting your items to multiple platforms is now the final step in this process. Once your listing is “valid” right from the edit listing page you can select what sites you’d like to put your listing up for sale on, I chose eBay, Depop & Mercari, then you click on the post option. After selecting post you will notice that new chrome tabs will open – 1 tab per site you’ve selected to sell on. Crosslist automatically fills in many of the mandatory fields from the other sites (adding the photos, title, description, listing price, hashtags, shipping prices [unless the specific site doesn’t require certain information – such as Poshmark when it comes to shipping costs for example]). Next you must open each tab and review the information that was automatically filled in & because every marketplace differs some there’s usually a few things you may need to change, add or edit for each open tab which represents each marketplace you have selected to Crosslist/post your listings on. If you sell on eBay you’ll find eBay is always the one marketplace that asks for the most information. I do advise trying to fill out every single piece of information as possible on eBay though because the more details the better your chances are of selling the items you list. Yes it’s more time consuming but your odds of making a sale are higher.

Once you have checked each tab and filled in any needed information for that specific site all you need to do is select that sites list option so your items gets listed and goes live for everyone to see and potentially buy.

Customer Service

I sent an email to Crosslist with a question and they did reply the next morning with the information I needed that answered the question I had. They also included a link to a YouTube video they had explaining the specific step I asked about. So I have no complaints about customer service. I should also note they do not offer phone customer support.

Side Note(s)

Photos: one issue I immediately had when I imported listings from Poshmark to the Crosslist software was that 18 out of 29 imported listings failed to transfer the photos from the original listings I had imported. I noticed immediately when looking at the “My Listings” page that instead of my cover photo it showed the Crosslist logo instead. When I clicked to edit the listing hoping maybe the photos would be there once the listing loaded none of my photos for these listings were there. So, in order to fix that I would have to either try to import them again or go back to the original listings and save each individual photo to my computer and then go back to Crosslist and add the photos manually. To me, that was a fail because this is supposed to help me save time and although this is a useful tool to have in terms of pulling listings from one marketplace then list them on multiple others there’s still work that needs to be done after each listing is put on the sites and actually listed live. So this is something that Crosslist should fix. 18 out of 29 listings without photos is too many especially when you’re only allowed to import so many listings per month depending on what tier you opt to pay for a month. The highest tier level offers unlimited imports and the lowest offers 50 which is not a lot overall. If you’re looking into a program like this odds are you’re likely going to need to do more than 50 listings per month in my opinion anyway.

Note: Just a quick thought about the free 7 day trial. As previously mentioned they give you 30 listings to either import and/or create. Overall I didn’t feel it was enough listings to really get a good enough feel for the program. Especially when 18 imported listing photos didn’t import over with the title, description, price & so on. That’s not saving me time because now I would have to go back and either add the photos manually (if you even have them saved on your computer – many people opt to use their cell phones to photograph their items, so unless you’ve backed up all of your photos onto your computer then you can’t even upload the photos manually to fix the issue (unless you go to each individual listing from your PC & save it & then manually upload it). Also because you can use your phone with the Crosslist website to create a brand new listing to then list on all the sites you sell on you’re going to want to have enough free listings to test this out as well. Failure to upload photos to 18 of the listings I opted to import on Crosslist had caused me to lose out on 18 out of 30 of my free uploads. You can’t delete them and get back the ones you deleted either. They count towards your 30 listings even if you delete them. So my thoughts on this is they should really let people (aka: potential customers like myself) at least utilize at least the bottom tier level for 7 days.

Another thing I’d like to mention is you must have a computer and use google chrome in order for Crosslist to work. They do offer the ability to use your cell phone, but you can only create a new listing from your phone. You cannot list any items from your phone. You can create & save the listings to Crosslist. You must download google chrome to your phone and pull up the Crosslist website, login to your account and from there you click on “create” and then you’re able to take photos & fill out the basic listing information they have as previously mentioned above. You can edit photos via the Crosslist software as well (personally I prefer my own photo editing software or apps, but theirs isn’t bad considering it’s not a photography app). They also have a cap on how many photos you can have/store per listing depending on the tier you opt to purchase.

Another important mention is they allow you to import individual items to up to 10 items at a time over to their main page where you will find them under the “My Listings” section. Bulk importing will save you time instead of moving one at a time which is a nice feature. However with that said Crosslist is unable to import listings from/off of EBay & Facebook Marketplace. They can import from/off of the rest of the supported sites I’ve mentioned though.

I noticed that when I played around with different marketplaces I intended to list my items on, the draft page would change slightly. In other words if I took off Depop and eBay and left Mercari as the only app I intended to transfer my listing over to then international shipping wasn’t something that would appear. The fields you fill out in your description (once your items are transferred from one site to Crosslist or once you’ve created a new listing on their software) are kept pertinent to the sites you choose to list your items on. So you’re not left filling out additional info not specific to the marketplace your opting to sell on. The more marketplaces you add, the more item specific details may pop up when you edit your listing so it’s verified & ready to be crossed to the other platforms you’ve chosen.

In Conclusion

I feel the general concept for this software program is really good. It’s a much needed program for many sellers who sell on multiple platforms, even if you’re a smaller seller and upload 10-15 new listings a month, you’ll save hours of time not having to put the same one listing on 9 or 10 marketplaces. This program also opens the door for sellers of all sizes to sell items on more marketplaces because of the time you’ll save alone. However this specific program still needs work. The fact that EIGHT-TEEN photos did not transfer over when they were imported is a huge problem in my opinion. That is a lot of listings you’ll have to fix or delete and try again to import all while using yet another one of your allowed listings per month.

This software does give you quite a few marketplaces to choose from as well, which is good. I did notice a larger platform not included that’s been around for years now and that is Tradesy. I do hope in the future this is included in their lineup. Also, people sell not only on Facebook Marketplace, but on Instagram as well, so that may be another site they may want to add. The more marketplaces the more chances you have of selling items.

Overall it’s not a terrible program. It needs work though. The photos not loading really did it for me though. That was too many not loading.

 

ResellKit

Purchase Process, Downloading & Set Up

ResellKit currently offers 5 pricing tiers starting from their 1st tier called the “Free” tier which includes 50 new listings per month. The 2nd tier is called the “Basic” tier and is a $9 onetime only payment in which you receive 100 new listings per month. The 3rd tier is their “Plus” package for a $14 onetime payment and 200 listings per month. The 4th tier is the “Advanced” package for a onetime payment of $29 and 750 new listings per month. Lastly the 5th tier level is their “Pro” package for a onetime payment of $69 and 2500 new listings per month.

The purchase process, downloading & set up was actually relatively easy. All I had to do was register for an account. No credit card information required. I selected the “Free” package with 50 free listings per month. Once I filled out my information (name, email & confirmation of my email) I was asked to create a password. From there I was instructed to login to the accounts I sell on that they offer to import listings from.

NOTE: This software program only offers 3 selling platforms: eBay, Poshmark & Mercari.

At the bottom of the window you’ll see the name of each marketplace and underneath that is what you’d click on and be redirected to a new window to login to your accounts. Once you’ve logged into your 2 or 3 accounts you are all set up and can begin importing your listings.

Breakdown of Crosslist Software

Once you’ve completed the above steps you will need to select which app you’d like to import your listings from. (You can go back later and import from a different marketplace as well). After selecting the app you’re importing from you’ll then be asked to select which of the two remaining marketplaces you’d like to move your listings over to. (In my case I selected Poshmark to import from and both eBay & Mercari to export my listings to). Once you’ve made those selections the software import your listings from the marketplace you’ve selected to import from and they appear on your screen (you can export 1 or bulk import multiple listings at once). Then you will select the items you’d like to export to the other marketplaces. You can select multiple items or just one at a time.

NOTE: On my first try using this software to pull listings from Poshmark to ResellKit I selected 14 listings to pull from Poshmark. Out of the 14 listings only 5 of the listings actually had the photos also transferred over. The remaining 9 had no photos. I have emailed support about this matter and am awaiting their reply as I write this.

Moving forward I selected the listings to all be exported over to eBay & Mercari. Just like with the previous software program it auto fills out as much information as it can, but you have to add the additional information yourself because each marketplace is different with eBay having the most item requirements to fill out. While filling out my first listing on eBay and all the item specifics & requirements (which does take some time) I proceeded to publish the listing and a pop up came up saying I had timed out. Then it just appeared to log me out. However later on I’d find this listing, along with the 13 others (with & without photos) in my drafts on eBay). Oddly nothing showed up on Mercari. I’m unsure why Mercari didn’t have the listings ready for me to view, update and list. That was disappointing.

This software program also features a very helpful tool which I was really happy to see. It monitors your listings and when an item sells on one marketplace it pulls the listing off the other marketplace(s). I find this to be incredibly helpful. I admit I have on a couple occasions accidentally forgotten to pull a listing off one site only for it to then sell and have to cancel the order. Although the couple times it’s happened the customers were very kind about it, it’s not something you want to happen and furthermore you risk losing that customer from returning. So, this is something I’m really happy about.

To test out this feature I purposely logged out of one of my accounts and logged into another I have on the same marketplace. I then purchased an item I had listed on another marketplace through the ResellKit software. About 10-15 minutes later when I checked the item was no longer available for sale.

Customer Service

I emailed ResellKit to ask a question and they responded the next day. I asked them about the photos not loading when I imported items and if these would count against my 50 listings being it was due to software error and not personal error. It did count towards my 50 free listings for the record. Also they do not offer phone customer support service.

Side Note(s)

The first thing I noticed immediately and thought I should point out is the prices. Yes they are very appealing, however it’s been my experience more often than not that you get what you pay for. I’ve explained this in other reviews regarding other automation services (bots). It’s nice to only pay a small one time fee or just pay nothing forever and only have 50 listings, but this can also end up being a bad thing. I have found many developers will whip together an easy software program and sell it for a very cheap price and over time you’ll find they do little to no updates on it. Some won’t have very good customer service (if any) and ultimately you’ll find (in many cases) it’s a pretty subpar product. Like I said you do ultimately get what you pay for and you have to invest in yourself to make money. General very low priced software isn’t going to have continuous updates and additional things added on that the software can perform to keep up with competition and all the different growing marketplaces. I’m not saying this program is bad. I’m just saying to be a bit skeptical when it’s free or extremely low priced. Yes bargains are great, but to make money you need a program that’s really going to grow, change, expand, better itself and work hard for you… continuously work hard for you.

In Conclusion

I think this program needs some work to compete with the other similar programs available. (I was disappointed that so many photos did not show up when I transferred them to their site. I felt that this should have been resolved by them. There was no user error).

As previously mentioned the prices make me a bit skeptical as tempting as they may be. I feel this program has some updating and work that needs to be done in order to really stand out, function better and offer a bit more.

I will end on a positive note which is I do really like that this program automatically pulls listings that sold on one marketplace from the others for you. However keep in mind these listings must all have been uploaded to ResellKit then crossposted to the other marketplaces. If you already have the same listing on marketplace A and you manually do all the work to list it on marketplace B then you use ResellKit to crosspost it from marketplace A to marketplace C, ResellKit will not pull the sold listing from marketplace B because it was not listed by them (they will only recognize marketplaces A & C in this situation). You will have to manually delete the item from marketplace B in that case.

I think in this case it might be easier to pull your inventory from one marketplace then if you have duplicates on other marketplaces delete them & just crosspost them through this software as new so it’s recognized. That seems like the best way to solve that situation. It also will make your listings appear as new & get new eyes on them.

In conclusion this software needs work. The pricing makes me skeptical. I know it’s tempting, but from past experiences these programs don’t tend to keep updated as all these marketplaces change and grow. Between the issues I mentioned throughout and then the popup requesting permission to access my webcam, which came from Norton, not ResellKit, I’m not sure I’m too comfortable recommending this program.

 

Vendoo

Purchase Process, Downloading & Set Up

Vendoo has a unique payment tier program than the first 2 software programs I have reviewed. You choose your plan based on how many listings you list per month (you’re given 7 tiers to choose from). Based on that you’re given the monthly price for that tier. The options are as follows:

5 listings = free

25 listings = $8.99 per month

125 listings = $19.99 per month

250 listings = $29.99 per month

600 listings = $49.99 per month

2000 listings = $99.99 per month

4000 listings = $149.99 per month

Each of these monthly plans includes the use of 3 market places, image hosting, image resizing & editing, CSV Export, an inventory page and a daily seller analytics page.

Once selecting the tier you’d like you have the option of selecting 4 more options to add on to your monthly package which are as follows:

Importing – $4.99 per month

• this feature allows you to import your existing listings from one marketplace onto Vendoo to then crosspost them to another marketplace(s)

Delist & Relist Unlimited – $4.99 per month

• this feature allows you to remove a listing from a marketplace and post it again as a new listing (doing this has been a long standing trick of the trade for many sellers as it renews your item & pushes it back to the top of the shopping grid). This feature also gives you the ability to pull sold listings from the other marketplaces it may be listed on.

All Marketplaces – $4.99 per month

• this allows you to access all of the marketplace(s) Vendoo is connected to instead of the basic 3 available to you in their original package.

Bundle All For – $11.99 per month

• this option is to purchase all 3 of the above “Add-On” features for 1 monthly fee.

Vendoo offers 9 marketplaces total to crosspost your listing to & from.

1. eBay
2. Facebook Marketplace
3. Depop
4. Etsy
5. Tradesy
6. Poshmark
7. Mercari
8. Grailed
9. Kidizen

They also have a spot on their site to email them if there’s another marketplace they don’t offer that you’d like to request.

After reviewing all of the above information I noticed they offered a free trial without having to give them your credit card information. The website says it accepts all major credit cards. I’m not one who is overly comfortable with giving my credit card information to a website I don’t truly know. I prefer sites like this to at least offer Paypal as well for potential customers who prefer not to share their credit card information. However, maybe they do accept it and I just have not seen it. I will update if I find they accept paypal as a payment as well.

So, now it’s time to finally install the Vendoo Extension on Google Chrome. Normally I need help when it comes to installing anything at all on my computer, but the extensions seem to be pretty easy for me thus far. Once I selected to download the extension it easily finished in under a minute and the second step was to link the marketplace accounts I sell on to Vendoo. I noticed it had already connected my account with a couple marketplaces without me having to manually do it. Others I had to login to manually which was quick, easy and done right on their website.

NOTE: It wasn’t clear on Vendoo’s website exactly how many marketplaces you’re able to use while using their free trial. I personally don’t use all 9 of the marketplaces they have to offer, but for research purposes I’ve selected to login to eBay, Poshmark, Mercari, Tradesy and Depop.

Breakdown of Vendoo Software

Once I logged into the above listed marketplaces I chose I was then brought to what is called Vendoo’s “inventory” page (this would be what I would consider like your control panel). This is where you can opt to create and list new items, import items from a marketplace of your choice to Vendoo to then list on other marketplaces and check your analytics.

First I created a new listing on Vendoo to list on the marketplaces I selected. This process was similar to the prior websites I have reviewed. I uploaded my photos. I was able to crop and resize a photo from the Vendoo site. Then you fill out basic information which will transfer to the multiple marketplaces you opt to list your new listing on. Once this information is filled out there’s a list along the left side of your listing information which has each marketplace listed. I clicked on eBay first and I was directed to fill out any additional information required by eBay. Follow that it was the same for the other marketplaces I chose to list my item on. This process was pretty simple and I had a new listing up within about 10 minutes on 5 marketplaces.

The next step I took was to import listings from Poshmark to Vendoo so I could then list/crosspost them on the 4 other marketplaces.

NOTE: Once I downloaded the free trial I was given 5 listings total to use which is the free version they offer to my understanding. However I did notice their website states you can access 3 marketplaces where I’ve been able to access 5 (& it appears if I used the 4 other marketplaces I’d have been able to access those as well).

On the Inventory page you’d select create a new listing and then at the top of the page the 9 marketplaces appear (with the ones you’re not connected to grayed out so you cannot select them). Here is where you’d select the marketplace you’d like to import your listing from to Vendoo. I selected Poshmark and immediately was brought to a new page with my first 100 listings shown to me with the option to import it to Vendoo by clicking the “import” option next to the item photo & title. If you’d like more of your items to appear just scroll to the bottom of the page and select “load more”.

NOTE: Because I’m only given 5 free listings and I used one to test out creating a new listing from the beginning on Vendoo I’m going to import 1 listing to start and then try importing the remaining 3 at once to see if this program will handle it well and all the info & photos will load during the import process because that was an issue with the previous software programs.

Selecting my first single item to import was simple enough. I selected the item by clicking on the import option and then the item I selected appears in the exact same new window that was used when I created a new listing directly from Vendoo, except this time the photos and item specifics from my Poshmark listing transferred with it and just like with the prior programs there were a few extra bits of info to fill in, such as shipping info. Then I selected save which will save this item to my Vendoo inventory list, which leads to the next step of selecting what site to crosspost the item to. The list of marketplaces is on the left side of your screen, the same as when you created the listing from scratch. From there I selected eBay…

NOTE: if your item is listed on another marketplace, for example I pulled the above listing from Poshmark to Vendoo, the list on the left will say next to Poshmark “listed” and if it’s not listed it says not listed. However it won’t recognize double listings so if you’ve pulled a listing off Poshmark and it’s already on eBay you can click “not listed” and a drop down bar appears & you just copy & paste the item’s URL which will mark it as listed. This helps prevent you from accidentally cross posting duplicate items. So, if you’re unsure if you’ve listed items on other marketplaces that you’re working on crossposting it’s probably best to double check your listings on these other marketplaces.

After selecting EBay the process is identical to when I created a new listing. I clicked on eBay and completed the additional information needed that’s specific to eBay and then after selecting to list my item, it was live and for sale on eBay. If I wanted to continue listing this item, just as I did with the new first item listing I created on Vendoo I’d just select another site from the list in the panel on the left.

Next I selected 3 items from Poshmark to transfer to my Vendoo inventory page. I’m happy to report that all the photos and listing information did appear. That was an issue I had with the first 2 programs I tested out.

Once you bulk transfer from the marketplace of your choice to Vendoo’s Inventory page the items are all there & ready for you to click on and list. The steps to go forward and list the items are no different than listing items you either created directly from Vendoo or transferred to Vendoo individually. It was a simple process.

Customer Service

I emailed customer service around 8 am eastern time on a Monday. I received a reply by 8:02 am. Very impressive (or maybe I just lucked out, but still very good timing). My question was also answered along with helpful photos from Vendoo answering my question in full, clearly and easy to understand. A+ on customer service. I will note they do not offer phone customer support.

Side Note(s)

Another feature this program offers is daily seller analytics. This is a pretty good feature. It tracks your best selling brands, categories, your profits

When an item sells you manually mark the item(s) as sold and on which marketplace it sold on, how much you paid for the item originally, the price it sold for, the percent of your sale the marketplace took from your earnings and shipping costs. After this information is filled out you’re going to see your business data on this page. Over time as you continue to make sales you’re going to see statistics on your business. I really think this is a fantastic feature they offer and the way the page is built it’s really easy to understand everything and it’s all broken down for you from revenue and profits, what percentage of sales are you making on each marketplace, what your top selling items are, top selling categories & a summary with the amount of items you have sold, listed & your average sale price. They have nice graphs & charts as well as it being written out for you. I truly love this feature.

Another feature Vendoo offers is called a CSV Export. When I clicked on this it created a spreadsheet on Microsoft Word with each listing I had on Vendoo and all the listing information appeared on this spreadsheet. This may be useful for tax purposes and personal records especially if you’re growing your business.

Lastly, right after you delist an item, if it’s an item that’s not sold yet, you can quickly hit the list option as well to refresh/relist your old listing and make it new again. Therefore pushing it to the top of the marketplaces shopping grid again – all in a matter of seconds.

In Conclusion

Overall I feel this software program is really pretty good. I found it easier or smoother to use than the first two programs I have reviewed. The flow of everything felt more user friendly. Plus there were no glitches with my photos not showing up and the customer service was fast.

The analytics page, as previously mentioned, is also a fantastic feature. Being able to easily start tracking your sales (and more) on each site in one place with easy to follow graphs & charts, I was really impressed with this.

It would be great if this program offered the feature of a previous program I reviewed and pulled items for you as they sell on one marketplace from the other marketplaces. However I still appreciate that you can “delist” items right from Vendoo quickly instead of going to each individual marketplace and deleting it or marking it as sold-out yourself.

Another downside is I didn’t see anything other than credit cards being accepted for payment. I’d much prefer paypal for security reasons. That is one big reason that would make me possibly back away from using this company.

Another issue is the way the program & pricing is set up. The point, at least to me, of a software program like this is to be able to transfer your listings from whichever marketplace(s) you sell on to their inventory page to then list onto the other marketplaces. However if you want to do that you must pay an additional monthly fee on top of the monthly fee you must already must pay based on how many listings per month you think you’ll list. In my opinion this feature should be included in the overall price. Otherwise the main package Vendoo is selling you, the customer, is a website that you can create new listings on and then from their site list them to each marketplace – which according to the primary package is only 3 marketplaces (I’m assuming you can choose which 3, but they don’t specify that either). You’d have to upgrade to access more than 3 marketplaces. I understand having add on features for an additional cost, I just feel that the main point and use for these sites are to pull your listings off Marketplace A so you can transfer them to Marketplace B & C much easier. So, if you do opt for this program be mindful you won’t be able to do that without the extra fee.

Again, overall I do think this is a pretty good program. I hope in future they’ll consider updating specific things (as I mentioned above), but regardless I’m impressed with how user friendly it is and very easy to use. It’s a huge time saver.

 

ListPerfectly

Purchase Process, Downloading & Set Up

List Perfectly is a cross listing platform that offers cross listing to the following marketplaces:

• eBay
• Poshmark
• Tradesy
• Etsy
• Depop
• Facebook Marketplace
• Grailed
• Instagram
• Mercari
• Kidzen
• Shopify

** They also state more marketplaces/sites will be coming soon.

List Perfectly offers 3 plans with a monthly fee. Each plan offers more than the next. The plans and their features are as follows:

1. Basic Plan – $29 per month

• Unlimited Crossposting: (on 1 or more profiles on the same platform, using your computer, tablet or phone). Listing to eBay, Poshmark, Depop, Tradesy, Grailed, Etsy, Facebook Marketplace, Kidzen & Heroine
• Unlimited Products
• Information copied during crossposting (imaging, title & description)
• Delist/Relist & mark as Sold (and listing button)
• Unlimited Custom Templates
• Image Hosting (keep photos hi-res quality)
• Multi Account Crosslisting (Crosspost to multiple shops or closets on the same platform

1. Business Plan – $49 per month

• Unlimited Crossposting: (on 1 or more profiles on the same platform, using your computer, tablet or phone). Listing to eBay, Poshmark, Depop, Tradesy, Grailed, Etsy, Facebook Marketplace, Mercari, Kidzen, Heroine, Shopify & Instagram
• Unlimited products
• Bulk Crossposting (crosspost all products instead of one at a time)
• Information copied during crossposting (imaging, title, description, price, MSRP, USP, color, size, material, keywords, brand, quantity, SKU)
• Delist/Relist & mark as Sold (and listing button)
• Auto-Image Resizing (no need to crop out resize photos)
• Unlimited Custom Templates
• Custom Titles for different platforms
• Unlimited analytics & CSV downloads
• Image hosting
• Multi Account Crosslisting (Crosspost to multiple shops or closets on the same platform

1. Pro Plan – $69 per month

• Unlimited Crossposting: (on 1 or more profiles on the same platform, using your computer, tablet or phone). Listing to eBay, Poshmark, Depop, Tradesy, Grailed, Etsy, Facebook Marketplace, Mercari, Kidzen, Heroine, Shopify & Instagram
• Unlimited products
• Bulk Crossposting (crosspost all products instead of one at a time)
• Information copied during crossposting (imaging, title, description, price, MSRP, UPC, color, size, brand, international size, material, keywords, condition, shipping shipping weight, dimensions, quantity, SKU, Cover inches to centimeters)
• Description footers (add unique information specific to each platform)
• Delist/Relist & mark as Sold (and listing button)
• Auto-Image Resizing (no need to crop out resize photos)
• Unlimited Custom Templates
• Custom Titles for different platforms
• Unlimited analytics & CSV downloads
• Image hosting
• Multi Account Crosslisting (Crosspost to multiple shops or closets on the same platform
• Draft listings (save products as drafts)

List Perfectly doesn’t offer a free trial. What they offer is a 3 day money back guarantee. So you must purchase one of the 3 programs and you will have 3 days (or up to 20 crossposts) to decide if you want to keep it or discontinue it for a full refund.

Purchase Process

For this review I opted for the Business Plan because it’s right in the middle and offers everything, with the exception of 2 features, the Pro Plan offers (the 2 features the business Plan doesn’t offer are the following:

• Description Footers
• Draft Listings

Upon selecting the Business Plan and inputting my credit card information & creating an account (email, creating a password, full name, address, phone number & your choice of billing information). I was happy to see they offered either a credit card or paypal as payment options. Also, upon a little research I found they offer discount codes through affiliates. So, I was able to receive 30% off my 1st month using a promo code.

Downloading the program was easy. Just like the others you download it from the Google Chrome store. Upon doing that the program takes you through a little walk through on getting started. They offer some YouTube videos as well to help get you started, among other things.

Breakdown of ListPerfectly Software

• List Perfectly gives you the opportunity to import your active listings from any of the marketplaces they offer to your List Perfectly catalog.
• You can add products natively to your List Perfectly catalog.
• Crosspost from LP to the supported marketplaces
• Crosspost from on marketplace directly to another marketplace(s)

After downloading the LP software I pinned it to my task bar for easy access and clicked on the icon. Immediately a window opens which has numerous options to click on. This is the Main Menu page.

Here you will find the following selections to click on:

• Getting started
• Guide to LP
• Pro plan guide
• News
• My products
• Add product
• Current issues
• Software
• My account
• Referral program
• Get help

Just above the Main Menu there are 3 drop down tabs. They are as follows:

1. Products
2. Add products
3. Add template
4. View/Edit templates
5. Sales analytics
6. Download CSV

1. Help & News
2. Guide to LP
3. Get the latest version
4. News
5. Current technical issues
6. Contact us (help requests)

1. Account
2. My account
3. My help requests
4. Log out

To start using the program I decided I’d start by selecting the “getting started” option under the Main Menu. As started on their site this is where they have “broken down the process for using LP to the fullest”. This is followed by 10 boxes labeled 1 through 10.

1. Verify Install
2. Add Products
3. Import Products
4. Crossposting to Platforms
5. Delist/Relist & Mark as Sold
6. Sales Analytics
7. CSV Download
8. Templates
9. Getting help
10. LP Extension Settings

As you click on each of these 10 selections the window expands at the bottom with directions and information related to the titled topic, some with photos and/or video uploads with directions and tips on how to use, utilize and navigate the software.

The Main Menu’s options are each filled with a lot of information. It’s helpful, however, admittedly a bit overwhelming as well. The other programs for the most part did not require pages and pages of instructions and information to go over. They were mostly self explanatory. Some had instructions but overall it was pretty self explanatory. From here on out, instead of going through each main menu option and breaking down everything on each page, I’m going to dive into trying to use the software to see how it works. I may touch on a couple things listed on the main menu as I move forward, but it’s time to break in this program and see how it stacks up in comparison to the others!

As mentioned above there’s a few ways on LP you can crosspost your items. You can manually create a listing directly from their site (which as I’ve gotten to use these different programs, I really like this option for new listings. Instead of listing it 1st on one marketplace, then importing it to LP, then crossposting the item(s) to multiple other platforms, it seems to me the easier way would be to create the initial new listing on the LP site [or other cross-listing sites] and then just crosspost your items from there to all the marketplaces you use. It’s like skipping a step). Then you can also import your listings from any of all marketplaces (just be mindful of duplicate listings, the program will not catch that) to your inventory page on LP. Lastly you can crosspost from one marketplace to another.

NOTE: When you add your listings to your LP catalog of inventory there is a place to add the URL of any marketplace it may already be on in a section called “item number” and it has a spot to input each URL from any marketplace LP offers that you have the item listed on already. This will help you not relist an item on a marketplace twice.

Personally since I’ve been testing these out I’ve decided that for me personally the best way to move forward would be to add all of my inventory to LP’s inventory catalog (or whatever site I ultimately pick) and then go back and delist all of my inventory on all of the marketplaces and start fresh. Thus making my items appear to be newly listed. However, I will not do them all at once. I think depending on how much inventory you have should guide you to how many “new” listings you create maybe weekly. My understanding is on Poshmark for example if you copy a listing on their site because it’s been there for a while & then copy it again within 60 days that will not push it to the top of the shopping grid. So on Poshmark keeping track of the date you’ve listed an item & waiting at least 60 days before delisting and relisting it is your best bet. As for the other marketplaces I wasn’t able to find exact time frames, but speaking with other large sellers on eBay they even suggested that after opting to keep your item automatically relisting itself every 30 days, after a couple times around, doesn’t seem to really push it to the top of the shopping grid on eBay. In that case you’re best off creating a new listing with the item if it’s not sold after 60-90 days.

To create a listing on LP from scratch you can do this from your pc, tablet or phone. I decided I’d test out creating a new listing from my phone because I have the majority of my photos on my phone (I have about 30,000 listing photos on my phone)! LP will allow you to upload quite a lot of photos as well (30 per listing) and automatically resize them to fit each platforms photo preferences for you (for example Poshmark forces everyone to have your photos in a square shape, which personally I find awful because in order to get a good shot taken either from my camera or phone I really prefer to use the standard size photo (4×3) & then having to use editing software or apps to resize it or crop it can be a haste and more time I do not wish to spend… yet eBay will accept your standard photo size 4×3 and it will also accept the square shaped photos). So, I really like this feature on LP.

From my phone, I opened the LP website & logged in on Google Chrome. Then I selected “Add Product”. From there a new window opens. You then select to upload images. You’re given the option to take the photos right from your phone or to upload them from your photo library on your phone. I selected my library. Afterwards I moved the photos around into the order I wanted them in (simply drag & drop with your finger or from your pc with your mouse). Next step is to enter the product title. Underneath where you enter the product title is an option you can click on which displays each marketplace that LP offers and because each marketplace offers a different amount of characters you can use for your title this feature will show you if you went over the character limit and if so, you can adjust the title for that specific marketplace right there so when you crosspost it the correct title for each marketplace will appear with the right amount of characters for each marketplace. So basically you can add more to your title as well as removing from your title depending upon the character limit per marketplace.

NOTE: One thing I noticed when I clicked on the above option to add titles another marketplace was listed on this list, which was not listed in the marketplaces they said they offer and that is Amazon.

The next steps are to enter the description, item brand, color, material (or ingredient/composition), size or fit & key words or tags.

The next section you fill out is the financial information which are as follows:

• COGS (Cost Of Goods – what you paid for the item or to create it)
• Price (your listing/asking price)
• MSRP (retail price)
• SKU # (if you have one)
• UPC (if you have one)
• Quantity (how many you have of this item)

NOTE: if you buy in bulk or for example sell clothes and have 2 size smalls, 2 size mediums & 2 size large the LP program doesn’t support uploading a single listing with all the available sizes. What I have learned is if you have multiples of the same exact item in different sizes you can either add the additional information on Poshmark or eBay (with eBay you must have an eBay store to list an item with multiple sizes available, without a store subscription they will let you list one listing for each size and you are able to add how many of each size you have. So if you have 5 size medium red t-shirts, you can put that in the listing information on eBay where it asks how many you have available of the item. Then you’d have to create another listing for your red t-shirt if you also have 3 size smalls. It may be worth trying out a smaller store subscription if you have a lot of inventory, but you are also allowed to list a few hundred items per month for free and they often offer specials where you can list a couple thousand per month for free as well).

The other option you have on LP is to create a template for your item(s). Creating a template makes it easier than creating a new listing for listings you have multiples of, as I mentioned above you may have 2 small, 2 medium & large of the same dress. By selecting to create a template instead of “add product” you’re brought to a window labeled “Templates – Add or Edit”. You enter the product title (and if you’ve made templates already you can select from the drop down box one of the titles from another template you’ve created as it may be a template for another dress that’s very similar to the new one you’re creating a template for now & all the information will fill in for you from the template you selected & you can adjust it as needed for the new item). Once you enter the title you then enter the following information: description, brand, color, material, size, keywords, pricing, quantity, SKU, UPC, Cost of goods and lastly seller notes (notes remain private). Once you have a finished template saved you can click on this to list go forward with creating a listing for each size you have of the same item. You can also, as mentioned previously use a previously created template to create a new listing if the item is relatively similar and just make minor adjustments as needed. You do not add photos when you create a template.

The next section you’d fill out is there for when you’ve sold the item or if it’s a multiple than one of them. This section is called the “Inventory and Sales” section. Here you would enter the following information once an item sells:

• Fees or other costs (Include any other costs related to what selling this listing cost you, including marketplace fees, etc)
• Shipping (What you paid [if anything] to ship the product to the customer)
• Total Sold Price (The total amount you collected when the listing sold)
• Profit (Profit is calculated by subtracting Cost of Goods, Fees, and Shipping from Total Sold Price)
• Select Sold if your item has sold (underneath this is a box – or as LP refers to it as a channel button – with the logo of each marketplace you can access via LP. According to LP “Channel buttons will automatically be selected for you when you import listings or cross-post from LP. When you click Sold, our system will automatically open windows to end your listings for you. After clicking Sold, you’ll still be able to check and verify that the listings have been ended. FYI Amazon has been added if you’d like to manually keep track of your Amazon listings, LP will not automatically manage Amazon listings. TIP: Select the channel button where your item sold to keep track”.)

The next section is the Platform ID’s section. This is where you’d enter the link to your item if it’s already listed on other marketplaces. This helps you keep track of where your items are and are not so you can be cautious not to double list an item.

Lastly is the “Seller Notes” section. This information is for you only and will not appear on any marketplace listings.

Although I did my first test from my phone, I also did this from my pc and tablet and it’s the exact same process from your pc as it is on your phone or tablet. I was able to create both listings & templates from my phone.

NOTE: At first I felt a bit intimidated by all the instructions and videos on how to create listings and templates, but ultimately it was actually relatively easy.

Importing & Crossposting

The next step I tried was to import listings from my Poshmark closet to the LP catalog (your inventory page). To do this you open your closet (or go to the page your active listings are on each platform) and you’ll see the LP logo with the words “Start Selecting” underneath it. I had to look for it a few times because it’s kind of small but I found it at the top of my posh closet just above my first listing. I clicked on it & then I selected 15 items by clicking on each one to import to my LP catalog. Once I finished clicking on the items I went back to the LP icon & clicked on it again to signal I was done selecting the items & ready to import. Once you select stop a new screen opens and it tells you how many listings you’ve selected. Then there’s a “select all” option. Underneath that is the LP logo with all the different marketplace logos underneath that (if you wanted to crosspost immediately to the marketplaces from here you can do so. I will touch on that shortly). Then there’s the “copy” option. After selecting the LP logo I selected the copy option to transfer my items to the catalog. A new tab opens up once you select copy and the copy option changes to “processing”. The new tab is a window that opened my Poshmark closet and it’s going through each listing I select copying it then adding it to my inventory catalog. As it adds each item another tab opens up and as I clicked on them I watched the software create the new listing, upload the photos, copy the description and other relevant information and then save it and open the inventory catalog page. Ultimately I had 15 new tabs open up by the time it was done. Each one has one more item than the last. So I refreshed the 1st tab and all 15 items were there (and even the cover photos showed up in the catalog followed by the listing title, SKU # [if you have one], listing price, platform the item is on [these all said Poshmark so I will have to edit a couple to add the URL’s of a few of the other marketplaces the items are on], then there’s an edit option you can click on, a duplicate option you can click on to duplicate the listing, an add template option, the date the item was updated [or added to LP], notes, and lastly the date the listing was created on LP). From this page

Once you’ve finished the task of importing your listings to your LP catalog (I should mention importing them was very quick. I was impressed) at the top of your catalog page you’ll see the same LP logo just above your first item and underneath it says “start selecting”. After clicking on this option, you click on the items in your LP catalog you’d like to crosspost to the other marketplaces (you’re able to select just 1 item or bulk items. For the purpose of this review I will do 1 item & then a bulk of 10 crossposts). Once you’ve finished selecting the items you’d like to crosspost you go back to the same LP icon at the top of your inventory and click it (it will now have the word “stop” next to it). Once you click that option the same screen appears that appeared previously after selecting the 15 items from my Poshmark closet to import. It has the icons of all the platforms LP supports with the option to “select all” or individually select the marketplaces by clicking on their icons. Then you’ll also note this time you’ll have the option to end the listing from the platforms you’ve selected or the option to mark the item as sold. Lastly there’s also a “copy” option. On this menu just select the marketplace(s) you’d like to crosspost to and then click on copy. From there new tabs will open for each item and you just open each tab, review the information & add anything you may need to add (because as I’ve mentioned in previous reviews each marketplace does have certain differences that you’ll need to fill out, but most everything is filled out all the photos transfers. Then you click on publish to create an active new listing on each marketplace.

NOTE: After crossposting numerous times and testing the waters with bulk crossposting with different amounts of items each time and doing some just one at a time, over all this program worked well. I was happy to see Mercari actually worked every single time for me. I never received the loading circle of doom and I can also report Mercari’s information and photos transferred over perfectly each time. However I did run into an issue with eBay and tradesy a few times. With both sites the software only opened the page you’d go to start creating a new listing, but the item I was crossposting was nowhere to be found. This did not happen every single time, but it did happen a few times regardless of if I was crossposting individual items at a time bulk crossposting. Sometimes nothing happened. I also crossposted to Poshmark and had no issues.

Lastly you can also crosspost directly from one marketplace to the others and skip over adding your inventory to your LP catalog. The process is identical starting from opening one of your marketplaces closets and selecting the items & then selecting the icon again at the top to let the software know you’re done selecting items to which a screen will appear and you’ll see all the icons to the different marketplace. You select the marketplaces you’d like to crosspost to, select copy and then new tabs will open for each item on each marketplace. Then you review, add information where needed, then post your item. This process worked just fine as well for the most part. You can crosspost individual or bulk items this way too. On a few occasions I still had issues with tradesy and eBay not working out for me, but ultimately things went smoothly.

Inventory Management

Inventory management is a combination of features on the LP website you can utilize. These features are as follows:

• Syncing – syncing your listing items numbers (or links) from the marketplaces they’re available on that you didn’t list directly through through LP. This allows you to keep track of this inventory, mark it as sold, delist and relist them and also keep track of them on your sales analytics page & CSV download. As mentioned previously you can manually enter the URL from your items directly to LP if it is an item you already had listed on multiple platforms and didn’t list the item directly from your LP catalog (your inventory page). You will also have to manually enter the URL if you crossposted your items directly from one marketplace to another. LP will sync your item’s URL (or as they call it, item numbers) only when your items are crossposted from from the LP catalog to marketplaces or listings are imported to LP catalog from the marketplaces.
• Delist(end listings)/Relist – this feature gives you the ability to delist an item immediately and if you choose to do so, relist it as a new listing which helps keep your listings looking new and pushes them to the top of the shopping grid.
• Mark Sold – making your items sold will delist and also add a “SOLD” status to your product in your catalog.
• Sales Analytics – this feature keeps track of important sales information like costs, profits, your highest selling platforms among a few other things.
• CSV Download – this allows you to download your entire LP catalog in a CSV file (which is a spreadsheet). This gives you links to each photo you have saved for each listing, along with other data entered about your items (titles, price, sold for price & more). There’s filters available to just pull up specific items, sold items and more.

List Perfectly Customer Service & Community

LP has a community of fellow users on Facebook you can join to discuss anything from tips to selling online to help with using the LP software. LP also has a podcast that was recently started that from what I gather talks about selling online, sellers stories & so on. They are also on YouTube with tutorial videos and you can find them on Instagram. It appears their overall community & especially Facebook is relatively active. There’s some helpful people on the social media platforms to answer your questions. So that’s a nice little feature.

Lastly they have customer service you can contact as well. They responded within about a 1 day time period.

Side Note(s)

I did find this program to be pretty decent, albeit a bit overwhelming as well. They have a ton of information when you sign up that breaks down almost everything they offer on their site as well as video tutorials. Obviously that’s not a bad thing. It is helpful, but it just felt intimidating. I found it better for me to just dive into trying to use their software and when needed go to the main menu to check out the instructions if I got confused about something.

In Conclusion

Ultimately I think this is a pretty decent program. It had some glitches when I tried crossposting a few times, but maybe that’s to be expected sometimes? In my opinion to get good use or the best use & your money’s worth from this software and to really save time you’d really want to go with the business plan (or pro plan depending on your needs). The basic plan wouldn’t work for me. With the business plan you get access to nearly everything and all the marketplaces they offer as well. Not to mention from what I’ve seen this program offers more marketplaces than the other programs available out there. It does seem like they stay on top of things as marketplaces change LP appears to work to keep up with that which is something I feel is important when deciding on what program to select. I think this program is worth a shot compared to the others. Especially if you’re looking to really expand your business and list on as many platforms as you can. LP definitely offers the most. Of course you can start off with a few and work your way up to adding more platforms as you go. The more your items are out there the better chances you have at selling them.

 

PrimeLister

Purchase Process, Downloading & Set Up

PrimeLister offers 2 payment plans to select from. Basic & Pro. The plans are broken down as follows:

Basic Plan: $29.99 per month or Annual $20.83 per month

This plan offers:

• Unlimited auto-relisting
• Unlimited listing tasks
• Unlimited scheduled listings tasks
• Unlimited bulk task

NOTE: with the basic plan you cannot transfer your listings from marketplace A to Marketplace B. There’s no cross-listing in the Basic plan. The plan states Auto Delisting is coming soon.

Pro Plan: $49.99 per month or the Annual plan for $33.33 per month.

This plan offers:

• Unlimited auto-relisting
• Unlimited listing tasks
• Unlimited scheduled listings tasks
• Unlimited bulk task
• Unlimited Crosslisting
• Unlimited inventory management
• Unlimited tags & groups

Note: Auto Delisting is coming soon to this plan as well.

This company also offers automation “bots” but these have another separate payment plan with a monthly $19.99 fee or an annual $169.99 fee for the year.

They offer a free trial without credit card information needed which I’m very pleased about. I don’t like, as most of you know, sharing my credit card information in general, even more so for a trial period.

The 7 free trial gives access to the entire program with the bots as well.

Downloading the software was easy, just like previous programs you install the program via Google Chrome browser as an extension. Then you can just pin it to your task bar, login to the marketplace(s) you wish to use & their control panel will pop up on the side of the window of each marketplace window.

That’s all there was to setting it up. Simple enough there.

The Free 7 day trial allows you to “crosslist or relist items up to 100 times and complete up to 15,000 actions (sharing & following)” The sharing & following is part of their automation program (which shows on the control panel as well but as mentioned previously is a separate fee from the basic & pro plans).

PrimeLister offers the following marketplaces to allow for crosslisting your items:

• Poshmark
• eBay
• Mercari
• Facebook Marketplace
• Depop
• Etsy
• Instagram (website states is coming soon)

Breakdown of PrimeLister’s Software

Upon downloading the PrimeLister software I proceeded to then open up Poshmark where the majority of my items are listed. Then on the right side of the window you’ll find a half circle with an arrow that you click on which opens up the PrimeLister control panel. The control panel has the actions or tasks you can select from which are as follows:

Listing Actions:

• Open Inventory Panel: by selecting this option you’re automatically brought to a new tab/window on your account page which lists all the inventory you have imported to PrimeLister. The listings are shown in rows, starting with the cover photo image of the item, the title, a sku (if you have them for your items), the listing price from the site you imported the item from, the platform(s) your items are listed on, groups (you can assign each item to a group to help easily find your item in your inventory or a group of items – such as shoes and by selecting shoes it will show all the shoes you have available. This feature is optional just like the sku #, however this feature had 3 options – phones, shoes & general. I haven’t been able to figure out how to create my own groups as none of the options they offer are of any use to 99% of my items), next are tags (primelister gives you 3 tags to select NWT, Discounted or Free Shipping”. (It didn’t seem to let me add my own tags when I tried, just like with the groups. I have emailed customer service about this & hope to have an update by the end of my review. The next row shows the status of each item in your inventory (if your item is listed or currently unlisted). The 2nd to last row shows the date each item was created (or transferred) on PrimeLister itself. Lastly, the last row is for Actions & the actions you’re able to select from here for each listing is to crosslist the item to other marketplaces, edit the listing, or delete the listing.

NOTE: After looking further I noticed at the top of the control panel window there’s a tab (“Groups & Tags” tab) you can select that is specifically for creating new group & tag titles. Honestly, I don’t like that it’s set up this way. It feels like extra work to have to do it this way. You should be able to enter the group or tag names you’d like directly from the edit listing window that opens when you click on an item from your inventory. It should then just save the names in the drop down tab there so you can select them again later when you list another similar item. Having to go to a whole new tab to create tags then adding them to the listing after seems a little more time consuming, at least when you’re just getting started.

• Open Inventory Panel Continued: as mentioned above this option shows all the inventory you have listed on the PrimeLister software. When you click on one of your listings you are brought to a new window, the “Item Detail” window, so you can edit your listing. Here you can add the URL from other marketplaces (if it’s already been listed there without using the PrimeLister software). This will then show your item is listed on the other marketplace(s) on the inventory control panel where all your items are shown & what marketplace(s) they’re on. This will also allow you to delist your item on the marketplace if it sells on one or if you just want to delist it then relist it as a new item. Here you will also see the cover photo of your item & the listed price, both can be edited here, as well as the previously mentioned tags & groups (which again in order to select the tags or groups you’d like you’d have to create them in a different tab so they show up in the drop down window on the Item Detail window for each item). This section also shows the category your item is in, for example “Women/Tops” (you cannot edit this here). Then the SKU number can be entered here if you have one, as well as any internal notes you’d like to make about the item itself. These notes will not transfer to your live listings on any marketplace. Lastly you’ll find an “Actions” option which when you select it the drop down bar opens and there’s an option to delete the item. Next to that is the “Save Changes” option and lastly the “Close” option to close this window.

The next features on the PrimeLister Control Panel are as follows:

• Crosslist – when you select this option you first must select the items you’d like to crosslist. For example I’m logged into Poshmark & have my closet window open (and as mentioned earlier that’s where the control panel will be, on the the right side of the screen). To start I selected just one item to crosslist (an item I hadn’t even transferred to PrimeListers inventory page yet because I wanted to test if that would automatically put this item on their inventory page or if I’d have to transfer afterwards from Poshmark to their inventory page and then manually enter the URL’s to the marketplaces I intend to closslist the item to). Once I selected the item in my Poshmark closet, I then selected “Crosslist” on the control panel. Immediately a pop up appears asking you to select the marketplaces you would like to list your item on. I selected Mercari & eBay. Them immediately 2 more tabs opened up, one for each marketplace I selected. Unfortunately it seems I had issues with both marketplaces. Mercari was stuck in loading mode forever, having the circle with round dots going around & around in the center of the window over the listing page I needed to be on to finish filling out any information not previously filled out by PrimeLister so I could actually list my item. I should note, I waited 30 minutes to no avail. I’m not sure why this failed. I was already logged into all the marketplaces I sell on before selecting this action. My next issue came with eBay. I was brought to the page on eBay where you type in the title of your listing, as if I was manually creating a new listing. That is not what is supposed to happen here. It should have opened up the window on eBay where your photos, title, description & so on are & then, just like with the other software programs I fill out what they can’t. Again I’m uncertain as to why this has happened. Maybe it’s because the item I selected I didn’t transfer to the inventory page, but then again even though the Mercari page is stuck loading I can see that there is info already filled out matching the item I selected to transfer. So I don’t think that is the case and it was my understanding I could Crosslist items whether they were transferred to the inventory page or not. Ultimately, because this item did not load I decided to try to crosslist a different item that’s been transferred previously to the inventory page on PrimeLister…. So, I selected a different item that I had previously transferred over to the inventory page, selected the Crosslist option, selected Mercari and eBay as the marketplaces I wanted to list it on and just as before new tabs opened up for each marketplace. Mercari was again stuck on loading the page and I could again see info about the specific item on the page already, so there is something not working right here. I checked the eBay tab and this time it did work, kind of. I was disappointed to see not one of the listing photos transferred over. The title, listing price, item description, brand & category did transfer over. However without the photos, it doesn’t really help me any. I’m not too impressed with the Crosslist program on PrimeLister, unfortunately.

• Import – this option worked well and was simple to use. Simply open up the marketplace of your choosing where you’d like to transfer your listings to the PrimeLister inventory page, select each listing from your closet or store from the marketplace, then select the import option on the control panel. Within minutes your listing will appear on the inventory listing page which you can view by selecting the “Open Inventory Panel” as mentioned previously.

• Relist – this option allows you to select a listing, by clicking on the listing in your Poshmark closet, or other marketplace platform, and then by clicking relist on the control panel you can relist that item. Once you have selected the item and clicked on relist, a pop up box will appear asking if you’re sure you’d like to relist the item, to which you can select yes or cancel and it also offers the option to “schedule task”. If you select “yes” a new tab will open up with your listing information (or in my case, you’ll get the never ending circle of loading the listing on your screen) and (if the listing loads, for example on Poshmark) then you’ll have an exact copy of this listing in the new tab that was opened for you. You can edit anything you’d like and publish your listing. However in my case, after waiting 30+ minutes I closed out the window. Again I’m finding this extremely frustrating, especially when I also have pretty fast internet. You can also opt to schedule a date & time to relist your listing. Once you select the date and time then your listing will be relisted at the selected time.

• Duplicate – this option allows you to duplicate your listing. Again, you’d select the listing you’d like to duplicate and click on the duplicate option on the control panel. From there a pop up box will appear asking if you’re sure you’d like to duplicate the selected listing. You can then select yes, cancel or schedule. Once you select yes a new tab will appear and when you open that tab you’ll have an exact copy of this listing in the new tab that was opened for you. AGAIN, I received the never ending loading circle in the middle of my screen. However, I assume if this works you’d duplicate the listing. You also have an option to schedule a specific date and time for this task to occur.

• Delist – this option allows you to delist your listing. Again, like the previous option, you’d select the listing you’d like to duplicate and click on the delist option on the control panel. From there a pop up box will appear asking if you’re sure you’d like to duplicate the selected listing. You can then select yes, delist now, cancel or schedule. Upon selecting delist another pop up box will appear starting a new task was added to the queue. Delisting an item will mark the item as not for sale for you.

• Task Intervals – this is where you can select the amount of time between task you’ve selected to be done. You’re given 3 options of 30 seconds-3 minutes; 1-5 minutes; 5-10 minutes

• Tasks – the “Tasks” section at the bottom of the control panel has 3 sections you can view:
• Active – shows what tasks are actively occurring at that moment. For example if you are relisting an item that will show in this section.
• Completed – all completed tasks will appear in this section. Anything from the items you’ve imported from any of the marketplaces to PrimeLister to what items you’ve relisted, crosslisted & so on.
• Scheduled – shows you what items you have scheduled for upcoming tasks, such as relisting and more.

• Poshmark Assistant – when you click on this option on the control panel it brings you to a second page on your control panel which shows you the automation program/bots (I will briefly touch on those later in this article). At the top of the control panel there’s an option that you can select called “View Poshmark Assistant Analytics”. Once you select this option it opens a new window where you’ll be brought to the PrimeLister main site and you’ll see your account with the following information:

• Reports Tab: Crosslist & Auto-Relister Reports: underneath this title it tells you how many listings you imported, total tasks completed, total task errors & tasks missed.

NOTE: There is a filter option at the top left hand corner of this page where you’re able to select reports for that day, last 24 hours, since yesterday, for 3 days & for 1 month. Therefore you’ll receive the information based on the filter time period you selected.

• Poshmark Automation: underneath this title you’re given the information on your total shared, total follows & unfollows, total sent offers & total solved captcha

• Home Tab: this tab is where you’ll find information about the PrimeLister software, how to set up your account, frequently asked questions & contacting support.

• Inventory: this tab opens a window showing all your inventory that’s been imported to PrimeLister. I explained the setup of this page earlier in this article under “Listing Actions”.

• Tasks: This window gives you a timeline of the tasks you’ve done while using PrimeLister. This gives you the main listing photo, title, the date & time of each task, what the task was, what marketplace the items are on, the task status (if the task was completed or if there was an error) & action you can take such as deleting the listing from PrimeLister, Opening the listing link or the error description.

• Groups & Tags: This was covered under “Listing Actions” in the 1st “NOTE” section.

Customer Service

The customer service support answered my email approximately 24 hours later. They offer a support chat box right on their main page where your inventory is downloaded. You have the option to send them a typed message, a video message or there is an option to call. I opted to type in hopes I’d get a live reply, but I received an automated reply letting me know they’d get back to me soon. It was around the same time the next day I saw there was a reply.

Side Note(s)

As I briefly touched on at the beginning of this review this program also offers bots/automation. I left this for the end because bots are not the focus of these reviews. I will say they are pretty basic and leave a lot to be desired. Yes you can share your closet, unfollow people, follow people and a few other things, but overall they pale in comparison to the best of the best available out there and in my opinion if you’re going to use bots – which you 110% should be, these are not the ones to invest in. As someone who’s been using them for years now I can assure you you need very hard working bots that act like you’ve hired a team of people to work for you doing multiple things at the same time and that do a whole host of things. These are not that. These are basic, subpar bots. I’ll leave that at that.

In Conclusion

My honest opinion is this program felt very overwhelming and stressful to me. It failed uploading and crosslisting items for me. It failed listing and delisting items (& I received numerous error messages about those failed attempts from the program). Overall I just didn’t like the set up or flow of this software. I didn’t find it to be as user friendly as I’d hoped it would be. I felt at least with some of the other programs I understood how to operate them much faster & easier (even though some of the others also had failed to upload photos for me as well). I also don’t like how in order to use the crosslisting feature you have to buy the 2nd program. In my opinion the main selling point for these different programs are to be able to crosslist.

Furthermore, there’s no alternative payment method. No paypal, only credit cards accepted. Again this is just something I’m not overly comfortable with. Especially with rampant credit card fraud these days.

NOTE: They do say your credit information is protected on their website and do advertise that they use Stripe to process customers credit card payments. So that does ease my mind a little bit, assuming that means PrimeLister doesn’t see my actual credit card information.

Lastly, as I previously mentioned I felt this software didn’t meet the standards I’d want or expect in a program like this. Especially when pictures are failing to load, tasks are not being accomplished (and from everything I tried, I don’t believe these to be user errors). I think that this program needs work and also needs to be more user friendly and flow smoother/be more user friendly. It’s definitely not the program for me.

 

CrossListIt

Purchase Process, Downloading & Set Up

Where to begin… after going to CrossListIt’s website and reading the directions it was time to install the extension via Google Chrome to access the 7 day free trial they offer. I followed their directions step by step, downloading the extension from Chrome & then setting up my account, to to no avail – I was unable to access use of the software to use it. I tried everything I could think of and ultimately had zero success.

Ultimately I did email customer support and I am hoping they respond quickly. I then decided to go back to the chrome store and read their reviews which were rather disheartening. They had a very low rating (2 star overall rating with mostly 1 star individual reviews) & the reviews were all mostly negative with the exception of one or two. I also noticed it took CrossListIt an entire month (& one day, to be exact) to respond to a customer’s review who was having an issue and had wanted to use their program)! Time will tell and I will update if I get a reply and I’m able to use their software.

Update: I emailed customer service about 48 hours ago and have yet to receive a reply.

Moving forward, I decided to purchase the program. CrossListIt has a monthly charge of $9.99 for their basic package. This includes:

• cross listing between eBay, Poshmark, Etsy, Depop & Mercari.

After purchasing this software I was instructed to login (I had already created an account when I originally tried to access this program). From there I was directed to a new window called the Cross List It – Extension Settings. (This window has a General Setting option and a Pricing option you can select). When you’re brought to this window you’re automatically on the General Settings page. This is information to set up your account prior to use.

Cross List It: Extension Settings – General Settings window you’ll find the following:

• Subscription Email: (your email address)
• Country: there’s a drop down box to select the US or Canada
• Default Shipping Zip Code: (your zip code)
• Default Original Price (Poshmark): you enter a price here
• Download Images: This has a blue box with a check mark already checked for you
• eBay Template Set Up: you must set up a template in order to cross List to eBay. There’s also an option to customize the template once it’s been created.
• Save: click this once you’ve filled the above info out to save it.

NOTE: As mentioned above you must create an eBay template in order to move forward with using the CrossListIt program. Once you select the option to set up the eBay template you’re brought to eBay & you login (if not already logged in). Then the eBay “Create Your Template” window is opened. This page is just like filling out your listing description and information on eBay. You must fill out anything on this page marked with a red star such as:

• Template name
• Title
• Category
• Condition
• Photos
• Item specifics (brand, style, size type, style, color & department)
• Item description
• Selling Details (format [fixed price or auction style], duration, price, quantity & payment options)
• Shipping details

Pricing: The pricing grid on CrossListIt’s site is set up in a way where you can enter the price you paid for an item, the listing price, the price of shipping (if it apples), the percent each marketplace takes from your sale price & it then calculates these factors so you can price your items accordingly across each site, especially since each marketplace charges different fees. So for example Marketplace A may only charge 10% of your listed/sale price and Marketplace B may charge 20%. If you priced your item on marketplace A for $50 & it sold for $50 and they take 10% then your payout is $45. On marketplace B the payout would be $40. If there’s any shipping deductions the grid will deduct that and then deduct your expenses (cost you paid for the item) to give you your actual earnings. This can be a useful tool instead of having to do all the math yourself and by quickly imputing this information you’ll know exactly what to charge for each item on each site. You may want to charge $50 on marketplace B because they take 20% but charge $45 on marketplace A because they charge 10% keeping your earnings still about the same & pricing according to each marketplaces fees. It’s also a good way to keep track of what your expense was for each item you have purchased and keep an eye on how low you may be willing to go on an item if you receive an offer or have a sale.

Breakdown of CrossListIt’s Software

Once you’re set up and ready to start cross listing you will open new tabs for each marketplace you’d like to cross list on. Honestly, I had issues setting up a template for eBay which is something you must do according to their directions. I tried numerous times to save the template to no avail so after a couple hours and no reply to my second email (as of yet), I went back and restarted everything from the very beginning and was able to finally save a template. (I followed all the same steps as before, but this time it worked. I’m not sure why that is).

Next I opened my Poshmark closet in a new tab & opened one item from my closet & clicked on CrossListIt’s icon that’s pinned at the end of the search bar. Upon doing that a small box drops down that asks you to select or enable the marketplace to list to. From there you can select Poshmark, Mercari, Etsy, eBay &/or Depop. For this review I’m going to select Poshmark, Mercari and Depop to cross list my items to (in the case of Poshmark, I’m selecting it to see if it lets me create a new listing for this item while also cross listing to the other sites).

After selecting a single item in my Poshmark closet & opening that listing I clicked on the icon & on the drop down box you’ll also find the pricing calculator for the marketplaces you’ve selected. You have the ability to pre-price your items here based on dollar amount or percentage. The listed price of the item I’ve opened is already put in the drop down box pricing calculator as the default price. So you can adjust the prices here or leave them as is.

You’ll also find in your drop down box a “download images” option which is automatically set to on. (You can turn this off if you’d like. You may already have your photos saved on your computer and do not need to download them again). Then you will select the “start” option.

NOTE: Unfortunately this program does not transfer your photos over to the other marketplaces like the previous programs. They will be downloaded automatically by CrossListIt from the selected marketplace item onto your computer and then you will have to upload the photos again to each marketplace.

Once you select start, you’ll immediately see the photos downloading to your computer and new tabs for each selected marketplace on your window opening to list the item.

Mercari didn’t seem to give me any issues this time as it did with a couple of the other programs with the never ending loading “circle of doom”. The title, description, listing price & my zip code transferred over. However everything else had to be manually entered and then I had to manually upload each photo. It is to be expected that you’ll have to enter certain information manually on each marketplace listing because they all differ with what they request of you to fill out.

The next tab I checked was the Depop marketplace. Nothing transferred over with the exception of my city & county. No description. No title. No price. Nothing. It was just as if I opened Depop myself and manually went to upload a listing. This was very frustrating.

Lastly I checked the Poshmark tab and I was able to create a new listing. The information was mostly already filled in. I did have to fill in a couple things (this may be because I chose an old listing I have never updated to add tags, colors & so on) and I had to manually upload the photos as well.

NOTE: There is a way to drag and drop the photos from as well. When CrossListIt begins the process of saving the photos to your computer the photos appear at the bottom of your screen as files you can drag and drop as well. You also have the option of saving them to your computer. Lastly you can just delete them once you’ve manually uploaded or dragged and dropped them into your new listing(s).

Customer Service

The CrossListIt customer service took about 36 hours to respond to my first email and my second email was about 24 hours. They did answer most of my questions, but by the time they got back to me the first time I had figured out the problem myself.

Side Note(s)

I did find out the 7 day free trial is available to you, but you must sign up and give them your credit card information before you can access it. So, if you try this program and decide it’s not for you do not forget to cancel before day 7 or you’ll be charged $9.99 for the month.

Also, as I’ve mentioned in numerous other reviews, you get what you pay for. Yes, $9.99 sounds like a steal, but again I can’t emphasize enough how important it is to invest in a program that’s really going to work hard for you and help you save time, make money and gives you a little room to destress because you know you have a program that’s going to keep up with the ever changing marketplace updates and keep up with you, regardless of how big or small your business is right now.

In Conclusion

To be bluntly honest I truly disliked this program. It was very frustrating from the very beginning with trying to get it up and running to figuring out how to use it. It’s just not user friendly and quite honestly it really doesn’t do much considering it don’t really transfer to much of your listing info, if any. (I had multiple attempts of cross listing where absolutely nothing transferred over when I cross listed). The photos do not cross list. That’s more extra work you have to do. I feel if you’re going to have a cross list program it needs to work for you. I honestly felt I spent nearly close to about the same amount of time using this software than if I manually did everything myself. It wasn’t a huge time saver. I would pass on this program all together.

 

I have tried all the companies that write share bots for Poshmark so you don’t have to. And here is my review…

Being a full time Poshmark seller is really a full time job if you want to make money. The potential for profit is phenomenal if you take the right steps. As I’ve mentioned before automation is the biggest key to success on Poshmark. Some may disagree with that fact, but facts are facts and I’ve tried every method there is so you don’t have to. No one has time to share for hours on end. Period. Our focus is needed in other aspects of our closets or even our lives. The bots do the nitty gritty draining task of sharing for us and so much more! I’d be out of business without them.

So, what bots do you choose?

Maybe by now you’ve searched online and read up on some of the bot companies out there? Maybe you haven’t. Either way I’ve tried numerous bot companies and want to share my experiences with you & ultimately tell you the company I chose in the end and why I feel it is the best of the best and will give you the most for your money and more importantly earn you more money!!

Note: I did NOT test the bots that run as a mobile app. Poshmark knows when those bots are used. Nobody should use them. Also, I did NOT test the bots that run on the bot company’s computers. Those companies all connect to Poshmark from the same IP address or from VPNs. Poshmark knows when those bots are used. My friend told me they asked Poshmark if they can start a second closet and Poshmark replied, “We see you have 96 accounts coming from your IP address. Use one of them.”

So, with that said, I researched and chose the 6 companies I always hear about in the ever growing “secret bot society” on Poshmark. Those companies are as follows:

BestMacros

BoosterBots

MyPoshBot

PoshmarkProTools

SimplePosher

ClosetTools

Closet Pilot

PoshShareBot

(Order in which reviews are done above)

 

BestMacros

Purchase Process

Purchasing this automation software was simple enough. I went to their website and found the program I wanted to try which was their multifunctional bot program called Poshmark Share Bot (Side Note: I noticed upon going to their website that this company has automation software for other websites. Initially, I thought this may be a positive thing since they make automated bot programs for different websites. I assumed they must be invested in what they do and would be helpful to their customers… more on this later when I cover my experience with customer service). They do offer two different Poshmark automation programs to choose from.

Poshmark Share Bot (this is the multifunctional program) which gives you the option to purchase a one-year license or pay for a 7 day trial.

Poshmark Follow Bot (this program option only allows for following and/or unfollowing other users on Poshmark. Let me quickly note here I feel this would be a waste of money. Following and/or unfollowing people alone isn’t going to increase your sales. There is a lot more that must be done than that, bottom line.

On the website I selected the multifunctional program & checked out via paypal. The website does tell you it can take up to 24 hours to receive your license key & instructions for downloading. I did receive the email later on the same day.

Downloading & Set Up

This is where I became very frustrated. I found this software extremely confusing and difficult to understand and download. I had to call a girlfriend of mine who’s pretty smart with computers to help me save these BestMacros files on my computer and download things. Honestly, I couldn’t give you a breakdown of this process. I was in way over my head. In my experience this was like trying to do Chinese Calculus without even knowing how to speak Chinese. (Note: I’m not a computer genius. I have a basic knowledge of computers and basic computer skills, just like any average person).

So, after quite a long while we, well my girlfriend, managed to get the basic setup completed. I was excited to start using the bots right away and must admit I was rather bummed out because they weren’t what I was hoping they’d be. I needed something that is easy to use and does not require much thought or work on my part because running a business on Poshmark requires so many other important factors that need my attention. This program unfortunately requires a lot of time, effort and monitoring once set up. I found it difficult to run these bots and comfortably walk away from my computer. You’ll understand why as you read on.

Breakdown of BestMacros Bot Software

The Control Panel

The Control Panel is where you control your bots. You decide what bot(s) you want to run and with a good automation program you shouldn’t have to do much more than click a button telling them to start running.

BestMacros has their Control Panel attached to the top of a web browser which is where you’ll be logged into Poshmark. I had to click on the options in the top corner of the Control Panel to figure out that’s where I input my closet name and password as well as my email and the nifty license key I was emailed.

Below that there is a Dropbox and that’s where you’d select what you’d like to do in terms of sharing. Along with that there is two more boxes where you have to manually enter the minimum and maximum amount of seconds you’d like in between shares (more about this to come). The next feature on the Control Panel is the drop box where you select what audience you’re sharing to (your followers or the posh party). There’s also two boxes you can click on if you don’t want items randomly shared and the other is for “no sound”. That’s the makeup of the Control Panel.

Now, I’d like to breakdown the bots themselves on BestMacros and share my experience with them.

The Closet Bot

What closet bot????!!!??? You are probably wondering why I’m saying that. A closet bot should at the very least, even if only using the most basic & outdated automation program there is, share your items from your closet into the feed for your followers to see and share (and buy too of course). Well, I couldn’t share my items. ?? I couldn’t even see an option to share my closet! I’m not saying they don’t have a closet bot, because apparently they do. It took me a bit of reading and researching to figure out, well… to figure out this much anyway… It is my understanding that in order to use the Closet Share Bot on BestMacros you must create a spreadsheet which contains every single listing in your closet you want shared! (This would be HOURS of work, especially for closets with hundreds of listings). From what I understand you must keep this list up to date, consistently adding new URL’s of your new listings to the spreadsheet or they simply will not be shared. Not to mention when you sell these items, if you don’t remember to delete the URL on your spreadsheet your sold items will be shared as well. I don’t know about you, but I, in no lifetime or universe, have the time to do that. So, I didn’t even get to use the closet share bot on BestMacros. I was rather disappointed to say the least.

Share Bots

The “Share Bots” selection is from the drop down box on the Control Panel I mentioned above. It consists of the following options:

~ Share From Feed (this would be your feed where you see everyone you are following items appear when they share them)

~ Share From List (this would be the big giant URL list you’d have to create (and continuously update) to share the items from your closet to the news feed

~ Share From Party (this shares items from the posh parties to your followers)

~ Share Back (this action scans your personal news/notification feed and scrapes the user names of people who shared your items, then proceeds to go to their closet, share one item, then goes onto the next person).

So, to sum it up, this automation program seems minimal at best. I also was disappointed that when you purchase the bigger of the two programs they offer, that they didn’t have the smaller one included with it. The follow bot program they offer would have to be a completely separate purchase.

Next, there is no option to choose how many return shares I’d like given to each person either, although you do select the amount of total shares you’d like done in general. Personally, I would have liked to see an option for how many shares per person.

My biggest gripe about this program is that every single time I switched from one Share Bot to the next, the BestMacros software actually logs you completely out of not only their software but they log you out of Poshmark too, then the software re-checks your license and then logs you back into Poshmark. This is a big NO-NO in my opinion. No one using bots wants to send Poshmark big giant red flags! You may as well call them up at PMHQ and say “Hey look at me! I have Bots”! On top of that, if you recall my previous blog article, there’s also Captcha’s to deal with when they pop up & they will pop up. This program will stop sharing (as it should, 1 point for BestMacros on this) and will announce through your computer speakers you have a captcha. However, the problem with this is that if you’re not sitting in front of the computer or at least in earshot of the computer, you’ll never know you even have a captcha at all. This means it sits there. The longer it sits there, you’re basically sending another red flag to Poshmark saying you have bots. That’s another NO-NO. ? (I’ll be taking that point I just gave BestMacros back now)!

BestMacros Customer Service

As mentioned earlier in this review I wanted to discuss customer service as well because I firmly believe, especially when it comes to any kind of computer program or software, the company should have good customer service. The reason I feel this way is because most people, on average and myself included, have basic computer skills. We’re not all computer programmers or computer prodigies. Let’s be completely real here, computers can be confusing especially when trying to install, set up and use new software. That is the reason customer service is very important. I was hoping that because BestMacros creates automation software programs for other websites as well as Poshmark that they’d be more invested in their clientele and customer service would be helpful, responsive & of course reply within a timely manner. I’m personally disappointed with BestMacros. I never received a reply to the emails I sent. What more can I say? It’s disappointing.

Just a side note…

I want to touch base on the feature offered on BestMacros where you enter the minimum and maximum wait time in between shares. This feature can help lessen the possibility of receiving a captcha, but make no mistake you’re still going to get them. It’s just part of “posh life” now. The only reason I feel it could potentially lessen the captcha’s is because you can set the minimum and maximum wait time in between shares to share between every 1 and 10 seconds or 16 and 33 seconds (in reality a 10 second gap is actually pretty slow. When manually sharing, you can share multiple listings within ten seconds). What you set them to will most likely change throughout the day as well, which helps your sharing patterns look more human like. The down side to dealing with this is, you have to really think about what to choose. If you’re going out for an hour and can’t bring your computer with you, then you have to start figuring out, by trial and error, what the best times would be to lessen the possibility of captcha’s. It’s just a bit of extra work trying to figure out these things. Although, it has potential to be a handy feature, it’d be nice not to have to worry about that, especially with all the other work you already have to do to use their closet bot alone!

BestMacros: In Conclusion

Overall if I were to rate the BestMacros Poshmark Share Bot program from my experience purchasing to set up, use, overall automation efficiency and customer service I’d rate them, on a scale of 1 to 10 (ten being the best of the best) I’d rate them at a 2. I was expecting more for my money and feel I wasted not only my money but a lot of my time trying to figure out this software in which I couldn’t fully use (remember, the closet bot fiasco was simply impossible for me)!

 

BoosterBots

Purchase Process

I won’t spend much time on the purchase process here, because it was pretty much the same as my review for BestMacros. However, just like my previous review upon going to the BoosterBots website I noticed they create and offer automation software for multiple websites. I clicked on the option for their “Poshmark Booster” automation software and was brought to their page to purchase my license to use their software. They offer two options to choose from.

License Length (this really isn’t an option because they only offer 1 license length which is a “lifetime” license. (Sounds appealing, but I question exactly what “lifetime” really is. More on this later).

License Quantity (this is where you decide whether you’d like to purchase the “included 1 PC License” or you can upgrade [for a fee per option] to a “2 PC License” or “3 PC License”.

I opted for the 1 PC License and proceeded to checkout. That was simple enough. I used paypal so I know it’s secure. After I purchased the software I received an email with a license key and a link to download the Poshmark Booster software.

Downloading and Set Up

After my first experience with BestMacros I was nervous about setting up another software. Luckily, this aspect of the software went somewhat smoothly. I didn’t end up needing help to download it and managed to get it up and working properly.

Breakdown of BoosterBots Software

The Control Panel

Once I opened the program I immediately noticed how similar it was to BestMacros. I don’t know what company came out with Poshmark software first, but they both have the same set up with the Control Panel at the top half of your computer screen with a web browser attached to the bottom half, which ultimately is where you’ll be logged into Poshmark. With that said there are tabs along the top of the Control Panel and here’s what they are and what they do…

Login Tab

This is where you enter your Poshmark username & password. In this login tab there is also a box you can check that says “Use Proxy”. By default it’s unchecked. Then the next box says “Proxy: ip:port” with a blank box to enter information into. To be completely honest with you, I have no idea what that means. At least I was able to login into Poshmark via the Control Panel & without dealing with these “proxy” boxes on the panel.

Unfollower Bot

This bot’s only purpose is to go into your closet and start unfollowing the people you are currently following. Some sellers prefer to have a smaller list of people they follow. Some sellers have unfollowed everyone and either keep it that way or will only continue to follow certain people (their friends, people they know are active on Poshmark and will return share their items and so on).

Once you open the unfollower tab you will see you must input your Poshmark user name again (I don’t understand why, after all isn’t this what the login tab is for)? Then you type in the maximum amount of people you want to unfollow. The next step is to decide if you’d like to randomize the users the program unfollowers. So, instead of going straight down the list, it randomly selects people to unfollow. Lastly you select the minimum and maximum amount of seconds in between each unfollow.

After testing this bot out, it ran fine, but the important question to ask here is this: Is it a major necessity? The answer: No, it’s not. It’s not going to make you sales or money. It’s not of major importance. It’s an okay feature but not a “must have” when your main goal is to have bots that make you money and are worth the money you spend on them.

Also, I’d like to add that although the bot ran ok what I did notice was that it takes more time because it physically goes to each closet it’s going to unfollow and loads it then unfollows. Then it goes to the next users closet and continues the same steps.

Lastly, once the cycle has finished you’ll hear a voice on your computer notifying you the module is done. That’s ok, IF you’re right in front of or in earshot of your computer. If you’re not, you won’t know it’s finished. This means you’re not running any of the bots that you should be running to advertise your closets/businesses and make you money!

Listing and Username Scraper

This bot confused me to be honest. I wasn’t quite sure what it was doing or what its purpose really was at first. What I later learned (because I had to call upon another friend who has a background in computer programming to help me) was you have to use this bot first in order to actually use the Listing Sharer Bot to return shares. (Seriously?? So, my understanding is I have to waist more time having my closet sit inactive so this bot can “scrape” up user names and listings in order to share?!). Very unhappy with this.

To give you an idea of the set-up of this bot, here’s all the things you must select or fill in for it to even scrape user names and listings ?

• Scrape By Dropbox – this is where you select where you want this bot to pull the information from. Your options are the feed, by keyword or category.
• Filter by Availability – you can select either available, sold or all.
• Categories – this drop box lists all the categories such as dresses, jackets & coats & more.
• Sort by – (Only works when scraping by category). Your options here are to select either the just in or best match selection.
• Then there are 2 boxes you can check or leave blank (which I later learned I had to select one for this bot to work even though it’s set up in a way that makes it appear optional, but hey, this is so confusing, I had to spend a lot of time trying to understand what I was doing)! These boxes are “Scrape Listings” and “Scrape Usernames.
• Pages to Scrape (I guess this scrapes so many listings or user names per whatever this program considers a page, honestly I have no clue beyond that. Seriously I don’t even want to think about this stuff)!

To sum this bot up, it’s basically a bot that assists another bot so the other bot will actually work for you. The “other bot” being the one that shares for you.

Follower

The Follower bot does the basic function of following other users. BoosterBots follower bot does have the option to also share and/or like the users listings your having the bot follow. With that said, I do feel liking a listing is a waste of a feature. Liking a listings isn’t going to make you a sale. As for following tons of people, I don’t think that’s the key either. If you’re going to follow anyone, follow the people who have liked your listings. You don’t want to follow and/or share your direct competitors and with this bot you have zero control of who you’ll be following (or sharing if you opt to use that feature).

The layout of the Follower is basic at best. It has these options to fill out and select:

• input the maximum amount of people you want to follow
• input the minimum and maximum amount of time (in seconds) you want in between shares.

Then, as previously mentioned, you can select 3 separate options in which you may choose to:

• randomize the username list
• share a random listing
• like a random listing

Ultimately I’m not overly impressed with this feature. I do not like that I have little to no control. I could have been following, liking and sharing my direct competition and their items, that helps them and their business/closet, not my business/closet. One of the main points of using automation is to increase your sales, not your competitors sales. I’ll pass on this feature from BoosterBots. I think if you’re going to have a feature like this, it needs to offer more control for the user, not just run amuck following whoever from where ever.

Listing Liker

I’m literally shaking my head as I type this. What a waist. This bot is simply for the sole purpose of liking listings, funny didn’t the previous Follower Bot do this too? Yet, I found myself looking at virtually the same feature, minus following and sharing that the previous option did.

The Liker Listing tab is pretty small since it’s a minimal feature and consists of the following:

• maximum listing to like
• minimum and maximum wait time (in seconds) between likes.
• randomize listing links list (optional check box)

I’m not going to spend time really writing about this bot. I don’t feel liking random listings will gain you sales but it will, if used enough, cause your Poshmark personal news notifications feed to become filled with tons of price drop notices. Imagine if you used this bot every day and liked 200 listings a day, this would end up creating tons of price drop notices for you to have to sort through to see if you have any comments from potential customers and even worse, you could accidentally miss a comment because you have liked hundred or even thousands of listings using this bot. No thank you! (And if you have email notifications about price drops on your liked items… what a disaster)!

Listing Sharer

The Listing Sharer bot’s function is to share listings, but this feature was confusing to figure out. After consulting with my friend, the computer programmer, we learned that you must actually run the “Listing and User Name Scraper” before you’re able to use this bot and share listings. Basically, the “Scraper” bot collects (scrapes) the user names and/or listings and must store that information in its software on your computer until you’re ready to share it. Then you turn this bot on and it will share the listings and/or user names it previously collected. This was pretty confusing to me. I still don’t fully understand it. Bots shouldn’t be so complicated.

The Listing Sharer tab layout has the same options as the other bots I’ve discussed thus far including:

• maximum listings to share
• minimum and maximum wait time in between shares

This is followed by 2 options of:

• randomizing listing links list
• skip sharing sold listings

I have to say I’m unhappy that I had to waste time to “scrape” listings before I could share them. This software is extremely confusing. Again, making me feel like I’m trying to figure out Chinese Calculus.

Listing Commenter

The Listing Commenter is obviously used to leave comments. However, I did not feel comfortable using this bot because I have no clue where my comment would be posted. Am I thanking people for liking my listings? Am I thanking people for sharing? I had no clue what to type in for my comment and I certainly was not comfortable guessing and then leaving a comment that made no sense with where it was posted or to whom it was left for. I’m disappointed that there’s nothing telling me on the Listing Commenter tab where the comments go or what they’re meant for.

On the Listing Commenter Tab you’ll find the following options you must manually fill in prior to running the bot (which I did not do)

• Maximum comments to send
• Comment (this is where you’d type your comment and hope what you say makes sense to whomever you’re commenting to).
• Minimum and maximum wait time (in seconds) between comments
• Your user name

I’m not impressed with this at all. How do I know where my comment is going? I was not comfortable with this bot at all. So, with that being said, no thank you! And on to the next tab…

Your Closet Sharer

This bot’s function is to share your items from your closet to your followers. You have to manually fill in a bunch of boxes (like every bot on this BoosterBots automation software & that gets repetitive and old quickly) before you are able to use the Closet Sharer bot.

The Your Closet Sharer tab is set up with these selections to manually fill out:

• Main Loops To Run (from my assessment this means you’re telling this bot how many times to share your closet in total)
• Your Poshmark User Name (AGAIN! Argh!)
• Minimum Wait After Main Loop (this is in minutes and just like the minimum and maximum wait times between shares, this one is for the time in between the “loops” you run your closet bot for)
• How Many Listings To Scrape/Shares To Do Per Main Loop? (This is how many of your listings you’d like to share out of your closet)
• Minimum and Maximum wait time in between shares in seconds
• Only Show Listings By (this is a drop box where you manually select between all items, available items & sold items)
• Share Closet Items In Order (optional checkbox)
• Share Closet Items In Reverse Order (optional checkbox)
• Share Random Closet Items (optional checkbox)

There are a few more tabs on this Control Panel and the bots are rather repetitive and time consuming, on top of feeling and being overwhelming. Here’s a run-down of the rest of the tabs on the Control Panel and what each bot does in brief:

Follower Scraper ~ This bot has 2 boxes manually fill out. The first one has you “Enter a Username to Scrape” & the second box says “Usernames To Scrape” [the number you want to scrape]… This bot is beyond confusing. I entered my friends closet name, with her permission, then entered a number for the usernames to scrape. I can’t tell you what this bot was doing. It just started going to closets and partially loading them, unfollowing them, then moving on to the next closet. Then when I tried to stop it, it kept running. I couldn’t get it to stop until I completely closed out the entire program! It wasn’t even doing what it was supposed to do. It appeared to be doing what the unfollower bot does)!

Share Back & Follow Back ~ This bot is for return sharing and following other users. I don’t care for this bot because like the Listing Sharer bot it appears you can’t run this bot without scraping listings and user names with a different bot. As with most BoosterBots other bots you also have to manually input the same information (minutes and seconds between feed checks, follows and shares). This is truly way too time consuming.

Mass Follower ~ This function is solely to follow users who are following someone else’s closet or to follow the users someone else is following. For example you see a closet with 1 million followers so you decide to run this bot to follow all the users who are following that closet – OR – you see that a particular closet is following 1 million people so you decide to run this bot and follow all the users they are following. You enter the users name, then select whether you’d like to follow their followers or follow the users they’re following along with minimum and maximum amount of wait time.

* It’s important that I note this is an ineffective method because following closets with a high volumes of followers or people they are following really increases the odds that a large amount of those users being followed are actually inactive closets. Following inactive closets will do nothing for you. You will not help increase your sales by doing this. You will not accomplish much of anything but wasting your time and efforts which can and should be used elsewhere.

Share To Party ~ And finally we reach the last tab on the BoosterBots Control Panel for the “Share to Party” Bot. This bot’s entire set up is such a pain. You have to manually enter party URL’s to even use it. Then you can only share from the feed or your closet into the party or share listings from the party. The set up on the Share to Party control panel tab has quite a bit of boxes that must be filled in which include the following: Enter Party URL (this is where you must type in the Poshmark party URL you’re sharing from). A drop down box labeled “Share Your Listings From” with the option of the feed, your closet or the party. Then you must enter your Poshmark user name AGAIN. The next things that must be filled out are the same things as most the BoosterBots other bots: Main Loops To Run, How Many Listings To Scrape/Shares To Do Per Main Loop (confused yet, I am), Minimum & Maximum Wait After Main Loop – In Minutes and Minimum and Maximum Wait Share in seconds. After you’ve manually filled out all of these options you have the 3 option boxes you can select from: Share Items In Order, Share Items In Reverse Order, Share Items Randomly.

This is A LOT of time, energy and work for something that is supposed to make sharing easier.

Customer Service

I personally emailed BoosterBots with a simple question. I never received a reply. On their website there’s a “contact us” link where you can email them directly right from their website. I sent an email. Never received a reply. So I’m not writing a rave review about their customer service. Top that with the customer service they should provide by continuously working on their software to ensure it keeps up with Poshmark’s ever changing programming.

Side Notes

On top of all the other nuisances with BoosterBots, I came across a HUGE flaw in this software! This is a major issue and because of this alone I will never use BoosterBots again! The captcha’s issue as previously discussed is one that, although annoying, is part of posh life now – whether you manually share or use automation. You want to avoid having captcha’s sitting on your screen waiting to be corrected for long lengths of time because it will send a red flag to Poshmark that you’re possibly using an automated program. This program however does something so bad when it’s sharing and a captcha pops up – It completely ignores the captcha’s all together, backs out of the listing and goes on to share the next listing. The captcha then reappears immediately and what does the BoosterBots software do? It, again, ignores the captcha and again goes on to try to share the next listing! This is BAD! I cannot stress to you enough how bad and in my opinion irresponsible of the developers of this automation software program to have done nothing to resolve this major issue. By doing nothing it makes it appear that they don’t care enough to fix this problem or don’t have a clue how. I would rather spend more on a better program than use this automation software again.

I also feel it’s important to mention you have to constantly spend time thinking about minutes, seconds, if you “scraped” enough listings and user names, who’s items you’re sharing and who your bots are having you follow. As well as not being able to take your eyes off the computer because if you get a captcha you will have no way to know.

On a side note, I also tested out this software for a solid week and ran it constantly. I made no sales from new customers. I still made sales, but only from customers I already had prior to using this software. Attracting new clientele is an important part of creating a successful business. BoosterBots did not perform well enough to help contribute to successfully running my business.

In Conclusion

If I were to rate BoosterBots on a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being the absolute worst and 10 the absolute best) I’d rate them as a 1. The issue with the captcha’s is big enough on its own for a rating of a 1 in my opinion. Add in how confusing this software is to figure out and run is another major contributing factor. Sorry BoosterBots, I’ve deleted your software.

 

MyPoshBot

Purchase Process

Purchasing the MyPoshBot automation software was simple enough. Just like the previous competitors, I went to their website and selected to purchase the program which was done via paypal. There was only 1 option to choose from as well. However, what I did not like was the fact that it sets you up to pay monthly with automatic monthly payments. So in other words, let’s say I bought the program on the first day of the month, the following month I’ll automatically be charged again. Personally, I prefer to make my own payment. I do not feel comfortable that there was no option for that. Many people forget to cancel monthly payments on things they tried and ultimately don’t like, signed up for to try out or some forget there is an automatic payment and next thing you know your bank account balance is off. I’m guilty of forgetting myself on occasion and have paid for things I monthly I wanted to try out but forgot to cancel afterwards. This, in my opinion, is a sneaky method to obtain money. My thinking is, if someone truly likes the product you’re selling, then they will remember to pay for it. There’s no need for automatic payments, unless you willingly select to use them.

Downloading and Setup

Downloading this program and setting it up was very similar to the process with BoosterBots. I received an email with a link and license key. Then, just like the previous software programs, it saves files on the computer and from there you can open the software and begin use. It wasn’t as confusing as the experience with BestMacros but I think this was mostly because I’ve gotten used to doing this type of setup with the previous programs.

Breakdown of MyPoshBot Software

Control Panel Overview

The Control Panel on MyPoshBot consists of three separate tabs along the top, similar to the previous program reviewed. Underneath the tabs is the section of the screen where you find the controls for each bot, which I’ll review next, followed by the lower half of your screen which will log you into Poshmark. Basically this is the same look and set up as BestMacros and BoosterBots.

Share To Followers

This bot is meant to share items to your followers. The first drop down box is the Sharing Mode. You have the following categories to select from: My Feed, Search, Closet, Party, Shared My Items and Users I’m Following. This is followed by having to enter your Poshmark username and password which remains visible on the Control Panel. (I personally don’t care for having my password displayed right on the computer screen for anyone to see). Next you’ll see the box labeled Delay(s) where, I assume, you put in how many seconds you’d like between shares. This doesn’t have a minimum and maximum manual entry for the amount of seconds like the previous companies. Then you’ll enter the amount of shares you’d like the bot to do. After those previous options you’ll find 3 optional options in which you can manually enter the following: Search Keyword, Closet URL, Party URL. Lastly you may select the options to share only unsold items and to Loop Sharing.

Is your head spinning yet? Mine is! I had asked my friend, the computer programmer for help after I downloaded this program because quite honestly I couldn’t get it to work. My friend was able to get it to share but the sharing was not running properly. For example, we selected to share my closet. Our 1st attempt this program shared someone else’s closet!! On our 2nd and 3rd attempts the program logged out of Poshmark and when attempting to log back in we kept receiving error messages. This was extremely frustrating.

Share To Party

This tab on the Control Panel is for the Share to Party bot. The first option you must select is the Share to Party Mode drop box with the options being the feed or your closet. Then once AGAIN you enter your Poshmark username and password, as well as the delay time you’d like and maximum shares. Lastly, there’s an optional box to fill in for “Closet URL”.

Once I entered the above mentioned information and started the bot it did start sharing. The problem is I couldn’t tell if it was sharing the items correctly. According to the Control Panel when you run the party bot you will be directed to the party listing page and then it will start sharing items from that party. I noticed my bots did not go to the party. They went to the feed and shared. The party happening at the time was a brand specific party and I couldn’t tell if it was actually sharing items from the feed that were related to the party nor could I see exactly what was being shared. The reason you can’t fully see what’s going on is because the Control Panel takes up about 75% of the computer screen so you only see a small portion of Poshmark which makes up the bottom part of the Control Panel/screen.

It’s extremely confusing.

Follow/Unfollow

This feature is meant to follow and/or unfollow other users on Poshmark. When you click on this tab you will again find more boxes you must manually fill in which include both your username and password AGAIN (seriously??), as well as the Following Mode drop down box where you must select from the following options: Keyword or Closet Followers. You also must enter the maximum amount of follows you’d like the bot to do and lastly the optional entry of a closet URL or keyword. You may also opt to unfollow immediately as well (so in other words the bot will follow someone, which they’d see in their notifications, and immediately unfollow them as well.

My experience was not great with this feature. My very first attempt at using it I received an error message where Poshmark should be showing on the Control Panel and followed by that the error message. On my 2nd attempt it seemed like it was working or going to work. It went the closet URL I manually typed in, loaded the list of people following that closet and followed them. As I’ve stated before I feel that this isn’t a feature I care much for. I think there are more important features that can help you make money and increase your following other than this specific feature.

Customer Service

My experience with customer service wasn’t spectacular but at least a tad better than the previous review thus far. My first email was never replied to. Then I tried emailing again directly from the website from the contact us option and I did receive a reply. So, like I said, it’s a tad better than no reply at all it just took 2 separate tries.

Side Notes

On a side note I found this program to underperform and be ineffective. I also found it to have 2 major flaws. Just like with BoosterBots, MyPoshBots ignores captcha’s!!! This is very bad. The program does not notify you that there’s a captcha. It just continues to keep sharing just as its competitor, BoosterBots does. This is a huge red flag as I previously explained when reviewing BoosterBots. It’s bad enough neither program notifies you there’s a captcha but they both keep trying to share items, thus keeping captcha’s occurring with every attempted share. This means you can NEVER walk away from your computer. You must sit in front of your computer and stare at the screen whenever you are sharing! What’s the point of even having bots if you must do that?

The next flaw is another major one! MyPoshBot will log you out of Poshmark completely every time you choose a new function or action for your bots to complete. This will also send a red flag to Poshmark when someone’s account is unnaturally or inhumanly logging in and then out and back in again all throughout the morning, afternoon and night. You want your automation program to mimic human behavior. These flaws cause your account to appear to have robotic, inhuman like behavior.

In Conclusion

With the technical issues, malfunctions and the confusion of even trying to run these bots I find MyPoshBots to be ineffective and not worth my time or money. If I were to rate MyPoshBot on a scale of 1 to 10 I would only give them a 1 because the major flaws it’s presented are really bad. The people behind the programming should not allow this to occur. They should be on top of issues like this. This leads me to believe that they might be more interested in their automatic monthly payment instead of their automation software.

 

Poshmark Pro Tools

Purchase Process

The purchase process for Poshmark Pro Tools is your basic process, similar to most automation programs. You go to their website and initially see they offer a free 3 day trial and state their software is currently on sale (at press time) from $199.99 to $79.99 for a lifetime license. Once you select “Order Now” you are redirected to a new page which offers 3 purchase options.
* Poshmark Pro Tools Free 3 Day Trial
* Poshmark Pro Tools License & Software Download
* Poshmark Pro Tools License & Download with Setup

To keep this review honest, I’d like to note, I was given a link to download the software by the developer because he asked me to test their software and write a review.

Seeing the download options however, be informed that if you select the 3rd option your fee will be (at press time) $89.99 because they offer to set it up for you. (But They did not set it up for me.) This price is a current sale price from the original price point of $250.00 according to their website.

Once you select the software program you’d like from the 3 options you’re given and add it to your cart you may proceed to checkout. On the checkout page you enter your billing information and you also must enter a username and create an account with them. Then you may checkout using either Paypal or your personal credit card.

Downloading & Installation

Now that the software has been purchased it’s time for installation. As for downloading the software, I clicked on the provided link and honestly I was confused about how to install and set it up being I’m not an expert on computers. If you’ve read my previous reviews you’ll know I have basic computer skills and knowledge at best, so for me it was confusing. I did, as with some of my previous software testing for reviews, call my friend who is extremely good with computers to install and set up the software. What I found was that just like some of the previous software programs I’ve reviewed, it saves files on the computer and from there you can open the software and begin using it.

Breakdown of PoshmarkTools Software

Control Panel Overview

The control panel is one rectangular box with separate sections in it for the different actions the bots available can perform. It took me a little bit to get an understanding of how to use it though. I will break down the control panels feature below.

NOTE: Behind the control panel there will be another single window open which logs you into Poshmark and will bring up your closet or whatever function you’re performing. The control panel only allows for one bot to run at a time so there is no multiple function performing at once (for example sharing your closet while sharing from the feed).

Closet Sharing Bot

In this section of the control panel (the upper left corner) there is a box where you manually enter your Poshmark user name. Next to this box you see the options you have when it comes to sharing your closet such as manually entering how many items you’d like to share from your closet, how many share loops you’d like it to perform, the amount of available items you’d like it to share, as well as manually entering the amount of time between each share. Personally, I’m not a fan of having to enter the times between shares in myself. I find that programs who have this already set up for you and will share your items (or other’s items) without you having to think of the best time to put in is better. Not to mention there are programs available that change up the seconds between shares so they appear much more human like. For example with this program I can manually enter 2 seconds between shares which means every 2 seconds on the dot it will share an item, but I ask you this: what human will perfectly share exactly 2 seconds apart non stop all morning, afternoon and night? Ultimately, it’s not really human like when you think about it. Of course you can adjust the share times all day too but I don’t want to think about that when I have more important things I can be doing to improve or work on my business. Now, comparing that to a program that automatically changes the amount of time between shares for every share, whether it’s 2 seconds one share and the next 2.6 seconds is more human like to me. Just food for thought. The more human like the better.

The closet bot also has an option to “Reverse Share” where it shares the items from the bottom of your closet going upward if you click on that option. If you leave that option unchecked it will do the opposite and share from the top down. I found a major flaw in this software upon testing it though. This software turns off the available display filter and refreshes your closet thus causing it to share your unavailable items. The software went to the very bottom of my closet and shared sold items from 5-6 years ago marked as “unavailable”. This software does not recognize unavailable items unless they are actually marked as sold with the red sold banner on them. There are other programs will realize an item is sold or unavailable and not share it if you simply have sold in the title or mark it as not for sale. So it actually pushed 6 year old sold listings to the top of my closet. Having said that I’d like to mention that you have no control or way to tell the bots how far down into your closet to share. Having a very large closet, it can be a pain to push those items back to the bottom with the other sold and/or unavailable items. So it’s important to me to have a program that won’t share unavailable listings. On a side note about the closet sharing bot, it does skip over actual sold listings which is important (sold meaning, someone purchased the item & Poshmark automatically has it marked as “sold”).

– Other Closet Share Bot Functions

Reverse Sharing: there is a box that is automatically checked off upon opening this software program called “Reverse Share”. When this box is checked off it automatically shares the available items from the very bottom of your closet & pushes them to the top. Again please note if you have items marked as “unavailable”, this program will not recognize it as sold and push it to the top of your closet. The items must have the red sold banner in order for this software to leave it alone and not move it.

So this brings me to when you unselect the Reverse Share option. This time it will share your items in the opposite order of Reverse Share. It will share your items in order from the top down. It changes the original order of your items because it shares starting with your first listing at the top left side of your closet and continues until it’s completed the amount of available items you’ve manually input for it to share and the amount of share loops.
Lastly, the closet bot section offers multiple closet sharing. I mentioned earlier that the control panel has a box where you type in your user name so it will share your closet, well, you can also add additional closet names you’d like the software to share. You can keep your closet name on this list and add the closets of your choosing to share from. You also have the option to reverse share or not as well, as well as how many items to share, how many share loops you’d like it to complete and of course the amount of time between shares.

Feed

The newest addition (created a couple weeks ago at press time) to this automation software is the Feed Bot. You will find the feed bot option in the same area of the control panel that the closet share bot selections are. To use the feed bot you’d select the box that says “Share Items From Feed”. This automatically changes your open window on Poshmark to the feed. Then you manually enter how many share loops you’d like the software to complete, how many available items from the Feed you’d like it to share and how long of a delay between shares you’d like. It’s a basic feed sharing tool.

Party

The party bot will only share your items into a party. You just run your closet bot and select the “Share To Current Party” option.  Note: This bot does not share other sellers items out of the party.

Following Users Tools

On the bottom left portion of the control panel is a area dedicated to strictly following other users. It is a tad confusing. The instructions say “Paste a username of user, whose followers you want to follow”. Ok that’s simple enough. So, with that said I manually typed in another users closet user name. However underneath the box where you enter the user name of the person who’s followers you want to follow is a box you either opt to check or not check. This box says “Follow followers or Following (Check = Followers). It just seems a little confusing. So in other words to simplify that one option is to simply follow the followers of the person who’s closet name you typed in. The other option is to follow the same people (of the person who’s user name you entered) that they follow. It is confusing, I know!
After you’ve decided on who you’re following you continue by manually entering delays in between follows (this information is on the right side of the control panel) as well as the number of closets you wish to follow. My understanding is, at the time, the maximum number you may enter is 999 at one time. I wouldn’t recommend running that many all at once as it will send red flags to Poshmark because there has been a lot of spamming issues as of late and some of the spammers developed their own software to first follow a lot of other closets in hopes of gaining return follows so they appear to be a more legitimate account. It doesn’t appear as obvious that someone is actually a scammer/spammer when they have created an account (well in their case many accounts) that appear more realistic with followers and so on. Poshmark is aware of these types of scammers/spammers and do monitor how many people accounts follow in one day and how many they follow at once. So entering 999 may flag your closet to be under the watchful eyes of Poshmark’s tech team. Not good. In any case you don’t have to enter 999, which is a good thing.
Once you start running the following Users tool, which ever way you run it, you will notice that on the control panel “Status” data will start to show up. This tells you who it’s currently following and the total followed. The second line of the status data again states the total amount of profiles followed and how many were ignored. Lastly it tells you if it’s in “sleep mode” which is the delay in between follows you chose to enter. It will also occasionally say it’s checking for captcha’s as well… but that is something I will touch on below in my side note section and conclusion of this article.

Note: Ignored profiles are simply ones you’re already following so the software ignores it and moves on to the next profile until it’s one you’re not following in which case it will not ignore it and will follow it.
Also it’s important to mention that on the right hand side of the control panel is a log that the software has which shows you, every time you run it, who it’s following and who it’s ignored. This log is also used during closet sharing. As the software program shares items, which you cannot see on your Poshmark screen, it shows in the log the title of the item it has shared and if it was shared successfully or not. Underneath the log there is an option to export your log to csv. I’m unsure what reasons exporting the log has though. I’ve never had a reason to export logs of anything. But the option is there if you need it for some reason.

Following Closets Tool

Yes… another following tool….. The next following tool option you have is to select specific closets you’d like to follow. Then you manually enter the names of these closets in the box on the control panel. Once you type in the user name of every closet you’d like to follow you again input the delay time you’d like between follows and then click on the follow box. The software will then go to each of these profiles/closets and follow them. Simple as that…. except all the time you take to manually enter each user name just to have the software go in and click the follow button on their profiles does not make any sense to me. If you’ve been on Poshmark for a while now odds are you are already following the other users you’d like to follow and even if you’re not it seems to me it would be faster just to go on my app or computer and click “follow” myself if it’s actually someone I want to follow. Not to mention doing it yourself will appear more human like than having the software do it for you.

Status Data

I touched upon the status data briefly above but wanted to also include here as it is a function of the control panel. It’s always running when you’re running a bot. If you run your closet bot status data will show stating if an item was successfully shared and if the software is in sleep mode or checking for captcha’s. You don’t have to do anything with this part of the control panel. It just handles itself.

Customer Service

Customer service for this company is good, meaning that the person with whom I was in touch with from the automation software company was very kind and kept in touch with me during my testing and writing process. Of course he had asked to review his bots. You may or may not have the same experience if you buy the software.
Note: No one sees my review until it’s been published. I feel if’s important to mention this fact.

Side Notes

Now, here is where I need to take time to point out a HUGE flaw in this automation software program. It’s the BIGGEST problem I have with most of the companies out there… CAPTCHA’S…. they have been causing problems for both users of automation and even those who manually share. They really should be resolved quickly or you risk being flagged by Poshmark for using automation, even if you’re not. Not to mention recent testing has shown that the longer you have a captcha unsolved the longer your items will not be seen by potential buyers on Poshmark. For example if you let a captcha sit unsolved for 1 hour Poshmark may block your items from being viewed in the Feed, Parties & Showrooms for at least double the time, so for this example 2 hours with no exposure – even if you are sharing your items.
With that said, it’s extremely important I point out that what happens with this software when you get a captcha. Yes the software stops attempting to share your items, which is more than I can say for a few of the other programs out there. The major problem however is that you have absolutely no way of knowing you even have a captcha unless you are sitting in front of your computer watching the software run all morning, noon & night. Now, I personally do not have the time to do that all day, everyday. The whole point of having automation software is to make your life easier. I don’t have time to sit in front of my computer babysitting software. Running an online business requires a lot of work to be done, especially if it’s your full time job. I’d rather be spending my time working on new listings, editing photos and so on. Or maybe Poshing isn’t your full time job but you also have a family and other things to attend to and maybe another job as well… again how can you babysit the software all day while getting everything you need done accomplished? Personally I cannot do it. So, for me, this software isn’t something I can rely on to run my closets. I heavily rely on a program that’s designed to alert me the moment there is an issue. Not knowing is a big problem for me. During my testing of this software I walked away from my laptop only to find when I returned I had a captcha. I was only away 10 minutes but still, that’s not a good thing. This has to appear human like. Not solving captcha’s quickly looks more robotic than human like.

In Conclusion

In conclusion I feel this software needs work such as additions and updating before it can compare and/or compete with the best of the best in automation software. It lacks in some important areas where others do not. In other words it lacks important features while offering some not so important ones such as all the following users features. Then as previously mentioned the captcha issue is absolutely HUGE and that is something I can’t stress enough. My other area of concern is that although they offer a one time license fee, how much work are they going to want to keep putting into the automation software without the consistent money to keep them motivated? The problem I’ve found with most every one time fee software I’ve tested is that they eventually stop putting in a lot of work and stop updating the software. Poshmark is growing at a very rapid pace and their algorithms are constantly changing. So, automation software needs to be consistently monitored and updated with someone running testing to keep up with Poshmark’s changes. I’m not saying this company won’t do this. I’m just saying time will tell and previous companies have failed drastically in this area. So, it’s an honest concern I have speaking from experience….
If I were to give this automation software a rating on a 1 To 10 scale, I’d have to honestly give it a 3. In past reviews I’ve given a 1 just for captcha issues alone, but I do think the customer service is ok. The person I emailed was polite and did reply, which is something some of the other companies couldn’t manage to do. I am also giving extra points because the software appears to be written better than some of the others I’ve reviewed previously. I still feel this software needs a lot of work as I previously mentioned though, so time will tell…

UPDATE: My technical friend pointed out something very important to me. Quoting now: “These bots are written using a technology called WebDriver. WebDriver is used to automate browsers to test websites. WebDriver tells the website that automation is being used. Thus, these bots would tell Poshmark that you are running bots.” So for that reason alone, these bots should not be used.

 

SimplePosher

Purchase Process

The purchase process for SimplePosher automation software is simple enough. I went to the website and first selected the pricing option to see what they offer as pricing options. There is a free 7 day trial or the option to buy at $9.99 per month. (Yes the price sounds good but there are downsides to this I will cover later on in this article). Google then automatically charges you recurring $9.99 every month.
I next selected the install tab on the website and from there was directed to the Chrome Web Store. From there I selected the trial version and the downloading process began

Downloading and Installation

Upon installing, which only took moments, I did get a couple pop ups from my computer that did concern me though. The first pop up said “Add SimplePosher? It can read and change all the data on the websites you visit”. Unfortunately in order to install I had to agree it was ok. The next pop up stated “SimplePosher wants to know your age range and language and view your Chrome Web Store apps and extensions”. Again I had to select allow because if I hit cancel it would cancel my process of installing and using the software. I’ve never had pop ups like this when installing other software. As I’ve explained in previous reviews I’m not a computer expert so popups like that do concern me.
In order to download the software you must go through google chrome and sign into a google account and/or create one then you can download the software or extension. As I said it only takes a few moments to install. Then you’ll see a clothing hanger icon on the bar at the of your screen. This is the SimplePosher logo which means it’s set up and ready to use. The logo is basically what you click on to bring up your control panel to run yours bots. Admittedly compared to other software programs this was an easy one to set up and I didn’t need help setting it up.

Breakdown of Simple Posher Software

* Control Panel Overview

The control panel, as mentioned above, is found on the top bar to the far right of your computer screen. The logo is in a clothing hanger and once you click on this your control panel will pop up.

The control panel is pretty basic and has a row on the right side for each action it can preform. On the left of the control panel is a white rectangular box. This will show you what items were shared once you start running the software.

NOTE: In order to run this software you will need to open a window in google chrome and login to Poshmark.

Item Sharer Bot

(Note: this will cover all share functions in the following categories: the feed, your closet, other users/sellers closets & parties).

The first function on the control panel is the “Item Sharer” Bot. To use this Bot you add the number of items you’d like to share into the specified box. Underneath that box are 2 options you may select prior to sharing:
1. Randomize sharing order
2. Share infinitely
Underneath these 2 boxes is the start and stop options.

The item sharer function will share items out of the main shopping feed, parties, other users closets and your own personal closet.

The downside is, depending on where you’d like to share from you must manually go to your computer and click on the feed, party, your closet tab or go to the closet of the specific person who’s items you’d like to share. Again this is manually done so every time you want to share or change what you are sharing you will be going to your computer and manually selecting the page you’d like to share from. This may not be a big deal for some but in my experience as a seller, I personally see this as a downfall due to the simple fact that I do not have the time to keep checking my computer to see if it’s finished sharing and when it has then run back over and restart the sharing elsewhere. I have to be allowed to put my main focus on my listings (photos and description writing) as well as other things that involve running a business on Poshmark, which no matter how big or small you may be or even if this is a hobby for you, having automation is a must to make sales, but it must also not constantly interrupt your attention or take time from the other important aspects of your business. Not to mention if I don’t know exactly when the sharing is going to end I’m going to constantly be running back to my computer to check and see if it’s finished yet. So this part of the software is a downfall for me and that alone is enough for me to not want to use it.

Please note: I know this may sound harsh but I pride my reviews of automation software on my brutal honesty. I have a business to run and a busy life to lead while running my posh business so I’m always researching new software to ensure I’m always using the best of the best.

How the Item Sharer works exactly is once you select the area you choose to share from, let’s say the feed for example, you may type in the number of items you wish to share and then you may select the option to “randomize sharing order” which means the program will share randomly out of the feed instead of in the order in which they appear. If you’d like it to share in order just leave the box unchecked. The other option is to “share infinitely” or in other words to share without a limit or a chosen amount of items. When I ran that specific option from the feed it stopped on me. It did not keep sharing infinitely until I stopped it. What it did do, from what I could gather, was share a full page worth of items from the feed then automatically turned off. I am unsure if this was somehow an error on my part (although I don’t see how that would be possible because I made sure 0 was in the box you enter the number of items you wish to share) or if it was an error on the programs part or maybe this is just how the program works.

Sharing from a party is no different than the feed. You either enter the number of items you wish to share out of the current party or select the option to share infinitely. Then you may also select to share in a random order if you’d like. Press start and let the sharing begin.

Note: the page you’re sharing from doesn’t automatically refresh when sharing is complete. For example when I shared from the feed or party I noticed that once the software finished running the page did not refresh. So to see if it would refresh upon starting it over, I ran it again and the program shared the exact same items it did the first time (I did not have the randomized sharing order selected at this time, however even if I did, the program may share different items from the page but it still doesn’t refresh the page so you’re not sharing the newest items as they come in unless you manually refresh the page yourself).

Sharing from another users closet on poshmark again follows the same directions as the feed and party bot. Also, you will have to go to your computer and manually enter the name of the closet you wish to share.

Sharing your own closet is not different that sharing someone else’s closet. You enter the number of items you wish to share from your closet and then select start. However, take note, if you like to keep your closet in a specific order, this program won’t be able to do that for you and here’s why…

– You only have 2 share options!
If you opt to share randomly then yes of course your items will not stay in any specific order. However if you just share without selecting the “Randomize Share Order” option what it does (and this actually goes for when it shares from any of the other places you may select to share from) it starts with the very 1st item in your closet and works it’s way down to the last item. So if you selected 100 items once the program is finished sharing and you manually refresh your closet you will notice that the 100th item is now the 1st item, the 99th item is now your 2nd item & so on. The program does not have an option to share in a way that will keep your closet in the order you’ve put it in. That, in my opinion, is a negative because many sellers like to keep pushing their favorite pieces or pieces they’re trying to showcase to the top of their closet so when the first share loop is complete your favorite pieces are at the top again. Other sellers also like to create different sections in their closets for different categories of items (tops, pants, dresses, sweaters, jewelry and so on). With the way this program shares you will not be able to keep order unless you go in and manually update or share your items until they are back in the order in which you like them.

This brings me to my next issue, there are no share loops. In other words when you opt to share your closet for example, Once it has finished sharing the amount of items selected, it’s done. It will not start sharing again unless you restart it. Some sellers like sharing their closet a few times in a row. Some programs allow you to input how many times you’d like to share the X amount of items you’ve selected. This program only does it once. There is no optional features for adding extra share loops. That is something I find bothersome because, once again it comes down to me not having to worry about starring at my computer watching for when it may be done sharing. I have more important tasks at hand to ensure my business grows and I also, just like all of you, have lives we want to live while still running and growing a business. Having to constantly check my computer takes away the freedom I need to do other things or to even leave my office or home where my computers are.

The next issue that needs attention here is if this program shares your sold items. I found this to be a major issue with many of the other automation software programs I’ve tested. This program will absolutely share your sold items, by sold I’m referring to the items with the red “sold” banner because your item has been sold on Poshmark. I tested this out 2 different ways. I first shared every item in my closet by inputting the amount of items I have available but purposely added 5 more to that number knowing those are sold out items with the red sold banner on them. The program shared the 5 sold items and by doing so pushed them to the top of my closet. I then refreshed my closet which exposed the sold items at the top and I entered into the program to share 10 items and sure enough it still shared them. This specific feature on this program does not recognize sold items. However what I found strange was if you do not want your sold items shared you must use a totally different function this program offers to share your closet…

Edit Sharer

The Edit Sharer option is the 2nd feature on the control panel. What it does is it “edits” your listing and then shares it. This is basically just clicking the update option on your listing (not actually editing anything) and then sharing it. Using this feature will stop your sold items from being shared and your meet the posher listing if you have one.
Note: there is one issue with this feature that stands right out: This feature could cause a temporary freeze on your Poshmark account if you’re not cautious on how you use it and if you have a very large closet with hundreds of items using this feature could easily fly a red flag right in Poshmark’s face placing that freeze on your account. What I do appreciate here is the owner of this software does make a note of this on their website stating the following “…poshmark has a low threshold of items that can be edit-shared before they place a temporary 24 hour freeze on this kind of sharing which also affects listing new items”
When you run the Edit Sharer it goes into your closet and opens the listing and clicks on the “edit listing” button and then shares the item. It then moves on to the next. This will push your sold listings with the red banner down as well. One issue I continuously ran into however was when this feature was done running it would automatically go to a “Page Not Found” on poshmark instead of returning to my closet. So I had to manually fix this error every time it occurred. Again, issues like these can be very distracting when you’re trying to get work done. Just food for thought… remember the whole point is to have a program that really works for you and does not take away from your other daily duties and take away your time. It should almost feel like you have another person working for you that you know you can trust to keep running your business, even if you leave your office or home.

Auto Follower

This is the next feature on the control panel. This bot will follow anyone who’s following a target closet you manually enter in on your computer and if you’d prefer you can follow the users who the target closet is following instead. Using this feature is simple enough. It will automatically stop once it’s finished following everyone you weren’t already following from the target closets following or followers list.
Just a note on this, if you over run a bot like this, it can also raise a red flag to Poshmark. So when using any bot software just be mindful of how long you opt to run a follow bot for.

Feed Follower

The Feed Follower is the next bot on the control panel. It, just as the previous bot, follows other Poshmark users. The difference is that instead of going to a specific members profile on Poshmark you would go to the feed or a party then you would refresh the page and scroll down on that specific page, the further down you scroll the more users it will follow. However, what this bot does is physically opens the users closet, follows it unless you’re already following it, then loads the next one. The problem is the next one could be from another listing of the person you just followed. The issue here is that when this bot is going through, let’s say 48 listings on the news feed that were just shared, odds are numerous listings came from the same user. This bot will keep opening the same profile and checking to see if you’re following them. It’s counterproductive and time waiting because it really should just skip over already followed profiles instead of continuously opening them. In my first run using this bot I counted it checking the same closet 6 out of 48 times and there were other closets as well it checked multiple times. I only ended up following 16 new users out of 48 ultimately and it took longer than it should have due to it constantly opening the same user profiles to check and see if I was following them.

Auto-Commenter

This feature is pretty simple and easy to use. It’s a basic comment bot. You type in the comment that you want to leave, such as “Welcome to Posh” and then there is actually a button on the control panel that automatically brings you directly to the “meet the posher” page on Poshmark. You type in the amount of comments you’d like to leave and hit start. You do have to watch the computer though, otherwise you will not know when it has finished.

Activity Returner

The Activity Returner bot is a basic return bot. You manually go to your personal news feed on your computer where you’ll see all the shares, follows and likes. If you scroll down it continues to load more & more of the shares, follows and likes you’ve received. Once you have scrolled down your news feed to as far back as you’d like to return share you go to your control panel and click on the start button. Then this bot will return share, return follow and it will share one item per each like as well.

Customer Service

The customer serves was ok. I sent an email with a question and was responded to the same day. I do prefer having phone contact as an option but most companies don’t offer that, only a select few do.

Side Notes

Captcha’s have been a problem on Poshmark now for the last year and a half to two years now, even if you do not use bots, you can still get them. In my time testing out this software I got stuck with numerous captchas however I never knew I had them because every single time i was not sitting in front of my computer. This is a huge problem for me and I don’t have the time to sit in front of my computer to watch for captchas and manually do things to get my bots running or performing different functions.

In Conclusion

Although this software program can perform basic tasks it doesn’t meet the high standards I set for a excellent example of what automation should do for you. Just the fact that you have to manually do certain tasks to run the programs and watch each one to see when they finish and try to pay attention for captchas is too much for me. It is important to have a program that will act as your assistant, as I stated earlier, that basically acts as human you can trust to take over while you leave the office or your home. A program that can handle multiple tasks at one time, which is another thing this program cannot do.

Although the price point may sound appealing you ultimately get what you pay for. I think sometimes you have to remember to build a successful business on Poshmark investing in automation software that’s truly the cream of the crop is most important. I also have noticed in my experience that many new bot companies offer very low prices to attract customers but they truly do not know how to keep up with the enormous amount of work it takes to put into the software and to continuously keep it updated and more importantly continue to stay on top of all the changes, algorithms, coding & so on that Poshmark implements consistently. It’s a very time consuming job and from what I have learned you really need a staff of computer geniuses building and running an automation software that will continue to grow with Poshmark. Smaller bot companies, well, to date I have yet to see it happen, have not been able to keep up and ultimately their software will not work properly or it will have other constant problems. I’m not saying this software it terrible because it’s not. If you only wish to do this as a small hobby a few hours a week and you are only looking to earn a few extra dollars a month to shop on Poshmark or pay your phone bill, this might work for you… but bare in mind you also must be free to monitor your computer while running this software and to run the software in general as well. If you are really looking to make good money on Poshmark, whether you’re running a legal business and buying real wholesale or running a 2nd hand and/or consignment type business then this is not a program I can wholeheartedly recommend. At the end of the day, you will require a stronger automation program.

If I had to rate this automation software on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the best I would give this software a 3. I received a lot of captchas and it has a long way to go to really meet the criteria of what is looked for and needed in bots that truly offer the best of the best.

 

Closet Tools

Purchase Process

The purchase process of this bot automation program was simple enough. As with other programs I have written on, I won’t spend a lot of time on it because it’s pretty basic info. I went to the Closet Tool website and was automatically brought to the main page where you sign up, create an account & then add in your payment information. You do receive a 7 day free trial however you must give your payment info before receiving this free trial. If you opt to not keep the program you must cancel before the 7 day period ends or you will be charged the fee for the program. The cost is $30 per month or $250 per year.

Downloading & Set Up

After having reviewed many automation programs I’ve had some I was able to download & install myself without a problem and others I’d need help with. Unfortunately Closet Tools was confusing enough for me that I needed help and had to reach out to my friend, who’s installed other programs for me when I couldn’t, to install this one.

Breakdown of Closet Tools Bot Software

The Control Panel

The control panel for Closet Tools consists of a small blue box on the bottom left hand corner of your screen. This control panel has 5 tabs on it which open it’s own separate window on the control panel:

1. The Key Tab

This tab shows you in a outlined box your user name, subscription information (plan type chosen), billing date & time, your credit card info (last 4 digits & expiration date only).

Underneath the above mentioned info is another box the names of the other 4 tabs & their associated pictures you click on so you know what the tab is for. For example the key tab shows the key emoji. The last 2 boxes are to end your subscription and to change your plan.

2. The Sharing & Following Tab

This tab is split into multiple sections with “Sharing” at the top as the first section. Here you will see two options to choose from: “Share to followers” & underneath that “Share to party”. These are simple enough in that they mostly do exactly what they’re labeled as (I’ll explain why I said “mostly” momentarily). You can share your items to your followers anytime or into an evening party easily. However, the morning and daytime parties that are theme specific, the share to party bot will try to share your items that can’t be shared and the share will be unsuccessful. That right there screams “Bot!”. That is totally unacceptable. Do not use that option.

The second section is labeled as “Following” with the 2 options to “follow closets” or “unfollow closets”. The follow bot will start following closets for you if selected. The unfollow closets option will unfollow the people you are following. You must manually go to your list of people you follow and turn on the unfollow closets option. This option was explored when I tested out another bot company. I still feel what I stated then about this feature is relevant and true today…

“This bot’s only purpose is to go into your closet and start unfollowing the people you are currently following. Some sellers prefer to have a smaller list of people they follow. Some sellers have unfollowed everyone and either keep it that way or will only continue to follow certain people (their friends, people they know are active on Poshmark and will return share their items and so on).

After testing this bot out, it ran fine, but the important question to ask here is this: Is it a major necessity? The answer: No, it’s not. It’s not going to make you sales or money. And what do you do it you follow someone you just unfollowed? That screams “Bots!”

The third section is outlined in a box showing your amount of shares within the last 24 hours, the amount of closets followed & the amount of closets unfollowed.

The forth section gives you 5 options to select from for how fast or slow you’d like your bots to run. The options are:

* Custom
* Sloth
* Slow
* Medium
* Fast

I’d like to add here that if you select custom there’s nothing on this specific tab to select the speed you’d like to input your bots to share at. You have to go to yet another tab to set your personal speed specifications.

Furthermore I want to point out something I said in a review some time back for another bot company that offered the option to customize your bots speed…

“I want to touch base on the feature offered where you enter the minimum and maximum wait time in between shares. This feature can help lessen the possibility of receiving a captcha, but make no mistake you’re still going to get them. It’s just part of ‘posh life’ now. The only reason I feel it could potentially lessen the captchas is because you can set the minimum and maximum wait time in between shares to share between every 1 and 10 seconds or 16 and 33 seconds (in reality a 10 second gap is actually pretty slow. When manually sharing, you can share multiple listings within ten seconds). What you set them to will most likely change throughout the day as well, which helps your sharing patterns look more human like. The down side to dealing with this is, you have to really think about what to choose. If you’re going out for an hour and can’t bring your computer with you, then you have to start figuring out, by trial and error, what the best times would be to lessen the possibility of captchas. It’s just a bit of extra work trying to figure out these things. Although, it has potential to be a handy feature, it’d be nice not to have to worry about that…”

The fifth section gives you three options on how these bots will share the items you opt to share (your closets items, feed, parties). They offer to share from the bottom of the page up, from the top down, or randomly. This is simple enough, but I did run into a rather annoying issues with sharing in general regardless of which option you select. I will discuss this further later on.

The sixth and final section of this window on the control panel has 2 options: “continuous” and “captcha alarm”. Continuous is selected if you’d like the bots to continue to share your closet and not stop at all (I tried selecting continuous for the feed and party and it did not work there). For example if you opt to share your entire closet, it will just continuously share it over & over again non stop. I feel this option makes you look more like a bot and less like a human. With that said Closet Tools does offer a manual entry “continuous delay” but this is not located on the same tab as the tab I’m currently on with the “continuous” option. So, this can get to be confusing and also a little frustrating (and even a tad annoying) because you have to go to a different tab/window, try to figure out how much time you’d like between each round of (for example) sharing your whole closet. Just like guessing how much time between shares you can now guess a time between each round of a share loop, but I digress because I’m not technically on that tab from the control panel yet!

The captcha alarm is simply a noise the program will have your computer make when you have a captcha. So as long as you are in ear shot of your computer I suppose that may work for you. This feature did not work for me. I actually never heard the alarm unless I was in front of or very close to my laptop. I have kids & pets & there is noise in my house. I can’t constantly be stressed about captchas and the alarm that I may not hear.

3. The Organize & Edit + Share Tab

This tab has 3 options on it. This first one is the “Edit & Share Items”, the second is the “Enable Organizer” and the third “Auto Scroll Page”.

This part of the control panel is pretty easy. The first option to edit and share goes through your closet and updates your listings. So instead of sharing by using the share option it’s as if you were going in and opening the listing then sharing it which shows it as updated instead of only just shared.

The enable organizer option is the one feature on this automation program that I love. This feature allows you to easily rearrange your closet. Once you click on the enable organizer every available listing in your closet has a purple lining around it. Then you take the mouse and drag the listing to the place you want it in your closet. Being able to arrange your closet this way makes it so much easier because you can see what you are doing. It is a lot harder to arrange your closet on posh by sharing items and not being able to see without refreshing it constantly. So this feature I find very useful.

The last option is the auto scroll page option. Here is what I learned the hard way and this is where I explain the issue I ran into that I said I’d get into further into this article… In order for the share bot to share your entire closet you have to manually scroll yourself all the way down on your computer to the bottom of your listings to load all your listings and also selecting to show only your available listings. After you have scrolled all the way to the bottom, will the share bot be able to share your entire closet. If you don’t do this it will only share the first 48 listings. If you have it on a repetitive cycle of sharing and have not scrolled to the bottom then it will just keep sharing the top 48 items.

The other problem I noticed is when you go to share from the feed or parties. It will not share in a loop in the feed or parties. You have to manually scroll down yourself and load as much as you can or it will only share a handful of items. You have to scroll and scroll and scroll and scroll and keep going…. then you can share and should be able to load a decent amount of listings for the share bot to share. But you have to do it yourself. It is not automated. Therefore it is of no use.

4. The Options Tab

This window on the control panel, once selecting this tab, has multiple options on it including where you need to go if you want to customize the speed the share bot runs. Here is a breakdown of this tab:

* Available Items Only
* Scroll To Load Items (Your Closet)
* Solve Captchas (you must enter a specific product key for use of this feature)
* Daily Sharing Limit
* Custom Speed
* Continuous Delay
* Continuous Loop Limit

The first option is selected to show only the available items in your closet. You just go to your closet, select this option and it will only load the available items. Any sold or unavailable items will not appear on the screen. This feature is used for sharing and for arranging your closet (if you choose to use it).

The scroll to load items option when selected will go in and scroll down the items in your closet so more than the top 48 items load. It seemed to only work for me when I was in my own closet or someone else’s closet. It did not work for me when trying to load items in the feed or parties to share. I had to constantly go in and manually load items for the share bot in those cases or you’ll find it will share anywhere from as little to one item only (this happened to me in the feed) to around 12 or so. This was at least my experience when trying this out. I found it rather tedious to have to keep going back to the laptop and scrolling to load more and more items, refreshing the page repeatedly and then scrolling down as much as I could to share more items. When using automation I think the less manual work you have to do to run your closet(s) the better. This was a huge annoyance to me. I don’t have time to run to my laptop every few minutes to keep refreshing and scrolling to load items for the bots to work properly.

The third option is to solve captchas. This is misleading – it does not solve captchas. Instead, you have to purchase and install other software from a separate company. Then in this panel you enter your purchase key.

The daily sharing limit option is where you must enter how many items within in a 24 hour period total you’d like to share items. This total includes everything from your closet, the feed, parties and if you manually go to someone else’s closet to share their items as well. The program had automatically put 4,000 shares per 24 hours upon upload. You have the ability to change this number to whatever you want it to be. My first day using this program I hit 4,000 shares well before the 24 hour time period was up. The problem I have with this is that I feel as a consumer who is looking to use automation to the best of their ability things like trying to figure out a share limit or as I previously mentioned trying to figure out timing between shares or between share loops, these are things I don’t want to have to worry about. It should be already part of the automation program.

The next two options are the custom speed and custom delay. I’m explaining these together because although they are for different things they do the same thing. With each option you can enter a minimum amount of time, for example 3 seconds for sharing items & 15 seconds for the minimum amount of time between a share loop. Then you must enter the maximum amount of time between the shares and the share loop, for example I may enter 10 seconds for the maximum time between shares and 60 seconds between a share loop. The program takes the times you input for each of these and randomly changes the time between each share or share loop that are no less than your minimum and no greater than your maximum times you’ve input. This does help the sharing patterns appear more human like, but as I’ve already stated, I don’t feel this is something we should even have to think about. It should, in my opinion, already be built into the program so you don’t have to worry about it. The bottom line is that better programs have this already figured out for you.

The last option on this window of the control panel is the continuous loop limit option. This is where you can enter how many times you’d like this program to share your closet. So once you’ve loaded your entire closet you can leave it set to 0 (which means it will only share it once) or enter 2 or more and it will share your closet X amount of times in a row.

5. Closet Tools Information Tab

This fifth and final window is where you may submit a bug or feedback and troubleshoot an issue.

Customer Service

I emailed customer service with a couple simple questions and received a reply the next day. Not terrible response time, but I’ve had companies reply within minutes as well. So, although it’s not a bad response time it’s not the best I’ve received. Also I’d like to add here that they were very quick to email me twice two hours apart when they realized I was not intending to renew after the free trial.

Side Notes

I want to be sure I note here that this program does offer the option to run its program on your cellphone or iPad. However, just to install it on your phone you must go through a 21 step process. While reviewing this process I found it to extremely confusing and an awful lot of steps for a program that will not run at its own full capacity if you dare use your phone or iPad to do anything else. Send a text message – bots won’t work, they stop. Want to make a phone call, hop on an app, take a photo or have your screen on a lock timer… well, you can’t do that either or your bots will not work. This was a huge negative in my book. Closet Tools just isn’t there.

In Conclusion

If I were to rate Closet Tools on a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being the best score you can receive I’d rate them a 3, and only because of their option to rearrange your closet. That option is excellent. Otherwise this program seems pretty dated to me. They don’t offer as many features as other companies do. They don’t allow you to run more than one bot at a time. And finally, I received more captchas using this program than any other programs. I received a lot of captchas no matter what delay setting I chose. Thus making the bots of no use.

 

Closet Pilot

Purchase Process

The purchase process for this bot program was simple enough and similar to many of the other bot programs. This program offers a 7 day free trial. The monthly price is $30.

The purchase process requires entering your credit card payment information and installing the program, not much different than the prior program that I reviewed Closet Tools.

Downloading & Set Up

After having reviewed many automation programs I’ve had some I was able to download & install myself without a problem and others I’d need help with. Unfortunately Closet Pilot was confusing enough for me that I needed help and had to reach out to my friend, who’s installed other programs for me when I couldn’t, to install this one.

Breakdown of Closet Pilot Bot Software

The Control Panel

The control panel for Closet Pilot consists of a small box or window on the bottom left hand corner of your screen. This control panel has 5 tabs on it which open its own separate window on the control panel:

The Share Options Tab

The share options tab is a very basic set up. The first option on this tab is “Share to followers”, underneath that option is the “Share to party” option. The next two options you’ll see are the “Follow People” & “Unfollow People” options. Lastly, underneath those at the bottom of this tab is the options to choose from for how slow to fast you’d like your bots to share. The options are nearly identical to my recent review or Closet Tools & are as follows: “sloth”, “slow”, “medium”, “fast”. Underneath these speed options there’s the option to turn on the continuous option, meaning you can have the bot repeat the same action after it’s finished, such as sharing your closet over & over again until you turn off the continuous option. The last option is the “captcha alarm”. This option is already preset to on for you & just has your computer make a noise to alert you when you receive a captcha.

The “Share To Followers” options works when sharing items out of your closet to the feed. It also can be used to share other people’s closets & share out of the main Poshmark feed.

The “Share To Party” option only does the following actions. It shares items out of your closet into active parties. It will, just like the Closet Tools program I just reviewed, attempt to share items that are non party specific during the specifically themed morning, afternoon & midday parties. The program will then realize it cannot be shared to the party & move on to the next item and try to share that into the party. The Share to party bot will also share items from another closet you choose. And lastly it will share items from the Poshmark feed into the parties. The evening parties, all items can be shared, just like with any program or manual sharing.

The next two options on this tab are located side by side and are the “follow people” and “unfollow people” options.

To use the Follow People option you would manually go to another person’s closet & click on their list of followers & run this bot option, which will start clicking the follow option next to each user name.

The Unfollow People option is used by manually going to your closet, selecting the list of people you are following, click on “unfollow people” & it will unfollow the people/closets you follow currently.

I have been pretty vocal about my feelings regarding unfollowing. When you view your following list, you see the most recent 1,000 people you have followed. If you unfollow them, you have just unfollowed active people that you recently followed. When you go to follow people, you follow those same people again. Then unfollow them. Then follow them. It is a waste of time and resources.

Unfollow bots are just “filler bots”. Filler bots make it look like the company has more options and does more for you, when in reality it’s just a trick.

The next options on this tab are to select at what speed you’d like the bots to share for you at. The options are as follows:

Sloth
Slow
Medium
Fast

Also, in this section is the “continuous” option which if selected means your bots will just keep sharing the same items over & over & over until you manually turn this option off. This is followed by the “captcha alarm” which makes a ding noise when you receive a captcha, unless you turn it off.

No matter what speed I selected, I got a lot of captchas using Closet Pilot. Maybe one captcha every 100 shares or so. Even on sloth mode.

Other Options Tab

This is the 2nd tab in the control panel window. It has 4 options available on it as follows: “Edit & Share Items”, “Enable Closet Organizer”, “Auto-load Items” & “Return Follows”.

This part of the control panel is pretty easy. The first option to edit and share goes through your closet and updates your listings. So instead of sharing by using the share option it’s as if you were going in and opening the listing then sharing it which shows it as updated instead of only just shared.

The enable organizer option is really the one feature on this automation program that stands out to me. I like this option. This feature allows you to easily rearrange your closet. Once you click on the enable organizer every available listing in your closet has a colored lining around it. Then you take the mouse and drag the listing to the place you want it in your closet. Being able to arrange your closet this way makes it so much easier because you can see what you are doing. It is a lot harder to arrange your closet on posh by sharing items and not being able to see without refreshing it constantly. So this feature I find actually really useful, especially when you have a larger closet. This is definitely the best feature on this program by far!

The next option is the “auto-load items” option. Here is what I learned the hard way when reviewing Closet Tools & this program, Closet Pilot, is no different. In order for the share bot to share your entire closet (or someone else’s) you have to first manually select the option in your closet on Poshmark to show only the available listings. The next step is to load all the available listings by scrolling all the way down on your computer to the bottom of your closets listings. After you have scrolled all the way to the bottom the share bot will share your entire closet. If you don’t do this it will only share around the first 48 listings. If you have it on a repetitive cycle of sharing and have not scrolled to the bottom then it will just keep sharing the top 48 items. The “auto-load” option will load all the items for you so you don’t have to manually do it. The problem with this feature is it shouldn’t be something you need to deal with or have to think about. Now, granted, Closet Pilot does have yet another option in a different tab on the control panel you can go to & click on that keeps it so your closet will automatically always auto-load items. That’s okay and all, but a good automation program will not make you have to remember to go in and auto-load your closet or make you go to different tabs on a control panel to turn on and off auto-load. You should be able to just share your closet & know the available items have loaded without having to take extra steps.

The last option on this tab in the control panel window is the “Return Follows” option. This one is self explanatory. It simply just return follows people who followed you.

Settings

The settings tab is where you will find 4 separate available options you can opt to use which are as follows:

Show Available Items Only – if you select this option it will automatically only show available items instead of manually selecting it in your Poshmark closet.
Always Auto-Load Available Items in Closets – as previously mentioned this option will make it so items are automatically loaded & you don’t have to either keep selecting the individual auto-load option on the previous tab or manually do it yourself.
Automatically Solve Captchas – This is misleading. This panel does not automatically solve captchas. You actually have to buy a separate captcha solver program and install it on your computer. This panel is just where you would type in the product key of whatever program you bought.
Daily Share Limit – this program automatically has 4,000 preset here, but you can change it to whatever you’d like. Once that limit is hit the bot program will stop all sharing. You can change the number and restart it.

Information Tab

The Information tab is where you can go for documentation & troubleshooting information. They also left the company email to contact them if you have a question or concern.

Welcome Tab

This tab on the control panel window just tells you what each tab is:

Repeating Actions
Single Action
Settings
Information
Minimize (the 6th tab is to minimize the control panel window).

Underneath this list you can sign out of your account or end your subscription.

Customer Service

I emailed the company on my 2nd day of the free trial and had not received a reply by the end date of the 7 free days. I feel it’s important to be able to communicate with the company who creates the bots. There should be an open line of communication if any issues should arise or if you have any questions or concerns.

Side Notes

Just as I stated in my Closet Tools review, Closet Pilot just isn’t there. They’re not modern enough. They lack the power to run a strong program. This may also have to do with how much the developer knows about creating programs as well, but regardless Closet Pilot lacks in many areas.

In Conclusion

If I were to rate Closet Pilot on a scale from 1 to 10 with 10 being the best score you can receive I’d rate them either a 2 or 3. The only feature I like is that they offer a way to arrange your closet that’s a little easier than doing it directly on Poshmark or the Poshmark app.

The reason I can’t decide between a 2 or a 3 is because I highly suspect that either Closet Pilot completely copied the Closet Tools program or it could be the other way around. (I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if it’s the same person behind both programs. I could be wrong, but these two programs are nearly identical. There are only very minor differences).

Closet Pilot boasts on their website after testing out other programs (they listed the 3 others they tested) that Closet Pilot is the “best bot program available” based on their testing, it’s also the “easiest to use” and “gets you the most sales”. I suggest you take that with a grain of salt. The person who runs & owns the Closet Pilot program is also writing the blog on their own site. So I’m not sure that’s an honest & unbiased viewpoint. They want you to buy their program. Well, from my experience of testing many bot programs this program was simplistic at best, lacks in many areas – especially with keeping up with modern automation & what it can truly do. You can only run ONE bot at a time. You have to deal with petty things like how fast or slow to run the bots to remembering to auto-load your closet or which auto-load to use. The list could go on!

My last issue with Closet Pilot is that I kept receiving captchas. I got a lot of captchas. So I had to literally sit in front of it.

 

PoshShareBot

Purchase Process

The purchase process for PoshShareBot was very different than the other companies. Their website does not have a purchase button. They offer a free one-week trial and they ask you to send them an email. The purchase process will be described later in this review.

Downloading and Setup

Their website said they offer a free one-week trial of the bots, so I sent them an email saying I’d like to try their free one-week trial. About an hour later I received an email offering the free one-week trial and asking for my closet name and phone number. I replied with that. Then they emailed me and offered to set up my bots for me and asked when was a good time for me to speak on the phone. I replied with a time. When that time arrived, they texted me and asked if they could call. I agreed and they called me. The man on the phone explained the process and answered my questions. He said he needed me to download a program called TeamViewer. (This is contradictory to their website when they say no software has to be installed.) I downloaded and installed TeamViewer. It’s free if used for just personal use. TeamViewer is used for remote technical support. You give Tech Support your TeamViewer ID number and temporary password and then Tech Support can log into your computer and take over. (They cannot get in later because the temporary password changes.) He logged into my computer and he took over. He installed an extension into my web browser. That was all that had to be installed. Then he showed me how to run the bots. First he brought up my control panel in a browser window. I logged into it with my email address and a password that he had set up for me. I’ll describe the control panel below. Then he showed me how to bring up the bots. I will also describe them below.

So set up was more than just simple. I can’t stress the amount of relief this brought me after all the other experiences I had setting up the other programs. I really didn’t have to do anything to set them up!

Another important thing I’d like to add is that the customer service with this company is sheer perfection. They told me to text them any time I have a problem. I really didn’t need any help except a couple questions here and there during my first week, and they texted me right back and answered my questions. They are quick to respond and will go out of their way to ensure you’re happy with everything.

Breakdown of PoshShareBot Software

Control Panel Overview

This Control Panel is by far the easiest, most streamlined control panel I’ve come across. It’s one window on your computer, which I might add does not have the bottom half attached to a browser window to open Poshmark in where you’d only see 25% of the Poshmark site thus not really being able to see what’s going on! It’s one window all to itself. (The control panel looks nothing like the picture on their website. It’s much more streamlined than in the picture.) In that window is the name of each bot offered and a simple on/off switch. Can’t get any more simple that that! I will discuss the very best feature of the control panel later in this review.

Closet Bot

With PoshShareBot, a separate browser window is brought up for each of the bots. For the closet bot, you bring up a browser window and log into Poshmark and then click your closet name to bring up your closet. You only have to log into Poshmark once. It doesn’t keep logging you out like the other bot companies do.

It has a closet Organizer. When your closet is displayed, PoshShareBot allows you to drag-and-drop items around in your closet. I love this feature. I can easily get my closet in the order I want it.

The first bot on your Control Panel is the closet bot. Here’s how simple this is, as with the following bots on the Control Panel I’ll review… When you decide to share your own items you click on the words closet bot and the Control Panel opens to the closet bot’s options. You enter how many items you’d like to share from your closet. That number gets stored, you don’t have to enter it again until you want to change it. Then select the back button which brings you back to the main Control Panel and you switch the on button.

The Closet Bot shares your closet in reverse order so that it does not change the order of your closet. It will not share any sold items that have the red Sold banner on them and it will not share any Not For Sale items.

There are also other options that you can select with your closet bot. You can tell it to run multiple cycles of the closet bot. You just enter how many times you’d like it to share your closet.

The closet bot will also share your items into the morning party, mid day party, afternoon party and evening parties! You simply tell it which party to share to and it will go through your closet in reverse order and share appropriate items into the party and any other items to your followers. This keeps your closet in order!

The evening party is always welcome to all items so the closet bot will share your entire closet to the evening party. Simple as that!

News Bot

The news bot requires literally no work on your part, short of turning it on. This bot is what watches your personal news feed for comments, offers and purchases. The news feed will then see you have a, for example, comment and you’ll be notified via TEXT MESSAGE to your cell phone with the comment in it! How perfect is that?! You don’t ever have to worry you’ll miss a comment again, question, offers or anything again! If you think it can’t get better, it does! This bot filters out spam comments. If you receive a host pick generally you receive a ton of comments congratulating you. No one wants 50 text messages with congratulatory messages. It also filters out mass tag comments! PoshShareBot has made it so only the important things are text to you. You will get a text message whenever someone makes an offer or a purchase or adds an item to a bundle, etc. In the control panel you can select which types of text messages you want to get or don’t want to get.

Return Bot

The Return Bot will return share to those who’ve shared your items. It’s simple and also offers you options as well. Just like the previous bot, you click on the words “return bot” on the control panel which opens the options you have for how you’d like to return share. It’s simple and my favorite – involves little work and takes the thinking out of it for you. The options offered are as follows…

1. Return Share For Likes and Shares – this option is to return back shares, one for one, to those who’ve liked your items or shared them. You can select the maximum amount of shares you wish to return.
2. Return Follow – this option lets you follow anyone who has followed you, and then can share some of their items. You can choose how many of their items to share.
3. Share From Listing Likes – in this option you type in the closet name of any competitor closet. It will go to that closet and follow and share everyone who did a “like” on the items in the competitor’s closet. You can choose how many items to share of the people who did a “like”.
4. Follow From Love Notes List – every day these bots give you a big list of closets that left a love note on Poshmark the day before. This option will follow each of those closets. You can choose how many items to share. This is a huge benefit! These closets are recent happy buyers that leave love notes.
5. Follow From Closet Love Notes – in this option you type in the closet name of any competitor closet. It will go to that closet and follow and share everyone who left a love note at that competitor’s closet. This is a huge benefit! The closets that left love notes are recent happy buyers. This is how you steal your competitor’s customers!
6. Follow From Fresh Closets List – every day these bots give you a big list of closets that added their first item to their new closet the day before. It will follow and share each of these new closets. These people are active and are still buyers. Plus, Poshmark loves it when you share new closets.

One important feature about PoshShareBot is that it ONLY shares approved items. It will never share any illegal items. PoshShareBot reads all the words in the titles of every item before it shares it! This is just one of the many things about PoshShareBot that makes it human-like.

I find the Return bot on PoshShareBot to be amazing.

Again, any value you entered into the control panel is stored. You never have to enter it in again, until you want to change it.

Offer to Likers Bot

You tell it the discount and shipping rate you want to offer, and the Offer Bot will go to every listing in your closet that has likers and will send the offer.

Block List

PoshShareBot lets you specify a Block List. You can put any closet name on your Block List and your bots will never share their items. If you have certain closets you rather not share, you just enter their user name and the bots will not share their items! You can type in the closet names of your competitors.

Feed Bot

The feed bot will share items out of your feed. It’s a good way to bring other users to your closet to return the shares. It will only share approved items. It will not share any illegal items. It will not share any sold items. It will not share any items from users on your block list. And it will not share any items that may have come from your closet that someone else had shared into the feed. It automatically refreshes the feed page when it needs to scroll in new items.

Party Bot

The Party Bot is an absolutely impressive feature! This bot allows you to share items out of each party (morning, mid day, afternoon and evening parties). By clicking on the words “party bot” on the control panel, it brings you to the party bot’s options page where you can select which parties you want to share out of. Again, once selected these options will remain this way unless you change them. Then you select from where you’d like to share out of from the parties – main feed, host picks, first look, designer or new with tags. Then when the party starts, you simply turn the bot on.

It will only share approved items. It will not share any illegal items. It will not share any sold items. It will not share any items from users on your block list. And it will not share any items that may have come from your closet that someone else had shared into the party. It automatically refreshes the party showroom when it needs to scroll in new items.

This bot ran without a hitch. It shared people who had never seen me before who are online right now. It brought new people into my closet and helped boost my sales.

Category Bot

You specify which category you want, either Women, Men, Kids, or Home, and the Category Bot will share from that category to your followers. You also have to option to tell it to sort by Just In.

Welcome Bot

You can specify a welcome message and then you can turn on the Welcome Bot and it will go to new closets on Poshmark and leave that welcome message on their Meet the Posher item. It runs automatically, with automatic timing, welcoming a total of about 50 new users who just joined Poshmark today.

I found some extremely important and very impressive features that PoshShareBot offers that no one else does. These following features are truly what, on top of everything else, makes this company unique and stand out and above all other automation companies. I honestly couldn’t find any design flaws with this program! These features however are absolutely impeccable and I’m excited to share them with you!

Total Remote Control

The first important feature I want to touch more upon is: The Control Panel ~ Yes, I know I discussed the Control Panel in quite detail previously, but it gets better! You also get a MOBILE control panel. I know that we are all busy, whether Poshmark is your full or part time job or even a hobby, we all have other things to do and cannot be stuck in front of a computer 24/7. Having a control panel I can use right from my smart phone or tablet is a major bonus. I do not have to lug my laptop on vacation with me or anywhere at all. I control my bots right from my mobile control panel on my cell phone or tablet! I could be in Japan and still run my business without my laptop!

Text Message Alerts

PoshShareBot also has a text message alert feature!! When your closet has a comment, offer, someone makes a purchase OR you receive a captcha you receive a text message straight to your cell phone! If you have multiple closets your texts will even let you know which closet your message or captcha is coming from. They also offer the option to add multiple phone lines that can receive these text messages which is great for those of you who have helpers or employees, such as myself. I have two assistants working in their own homes to help me. They are able to control my bots from their cell phones. They can also receive text messages from my bots when there are any comments on my items, or offers or sales. You can even specify which phones get which text messages. Therefore, thanks to the bots, I have been able to fully delegate my work to other people who work in the comfort of their own home.

PoshShareBot has also resolved the captcha issue by automatically solving the captchas for you! You no longer must be in front of your computer waiting for captchas to pop up. PoshShareBot simply solves the captcha and sends you a text message! Way cool! This truly gives you your life back!

And this company has figured out a way where you can access your own computer right from your mobile devices or tablets if you are away from home. That is where TeamViewer comes in again. In Teamviewer on your computer, you go into settings and you specify a password of your choice that only you know. That will be your own secret password. Then you install TeamViewer for free on your iPhone or Android phone, and you remote into your PC at home (using your secret password) and you can control your computer.

This total remote control of bots is the biggest feature of PoshShareBot. Never again do you have to be in front of your computer. You can completely control them from your phone!

Automatic Governor

Lastly, as I mentioned with my other reviews the other programs make you enter the time you’d like in between shares. It’s not something I cared for. But PoshShareBot has done all the thinking for you and their software automatically sets the wait times between your shares to mimic real live human activity, making their bots very human-like. For example, one share may be 3.14 seconds apart and the next may be 2.71 seconds apart, and the next may be 4.23 seconds apart. Also, because you’re able to run multiple bots at once, their programming has been designed in a way which governs all shares done to prevent the Poshmark Watchdog software on the Poshmark server from putting you in “share jail”. These bots automatically keep you under the radar!

Online Forum

In the control panel (both on phone and on PC) you can go into the online forum. This is a secret online community of all the users of PoshShareBot. Each user is automatically given a random user-number. It is completely anonymous. No names are mentioned. Only user-numbers. It is a treasure chest of tips and tricks about how to be successful on Poshmark. All the users ask questions and answer questions and give advice. Nobody knows who the other people are, but they all talk to each other like they know each other.

Customer Service

As mentioned previously the customer service with PoshShareBot’s was beyond excellent and truly exceeded my expectations. I didn’t need much help because I found this automation software program to be extremely simple and streamlined. However, I did reach out to the company to ask questions and when I did I was always responded to within a very quick and timely manner. They never ignored or missed a single text or email and were always happy to offer their help and support. They seem to be very invested in their company and want to see you succeed. They also do not make automation software for any other website and are solely focused on Poshmark and keeping their software up to date. When Poshmark changes, they change with it.

In Conclusion

I believe this is a no-brainer. Bots free up your time. You no longer have to stare at a computer screen all day long, getting carpal tunnel in your hands and headaches from staring at the screen. Now you can focus on the other important things needed to run your business or even give yourself some free time! Let the bots work for you!!

Automation is an absolute vital resource to create a successful and profitable business on Poshmark. Remember, you have to spend money to make money and with automation/bots you will undoubtedly see results and the small investment will pay itself back and then some, but choosing the right automation program is also key and after experience I truly believe PoshShareBot is the best of the best.

At the end of my free one-week trial, I of course decided to buy the bots. This is simple. I just clicked a paypal button in the control panel. That brought me to the paypal website. I paid there. My bots were good for another month. Nothing else to do. No automatic recurring payments. Just a one-time payment to continue using the bots for another month. After a month I could either not pay, and the bots would stop working, or I could simply press the paypal button again and pay for another month.  Truly no commitment required and there are no recurring fees.

If I were to rate them on a scale of 1 to 10, I’d absolutely without a doubt give this company a perfect 10. You can contact them at PoshShareBot.com or send them an email at info@PoshShareBot.com

If you are serious about creating a successful business this is a must. I can also tell you that the true top sellers on Poshmark, and I’m not talking about everyone who makes one sale and is suddenly a “top ten percent seller”, but the true top sellers pulling in thousands of dollars in sales a week use automation. It’s just vital. I can’t stress this enough.

So, if you have a closet full of items that are just not selling, give the bots a try. I guarantee once you do, you will wonder what you ever did without them.

Success is obtainable. You can create a successful business and a profitable one!

 

Goodbye Dressing Rooms… Hello Bundles

As quickly as Poshmark introduces a new feature they just as quickly change it! Keeping on top of all the features Poshmark has to offer is important to your success. Learning how to use these features to your advantage and using them properly is key.

In a previous blog article, I wrote about how to use the Poshmark “Dressing Rooms”. However, Poshmark has since made the Dressing Room a thing of the past! Out with the old and in with the new… and in comes the new Bundle Feature!

NOTE: Some of the tips I gave in my prior article about the Dressing Room feature does, in some ways, still apply to the new Bundle feature. That article is further down in my blog.

So, let’s dive right into it…

Part One: What is the Bundle Feature?

A “Bundle” is a shopping bag that holds any number of items.

The Poshmark Bundle Feature shows all bundles you have made in other closets and it shows all bundles that potential buyers have created in your closet.

On your phone app, go to your closet. At the top right click the box icon. You will go to “My Bundles”.

Or on a web browser on a PC log into Poshmark. Near the top right click the bag icon called “My Bundles”.

In either case you will be brought to the “My Bundles” page where you can click either “Shop” or “Sell”.

If you click “Shop” you will be shown all bundles you have made in other closets.

Part Two: Get to know the Bundle Feature as a Shopper

The best way to truly understand this feature is to first experience it as a shopper. I find it’s important to have a good understanding of what your customers experience.

I highly recommend you start off by selecting a closet you enjoy browsing or shopping from and like some items, bundle some items, and even leave a question or comment to the seller. Get a general feel for the bundle feature. Also, watch to see if the seller responds. Do they add items to your bundle? Do they make you a private offer? Do they make suggestions? If they do make suggestions, are they based on your style card?

So, now that you have tested out what it is like to use the bundle feature as a buyer and have a good idea of what your customers may experience as a shopper, let’s get down to the nitty gritty and make some money!

Part Three: Using the Bundle Feature as a Seller

This is where you’re going to learn how to work every last angle of the Bundle Feature to your advantage. It’s time to make money!!

On your phone app, go to your closet. At the top right click the box icon. You will go to “My Bundles”.

Or on a web browser on a PC log into Poshmark. Near the top right click the bag icon called “My Bundles”.

In either case you will be brought to the “My Bundles” page where you can click either “Shop” or “Sell”.

If you click “Sell” you will be shown all bundles that other people have created in your closet. If a bundle is empty, the user has sent you a “Style Request”.

In each bundle, click the “View Bundle”. You will see the details of the bundle. On that page click “View Style Card” and you will see the brands that your shopper follows, sizes they wear, previously purchased items, and love notes they’ve left and received. Get an idea about each person. The style card is a very important piece to pay attention to as a seller.

If you click “Share to Bundle” and then press “From Likes” and you will see all the items your shopper has “liked” in your closet.

If you click “Share to Bundle” and then press “From MY Closet” you can share items in your closet directly to your shopper based on their interests. You can also make private offers to them and post private comments to them.

Do NOT just share random items without doing a little research. You may lose a potential buyer by doing so. For example, if you go and share a bunch of size small pants, dresses & shirts to someone who may wear plus sizes or who may only be interested in jewelry, they will have no interest and won’t even bother to look at things you might have in their sizes or interests. So, be sure you take that time. You will see sales from it.

So, you now know you can utilize the bundle feature to communicate with your shoppers, send amazing offers, share items to their bundles from their likes and from your closet. What’s next?

Part Four: How to Steal Active Shoppers from Your Competitors!

So, here’s where we get down to it… Here comes the fun stuff… You will steal buyers who are actively shopping at your competitor’s closet!

On your phone app, go to your competitor’s closet. At the top are 3 dots.

Or on a web browser on a PC log into Poshmark and go to your competitor’s closet. To the right of the Follow button are 3 dots.

In either case, click the 3 dots.

In the pull-down, click “Bundles From @UserNameHere”.

You will be shown everyone shopping in that closet!

You will be brought to a page showing all the bundles that shoppers have made in your competitor’s closet.

In each bundle, notice what items the shopper added. Then click on the shopper’s closet name. Then share items in your closet to them that are similar to what they bundled at your competitor’s closet!

You can also follow and share them.

Using this method will bring in sales. You do have to spend some time daily to do this, but it does pay off. It may not sound fair, but your closet is a business, not a charity. Also, if you think it’s not already being done to you by your competitors, you’re wrong and may be losing sales because of it.

Your closet can be a success. Just follow my advice in my blog.

Happy Poshing!

 

For the Bundles Feature go to my article here.

Poshmark recently integrated a new feature on their website and app called “Dressing Rooms”. So today I’m going to go over how to utilize this new feature from your PC to your advantage, from both the buyer’s perspective and the seller’s perspective.

Remember, it is important to understand how these features work as a buyer, even if you only sell. You should familiarize yourself with the process from your buyer’s point of view to better help them, create an easy shopping experience and land that sale!

Poshmark created the dressing rooms to help buyers and seller’s connect. You can help give style suggestions to perspective buyers, view their “style card” (the style card is a list of brands that someone likes along with more personalized info such as their sizes in various clothing and shoes – more on this feature later), share personally hand selected items directly to another posher/perspective customer, make private offers to your customers and more…

Part One: How to use “Dressing Rooms”

As a Shopper/Customer

When you login to Poshmark from your computer you are immediately brought to The Feed (the place where all shared listings go). In the upper right hand corner of your browser window you will now see a double clothing hanger icon called “Dressing Rooms” (followed by “my likes”, “news” and the icon of your personal profile photo).

Once you click on the the Dressing Rooms icon you will be brought to a new page. This is your “My Dressing Rooms” page.

“For Me” (used as a buyer)

If you select the “For Me” option you will be shown a list with each seller whose items you’ve personally added to a bundle and some (or all if there is only a few) items you added to a bundle from that particular seller’s closet.

You also have the option to view the dressing room you have created from each seller’s closet when browsing, shopping, liking items and adding items to a bundle from another seller’s closet.

Upon viewing the dressing room from a buyer’s perspective you will see two main categories:

Bundle

If you click on the bundle option the items you have bundled will appear in the bundle tab. It shows you the cover photo of each item, the seller’s asking price and the retail price as well as the size. Just below your bundled items you will find the bundle price, the seller’s discount (if they offer one, most do) and the buy now price. Just below the buy now price you have the option to make an offer or buy now.

The make an offer option is a useful tool that can help you to negotiate a better price on the item or items you wish to purchase. Of course many sellers offer bundle discounts and you may just select that and checkout as well if you’re satisfied with the price point.

Likes

If you click on the likes option in your dressing room it will show you all the likes you’ve ever had in the particular seller’s closet you have selected to view. Underneath each photo of the items you’ve liked it shows the listing title, the sale price and retail price, the size and the brand. Under this information the dressing room likes will also tell you if the item is already sold, already in your bundle and lastly gives you the option to add the item to your bundle.

Another feature offered in the dressing room is the “Share To Me” feature. When you select this option you are requesting a particular seller to share their items to you personally. In other words you are requesting them to select pieces from their closet they think you’d like. The seller is acting as your personal stylist so to speak.

As a buyer, the dressing room feature is a very helpful tool to help keep your likes organized, your potential purchases organized, as well as helping you potentially make private deals on items or bundles you’ve had your eye on. Not to mention you can get help finding pieces you may have overlooked, especially in very large closets by using the share to me feature. It’s also a good way to bookmark your favorite closets!

Lastly, as previously mentioned, it’s important to know how this feature works as a buyer, even if you only sell so you are familiar with your customer’s experience as a buyer. Also, new people and potential customers join poshmark everyday. You should know how to use this tool to help them learn. It could ultimately lead you to a sale! That’s not something you want to miss out on!

Part Two: How to use “Dressing Rooms”

As a Seller

As I previously explained, when logging into poshmark you are immediately brought to the feed page. In the upper right corner you will find the double hanger icon for the Dressing Rooms. Once you’ve clicked on the icon you are, just as before, brought to “My Dressing Rooms” page. However as a seller this time you use the dressing rooms a little differently.

“By Me” (used as a seller)

Your Dressing Room “By Me” page is set up in a similar fashion to that of your “For Me” dressing room. Once you click on the “By Me” option in your dressing room you will brought to a page with a list of potential customers and/or current and past customers who have either added some of your items to a bundle or have liked some of your items.

There is also a filter option on the upper right side which will give you the option to filter by people who’ve liked your items, people who have added your items to a bundle and lastly to view share requests (people who have requested you to share your items to them).

Helpful Hint: Check the “share requests” option at least once a day to ensure you haven’t missed anyone who’s asked you to share your items to them personally. This could be the makings of a potential sale! You also don’t want a potential customer to think you’ve ignored their request.

Once you select “view dressing room” of a potential customer/posher who has liked or bundled your items, you are brought to their dressing room of bundled and/or liked items from your closet. There you will also find another feature at the bottom of the page where you can view this individual’s “Style Card”. Selecting this option will give you more insight into this individual’s personal sizes in dresses, jeans, pants, shoes and sweaters, as well as their previous purchase history with you, if any, along with Love Notes they’ve left for other sellers and brands they follow. You are also able to click on the “More About @posh_user_name_here” and this will direct you to their closet. This feature gives you access to do some research on your potential customers.

The “By Me” Dressing Room feature can give you great insight into your potential customers. You can learn about the type of clothing they like and by reading love notes you can get a sense of what type of customer they are. Did they leave all great reviews from past purchases OR did they leave 5 stars but complain about their purchase(s) in the love notes? Knowing about your customers and potential customers is important. It will help give them and you a good experience and overall transaction.

Another way to use the Dressing Room to your advantage as a seller is that you are able to view what items seem to be most popular and trending in your closet. Go through the lists of people who have liked or bundled your items. If you notice a trend with certain items because a lot of people have liked and/or bundled them, you may want to consider a price drop to notify everyone it’s still available and on sale!

Ss you continue to use the Dressing Room to spot trends in your closet, you will start to learn what items you may want to invest more in and list more of going forward. Of course you will also want to look over your actual sales as well but having this tool helps give you more important data about your inventory AND your clientele.

You also have the ability to go through all the potential buyers who have created bundles in your closet. I also recommend utilizing the “make an offer” feature and reach out to these customers by offering special discounts to them. You never know how many sales this can lead to.

The bottom line is the dressing room feature can really work in your favor if you take the time to use it. Study the clientele you attract. Study the trends in your closet. Utilize the key features to drive sales such as making offers. Share items to your potential customers who request it.

Helpful Hint: DO NOT just share random items to someone. When someone requests shares from you they are looking for a personal stylist. Take a minute to get to know them. DO view their style card. DO take note of what size they wear (for example: you don’t want to share all size medium items to someone who’s an extra small). DO look at the brands they follow. If they follow ADIDAS and you sell ADIDAS or other similar style clothing in their size then share it to them. DO take the time to reach out to them and let them know you have received their request and ask them if they’d like to share anymore information such as: what colors they like and/or dislike, are they looking for anything in particular and so on. You have to make the effort but it’s worth it.

On a side note, you can access the dressing room feature no matter where on the website you may be. It is a permanent icon on the top right corner of your browser window. I referred to the feed page because once you login that is where you’re first directed to.

Lastly, this feature is also available on the Poshmark app. However, I highly recommend using it from your PC because it’s much easier to navigate and much more user friendly.

Until next time…

Thus far I’ve shared with you some very important tips and facts on how to create a successful business on Poshmark. At the end of the day, sharing items, (wether they be yours, others, from parties or into them) is the biggest key.

You may be wondering how to make time for all this sharing and still have time to run a proper business. Let’s face facts, sharing needs to happen consistently throughout the morning, afternoon and evening. If you can’t physically share all day everyday how can you make it work? I suppose you could hire people to share for you. They charge by the hour… How do I know this? Because I’ve paid them by the hour. Of course you’ll pretty much need a minimum of two people for at least 16 hours a day. It’s just costly and ultimately so costly it loses money. So, after A LOT of research I’m going to share with you the most valuable and vital key to a successful business on Poshmark. It’s called automation.

What is automation?

Automation is the technique, method, or system of operating or controlling a process by highly automatic means, as by electronic devices, reducing human intervention to a minimum.

What does this mean for you?

Automation, or as I call them, bots, are a LIFESAVER! That’s what they are. Bots give you full control to share all morning, afternoon and evening ~ basically whenever you want to share. You can share from the news feed, return shares, share into or out of parties and of course share your own items into the news feed and into parties! The best part is – you only click a button or two and the bots do the sharing for you!

I share this with you because I believe in helping others to find success and keeping bots a secret would be wrong. There’s plenty of buyers in the sea for all of us to become a success!

I’ve researched and tried many methods while building my business on Poshmark. I have personally found that without bots and only manually sharing, I’m lucky to make sales. I’ve spent more money than I care to admit paying humans to share for me as well. It’s NOT effective. Bots work.

Automation: The History, The Drama, The Rumors… Let Me Settle It All Now

Yes bots are a lifesaver, but they’ve come with their fair share of scrutiny as well. I am going to put it all out on the table for you, show all my cards so to speak. Thus, giving you all the perspectives of automation. So here’s what you should know…

• The History – Bots first came to be a few years ago when certain sellers realized that there had to be a better way to share. Let’s face it sitting in front of a screen all day and night is mind numbing and while you’re sharing you’re unable to accomplish everything else that goes into running a successful business. So, automation started with a seller who was looking to improve on her business. Automation was not new in the sense that it was already being used on other sites helping people gain followers, make sales and so on. Sites such as Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook and other popular sites already had members using automation. So, it came to be on Poshmark and was developed to help share items. Over time it grew to be a secret, yet not so secret, society.

• Why “secret society” you ask? Bots/automation is technically against Poshmark’s terms and conditions. I’m being extremely honest with you here, but they also know bots make them money and a lot of it. So, we automation users do not go around on the app telling anyone we use bots. We are quiet about it. Only sharing off posh with trusted friends with whom we feel may benefit from them. The reason I say bots are not so secret is because, just like with anything, people find out and talk anyway…

• The Drama – as bots have grown and the amount of bot users have grown, this has caused some drama among those who don’t have bots, don’t use bots or are just against them because they feel that they can’t compete with the shares of bots. Truth be told, what they don’t understand is bots even help them. Bots share other people’s items from parties, the news feed and return shares. Automation helps them as well, whether they realize it or not. Because some people feel it’s unfair. they wrote Poshmark about it. This happened a year ago. What’s important to understand here is that no one ever bothered bot users before. Because of the handful of people who wrote to Poshmark they had to do something. So, they started using captcha’s. You know those boxes that pop up and ask if you’re human and to pick certain items from pictures or enter the numbers they show you on the screen. Captcha’s happen to those manually sharing on their PC as well. I too have manually shared and gotten them. They can be a tad annoying but they are just part of Poshmark now and they are easily dealt with because we are human and we answer the captcha’s. Bottom line.

• The Rumors – Upon listening to other sellers on Poshmark, I found a lot of rumors spread about bot users and even people who didn’t use them were being accused of using them. Some of the things people would say is bot users take the humanity out of the posh experience. However, I strongly disagree. As I mentioned previously, I am now able to network and connect with other sellers and customers alike more so than ever before and still manually share as well. Yes, Poshmark is unique in that it’s a community and it’s very social. Bots do not take the community or social aspect away. If anything it’s increased it by helping free up our time to enable us to become more social, network and help other Poshers.

The Verdict… As I See It

Now that I have shared the most valuable piece of the puzzle to creating a successful business on Poshmark its up to you to come to your own conclusions about automation. The Verdict for me was simple – BOTS ARE SOMETHING MY BUSINESS CANNOT THRIVE WITHOUT. Take it from me, I’ve been on Poshmark a long time. I’ve tried it all. I’ve researched. I’ve spent tons of money that I didn’t have to spend before I found bots. My business does better with them than without them and yours can too… And that my friends is the bottom line. Automation is the present and the future. You have a choice to make. How far do you want to take your business? Do you want to see your full potential? Do you want to gain financial freedom? Do you want to have a successful business? If you answered yes to these questions then the answer is clear. Automation is the answer.

p.s. People have asked me, “Why not use virtual assistants?” There are virtual assistants in East Asia and the Pacific Islands that offer to share your closet for you for a fee. They all use bots themselves! But they use really cheap bots that are bad. Do not use virtual assistant sharing services. As for bots, I will write a review of all the bot companies.

 

As you may know, sharing is one of the most important things you can do to gain exposure, build a following, show you’re engaged in the Poshmark community and of course ~ make sales.

But the game has changed on Poshmark. It’s no longer about how much you share your items to your followers, it’s about how many different people you can get to share your items to their followers.

The reason for this is because Poshmark has quietly implemented sharing algorithms. As a result, not all your shares go to all your followers:
• Only your first 3 shares per day go to your followers, after that your shares are ignored
• When you share multiple items in a short amount of time, they get grouped together in the feed and only one item is seen by followers
• Your shares only go to people who wear that size
• Your shares only go to people who said they like that brand
• Items that have a lot of “love” (likes and comments) have a slightly better chance of being passed to followers

Here is important information you need to know to ensure sharing is done effectively and to also ensure it will work to your advantage….

1) Share Groups
If you are currently in a share group, leave it immediately. Share groups are not helping your sales, they are a huge waste of your time. When the same old members of a share group share your items to the same old people, the Poshmark algorithms will start ignoring those shares.

2) Do not share your competitors closets. That is self-explanatory. Any closet that has items of size “various” are retailers, and thus your competition.

3) Party Sharing
When sharing from parties to your followers you should always share from the “First Look” section of the parties. The “First Look” section shows items that have never been shared to a party before. These new listings are often being listed by new closets. By sharing these listings you are more likely to receive return shares from these active users. This also means having different active Poshers sharing your listings to their followers. This increases the chances that your items will be seen by more people.

4) Follow and share the right people
You might think it is best to follow and share large closets that have many followers and have made many shares. But my testing has found that does no good. Yes those closets might return share, but the Poshers following them are no longer active.
You might think it is best to follow new Poshers. But new Poshers don’t always mean active buyers.
You might think it is best to share new closets (new Poshers who have added a few items to their closet). But those Poshers might be sellers, not buyers.
The most productive thing to do is find Poshers who are active buyers. They are easy to find. Go to any item in your closet that has many likes and follow and share everyone who liked that item. At the least, most of those people will return share your items to their followers.
And finally, to steal customers from your competitors, go into your competitors closets and find items similar to yours and then look at the Poshers who did a like on that item. Follow each Posher and share a few of their items. Many of them will come back and follow you and share your items to their followers. Some will buy from you.
And the best way to steal customers from your competitors is to go to your competitor’s closet on the mobile app and press the “About” button and view their “Love Notes”. Go to every closet that left a Love Note and follow them and share their items. That is high-value. Those people recently purchased and they left a 5 star rating.

5) Keep rotating your closet
Poshers will share from the first couple rows of your closet. Keep rotating your closet to prevent the same old items getting shared over and over again, which will eventually cause the Poshmark sharing algorithms to ignore the shares.
Rotate your closet so that return shares from Poshers are of different items all the time, to give your entire closet more exposure.

6) Share using your PC. It is much faster than sharing on your iPhone. Sharing on your iPhone is a huge waste of time.

7) Share to Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Especially Pinterest; that brings in the most traffic from social media.

And a little more additional information you need to know…

• Selling on Poshmark has become increasingly competitive. There are more sellers every day.

• Poshmark is starting to level the playing field. They are helping smaller closets sell and helping the buyers buy. Poshmark benefits most by getting as many closets as possible to sell at least a few items to as many buyers as possible.

• Poshmark is now showing your competitors items under your sold listings. Up until recently Poshmark would show similar items from your closet only under your sold listings. Now they show a mix of similar items from your closet and similar items from your competitors closets as well.

 

Sharing your closet is vital to having a successful business.

Most Poshers use the Poshmark App on their smart phones and tablets to share their closet due to the convenience of mobility. However, the Poshmark website: www.poshmark.com, accessed from a browser on your PC, has an important strategical advantage.

Save Time Sharing

In order to share your closet using your phone, the app version requires having to click on the listing, opening the listing, waiting for the listing with its pictures to load, scrolling down to the share button (which is in a different place each listing depending on the number of photos and length of description), then clicking the share button, waiting for the share screen to display, clicking where to share, waiting for it to share, then backing out of the share screen, then backing out of the listing, then waiting for your closet to redisplay and scroll again to the listing. This entire process has to be repeated for every item you share.

On the other hand, the PC browser version allows you to share items quickly and easily. With your closet displayed, simply click the share button on a listing, a pop-up with appear, click where to share, the item will share and the pop-up with go away. That’s all. Only 2 clicks. No scrolling. Nothing had to be redisplayed. You can share your entire closet using your PC in only a fraction of the time required using your phone.

The same time savings is true for sharing out of the feed, parties and other closets.

If you haven’t used your PC to share, start doing it now. If you don’t have a PC, but you are serious about your success in Poshmark, get the HP Stream 11 from Amazon for only $200. The right tools are critical in business.

The right tools are critical in business. You have to spend money to make money. However, remember, you must make wise investments. A PC is a very wise investment. Wise investments will contribute to the success of your business which is also an investment in your future.

Another important key to success on Poshmark is the product you sell. Poshmark allows us to sell gently preloved items to retail items. Now before I tell you some extremely useful tips on buying wholesale/selling retail I want to impress upon you exactly what NWT RETAIL is because all too often I see many women who simply don’t know, so the jeans they purchased last month while shopping at Express that don’t fit and are still NWT, end up being listed as NWT Retail. This, my fellow entrepreneurs and fashionistas, is not retail. Here is the breakdown (and I share this with you because I don’t believe Poshmark has truly educated the entire community enough about the difference)…

• pre-owned – an item you purchased, wore, washed and are now selling
~ a subcategory of pre-owned is also NWOT (new without tags) – an item you purchased, took the tags off and hung in your closet where it never saw the light of day again. This item has NEVER been worn. It’s as new as it was the day you bought it, only the tags have been removed.

• NWT – an item you purchased and has the actual store/brand retail tags still attached. This has also never been worn.

• NWT RETAIL – item purchased, normally in “packs” from a specific vendor/boutique label/brand for the sole purpose of selling retail.

Yes, ladies do hit up the big sales at the mall and department stores to buy up those fabulous designer jeans on clearance for 75% off for the sole purpose of reselling them on Poshmark. However, this is NOT in anyway NWT RETAIL.

How do you purchase wholesale items to sell as retail you ask?

Generally, buying wholesale to sell as retail requires a federal tax ID #. This is very simple to obtain. Every state is different but the general process consists of filling out a few papers and submitting them for approval. Then the government will send your very own and unique tax ID #. This opens a whole new world of possibilities for you. There are websites filled with very on trend boutique labels to suit any style, age and gender. You cannot access these wonderful sites without a tax id. If you’re serious about starting a business, get your tax ID.

I truly believe to find your full potential and success, obtaining a tax ID to purchase wholesale is the way to do it. However there are other places you can purchase wholesale without a tax id and they don’t overprice the inventory. Here is a small list you can start with.

1) wholesalefashionsquare.com
– prices are low
– quality items
– free shipping on orders over $300
– there is a 10% discount code you can use with every purchase (WFS10)

The only major negative is that many people recognize their models. So try modeling your own inventory, getting a friend to model or paying a model. Ultimately, this will serve you better than their stock photos. However, you can use their photos and still make sales. I personally can attest your odds of selling at a better price when not using their photos though.

2) aliexpress.com or dhgate.com
– very low prices
– decent quality items (but you have to really learn how to shop on these sites to buy the quality items)

The only major negatives with these two sites are that they are in China and if you don’t know how to shop on these sites you can end up with items you wouldn’t donate, never mind sell. However if you shop smart – it can offer a great profit margin. The last downside can be the cost of shipping, but if you’re purchasing numerous items and opt for the cheapest shipping method once you factor in shipping multiplied by the amount of items you’re receiving you will usually find yourself paying maybe a few cents to a dollar per item to ship which is really a good deal.

There are other sites you can find online to buy wholesale without a tax id. Look into it. Do research. Find your own vendors. It’s being unique that helps create success.

If you have or will be getting your tax id one great site with thousands of vendors and amazing items is:

FashionGo.net

They have good stock photos and you can use them. The price points are good and there’s room for profit. They have thousands of wholesale vendors and you can find items that will make you stand out.

People buy out of the showrooms. Period. This is especially true for the many newbie buyers who sign up for Poshmark everyday. The first place they shop is in the showrooms.

You will want to have your items appear in the showrooms everyday. Here’s how…

1. First thing every morning, go to the featured showrooms of the day. There are on average about 20 to 24 featured showrooms. The showrooms change daily. Not all of your items will apply to one of the showrooms. Find the showrooms that do apply to the items you have. For example if there is a “Black Maxi Dresses” showroom and you have a black maxi dress (or even a maxi dress that has some black on it) you want to get it into the showroom!

2. To ensure your item appears in the showroom it is vital your listing contains the words that match the showroom. In our example of the “Black Maxi Dresses” showroom, you will want to have “black maxi dress” in the description and/or title. You may need to update your listings in the morning to ensure they appear in the showroom you want them to be in. Key words are critical.

To further insure your item appears in the showroom, you can also edit your listing. Go to the colors and select the black colored circle and then select maxi under the dresses category..

3. Now that you have updated your listing so it meets the showroom criteria, you want it to be featured at the top of the showrooms shopping grid so it’s one of the first items seen by potential buyers! How do you do that? SHARE, SHARE, SHARE! Every time you share these items they move back up to the top of the shopping grid in the showroom. Now your item(s) will be at the top so keep sharing your items as often as possible to keep them at the top.

You will generate sales by having your items appear in the showrooms. Be consistent in doing this daily and you will see results.

The Poshmark server has “watchdog software” that protects the Poshmark server from over usage. If a closet shares more than a certain number of shares per a certain time period, the PM server will ignore any further shares. That is “share jail”, or “being blocked”.

The “certain number of shares” is a few hundred shares per hour. That is during the day. At night the watchdog software is more strict, and the number of shares allowed is less. These are rough numbers, it’s hard to know the true value. And “per hour” is just an estimate at how often Poshmark counts shares. The watchdog software may be more complex, taking into consideration the number of shares made in the last 12 hours or so.

Share jail duration is a function of the severity of the infraction. It could be anywhere from minutes to hours. Share jail always ends at the top of the hour.

If you are in share jail, and you try to share on your iPhone app or iPad app, you will receive an error message, “Error. Try again later”.

But on the PC browser version, you will receive the message, “Shared successfully!”. The PC browser version does not give an error message, so the only way to know if you’re blocked is to regularly check the “Updated” time on your closet items.

The same applies to liking and commenting. All of these activities are considered in the watchdog software.

You will be able to post new items and edit items while you are in share jail. Poshmark allows that.

Share jail happens to Poshers who have their family and friends helping them share. All that sharing happening at one time will cause that closet to get blocked for a period of time.