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Welcome to BayLister.

BayLister is a desktop application designed to provide an easy and quick way to create and post auction listings on eBay. It can import listings created by either Turbo lister 1 or 2 (via TL exported .csv files) or directly download any listing currently in eBay's database (active, scheduled, sold, or unsold).

BayLister now has a generic import function allowing you to import data from Comma Separated Value (csv) data files of your own. (Details). This capability was introduced in version 2.3.2.3.

If you don't like to see your life ebbing away while waiting for the "New, Improved, EBAY search experience" to find listings for you, try our quick and easy eBay search. You can retrieve up to 1000 listings into BayLister's new search grid and explore each with a click of your mouse. See the details in the FYI section on Search.
(Incidentally, this function is totally enabled even for Demo users).

Recently added features include the ability to preview your self-hosted images directly in the Preview screen (server img's). We've also added a reporting function to make it simple and quick for us to assist you in tracking down problems. Plus, we've added the capability to edit groups of listings simultaneously (bulk editing), with the ability to do a group search & replace for phrases in the item description.

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BayLister runs under any MS Window's operating system (W98SE thru Vista). It uses an SQL database, MSaccess (97 or 2000) by default, but can be used with more powerful ones such as SQLServer97, SQLServer2000, etc. We supply the default database as part of the software.

BayLister allows posting directly to other eBay sites in addition to the US site.
(posting to the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia is supported).

Full support for eBay Motors is also included.

Item Specifics and Pre-filled information is supported.

BayLister now supports both domestic and international shipping for all supported sites.
(includes multiple flat rates for each shipping service as well as calculated rates).

New features have been added for managing listings and scheduling.

As of version 2.3.2.4, we now support the latest eBay requirements for Return Policy, shipping profiles & discounts, handling times, and Payment instructions.

Click here to view BayLister's current features and future plans.


BayLister provides a means to create, modify, view, verify and track all your listings quickly and easily, and then send them on their way. We've incorporated our ideas into this software in such a way that all item data can be entered into BayLister and then exported to eBay. Additionally, you can import your eBay and PayPal account invoices and reports into BayLister to track financial information on each item. We are always open to suggestions for improvements and are not adverse to adding features that are needed/wanted by others. Over the past several years we have made numerous changes/additions to accomodate users, and continue to do so as requested.

We expect users to create descriptions, shipping terms, and payment information as part of what eBay refers to as the "Description Section". We allow you to do this as merely a text document or as part of an Html script. To this end, we have included several html scripts as templates along with a means to rapidly edit/modify the different sections, add/change pictures, spell check, and finally view your changes. You do not need to know HTML code to use these facilities. This process greatly simplifies things. We've included the ability to import .html files and keep them as templates in the database so that they are readily available. We've also included a "Template Maker" option to assist in delimiting modifiable sections of text in your templates.

We make extensive use of user defined html templates, pre-filled information templates, and general eBay preference "Presets". We supply a standard set of these, as well as the means to modify/create your own.

We think that people should become savvy enough to host their own pictures. That way only gallery pictures will incur extra charges. All others may be self hosted at little or no charge. This is not rocket science folks, almost everyone has an account with an ISP who provides some amount of web storage space for you. There are many good File Transport Programs (ftp) to facilitate copying pictures to your own space and not have to pay the extra cost to use ebay's space. You can even get space on other's/friends servers for free or cheap (see our support page for info). WS_FTP is an excellent ftp program for this purpose. It's readily available on the web.

For those who really don't want to self-host, we've now included the ability to use eBay picture services for 2 pictures (remember there is a charge for the second) and are exploring whether to allow for more.

Finally, each of the main screens: Inventory, Current, Text View, and Preview, has a help file associated with it. Just press the "F1" key when any of those screens is displayed and you will be shown the help information for that section. The help system has just been modified to allow us to display data via html, mainly so we could include graphics to make things clearer. As a result of this, you can no longer modify the help files directly. However, we've added a "Notes" section with each help file to compensate for this loss. You can keep any little goodies you want there. Updates/changes to the program's help files will not interfere with your Notes in any way.

Many of the buttons, text entry boxes, and label text have hints on how to use them which will appear when you "park" the cursor over them.

Enjoy,

Bob & Bill
Raewyck Software
RaewyckSoftware@verizon.net

p.s. All enhancements, upgrades, and other changes are provided free during the year. We gladly accept email with questions or suggestions, and respond as quickly as we can. Lately, we've been able to respond very quickly and hope this will continue.

We could certainly use your help to keep our efforts going and assist us in paying for server expenses, etc. - see the Donate page if this interests you. Whether you do or not, we'll still provide the best support we can.