Flow Tracker for eBay FAQs: setup, pricing, and updates

Flow Tracker is DropFlowLister's price and stock tracker for eBay. It reads your active eBay listings, checks each matching supplier product for price, stock, and delivery time, and works out a new price and quantity using your markup. You can then download the update file or push it to eBay through Seller Hub Reports, or have it upload automatically when the scan finishes. DropFlowLister also has the Seller Hub Price Tracker for eBay and Flow Tracker for Poshmark. The website calls these the CSV Flow Tracker, the eBay Simple Tracker, and the Poshmark Closet Tracker.

In eBay, go to Seller Hub → Reports → Downloads and download the All active listings report. Then click Load CSV in Flow Tracker. You can also click Automate and Flow Tracker downloads the report for you.

Automate opens eBay Seller Hub Reports, picks Listings → All active listings, downloads the report, loads it into Flow Tracker, and starts the scan. If the download isn't caught within about 2 minutes, load the file yourself with Load CSV.

Flow Tracker tracks Amazon, AliExpress, and Walmart products. Target, Bed Bath & Beyond, and Home Depot aren't supported yet.

Flow Tracker reads the listing's Custom label (SKU). A plain Amazon ASIN (for example B0XXXXXXXX) maps to Amazon, and the coded SKUs that DropFlowLister writes when it lists an AliExpress or Walmart product map to that supplier. Rows with no SKU are skipped. Only SKUs created by DropFlowLister are guaranteed to work. SKUs typed by hand or made by other tools may not map to the right supplier.

Delivery Threshold (days) (default 7) is the longest delivery time you accept. Slower items get quantity 0. AliExpress Delivery (days) (default 30) is a separate, longer limit used only for AliExpress items.

Set Qty → 0 keeps the listing live with no stock, so it can restock itself later and keeps its history. End item ends the listing on eBay, which you can't undo from Flow Tracker. Most sellers start with qty 0. Either way, buyers can't buy products you can't fulfill, which protects your seller metrics.

Markup % (default 100) applies to every item: 100% turns a $10 cost into $20. Platform Variation Pricing sets a different markup per supplier. Variable Pricing by Range sets a markup by supplier cost band, and a matching band overrides both other settings.

↻ Re-apply to scanned recalculates the prices of rows you already scanned using your current markup and bands. You don't need to rescan the supplier pages.

Price Endings Filter limits tracking to listings whose price ends in the cents you list, such as 99 or 97. Leave it blank to track all listings. Price Ending to Apply makes each new price end in .99, .97, .95, or .93, or leaves the ending unchanged.

Max Price Drop % (default 30) blocks any new price that is more than that percent below the current eBay price. The row shows "PRICE DROP BLOCKED" and the price stays the same, so a bad supplier read can't sell your item too cheap. Set it to 100 to turn the guard off.

This option zeroes the eBay quantity when the supplier adds a paid shipping charge. The shipping cost isn't part of your markup, so selling would lose margin. The listing stays live and restocks if shipping becomes free again.

Yes. In Scan Settings under What to update on eBay, turn Price or Stock quantity on or off. Both are always scanned, and at least one must stay on.

⬇ Download CSV saves the update file so you can review it and upload it yourself. ↑ Push to eBay saves the same file and opens Seller Hub → Reports → Uploads, where Flow Tracker adds the file for you.

When this box is on, Flow Tracker pushes the update file to eBay as soon as the scan ends, with no extra click. Leave it off until you trust your settings.

Flow Tracker supports listings from eBay US and Canada, and more eBay regions are in progress. Rows from other sites show "that region isn't supported yet, left untouched".

"ASIN changed" means Amazon now sends the link to a different product. "Not Amazon-fulfilled" means the offer isn't shipped by Amazon. "Amazon Global Store import" means it ships from outside the region, and "VeRO brand" means the brand is protected. In each case Flow Tracker sets quantity to 0 to protect you.

Flow Tracker shows this when you click ▶ Start before loading any listings. Click Load CSV or Automate first.

This means the eBay report didn't download within about 2 minutes. Download All active listings from Seller Hub → Reports → Downloads yourself and load it with Load CSV.

The supplier saw too many requests, so Flow Tracker pauses and counts down before it resumes on its own. This limit comes from the supplier, not from DropFlowLister. Use fewer Threads next time.

Solve the captcha in the supplier tab that Flow Tracker opened. Tracking resumes on its own once the check clears.

Click ▶ Start or ↺ Retry Errors. Flow Tracker paused itself to stay stable and continues from where it stopped.

Click ↺ Retry Errors. Flow Tracker re-checks rows that timed out, were blocked, or hit a softban or captcha.

Flow Tracker allows 1 to 8 threads and starts at 3. More threads are faster but make supplier blocks more likely. Keep it at 3. If you see rate limits or captchas, lower it to 1 or 2.

Yes. Flow Tracker loads a file of all your active eBay listings, so it can scan thousands of listings in one session. Use more threads to go faster, but lower them if you see rate limits or captchas.

Flow Lister creates and publishes your listings. Flow Tracker keeps them up to date after they're live by checking supplier prices and stock. Together they cover a listing from start to finish.