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eBay Autopilot: your listings sell while you sleep

Most eBay sales are decided in the evening and at night — by buyers sending offers, and by watchers waiting for the price to drop. Autopilot answers every offer the second it comes in and lowers the price of listings that don't sell, a small step every few days, so your stock keeps moving without you checking eBay. It never goes under your minimum: what you paid plus the profit you want. And it isn't only for new listings: import everything you already sell on eBay and choose which listings it looks after.

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eBay Autopilot settings on a phone: answer offers automatically, accept offers from 90% of the price, lower the price when it doesn't sell — every 7 days by 5% — and a minimum profit per item, never below your minimum
Set your rules once
For sale list: Microsoft Xbox One S 1TB live on eBay at $149 with offers from $135 accepted, minimum $79 and the next price drop in 4 days; Nike Free RN running shoes listed on Facebook Marketplace and Mercari
It runs on every listing while you sleep

How it works

Connect eBay and bring in your listingsMenu → Settings → eBay → eBay Autopilot → Import eBay listings. FlipTip reads every active listing on your eBay account, page by page — also the ones you made on eBay or with another tool. Importing changes nothing on eBay. Listings you publish from FlipTip are there anyway.
Set the rules onceChoose from which share of your price offers are accepted (95, 90, 85 or 80 %) and how fast prices come down (every 3 to 14 days, by 3, 5 or 10 %).
Choose the listingsSwitch Autopilot on for one listing, a filtered group or all of them at once. Search by title, item ID or SKU, and filter by on, off, ended or can't use Autopilot — each blocked listing says why.
Set your minimum profitYour minimum on each item is what you paid for it plus this profit, after eBay's fees. No buying price entered — as with most imported listings? Then 70 % of the listing's price. You can give any item its own minimum in the dashboard.
Let it runOffers at or above your accept price are accepted by eBay at once; offers under your minimum are declined. Every morning FlipTip syncs your listings, lowers the ones that are due and tells your phone what changed.
Watch it sellEach listing shows its accept price, its minimum and when the next price drop comes. When something sells, the item is marked sold and your profit is updated.

What you get

Resellers lose sales in two quiet ways: an offer that sits unanswered until the buyer has bought elsewhere, and a listing that stays at the same price for weeks while the people watching it wait. Autopilot closes both gaps with eBay's own tools — automatic accept and decline prices for offers, and gradual price drops that eBay announces to watchers — and keeps every decision inside the limits you set.

The minimum is the safety line: Autopilot never accepts an offer under it and never lowers a price below it. It comes from your buying price and the profit you want after eBay's roughly 13 % fees, so a price drop never turns a flip into a loss. When a listing reaches its minimum, FlipTip tells you instead of going lower.

Most sellers already have a shop full of listings when they start. The import brings all of them into FlipTip in one go — FlipTip reads your active listings through eBay's official connection, 200 at a time, and keeps them in step every day. You decide listing by listing, or in bulk, which ones Autopilot may touch; everything else stays exactly as it is on eBay.

Autopilot changes prices through eBay's Inventory API, which is how FlipTip lists. Listings made on eBay itself use an older format, so before Autopilot can look after one, eBay converts it — only after you confirm, and only for the listings you switched on. Price, photos, text and watchers stay the same, and you keep editing the listing in Seller Hub; the conversion is permanent, though. eBay converts Buy It Now listings that are "Good 'Til Cancelled", have one price (no variations), have a custom label (SKU) and use business policies for shipping, payment and returns. Auctions and listings with variations are imported and shown, but Autopilot leaves them alone.

eBay Autopilot is part of the Flipper and Dealer plans and works on all 13 eBay sites FlipTip publishes to. It only changes listings you switched it on for.

Questions

Does Autopilot send offers to people watching my listing?
It reaches them through the price drop: when the price goes down, eBay tells the people watching the listing. eBay doesn't let apps send watcher offers on listings made through its Inventory API, which is how FlipTip lists, so Autopilot uses price drops and automatic offer answers instead.
Can it sell under what I paid?
No. Every item has a minimum — your buying price plus your minimum profit after eBay fees — and Autopilot never accepts an offer or sets a price below it.
What if I didn't enter what I paid?
Then the minimum is 70 % of the first price you listed it at. You can set the item's own minimum in the dashboard at any time.
How often does the price drop?
You choose: every 3, 5, 7, 10 or 14 days without a sale, by 3, 5 or 10 % of the current price. Prices from 20 up are kept in whole numbers.
Can I turn it off for one item?
Yes — tap "Off for this item" on the listing in your dashboard. Switch it off in Settings to stop it for everything.
Does Autopilot work on the free trial?
Yes, for the whole 5-day free trial (it runs on the Flipper plan). When the trial ends, Autopilot stops lowering prices; the automatic accept and decline prices already on your listings stay, so no offer under your minimum is ever accepted. Choose Flipper or Dealer to keep it running.
Does every eBay category allow offers?
Most do. Where eBay doesn't take offers, the dashboard says so and Autopilot only lowers the price.
Can Autopilot manage listings I made on eBay, not in FlipTip?
Yes. Tap Import eBay listings in Settings → eBay → eBay Autopilot and FlipTip brings in every active listing on your account. Then switch Autopilot on for the ones you want — one by one or all at once.
Does importing change anything on eBay?
No. The import only reads your listings. Nothing on eBay changes until you switch Autopilot on for a listing, and then only its price and offer settings, inside your minimum.
Why does FlipTip ask to convert some listings?
Listings made on eBay use an older eBay format that apps can't reprice the way Autopilot does. When you switch one on, FlipTip asks you first and then lets eBay convert it to the Inventory API format. Price, photos, text, watchers and sales history stay; you still edit it in Seller Hub. eBay can't convert it back.
Why can't Autopilot use some of my listings?
Each one says why: auctions, listings with variations (sizes, colours), listings without a custom label (SKU), listings that are not "Good 'Til Cancelled", or listings on another eBay site. Add a custom label in Seller Hub and sync again, and the listing can be switched on.
How many listings can I import?
All your active listings, up to the 25,000 eBay shows to apps. Large shops take a few minutes; if you leave the page, the import picks up where it stopped when you come back. After that FlipTip syncs them every day by itself, and you can tap Sync listings any time.
What happens when an imported listing sells or ends?
The daily sync notices it. When it sold, the item is marked sold with the sale price; when it ended, Autopilot stops. A listing that simply wasn't in the list is checked with eBay first, so nothing is marked ended by mistake.

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