A description template also called an AD Template, as the wording itself implies is just a template to define how your eBay listing description should look like. The simplest example would be, say, you wish some/all of your eBay listing’s description to have a blue background. Now, you can edit each individual listing to have the blue background. Of course, if you have to edit say 500 times (one edit per listing), this would be quite cumbersome. The other option is to create a Description template and, in that template, set the background color to be blue. Once, you have created the description template, all you need to do is to apply that description template to all/some of your listings.
Using a Description Template in a specific listing?
- Open Manage Listings view. If not already open, you can use the main menu option, Listings -> Manage…
- Find the listing you wish to use in the Listings Grid.
- Double-Click on that Listing to start the editing process. This will open up the selected listing in the Listing Editor.
- Select the AD Template just created and click on the any of the two Submit buttons as shown below
But what if there are dozens or even hundreds or more listings to which you wish to apply this Description Template?
There could be two cases in this situation.
First, listings that ALREADY have the description template set to “Background color set to blue”. But subsequently, we edited the description template itself. In this situation, the changes you made to the description template are NOT automatically applied to those listings that are already using it. So, what you need to do is to re-apply the description template onto those listings again. For this, first we need to find those listings that are already using our description template. In Wonder Lister, in Manage Listings, you can do a search by description template. Once, you do this search, all such listings matching the description template you searched for will be displayed in the Listings Grid. Select one/many/all listings in the Grid. Right-Click to see the available options. The absolute last option is to “More…”. Hover your mouse over that option and you will see more options. One of them is “Reapply AD Template”
Second situation could be that our existing listings are not using any description template at all, and we wish to apply our newly created description template to some/all of them. In this situation, again, select listings from the Listings Grid, you wish to apply our description template. Then, we need to do Bulk Change those selected listings. Click on the “Edit…” button above the Listings Grid. A new window opens up where you can select the AD Template to be applied.