List Perfectly Review: What to Know Before Signing Up

Resellers know that time is money. There’s always more to be done to grow your business and not enough hours to do it all. So over the past several months, I’ve used the cross-listing service List Perfectly to help me save time while increasing my sales. This post covers how List Perfectly works and my thoughts on the services, so you can decide if it’s right for you.

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What is List Perfectly?

List Perfectly (LP) is a paid online tool that assists sellers to list their items to multiple marketplaces, thereby saving sellers time and helping them to make more sales.

The service also provides inventory management and analytics to gain insight into how a seller’s business is performing.

Why use a service like List Perfectly?

Most sellers I know want to increase their sales without increasing the number of hours they spend working.

Some ways to do that are to

Source in bulk from online sources – You don’t have to go out searching stores for items. Hundreds or thousands of items are sent directly to you.
Sell multiple of the same item – It’s faster to take one set of pictures and write one description for all the items.
Outsource work – Some sellers outsource picture taking or the actual listing of items.

You can outsource work by hiring a virtual assistant or using an online tool like List Perfectly.

LP claims to save help sellers list items 5x faster, saving an average of 40 hours per every 100 listings. Listing on multiple marketplaces leads to an increase in sales, which hopefully will cover the cost of LP and more.

A virtual assistant may cost more than LP depending on his or her rate and how many hours you require.

How does List Perfectly work?

You need to have a desktop or laptop, Chromebook, or Microsoft Surface Pro with the Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge browsers to install the software, which is a browser extension, to cross-list items.

You can do other tasks such as uploading items and adding pictures from any other device with a browser including a cell phone.

You need to have accounts on each of the marketplaces you want to use for selling. Stay logged in for LP to work properly with them.

LP currently works with 11 marketplaces:

eBay
Mercari
Depop
Kidizen
Instagram
Shopify
Grailed
Tradesy
Poshmark
Etsy
Facebook Marketplace

You can upload your items directly to List Perfectly (recommended) or import them from one of the marketplaces.

Cross-listing is a few clicks selecting the item you want to cross-list and the platforms you want to list on. Depending on which plan you have, more or less information will prepopulate in your cross-listing. You may have to do some work to finalize each listing.

For example, you might have to fill out the item description boxes like category and item type, size, and color. You might have to edit the title.

A long item title will fit on eBay but get cut off on Mercari. You would adjust the title before hitting publish like this:

eBay: Ivivva Double Dutch girl’s tank neon flashlight/ocean 12
Mercari: Ivivva Double Dutch tank 12

Ideally, this is all being done quicker than you would do by hand.

How much does List Perfectly cost?

There are 3 price tiers – Simple, Business, and Pro. The higher the tier, the more features you have access to.

Simple - $29 per month
Business - $49 per month
Pro - $69 per months

There are many features to consider. I’ll go over a few here and my thoughts on the plans further below.

You can see the rest of the features on LP’s homepage:

Unlimited products – Keep as many items as you want in your LP catalog. Whether you’re a small seller with 100 items or a major seller with 5,000 items, you can store all of the listings on LP at no additional cost.
Unlimited cross-listing – Cross-list your items as many times as you want wherever you want. This is great for getting your item on multiple platforms and for delisting and relisting frequently like is commonly done on Poshmark to try to increase sales.
In LP, relisting is done using the cross-listing feature, so you wouldn’t want to be limited on this.
Platforms available – All price tiers allow listing to 10 platforms (all but Instagram). You can’t post to Instagram on the Simple Plan. Posting to Instagram is only accessible on the Business and Pro plans.
Bulk crossposting – This is cross-listing all your items versus one by one. In the Simple plan, you have to cross-list your items one by one. Bulk cross-listing is available in the Business and Pro plans.
Information copied during cross-posting – In the Simple plan, only images, the item title, and description are carried over to other marketplaces. You have to fill in additional information such as item size and price manually.
The Business plan copies over more information including price, color, size, and material. The Pro plan copies over even more information including condition and shipping weight.
Image hosting – Photos are kept high resolution for all price tiers.

You can try it to see if you like it. LP comes with a 100% refund if you cancel within 3 days of signing up or up to 20 cross posts.

Is List Perfectly allowed?

LP states that it operates within the terms of use of every platform. It is not a bot. It’s not a fully automated tool either.

You have to upload your items and all their information manually to LP. You have to click to submit or post each listing. You delist and relist items manually as well.

It’s a fancy copy and paste tool. What could be wrong with that?

The truth is that tools like LP are allowed by some marketplaces and not others.

Poshmark

Poshmark allows for the use of third-party services but warns to review any terms and privacy policies of a third-party service before using it. Poshmark is also not liable for any items or content posted by third parties.

Poshmark still does not allow automated participation AKA use of bots for liking, sharing, following, and unfollowing.

Poshmark terms about third party services

Depop

Depop allows for the use of third-party services like LP.

Mercari

I couldn’t find information on the site regarding their policy, but when I wrote to Mercari customer service, the representative said that third-party services are prohibited.

This doesn’t surprise me because Mercari is one of the strictest marketplaces in terms of what is allowed. Some other things that are allowed on other platforms like Poshmark but not on Mercari:

Proposing a trade, exchange, partial exchange, or swap
Two members reducing the price of their own items and purchasing from each other
Having multiple accounts
Listings that require users to specify size, color, quantity, etc.
Listing items without the intent to sell

Mercari monitors user chats the most strictly of any of the marketplaces I use. I’ve also never heard of anyone getting their account reinstated on Mercari, whereas they have on other platforms.

I searched the LP Facebook group to see if anyone had been banned for using it. People had been banned from individual platforms for things they did on their own like asking a buyer to go off the platform or listing too many items in one day.

I didn’t see anyone banned specifically for their use of LP, and LP has thousands of users.

Despite what others (include me) say, you should read the policies of each marketplace you intend to use with LP or contact the marketplaces you want to use. Then weigh the risks and benefits to your business before deciding to use it.

Pros

1 | Reaches the most marketplaces

LP offers the most marketplaces (11) of all the cross-listing tools currently available. Vendoo offers 9. Crosslist offers 8. And PrimeLister offers 7.

This is the biggest benefit of LP because the more marketplaces you’re on, the better your chances are of making sales.

2 | List to almost every marketplace at the same cost

As mentioned above with the price tiers, you can list to 10 marketplaces with the Simple plan and 11 with the Business and Pro plans.

You don’t have to pick 3 or 5 marketplaces in a base subscription and pay more to access more marketplaces.

This was my first time listing to Facebook Marketplace. When my sales were slow on most platforms earlier this year, I used LP to cross-list to FBMP and ended up making several sales there. They were small sales, but I got rid of old inventory and was still able to make a profit.

3 | Customer service

Customer service is accessible and helpful. You can contact LP in multiple ways: through the tool itself, via email, and on the LP Facebook page.

I emailed a few times asking for help learning how to relist items and once when the tool was down. I received responses within 1-2 days.

4 | Active Facebook group

The Facebook group is a highlight of the LP subscription. The group has thousands of members, including some very active supporters and administrators.

You can ask questions about various marketplaces, gain support for your reselling, and troubleshoot any issues you might have. It’s fast and easy to get answers.

5 | Podcast & YouTube

In addition to the FB group, LP has a YouTube channel and a podcast about selling. The YouTube channel has videos to teach people how to use LP. Staff post new videos regularly and ask for feedback on what could be better.

The Seller Community podcast launched in February 2021. Episodes so far have featured LP founders and employees, selling on eBay, growing on Etsy, and selling on Poshmark. Expect future episodes to cover more reselling tips and reseller stories.

6 | Trial period

As mentioned earlier, LP comes with a 100% refund if you cancel within 3 days of signing up or up to 20 cross posts. That’s a good way to get a feel of how LP works and better than nothing.

7 | Unlimited listings in your LP closet

This is a recent much-appreciated change. Previously you could only have so many listings in your LP closet depending on the price tier you chose.

This was a big issue for me as I was often slightly over one tier but didn’t want to upgrade to the next tier. Now that’s no longer an issue and you can list as many items as you want, which will only help sellers to make more sales.

8 | Sales analytics

This is available with the Business and Pro plans. You have to fill out the information about your items such as sold prices because those aren’t automatically captured by LP.

This is an easier way to see what you’re selling than pulling the information off each platform and doing the calculations yourself.

9 | Templates

A feature provided to every user is the ability to create unlimited custom templates. The use of templates helps you list faster.

If every listing you create has information such as the condition, size, measurements, and fabric content, you can add those words to your template so you don’t have to write them every time.

10 | Giveaways!

LP holds giveaways regularly. They source items directly from resellers who use LP, which is a nice way to support their customers and the reselling business.

11 | Frequent updates

LP is active behind the scenes working to improve the tool. They come out with frequent updates fixing little bugs. They plan to add more marketplaces too.

They’re receptive to feedback on what’s working or not working. One seller requested an “add product” button on the first page once you log in to save an addition click each time she wanted to add an item. The LP team added it.

Cons

1 | Glitches

My main issue with LP is the persistent glitches.

Some of these are not LP’s fault. Every marketplace runs differently and some like FBMP are known to have technical issues of their own. Marketplaces are always changing too. LP tries to respond to those changes with frequent updates.

But some glitches, whether due to LP or the marketplace, affect the effectiveness of LP, which is what users pay for.

I’ll list an item to Mercari, Kidizen, or FBMP and it won’t show up as listed on there on LP’s site.
When I try to delist from FBMP, it will say there is an error or it will not delete the item. I have to go into the listing on FBMP to delete it manually.
I have to sign in to Tradesy for every item I cross-list there from LP even if I have another tab open and signed in to Tradesy.
Sometimes information like the price of an item will not transfer over to a new listing when cross-listing. It’s not a big deal but noticeable because I have to fill it in.

Another glitch is that LP can run slowly. I didn’t realize that it wasn’t supposed to be this way in the beginning and spent weeks importing my listings because I got tired of waiting for pages to load.

It would often take 3-7 seconds to load one page. I stopped going between pages of my listings or using the built-in search feature because it was so slow. After a few weeks, LP got faster and I didn’t have problems with the speed anymore.

Glitches are fairly common, although rarely prohibitive to using the service. I did experience two unscheduled outages to LP during the 3+ months that I used it. I couldn’t list at all during those times, but I never lost any of my listings.

If you have any glitches, you can contact support or go to the LP Facebook page for help. They often recommend reinstalling the extension and clearing your cache to fix problems.

While these glitches may sound small and silly, I wanted a cross-listing tool that worked quickly and smoothly. I felt that $49 a month for the service warranted that.

I’m aware that other cross-listing services have glitches to various degrees as well. I don’t think they can be completely avoided by any company because this type of tool that has to work with so many ever-changing marketplaces.

It may just be a matter of finding the tool with the least number of glitches to do this kind of work and the one that feels the easiest for you to use.

2 | Learning curve

Some people find LP easy to learn while others find it challenging. I think it’s more challenging to learn to use than some other cross-listing tools.

You have to be willing to learn about how LP works, whether by trying out features, reading their help guide, watching videos, or browsing their FB group.

If you find LP to be glitchy as I did, you also have to be willing to troubleshoot the problems. The recommendations were usually to clear your cache, reinstall the extension, or install a different version of LP.

I wasn’t willing to troubleshoot every time I had an issue. I don’t like having to clear my cache because that affects my ease of accessing a lot of other pages.

I’ve heard from others that once you learn how to use it, including working around some of the glitches, it’s fairly easy to use.

3 | The Simple Plan at $29 is almost non-functional.

I started with the Simple Plan and in addition to the slowness I experienced with LP, I found the plan provided little benefit. Why is that?

You can only cross-list one item at a time. Imagine trying to import 100+ listings to LP as a new user going one item at a time! You will spend hours just getting your items into LP.
Only the image, title, and description are cross-listed in the Simple Plan. That means with every cross-list, you have to enter in all the other information such as color, size, and price manually.

If you already have a good system for listing set up, you can do all this manually in the same amount of time that LP does it and save yourself $29 a month.

You can have the photos available to upload to any platform on your Google Photos. Write out item titles and descriptions once in a Google Doc or Word doc and copy and paste them into your listings on any platform.

I think you have to sign up for the Business Plan at $49 or the Pro Plan at $69 to actually save time on cross-listing.

4 | Duplicate entries

LP does not catch when you import or create duplicate entries. You have to keep an eye on your listings to make sure this doesn’t happen.

Additional thoughts and tips

1 | Drafts

If you like using drafts, LP offers this feature in their Pro Plan.

I like creating drafts of my listings because I do my work in batches. I upload all the pictures of my items first.

Then I measure and write all the descriptions together. The last thing I do is copy and paste my descriptions into the listings and publish them.

Instead of paying up for the Pro Plan, I signed up for the Business Plan and used Poshmark to hold my drafts. I imported my listings to LP from Poshmark. I believe you can have up to 50 drafts at a time on PM.

2 | Use an affiliate code to save money

As with many services, you can save money by signing up using an affiliate or discount code. I suggest doing that to save while you try out the service.

I am not an affiliate for LP. I didn’t find the service to be a good fit for me and could not fulfill their affiliate requirements. You can find an affiliate link by searching on Google or Instagram.

And remember that you can upgrade and downgrade your plan depending on your needs.

Wrap Up

List Perfectly offers a much-needed service to resellers who are looking to save time and grow their business.

Many sellers love LP. You can read their testimonies all over online. LP has delivered on its promises to help them save time and increase sales. Those sellers are richer because of this tool.

I recommend trying it out for yourself. That’s the best way to know if it’s the right cross-listing service for you.

LP did work for me to an extent. It helped me expand my presence to more marketplaces. I was able to make sales on FBMP when other platforms were slow.

But I didn’t enjoy using the tool and felt it had too many glitches for the cost of the service. I was ready to leave it after a few months.

I returned to using Vendoo for now. I’m looking to test out other cross-listing tools to find the one that works the best.

Have you tried List Perfectly? What has been your experience using it?

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