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Sales Reports Plus is a subscription service from eBay which provides weekly and monthly analyses of sales performance. Being able to fully analyse sales performance is a crucial part of managing your eBay Shop to best effect.

 

The sales reports cover the following areas:-

 

  • Sales History and Analysis
  • Fees charged by eBay
  • Buyers Unpaid Items
  • Sales sorted by Category, Format, Ending Day, Ending Time, Duration

 

Full details of the metrics used in the various sales reports are available on the eBay Help Pages – this link will take you to the main eBay site. Following is a summary of the Sales History and Analysis section. The information in this section of the Sales Reports helps you understand the way sales have changed and also to identify the main factors causing that change:-

 

  • “Sales” is the total revenue from sales of your items, based on final sale prices excluding postage, packing and insurance charged to buyers.

 

  • “Period-to-period sales growth” details the increase or decrease in sales (expressed as a percentage) in comparison with the previous week or previous month.

 

  • “Ended listings” shows the total number of listings that finished in the period – this includes all listings for both sold and unsold items.

 

  • “Ended items” records the total number of items within all your finished listings regardless of whether or not they were sold.

 

  • The “Sold items” report gives a total for the number of items you sold with each individual item from a multiple-item listing being counted separately.

 

  • The “Sold items %” is for auction and fixed price formats only and shows the ratio of sold to unsold items.

 

  • The “Average Sale Price” is a value figure calculated by dividing the total revenue by the total number of individual items sold in the period.

 

  • The “Total buyers” figure includes multiple purchasers – i.e. those members who made more than one purchase from you are counted each time – three purchases by one buyer means that a figure of 3 will be added to the total buyers count.

 

 

  • The “Unique buyers” total is based on the total number of different User IDs that made purchases – i.e. each User ID is counted only once, even of they make multiple purchases during the period.

 

  • The “Repeat buyers %” is calculated from the number of unique buyers who made more than one purchase from you during the period, divided by the total number of unique buyers.

 

 

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