How to Crosslist Poshmark Listings to Facebook Marketplace

You can crosslist a Poshmark listing to Facebook Marketplace by opening a new Marketplace item and placing a live Poshmark listing next to it. Copy your photos. Poshmark does a pretty good job capturing measurements and conditions so you don’t have to do that. The title and price are changed to Facebook Marketplace standards. You set delivery. The most important thing to set before you decide the price is if you want delivery or local pickup, because that determines what is kept.

Before you start: what you need open and ready

The fastest way to copy a Poshmark listing to Facebook Marketplace is to decide your photos, measurements, and your bottom line before you even open Facebook. Most sellers in this scenario have between 20 and 200 Poshmark listings that have been sitting for weeks. A good hunch is that local buyers will take the listings faster, especially if it’s bulky or common. Unless you need to do it in bulk, copying one at a time is totally fine.

Here is what you will need to have before you copy your first listing.

• Your original photos. Poshmark doesn’t provide an easy way to download the listing, and screenshots do a bad job capturing photos.
• The Poshmark listing opened on a different tab or screen to copy measurements and the brand name.
• Your Facebook account to access Marketplace and change your location to where you want to sell.
• Your ‘Floor Price.’ Poshmark takes 20% of sales of $15 and over, and a flat $2.95 of sales under $15, so your Poshmark payout is less than your listed price. Know your walking away price, then price your Facebook post from there.
• A decision on delivery, whether local pickup, shipping, or a combo of both. If you decide to ship, a scale to determine the shipped weight.
• A tracking sheet or note with two columns: item and where it is listed. This serves as a reminder to remove the item from the other listing when it sells.

Some fields require minimal changes: brand, size, color, condition, measurements and flaws. Others need extensive edits. Titles on Poshmark should include the brand and style to help potential buyers with search. Buyers on Facebook respond better to short, simple titles. A Poshmark description may include information on a seller offering a bundle or a discount, which doesn't apply to Facebook and should be cut. As noted earlier, Facebook buyers expect to negotiate, so a seller should start with a high price and expect it to come down. Also, a local cash sale cuts out the commission, so the price would need to be different.

Steps to copy one listing into Facebook Marketplace

The process is always the same, and after a few listings it takes most sellers less than 10 minutes to do all 10 steps for a single item.

1. Open the Poshmark listing and note the brand, size, color, condition, measurements and flaws. Note the price and total quantity listed for that item.
2. Go to Facebook Marketplace and click Create new listing.
3. Add a clear picture of the front of the item and add any other pictures of the item that may help the buyer.
4. Add a short title with the brand and style, size, color and any major flaws.
5. Set a price at your floor. Remember buyers on Facebook expect to haggle, so expect to lower your price.
6. Select the category that’s most applicable to your listing and the condition that describes your listing the best. If Facebook allows you to enter brand and size, do so.
7. Copy Poshmark’s description and remove anything that’s bundled or subject to a Poshmark offer or shipping discount. Keep measurements, materials, and flaws.
8. Decide how you want your item shipped. If you choose to ship, enter the weight and select who will pay for the shipping label.
9. Set your pickup location to a public place, and review the preview.
10. Publish your item, and add it to your tracking sheet.

Choosing pickup or shipping depends on the item and your location. Something bulky or heavy, like furniture, is best sold with pickup. Something small and worth under $20 is good with pickup since the cost of a shipping label eats into the profit. Local pickup is also cash or instant payment, whereas shipping takes a cut with a fee. Shipping also lets you sell to people outside your town. Typically, the safe bet for something like mid-priced clothes is to have both options, local pickup and shipping. Local buyers can meet you to buy, and shipping gives the opportunity to sell to people outside your area.

Once an item sells on a marketplace, it should be removed or noted sold on the other marketplace. The most common issue with manual cross-listing is failing to do this. Canceling an order because the item is sold elsewhere is a bad experience for the buyer.

Worked example: a pair of Levi's 501 jeans

Testing out one pair of jeans is a good example. It covers all factors needed to be sold: size, measurements, condition, price and pickup or shipping. It's also a fast, quick example to go through the process.

Using the example of the jeans above, here's the Poshmark listing: Levi's 501 Original Fit Button Fly Medium Wash Straight Leg Jeans 32x30 Vintage Style. List price: $38. Condition: good used condition, light fading at the knees, no holes. Measurements: Waist 16" flat, Rise 11", Inseam 30", Leg opening 8". Description ends with: "Bundle 2+ items for 15% off, offers welcome." Keeping it at $38 means the seller keeps $30.40 after the 20% commission.

Step by step on Facebook went like this. 5 original photos were loaded from the camera roll: front, back, waist tag, knee and a flat lay with tape measure across waist. The front shot was posted first. Title became "Levi's 501 Jeans 32x30 Medium Wash"- 34 characters instead of 80, with the extra keywords in the description.

For price the seller's floor was $28. A cash sale cuts out commission, so $32 is better than the Poshmark payout, so it was listed for $35 to allow for an offer. It was listed in men's clothes, with condition as used (good). Brand was of course Levi's. The description copied the measurements, and the note on knee fading was kept as is. The line about bundle and offers was deleted, and replaced with "Pick up near downtown library" and "I can ship".

For delivery, the seller opted for both methods. Jeans were poly-mailed and weighed 1 lb. 6 oz., which was entered as the package weight. Prior to setting the shipping price, the seller checked the Facebook selling fee on shipped orders to confirm that a sold order at $35 would clear the $28 floor after the fee and label. The pick up location was set to the library area rather than the full address.

The preview showed the thumbnail was cropped close to the waist so the first photo was changed to a wider view. The listing was published and logged as Levi's 501 32 x 30 on Poshmark and FB Marketplace. The total time was about 7 mins. Four days later, a buyer offered $30 and met at the library. The listing was deleted within an hour from Poshmark so no one else could buy it.

Checklist after each crosslisted item

A check 2 mins after publishing catches almost all the issues that show up as mixed or confused buyers or double sales. These include:

• - The first or lead photo is the best, clearest, and crisp full shot and looks best when thumbnailed
• - Short, clear, easy to read title with the essentials (brand, item type, size)
• - Identical, exact measurements to Poshmark listing to prevent mixed messages.
• - Removal of all Poshmark-exclusive terms like closets, bundles, shipping rates, discounts, likers offers, etc.
• The fee clears your floor after Facebook fees on shipped orders and after the label costs, not just for a local cash sale.
• The delivery method means pickup or shipped, with the correct package weight.
• The pickup location means a general area or public place, not your home address.
• The item is logged in your tracking sheet with all of the marketplaces it is listed on.
• You have a habit with sold items: Delete or mark sold on the other marketplace the same day.
• Every couple of weeks, scan listings for duplicates that you may have made by accident. PrimeLister offers a free tool to find duplicates if your sheet and your listings no longer match.

This checklist and spreadsheet work if you are copying less than ten items a week. Managing listing inventory with 20 or 30 items quickly becomes a burden with a manual method. It is also difficult to keep track of which marketplaces you are selling in and to remove sold items, especially if an item sold while you were not on Amazon.

Crosslist Poshmark to Facebook Marketplace faster with PrimeLister

The parts of the manual copy that PrimeLister automates are typing in each field, and remembering to take sold items. The parts PrimeLister automates allow you to cross list existing items from one place, and leave more time to source, and put the same items in front of more buyers. The features of PrimeLister that matter for this task are:

• Crosslisting to Poshmark, eBay, Mercari, Depop, Etsy and Facebook Marketplace, so a listing copied to Facebook can also reach buyers on the other marketplaces.
• Inventory auto-sync with auto-delisting once an item sells, which replaces the tracking sheet and the same-day delete habit.
• Bulk actions to let you work through multiple Poshmark items at once. Rule 2. Keep the same meaning, structure, and number of paragraphs as the input.
• A free find-duplicates tool for catching items listed twice.
• Analytics covering sell-through rate and time on market, to see which items move faster on which marketplace.

An easy way to begin is to input a few listings by hand to see how to do a good Facebook version, then do the rest of your closet on Poshmark in one batch.