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eBay, Fox Guard and a Shop of Your Own

Connect eBay once and sales log themselves with real fees. Sell something on Vinted and Fox Guard ends the eBay listing before anyone else can buy it. And every reseller gets a public shop page for the stock they choose.

The eBay hub tile opens an official OAuth connection. Once linked, Flipfox pulls your active listings and lets you attach each one to a stock item, or matches them by SKU. From then on, every time the app comes to the foreground it reconciles orders: a linked listing that sold is marked sold in your ledger automatically, with the actual final value fee from eBay's finances data rather than an estimate. The hub shows a To ship list of what needs to go out.

The eBay hub before connecting: official sign-in on eBay's own page, so Flipfox never sees your password.
The eBay hub before connecting: official sign-in on eBay's own page, so Flipfox never sees your password.

Fox Guard

Cross-listing is how you sell faster and how you end up selling the same jumper twice. Fox Guard is a toggle on the Mark Sold screen. Sell an item anywhere other than eBay, flip the toggle, and the app ends the linked eBay listing for you. Flip goes smug. No double-selling, no apologetic refund message.

Sales log themselves with real fees, and Fox Guard ends the listing when something sells elsewhere.

The landing page

Your own shop on the web

Every item has a Show in shop switch, on by default. From the shop card on your profile you pick a handle, choose which stock is public, hit Publish, and share the link. The result is a lean public page listing your stock with photos, updated within about thirty seconds of a sync, and it needs no account to view. The first sync claims your handle to your device.

A published shop page: the reseller's handle, their chosen stock, and nothing else.
A published shop page: the reseller's handle, their chosen stock, and nothing else.

Offer Sniffer

The Offers tile answers the question every reseller asks a dozen times a week: is this offer worth taking? Pick the stock item, type the offer and the platform, and Flip gives a fee-aware verdict against your floor price and your target. A thirty-pound offer on eBay and a thirty-pound offer on Vinted are not the same money, and the fox knows it.

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