"How to Officially Create an eBay Seller Account: Step-by-Step Guide"
**Description:** Learn how to officially create an eBay seller account with this comprehensive, step-by-step guide. We'll walk you through the entire process, from setting up your account and verifying your identity to listing your first item for sale. Perfect for new sellers looking to start their eBay business quickly and efficiently, this guide ensures you're fully prepared to begin your e-commerce journey.
**Description:** Learn how to officially create an eBay seller account with this comprehensive, step-by-step guide. We'll walk you through the entire process, from setting up your account and verifying your identity to listing your first item for sale. Perfect for new sellers looking to start their eBay business quickly and efficiently, this guide ensures you're fully prepared to begin your e-commerce journey.
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00:00In this video, we're going to talk about how to create an eBay selling account professionally
00:05and set up each and everything so we are ready for selling.
00:09I'm going to divide this video into three different portions.
00:13Timestamp for each and everything will be inside the description.
00:17Number one, I'm going to talk about the things that you need to know before you actually
00:22create an eBay account.
00:23This is really, really important.
00:25The second thing, I'm going to share my screen and I'm going to walk you through each and
00:30everything and I'm going to show you what to do once you are creating your eBay account.
00:36The third thing, we actually going to design a logo for our business and set up our eBay
00:43account so it will look professional and it is ready for selling.
00:47So without any delay, let's get started.
00:49My name is Zain Shah and I've been selling on eBay and Amazon from past 10 years.
00:55My target on this channel is to actually help you make 100,000 pound every single year.
01:02So if you're interested in that kind of stuff, consider subscribing.
01:05Let's talk about the things that you need to know before you start selling on eBay.
01:11So before we create the new eBay account, the first thing to keep in mind that if you
01:16already have an eBay account and maybe you are only using it to buy the items from eBay,
01:22you can actually use the same account to sell the item on eBay as well.
01:28There are the changes that you will have to make, which I will show you further down in
01:32the video.
01:33Once I will talk about how to set up the account as well.
01:36The reason we're going to use the same account because it is very likely that you're going
01:40to have some kind of feedback from other sellers.
01:44It doesn't matter if you have a feedback as a buyer or you have a feedback as a seller
01:49because on the eBay ID, whenever the customer will see your eBay ID, there will be the number
01:55in front of it and that will show how much feedback you have.
01:59So the bigger the number is, the bigger the social proof you have.
02:03So the buyer will feel comfortable buying from you.
02:06So that's the reason I encourage people to actually use the same account if you already
02:12have an account as well.
02:14Second thing to keep in mind is that eBay and PayPal are no longer working together.
02:19So if you need to receive a payout from eBay, you need to link your bank account and the
02:24bank account has to be in a country where the eBay is natively available.
02:29So if your account is in the UK, it has to be a UK bank account.
02:32If your account is in the US, then it has to be a US bank account.
02:36Now the question is, a lot of people ask me, can I link my own personal account or it has
02:41to be a business account?
02:43If you register a limited company, then it has to be the separate bank account for a
02:48limited company.
02:49It has to be a business bank account.
02:51As a small scale, once you are starting out, you're going to register as a sole trader.
02:55You can always upgrade further down in the line.
02:58You can link your own personal account, but I highly recommend creating another account
03:03specific for eBay, even if it is your own personal account, just create another account.
03:08So all the payout you're going to be receiving in that account, all the expenses you're going
03:12to be doing from that account.
03:14So at the end of day, you will know how much profit you are making.
03:17So everything stays really to the point and effective as well.
03:21The third thing that you need to keep in mind that if you've been previously banned by eBay,
03:26I do not recommend creating another account because even if you're using a different details,
03:32for example, your family member details or friend details, even you have a permission
03:37from them as well, eBay still know your computer IP address.
03:42They still know your Wi-Fi MAC address.
03:45So easily they can spot that out and they will actually ban the new account again as
03:50well.
03:51So if your account been previously banned, the best thing to do is to actually call eBay
03:56and 99% of the time you will get your old account back as well.
04:01You just have to speak with the customer services, but I will not just go ahead and create another
04:07account because you've been previously banned on eBay.
04:10Even though it been a permanent suspension, you can reach out to them in many different
04:15ways.
04:16For example, going on a Twitter and then talking to eBay customer service.
04:20So far, if you're getting a value from the video, please hit the like button and subscribe
04:24to the channel.
04:25Both of these things are free.
04:26I'm not just saying please do it now.
04:28So let me share my screen now and I show you how to actually create a eBay account and
04:33then I will show you how to actually set up and design the logo for your eBay business
04:39as well.
04:40So on my screen right here, I am at Google.
04:43Depending on whatever country you are, it doesn't matter.
04:47As long as eBay is natively available there, just come on to Google and click on eBay sign
04:54up.
04:56So once you're going to click on that one, if you are in the UK, make sure you are creating
05:00an account on eBay.co.uk.
05:03If you are in, let's say, Italy, make sure you're creating an account on eBay.it.
05:08And if you are in the US, you need to make sure you're creating an account on eBay.com.
05:13So I am in the UK.
05:14The process is going to be similar all across the country.
05:18Just click on the relevant link depending on your country.
05:21Once you're going to click on that link, now eBay is going to ask you to create an account
05:26right here.
05:27Here, normally you're going to have two choices.
05:30So either you can create a personal account or you can create a business account right
05:36here.
05:37The only difference between two of them, personal account is for somebody who normally use their
05:42account to buy the stuff on eBay and sometime they need to sell the item on eBay as well.
05:48The things they actually used in their own house and they no longer need that item.
05:54But the business account is for somebody, even though they are selling a used item or
05:58new item, but their purpose is as a business to sell the item on eBay on a regular basis
06:04and make the profit from it as well.
06:06So as a seller, you always, always have to create a business account because the personal
06:13account, according to eBay terms and condition, is not the account that you can use on a regular
06:19basis.
06:20So your account can get banned as well.
06:22The other thing that you need to keep in mind that if you create a personal account, the
06:27thing with the personal account that you're selling limit is going to be very low because
06:33eBay don't expect you to sell the item on a regular basis.
06:36So selling limit mean once we create the account on eBay, eBay gonna actually limit you how
06:42many items you can sell per month.
06:44So by just having a business account, that limit will be higher, which is very, very
06:49important right here in this case scenario as well.
06:53So if we go to our business account, the first option that we have is a business name.
06:59A lot of people get confused by it.
07:01They think about business name that they need to register a limited company and that name
07:07you have to put right here.
07:09That is also right if you go down the route, if you register a limited company, but even
07:13though you are not registering a limited company, you can pick the business name for yourself.
07:19It can be any business name.
07:21But what I normally recommend, what you can do is just go on to your company house website,
07:28just Google company house, and then it gonna give you this link where it's going to show
07:33you get the information about the company.
07:35And here what you can do is the search for the different, different names that the name
07:41that you need to pick for your eBay account.
07:44If the company under that name already exists, then I will not actually pick that name for
07:50my eBay store.
07:51Because later down in the line, let's say you need to register a limited company.
07:55I need to make sure that name is actually available.
07:58So you can come on to the company house website and you can search the register because this
08:03is completely free to do so.
08:05This gonna actually future proof your name.
08:09So you know that this name is going to be available even though you are not registering
08:13a limited company at this state as well.
08:16So right here, let's say I pick the name Zensha eBay.
08:21I'm just giving you one example.
08:24It doesn't have to be that one, but just you need to make sure it is available.
08:28And then the business email here, you're going to need to put the business email that you're
08:33going to use.
08:34It can be Gmail, it can be Yahoo, whatever.
08:37But I recommend just the business email that you're going to be using for eBay.
08:42Keep that email separate as well.
08:44Because you know this is the one you are only using for eBay and the email are not mixing
08:49up.
08:50So creating another email account is just a simple process.
08:53So just create another email account and use that as a business email right here.
08:59You're just going to need to pick up the password right here, whatever the password that you're
09:02going to choose, and then you're going to select your business location.
09:06So for me is a United Kingdom.
09:08And here this is very important.
09:09It says that I only want to buy on eBay.
09:13I don't want to sell.
09:15So if you check this box, then this is not going to be a selling account.
09:20It is just going to be a buying account.
09:22Leave that box empty.
09:24Do not do anything with that box.
09:27And once you do that, just simply click on register.
09:30And that's all you have to do in order for you to have a basic registration for your
09:36eBay account.
09:37Now I'm going to go inside the eBay and I'm going to show you how to actually set up the
09:42payment method where you're going to need to receive the payment.
09:46So you're going to need to link your eBay account with it.
09:49And I received this comment from a lot of people that they created an account and they
09:54went on to their dropshipping software.
09:57They tried to list something and it is coming as an error because your payment information
10:02is not added.
10:03And it's not a straightforward process as I talked about earlier.
10:07We have to create a dummy listing in order for eBay to prompt us to that particular page
10:13where we need to add our payment information.
10:16So let's go to my eBay right here and then we're going to click on a selling.
10:22Once we click on selling, we're going to be added this particular page right here.
10:26Here we're going to just simply click on a list and item.
10:30We are not listing anything.
10:32We are just creating a dummy listing so we can actually add the payment information.
10:37Once you're going to click on list an item, you're going to be on to this page right here.
10:41Here you can type anything.
10:43Just let's say type iPhone cable.
10:45If you just type iPhone cable, anything, let's say iPhone cable charger, I will just pick
10:50up that one and then I will just simply search and then I can select any item.
10:55We are not actually selling that item.
10:58We're just creating a dummy listing.
10:59So new and then continue to listing right here.
11:03Once I will come on to this page right here, the picture is already added.
11:07The title is already there.
11:09I'm just going to need to fill up some information.
11:11So it actually allow me to make this listing right here as well.
11:16So description, we can type anything in the description, doesn't matter.
11:19The selling price, let's say $4.99 quantity one, postage, we need to select something
11:27for the postage domestic service right here.
11:30Let's say we do this one and then we offer a free shipping right here, one working day.
11:37This is just two.
11:38It will let me add the information.
11:41So once I'm going to click on list with displayed fees underneath, now eBay going to ask me
11:47to actually, you know, looks like you are selling, but now you need to add the payment
11:53method inside your account as well.
11:56So I wish they just make it simple.
11:58We don't have to create a dummy listing, so we can just go to our software and we can
12:02create the listing from our dropshipping software.
12:06So even if you just need to create a listing, I hope that they will make this simple in
12:11the future.
12:12So once we get to come to the payment page where we need to add all the information,
12:17this is very, very simple right here as well.
12:20So you're going to add your first name, you're going to add your last name, you're going
12:22to add your address, city, and then you're going to put your postcode.
12:26The phone number is, if you haven't added the phone number, you need to add one phone
12:31number as well, which need to be verified.
12:33So eBay just going to send you the text and inside the text, there's going to be a code
12:38which you need to verify.
12:39So just fill up the detail and then it's going to take us to the next page where we need
12:43to add our banking information.
12:45So once we're going to need to add the payment information right here, then eBay going to
12:50give us an option onto the page that you can actually log into your eBay bank account.
12:56So once we need to add our banking information, you can actually log into your business or
13:02personal bank account and then eBay will automatically pull up the detail.
13:07You don't need to worry about it.
13:09This is actually a very secure process.
13:11So you can log into your eBay bank account.
13:14This will get instantly verified.
13:16A lot of time we might have a bank account which is not listed right here.
13:22So let's say it's a TideBank or it is a Starlink Bank or Monzo or something like that, then
13:27it is not listed right here.
13:29So once you're going to click on log into your eBay bank account, then you can actually
13:34choose the one right here.
13:36So if your bank is not listed, then you're just simply going to click on my bank is not
13:41listed.
13:42And then what the eBay going to do, they're going to manually ask you to put your sort
13:46code and account number.
13:49If you do that and you're not actually logging into your bank account, what's going to happen?
13:55Then the eBay will actually make a small deposit into your account.
13:59Then it doesn't matter what will be the deposit, maybe 1P, 2P, 5P, 7P.
14:04But you need to come back and then tell in eBay that how much was that amount.
14:11So they will normally do two transactions.
14:13Let's say one is a 5P or one is 6P.
14:16You need to come back and put those two transactions and this is how you're going to verify your
14:22account.
14:23And then that's all it is.
14:25Then you can create a listing and then your eBay account is ready to go.
14:29So now what we need to do is to actually create a logo because that looks really professional
14:35if you have a logo inside your eBay account.
14:38I'm going to show you how to create a free logo.
14:41But if we come on to the eBay page right here, the way I came right here, this is your name
14:46right here.
14:47And then once you're going to click on your name, all you have to do is just click on
14:52your username right here.
14:53So we're going to click on username and then you're going to be on this particular page.
14:58Right now, this will be the same for you.
15:00I don't have any kind of logo and that looks really, really unprofessional.
15:06So if we come back and then just simply click on edit profile, this is where we can actually
15:13upload our logo.
15:15But obviously I'm going to show you how to actually create a logo.
15:18So edit profile here, you just need to tell something about yourself, for example, you
15:23know, just a little bit information, but you're passionate about, you know, your store.
15:28We are based in UK or we are selling top quality item.
15:33That's what you need to type something.
15:35Do not leave this empty.
15:37That is very, very important.
15:39And in order for us to create, upload a logo, this is a pencil sign right here on the top
15:45of your, this kind of dummy picture right here.
15:48So once we do that, then the eBay going to ask us to actually create a logo.
15:53Now, in order for us to create a logo, just simply come back to Google right here.
15:58There is a free website called Canva.
16:01You don't need to pay anything.
16:02It's completely free to get started with Canva.
16:06And I'm going to leave the link for Canva inside the description in order for you to
16:11actually create a free logo.
16:13I'm going to show you how to do that.
16:15So once we come inside the Canva or the top right hand corner right here, there is going
16:22to be an option called create a design right here.
16:26And this is going to be completely free.
16:28So if we click on create a design, it can ask what kind of design you want to create.
16:33So we're going to click on a logo right here.
16:36Once you're going to click on that one, Canva will actually give you a lot of, a lot of
16:40different templates as well.
16:43And they are really, really easy to use them.
16:46You can select a different category.
16:48So let's say we put online shop, we will do that.
16:52And then a lot of free templates going to come up as well.
16:56So let's say I like this particular design.
16:59Some of the design are going to be paid.
17:02So if that have a crown sign on it, like, like this, that it means it is a paid design.
17:08So I'm going to pick up just simply a free design.
17:10Let's say I like this particular design as well.
17:13And now I can make changes.
17:14So I will do instead of online shop, my shop name is Zensha, I'm just going to type Zensha
17:20and that's it.
17:21My logo is ready.
17:22I can choose the motto for me if I need to make some changes.
17:26Once you're done with it, just simply come back right here and just click on share.
17:31So if you click on share, it's going to give you the option to actually download this for
17:36free inside your computer.
17:38And then you can just simply come on to eBay.
17:41Just click on a pencil icon and you can upload that file and your account is actually ready
17:48to go.
17:49So before we finish, this is a step by step series where I'm going to explain each and
17:53everything as a step by step guide.
17:55So the next part will be linked right here, which I'm going to show you after you have
18:00created an account, what will be the next step.
18:02Do check the links inside the description.
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18:05Take care.