Are you using the duplicate feature because the items are similar products or are you using the duplicate feature because you do not want to keep typing in the same information when it comes to your shipping terms, etc, that you have within each of your listings?

If it is the first reason, you’ll have to keep going under Update Items as a Group just like you have been doing.

If it is the second reason, just create a false listing and give it a title as Template.

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Act like you are creating a new listing.

Make sure to fill in what you want filled out in the description area, which is the info that you always want shoppers to see when looking at your listings (this area is called the Listing Editor where you change the font type, font size, etc, etc). After you do this, do not worry about selecting a category, a shipping price, or any attributes whatsoever and do not give the listing a price….do not do anything that you do not want carried over into a new listing. Just click save.

You will get a message at the top of the screen making it appear as though the listing did not save. However, when you click on the Sell link at the top left of your page and look at the page that comes up, you will see the Template listing that you created. You may have to switch your booth to show lowest to highest first in order to see this listing.

Once you find your Template listing, hover over it and click duplicate and then click edit. Then list your listing, filling everything in including the attributes. Then if you go to Update Items as a Group and click Search Optimize, you’ll see that this listing will only have the attributes that you just gave it…no older attributes attached from a previous listing.

I have got a template that I keep in the background and duplicate from it when adding a new listing. I’ve been doing this now for over a few years and it has went fine.

This has been a problem for a long time. There is no easy fix for it from the listing page. After you list an item, go to batch edit – search optimize and delete the incorrect attributes.

When I duplicate and have a new UPC or brand to add, I use the [[[URL removed] and [[[URL removed] format at the end of my listing description. This removes the old attributes and replaces then with the new. Other sellers have said this does not work for them, but I have never had a problem with it. I just tried it with an item, replaced UPC and Brand, checked in BE and the new ones were correct with the old removed.

I believe you need to select “add an item” each time. I did the same thing thinking I could cut down on time but duplicate is literal not figurative as I had hoped.