International Selling Hub

Once you’ve chosen your market(s), the next step is to set up your accounts and business processes to handle international transactions.

Using the example of a UK registered seller wanting to sell internationally to Germany, here are 3 different account options:

• Continue listing using your existing UK account and list directly on eBay.de. However, you won’t be able to register a second shop in Germany if you already have a UK shop.
• List on eBay.co.uk and specify that you’re willing to post to Germany. This way, items will appear on the bottom of search results as ‘items from international sellers’. (See 'Passive international selling' in 'Ways to Sell')
• Register a new additional account on eBay.co.uk with your UK address, buy a shop subscription on eBay.de and list directly on the German site. You’ll get all the benefits of having a shop, such as special rate insertion fees.

You can only register your account in the country where you have an address. If you’re a UK registered seller and you try to register a new account on eBay.de, you’ll be redirected back to the UK site, unless you have a German address.

You don’t need to hold stock in the country you want to sell in as long as you can ensure that stock is readily available for buyers in each market.

If you’re using one account to sell both domestically and abroad, you can simply stop listing on a given site, or stop offering postage to a particular country to withdraw from that market. You’ll still need to fulfil any outstanding transactions.

If you set up a separate account for your overseas business, you’ll need to fulfil any outstanding transactions, clear outstanding invoices and then it’s fairly simple to close the account and withdraw from the market.