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“Another day, another dollar” is a motto I live by, especially when it comes to my reselling hobby. I’m content if I get one sale every day or two, as this enables me to purchase new pieces for my wardrobe—then eventually sell those, too. But the motto could also apply to my approach, as I not only earn money every day, but reroute it back into the resale process by using third-party apps to bolster my sales. What’s that other motto? You have to spend money to make money?
Well, it’s not entirely true. The three apps below have helped me boost my sales quite a bit, but they have free trials and one of them is completely free. So, really, if you’re trying to make a buck on Poshmark, there’s no harm in using these apps to get the money flowing.
Vendoo: a cross-lister
Credit: Vendoo/Lindsey Ellefson
The first app I love here is Vendoo, a cross-lister that helps me splash my listings out across multiple marketplaces. It helps me list quickly not only to my beloved Poshmark (where I sell and buy the most, by far), but my second-favorite Depop, as well as Mercari, Vestiaire Collective, eBay, and more.
Instead of creating your listing in one of those apps as normal, you create it in Vendoo, where you can then set it to appear across all the other marketplaces where you manage a storefront. When an item sells on one platform, Vendoo will even delist it on the others so you don’t run into any trouble with a buyer trying to purchase something that’s already sold elsewhere.
It functions as an inventory manager, showing you which platforms you’re performing better on, exactly how much you have for sale, and more. A lot of the individual apps, like Poshmark, also produce analytics for you, but Vendoo is helpful in that it allows you to see a fuller picture across all your marketplaces.
If you’re already established on one platform and want to move your listings over to others, you can import them into Vendoo, then export them out across the others. Obviously, this is an app designed for more serious sellers, like those who make a real income through reselling, own a physical boutique and also happen to sell online, or have hundreds of listings. I consider myself a casual seller, but I do have hundreds of listings up (not counting the hundreds I’ve sold), so it works for me.
If none of those describe you, it may not be worth it. It’s pricey. For free, you can create and cross-list five new items per month and remove the backgrounds from three product images. For $9 per month, you can create and cross-list 25 new items and remove 25 backgrounds. $20 per month will let you create and cross list 125 new items that month, $30 per month will get you 250 that month, and $50 per month will get you 600 that month. For unlimited creations/cross listings, you need to pay $70 per month. You’ll also pay additional fees, like $5 per month to include the ability to import listings or the ability to list on up to 10 marketplaces, depending on your needs.
Primelister: an automator
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PrimeLister is an automator specifically for Poshmark and eBay, but I only use it for Posh. Essentially, for a fee, it does all the tedious little tasks that get more eyeballs on your listings: It shares items to designated landing pages that correspond to their brand or type, shares other users’ listings to earn you good will and return shares that broaden your audience exposure, and automatically follows back new followers, if you want it to.
After downloading it and forking over about $30 per month, I definitely saw an increase in sales. The most useful task it performed for me was the sending of automatic discount offers any time someone “liked” a listing of mine. I was impressed I could even dictate how long it waited to send those offers so likers aren’t immediately spammed with notifications and it doesn’t look like I had a robot doing my bidding (although I do).
Granted, many of these functions can be handled directly through Poshmark. You can share your listings to their appropriate landing pages (known as Posh Parties), send bulk discount offers, and mass-share your own listings to your followers, but you can’t share other people’s listings or send automatic discounts. Plus, if you do it through Poshmark, you do still have to be active about it. Every hour, you have to log in, check for a Posh Party, manually select all the listings you want to share to it, and share them, for instance. It’s not a huge deal, but if you have a lot to sell, the $30 per month may be quite worth the investment. If not, check here for how to do a lot of these actions on your own.
AI Measure: a measuring tool
Credit: AI Measure/Lindsey Ellefson
The final app that’s been helping me out quite a bit is AI Measure. Any good reseller on any platform knows that you should include measurement photos with any listing, not only to answer buyer questions before they’re asked, but to avoid having something sent back to you for not being as described in the listing. Taking the time to lay a measuring tape across a piece of clothing, photograph it, and upload the pictures can save you a lot of headaches down the road, but that certainly doesn’t mean I do it. I’m lazy and I take my chances—or at least I did, until I discovered AI Measure.
This bare-bones measuring app automatically marks up your images with the measurements of the clothes within them. That’s really all it does, but it’s kind of a lifesaver. Using the native Measure app on the iPhone doesn’t work the same—it doesn’t allow you to show two or more measurements at a time. So, if you want to show the waist, inseam, and thigh width of a pair of pants, you’ll need to take three pics. On top of that, the native Measure app doesn’t have a shutter button, so you’re relying on a blurry screenshot. AI Measure puts all the measurements on the image at once, has a shutter button so you can snap a pic, and, in my testing, gets the measurements right consistently. Using it is the same as taking a regular photo and you don’t need to haul out a measuring tape, so there’s no downside.
It’s free, too. The background removal tool that comes with it didn’t work for me, but I don’t mind that because the other advertised function works just fine. Be advised that unlike the other two on this list, though, this one is only for iOS.
