eBay dropshipping software for US sellers · Windows

Price every eBay listing after every fee. Then keep it right.

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Sellhelm is eBay dropshipping software for UK and US sellers. It watches your suppliers' product pages, works out what every item should sell for, and keeps your listings, orders and books in step as their prices and stock change. It runs on your own PC, with no subscription.

  • One payment, no subscription
  • 14-day money-back guarantee
  • Every 4.x update included
Price helmLive demo

Turn the wheel

Supplier now charges

$68.50

Same as when you listed it

Sell on eBay at
$99.99
All eBay fees
−$14.00
Supplier
−$68.50
You keep
$17.49

25.5% return on what you spend (target 25%)

In step: the live eBay price matches your supplier.

An illustration, not your data. The fee rates are an example: Sellhelm works from eBay's published rates for each product's category. The 25% target return and 25% jump limit are settings too.

10

supplier shops built in

Plus any other product page you paste.
2

eBay fees on every price

The final value fee and the per-order fee, counted before a price is set.
0

buyer details stored

Addresses are read from eBay when you open an order, then forgotten.
$0

a month, ever

One payment from $129. It runs on your own Windows PC.

The quiet leak

Suppliers change their prices. Your listings do not notice.

Nobody loses money on the sale they meant to make. They lose it on the one made at yesterday's price, on stock that has gone, and on fees that were counted short.

A rise you never saw

You listed a bed frame at $99.99 to keep $17.49. The supplier raises it a little at a time. Your price stays where it was.

What you keep on one salelisted at $99.99, the supplier's price rising
What you keep on one sale as the supplier's price rises and your eBay price stays put A no rise leaves $17.49. A +5% rise leaves $14.06. A +10% rise leaves $10.64. A +15% rise leaves $7.22. A +20% rise leaves $3.79. A +25% rise leaves $0.36. A +41% rise leaves $-10.41. $17.49 now $14.06 +5% $10.64 +10% $7.22 +15% $3.79 +20% $0.36 +25% −$10.41 +41%
+10%
Your return falls from 26% to 14%.
+25%
You keep $0.36. Effectively, nothing.
+41%
You lose $10.41 on every sale. This is the rise in our demo.

A sell-out you never saw

The supplier runs out. Your listing stays live. Someone buys the one thing you cannot send, you cancel, and eBay counts it against your seller record. At its next check Sellhelm sets the quantity to 0, and it looks at eBay's out-of-stock setting first, so it never ends a listing by accident.

Fees you counted short

eBay takes a final value fee, which is a percentage of the sale, and a per-order fee. On a $99.99 sale that is $14.00, about 14% of the price. A flat “add 30%” markup guesses at it. Sellhelm solves for it.

Hours that go on checking

Twelve shops in twelve tabs, a spreadsheet to update, and a nagging feeling you missed something. That is not a business. It is a chore that grows with every listing.

Thirteen sales at the wrong price cost more than Sellhelm Solo. Sellhelm is there for the next one.

See the packs

How it works

One loop, from a supplier's page to your accounts.

Seven steps that repeat for every product. These are the real screens, with demo data.

  1. Add

    Paste a supplier's product link. Sellhelm reads the price, stock, photos, specification and selling points and turns them into a draft. Nothing is on eBay yet.

    localhost:4173drafts
    Sellhelm Drafts page: each draft shows what it costs you, eBay's fees, the price to sell at and what you keep
  2. Price

    Choose the return you want on what you spend. Sellhelm solves for the eBay price after the final value fee, the per-order fee and your shipping cost, and shows what you keep.

    localhost:4173products
    Sellhelm Products page: cost, eBay fees, sell price, what you keep and return against target for each listing
  3. List

    Compare each draft with the supplier's own page, tick it, then send it to eBay in one of five designs. Supplier names are kept off your listings.

    localhost:4173templates
    Sellhelm Templates page showing five listing designs and photo slots
  4. Watch

    On a schedule you choose, Sellhelm re-reads your suppliers. A rise or a sell-out updates eBay; a jump bigger than your limit is held for you to check first.

    localhost:4173overview
    Sellhelm Overview: kept from sales, what needs you, sales and orders at a glance
  5. Order

    When something sells you see it with the photo, the supplier link, the days left to ship and what it should keep. Nothing sits unseen.

    localhost:4173orders
    Sellhelm Orders page with cards for to order, waiting for tracking, on their way and delivered
  6. Track

    Open an order for the shipping address in copy-ready parts, read live from eBay and never saved. Add the supplier's tracking number and it goes straight onto the eBay order.

    localhost:4173orders/27-11074
    Sellhelm order desk: supplier link, address in copyable parts, real profit and tracking entry
  7. Books

    Every sale, fee and cost lands in Finances: what you really kept, estimated federal, self-employment and state tax to put aside, and a CSV your accountant can open.

    localhost:4173finances
    Sellhelm Finances: sales, costs, fees, profit and tax to put aside

Suppliers

10 shops, and Sellhelm knows how each one behaves.

Amazon, Ashley Furniture, Best Buy, Home Depot, IKEA, Kohl's, Macy's, Walmart, Wayfair and eBay.com's own listings through eBay's API, each with its own reader. Any other shop with an ordinary product page can be pasted too, and new shops are added one at a time, each only after it is proven on real pages.

See how pages are read

A day with Sellhelm

Most of it happens while you are doing something else.

One product, one ordinary day. Everything marked Sellhelm happens without you; you do the parts marked You, in a few clicks.

  1. The supplier raises a price

    A bed frame goes from $68.50 to $96.40 overnight. You are asleep.

    Supplier
  2. Sellhelm checks, and holds the jump

    It re-reads the page on your schedule. The new price would be $139.99, a 40% jump, which is over your 25% limit. So it does not send it. It holds it and tells you.

    Sellhelm
  3. You open Products

    It is under "Held for you", with the old and new figures side by side. You compare it with the supplier's page, and press Send it now, or set your own price.

    You
  4. An order comes in

    The order desk shows the photo, the supplier link, days left to ship and what it should keep. The address is read from eBay and split into copyable parts.

    Sellhelm
  5. You place it with the supplier

    A few clicks to copy the address across. You tick "placed with the supplier" and add their order number.

    You
  6. Their shipping email arrives

    You paste the tracking number. It goes straight onto the eBay order, and the buyer is told.

    You
  7. The day, in one figure

    The Overview shows what you kept from sales, what is waiting, and what to put aside for tax.

    Sellhelm

What is inside

Built for the way a US eBay shop actually runs.

A price that counts everything

Say what return you want on the money you spend. Sellhelm works backwards through eBay's final value fee and the per-order fee.

Supplier price$68.50
eBay final value fee$13.60
Per-order fee$0.40
You sell at $99.99 and keep$17.49

Big jumps wait for you

A supplier typo should not reprice your shop. Any change over your limit is held, with the old and new figures side by side.

  • Bookcase$75.99 → $79.99Sent: +5%
  • Bed frame$99.99 → $139.99Held: over your 25% limit
  • Shoe cabinetSold out at the supplierQuantity set to 0

An example of three changes at one check

An order desk that saves clicks

The supplier's page, the address in copyable parts and tracking that goes onto eBay, all on one screen.

  • The shipping address is read live from eBay when you open the order.
  • Nothing about the buyer is saved.

Finances and tax estimates

Sales, fees, goods and costs, an estimate of your federal income tax, self-employment tax and state tax to put aside, the four estimated-payment dates, and a CSV for your accountant. Figures are estimates and it says so.

  • Worked on the calendar year, under Schedule C style headings.
  • eBay collects and pays sales tax on eBay sales itself, so it is not in your sales figure.

Five listing designs

Every design fills itself from the product, your shipping and returns policies and your shop name. Pick one for every product, or one per shop.

  • 1 to 24 photos per listing, up to eBay's limit.
  • Plain HTML you can edit in Notepad.
  • No hosted images. Nothing to break later.
The Design and photos screen: Cobalt Classic, Emerald Gallery, Ember Grid, Royal Showcase and Graphite Studio, each with its photo count

Built to keep working

It copes with shops that block robots, and it looks after your data.

Some shops turn servers away. Your browser is not a server.

3 of the 10 shops are read directly by Sellhelm from your PC. 7 of them refuse anything that is not a person, so those are read through your own Chrome.

Most shops
SellhelmThe shop

Read directly from your PC, at a gentle pace, on a timer you control.

Shops that block servers
Your ChromeSellhelm

The Chrome extension reads the page the way you would, then hands the result to Sellhelm.

Yours to keep safe

Your shop's data lives on your computer, in one folder that updates never touch, and you have the tools to look after it.

  • Daily backupsA copy every day, and another before anything risky.
  • Export and restoreOne file with everything, ready for a new computer.
  • Panel password lockKeep anyone else at your computer out of your figures.
  • Light and darkEasy on the eyes, whatever time you work.

By hand, or with Sellhelm

The same shop, without the chores.

By handWith Sellhelm
Spotting a supplier's price changeOpen every product page, every day, and remember what it wasRead on your schedule, compared, and applied or held for you
Working out the eBay priceA spreadsheet and a guess at the feesSolved from the return you want, after every eBay fee
Stock running outYou find out when an order failsQuantity goes to 0 at the next check, without ending the listing
A supplier typoReprices your shop before you noticeHeld for you to check, old and new side by side
Placing an orderTabs, a notes app and copy and pasteSupplier link, address in copyable parts, one screen
Telling eBay the trackingType it into eBay, order by orderEntered once, straight onto the eBay order
Knowing what you really madeWork it out at the year endPer sale, live, with a tax set-aside estimate
The costYour evenings, and every mistakeOne payment from $129

Who it is for

Made for sellers who list what their suppliers stock.

You find a product on a supplier's website, list it on eBay, and buy it in when it sells. Sellhelm keeps the price, the stock and the paperwork right, so you can spend your time finding the next product.

The evening seller

A day job, a few dozen listings and a habit of checking prices on the bus. You want your evenings back and your prices right.

Fits Solo

The growing shop

Hundreds of listings, orders every day, and estimated tax payments to plan for. The math matters now, and so do the books.

Fits Solo or Pair

The small team

A partner or an assistant on another PC, or several shops of your own. Each PC has its own license and its own eBay keys.

Fits Crew

Privacy by design

It runs on your PC. Your shop never goes through us.

There is no Sellhelm account to sign in to and no analytics. Your keys, prices, orders and books stay in a folder on your computer. The only thing it ever tells us is that a license was activated or revoked.

  • Buyer names and addresses are read from eBay when you open an order, shown on screen and never saved.
  • Your eBay keys stay in a file on your PC. Each seller uses their own.
  • A license connects to us once, to activate. After that it works offline.
Sellhelm on your PC talks to eBay and to your supplier shops. It does not talk to Sellhelm's servers. YOUR PC Sellhelm database, keys, prices, orders, books eBay USlistings and orders Your supplierspublic product pages Sellhelm serversnothing sent here

Getting started

From download to first listing, with a checklist that ticks itself off.

  1. 1

    Download and install

    Run the Setup file and follow the steps. Sellhelm carries its own runtime, so there is nothing else to install.

    A few minutes

  2. 2

    Activate it

    The Activate screen shows your Machine ID. Paste it into your account and your license key appears.

    A couple of minutes

  3. 3

    Connect your eBay account

    Your own free developer keys, about 15 minutes. Settings shows every click, including the account-deletion question.

    About 15 minutes

  4. 4

    Add your first product

    Paste a supplier link, check the draft against the supplier's page, and list it.

    A few minutes

See the full walk-through

Before you buy

What you need, and what it does not do.

What you need

  • Windows 10 or 11. Nothing else to install.
  • An eBay US seller account.
  • Your own free eBay developer keys. About 15 minutes; Settings guides you, and eBay can take up to a day to approve a new developer account.
  • Google Chrome, for the extension, which reads shops that turn programs away.

What it does not do

  • Promise profit or sales. Nothing can.
  • Give tax or legal advice. Finances is bookkeeping, and its tax figures are estimates.
  • Work for eBay sites outside the US, or on a Mac.
  • Check while your PC is off. Automatic checks run while Sellhelm is open on your computer.
  • Replace your judgment. Supplier pages can be wrong, so every draft is checked by you before it goes live.

Pricing

Pay once. Run it on 1, 2 or 5 PCs.

No subscription and no per-listing fees. One license runs Sellhelm on one Windows PC, and every 4.x update is included.

Solo

One PC. Everything included.

$129one-off

1 license

One Windows PC

Pair

A second PC, or a partner in the business.

$189one-off

2 licenses $94.50 each

Save $69 against buying 2 singly

Best value

Crew

A small team, or several shops.

$319one-off

5 licenses $63.80 each

Save $326 against buying 5 singly

Sellhelm is a Windows 10 and 11 program. One license works on one PC. Payment is taken in a secure card form run by Stripe, in US dollars. We will email you when a new version is ready, and every such email has a link to stop them. How refunds work.

Every pack includes everything. The only difference is how many PCs it covers.

  • Every Sellhelm 4.x update
  • Pricing after every eBay fee
  • Stock and price watching for 10 supplier shops
  • Order desk, tracking and Finances with US tax estimates
  • Five listing designs, Chrome extension included
  • Support requests in your account

See what is in every pack →

Need more than five? Ask us and we will work something out.

Already paying every month?

Sellhelm is one payment.

Slide to what you pay for a listing tool now and see when Solo has paid for itself.

Solo pays for itself in about 5 months.
Over three years you would spend $1,080 against $129: $951 kept.

Fourteen days. Your money back in full.

Try it on your own shop. If Sellhelm is not right for you, say so within 14 days and we refund you in full, with no forms and no argument.

How refunds work →

Questions

The short answers.

The things people ask before they buy. There are more on the FAQ page.

Read every question

Do I need my own eBay developer keys?

Yes. Every seller uses their own free eBay developer keys - eBay issues them to one seller and does not allow sharing. It takes about 15 minutes and Sellhelm's Settings page walks you through each click, including the account-deletion question eBay asks.

Does my data go to you?

No. Sellhelm runs on your PC and keeps its database in a folder on your PC. There is no Sellhelm account to log in to and no analytics inside the program. It talks to eBay and to your supplier shops. It contacts us only to confirm a license when you activate or revoke it, and to check a public list of canceled licenses; nothing about your shop is sent.

Does it work on a Mac or for other eBay sites?

Not yet. Sellhelm is for Windows 10 and 11. This version is for eBay US (ebay.com), and its fee and tax math are built for US sellers.

What is a license, exactly?

One license lets Sellhelm run on one Windows PC. You get a Machine ID from the program, paste it into your account, and your license key appears. If you replace that PC, you can move the license to the new one yourself.

Will it make me money?

Sellhelm does not promise profit or sales - nothing can. What it does is stop the avoidable losses: selling below cost after a supplier price rise, and selling things your supplier no longer has.

What if I do not like it?

Tell us within 14 days and we refund you in full. No forms and no argument.

Take the helm of your eBay business.

From $129, once. Fourteen days to change your mind.

  • No subscription
  • Every 4.x update included
  • Runs on your own PC