We’ve been hard at work iterating on our search experience to help buyers more easily find what they’re shopping for while driving more traffic to listings and increasing sales for our sellers. Recent tests centered around this have shown an increase in sales, likes, and traffic to listings across the board. With these results and your valued feedback in mind, we have moved back to an optimized version of just shared as the default sort for all users.
Our commitment to you is to honor what makes Poshmark unique as a social-marketplace: our community. We want to connect shoppers with the most relevant inventory to their searches and in turn, reward sellers for the effort they’ve put into marketing and crafting quality listings, with an increase in sales and visibility. We encourage sellers to continue leveraging the power of sharing and to enrich listings with titles, descriptions, style tags, and multiple photos to help match their listings to the most interested and relevant buyers.
Through ongoing testing, we will continue optimizing to drive more traffic and orders to your listings. Stay tuned, as we will be offering education for Posh Ambassadors focused on how they can improve the discoverability of their listings. As always, we are here to listen! Please comment below to share feedback and we appreciate your patience as we monitor.
For more information on our recent search updates, see here.
As you may know, we recently rolled out a new default sort option for search to launch a more relevant search experience for all Poshers. Recommended sort takes into account sharing as well as a number of other aspects. Since rollout, we’ve seen huge improvement in the buyer experience and seller sales across the board. But we have heard your feedback. This new sort order is simply not working for many of you.
As a result, today, we will be switching back to just shared as the default sort option for most users. We will continue to improve our search to provide a better experience for shoppers and help sellers get more exposure via sharing and relevance. We will re-release a new version after further test and iteration.
In closing, I value your partnership in creating a space fueled by the voices of our community and propelled by the work of our team. Please comment below to share feedback. We will be monitoring and actioning them, we are here to listen.
This year, we celebrated a major milestone—a DECADE of Poshmark! From our community-hosted Posh N Sips, to a global virtual celebration, and even an IRL event at PMHQ, you all made this monumental birthday extra special.
We are so grateful for our community who has been with us since the very beginning. Thank you so much to every single Posher who has made this decade absolutely amazing. The best is yet to come!
Check out what happened behind the scenes at some of our birthday bash activities:
The wait is over! We announced an exciting suite of brand NEW seller tools at this year’s Hackathon. Each of these tools was carefully developed and designed to give our seller community even more resources to drive business growth.
Bulk Upload is one of the three major features in this suite of tools and is now available on web EXCLUSIVELY for Posh Ambassadors as a way to support you in scaling your growing businesses. Bulk Upload makes listing creation, organization, and inventory management more efficient than ever before!
HOW IT WORKS
1.Head to Sell on Poshmark from your computer and click Bulk Upload at the top-right corner.
2. Pick and download a template based on whether you want to use photos saved in a zip or from an online cloud.
#PoshTip: You only need to download a template once, and can save it for future uploads or for quick reference when answering buyers’ questions about your listings.
3. Read the legend directions carefully and fill out the required fields on the Listing Details tab and press Save.
4. Select the template type you are uploading and add your zip file with photos, if applicable, then hit Upload Listings.
#PoshTip:If you prefer attaching photos from your phone, we got you! Choose the Photos in an Online Cloud template and select Draft as the availability for your listings. Once uploaded, the listing information will be stored in your drafts, and you can then upload images from your phone before publishing the listing.
5. You will be notified when the file is finished processing. Check out the Manage Listings page to view the status of your uploads.
Boost Your Listing Efficiency
List more: Have inventory sitting around that you haven’t gotten around to list? With Bulk Upload, you can list more inventory utilizing spreadsheets to create multiple listings at once.
List faster: You no longer have to copy and paste your listing details into our Single Listing Creation form. With Bulk Upload, you can quickly copy your listing details into our spreadsheet templates. If you’re creating multiple listings with similar listing details, replicate the listing details easily using Excel’s copy and drag feature.
Quickly import your catalog: Does your catalog exist on another platform? Export your catalog and map to our template for easy inventory import and upload.
Manage Your Inventory
Organize your closet: Use our templates as your inventory management system and think of them like your closet in spreadsheet form that you’re able to easily reference, search, and edit. Once you determine the template(s) that suit your business needs, you can continue to use the same template by adding new inventory into your existing data files. Listings that already exist in your closet will not be duplicated.
Connect With More Shoppers
Grow your reach: Create thousands of listings at once to reach even more potential buyers.
Streamline your welcome messages: Create formulas to quickly add notes to your listings’ description (e.g. ‘Thank you for shopping my closet! Please leave a comment with any questions about this item.’), update inventory quantities, or lookup listing details for inquiring customers.
FAQ
Q: Who can use the Bulk Upload tool?
A: This tool is exclusively available to Posh Ambassadors.
Q: How can I tell if I am a Posh Ambassador?
A: Head over to Account Tab > My Posh Stats to check out your individual journey to becoming a Posh Ambassador.
Q: Is Bulk Upload compatible with any version of excel?
A: For the best experience, please ensure you are using an up-to-date program compatible with csv files such as Google Sheets, Numbers, or Excel. If using Excel, please ensure it is version 2019 or newer.
Q: Can I download the template from my phone?
A: At this time, the tool is web-only.
Q: I take product photos with my phone, can I upload them from my phone as well?
A: You sure can! This would mean you would use your computer to upload the listings template and mark them as drafts. Once uploaded, the items will remain in your drafts and you can edit listings, upload photos, and post listings all from your phone.
Q: How is Bulk Upload different from Bulk Listings Actions?
A: Glad you asked! Bulk Upload is focused on creating and editing listings. Bulk Listing Actions (link) is a great way to take promotional actions on your listings once they’re already published, by allowing you to edit listing prices, send Offer to Likers, and share listings.
Are you a Posh Ambassador ready to list more efficiently? Head over to Sell on Poshmark via desktop now.
Not a Posh Ambassador? Not a problem. Head to Account Tab > My Posh Statsto see where you are on your journey to becoming one and accessing this new tool.
To celebrate our 10th birthday, and make it last, Poshmark is launching our first-ever collection of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). We hope to share this moment with our amazing community, and look forward to the next frontier of innovation as we shape the future of shopping together.
Our 10th birthday NFTs not only celebrate our journey as a company, but are also designed to unlock exclusive perks and benefits for the next decade, including annual tickets to PoshFest, Posh Credit, and more!
Yesterday, we auctioned off one NFT exclusively on Bitski, raising more than $4,000 dollars for Mission Bit. Poshmark is also matching the total amount raised to further our commitment to bridging the tech divide and empowering the next generation of innovators.
It wouldn’t be a Poshmark celebration if we could not share our legacy and this special moment with the community that made it possible. That’s why we gave away the opportunity to win one of nine additional NFTs to YOU—the amazing Poshmark community on Instagram and Twitter!
Just In: the NFT Giveaway Winners
Congratulations to the following Poshmark community members!
A special thank you and congrats to our auction winner @trueretro!
See NFT Social Giveaway Official Rules here and Official Terms for Poshmark 10th Birthday NFTs here.
FAQs
What are NFTs?
NFTs, or Non-Fungible Tokens, are digital collectibles that can be owned, sold, and traded. They are stored on the blockchain, and come with a certificate of authenticity and ownership, giving you bragging rights for years to come!
With NFTs you’ll not only own a one-of-a-kind piece of Poshmark’s legacy, but also unlock rare content, benefits, and opportunities for the next decade. You can buy or sell the NFT, or hold onto it to redeem exclusive annual benefits.
How do I own an NFT?
Winners will be contacted after the contest closes via email. We are partnering with Bitski to help ensure your NFT wallet is set up, and that the NFT is transferred. After that, you can buy or sell the NFT, or hold onto it to redeem exclusive annual benefits.
How can I bid in the auction?
The Bitski NFT auction is now closed (auction ran one day only on Dec 6) but you can check out the NFT on Bitski here.
Stay tuned for more exclusive updates about the future of NFTs at Poshmark, and more exciting giveaways and events.
What are my rewards and benefits?
Owners of the NFT will be entitled to the following perks and benefits, redeemable annually for the next 10 years.
1 ticket to PoshFest
$100 dollars in Posh Credit
Annual Posh Swag gift boxes (est. value $100)
Poshers outside the U.S. can redeem the following rewards:
Bitski has been preparing for the metaverse since 2018. They want it to be easy for anyone to own and trade digital creations, whether it be one-of-a-kind AR sneakers, digital collectibles, or special in-game gear. Bitski’s platform also allows creators and brands to easily create and sell NFTs.
About Mission Bit
Mission Bit is a San Francisco based non-profit organization which provides free after-school coding courses, workshops, and summer bootcamps to high school students from underserved and underrepresented communities. Their program’s inclusive community fosters positive relationships between students, their peers, and our experienced classroom leaders. Mission Bit brings like-minded individuals together to form long-lasting meaningful connections and gives students all the tools they need to succeed in the tech industry.
When will the NFT Giveaway winners be announced?
Winners will be announced right here on this blog post on Monday, 12/20 and on our social media channels—be sure to follow along!
