Trade Me Tip – Draft listings on New Look Trade Me

How do you do this on the old site?

Hi Marilyn, this useful feature is only available on the new site.

Anyone can use My Products on the std and the new site and this allows you to go back to a draft Product at any time to complete it in multiple steps before you actually Activate it to list it. You can draft prepare multiple items and swap between them to add description, photos etc, with ease, and only list when ready. Do your edits while the product is deactivated and click Save, then Activate when ready to create a live listing.

An advantage with My Products is that you can duplicate a product then make a few edits to the new one, rather than starting from scratch every time, plus all the details needed to create the listing are on one page.

There are hundreds of other benefits too.

Product List - Trade Me View

It'd be worth adding a 'Draft' section so users can find their way back. What if I have multiple listings in the draft? This experience can be improved further.

I agree with Niki's comment as above. Multiple drafts (up to 10) are available in the mobile app, so why not implement this functionality on the desktop site?

Hi Jonathon. If you are using the Desktop site, use My Products. You can have hundreds of drafts of incomplete listings created and just have them sitting there to complete and list at your leisure as they don't expire.

Hey thanks so much for that Gary. I have actually used My Products before but I found the auction photos would annoyingly disappear after the 1st listing ended. Maybe this has been amended? I'll give My Products another shot now anyway... Thanks again ;-)

Yes, well worth using. I've never had photos disappear from My Products and have used it since it first came in, and before that was on their retail feed.

I can't find 'drafts' anywhere?? Have looked at the comments and followed the instructions.

please help!

I cant find drafts anywhere! how annoying. 

sick of losing my work!

I created a listing this morning and saved and exited so I could continue it later. Now I cannot find it. I have gone back into create a new listing and there is no Continue option. Am I missing something???

Hi Craig, not sure why. I don't normally list directly, but when I go to create a new listing in the standard way just like now for a test, I get this...

I'm using Edge on the desktop site.

There's some software bug on the IOS mobile app not allowing me to save drafts. Comes up with a gibberish message. Not sure if it will let me finish a listing at all at the moment. Been like this for 2-3 days

Kia Ora Robert,

Sorry to read you're having an issue with your Draft,