How to Edit a Sold Listing on Depop

How to Edit a Sold Listing on Depop: A Step-by-Step Guide for Resellers

As a Depop seller, managing your listings is a daily task. Sometimes, an item marked as "sold" needs to be reactivated. This could be due to a canceled sale, a buyer who changed their mind, or perhaps you have an identical item you want to sell without creating a new listing from scratch.

Knowing how to edit a sold listing on Depop can save you time and help you get your item back in front of potential buyers quickly. It’s a simple process, but one that is crucial for efficient store management.

This guide will walk you through the exact steps to edit a sold item on Depop. We will also explore how ambitious resellers can move beyond manual edits and use powerful tools to automate and scale their business across multiple platforms, saving hours of administrative work.

Step-by-Step: How to Edit a Sold Listing on Depop

When a sale falls through or you need to relist a similar item, you don't have to start from zero. Depop allows you to edit a previously sold item and make it active again. This action makes the product reappear in users' feeds, giving it a fresh chance to be discovered and sold.

Follow these precise steps to get your item back on the market.

1. Navigate to the Sidebar: Open the Depop application on your device. To begin, you need to locate the "Sidebar." This is found in the top right corner of the app's interface.
2. Access Item Options: Once in the sidebar menu, you will need to find the specific sold item you wish to edit. Next to your item, select the three dots to open a menu of further actions.
3. Open the Edit Actions Menu: After clicking the three dots, a pop-up box will appear on your screen. This box presents a couple of different options for managing your listing.
4. Select "Edit Actions": From the choices in the pop-up box, you should click on "Edit Actions." This will take you into the main listing editor, where you can make changes to the item's details.
5. Update Listing Details: Inside the editor, you have the ability to change various fields. For example, you can update the brand name of the item or change the listed size. This is the perfect time to correct any errors from the original post or adjust details for a similar item.
6. Post Your Listing: After you have made all the necessary edits, the final step is to click the "Post Listing" button. Once you do this, your item will be relisted on your Depop account and become visible in user feeds once again.

The Challenge with Manual Edits and Scaling Your Business

The process to edit a sold item on Depop is straightforward for a single listing. However, if you're a serious reseller managing inventory across multiple platforms like Poshmark, eBay, and Mercari, this manual, one-by-one approach becomes a significant bottleneck.

Manually updating listings on each platform is time-consuming and prone to errors. Forgetting to delist a sold item on one marketplace can lead to overselling, which damages your reputation and creates a poor customer experience. This is where automation becomes not just a convenience, but a necessity for growth.

If you're looking to turn your resale hustle into a scalable business, you need a system that handles these repetitive tasks for you. That’s where we can help.

Introducing Reeva: Grow Your Resale Business with Ease

We built our platform to solve the biggest challenges faced by resellers. Reeva is an all-in-one platform designed to simplify and automate the tedious aspects of running a resale business, giving you back valuable time to focus on sourcing, strategy, and growth.

Trusted by top resale businesses across the U.S., our tools are built to help you scale with ease. Whether you're managing dozens or thousands of listings, we provide the infrastructure to sell smarter and faster.

Ready to see how you can spend less time on admin and more time selling? Start your free trial of Reeva today.

Sell Smarter and Faster Across All Marketplaces

Our unique approach is designed to accelerate your growth and set you apart from the competition. We help you optimize your entire selling process from start to finish.

Turn Photos into Listings Instantly

Imagine turning a stack of inventory photos into complete listings in minutes. With our platform, you can. Simply upload your photos, and we'll use AI to create complete listings with optimized titles, detailed descriptions, and suggested prices. As our customer FabFam noted, "Reeva has cut my listing time by more than half. I can take photos, voice-to-text my details, and let Reeva handle the rest."

List Everywhere with One Click

Stop wasting time copying and pasting listings. Our cross-listing feature allows you to publish your items to all your marketplaces—including Depop, Poshmark, eBay, and Mercari—with a single click. Hiview Reloved found our platform incredibly user-friendly, stating, "It has made it easy to expand to eBay and Depop. I’ve created more listings in the few months of using Reeva than I was able to create all of last year when trying to do it on my own."

Maximize Sales with Multi-Store Support

Don't limit your reach. We allow you to manage and sell across all of your stores from one central hub, reaching more buyers effortlessly. This unified approach ensures your inventory is always in sync, no matter where a sale happens.

Save Hours Every Week with Powerful Automation

Automation is the key to unlocking true scale. We built our platform to handle the repetitive tasks that consume your day, allowing you to focus on what truly matters.

Automatic Sharing and Offers

Visibility is everything on platforms like Poshmark. Our tools automatically share your products to keep them at the top of your followers' feeds. You can also send personalized offers to potential buyers automatically, engaging them without lifting a finger.

Relist and Delist with Ease

Relisting stale products keeps your inventory fresh and at the top of search results. We can automate this process for you. More importantly, to prevent overselling, our platform instantly delists sold items across all other marketplaces the moment a sale is made. AlistairBP says this feature is essential: "The feature I use 100% the most—and couldn't live without—is the AUTO-DELIST feature."

Success Stories: How Resellers are Growing with Reeva

Don't just take our word for it. Resellers across the country are using our platform to transform their businesses and achieve incredible growth.

• TUFFNY cut their admin time by 30% and increased listing speed by 50%. They said, "I've cut down my admin time by at least 30%, which has allowed me to source more products and expand my offerings."
• AlistairBP went from selling 3-5 items a week to 10-15 products per day. They now manage around 1,000 listings and have seen a 4x increase in their selling amount.
• Vintage Vault WV saw a staggering +372% increase in items sold in just three weeks and can now create 10x the number of listings per hour.
• Nuzzydeals experienced a 7x increase in sales and a 60% increase in listing speed after integrating our tools into their workflow.
• FabFam doubled their listing amount while spending 30% less time on administrative work.

These are not just numbers; they represent real businesses becoming more profitable and efficient. You can achieve this too. Start your free trial and experience the difference.

Full-Service Accounting Built for Resellers

Managing finances is one of the most stressful parts of running a business. That's why we built a full-service accounting system directly into our platform, eliminating the need for messy spreadsheets.

Our accounting tools help you:

• Automate Transactions: Connect your bank accounts to automatically record transactions, expenses, and marketplace fees.
• Go Paperless: Upload photos of receipts and attach them to transactions for seamless record-keeping and audit protection.
• Simplify Taxes: Our system automatically categorizes your income, fees, and expenses, so you can easily file taxes with confidence.
• Make Smarter Decisions: Generate clear profit and loss reports to understand the financial health of your business and identify growth opportunities.

As PCT Vintage Finds said, "No more spreadsheets. My bookkeeping is now all automated thanks to Reeva accounting."

Access Reeva Anytime, Anywhere

Your business doesn't stop, and neither should your tools. You can manage your entire resale business seamlessly on mobile, desktop, or tablet. Unlike other solutions, our platform does not require a Chrome extension or for your laptop to be constantly running for operations to continue. This flexibility is what makes our system truly industry-leading.

Choose the Right Plan for Your Business

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Conclusion: From Manual Edits to Automated Growth

Knowing how to edit a sold listing on Depop is a useful skill for managing your store. The process is simple: navigate to the item via the sidebar, use the three-dot menu to select "Edit Actions," make your changes, and click "Post Listing" to make it active again.

However, relying on manual processes like this will limit your ability to scale. To truly grow your resale business, you need to embrace automation. An all-in-one platform saves you countless hours on repetitive tasks like listing, delisting, and accounting.

We provide the tools to automate your workflow, from AI-powered listing creation and one-click cross-posting to automated delisting and integrated accounting. By reducing your admin time, we empower you to source more inventory, reach more customers, and grow your sales.

Stop juggling multiple apps and start managing your business from a single, powerful platform. Start your free 7-day trial of Reeva today and see how easy it can be to scale your resale business.