FlowLister Feature · Beta
FlowDrop: drop a whole folder of photos, get a stack of drafts.
Photograph a full sourcing haul one item after another, drop the folder into FlowDrop, and the AI sorts the pile into separate items — reading the weight off your scale photos and the SKU off your stickers, and keeping those reference shots off the listing. Each item becomes an editable eBay draft in My Listings. One drop, a whole table of inventory listed.
By Chris Taylor, founder of FlowLister and active eBay seller
The slow part of high-volume reselling isn't writing any one listing — it's the thirty times a day you start a new one. Photograph the item, open the lister, upload the right photos, type the weight off the scale, copy the SKU off the sticker, then do it again for the next item on the table. FlowDrop collapses that loop. You shoot the whole haul in one pass and hand FlowLister the folder; it does the sorting, the reading, and the drafting.
How FlowDrop sorts a photo dump into items
FlowDrop's core trick is that it reads shooting order the way a human would. When you photograph items one after another — a few angles of the first item, then the second, then the third —the sequence itself marks where one item ends and the next begins. FlowDrop orders your photos by capture sequence (the filename every phone and camera assigns) and groups consecutive shots of the same item together, so a 90-photo folder becomes, say, 22 items without you tagging a thing.
It doesn't have to be perfect to be useful. If FlowDrop merges two items it should have split, or splits one it should have kept together, the optional review step lets you drag a photo to another group, split a photo into a brand-new item, or drop a group entirely — in a couple of clicks, before anything is generated.
It reads your scale and SKU shots — and keeps them off the listing
This is the part that saves the most typing. Include a photo of your shipping scale's display after an item and FlowDrop reads the weight off it, then pre-fills the listing's ship weight (padded a little for the box). Include a shot of a SKU or price sticker and it reads that into the item's custom SKU. Ruler and tape-measure shots are recognized too.
Just as important as reading those photos is hiding them. A scale display, a SKU sticker, and a ruler shot are working photos, not buyer-facing ones — FlowDrop marks them as reference shots and keeps them out of the published listing automatically. Buyers see your clean product photos; the weight and SKU quietly land in the right fields.
One click, or review first — your call
By default, FlowDrop is genuinely one click: it sorts the folder and sends every group straight to draft generation, and the finished listings appear in sold-comp-priced form in My Listings, ready to review and publish. If you'd rather check the grouping before anything runs, tick “Review groups before creating” and you get a screen to regroup photos, fix a weight or SKU the AI flagged for a look, or add a note. The setting is remembered, so once you pick your style FlowDrop stays that way.
Built for real hauls, not toy demos
FlowDrop is meant for the size of folder a working reseller actually produces. Large drops upload in slices behind the scenes and are analyzed server-side, so you're not capped at a handful of photos — a single drop can run to hundreds of images, up to about 300 MB at a time. Each item is then generated through the same background pipeline as Batch Mode, so you can close the tab and let the drafts build while you move on to the next box. Every item uses one listing credit — the same as a single-item listing — so FlowDrop doesn't cost anything beyond the credits you already have.
Where FlowDrop fits
FlowDrop is the front door for volume. It hands each item to the same pipeline that powers single listings, which means every draft it creates still gets an AI title and description, item specifics, sold-comp pricing, and a ShipSense shipping pick — all editable before you publish. FlowDrop just gets you from a table of stuff to a screen full of drafts without the thirty-times-a-day setup tax. It's in Beta today: live, creating real listings, and getting sharper as we tune the grouping and reading.
Start with FlowLister Starter and drop your next haul in — or read the how-to guide to see the full workflow first.
FlowDrop FAQ
Short answers to common seller questions about this workflow.
One folder in. A table of inventory listed.
FlowDrop sorts, reads, and drafts a whole haul at once — in Beta on every paid plan.