Cloud sync
SaleLinx keeps your listing catalogue in your browser. Cloud sync copies a listing, with its full details and photos, to your SaleLinx account. It works per listing: you choose which listings to save, and only those are copied.
When you save a listing, SaleLinx reads its full details from the marketplace (condition, colour, size, the whole description, the category and the full-size photos), backs up the photos, then stores the copy in your account. That is why a save takes a moment to settle.
Why you’d save listings to the cloud
- Cross-device - your saved listings appear on every browser signed into your SaleLinx account.
- Backup - if a listing is removed from the marketplace, your cloud copy still has the photos and details.
- Relist sold items - select a sold item that was saved to cloud in My Listings and choose Relist. It goes back up as a live listing or a draft, with its photos and details intact, even after the marketplace has stopped showing it. See Relist.
- Linking and the Restocker - a link between a Depop and a Vinted listing is stored on their cloud copies, and the Restocker reposts from the cloud copy. Both only work on saved listings.
eBay listings can be saved too, for the backup and to see them on every device. Relisting sold items, linking and the Restocker work on Depop and Vinted listings only.
Saving, updating and removing
Everything happens in the My Listings tab.
- One listing - each row has a switch in the Cloud column. A linked row has one switch per marketplace, so you can see which side is saved. Switch it on to save. A spinner shows while it saves, and the row can’t be selected until the save finishes. Switch it off to remove the cloud copy.
- Several listings - select the rows, click Cloud in the toolbar, and choose Save to Cloud, Remove from Cloud or Update Cloud. Remove from Cloud asks you to confirm first. See Bulk editor for the rest of the toolbar.
Only active listings can be saved from My Listings. Sold and draft listings in a selection are skipped, though one that is already saved can still be removed. The Linking tab’s Save to cloud picker can also save sold listings, because a sold item can still be part of a linked pair.
The cloud filter button above the grid switches between showing all listings, only cloud-saved ones, and only the ones that aren’t saved.
While a save runs
SaleLinx needs the listing’s marketplace open in a tab to read its details. If the tab isn’t open, that listing waits and the save carries on with the others. eBay listings are the exception: SaleLinx reads them straight from eBay, so they need no tab.
Saves run one listing at a time in the background, with Saving to cloud and a count showing progress. They give way to anything else SaleLinx is doing on the marketplace. If the marketplace starts refusing requests, saving stops and the remaining listings stay queued for later. If the marketplace tab is signed into a different account from the one linked to SaleLinx, saving stops completely, so another shop’s listings can’t end up in your backup.
Keeping the copy up to date
When a saved listing sells or otherwise changes status, the cloud copy is updated automatically. Edits you make through SaleLinx are saved to the cloud copy as well.
Edits you make directly on Depop, Vinted or eBay aren’t copied over by themselves. Select the listing and choose Cloud then Update Cloud to read its latest details and photos again. If that fails, the existing cloud copy is kept.
What removing does
Removing a listing from the cloud deletes its cloud copy and photo backups. The listing on the marketplace and its row in My Listings are untouched. It also switches off restock tracking for that listing and removes its link to a partner listing, because both of those live on the cloud copy.
What gets stored where
- Your browser holds every listing SaleLinx has seen, with basic details like title, price, photos and status.
- Your SaleLinx account holds only the listings you’ve saved, plus their photo backups.
Your browser is the main copy. The cloud is an extra backup on top of it.
How your backup is protected
Cloud copies travel to SaleLinx over an encrypted (HTTPS) connection and are stored with Supabase, the database provider SaleLinx uses, which encrypts its storage at rest. Access rules tie every saved listing and photo to your account, so no other SaleLinx user can see them.
On more than one device
A browser that signs into your account pulls down your saved listings, and every open SaleLinx panel updates when you save or remove something, so two tabs or two computers stay in step.
Listings that only exist in the cloud
Sometimes a listing drops out of your browser’s list (for example an old sold item the marketplace no longer returns) while its cloud copy is still there. SaleLinx still shows these in the My Listings grid so you can see and manage them, and they follow your platform and status filters like any other row.
If SaleLinx is temporarily down
If SaleLinx can’t reach its servers several times in a row, the panel shows SaleLinx is temporarily down with We should be back up in a moment. Your listings on Depop, Vinted and eBay aren’t affected, and there is nothing you need to do: the message clears by itself as soon as SaleLinx can reach its servers again.
From version 1.1.12 this screen covers the whole panel until the connection is back, with a Close SaleLinx button to close the panel. In earlier versions the same message shows as a banner at the top of the panel.
Plan and access
- Pro and Business include cloud sync.
- Free trial and Starter see the cloud switches and toolbar options with a padlock. Clicking them opens the upgrade prompt. If you move to a plan without cloud sync, the switches lock again, including on listings that are already saved.
Each plan has a cloud storage limit for photos and details; see pricing for the current amounts. Your usage shows as Cloud storage on the Membership card in the Settings tab (see Settings). When you reach the limit, new saves stop and the upgrade prompt appears. Removing listings from the cloud frees space.
Next steps
- My Listings - the tab where the cloud switches live.
- Bulk editor - save, update or remove many listings at once.
- Linking - pair saved listings across Depop and Vinted.
- Restocker - reposts from the cloud copy when an item sells.
- Relist - recreates sold listings from the cloud backup.