Auto-Import eBay Purchases

Overview

If you buy cards on eBay to flip, the slowest part of reselling is re-entering everything you just bought. Auto-import eBay purchases removes that step entirely: every trading card you buy on eBay appears in your RocketVault inventory on its own — no scanning, no photographing, no data entry. Each purchase arrives with details parsed from the listing (item specifics and title), the listing's images copied into your account, and cost basis already set to what you actually paid.

When the card shows up at your door, tap Mark received — it's priced on the spot and becomes ready to list.

How It Works

Once enabled, RocketVault checks your eBay account for new purchases every 6 hours:

1. Polls your recent eBay orders via the eBay API
2. Filters to trading cards — sleeves, toploaders, boxes, and other supplies are ignored automatically
3. Parses card details from the listing's item specifics and title (player, year, set, card number, parallel, and more)
4. Copies the listing's images into your RocketVault account
5. Sets cost basis automatically — the purchase price plus your share of shipping

Your first sync backfills the last 90 days of purchases — that's the maximum history eBay makes available. After that, new purchases typically appear within 6 hours of checkout.

Turning It On

The Purchase Lifecycle

Imported purchases move through a simple lifecycle so you always know where each card physically is:

Pricing runs when you mark the card received, and the result follows the same rules as every other card in RocketVault: confident identification and pricing means the card is marked ready to list; cards worth $50 or more get the high-value check; and cards with missing details or no confident price land in Review with an attention chip flagging what needs a look.

What Gets Imported

Only items in eBay's trading-card categories are imported. Everything else in your purchase history — supplies, storage, non-card collectibles — is skipped automatically, so there's nothing to clean up.

Cost Basis, Done For You

Every imported card gets its cost basis set to the purchase price plus its share of the order's shipping. That number flows straight into your profit tracking: when you resell the card, RocketVault computes profit and margin against what you genuinely paid — not a guess you typed in weeks later.

Common Questions

Why don't I see purchases older than 90 days? eBay only exposes a rolling 90-day window of order history, so the first sync reaches back 90 days and no further. Older purchases can still be added the usual way — scan them.

Why is a card in Review after I marked it received? The listing didn't carry enough detail, or RocketVault Pricing couldn't confidently match the card. Fill in the flagged fields (or confirm the suggested match) and the card moves on to ready.

Can RocketVault mark cards delivered automatically? Not yet — eBay doesn't expose buyer-side delivery confirmation, so the Mark received tap is yours. It doubles as your confirmation that the card in hand matches what you ordered, right before it's priced for resale.

Do supplies and non-card purchases get imported? No. Only items listed in eBay's trading-card categories are materialized as inventory — sleeves, toploaders, and other supplies are ignored automatically.

Will this touch my eBay account or my seller listings? No. Purchase import is read-only — it reads your order history and the listings you bought from. It never modifies anything on eBay.