InkFrog Replacement: Automating an eBay Dropshipping Store

InkFrog shut down on June 1, 2026. Wix, which bought it in 2020, emailed users on April 29, and the CSV export ran until May 31, as Value Added Resource reported. Most sellers now looking for an InkFrog replacement fall into one of two groups: people who list their own stock and mainly miss the templates, and dropshippers who used InkFrog as the listing layer of a store sourced from Amazon or AliExpress. This guide covers both, then goes deep on the second, because a dropshipping store needs far more from its replacement than InkFrog ever did.

Quick answer: For an eBay dropshipping store, our InkFrog replacement pick is Ecomli, a non-API browser extension that creates listings from Amazon and AliExpress with your templates and pricing rules, keeps them in line with supplier stock and prices, and handles supplier ordering and tracking within your buying limits on the plans that include them. If you sell your own stock, 3Dsellers suits eBay-focused sellers who want listings, messages and orders in one place, Sellbrite suits sellers on several marketplaces, and CrazyLister is the option for putting a new template on listings you already have. Ecomli makes the tool ranked first and publishes this guide, so weigh our pick with that in mind.

What happened, and where your store stands

Your listings were not part of the shutdown. The image host img.vision's guide to InkFrog-hosted images explains that live eBay listings stay up because eBay does not depend on InkFrog to run them. What broke is anything InkFrog hosted inside those listings: template graphics, banners, headers, store logos and in-description galleries went dark on June 1, when every URL pointing to an InkFrog domain stopped resolving. The listing data is intact, but the listing can look broken.

For a dropshipping store, that leaves four facts to work with:

• Your listings are still live and still selling.
• Your supplier-side routine is unchanged, whether that was manual work or another tool.
• The listing layer is gone, so new listings need a new home.
• Descriptions that pulled images or template files from InkFrog need repairing on eBay.

InkFrog replacements compared by seller type

Prices come from each company's own website, as of Sep 2026. The right pick depends on whether you hold stock or dropship it.

3Dsellers charges $19 a month for Essential, $39.90 for Growth (500 listings, 2 eBay accounts) and $79 for Professional (from 2,000 listings, unlimited eBay accounts), with 7 days free before billing starts. Sellbrite has a Forever Free plan for up to 30 orders a month, then Pro 100 at $29 a month billed annually. Its InkFrog page pitches listing on eBay, Amazon, Walmart, Etsy, Shopify and more, and says nothing about dropshipping. CrazyLister offers 200+ designer templates and says you can connect your eBay account and apply a template to all your listings at once. If you only need the template part back, it is the closest like-for-like swap. For the wider field, see how the InkFrog alternatives compare and our best InkFrog alternatives roundup.

What a dropshipping store needs from an InkFrog replacement

On a dropshipping store, the daily work falls into five jobs, and InkFrog only helped with the first. Here is how Ecomli's automation features line up against them:

• Create new listings that look consistent: Create Listings with Description Studio templates.
• Keep each listing in line with its supplier's price and stock: Stock Monitoring.
• Buy each order from the supplier at a price you can live with: Auto Ordering on Pro and Scale, within your buying limits, or manual ordering on Starter.
• Get supplier tracking onto the eBay order: Tracking Conversions.
• Clear out listings that don't sell: Auto Pruner, on Pro and Scale.

Ecomli is a non-API browser extension for eBay dropshippers. It works through the eBay seller account already signed in to your desktop Chrome browser, so there is no API connection to authorize. One point shapes everything below: most Ecomli tasks run in that browser while it is open. The exceptions are Advanced Auto Ordering on the Scale plan, which runs on Ecomli's servers, and the Aquiline conversion step of Tracking Conversions.

Listings and templates: the part InkFrog did

Create Listings reads the Amazon or AliExpress product, prices it with your markup, writes optional AI titles and AI descriptions from the supplier facts, applies your description template, runs Safety Shield and duplicate checks, and fills eBay's listing form in your seller session, up to 10 listings at once. Description Studio has 30+ mobile-friendly designs on every plan, including Dynamic Rotating, which picks a design by category, with your colors and store branding. On Pro and Scale, image templates apply a consistent layout to the first gallery photo. They arrange your supplier photo and are not AI-generated images.

Safety Shield screens products, AI copy and the eBay draft for flagged brands and restricted items before publishing, at Soft, Balanced or Strong settings. It is a checkpoint, and you still review what goes live. Templates apply to listings Ecomli creates or relists, so your existing InkFrog-era listings are not restyled. Our guide to mobile-first eBay listing templates covers what makes a design work.

Stock Monitoring: price and stock rules

Stock Monitoring checks supplier stock and prices on Amazon and AliExpress for your Ecomli listings, including listings you bring in through Migration, then updates the eBay price and quantity or ends out-of-stock items using your rules:

• Markup: how the eBay price is worked out from the supplier price. When the supplier price changes, the eBay price follows your markup, within the price-change tolerance you set.
• Out-of-stock rule: set the quantity to 0 or end the listing when the supplier runs out.
• Restock quantity: the quantity to list when the item comes back.

If a supplier read fails, the listing is held unchanged instead of being ended, so a failed check does not end a listing that is still good.

Here is why price rules matter, as an illustrative example. eBay's selling fees page gives a final value fee for most categories of 13.6% of the total sale, plus a $0.40 per-order fee on orders over $10.00. On a $30.00 order with free shipping, that is $4.08 plus $0.40, or $4.48 in fees. At a supplier cost of $18.00, you keep $7.52. If the supplier raises its price to $24.00 and your eBay price stays at $30.00, you keep $1.52. The final value fee also applies to any sales tax the buyer pays, so a taxed order costs a little more. A markup rule moves the eBay price with the supplier price instead. Our guide to setting repricing rules that protect margin goes deeper.

Stock Monitoring runs in your desktop browser while it is open, and Ecomli does not promise a check interval. It only covers listings mapped to an Amazon or AliExpress supplier.

Supplier ordering and your buying limits

Ordering is often the job sellers most want to hand off, and it is where limits matter most. Starter uses manual ordering. On Pro, you click Auto Order and Ecomli places the supplier order in your own browser. On Scale, once you turn it on, Advanced Auto Ordering runs on Ecomli's servers and places the supplier order for new eBay orders without a click, as long as each order is within your buying limits. Those limits are a maximum purchase price and a maximum loss, and orders outside them come back to you. The Auto Ordering page compares the two levels, and our eBay automation workflow guide shows how ordering fits with the other steps.

Tracking Conversions: getting tracking onto eBay orders

Tracking Conversions with Aquiline converts supported AliExpress tracking and Amazon TBA tracking numbers into eBay-compatible tracking, so buyers can follow the delivery from their eBay order. Ecomli adds the converted tracking to the eBay order after its automatic checks, not instantly. It covers supplier orders placed through Auto Ordering or recorded in Orders. With a supplier buying account signed in, Ecomli matches supplier orders placed after the eBay sale to that sale by item and delivery address, and when more than one order could fit, it asks you to pick.

For each store, you choose AliExpress local courier tracking or Aquiline for AliExpress parcels, and Amazon TBA parcels convert through Aquiline. Aquiline uses 1 credit per conversion, sold as 100 credits for $20 a month or as an instant 100-credit pack for $30, and Aquiline credits never expire. Not every parcel converts, and a Needs-attention view and a Check now button cover the ones that need you. The Aquiline conversion runs on Ecomli's servers, but reading the supplier tracking and adding it to the eBay order happen in your browser, so those steps wait until it is open. For the manual version of the same job, see how to add a tracking number on eBay.

Auto Pruner: clearing listings that don't sell

Every dropshipping store collects listings that get no views or no sales. Auto Pruner ends them in one click using your rules: zero views and/or zero sales over 15, 30, 45 or 60 days, a minimum listing age, and limits on how many it removes. It works from fresh Seller Hub reports, and a listing whose age is unknown or that has recent sales stays protected. Basic Auto Pruner is on Pro. Advanced Auto Pruner on Scale also relists removed products with fresh supplier data and a new AI title and description, and relisted items get new eBay item IDs. Starter does not include Auto Pruner. You run it when you choose from your browser, so pick a regular time, such as once a month.

What runs where, and what still needs you

So can the store keep going while you are away? Partly. Listings keep selling while you're away, but orders outside your buying limits, Starter's manual ordering, the tasks that run in your browser and buyer questions all need regular check-ins.

How to do this in Ecomli: moving your InkFrog-era listings

Ecomli does not import InkFrog files, and InkFrog's export closed on May 31 anyway. Your listings are on eBay, so the route starts there:

1. Download your active listings from eBay. In Seller Hub, go to the Reports tab, select Download and then Download report, and choose your active listings. eBay's Seller Hub Reports help page walks through the screens.
2. Run Migration. In Ecomli's Migration, choose eBay Active Listings as the source. Each row needs the eBay item number, and Ecomli reads the supplier from the Custom label (SKU), whether that is an ASIN, an AMZ_<ASIN> label or an AliExpress product ID, or from a supplier-URL column.
3. Fix the rows it holds. Rows Ecomli can't read are held for review so you can add the Amazon or AliExpress link. Nothing is guessed.
4. Confirm and set your rules. Confirm the import, then set your Stock Monitoring rules and, on Pro or Scale, your buying limits. Your listings stay live on eBay throughout.
5. List new products the new way. Pick a Description Studio design and use Create Listings for everything new, so fresh listings don't depend on any outside image host.

Listings with no Amazon or AliExpress supplier stay on eBay, but Ecomli won't monitor them. The eBay file carries no supplier cost, so the Overview dashboard's profit figures are only as complete as the supplier costs you record. Our step-by-step InkFrog migration guide covers each screen, InkFrog vs Ecomli after the shutdown maps every InkFrog feature to its Ecomli equivalent, and the InkFrog migration playbook has the full background.

Fixing broken InkFrog images

Broken InkFrog images are repaired by revising the description on eBay, starting with your best sellers. For supplier-sourced products, you can instead end the old listing and list the product again through Create Listings with a Description Studio template. That gives it a new eBay item ID, and the new listing does not carry the old one's sales history, so keep your proven sellers and revise them in place.

What each plan includes

Every plan includes Product Hunting, Create Listings with AI titles and descriptions, Description Studio, Stock Monitoring, Safety Shield, Tracking Conversions and the Overview dashboard, with unlimited active listings. The allowance is monthly product imports, which reset each billing month without rolling over, and eBay's own selling limits still apply. Add-ons include 5,000 more imports for $50 a month, Aquiline credits, and extra eBay accounts or VA seats at $10 a month each. Billing is monthly in USD and upfront, with a 7-day money-back guarantee on your first payment, and you can compare the plans on the Ecomli pricing page.

What Ecomli doesn't cover

• Selling anywhere except eBay. There is no cross-listing, and Amazon and AliExpress are suppliers only.
• Importing InkFrog files.
• Restyling existing listings, repairing their descriptions or hosting their images.
• Suppliers other than Amazon and AliExpress.
• Creating listings or connecting eBay from a phone. Listing, billing and the eBay connection stay on desktop.
• Running the browser-based tasks while your browser is closed.
• Your responsibilities as the seller, including delivery within the time frame in your listing.

If you are still weighing InkFrog's gaps against what you need now, our piece on what InkFrog never did for eBay sellers and our guide to what to use instead of InkFrog by seller type cover the decision from two other angles.

InkFrog replacement FAQ

Is InkFrog really gone for good?

Yes. Wix shut InkFrog down effective June 1, 2026, after announcing the closure to users on April 29, and the CSV export was available only until May 31, 2026. Your InkFrog account and its tools are no longer available.

Will my eBay listings stop working now that InkFrog shut down?

No. eBay does not depend on InkFrog to keep listings running, so items that were live keep selling. What broke is anything InkFrog hosted inside those listings, such as banners, logos and template images. Revise those on eBay, starting with your best sellers.

What is the best InkFrog replacement?

For an eBay dropshipping store, our pick is Ecomli, because it replaces the listing and template side and adds the supplier monitoring, ordering and tracking InkFrog never had. Ecomli publishes this guide, so weigh our pick with that in mind. If you sell your own stock, 3Dsellers, Sellbrite or CrazyLister fit better, depending on whether you want eBay management, several marketplaces or templates on existing listings.

What is the best eBay listing software?

For dropshippers who list from Amazon and AliExpress, our pick is Ecomli, because it creates listings with your markup and templates and then keeps them in line with the supplier. For sellers with their own stock, the answer depends on the job, and our ranking of eBay listing software compares the options by seller type.

I never downloaded the InkFrog export. Can I still switch?

Yes. Your listings are on eBay, so the eBay Active Listings file from Seller Hub is the one that matters. Ecomli does not import InkFrog files in any case. Its Migration reads the eBay file and maps each listing to its Amazon or AliExpress supplier so Stock Monitoring can manage it.

Can Ecomli restyle my old InkFrog listings?

No. Description Studio templates apply to listings Ecomli creates or relists, and Migration does not restyle, re-template or re-host existing listings. If a new look on your existing listings is the priority, a template tool such as CrazyLister is built for that job.

Can Ecomli keep my store going while I'm away?

Partly. Listings keep selling while you're away, but orders outside your buying limits, Starter's manual ordering, the tasks that run in your browser and buyer questions all need regular check-ins. Advanced Auto Ordering on Scale and the Aquiline conversion step run on Ecomli's servers, and most other tasks run in your desktop browser while it is open.

How much does Ecomli cost?

Ecomli has three monthly plans: Starter at $29, Pro at $99 and Scale at $199, billed upfront in USD with a 7-day money-back guarantee on your first payment, and you can cancel any time. Auto Ordering and Auto Pruner start on Pro.

Every plan includes Product Hunting, AI listing tools, Stock Monitoring, Safety Shield, Tracking Conversions and the profit dashboard, with unlimited active listings. Compare Starter, Pro and Scale → Monthly billing in USD · 7-day money-back guarantee.