I built the eBay tool I wanted to use myself.

I’m a Japanese eBay seller who mainly works with used, vintage, and one-of-a-kind items. Select Folio was originally created in Japanese for my own day-to-day work.

Most seller software was built for a different kind of business.

Many of the seller tools I found were designed for high-volume businesses. They included features such as inventory synchronization, order management, repricing, team accounts, bulk editing, and large catalog management. Those features are useful for sellers managing hundreds or thousands of repeat-stock products, but I simply did not need most of them.

What I needed was not a large system filled with features I rarely used, but a simpler tool that matched the way I actually work.

I did not want my listing work to depend on someone else's server.

I had experienced server-based services becoming unavailable when I needed to list. I had also seen a service end and leave existing listing HTML broken because parts of that HTML depended on the service's server.

That made one thing very clear to me: the core of my listing work should not disappear just because a service changes or shuts down.

I wanted to keep my own history.

When a service ended, I also lost access to years of history that had lived inside it. For a seller of one-of-a-kind items, old listings are not just records. They are references, templates, descriptions, Item Specifics, and accumulated work.

Select Folio was designed so the working archive lives on the seller's own Mac, where it can be kept and backed up as part of the seller's own system.

Pricing by listing volume did not fit the way I sell.

I also list on multiple eBay sites. That can make the listing count look much larger than the number of actual physical items I am handling, and some services become more expensive as that count grows.

I wanted a simple price that made sense for an individual seller, without paying more just because the same inventory is represented across multiple eBay marketplaces.

Sellers of used, vintage, and one-of-a-kind items usually have to pay for their inventory upfront. Even if an item takes months to sell — or does not sell at all — the seller still has to cover that cost. eBay fees are already expensive, so I did not want listing management software to become another large monthly expense.

That is why Select Folio is $10 per month. I would rather you keep more of that money for your next piece of inventory.

I wanted software for one-of-a-kind sellers.

Even when two items are the same model, they are still different pieces. Their condition, serial number, included accessories, photos, and descriptions can all be different.

Once an item sells, that exact piece is gone. Even if I later sell the same model again, it will be a different piece.

But much of the work that went into the original listing can still be reused.

That is why Select Folio is designed around duplicating and adapting past listings. You can save them, find them later, duplicate them, and adapt them for your next one-of-a-kind item.

It started in Japanese because that is what I wanted to use every day.

Working every day in an English-only interface was a small but constant source of friction. So I built the first version for myself in Japanese.

It worked extremely well for me, so I decided to create an English version and make it available to other sellers. I hope it can make day-to-day work a little easier for people who sell used and one-of-a-kind items like I do.

The idea in one line

Keep your work. Keep control of it. Reuse what matters.

That is the reason Select Folio exists.

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