Switching from Vendoo: what transfers, what does not, and the afternoon it takes
Vendoo's inventory export imports into FlipDesk as items with title, description, brand, size, category, SKU, price, cost, dates and status already mapped. Photos, tags and colour do not come through a CSV, and live listings on the extension marketplaces are claimed separately from your own browser. Plan an afternoon, most of it waiting on photo uploads.
Verified July 2026. Export formats change; step 2 of the import shows every column before anything is written.
What transfers
- Items: one FlipDesk inventory item per export row, with the title and description as written
- Brand, size and category, matched to FlipDesk's own category list where the words line up
- Prices: the listing price becomes the item's list price, the cost becomes the purchase price
- Dates: date added, date listed and date sold, so aging and days-to-sell keep their history
- Status: sold rows import as sold, with the sold price, so your numbers are not reset to zero
- SKU or item number, so a label you already printed still resolves
What does not
- Photos: the export carries links, not files. Re-upload from your phone or computer, or use the closet import for items that are live on a marketplace, which brings the marketplace's copies across
- Tags, colour and quantity: FlipDesk stores colour and quantity on the listing, not the item, so these columns are skipped rather than guessed
- Marketplace connections: eBay and Shopify reconnect through FlipDesk's own authorization; nothing about your Vendoo connection carries over
- Live listings on Poshmark, Mercari, Grailed, Vinted and Facebook are not in any CSV. The closet import in the GradeThread browser extension claims them from your own logged-in browser, one marketplace at a time, and links each to the imported item.
- Your Vendoo account itself: nothing here touches it. Export first, cancel later, once the import checks out
The afternoon, in order
- Export your inventory from Vendoo as CSV
- Open FlipDesk, Import, and drop the file in; the page recognises a Vendoo export and maps the columns
- Check the mapping on step 2 (the mapping was drawn from Vendoo's documented columns; a column you do not see mapped is one to set by hand)
- Import, then open a handful of items and confirm prices and dates look right; undo is one click if they do not
- Install the GradeThread extension and run the closet import for each marketplace you are live on
- Reconnect eBay and Shopify, then list your next item from FlipDesk
Not sure you should move at all? Read when to stay with Vendoo first.
Questions sellers ask before switching
- Do my Vendoo photos come across?
- Not through the CSV, which carries links rather than files. Items that are live on a marketplace get their photos through the closet import, which reads the marketplace's own copies from your browser. Anything not live needs a re-upload.
- Will my sold history import?
- Yes. Rows with a sold date and a sold price import as sold items, so sell-through, profit and days-to-sell are computed from your real history rather than starting from nothing.
- What if the columns are not what FlipDesk expects?
- The mapping was drawn from Vendoo's documented columns and is checked against real files as sellers send them. Step 2 of the import shows every column and what it maps to; change any of them before you import, and tell us if a column was missed so the preset is fixed for the next seller.
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