Updates

What changed for sellers

Summary: This release polishes first-run setup, makes imported listings easier to review and edit, improves local shipping defaults, and makes large active-listing imports more reliable.

Intake + Guided Setup polish

• Intake can now save a card without a list price, while still requiring a price before publishing.
• First-use guidance is clearer when your Card Images folder is empty.
• Recommended Defaults cards are easier to scan, with equal-height cards and shorter bullet summaries.
• Welcome and copy-link help now sit on a cleaner, more consistent dialog background.

Imported listing editing

• Imported listings now open in the same standard listing editor as CardStride-created cards.
• Card Library Edit shows more of the imported listing details sellers expect to review locally.
• CardStride management review is organized around clearer seller questions, with technical details kept compact.

Shipping defaults + field polish

• New Intake cards now follow the selected eBay shipping policy, including service and handling time.
• Optional eBay Standard Envelope stays separate for eligible listings and no longer overwrites ordinary calculated-shipping defaults.
• Shipping weight and dimension controls now match normal field height, with connected spinner arrows and cleaner invalid-field outlining.
• Price-drop fields stay inactive when the related Settings option is off.

Import Active Listings reliability

• Import progress now shows checked, eligible, and requested listing counts more clearly.
• Photo progress uses the real listing-image count, avoiding confusing totals.
• Time estimates appear after CardStride has a steadier import pace.
• Cancel, Resume, and paused-import states are clearer, including why a job paused and what actions are available.
• Large imports keep Card Library more usable while rows and thumbnails load in the background.
• Import Active Listings no longer pauses by itself during normal Card Library idle work.

Fixes + polish

• Additional UI and workflow polish across Intake, Guided Setup, Import Active Listings, Card Library, and Settings.

What changed for sellers

Summary: Import Active Listings now runs in the background, adds supported listings with richer eBay details and photos, and lets you keep using CardStride while the import continues.

Background active-listing import

• Import Active Listings now runs in the background, so you can keep using CardStride while listings are found and added.
• Imported listings appear in Card Library as they are added, then continue updating as details and photos arrive.
• Import progress is more detailed, with clearer status updates and a live elapsed timer.
• When you request a number of listings, CardStride fills that quota with supported card listings by skipping non-card categories and continuing through your remaining active inventory.

Imported listing details + photos

• Imported listings now keep richer eBay details and automatically download primary photos.
• Imported listings remain Imported / Limited until a later CardStride-managed reconstruction step, so they are visible and useful but not fully managed yet.
• Imported listings stay visible in Card Library during and after import, including Listed cards with the default New + Listed filter.

Guided Setup + Settings polish

• Calculated-shipping defaults and ship-from ZIP now stay consistent across Guided Setup and Settings.
• Guided Setup keeps the ZIP you entered even if an older Settings save runs afterward.
• Settings no longer warns about unsaved changes when you open Guided Setup without editing anything.
• eBay Setup no longer shows red policy errors while policies are still loading.

Fixes + polish

• Additional UI and workflow polish across Import Active Listings, Guided Setup, and Settings.

What changed for sellers

Summary: Setup and your first eBay import are now much more dependable: connecting eBay, finishing Guided Setup, and importing your active listings all work on the first try.

Settings, Support + Quick Start

• Connecting eBay in Guided Setup now always shows a clear place to paste the Callback URL while CardStride waits for your browser, with a Complete Connection button — no hidden link to find and no.

Reliability improvements

• Finish Setup now reliably lands in your ready Card Library on the first try; your shipping/payment/return policies, inventory location, category, condition, and ship-from city/state/postal code no longer disappear when you revisit setup or restart the.
• Importing a batch of 25 now means 25 eligible supported card listings: non-card categories are skipped and replaced from the remainder of your active inventory, and the recommended “next listings” scope advances past cards already.
• Finish Setup now verifies that those settings actually saved and that publish readiness is complete before CardStride marks setup done — a failed save keeps you on Guided Setup with a clear error instead of.
• Import Active eBay Listings no longer skips valid card listings when eBay leaves category data out of the initial results — CardStride now looks up the missing category with a read-only request before deciding.

Fixes + polish

• The Callback URL paste area scrolls into view automatically (including its error message) so the Complete Connection button is never hidden below the fold.

What changed for sellers

Summary: This release tightens the new Guided Setup experience, fixes packaged Import Active Listings, and makes first-run setup more reliable from eBay connection through Card Library.

Guided Setup fixes

• Guided Setup now follows four focused stages: Connect eBay, eBay Setup, Listing Essentials, and Recommended Defaults.
• Fresh accounts now land on a clear Card Library Welcome with Begin Guided Setup, instead of competing setup messages.
• Finish Setup now brings you into a ready Card Library after required setup is complete.
• Finish Later returns you to a compact Continue Setup path, and the next launch resumes Guided Setup after you have started it.

eBay setup improvements

• eBay Setup now loads your shipping, payment, return policies, and inventory locations more consistently.
• Connect eBay setup recovers more cleanly when policy loading fails or times out.
• Guided Setup includes the eBay connection flow more completely, including callback paste when needed.

Import Active Listings fix

• Import Active Listings now works more reliably in the packaged Windows app.
• Import failures are no longer incorrectly reported as a broken internet connection when the issue is related to packaged-app certificate handling.

Setup screen polish

• Recommended Defaults now shows a compact summary of starting settings.
• Finish Setup is now the primary action, with Customize in Settings kept secondary.
• Card Library Welcome copy is cleaner and no longer repeats Free-plan messaging after sign-in.
• Guided Setup uses a wider, desktop-friendly layout with a clearer four-step progress track.

What changed for sellers

Summary: This release includes CardStride Studio improvements, reliability fixes, and workflow polish.

Fixes + polish

• Additional reliability and workflow improvements.

What changed for sellers

Summary: This release introduces Guided Setup, a new first-run onboarding wizard that walks new users through the essentials so they can get CardStride Studio ready in just a few minutes.

Guided Setup

• New Guided Setup helps new users complete the key setup steps before landing in an empty Card Library.
• The wizard walks through connecting eBay, loading eBay setup details, choosing listing essentials, and reviewing recommended defaults.
• Guided Setup shows clear step-by-step progress and resumes automatically if required setup is still incomplete.
• After setup is complete, Card Library becomes the normal home screen.

Flexible setup flow

• You can choose Finish Later and return to Card Library, with a clear Continue Setup path when required setup still needs attention.
• While Guided Setup is open, CardStride Studio keeps normal workspace navigation out of the way so setup stays focused.
• Required setup details are collected inline, while Settings remains available later for advanced changes.

Clearer eBay setup

• eBay policies, inventory location, category, condition, and ship-from address are explained more clearly during setup.
• Recommended Defaults now better explain when Automation is off and remind you that settings can be changed later.
• Connect eBay setup recovers more cleanly when policy loading fails or times out.

Intake + Edit Card polish

• Intake’s first image step is clearer, with less repeated front/back guidance.
• Edit Card no longer shows the yellow Floor / Best Offer compatibility warning when Price Drops are turned off and the saved values only matter for Price Drops.

Fixes + polish

• Stale Connecting to eBay… status messages no longer remain or reappear after eBay is connected.
• The close-to-tray dialog now uses consistent CardStride Studio wording: Keep Running / Quit.

What changed for sellers

Summary: Guided Quick Start and first-listing steps now help established eBay sellers get started faster, while Import Active Listings is clearer and Completed Actions stays responsive with long histories.

Guided onboarding

• Quick Start now begins with the most important setup steps: connect eBay and import active listings.
• First-listing guidance now makes it clearer that CardStride is helping you create your first CardStride listing, not your first-ever eBay listing.
• Optional setup steps are easier to understand after the core eBay connection and import flow.

Import Active Listings improvements

• Import Active Listings now defaults to a smaller starter batch.
• Custom import limits are clearer and easier to set.
• The import dialog is better organized: choose scope and limit first, then review details under What gets imported?
• Import safety notes are clearer, including the read-only / no-credit behavior.

Completed Actions performance

• Completed Actions opens quickly again from Scheduled Actions and other workflows, even with a long operation history.
• Long histories no longer cause extended freezes while loading.

Fixes + polish

• Additional onboarding and import-flow copy improvements for established eBay sellers.