It appears that eBay rolled out their previously announced Seller Dashboard sometime last weekend. The current version, dubbed by some as ‘Seller LIte’ doesn’t contain all the information that will eventually be included, but it does allow sellers to see what their Detailed Seller Rating (DSR) is over the last 30 day period of time.

For most sellers the portion of Seller Dashboard that will draw the most attention is Detailed Seller Ratings sectiion. The figures provided in this section are a 30-day average that is updated on a dialy basis.

Here’s what the currently functioning portion of Seller Dashboard looks like for my seller ID Paperpleasures46.

And a closeup of the DSR portion.

I don’t know if we will see it when the full version of Seller Dashboard is rolled out, but I think one change many sellers would appreciate is if the actual DSRs were displayed to two decimal points rather than only one as they re now.

While a rating of 4.87 might not cause much concern, if it dropped to 4.82 a seller could take steps to improve it before it dropped into the 4.7x range and possibly affected discounts and where their auctions appeared in ‘Best Match’.

I’m not going to go into a lot more about Seller Dashboard but for readers who would like more detail, Scott Wingo’s post eBay Releases Seller Dashboard (lite) For Tracking Those DSRs…. goes into quite a bit more detail.

I found his analogy of DSRs to the Bell Curve many teachers use for grading to be interesting and probably right on.

If you don’t know how to find your own Seller Dashboard just sign into eBay and go to My eBay. You will find ‘Seller Dashboard’ under ‘My Account’ in the left-hand sidebar.

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