Your eBay balance, funds on hold and selling limits

Your dashboard shows a live snapshot of your eBay seller funds in the Next payout widget, and warns you when you are getting close to your monthly selling limit. Between them you can see at a glance what money is on its way to you and whether you are near being capped on new listings or sales.

Ready, processing and on hold funds

The Next payout widget on your dashboard leads with your total seller funds, then breaks that down into what is ready and what is still processing, and adds an on hold line only when eBay is holding some of your money. DashVue reads these figures straight from your eBay account each time it syncs:

• Ready: funds eBay has cleared and released to you. This is the amount that is actually ready to be paid out.
• Processing: funds from recent sales that eBay is still working through before release. This is normal and usually clears within eBay’s standard payout timelines.
• On hold: funds eBay has frozen, most often because of a buyer dispute, a return, a new account review, or a performance or policy flag on your listings. This line appears in amber, and only when there is money on hold. On hold funds are not available to you until eBay itself releases them.

Seeing an on hold line appear is usually the first sign of an open case or return you need to deal with directly in eBay, since DashVue does not manage disputes on your behalf. If you have not connected eBay yet, this widget instead prompts you to connect in Settings; if you have connected but not synced, it asks you to hit Sync to pull the latest.

Your monthly selling limit

eBay caps how many items and how much total value you can sell each month, particularly for newer or lower-volume accounts. DashVue does not show a standing limit meter. Instead, once you have used 80% or more of your limit, an amber warning banner appears at the top of your dashboard so you have time to react before you plan a bulk upload or a big restock.

The banner tells you the percentage used, then the value and item counts behind it (for example £820 of £1,000 and 82 of 100 items), and links straight out to eBay to request an increase. You can dismiss it, and DashVue will only bring it back if your usage climbs another five points closer to the cap.

If you are near your limit, the usual options are to wait for the monthly reset, sell through existing stock first, or request a limit increase directly with eBay using the link in the banner.

Where this data comes from

Both the Next payout widget and the selling-limit banner are read straight from your eBay connection at sync time. DashVue does not calculate or estimate these figures itself, and it does not hold or move your money at any point. It simply mirrors what eBay is currently reporting for your account.

If the numbers look out of date

Because these figures come from your eBay connection rather than from DashVue’s own records, they refresh on each sync rather than in real time. If you have just resolved a dispute or made a large sale and the balance has not moved yet, give it until the next sync before assuming something is wrong.

See the related articles below for more on connecting your eBay account and keeping your data in sync.