Refresh

The Refresh tab re-saves your Depop listings so they jump back to the top of your shop and re-enter the “newest” feed. Nothing about the listing changes for the buyer: same price, same photos, same words. Only the listing’s edit timestamp moves forward, and Depop’s search treats it as fresh content.

The tab has two halves:

• Manual refresh - tick the listings you want, click Refresh. Available on every plan (subject to a daily cap).
• Auto-refresh scheduler - run a full shop refresh every 4 to 24 hours in the background, even with the panel closed. Pro and Business only.

When to use it

• You list infrequently and your shop has slipped down the feed.
• A handful of items have gone quiet but you don’t want to recreate them from scratch.
• You want to redo your shop’s display order without deleting anything (see Shop Designer, which uses the refresher under the hood).

If a listing has been live for weeks and still has near-zero views, a refresh probably won’t save it. Try Price Drops or Relist instead.

How a refresh works

For each listing the refresher does two API calls:

1. GET the full edit payload for the listing (title, price, photos, category, etc.).
2. PUT that exact same payload straight back to Depop.

Because the body is identical to what’s already on the listing, nothing visible changes. But Depop’s backend marks the listing as edited, which bumps its sort position in your shop and in the relevant search feeds.

There’s a small, randomised pause between the GET and the PUT (roughly half a second to just over a second) so the request pair looks like a human editing through the website rather than two back-to-back API hits.

Order is preserved

Refreshing bumps an item to the top of your shop. So if you refresh five items top-to-bottom, your shop order would be inverted afterwards.

The refresher works around this by walking your listings bottom-up:

• For Refresh all, SaleLinx fetches every page of your shop first, reverses the full list, then refreshes the bottom item, then the next one up, and so on. The top item refreshes last, so it stays on top.
• For Refresh selected, the rows you ticked are reversed in the same way before processing.

The result is that your shop layout looks identical after the run, but every listing has a fresh edit timestamp.

Penny toggle

There’s an optional penny toggle setting. With it on, each refresh nudges the price by ±$0.01, alternating up and down per listing. The buyer-facing price effectively oscillates by a single cent.

This is useful for shops that have been refreshing heavily and want extra confidence the bumps are landing. Most users don’t need it.

Running it manually

From the Refresh tab:

1. Wait for your listings to load. They appear newest-first, matching your shop order.
2. Tick the listings you want to refresh, or click Refresh all to do the lot.
3. Click Refresh selected (or Refresh all).
4. Watch the progress bar at the top of the tab.

You can keep working in other Chrome tabs while it runs. If you close the side panel mid-run, the bot keeps going in the background and picks up where it left off if the service worker restarts.

Auto-refresh on a schedule

The Auto-refresh section at the top of the Refresh tab schedules the same logic to run automatically. Set the cadence (4h, 6h, 8h, 12h, or 24h) and flip the toggle on.

Setup

1. Pick an interval from the dropdown. Defaults to 8h.
2. Flip the Auto-refresh toggle on.

The status row underneath populates after the first scheduled run with:

• Last run - when it ran and how many listings were refreshed out of the total.
• Next run - countdown to the next scheduled fire.

Changing the interval while auto-refresh is on re-schedules the next run for now + new_interval.

What happens on each tick

The scheduler runs even when the panel is closed, using Chrome’s alarm system that survives the service worker sleeping. On each tick SaleLinx checks that the toggle is still on, that no other bot is running, and that the right Depop account is signed in, then triggers a full Refresh all bottom-up. The run summary is stored for the panel to display, and the next tick is scheduled.

If a scheduled tick can’t run cleanly (another bot is busy, no Depop tab is open), the scheduler will quietly defer and try again shortly. If you’re signed into the wrong Depop account, the run is skipped and logged.

Picking an interval

• 4h - aggressive. Best for large shops that turn over fast and have the daily allowance to support it.
• 8h (default) - sensible for most shops. Three refreshes a day, roughly aligned to morning, afternoon and evening browsing peaks.
• 12h / 24h - light maintenance for shops where listings rarely change.

Each scheduled run is a full shop refresh, so the more listings you have the more refreshes a single tick performs. Pick an interval that fits comfortably inside your plan’s daily allowance.

Pacing and safety

Both manual and scheduled runs go through SaleLinx’s pacing engine, which mimics real human editing so the marketplace doesn’t flag the burst as automated activity. If Depop pushes back, the run quietly backs off and resumes; if a session gets flagged outright, the run stops immediately and you should re-sign-in before trying again.

There’s a hard ceiling on how long a single run can last; anything not finished in one go continues automatically on the next run.

Daily allowance

Each successful refresh counts against your daily refresh allowance, which resets at midnight in your local time and varies by plan. The Membership card at the top of the panel shows your remaining allowance.

Auto-refresh on a schedule is gated to Pro and Business. Manual refresh is available on every paid plan including the free trial.

Activity log

Every refresh writes a line to the activity log so you can see what ran. Scheduled-run events are prefixed [Auto-Refresh] so you can scroll back through what happened overnight. If a refresh fails, your listing isn’t touched - the original is still there with its original timestamp.

Next steps

• Shop Designer - use the refresher to lay out your shop in any order.
• Relist - the heavier alternative for genuinely dead listings.
• Price Drops - move stale items down in price on a schedule.
• Dead Stock - find which listings refresh alone won’t save.