eBay Current PoliciesSellers that spend a lot of time entering payment, shipping, and returns information on the standard eBay selling formstandard eBay have a new reason to celebrate. EBay is currently piloting a feature called Business Policies that enables sellers to more quickly add this information to their listings.How Business Policies WorkOnce a seller hasopted into the program, two important things will happen:A new tool becomes available in My eBaythat can be used to create and name standardized "policies" for payment, shipping, and returns. All of the options on the selling form are available in the tool, so creating a "policy" is just like entering this information into an item listing. These payment, shipping, and returns areas on the selling form change to include the option to use any one of the "policies" that the seller has created forpayment,shipping, orreturnsoptions thus eliminating the need to enter this information by hand on a listing by listing basis. Business Policies makes it possible to enter each kind of policy once, then to re-use it again and again without having to complete the listing form or keep track of the appropriate choices in each case.For example, a seller with items that are shipped at varying costs using several different carriers could create the following set of policies:Example Policy 1: UPS Flat Rate.The seller could create a flat-rate shipping policy that specifies UPS shipping with a flat rate of $10, with each additional item in the purchase adding $2.50 to the cost of shipping. Example Policy 2: USPS Flat Rate.The seller could create a second flat-rate shipping policy that specifies USPS shipping with a flat rate of $4.00, with each additional item in the purchase adding $1.00 to the cost of shipping. Example Policy 3: FedEx Free.The seller could create a third flat-rate shipping policy that specifies FedEx shipping for free. Once each of these policies was created, the seller would simply select thepolicythat applied to the item in question each time he or she created a new listing using the selling form, rather than having to enter all of the details by hand on an item-by-item basis.