Bidding and Buy It Now are drop-level on Thryft Ship. To keep one item open bidding among Buy It Now items, use a separate drop or set a very high Buy It Now price and note it in the caption.
Sales Assistant
The Thryft Ship Sales Assistant runs your whole drop — posting inventory, tracking bids, replying to buyers, and sending checkout links automatically inside Instagram. Learn how it works, customize it, and troubleshoot.
A complete overview of the Thryft Ship Sales Assistant: setup, creating a drop, how comments and checkout work, managing orders, and links to every guide.
Get your photos drop-ready: keep each item together in shooting order, use JPEG/PNG (not HEIC), and crop and rotate before uploading — Thryft Ship can’t crop or rotate photos after they’re uploaded.
How to end a Thryft Ship drop: it ends automatically when the auction time runs out, or use End Drop Early. Plus what the Paused status means.
If a comment did not register as a bid on Thryft Ship, open the item, use View All Comments, and mark the bid accepted to record it manually.
If a Thryft Ship checkout message did not send, mark the item expired and Resend Checkout, wait for it to expire and resend, or sell to someone else.
An item shows an “Expired” status when the winner didn’t check out before your payment deadline. Here’s what Expired means and how to resend the link, offer the next bidder, or sell it to someone else.
If a Thryft Ship customer hits Buy It Now and also has open bids, use Delayed BIN or a checkout-message note so they get one combined checkout.
Bids vs. Buy It Now on Thryft Ship: how auction bidding works, how Buy It Now wins instantly, how to use both on one item, and what Delayed BIN does.
Running a drop with more than 50 items? Learn how Instagram’s API limit works, and how Thryft Ship auto-pauses posting.
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