Crosslist from Kijiji to Depop — What Actually Survives the Move
Kijiji runs 400+ categories. Depop bans most of them by name. Work out which slice of your catalogue is even eligible, then rebuild those listings for a Canadian seller who still pays 10% and still has no Depop shipping label.
- Most of a Kijiji catalogue is not eligible for Depop. Kijiji runs more than 400 categories including automotive, real estate, electronics and local services. Depop’s prohibited list explicitly bans phones, laptops, consoles, headphones, TVs, appliances, tickets, services, real estate, prams, car seats and infant sleep products. The overlap is fashion, and almost nothing else.
- Canadian sellers still pay Depop’s 10% selling fee. The fee removal covers the UK, US and Australia only — everyone else pays 10%, plus PayPal’s processing fee, because Depop Payments is not the payment rail outside those three markets.
- There are no Depop shipping labels in Canada. Sellers outside the US and UK arrange their own postage, which means you guess the parcel cost at listing time — and it means Depop Protection does not cover you at all.
- The listing has to be rebuilt, not translated. Four photos and one video, five hashtags plus two brand hashtags, and structured brand, size, condition, colour and style fields. A classifieds blurb has none of that.
- The automation is lopsided. Depop is one of the most fully automated channels FLUF drives — relisting, offers, messaging, order sync, refunds, fulfilment. Kijiji does one thing: mark as sold.
- Cost: £1 for 7 days, then plans from £9/month (Starter — 300 products). There is no free plan.
On this page
- Which part of a Kijiji catalogue is even allowed
- A classified ad is not a Depop listing
- What Canadian sellers actually pay
- The shipping problem, stated precisely
- Who is on each side
- How to crosslist with FLUF Connect
- What syncs between them
- Why one channel automates and the other barely does
- What it costs
- Sources and verification
Which part of a Kijiji catalogue is even allowed
Start with triage, because on this route it decides everything else. Kijiji describes itself as Canada’s leading peer-to-peer classifieds marketplace, reaching nearly five million Canadians every month across more than 400 categories spanning automotive, real estate, home goods, electronics and local services (Kijiji media page). Depop is a fashion marketplace. Those two sentences are the whole problem.
Depop’s list of prohibited and restricted items is unusually specific about the categories a classifieds seller leans on hardest. Under Technology and electronics it bans mobile phones and tech accessories, speakers, headphones and headsets, games consoles and controllers, computers, laptops, tablets and e-readers, smartwatches and fitness trackers, hair stylers and clippers, home lighting, virtual assistants and appliances, televisions and DVD players, and battery banks, chargers and hard drives (Depop prohibited items). That is a Kijiji electronics section, deleted in one paragraph.
It keeps going. Tickets — event, transit and lottery — are out. So are services of any kind, and real estate including rentals. Restricted products for children and infants covers cots, bassinets, infant mattresses, car seats, prams, pushchairs and strollers, carriers, slings and teething items: the baby-gear pile half of Kijiji’s family sellers are trying to shift. Drop-shipped stock, alcohol, tobacco, vapes, unsealed food, plants and seeds, gift cards and vouchers are all out too.
| Common Kijiji listing | Depop? | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Vintage denim, band tees, Y2K jackets, streetwear | Yes — this is Depop’s core | Secondhand fashion, disclosed as used |
| Designer bags, boots, trainers, sunglasses | Yes, if genuinely authentic | Counterfeits and replicas are banned outright |
| Jewellery, belts, scarves, hats | Yes | Accessories are a first-class Depop category |
| Cameras, film cameras, lenses | Yes — the exception inside the electronics ban | Cameras and accessories are explicitly allowed |
| Casio, Swatch, Timex-style wristwatches | Yes | Analog and digital wristwatches are allowed; smartwatches are not |
| iPhone, laptop, PS5, AirPods, TV, air fryer | No | Technology and electronics, prohibited by name |
| Stroller, car seat, crib, baby carrier | No | Restricted products for children and infants |
| Concert or flight tickets | No | Tickets are prohibited |
| Snow tires, tools, bike, furniture, appliances | No | Outside Depop’s categories, and appliances are named in the electronics ban |
| Landscaping, tutoring, moving help | No | Services are prohibited |
| Room to rent, parking space | No | Real estate, including rental and licence |
Two more clauses catch people who assume fashion is automatically safe. Second-hand clothing must be declared as second-hand and cleaned to the manufacturer’s instructions — a Kijiji ad that says nothing about condition is technically non-compliant the moment it lands. And used perfumes, used cosmetics, testers and decants are banned even though brand-new sealed ones are fine, which is exactly the kind of stock that sits in a Kijiji “beauty bundle” post.
So the honest expectation is this: for a general Kijiji seller, the Depop-eligible slice is the clothing, shoes, bags, accessories, jewellery, cameras and non-smart watches. For a Kijiji seller who is already mostly moving clothing, the slice is nearly everything. Work out which one you are before you connect anything.
A classified ad is not a Depop listing
Take one eligible item across and the second problem appears. A Kijiji ad is a plain-text notice aimed at a local buyer who will read it once and then message you. A Depop listing is a tile in an image feed, indexed by structured attributes and surfaced to people who were not looking for you.
Depop’s own listing instructions are compact and revealing: add up to four photos and one video, describe the item using up to five hashtags and up to two brand hashtags, then set category, shipping price and item price (Depop, How to list an item). Its description guidance asks for a searchable opening line, exact measurements and fit notes, an explicit condition statement naming flaws, and shipping or bundle information — plus category and subcategory, brand, colour (up to two), style and quantity as fields rather than prose (Depop, Tips for describing your item).
Now compare that with what a Kijiji ad actually holds.
| Depop needs | A typical Kijiji ad holds | What it takes |
|---|---|---|
| Four square, well-lit photos on a plain background | Phone snaps of the item where it sits — on a bed, a floor, a hanger in a hallway | Reshoot. This is the single biggest lift on the route. |
| A short video (optional but heavily used) | Nothing | New content, filmed once per item |
| Brand as a structured field | Brand mentioned in the text, if at all | Extracted and mapped to a real Depop brand |
| Size as a structured field | “Fits like a medium”, or nothing | Set per item, plus measurements in the description |
| Condition, disclosed as second-hand | “Used”, “good condition”, or silence | Stated explicitly, flaws named and photographed |
| Colour (up to two) and style | Not captured | Entered per item |
| Five hashtags plus two brand hashtags | No tag concept at all | Written from scratch — this is most of Depop discovery |
| Category and subcategory in Depop’s fashion tree | A classifieds category such as Clothing, or worse, Other | Full remap; there is no one-to-one |
| A shipping price set before you know the destination | Local pickup, cash or e-transfer | Estimated at listing time and lived with |
The photography row deserves its own sentence. Depop’s search ranking weighs relevance to the query, how many views, likes and bag-adds a listing has, seller location, buyer habits, listing age, seller history and boosting (Depop search ranking). On an image feed, engagement is a function of the picture. A photo that was perfectly adequate for a local buyer who had already decided to come and look at the item will not accumulate the signal Depop ranks on.
The hashtag row is the second lever. Depop generates tags and keywords automatically and lets you keep them or add your own, but five hashtags and two brand hashtags is a small, deliberate budget. Spend them on the terms a Gen-Z buyer types — a silhouette, an era, a subculture, a brand — not on generic condition words that the structured fields already carry.
What Canadian sellers actually pay
This is where most guidance written for a Canadian audience goes wrong, because it repeats the headline “Depop scrapped its selling fee” without reading the qualifier. Depop’s own fee page sets it out plainly: no Depop selling fee is charged to sellers based in the UK, US or Australia, and for sellers outside those three countries a 10% selling fee applies on all sales, charged on the item sale price excluding taxes and — if you have not used a Depop shipping label — on the shipping cost too (Depop, Seller fees and charges). A Canadian seller listing in Canadian dollars is squarely in the second group.
The payment rail differs too. Depop Payments, run through Stripe, is a requirement for sellers in the US, UK and Australia (Depop, What is Depop Payments?). Outside those markets you are paid through PayPal, and Depop states that PayPal’s processing fee varies with your location and account setup rather than quoting a figure. In practice that means two deductions rather than one, and the selling fee arrives as a separate charge against your PayPal balance rather than being netted off before payout.
| Kijiji (Canada) | Depop (Canadian seller) | |
|---|---|---|
| Commission on the sale | None — Kijiji is not in the transaction | 10% of the item price, plus shipping if you did not use a Depop label |
| Payment processing | Whatever you and the buyer agree — usually cash or e-transfer | PayPal’s fee, which varies by account |
| Who holds the money | Nobody. It is a direct exchange | PayPal, with Depop’s fee deducted separately |
| Buyer-side platform fee | None | None in Canada — the Marketplace fee applies only to UK and US buyers paying in GBP or USD |
| Optional promotion | Paid ad features | Boosted Listings at 8% outside the UK and US, charged only if the item sells through the boosted tile |
| Refunds | Between you and the buyer | Fees are reversed on refund; outside the UK, US and AUS you raise a ticket to reclaim the selling fee |
One asymmetry there is worth pausing on. Buyers in the UK and US pay a Marketplace fee of up to 5% of the item price plus a fixed amount of up to £1 or $1, and Depop says that fee funds Depop Protection, support and platform investment (Depop, What is the Marketplace fee?). Canadian buyers do not pay it. Canadian sellers pay 10% instead. The commercial logic is coherent from Depop’s side; it just means the Canadian seller carries the cost that a British or American seller no longer does.
A small operational trap while you are pricing: Depop lets you change your listing currency in settings, but the change applies only to new items. Anything already listed keeps its old currency until you relist it (Depop, changing item currency). Set the currency before you push a batch across, not after.
On the Kijiji side we deliberately quote no fee table. Kijiji has been introducing listing fees in selected categories and for business postings, and we could not retrieve a current, complete category pricing page during research. Check what your own posting flow charges before you assume anything.
The shipping problem, stated precisely
This is the crunch point of the whole route, and it deserves an exact answer rather than a hedge.
Depop’s shipping guidance for sellers outside the US or UK is one sentence long: you use your preferred method to ship the item to your buyer wherever they are. You enter a domestic or worldwide shipping price when listing, estimating from size and weight and the distance the parcel might travel, and Depop notes the obvious difficulty — you are guessing the destination at the time of listing. On sale you package it, ship tracked, keep proof of postage, and add the tracking number yourself via Mark as shipped (Depop, How to ship — Worldwide).
So, plainly: there is no integrated or prepaid Depop shipping label for Canadian sellers. No carrier account is provisioned for you, no discounted rate is negotiated on your behalf, and nothing is auto-generated when an order comes in. You buy postage from Canada Post or another carrier yourself, on your own account, at your own rate.
That has a consequence sellers routinely miss until something goes wrong. Depop Protection for sellers is available to sellers in the UK and US who ship using a Depop shipping label, and the exclusions section states it directly: if you are a seller based outside of the UK or US, Depop Protection is not available (Depop Protection for sellers). A Canadian seller shipping a parcel that is lost or damaged in transit has recourse against their carrier, not against Depop. Tracked shipping and retained proof of postage stop being good practice and start being the only protection you have.
Against Kijiji, where the default is a local handover with no parcel at all, this is the biggest behavioural change on the route. Three consequences:
- Price the postage as a real number, not a placeholder. Weigh and measure a typical parcel for each shape of item you sell — a t-shirt, a pair of jeans, a coat, a pair of boots — and build a small internal rate card. Guessing low on a winter coat to a distant province eats the margin the 10% fee left you.
- Decide your shipping radius deliberately. Domestic only is simpler and cheaper to estimate. Enabling worldwide adds customs paperwork and much wider cost variance.
- Remember the fee interaction. Because you are not using a Depop label, the 10% selling fee applies to the shipping you charge as well as the item. Postage you collect is not fee-exempt revenue.
Who is on each side
The demographic gap between these two platforms is the reason the rebuild is worth doing at all. You are not moving a listing to a similar audience in a different place; you are moving it to a different generation with a different buying motive.
| Kijiji | Depop | |
|---|---|---|
| Reach | Nearly 5 million Canadians every month | 7 million active buyers and more than 3 million active sellers globally |
| Age | Broad, skewing older; a general household audience | Nearly 90% of active buyers are under 34 |
| Geography | Canada only | Global, but search mainly shows buyers listings from their own country |
| Scale of trade | Classifieds; no platform GMV published | Around $1 billion in gross merchandise sales in 2025 |
| What sells | Anything — vehicles, property, furniture, tools, electronics, clothing | Secondhand fashion, streetwear, vintage, Y2K, designer |
| Buying motive | Need it, locally, cheaply, today | Browsing a feed, buying a look |
| Transaction | Message, meet, pay in person | In-app checkout, shipped parcel |
The Depop figures come from eBay‘s 18 February 2026 announcement that it had agreed to acquire Depop from Etsy for approximately $1.2 billion (eBay investor news). Depop keeps its own name and platform, so none of the rules above change — but the two marketplaces now share an owner.
One line in Depop’s ranking documentation matters more for a Canadian seller than for anyone else: the algorithm mainly shows buyers listings from the country set in their preferences. Your Canadian listings compete inside the Canadian pool, not the whole 7 million. That is an argument for being early and being good in a smaller pond, not an argument against the channel — but it does mean you should not model Depop’s global numbers as your addressable audience.
How to crosslist with FLUF Connect
The two channels connect in genuinely different ways, and that shapes the workflow more than anything in the interface.
Depop runs server to server. You authorise it once and nothing needs to stay open afterwards — crosslisting, relisting, offers, messaging and order sync all run without your involvement. Kijiji does not work that way. It is driven through your own signed-in Kijiji session, hosted by your own browser (the FLUF Chrome extension) or the FLUF mobile app, so Kijiji work happens when a host is available and is paced deliberately rather than fired off in one burst.
| Step | What happens |
|---|---|
| 1. Connect both channels | Depop authorises directly. Kijiji connects through the Chrome extension or the mobile app acting as execution host. |
| 2. Import from Kijiji | Your live ads, photos, prices and text are read into one catalogue in FLUF Connect. |
| 3. Filter to the eligible slice | Apply the triage above. Filter by category, keyword or price and tag what is genuinely fashion. Nothing else should leave this step. |
| 4. Rebuild the listing content | Reshoot square photos, set brand, size, condition, colour and style, write the caption and spend the seven hashtags. Stored on the product and reused everywhere. |
| 5. Set a shipping price | Your own estimate per parcel shape, since no Depop label exists for Canada. |
| 6. Publish and keep in step | Push to Depop in bulk. Stock stays aligned across both, and Depop relisting, offers and order sync run from then on. |
Two features earn their keep here. Bulk operations fix a systemic mistake — a price rule, a description block, a hashtag set — across hundreds of listings at once. Auto-crosslisting rules push new stock to Depop by themselves, and on a route with this much ineligible inventory they should be scoped tightly: by category, and by brand or price band if you can.
What syncs between them
Here we have to be exact, because the two channels are not remotely equal partners and pretending otherwise would set you up for an oversell.
| Event | What happens |
|---|---|
| An item sells on Depop | Detected through Depop order sync, and the Kijiji ad is marked as sold. |
| An item sells on Kijiji | FLUF does not read orders from Kijiji. You tell FLUF it sold, and the Depop listing comes down. |
| You edit a price or description in FLUF | Pushed to Depop. Kijiji edits run through the extension or mobile app host. |
| A buyer messages you on Depop | Messaging is supported, so the conversation is visible in FLUF. |
| A buyer messages you on Kijiji | Kijiji messaging stays on Kijiji. |
| A Depop listing goes stale | Relisting is supported and included in every plan. |
| A refund or a fulfilment update on Depop | Handled — refunds and fulfilment are both supported on Depop. |
Read row two twice. Kijiji has no order sync in FLUF, because Kijiji is a classifieds board that does not process the sale — there is no order object for anyone to read. The one automation FLUF supports on Kijiji is marking an ad as sold, and that action is triggered by you or by a sale detected elsewhere. If a buyer meets you in a car park and hands you cash, nothing anywhere knows until you say so.
That is a real oversell risk on a route where every item is one-of-one. The habit to build is simple: when a Kijiji sale completes, mark it in FLUF before you go home. Pulling the Depop listing follows from that one action.
Why one channel automates and the other barely does
Depop is transactional. Money moves through the platform, orders exist as records, and refunds and fulfilment have defined states. That is why it is one of the most fully automated channels FLUF drives: relisting, offers, messaging, order sync, refunds, fulfilment and mark-as-sold, none of it needing a browser extension.
| Capability | Kijiji | Depop |
|---|---|---|
| Crosslisting | Yes, via extension or mobile app host | Yes, server to server |
| Needs a browser extension or the mobile app | Yes | No |
| Relisting | No | Yes |
| Offer management | No | Yes |
| Messaging | No | Yes |
| Order sync | No | Yes |
| Refunds and fulfilment | No | Yes |
| Mark as sold | Yes | Yes |
| Countries | Canada only | Global |
Kijiji is an introduction service. It shows your ad to a local person who then contacts you, and the transaction happens outside it entirely. There is no order, no payment, no refund state and no offer object to manage, so there is nothing for software to automate beyond posting the ad and taking it down again. Any tool claiming Kijiji order sync is describing something that does not exist on Kijiji’s side.
A note on relisting, since it is the feature sellers ask about most. Depop’s ranking documentation says newer items get a slight edge, but that this counts for much less than factors like relevance. Relisting is therefore a maintenance tool that keeps a stale catalogue circulating — not a growth hack that will outrank a better-photographed listing. Treat it accordingly, and put the effort into the photography instead.
What it costs
FLUF Connect is £1 for 7 days, then plans from £9/month (Starter — 300 products), with Growth at £19/month for 1,000 products, Seller at £49 for 2,500, Pro at £99 for 5,000 and Super Seller at £299 for unlimited. There is no free plan.
Relisting, offer management, bulk operations and inventory sync are included in every plan rather than sold as add-ons, and every plan covers all supported channels — so if the Depop-eligible slice of your Kijiji catalogue turns out to be small, the same subscription also puts it on Vinted, eBay, Etsy or Facebook Marketplace without paying again.
Sources and verification
Researched and verified against primary sources in August 2026. Depop’s help centre blocks automated retrieval, so its pages were read directly in a browser; the quotations above are from the live articles on the dates below. Where a figure could not be traced to the organisation that sets it, it is omitted rather than estimated.
- Depop — Seller fees and charges: no selling fee for UK, US and AUS sellers; 10% for sellers outside those markets; PayPal processing outside them; Boosted Listings at 8% outside the UK and US (checked 24 August 2026)
- Depop — What is Depop Payments?: Depop Payments is a requirement for sellers in the US, UK and Australia
- Depop — What is the Marketplace fee?: buyer fee of up to 5% plus up to £/$1, applying to UK and US buyers in GBP or USD, effective 15 April 2024 (UK) and 18 July 2024 (US)
- Depop — How to ship, Worldwide: sellers outside the US or UK use their own preferred shipping method and set an estimated shipping price at listing
- Depop — Depop Protection for sellers: available to UK and US sellers using a Depop shipping label; not available to sellers based outside the UK or US
- Depop — prohibited and restricted items: technology and electronics, tickets, services, real estate, infant and children’s products, drop-shipping, used cosmetics; last updated May 2025 per the page
- Depop — How to list an item: four photos and one video, five hashtags plus two brand hashtags
- Depop — Tips for describing your item: measurements, condition disclosure, category, brand, colour, style, quantity
- Depop — how search ranking works: relevance, engagement, seller location, listing age, boosting
- Depop — changing item currency: currency changes apply to new listings only
- eBay investor news, 18 February 2026: agreement to acquire Depop for approximately $1.2 billion; around $1 billion GMS in 2025; 7 million active buyers, nearly 90% under 34; more than 3 million active sellers
- Kijiji media page: nearly 5 million Canadians monthly, 400+ categories, founded 2005, Canada only, owned by Adevinta
Two things we could not verify and therefore do not claim: Kijiji’s current listing-fee thresholds by category, and any Canada-specific Depop shipping pilot. On the second point Depop’s worldwide shipping article is unambiguous that sellers outside the US and UK arrange their own postage, and its seller-protection article treats “outside the UK or US” as a single excluded group — so if a Canadian label programme exists, it is not documented in Depop’s help centre.
Related guides
- Sell on Depop — the complete seller guide
- Sell on Kijiji
- Crosslist from Depop to Kijiji
- Crosslist from Kijiji to eBay
- Crosslist from Kijiji to Vinted
- All crosslisting routes
- Auto-relisting
- How to crosslist on Depop
- Crosslist from Kijiji to Poshmark — trading Kijiji’s 60-day repost for Poshmark’s daily share
- Crosslist from Kijiji to Etsy — the 20-year rule that decides which of your ads can go
- Crosslist from Kijiji to Facebook Marketplace — two free Canadian channels, and the 60-day versus two-year clock
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Depop removed its selling fee for sellers based in the UK, US and Australia only. Depop's own fee page states that sellers outside those three countries pay a 10% selling fee on all sales, charged on the item price excluding taxes and — if you did not use a Depop shipping label — on the shipping cost too. Canadian sellers listing in Canadian dollars are in that group, and also pay PayPal's processing fee, because Depop Payments is only the required rail in the UK, US and Australia.
No. Depop's worldwide shipping guidance says sellers outside the US or UK use their own preferred method to ship. You set an estimated shipping price when you list, then buy postage yourself from Canada Post or another carrier, ship tracked, keep proof of postage and add the tracking number by tapping 'Mark as shipped'. There is no integrated Canadian label, no negotiated rate and nothing auto-generated at checkout.
No. Depop Protection for sellers is available to sellers in the UK and US who ship using a Depop shipping label, and the exclusions state plainly that it is not available to sellers based outside the UK or US. If a parcel is lost or damaged in transit your recourse is with your carrier, which is why tracked shipping and retained proof of postage matter more on this route than on most.
The fashion ones. Depop's prohibited items list bans technology and electronics by name — phones, laptops, tablets, consoles, headphones, smartwatches, TVs, appliances, chargers — along with tickets, services, real estate, prams, car seats, cots and other infant products, and drop-shipped stock. Clothing, shoes, bags, accessories and jewellery port well, and there are two useful exceptions inside the electronics ban: cameras and lenses are allowed, as are analog and digital wristwatches such as Casio, Swatch and Timex.
Usually not well. Kijiji photos are taken to reassure a local buyer who is coming to look at the item anyway. Depop is an image feed where ranking is influenced by views, likes and bag-adds, so the photo does the selling. Plan on reshooting: square frames, plain background, consistent light, up to four photos plus one optional video per listing.
Partly, and it is important to know which way. Depop supports order sync, so a Depop sale is detected automatically and the Kijiji ad is marked as sold. Kijiji has no order sync at all — it is a classifieds board that does not process the transaction, so no order record exists for anyone to read. When something sells on Kijiji you mark it sold in FLUF, and the Depop listing then comes down. Do that on the day, because every item is one-of-one.
For the Kijiji side, yes. Kijiji runs through your own signed-in session, hosted by your own browser (the FLUF Chrome extension) or the FLUF mobile app. Depop needs neither — it authorises once and then runs server to server, including relisting, offers, messaging, order sync, refunds and fulfilment.
FLUF Connect is £1 for 7 days, then plans from £9/month (Starter — 300 products), with Growth at £19/month for 1,000 products. There is no free plan. Relisting, offer management, bulk operations and inventory sync are included in every plan rather than sold as add-ons, and every plan covers all supported channels — so the same subscription also reaches Vinted, eBay, Etsy and Facebook Marketplace.
No. Depop's Marketplace fee — up to 5% of the item price plus a fixed amount of up to £1 or $1 — applies to buyers located in the UK or US buying in GBP or USD. Canadian buyers do not pay it. The trade-off is that Canadian sellers still pay the 10% selling fee that UK and US sellers no longer do.
A little, but do not over-rate it. Depop's own ranking documentation says newer items get a slight edge, and that this counts for much less than factors like relevance. Relisting is best treated as maintenance that keeps a stale catalogue circulating — it is included in every FLUF plan — while the real gains on this route come from photography, structured brand and size fields, and spending your five hashtags and two brand hashtags well.