my screen time has greatly reduced because i stopped doomscrolling since all i really want to use fb for is marketplace. i also appreciate shopping on marketplace more that i now have to use a browser or my desktop or laptop to shop. scrolling on marketplace on the facebook app is very stressful. Having this standalone seller app both helps me reduce my overall phone addiction and also prevents me from buying useless junk i think might be nice to buy. being able to message buyers of your listings is great. when i get a message notification I can be reassured that it is a potential sale. i would love it if meta continued to split up the facebook platform into different apps

Installing Seller caused my Messenger push notifications to stop working I have encountered a serious notification issue after installing and signing in to Seller. Before installing Seller, my Messenger notifications worked normally. After installing Seller, Facebook Marketplace messages started being delivered to Seller with notifications, but Messenger push notifications completely stopped working. Even after I deleted Seller, the problem with Messenger did not go away: Messenger still receives messages normally; However, there are no lock-screen notifications, banners, sounds, or notification badges; The messages only appear after I manually open Messenger, at which point all previously received messages suddenly load. I have already checked and confirmed that my iPhone notification permissions, cellular data access, Background App Refresh, and other relevant settings are all enabled and working correctly. I also deleted Messenger, restarted my iPhone, and reinstalled Messenger, but the problem remains. Notifications from other apps work normally. This strongly suggests that there may be a notification conflict between Seller and Messenger, or that Seller changes the push notification routing associated with the Meta/Facebook account and does not properly restore Messenger notifications after Seller is removed. Please investigate this issue as soon as possible. Seller should not interfere with normal Messenger notifications, and deleting Seller should not leave Messenger unable to receive push notifications.

The app has potential but it needs work. Opinion from a very active seller who lists and sells daily and has about 200 items listed at all times: I like the overall interface better. But it is way more difficult to list on the seller app because the screens don’t auto scroll/expand while typing so you can’t always see what you are typing. If you try to touch the screen to move to move lower, it jumps around and you lose your place. I also get approx 20 messages a day and I HATE the messages being grouped under the items because I like to keep my inbox clean. I archive all non-serious buyer messages as soon as I respond and only keep messages that I need to follow up in my inbox box so I don’t lose track. (for example – if I need to message someone in the morning to see what time they are coming. I can’t remember who messaged under what item…and I could have messages under 20 items at a time..so in the seller app, I have to open each item to find the person I was messaging, whereas in the current messaging, I just need to tap on their name. I have to go into messenger multiple times a day to clean out my mail so that the seller inbox isn’t jammed full with old messages). Also, I have marked things sold on the seller app, but then the next day they are no longer marked as sold.

I use Facebook marketplace quite frequently for my job. Often times I have 30 to 40 active listings. When this app became available, I downloaded it, hoping that it would make the process more efficient, but it surely did not. It does a good job of tracking your insights and letting you know what changes to make on your posts, but it comes up short when it comes to translating data changes from this app to Facebook itself in the marketplace shortcut. I tried to update the prices of all of my listings and as soon as I did that, all of the pictures from my listings were removed. That is time and potential sales that I have now lost. I also stopped receiving push notifications on the Facebook messenger app specifically for marketplace inquiries. When I tried to delete the Seller app, I was getting no notifications whatsoever for marketplace and I had dozens of missed messages for people that were interested in my listings. Hopefully Meta can update this and fix these glitches as they’re trying to promote this as a way for business owners and active marketplace sellers to maintain efficiency, but it has costed me hours and potentially thousands of dollars due to these issues.