Poshmark has started emailing sellers about inactive listings.
If you got one of these emails, don't panic. Your listings are not deleted. Your closet is not shut down. Buyers can still purchase your items.
But you should pay attention.
Because "inactive" means Poshmark thinks some of your listings have gone too long without the kind of activity that proves the item is still available.
And here's the part a lot of sellers are missing:
Sharing your listing does not appear to count as keeping it active.
That matters. For years, sellers have been told to share, share, share. Sharing still matters, but for this specific inactive listing rule, Poshmark is looking for something else.
Let's dig in.
The email sellers are seeing
Here's the email sellers have been receiving from Poshmark:
Hi Angels,
Some of your listings have gone inactive after 60 days without activity (edits, offers, comments, or bundles). Inactive listings are still shoppable, but receive less visibility. Activating them keeps your closet up to date and reaches more buyers.
Here's how to activate them:
- Activate listings you want to keep selling
- Delete listings you no longer have
Keeping your listings active helps reduce cancellations, and deleting inactive listings will not impact your account.
Okay, so what does that actually mean?
It means Poshmark is separating "available for sale" from "active."
A listing can still be available. It can still be purchased. It can still be in your closet.
But if it has not had the right kind of activity in 60 days, Poshmark may treat it as inactive and give it less visibility.
That lines up with Poshmark's April 2026 seller update, where Poshmark says inactive listings are based on listings that have not had seller action in the last 60 days.
What counts as activity?
In the email, Poshmark lists four activity types:
- Edits
- Offers
- Comments
- Bundles
That's it.
Notice what's not on that list?
Sharing.
That's the big catch. A closet can be shared every day and still have listings that go inactive if nothing else changes on those listings for 60 days.
Sharing still helps your items show up in recently shared feeds. I'm not saying sharing is dead. It isn't.
But sharing is not the same as editing a listing, sending an offer, getting a comment, or creating bundle activity.
Why inactive listings matter
Inactive listings are still visible to buyers. They are still shoppable. A buyer can still purchase one.
The problem is visibility.
Poshmark says active listings are prioritized in search and browsing. So if your listing goes inactive, it may become harder for buyers to find.
That's a pretty big deal.
If you have 40 listings, you can probably keep an eye on them manually.
If you have 400 listings, this can quietly become a mess.
If you have 1,000+ listings, there's almost no way you're going to remember which items were edited, offered, commented on, or bundled in the last 60 days.
Inactive listings can also create cancellation risk. If an item has not been touched in months, Poshmark is nudging you to confirm that the item is still available, accurately described, and ready to ship.
How to tell if your listings are inactive
The clearest signal is the one Poshmark gives you directly. In Poshmark's seller update, they say inactive listings will show up in the app or by email, and they point sellers to Seller Tools > Bulk Reactivate Listings. If Poshmark emails you or shows inactive listings in Seller Tools, those are the listings it wants you to review.
On Poshmark, you can check:
- Go to Seller Tools
- Open Bulk Reactivate Listings
- Review the listings Poshmark marks inactive
- Reactivate the items you still have
- Delete items you no longer have
If Poshmark has not flagged the listing yet, use a simple rule:
If an item has gone close to 60 days without an edit, offer, comment, or bundle, it is at risk of becoming inactive.
The trap is thinking "I shared this yesterday, so it must be active." For this specific rule, sharing is not one of the activity types Poshmark lists.
How to reactivate listings yourself
If Poshmark already flagged the items, the fastest manual path is Poshmark's Bulk Reactivate Listings tool.
For individual listings, you can also reactivate a listing by making a real edit. The edit should be legitimate and should not make the listing worse.
Good manual edits include:
- Improving the title with a clearer brand, style, color, or category keyword
- Adding measurements or condition notes to the description
- Updating the price if your pricing strategy has changed
- Adding a missing detail in Poshmark's listing fields
- Correcting a typo or outdated detail
That's the clean way to do it.
The messy way is trying to force activity through comments, offers, or bundles.
Comments are public. If you're commenting just to wake up a stale listing, that can look weird to buyers.
Offers can create real selling obligations. If you send a ridiculous low offer just to create activity, someone might accept it.
Bundles can create buyer confusion if you're only using them to reactivate listings.
That is why listing edits are usually the cleanest way to keep inventory active.
How often should you reactivate listings?
You do not need to wait until day 60.
For most sellers, a safer cadence is:
- Monthly if you have a smaller closet or slower inventory turnover
- Weekly if you have a large closet and want a wider buffer
- Daily if you are running a high-volume closet and want the least stale inventory possible
The goal is not to rewrite every listing every day. The goal is to keep your available inventory from sitting untouched long enough to lose visibility.
The easy way: automate listing reactivation
Resellbot now includes a Reactivate Listings automation for Poshmark sellers.
Instead of manually opening stale listings one by one, you can go to the Resellbot dashboard settings page and turn on listing reactivation on a daily, weekly, or monthly schedule.
That's it.
Resellbot handles the repetitive reactivation work continuously, so your closet can stay active without relying on public comments, lowball offers, or manual review sessions every time Poshmark sends an inactive listing warning.
This pairs with the rest of the Resellbot Poshmark Bot automation stack:
- Self sharing to keep items moving through recently shared feeds
- Offer automation for real buyer engagement
- Reactivate Listings to keep available inventory active
- Cloud automation that keeps running after setup
If you received Poshmark's inactive listing email, start by reviewing the listings Poshmark flagged.
Then turn on Reactivate Listings in Resellbot settings so the same issue does not keep coming back every 60 days.
Jordan