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How to Bump Your Depop Listings (2026)

Updated November 2026 · Depop Bump team

Why bumping matters at all

Depop sellers post up to 600,000 new listings every day into a catalog of roughly 68 million items. The algorithm gives recently listed and recently refreshed items a visibility boost in search and the For You feed — and lets older items sink. An untouched listing from three weeks ago is, for practical purposes, invisible.

That's why experienced sellers treat a daily refresh pass as basic shop hygiene, the same way they treat answering messages. The problem: done by hand, refreshing 100 listings takes over an hour of tapping. Every. Single. Day.

Method 1: Bump listings one by one (manual)

1. Open your shop page on depop.com (desktop web) or in the app.
2. Open a listing you want to resurface.
3. Tap Edit listing, change nothing (or tweak a word in the description), and hit Save.
4. Repeat for every listing — 30 to 60 seconds each.

Pros: free, zero risk, works exactly as the platform intends. Cons: it doesn't scale. Ten items is fine; a hundred items is an hour of your life per day.

Method 2: Depop Boosted Listings (paid)

Boosted Listings is Depop's own advertising product. Boosted items appear in boosted tiles and rank higher — but you pay 12% of the sale price on every boosted sale (US & UK). A seller moving $2,000/month through boosted tiles pays $240/month for the privilege.

It's a legitimate tool for proven, high-demand items. As a daily maintenance routine for a whole shop, it's economically absurd — which is exactly why the free refresh exists.

Method 3: Automate the refresh (browser extension)

A browser extension can walk through your shop page the same way you would: open listing, edit, save, next — with randomised, human-like delays. Depop Bump does this in one click and adds stale detection, so listings you refreshed recently get skipped and only the ones that actually need it get bumped.

How often should you bump?

Once a day is the working consensus among top sellers — and more adds nothing. Depop ranks popularity (views, likes, adds-to-bag) well above raw listing age, so bumping is a nudge, not a substitute for good photos and competitive pricing. A weekly deep pass over your stalest items plus a daily whole-shop bump is more than enough.

What bumping will not fix

• Weak first photos — the algorithm can surface you, but nobody taps.
• Incomplete listings — empty brand/size/category fields make you invisible to filtered searches no matter how fresh you are.
• Wrong prices — overpriced listings collect views without likes, and likes are what compound.

Bump daily, but treat it as the multiplier on listing quality — not the other way round.