Inkfrog shutting down: how to export your Inkfrog images
Img.vision is building a free tool to export every image Inkfrog is hosting for you, including product photos and images embedded in your eBay description templates, based on your Inkfrog CSV export.
The image side is the most urgent piece of the migration because Inkfrog-hosted graphics in your active listings will stop loading on June 1 even if you do nothing else.
Img.vision is image hosting only, not a full Inkfrog replacement. However, the Inkfrog shutdown shows that independent product image hosting is crucial, don’t get yourself completely locked into a listing tool.
What this page covers
What’s happening to Inkfrog?
Wix-owned Inkfrog announced on April 29, 2026 that the service is shutting down. The dates that matter:
- May 31, 2026: last day to export listing data as CSV from your dashboard
- June 1, 2026: full shutdown, dashboard access ends
Refunds for unused billing days are processed automatically after closure. The migration support Inkfrog is offering is a CSV export and a refund. There is no image rehosting, no template transfer, and no help moving your multi-channel sync to a new platform.
What breaks on June 1?
Your live eBay listings stay up. eBay does not depend on Inkfrog to keep them running. What goes dark is anything Inkfrog was hosting on your behalf.
- ❌ Custom template graphics, banners, headers, store logos
- ❌ Promotional design elements baked into Inkfrog templates
- ❌ Gallery images Inkfrog hosted for in-description galleries
- ❌ Multi-channel inventory sync (Shopify, Amazon, BigCommerce)
- ❌ Saved drafts, master profiles, bulk revision rules, listing workflows
The CSV export covers listing data: titles, prices, item specifics, descriptions. It does not preserve the image files Inkfrog was hosting. So a listing’s HTML may export cleanly, but every URL in that HTML pointing to an Inkfrog domain stops resolving on June 1. Your listings will look broken even though the listing data itself is intact.
eBay does not flag this kind of failure to sellers. The first sign is usually a drop in conversion from a listing that visually fell apart.
How to save your images before May 31
Image migration has a hard deadline. Listings can be rebuilt later. Hosted assets cannot be retrieved after Inkfrog shuts down.
Inkfrog does not offer an image export, only a CSV with URLs.
Steps:
- Export your Inkfrog account CSV. This is available in your Inkfrog dashboard until May 31. The CSV contains all your listing data and the URLs of every image Inkfrog is hosting for you, including product photos and the images embedded in your description templates (banners, headers, gallery elements).
- The manual route is to open each of the image URLs and save them, one by one, which is not realistic for sellers with more than a handful of listings. Img.vision is building a migration tool that takes your Inkfrog CSV export, pulls every referenced image, and uploads them straight into your Img.vision drive. Sign up for updates on this new tool.
- Update your live eBay listings before June 1. Every Inkfrog URL in your listing descriptions needs to be replaced with the new permanent URL. Listings updated before the shutdown will keep rendering correctly. Listings left untouched will show broken icons.
Why does bundled image hosting fail again?
The instinct after a shutdown is to find the closest replacement and move everything in. Most Inkfrog migration paths point sellers at another all-in-one listing tool with bundled image hosting (3Dsellers, Frooition, Voolist, MyListerHub, Folder Lister, SixBit). The listing tool side of that move makes sense. The bundled image hosting part recreates the exact dependency that just failed.
If image URLs live inside a listing tool, then changing tools means rebuilding image references everywhere those URLs were pasted: every marketplace listing that already ingested the URL, every external feed, every saved description. A second tool sunset, or a pricing change, or a feature removal, brings the same outage Inkfrog is causing now.
Image hosting works better as its own layer, separate from listing workflow. URLs stay valid through any tool change.
Img.vision supports full image backups and exports, so you can leave with your library intact at any time, an option Inkfrog never gave its users and the reason its shutdown is forcing rebuilds instead of clean migrations.
What Img.vision does
Permanent direct URLs
No redirects, tokens, or expiry. The URL works the day you upload and two years later. Safe for CSV uploads and direct use in eBay listing descriptions or any tool that accepts external URLs.
No throttling of marketplace crawlers
Generic image hosts throttle and block aggressive eBay crawlers hitting images in bulk, they are built only to accept human traffic using browsers. Img.vision recognizes eBay crawlers and does not rate limit or block them, no silent rejections.
Follows eBay’s image rules
Direct file delivery, correct MIME types, stable file extensions, no forced WebP or AVIF conversion. Filenames stay exactly as uploaded.
Image archive
Archive images you are not actively using and restore later without reuploading. The URL stays the same after restoring, so old listings keep working when a product comes back into rotation. 10x archived image limit included.
Image backups
You can download a ZIP backup of your images at any time: for your entire drive, the images you select, or per folder. You are not locked in.
⭐ CSV formula for bulk URLs
If you are rebuilding listings in a new tool from your Inkfrog CSV export, image URLs are easy to generate in bulk. In Excel or Google Sheets:
="https://d.imgvision.net/your-drive-name/" & A2
Column A holds the filenames (kept exactly as uploaded). Drag the formula down and every row gets its image URL. Paste the column into your new listing tool’s import format.
Which listing tools work?
Img.vision works alongside any tool that accepts external image URLs. That covers everything Inkfrog users are evaluating right now:
- Listing tools: 3Dsellers, Frooition, Voolist, MyListerHub, Folder Lister, SixBit, Payhelm
- Multi-channel and integrator platforms: ChannelEngine, Channable, Rithum, Lengow, Linnworks, ProductSup
- Direct: eBay Seller Hub (File Exchange CSV), eBay API feeds
Pick the listing tool that fits your workflow. Host images independently.
Quick comparison
| Feature | Bundled image hosting | Img.vision |
|---|---|---|
| Permanent image URLs | ❌ | ✅ |
| CSV-friendly image links | ❌ | ✅ |
| eBay-crawler-safe delivery | ❌ | ✅ |
| Long-term image storage | ❌ | ✅ |
| Direct image delivery (no redirects, no auth) | ❌ | ✅ |
| URLs survive a tool sunset | ❌ | ✅ |
| Download image backup (no lock-in) | ❌ | ✅ |
Built for migrating Inkfrog sellers
- eBay sellers using custom Inkfrog templates with hosted graphics
- Multi-channel sellers who relied on Inkfrog for both listings and image hosting
- Stores with thousands of SKUs and image references built into shared templates
- Agencies migrating multiple client accounts before June 1
- Sellers picking a lighter eBay-only replacement and wanting hosting they control
Start before the deadline
Free plan to test us
Help shape the Inkfrog-to-Img.vision migration tool
Img.vision is building a migration tool for Inkfrog users and looking for sellers to test it.
Two features are on the table:
- a one-click image download that pulls every image referenced in your Inkfrog account export (product photos and template assets like banners and headers) straight into your Img.vision drive
- an eBay revision CSV generator that swaps every Inkfrog image URL in your listing descriptions for the matching Img.vision URL, so you can bulk-update your live listings before June 1.
If you’re migrating off Inkfrog and want early access, fill out the short survey below. Beta testers get hands-on support during the migration and influence on what the tool does.
