posted on November 21, 2003 08:17:39 PM new
I hope someone out there in the community can help me.... I've only been using this service for about a month and a half and am about ready to switch back to my old service. Either there's not something I'm catching or I am spending tons of needless time trying to input into my inventory and list auctions. I even resorted to building my own database today to export to excel and import into sales manager pro. Unfortunately Sales Manager Pro's off line inventory is a manual inventory and I didn't find that out until I entered about 500 items into it so I need to keep my inventory on line. I'm trying to avoid using thier on-line process as much as possible because I don't want to wait for pages to load.
1. The process I currently use is to enter all of my info into my database (very fast for each listing I don't have to double click or click tabs like in Pro)
2. I put my photos in Pro
3. I Sychronize
4. I upload the batch
5. I go to my pending listings and cancell all of them.
6. I open each pending listing individually and click save in inventory and then click save
7. I delete the pending listings
8. I go back to my inventory and launch the listings
I know this seems like a lot of steps but it honestly is much faster than using SA Pro by itself because I'm able to copy - paste etc.... in the database. To list these individually through the pages would be even more time.
Can anyone out there give me some faster method that they are using?
posted on November 22, 2003 03:01:11 AM new
1) Open a Storefront for $3.95 a month or some very low flat fee.
2) Use SMB Pro offline
3) Create your auctions in the Inventory area
4) Attach your inmage files as needed
5) Use MS Frontpage for html as needed and cut copy paste into your auction description area for fancier pages.
6) Inventory has a nice folder feature and you may also copy items that are similar and simply change the title, etc.
7) Batch File, Synch and upload everything to your storefront.
8) If you managed the number of items correctly in the Inventory step, once loaded into Storefront, you'll save time, read on.
9) You may elect to keep your Storefront closed but your Inventory is now online and ready for manipulation.
10) You may now go to the online Inventory area and launch to eBay as needed and it will keep track of your Inventory for you real-time.
11) In your Pro Inventory off-line, - if you only indicated that you possessed 1 item in stock and there is only 1 listed in inventory online (since that's the way you uploaded it) then you must alter and increase the online inventory amount in order to tell the software that there are additional items available to be launched to eBay.
12) Simply save time by planning the Storefront idea in advance and increasing your off-line input of "items in stock" to 2 so that you won't have to do step 11 by hand, online.
I've found that management of my inventory, in this fashion lends more flexibility to the situation. When items don't sell on eBay I give them further time to sell, without any major additional expense, by not relisting on eBay but by letting them sit in my Storefront.
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The steps outlined here may or may not work for some users. I hope that the process is clear the way I described it. These steps allow for inventory to be uploaded without launching, allow for both Storefront and auctions to run simultaneously and safeguard your lengthy auction description database and image scans on Vendio's server as a backup in case your server goes down as well.
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[ edited by newbreed on Nov 22, 2003 03:03 AM ]
[ edited by newbreed on Nov 22, 2003 03:09 AM ]
[ edited by newbreed on Nov 22, 2003 03:11 AM ]
posted on November 23, 2003 11:38:19 AM new
Hi atticonline
this has been a problem since they up graded 2 or 3 times ago.
I have no clue who came up with the change but it truly is a pain. I list the way you do but I also add items to my store. It is the fastest way I have found to list. I import from a text file, tab delimited.
If your old service is as inexpensive and offers all the perks, you might be better off going back.
In all honesty, Vendio is the best out there and I check other services frequently. I am hoping with time, Vendio will get enough complaints (and there seem to be more daily) that they will fix this HUGE whole in their software.
