Maisey,

I like Bonanzle as well. I forgot you were selling there. What is your user id on Bonanzle....

Since you have given up your eBay store are you uploading your Bonanzle listings to Google Base? IF not, let me know. you need to. The Bonanzle xml file is far superior to eBay's file and out performs it hands down.

I would love Bonanzle integration as well. But we have figured out fairly efficient processes for dealing with posting items on Bonanzle. Invoicing isn't any big deal as we build invoices manually for buyers every day so that part is no big deal.

The biggest issue we have is not receiving the buyer's email when they purchase something or the ability to be able to reply back to inquiries directly without logging into Bonanzle's email system. But I think those are details that can be worked out as the site grows.

Be sure to include a link to your Bonanzle booth in all your AW2000 email templates, the printed invoices and a tag on Thank you cards inserted into outgoing packages..

Email me at Bonanzle so I can tag your booth.




Judy/blue

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Judy,

Are you willing to share the "fairly efficient processess" for dealing with posting items on Bonanzle?
Inquiring minds want to know!
The way I have been doing it fells clumsy, so I am anxious to improve on the process!

Thnaks,

Marty
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Marty

I apologize for being so tardy in responding. Whatever is in this fresh country air has me completely stopped up, running nose and itchy eyes with a booming headache to boot! That is what I get for brushhogging all the fields before it rained and settled the dust

Usually to quickly get my items transferred to Bonanzle, I will wait until eBay store listings are about to expire and then import to Bonanzle.

I will put the imported items all on "Reserve" . And put the eBay store listings that have ended on "Hold" in Aw2K.

I will open two browsers for Bonanzle. One is the Batch Editor and the other is on the "My Bonanzle > Sell" page.

I use the Batch editor at Bonanzle and filter only "Reserved" items, And start through the listings, change the status to "For sale" which allows me to find it in the "Sell > Search booth;
Edit the listing, paste the item id number into AW2K, change the Auction lot status to Online
Update booth at Bonanzle.

Once I got the hang of it, I can go through listings fairly quickly.

To list new items on Bonanzle, I just create an Auction lot for the Bonanzle profile I have created in AW2000.
Save the images I want to upload to Bonanzle to "My Pictures > Bonanzle"

Log into Bonanzle.
Sell tab
Add item for sale
Upload the images and crop.
Paste the description text from AW2K into notepad, then from notepad into the full size editor,
Add category and Item traits,
Save changes

Paste the ITem id number into Aw2K
Change status to Online
And I am done.

So far that is working pretty good.

I may try exporting auction lots into a csv file and uploading the csv file to Bonanzle. But I will have to generate the image URL's from my web space to use that process

When something sells on Bonanzle, we just manually create an Invoice, add the Auction lot to the invoice and use our normal backend process.
Notifying winning bidder
Send payment received notification
And shipping notice as well as a feedback thanks

I edited all my email templates so they are more generic rather than eBay specific.

So although it does take a bit of time, so far it is going along smoothly.

I did use the text editing option at Bonanzle to remove all the references of eBay from all the descriptions at one whack. That worked super slick.

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Judy/blue

Visit my eBay store!
http://stores.ebay.com/bluepennylady?refid=store
Visit our website too!
http://www.pennyworthsales.com

Visit me at Bonanzle!
http://www.bonanzle.com/bluepennylady

Your procedure for Bonz sounds good - I do something similar with my website.

I've always thought that one aw2k change that would make all other 3rd party site integration easier would be an option to put in a "custom URL" for the profile. This way you could have the "go to auction lot" button work for any site,

It's easy enough to create an email template that uses the manually entered item#, but I really miss the quick "go to" button.

HI

Hey that is a great idea. I will email tech support and suggest that.

I would like that as well. A custom URL for the "go to" link....

Great Idea!



Judy/blue

Visit my eBay store!
http://stores.ebay.com/bluepennylady?refid=store
Visit our website too!
http://www.pennyworthsales.com

Visit me at Bonanzle!
http://www.bonanzle.com/bluepennylady