Monthly Archives: October 2013

Release Notes – 25 October 2013

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Release Date:   Friday 25 Oct 2013 10:00pm  downtime approx 20 minutes

(On this day in 1971 we saw the end of steam trains in NZ;  on the other side of the world, in 1960 Mike Jagger and Keith Richards bumped into each other at Dartford Railway Station)

Implemented in this release

Help links

We have made it easier to find help when you need it.  Each page now has a direct link to the relevant section of our online Help. ‘Help for this page’ is found on the Help menu or by pressing Alt+F1.

Partial shipments

The Warehouse role can now process partial shipments and create backorders.

High Volume Listing Fees

Your free listing allowance is now retrieved from Trade Me and is automatically updated as it changes.  You can now limit auto-listing to your Trade Me allowance or to a level you set. Set this in ‘Settings -> Selling Channels -> Listing and Offer Options’.

Trade Me clothing categories

Next week Trade Me plan to implement some changes to the clothing categories. This will consist of consolidating some categories and adding some new attributes. The good news is that Tradevine will automatically make the necessary adjustments to your rules, ensuring a smooth transition.

Pay Now refunds

We have made a tweak to the Pay Now refund option on Sales Orders. You can now request a Pay Now refund for Pending Sales Order when payment has been received.

Performance improvements

We have made a few more small optimisations to further improve the performance.

API – Get Sales Orders

Two new filters have been added allowing you to filter Sales Orders by the last modified date. These are called modifiedFrom and modifiedTo.

Importing product changes

There are no importing changes for this release.

Key Bug Fixes

  1. An ‘out of memory error’ was sometimes encountered when uploading images.
  2. The importer was removing product labels in some instances.
  3. The product list export did not always complete for very large result-sets.

All of these improvements are based on customer feedback. We are planning to release further improvements on a regular basis. Your feedback is vital to ensuring that we’re working on the most important things first. If you have any suggestions, then check out our suggestions page where you can also vote. Otherwise, feel free to drop us a line at suggestions@tradevine.co.nz with your feedback.

October Newsletter

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Welcome to the first Tradevine newsletter. We’ll be sending these every 4 weeks or so to keep you updated with what we are up to and give some tips and tricks to help you get the most out of Tradevine.

Contents

  • Customer Survey – Win Trade Me Credit
  • System Performance
  • Interesting Stats

Customer Survey – Win Trade Me Credit

We love feedback. Fill out our survey to have your say and enter to the draw to win a $50 credit to your Trade Me account. It’s easy and will only take a couple of m

inutes. Click here to complete the survey.

System Performance

Have you noticed how zippy Tradevine has been recently? We listened to your feedback and sent the team ‘under the hood’ to tinker. The result was a beefing up of the servers and a bunch of software tweaks that saw Tradevine running up to 40 times faster.

Interesting Stats

In the two years since our first beta user….

More than 17 million Trade Me listings made
Over $30 million of product shipped
More than 400k sales orders created
$83,000 highest value item sold

That’s about it for our first newsletter. Just before we go here are a couple of useful links:

  • Follow us on Twitter for up to the minute info
  • Our online help section pretty is comprehensive – if you get stuck start here
  • Post ideas on how we can make Tradevine even more awesome

Thanks for taking the time to read, see you next month.

Regards,

The Tradevine team at Trade Me
www.tradevine.co.nz

 

Release Notes – 14 October 2013

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Release Date:   Monday 14 Oct 2013 10:00pm (On this day in 1968 Jim Hines cracks the 10 second barrier in the 100m sprint)

Implemented in this release

Pay Now refunds

If a customer has paid using Pay Now, then it is now possible to initiate a refund.  You can make one refund per Sales Order.

Performance improvements

We have made a bunch of optimisations to improve the performance of Tradevine.

Product inventory counts

The product inventory counts on the Products List screen and the product itself should now be in sync.

Importing product changes

If you import or re-import your products then you may be interested in the following changes.

New:

  • Populate From Listing ID – (Trade Me).

Products will be created from the details of the Trade Me listing specified in the Populate From Listing ID field when importing.

For more information refer to the Import Fields Help page.

Key Bug Fixes

  1. The login button in Internet Explorer now responds to the Enter key without the focus being on the login button.

All of these improvements are based on customer feedback. We are planning to release further improvements on a regular basis. Your feedback is vital to ensuring that we’re working on the most important things first. If you have any suggestions, then check out our suggestions page where you can also vote. Otherwise, feel free to drop us a line at suggestions@tradevine.co.nz with your feedback.