SMBs and high-volume Trade Me sellers are being offered a double-shot of convenience in the form of a partnership between ecommerce platform Tradevine and supply chain specialists BrightStar. Read full article here.
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National Business Review features EasyTrade
We want to hear from you.
We’ve learned that some of the best insights into Tradevine comes from our customers, those who use it every day. So we thought it’d be a great idea to provide an easy way for you to let us know what you’d like to see.
So we’ve created a forum which allows you to submit and vote on new feature suggestions, and recommendations for the system. The more ideas we get the better, so please take a moment to check it out. Your ideas will make Tradevine better!
You can log or vote for your ideas here.
Release Notes – 18 April 2012
Recent Changes to Tradevine
Release Date: 18 April 2012
Posted journal
Tradevine now creates POSTED journals for sales and inventory adjustments.
KEY BUG FIXES
- Issue when linked to Xero and not GST registered
- Optimise Product Import to increase performance
All of these improvements are based on customer feedback. We are working hard on our Webstore functionality and are still 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 or feedback, feel free to drop us a line at suggestions@tradevine.co.nz.
Release Notes – 12 April 2012
Recent Changes to Tradevine
Release Date: 12 April 2012
Database changes
Behind the scenes work to allow even better performance and scalability.
Two more couriers added
We have added Toll and Mainfreight couriers into the Shipped With list. When you save a tracking number, the system will create the link to their tracking page.
Fastways URL fixed
Updated Fastways Tracking URL after their website was changed.
Key Bug Fixes
- Issues with Xero authorisation tokens have been resolved.
- Trade Me products were sometimes losing their listing attributes, this has been resolved.
- Sales Order Public Notes no longer get re-appended after updating the Sales Order.
- Sales Order status can no longer be set back to Pending.
All of these improvements are based on customer feedback. We are working hard on our Webstore functionality and are still 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 or feedback, feel free to drop us a line at suggestions@tradevine.co.nz.
Tradevine and You – Revolutionising your Business
We are super excited about the release of our new video. It tells the story about how Tradevine helps our customers transform their businesses.
With its multiple sales channels and integrated inventory management, Tradevine is revolutionising the way retailers sell online.
Imagine what Tradevine could do for your business, call us now on 0800 990 990 to find out more.
Release Notes – 7 March 2012
Recent Changes to Tradevine
Release Date: 7 March 2012
Improved Universal Searching Capability
The universal search at the top of every screen has been extended to include searching on the Trade Me name.
Removing Mandatory Printing
Remove mandatory printing of shipping documents when confirming a shipment.
Listings Filter
Modified filter to add Product Code and change Product name from being live search. This means you can now do wildcard searches in the listings e.g %Br%.
Key Bug Fixes
- Fixed the Inventory Reports, a couple of the columns were displaying zeros.
- Fast Shipping now ‘persists’ the selected email options.
- Placing Auto-Feedback on FPO’s is now working correctly in all cases.
All of these improvements are based on customer feedback. We are working hard on our Webstore functionality and are still 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 or feedback, feel free to drop us a line at suggestions@tradevine.co.nz.
Tradevine & Xero in the field… Literally!
When it comes to retailing, we want our customers to be able to sell anything, any time, anywhere. And so for Craig Love, owner of Easy Gardener, Tradevine combined with Xero is a perfect fit.
Craig sells great quality log splitters, chainsaws, hedge trimmers, generators etc, on Trade Me, on-line and at A&P shows. So he needed a business solution that works literally everywhere.
Craig was at the recent Southern Field Days, in Waimumu, with his trusty iPad and 3G dongle. With real-time access to Tradevine and Xero he had access to up to date inventory, all his financials and could process new sales whilst face-to-face with the customer. He could also keep an eye on his Trade Me listings, his bank account and see what was happening back at base in Blenheim. Being out of the ‘office’ has never been this easy.
By using Tradevine, Craig, can manage his entire business – his sales, purchases, inventory, Trade Me listings,webstore, feedback and questions, and coupled with Xero his accounting. Simple and easy.
Craig’s recent testimonial says it all…
“Time is the most valued asset in my business. Working for myself I have to manage importing of goods, Trademe Listings, Trademe orders, accounts, customers, and dispatching of goods. Tradevine is my one stop shop for TOTAL management of my entire business. At a glance I can see our Total sales, profit, and orders to process. What I like is that Tradevine is fully integrated with Xero accounting, no duplication of data is ever needed, it simply creates customer invoices for you.
Tradevine’s support is the best I have come across in 12 years working online, they actually help you with any queries you may have. I am looking forward to the future with Tradevine and for what’s in store in the coming months ahead.
Really, switching to Tradevine is a no brainer – Go Tradevine!”.
To find out how Tradevine and Xero can help your retail business contact us on 0800 990 990 or support@tradevine.co.nz
Tradevine and Craig in a field…
Rising up – One year on…
Today is the first anniversary of the devastating Christchurch earthquake that claimed the lives of 185.
February 22nd 2011 started like any other normal day for us. Our offices were in the old harbourmasters building in Lyttelton. There was nothing out of the ordinary as we worked away, coders coding, BAs BA’ing, testers testing, and bosses drinking coffee.
Then suddenly the earth shook violently. This wasn’t any ordinary aftershock, we had experienced hundreds after the September quake, but this was different, this was massive.
The building moved as it had never before, it heaved under the strain. In the split second as the shaking starts, people catch each others’ eyes, thinking will it stop or do we need to take cover. The ceiling panels started falling, take cover it is. As people dived under desks, aircon units crashed off the wall, computer monitors literally flew sideways from desks. We were right at the epicentre, but we didn’t know that yet. Power was out, alarms were ringing all around us, and the air was thick with settlling dust.
As we ran into the street we could see our building, along with what appeared to be every other building in the street was destroyed or severely damaged. Later, as we struggled over the Port Hills, we looked down on our home city, the collapsed buildings, the streets under water, carnage everywhere. We knew that things would never be the same.
In the weeks that followed the tenacity, ingenuity, resilience and generosity of the people of New Zealand, and the world shone through. First with the rescue and now with the extensive recovery.
Our office was gone, but within a week we were writing code again and offers of help poured in from our friends, customers and strangers throughout the land. Thank you New Zealand.
Despite all of the personal issues, like trashed homes, kids losing schools, not having running water, and constant aftershocks (10,000+ and counting) our staff coped magnificently and Tradevine was launched in November, one month behind schedule.
We are the lucky ones, possessions are replaceable. To all those who lost their lives, we grieve for your untimely loss. For all those who were injured, we hope for a speedy mend, and for all in Christchurch whose lives have changed irrevocably in that instant, we stand together with you, as we rebuild our city and lives, together.
Kia Kaha
Crushed car. Our building in the background.
Directly across the road from the office. (note: the road had to be cleared of rubble, by hand, to allow emergency vehicles through)
Photos courtesy of Phil Styler.
Release Notes – 17 February 2012
Recent Changes to Tradevine
Release Date: 17 February 2012
Super Fast Shipping
A new simplified Fast Shipping screen has been added to the Sales menu. This allows you to quickly process multiple shipments by scanning in your Pick Lists and tracking references. You can also manually type in the Pick List numbers.
Dymo Shipping Labels
You can now print Dymo shipping labels for your shipments directly to the label printer. We offer a default template, otherwise you are welcome to use your own customised template.
You will need a Dymo printer and to install the Dymo driver software on your machine.
Bulk Shipping
From the Shipments List, you can now select multiple shipments to print off any combination of your Pick Lists, Pack Lists, Invoices or Dymo shipping labels. This also allows you to do reprints based on your multiple selections.
Use the Grid Selector dropdown (the one with the down arrow) in the top left corner of the List to bulk select and print.
Improved Universal searching capability
The universal search at the top of every screen has been extended to include searching on customer/supplier email addresses and shipping tracking references.
Reporting Metrics Compatibility for devices without Flash
The reporting metrics graphs and charts are now compatible with devices, which do not have Flash installed like iPads etc. Some cosmetic changes have also been made for existing Flash users.
New Sales Order Reference Column
A new Reference column has been added to the Sales Order List and the Shipments Lists. This assists with tracking down sales order customer references like Trade Me listing IDs.
You can also search the lists using the new Reference field.
Customer/Supplier Quick Links
When viewing a Customer or Supplier, you can now select a couple of quick links, which allow you to either view all their orders or create a new sales/purchase order.
Billing
We have added the infrastructure to bill and receive payments. We have three plans:
1. A 1 month fully-featured Free Trial plan that you are first placed on when signing up. No credit card details are required at this stage.
At the end of the trial period, you can choose either the:
2. Standard Plan (unlimited listings and Xero integration) and if so enter your credit card details or
3. Free Plan (maximum of 50 concurrent listings and no Xero integration).
The free trial will run until the end of February for anyone who signed up before 1 Feb 2012. If you signed up in February, then your trial will end one month after your signup date.
See the pricing page on the Tradevine website for more details.
Key Bug Fixes
You can now also withdraw a Trade Me listing using the Internet Explorer or Opera web browsers.
The Dashboard count links now exclude cancelled or completed sales orders.
All of these improvements are based on customer feedback. We still have lots of work to do and 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 or feedback, feel free to drop us a line at suggestions@tradevine.co.nz.