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

1. Fixed the Inventory Reports, a couple of the columns were displaying zeros.
2. Fast Shipping now ‘persists’ the selected email options.
3. 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.

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.

Recent Changes to Tradevine

Release Date: 1 February 2012

Fixed Price Offers(FPO’s)

Much awaited feature, Tradevine now handles FPO’s as part of the re-listing process. IMPORTANT NOTE: You will need to update your settings in Settings -> Selling Channels -> Listing and Re-listing options.

Manual Product Approval

If you have manual approval on at an organisation level for sales orders, you can now switch on certain products to trigger this approval too. This is really useful if you are waiting on verification on a size or colour option on a particular item before shipping it. Once manually approving the sales order, the shipment is created and you can carry on with the sales process.

Show Pay Now balance on dashboard

New dashboard field to display your Pay Now Balance, this means you can monitor this from Tradevine.

Character Counter

The Product Description text field which displays in the Products -> Selling Channel -> Category area, has a a new widget which displays how many characters you have remaining to use, as Trade Me only allows 2000 chars.

Non-functional technical enhancements

Some of the changes we make are invisible to the users of the app, but are technical enhancements that make the application run better or faster.

All of these improvements are based on customer feedback. We still have lots of work to do and are planning to release further improvements every fortnight or so. 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.

Recent Changes to Tradevine

Release Date: 23 November 2011

Order Cancellations

Order cancellations are now creating credit notes in Xero when payments or shipments have occurred. If shipments or payments have not occurred, the invoice in Xero will be simply voided.

Edit a Listing via Product / Import

Users can now update their listings from within Tradevine, either by changing details Selling Channel tab on the product screen and pressing save, or by updating and importing your product data via .csv.

Import Active Listings via Wizard

When completing the setup wizard, you now have an option to import your active listings.

New Pdf Format for Sales Order Confirmations

We have reworked the pdf layout of the Sales Order Confirmation document. Coming soon – the rest of the documents will be reworked to this newer and nicer layout.

Small Changes

• Default all address countries to the organisation country address
• You can now add the cost price to your shipping product
• The system can now handle Trade Me upload photo requests for ‘jpeg’ filetype.
• Setup Wizard works correctly for IE8 browser now.
• You can now re-import images from external sites that are already linked to other products.
• Improved the Universal Search (rather than limiting to 10 – we show a maximum of 50 per document type).
• Removed FeatureCombo column from import (just use Gallery/Bold/Feature columns)
• Product Import now works when Gallery and Autolisting options are selected but no photo uploaded yet.

All of these improvements are based on customer feedback. We still have lots of work to do and are planning to release further improvements every fortnight or so. 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.

Recent Changes to Tradevine

Release Date: 14 November 2011

Retrieve Active Trade Me Products

Create products in Tradevine from your existing Trade Me listings

Link Active Listings to Products

Link current listings to products in Tradevine.

Improvements to the Import/Export/Import Photos functions

Including improving the import product method for creating/updating multiple categories for products

Ability to Ignore Trade Me Questions

If you ignore a question, it will pop into the ‘All’ tab on the Questions screen instead of remaining in the ‘Unanswered ’ tab. You can still go and answer this question if you want to, at a later stage.

Withdraw Listings

The ability to withdraw listings is now available.

Small Changes

• A new dialog requiring user confirmation before an order is cancelled
• Order Lines notes are now appearing on the pick lists
• Auto print of Pick Lists now ordered by customer to assist order consolidation
• Trade Me Shipping option selected by customer now appearing in the lines notes field
• Courier and tracking references appear in the Invoice email text
• Questions answered in Trade Me appear in the ‘All’ tab
• Universal search, now searches by Listing ID and Listing title

All of these improvements are based on customer feedback. We still have lots of work to do and are planning to release further improvements every fortnight or so. Your feedback is vital to ensuring that we’re working on the most important things first.

At 4pm this afternoon Tradevine will temporarily be off-line whilst we perform system maintenance.  This is scheduled to take 1 hour.