Trade Me have just announced a free Gallery and Gallery+ promotion for the Jeans, Pants and Shorts category in Womenswear – see this recent posting for more details.
The good news for Tradevine users is that this has been implemented automatically – you need do nothing to take advantage of this promotion – except perhaps list more jeans and shorts:-)
Release Date: Wednesday 8 Jan 2014 10:00pm : downtime approx 30 minutes
It is now possible to personalise the various emails sent to customers to suit your requirements.
It is now possible to add a discount amount to a sales order and a sales return.
This means that Shopify orders with discounts/coupons will now be correctly loaded into Tradevine.
An Update Active Listings button has been added to the Trade Me channel settings screen. Clicking this button will update all active listings with the current settings. Remember that Tradevine will attempt to update the listing, but in some circumstances the change is rejects (e.g. there are already bids or the listing is closing within the next few hours or it has already been edited 3 times).
We have changed the way that we decide which shipments can be made when there is insufficient inventory to ship all orders. Orders with the oldest Requested Shipping Date now have the highest priority. Shipments will still be printed grouped by customer.
A new sort order called Closing soon, Recently closed has been added to the Listings screen. This will sort each of the tabs on the screen by a logical order (i.e. open listings which are closing soon now appear at the top as well as recently closed items appearing at the top) instead of all ascending or all descending as the other sort selections do.
It is now possible to delete a Trade Me or Shopify sales channel. Data linked to the deleted channel will no longer be visible on your product, sales orders, listings, feedback or questions screens.
When importing variant products from Shopify into Tradevine the variant values are added to the Product Name. For example if a ‘Lovely Dress’ with size and colour variants of ’12’ and ‘Red’ will be created in Tradevine as ‘Lovely Dress – 12 – Red’.
We will only save your import mappings (that get used as defaults on a subsequent import) once the import begins. This means that if you go back from step 3 to step 2 we will use the latest settings.
We have added ‘Freight’ as a shipping option.
We have added the ability to filter by any inventory traffic light colour (not just green)
There are 2 changes to our API
There are no changes to importing for this release.
A column has been added to specify the total discount amount
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.
Release Date: Monday 2 Dec 2013 10:00pm : downtime approx 20 minutes
(On this day in history, in 1976 Fidel Castro became President of Cuba.)
It is now possible to combine sales orders. Trade Me sales orders can be combined automatically when a new sale matches an existing sales order and the following criteria are the same:
Sales orders can be combined manually when the following conditions have been met:
If both orders have the same product then these will be combined on to one sales order line.
You will need to approve all sales orders that have been automatically combined to ensure that the results are as expected.
It is now possible to define multiple shipping templates. When setting up a listing rule you now have the additional option of setting which template is to be used.
If you had set shipping costs on the global settings then we have converted this to a template.
If you have a premium Stores Extra Trade Me account then you can now mark products as ‘clearance items’ and take advantage of the clearance section of Trade Me.
We have tweaked the way that we import active listings from Trade Me. If the listing was created from My Products then we now retrieve the SKU and Inventory and set this in Tradevine. The SKU will be used as the product code.
We have added 90 day listing duration as an option for listings that allow this.
The attribute unit type is now available on the product’s listing rule to help provide more assistance with the values to be entered. So for example when selling a digital camera, the megapixels field is now appended with Mp. This will make it easier for you to set the attribute values.
The Company name field used in the address fields of a Shopify sale is now populated on the sales order and the customer’s record in Tradevine.
We have added DHL as a supported courier. If selected then the customer will receive tracking details with a link directly to the DHL website.
We have added a text area to the Dashboard so you can write notes to yourself or other users of your organisation.
We have made the Inventory Adjustments screen more user-friendly.
When entering a new sales order line we displayed a traffic light icon to indicate the inventory status. We have replaced this icon to show the current available to sell quantity of the product instead, the number is coloured red/amber/green to indicate availability. Clicking on the ATS will continue to display a detailed breakdown of the product’s inventory allocations.
We have added a banner near the top of the sales order, that gives the reasons why the order has not progressed to awaiting shipment. This information is still available in the Shipments panel.
Sometimes when exporting huge numbers of product records it would fail due to a time out. We have made some tweaks to stop this happening.
When uploading products via the Retail Feed we now value all of the inventory available at the current cost price.
See https://api.tradevine.com/Help/api-reference/index.html for more details
If you import or re-import your products then you may be interested in the following changes.
New:
Modified:
For more information refer to the Import Fields Help page.
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.
The Christmas season is truly upon us and sales are starting to pick up as consumers start stuffing their stockings. We took a look at last years sales profile and overall saw that sales doubled during December, took a break over New Year and were back to normal by the 2nd week of January.
So now is the time to review your copy and make sure everything is listed to ensure that you don’t miss out during this lucrative period.
Sales Nov-Jan 2012-13
We are just putting together the final touches for our next release which should be out within the next week or so. This is packed with many requested goodies including:
plus many more tweaks and improvements
Check out our Facebook page. Our ‘Tip of the Day’ gives helpful hints on how to get more out of Tradevine. If you ‘like’ our page you will see these automatically in your feed. We also tweet these on Twitter
A big thank you to everyone who filled in our recent survey and congratulation to jansen_audio, the winner of the prize draw.
Looking at your opinions we have concluded that the vast proportion of you are very happy with Tradevine and think it represents great value for money.
More importantly, you have told us where we can improve, in particular we need to have a look at:
We’ll be looking to address these areas in the coming months. Remember we always welcome suggestions on how we can improve.
We released the Tradevine API a little earlier in the year and we look with interest at those that have integrated into Tradevine. There have been a couple of stand-out projects that you should take a look at, both aim to save you money on your courier charges.
StarShipIt allows you to print shipping labels directly from your Tradevine orders, and supports most domestic and international couriers.
Their new Magneto-Tradevine tool allows you to import stock items and sync stock numbers between these two platforms.
As NZ’s largest courier and freight aggregator, we at goSweetSpot provide you with attractive rates via our freight management system for services from our carefully selected domestic & international supplier partners.
goSweetSpot is all about introducing time and effort efficiencies, plus cost savings and visibility for you and your business.
That’s about it for our this month. Just before we go here are a couple of useful links:
Good luck with your Christmas sales.
The Tradevine team at Trade Me
www.tradevine.co.nz
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)
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.
The Warehouse role can now process partial shipments and create backorders.
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’.
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.
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.
We have made a few more small optimisations to further improve the performance.
Two new filters have been added allowing you to filter Sales Orders by the last modified date. These are called modifiedFrom and modifiedTo.
There are no importing changes for this release.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
Thanks for taking the time to read, see you next month.
The Tradevine team at Trade Me
www.tradevine.co.nz
Release Date: Monday 14 Oct 2013 10:00pm (On this day in 1968 Jim Hines cracks the 10 second barrier in the 100m sprint)
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.
We have made a bunch of optimisations to improve the performance of Tradevine.
The product inventory counts on the Products List screen and the product itself should now be in sync.
If you import or re-import your products then you may be interested in the following changes.
New:
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.
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.
Release Date: Thursday 12 Sept 2013 10:00pm
Multi warehousing has been added to the Professional, Enterprise and Trial plans. You can now add as many warehouses as you like. These can be of type:
You can control the shipping and stock status of each warehouse, as well as transfer stock between warehouses. You can also amend the warehouse assigned to a shipment, after we have auto assigned the shipments to the warehouses that have stock. Tradevine users can also now email each 3PL warehouse with a pick-list of shipments ready to pack and 3PL warehouse staff also now have a dedicated cut down Fast Shipping screen for confirming the shipments (with their tracking details) directly on your behalf.
Direct delivery and auto restock are due in a future release.
You can now print shipment and product labels using a Zebra printer.
Courier Xpress and goSweetSpot have been added to the list of couriers.
Post Haste has now been split out to cater for prepaid or account.
The customer’s phone number has been added to the shipment screen.
It is now possible to edit both the customer Reference and the Paid checkbox for completed post-pay sales orders.
The inventory adjustment Reference field has been added to the Detailed Inventory report.
As inventory is now tracked at the warehouse level (i.e. one product can have stock in multiple warehouses), a separate inventory export file has been added on the Product Information list screen. The Quantity in Stock field has likewise been removed from the top level Product Information export.
If you import or re-import your products then you may be interested in the following changes.
New:
Renamed:
For more information refer to the Import Fields Help page.
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.
Back in May we introduced a range of new pricing plans to offer our members more choice and flexibility.
At the same time we stopped offering the old plans to new members, however existing members could elect to switch to a new plan or remain on their current one.
From September 2 we will be retiring the old plans.
How does this affect you?
If you are currently subscribed to the Free or Standard plan you will need to select a new plan on, or before, September 2.
Choose a plan that works best for you.
Any questions or suggestions around the new pricing plans, please flick us an email at support@tradevine.co.nz.
Release Date: Wednesday 10 July 2013 5:00pm
You can now create and process Sales Returns. These can be created directly or from an existing Sales Order. If you are integrated with Xero then this will create a credit note, as well as a corresponding journal for the stock that was put back into inventory.
You can now approve Sales Orders in bulk from the Sales Orders screen.
We have been reporting the stock availability for products on a sales order for some time now, but it wasn’t evident to everyone. We have now added a tooltip to the traffic light on each product line of the sales order, you only need to click the traffic light for a detailed breakdown of the inventory for that product.
It is now possible to automatically archive products when they run out of stock. This is useful for sellers who list one-off items.
When you complete a shipment in Tradevine we now update the fulfilment status in Shopify. The shipment’s tracking numbers will also be reported.
Support for NOW Couriers tracking has been added.
We have added more customisable print fields to the shipping label:
The Rural and Invalid Address checker has been improved to reduce the number of false positives.
We now update active listings when the maximum quantity is modified for Multi Quantity Listings.
It is now possible to make classified listings in the General and Motors categories. We automatically detect what type of listing a category accepts, auction or classified. If a category supports both types you can choose which to use.
You can now define up to 5 global answers to help you quickly respond to standard questions.
When setting up a rule, you can now search all of the Trade Me categories and select the appropriate one. This additional method makes creating new rules much quicker and simpler.
The price that an FPO (fixed price offer) was made at, is now shown on the FPO link on the Listings screen.
You can now configure your customer names and addresses to automatically reformat with the casing of your choice. The options are:
NB: this will only apply to new customers and addresses but there is also an option to update existing data according to the settings.
The Private Notes on a product are now shown on the Shipments report.
We have slightly altered the look and feel of our tab navigation to make it visually clearer which tab is active. We have also made it more obvious when a filter has been applied to a grid. The Recently Viewed panel has also had a makeover to help users distinguish the different document types more easily.
If you import or re-import your products then you may be interested in the following changes.
New:
For more information refer to the Import Fields Help page.
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.