Release Date:   Wednesday 5 June 2013 5:00pm

Implemented in this release

Product DYMO labels

You can now print DYMO labels for your products.

We offer a standard template which you can also customise.

Public Notes on Shipments

Public Notes on your sales orders are now displayed on the Shipments screen.

Transparent images

The transparent component of some images (e.g. GIFs, PNGs) is now retained in both Tradevine and Shopify.

NB: transparency is lost when the images are submitted to Trade Me because their images are converted to JPG.

Changes to Trade Me categories

We have revamped the way we deal with Trade Me categories, so that we can more robustly handle changes made to the Trade Me category structure.

Trade Me listing and promotion fees

On the Listings screen you can select the More Info link to find out what the listing and promotion fees were for each listing. In future releases these will be graphed and included in our metrics and reports.

What’s Next?

• Ability to refund Pay Now payments when cancelling a Trade Me Pay Now sales order
• API method to create products

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 9 May 2013 5:00pm

Implemented in this release

Sales Order and Invoice footer text

You are now able to add your own text and graphics to the bottom of the Sales Order Confirmation and Invoice PDFs. This is configurable via the Trade Settings screen. This is useful for custom payment details or adding terms and conditions.

Listings screen layout

We have improved the layout on the Trade Me Listings screen:

• start date has been added
• withdrawn listing indicator
• a More info link which shows
  • the method used to create the listing
  • the Trade Me success fees
  • the Gallery Plus status
  • the time the listing was last checked by Tradevine

Ignore Feedback for a product

On individual listing rules you can now override the global settings so that feedback is not placed.  You can also choose to ignore customer feedback by product.

Default Listing comment

It is now possible to define a listing comment that will automatically be added to all new listings.  The comment will be added a few minutes after the listing has been made.  The first time you define the global comment it will also be added to active listings.

Ad-hoc Listing comment

In addition to the default listing comment you can add a comment to active listings at any time.  You can only do this once for each listing.

Trade Me customer reminders

The Trade Me customer reminders for missing addresses and non-payment are now based on working days instead of calendar days.

New Sales Channel filters on Sales Orders and Shipment’s screen

We have modified the filters for the Sales Order and Shipment screens to include the Trade Me Channel and Shopify Channel.

Trade Me listing failure reasons

The product’s listing rule now displays the reason a product failed to list.

Authenticated Trade Me Bidders when importing active listings

When importing Active Listings we can now detect the Authenticated Bidder setting

Declined Trade Me FPOs

We can now detect when members decline an FPO. This means that we can now immediately relist a product when the offer has been rejected by all recipients, rather than having to wait until the offer time has elapsed.

Trade Me listing quantity adjustments

Trade Me listings with Buy Now Only quantities greater than one, were being withdrawn when the available stock quantity dropped below the listing quantity (if the auto-withdraw setting was on). Now the listing is only withdrawn if there is no stock, otherwise the quantity is re-adjusted on the active listing.

Xero Tracking Categories

It is now possible to map a Xero tracking category option to each of your sales channels, as well as manual sales orders. This helps you run reports in Xero which group the revenue by sales channel. You will need to configure tracking in Xero and then map these in Tradevine.

API – Create Sales Order

It is now possible to create a sales order through the API. The sample application has been updated to include an example of how to do this. Please also check out our documentation.

Importing Product Changes

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

New:

• Disable automatic feedback – (Trade Me).
• Ignore feedback – (Trade Me).

For more information refer to the Import Fields Help page.

Key Bug Fixes

1. Shopify variant products were losing the shared handle when importing or updating.

What’s Next?

• Ability to refund Pay Now payments when cancelling a Trade Me Pay Now sales order
• API method to create products
• Display sales order public notes on the shipment screen
• Ability to print Dymo labels for products

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:   Tuesday 16 April 2013 5:00pm

Implemented in this release

Archive products

You can now archive unwanted products. Archiving can be turned on or off for each product. Once archived, the product will not be visible on your product list views and searches, unless you set the view filter to include the archived products.

Archived products will not be listed on Trade Me. Archived products will remain untouched in Shopify.

In a future release we will be removing the Archived label, so if you are currently using this label you might want to migrate to a different label and/or use the new archiving switch.

Tradevine API

We have released the first phase of our API that allows users to remotely hook into their data. This includes:

• Extracting sales and shipment info.
• Extracting core product data including inventory.
• Sending shipment and tracking information to us.
• Sending revised inventory counts to us.

More information on our API can be found at https://api.tradevine.com

Tradevine Support user

You can allow a Tradevine Support user to access your account and provide assistance by selecting Invite Tradevine Support from the Help icon.

Faster bulk auto-listing with photos

We now pre-emptively upload photos to Trade me once they are associated with products, so if you are creating a lot of new listings for the first time, this should now be even faster.

Trade Me Pay Now commission rate

We can now detect the exact Pay Now rate from Trade Me as you come in and out of the Top Seller programme, so your Xero invoices should always contain the correct rate which will make reconciliation even better.

Importing Product Changes

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

New:

• Is Archived – (General).

For more information refer to the Import Fields Help page.

Key Bug Fixes

1. The listing end time was sometimes overwritten, when the rule was configured for a specific end time, but a new listing was created manually with a different end time and the rule was subsequently updated.
2. The floating pricing on a product listing rule wasn’t always up-to-date, depending on what was updated.

What’s Next?

• Even though we have released the first phase of our API we are continuing to add to the API, e.g. the ability to add sales orders from 3^rd party web-carts.

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:   Wednesday 20 March 2013 5:00pm

Implemented in this release

New Wizard

This doesn’t affect any of our existing users, but we have revamped and streamlined the sign up Wizard. It’s leaner and faster.

Trade Me data displayed up to 45 days

The Listings, Questions and Feedback screens were starting to get a bit overloaded with very old data. So just like Trade Me, we now only display the listings for the last 45 days.

Don’t panic we haven’t deleted or trashed any of your Trade Me data. You can still run a Trade Me Listing Detail report for any time period you want.

Channel Name added to the Sales Report

The Channel Name has been added to the Sales report. This is useful if you have multiple Trade Me or Shopify accounts.

Org logo

The Organisation logo has now been merged in with the Organisation Details screen.

Importing Product Changes

There are no importing changes for this release.

Key Bug Fixes

1. Not all the inventory counts were being updated for BoM products that were linked to multiple BoM kits.
2. Shopify wasn’t always updated with the latest photos when re-importing your products. Tradevine is now regarded as the master and every photo that exists on the product will now be updated to Shopify.

What’s Next?

• We are getting very close to releasing our first phase of our API. This will allow you to hook into Tradevine from your own software. Phase one will be limited to approved users and is likely to contain the ability to retrieve sales orders, confirm shipments and adjust inventory.
• Some back end improvements.

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 25 Feb 2013 5:00pm

Implemented in this release

‘Buy Now Only’ Listings

Trade Me are making a major change to how Buy Now Only (BNO) listings with multiple quantities work. Currently, when a buyer purchases any quantity the listing closes. In future, the listing will remain active until all of the listing quantity has been sold, or until the scheduled end date.  This means that you can have multiple sales, to different buyers, for a single listing.

You can read more about these changes on Trade Me’s Help Page.

For all sales, buyers will now be presented with a new Purchase reference number  instead of the listing number. We will use this ‘P’ number as the reference on your sales orders. You may need to reword your payment instructions to include this reference change so the right number is on your bank statement.

Watch for an announcement from Trade Me for when this exciting change will take effect.

New Product Sales Metric Chart

A new screen called Product Sales Metrics has been added. You will be able to view the sold quantities, values, profits and margins for the specific product you select.

Xero

Occasionally Tradevine is losing authorisation with Xero. We have made some changes to alert you when Tradevine and Xero are not communicating correctly.  We are working hard to resolve the authorisation problem.

Importing Products Changes

There are no importing changes for this release.

What’s Next?

• We have been making good progress on the API. This will allow you to hook into Tradevine from your own software. Phase one will be limited to approved users and is likely to contain the ability to retrieve sales orders, confirm shipments and adjust inventory.

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 21 Jan 2013 5:00pm

Implemented in this release

Shopify orders

Every 5 minutes we now make an arbitrary check of Shopify for any missed orders. Sometimes Shopify was not notifying us that an order had just been created.

PDFs

We have changed the tools we use to generate PDF documents. You should also now be able to print PDFs faster and to handle larger bulk-print batch sizes.

Reports

Sales Channel has been added to the Sales report.

Public Order Notes has been added to both the Sales and Shipment reports.

Printed Date on Shipments List screen

The Shipments List screen now includes a Printed Date column. It is also now possible to filter the Shipment List screen by the Printed Date.

Fast Shipping email options

The email settings in Fast Shipping are now retained after logging out (These are stored in the same long-term cookie that the list page sizes are – so they will be remembered as long as the cookies are not cleared).

Turn Trade Me on or off

It is now possible to temporarily disable and enable the Trade Me channel. This should be done with care.

Sortable Trade Me listings

On the Listings screen you can now sort your listings by when they started or when they are due to finish.

Link to Trade Me listings from listing rule

A new link has been added to the sidebar of the listing rule when no listings exist for the listing rule, the link takes you to the Listings screen and filters on that product and listing rule.

Importing Products changes

We have some users who run daily long running imports to update their product or listing rule details. This can lead to full consumption of server resources for the duration of the import, resulting in page load delays for other users. We have implemented a 50 millisecond throttle for each row of the import which should lead to a small increase in the overall import duration but will help maintain the responsiveness for other users of the system while the import is running.

Key Bug Fixes

1. The Shipment method was missing from the Pick Lists.
2. The creation of the Xero transactions was sometimes interfering with the saving of sales orders.
3. Draft purchase orders created when running auto re-ordering were erroneously taking Trade Me listings and Fixed Priced Offers into account.
4. Fixed Price Offers were being made for BoM type products when there wasn’t enough stock to cater for the offers.
5. When BoM type products were partially shipped with no back orders, the sales order was showing a count for a full shipment. For this scenario, the sales order now shows a Partially Shipped link that takes you to the latest shipment for the sales order.
6. Exporting more than 20 products was sometimes an issue when using Internet Explorer.

What’s Next?

• We have started work on our own API so that other companies can hook into our software. Phase one will be limited to approved consumers and is likely to contain the ability to input new sales-orders , confirm shipments and adjust inventory.

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 13 Dec 2012 5:00pm

Implemented in this release

Bill of Materials (Kits)

It is now possible to create products that are kits. A kit is a product that is made up of several other products e.g. a mobile phone kit could consist of a case, a charger and a screen protector.  The components of a kit (case, charger & screen protector) are defined on the Bill of Material (BoM) tab of the parent product (mobile phone kit).

Parent products with a BoM must be non-inventory products. The component products can be of inventory and non-inventory type as desired.

The Available to Sell of the parent kit is calculated based on the component with the least Available to Sell, taking into account how many of each components are required in each kit.

Listings, sales orders and invoices will all refer to the parent product, whilst the shipments, pick-lists and packing-slips will refer to the component products.

If you are importing or exporting BoM type products, then you will be interested in the following new fields:

• BoM Component Product Code – (Bill of Materials).
• BoM Component Quantity – (Bill of Materials).
• BoM Remove Component – (Bill of Materials).

Auto import Trade Me listings to Tradevine

As part of the normal 5 minute poll of Trade Me, we will now check all of your active listings.  If we find a listing that is not currently in Tradevine then we will automatically import it, provide we can match the details to an existing product/listing-rule combination.

New menu layout

We have given the top level menus a make-over. The text links at the very top of the screen have been replaced with icons.

Remove suppliers from products on re-import

It is now possible to delete suppliers from products during an import.

If you are importing with the intention of deleting suppliers from your products, then you will be interested in the following new field:

• Remove Supplier Product – (Suppliers).

Labels button on Trade Me Listing Rule Product List views

The Labels button has been removed from the Trade Me Listing Rules view.

Importing Products changes

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

• BoM Component Product Code – (Bill of Materials).
• BoM Component Quantity – (Bill of Materials).
• BoM Remove Component – (Bill of Materials).
• Remove Supplier Product – (Suppliers).

For more information refer to the Import Fields Help page.

Key Bug Fixes

1. If you were logged into Tradevine twice in two tabs in the same browser, then when you logged out of one session there were inconsistent results in the remaining session.
2. HTML markup in product data such as name or description sometimes caused page crashes.

What’s Next?

• We have started work on our own API so that other companies can hook into our software. Phase one will be limited to approved consumers and is likely to contain the ability to input new sales-orders and confirm shipments.

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 22 Nov 2012 5:00pm

Implemented in this release

Gallery Plus

It is now possible to create Trade Me listings using Gallery Plus.  If you are unfamiliar with Gallery Plus you can read more here.

We have changed the way that Tradevine makes listings on Trade Me. Previously the autolister always made a new listing, never a relist.  Now we will always try to relist a closed listing and only create a new listing if this is not possible.

This has 2 benefits:

• Gallery Plus is now supported
• an email will be sent by Trade Me to any watchers pointing them to the relisting.

Be aware that it is not possible to relist any of the following:

• withdrawn listings
• listings with open FPOs (Fixed Price Offers)
• listings older than 45 days
• listings in classified categories like Livestock or Earthquake.

In order to switch on Gallery Plus you need to turn on the new option in the ‘Extras Selection’ part of either the Product Listing Rule or the Global Listing Rule.  If you plan to set this on the Product Listing Rules then consider using the export/import feature to mass update.

HTML restricted product and listing rule descriptions

Because of the inconsistencies arising from trying to interpret HTML in the Product Description and the Listing Rule Descriptions, when importing products, we now attempt to automatically remove any HTML tags.

HTML editor for Shopify product descriptions

We have added a HTML Editor button to the HTML toolbar on the product’s Shopify description. This allows the HTML gurus to edit the product description directly in HTML format.

Shopify product URL & handle now editable

We have made the product’s Shopify URL and Handle available for viewing and modifying. This is useful if you want to create meaningful URLs.

Line spacings for the Shopify product descriptions

You can now configure your Shopify product descriptions with large or small line spacings. Use SHIFT+ENTER to create a small line spacing and just ENTER to create a large line spacing.

Importing Products changes

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

Fields which have changed:

• Gallery Plus – (Trade Me).

For more information refer to the Import Fields Help page.

Key Bug Fixes

1. New listings were sometimes failing to be created when the category was changed from a category that previously had attributes.
2. In Xero, all the line items on a Credit Note were being attributed only to the sales account instead of the account mapped for each product.
3. Deselecting the Same as Billing address checkbox now clears the shipping address fields on a sales order.
4. When a user corrected the unpaid subscription on their account Tradevine was failing to update the account status.

What’s Next?

• Kitting, also known as bill of materials – bundling up products to make a composite product.

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.