It is now possible to import your sales orders into Tradevine from a CSV type file. This should be useful for users with OpenCart and Magento web-stores. If you are exporting your sales orders from Magento or OpenCart, then please contact us about installing an Extension to assist with creating your export files or view our Help file instructions.
The Import Orders screen can be found under the Sales menu.
For more explicit information on the expected sales order data, refer to the sales orders Import Fields Help page.
Reconcile unpaid sales orders against a bank statement
If you’re not integrated with Xero, you can now reconcile your unpaid sales orders by importing an online file from your bank.
The QIF type file (Quicken Interchange Format) can be downloaded online from your bank. From the Reconcile Orders screen (under the Sales menu), simply upload the QIF file. You can then match bank deposits to sales orders. Whenever you select a bank deposit, we will attempt to best guess the sales orders which match, by targeting the bank’s reference fields and the dollar value of the sales order. You can then opt to mark any matching sales orders as paid or you can ignore any of the remaining unmatched items.
Australian Trade Me shipments
We can now create sales orders for any Trade Me sales, that include an Australian shipping address.
If you configured your global Trade Me settings to flag invalid or unknown addresses, then the sales orders with Australian shipping addresses will also be flagged for your attention.
Faster loading Product Lists
We have made some changes behind the scenes, to improve the speed performance of the Product List views.
Bulk process shipments
It is now possible to confirm multiple shipments in bulk from the Shipments List. This option allows you to email the shipment details to your customers, but you won’t be able to download any paperwork for the shipments.
If you prefer to include the tracking references for each shipment, then may prefer to use Fast Shipping instead.
Large pop-up images
You can now view a larger version of your listing and product thumbnail images by clicking on the thumbnail. This will pop-up a larger image. Just click on or outside the image to close the pop-up.
Product volumes
Now when you view the details of a product, the Information tab includes the product’s volume. This will only be calculated if the length, height and width have been provided.
Find sales orders with public notes
The Dashboard now has a new link called Sales orders with public notes. This will link to the Sales Orders List and show all the sales orders that are either Pending or Awaiting Shipment, that have public notes. This is useful for sellers if their customers input colour or size or specific shipping instructions in the buyer message in Trade Me.
Alternatively, you can search the Sales Order List yourself by applying a filter using the With/Without Notes options.
Confirm purchase orders without sending emails or PDFs
When confirming a purchase order, you previously had the options to email or print a PDF. Those options are still available, but now you also have the option to bypass emailing or printing a PDF.
Importing Products changes
There are no changes to product importing for this release.
Key Bug Fixes
The TOLL tracking reference landing page has been updated.
The should pay in Xero warning prompt is no longer displayed for Cash type sales order.
The Trade Me listing description and footer were sometimes blowing out because of inconsistent hidden escape characters.
Sales orders paid in Xero were not being detected if the sales order was updated in Tradevine after a partial payment was made in Xero.
What’s Next?
Kitting
Gallery Plus
Persist fast-shipping email options across sessions.
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.
It is now possible to also ship your sales orders without waiting for payment.
When the Payment Terms on the sales order are set to anything other than immediate, then you will be able to ship without payment. The payment terms will default to immediate for all your Trade Me and Shopify sales. Otherwise, the payment term will be derived from your customer record each time a sales order is created. When the payment term is not set to immediate, then the payment due date will be set once you ship the order and it will be based on the payment term duration. For example, if the order was created on the 7th with a payment duration of 14 days and shipped on the 10th, then the payment due date would be the 24th.
Option to include or exclude the SHIP product from your reporting metrics
You can now configure your reporting metrics to exclude or include the default SHIP product. This will also affect some of the Dashboard values.
The checkbox setting can be found on the Trade Settings screen. By default this is set to include the SHIP product.
Cancelled sales orders excluded from reporting metrics
Cancelled sales orders are no longer included in the sales and products reporting metrics.
Chrome iOS
We now support Chrome iOS, which is used on devices like iPad and iPhone. So you should be able to login and do whatever you need to do using a Chrome iOS device.
There are a few limitations to using Tradevine on a Chrome iOS device:
DYMO printing will not work.
Barcode scanning is not currently possible.
Importing files will not work.
Downloading PDFs will not work.
Turn Inventory Tracking on or off at any time
You can now turn Inventory Tracking on or off whenever you like. The only restriction is that inventory tracking can only be turned off providing the products SOH (stock on hand) is zero. You may need to first do an inventory adjustment in this case.
Manually create bulk Trade Me listings
It is now possible to create multiple manual listings. From the Trade Me Listing Rules product view select the checkbox to the left of each product listing rule in the list and then select the Create Listings button. You will then be given the option to set the duration and end time for all the listings.
New Cancelled status for sales orders
We have introduced an additional sales order status called Cancelled.
The distinction between Completed with Cancellations and Cancelled is that Completed with Cancellations is used if any part of the order was shipped.
Sales Order List changes
We have made a few small changes to the Sales Orders List screen.
An icon showing which selling channel the sales order originated from is now displayed in a new column called Type.
The Customer Name column now shows both the customer name and the username for Trade Me sales orders.
Now able to filter search the Sales Orders List by partial matches on a customer name.
Now able to filter search the Sales Orders List by selling channel Type.
Now able to filter search the Sales Orders List by Total sales order value.
New Shipments report
A new Shipments Report has been added, which details all your shipments and products.
Alternate Product Code added to the Inventory reports
The Alternate Product Code has been added to the Inventory reports.
Alternate Product Code added to the Stocktake search
You can now search the Stocktake screen for products with an Alternate Product Code.
Printing any combination of Shipment documents now updates the shipment status to Awaiting Pack
Now when you auto print or reprint any combination of your shipment documents and labels for shipments which have an existing status of Awaiting Print, then the shipment status will be automatically updated to Awaiting Pack. This also includes the combination of opting to not print any documents or labels.
Customer phone numbers added to Invoice type A
Invoice type A now includes the customers phone and mobile numbers on the Shipping Address panel.
Trade Me listing failures label replaced
We have revamped the way we let you know that some of your Trade Me products have failed to list. Previously if a product failed to list, we would label the product. Since it is now possible to have multiple listing rules for a product, we now flag the specific listing rule for the product, which failed to list.
The Dashboard link and its counter are unchanged, so you can still use the link to quickly find the products which have failed to list. The Trade Me Listing Rule product view filter now includes the option to search by Has Listing Failure.
The Trade Me Listing Failure label has been replaced with a Listing Failure checkbox on the products listing rule. The checkbox is only enabled when there is a failure. The checkbox is automatically cleared when a new listing is created.
Hyperlink to manually created Trade Me listing
Now when you manually create a solitary Trade Me listing the pop-down confirmation includes a hyperlink to the actual listing in Trade Me.
Product Name instead of Listing Title when submitting automatic feedback
The Product placeholder tag on Automatic Feedback now displays the product name instead of the listing title.
Ability to add line notes, public notes and private notes to any status of sales order
Now you can add or edit the line notes, public notes and private notes of a sales order, at any stage including completed or cancelled.
Unsaved Line Notes on a sales order now prompted to be saved when exiting
Line Notes on a sales order are only saved when the sales order is saved. Now if you add or edit your Line Notes and these have not yet been saved when exiting, a prompt will be displayed, which reminds you that you have unsaved changes.
Option to oversell your Shopify products
A new Allow overselling checkbox has been added to your Shopify product settings. This allows you to configure the products you are happy to oversell on.
If you are importing then you will need to add the Shopify Allow Overselling field to your import file.
Xero hyperlink to product inventory journals
If you are integrated with Xero, it is now possible to link directly to a products inventory journal in Xero, by selecting the link for the inventory transaction under the Transaction Type column.
Warning prompt when marking the sales order as paid before updating Xero
If you are integrated with Xero and opt to mark your sales order as paid before it has been marked as paid in Xero, we will now display a warning prompt.
Quick find customers by their email addresses
When adding customers to a sales order, the customer search now allows you to find existing customers based on partial matches of their email addresses.
Page sizes
We have modified the way page sizes work when viewing lists like your products and sales orders etc.
Each time you change the page view count to either 10, 20 or 50 items at a time, the new count will be used as a default for any other lists you visit. The last used page view count will also be remembered each time you log in.
Product importing/updating
We have made a few cosmetic changes to the product importing screens to help clarify what each type of importing does. As well as, to help let you know that importing is also a way of updating your products in bulk.
Importing Products changes
If you import or re-import your products then you may be interested in the following changes:
Fields which have changed:
Shopify Allow Overselling – (Shopify).
For more explicit information refer to the Import Fields Help page.
Key Bug Fixes
Customer phone numbers are now updated from sold Trade Me listings.
Purchase Order receipt – highlighting rows as marked is now working again.
A webpage error was unexpectedly encountered when importing Xero contacts.
Existing product category attributes were cleared out in error when importing without mapping the category attributes fields.
The re-importing of Trade Me products with multiple selling quantities was failing when importing from an exported file.
What’s Next?
We almost completed Bank Reconciliation in time for this release, so this will now be in the next release. Along with the following key features:
Kitting
Bulk shipping complete
Importing sales orders from file
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.
We have given the Product List a big make over. There are now a few different views with an abundance of tabs to select under each of the following views:
Product Information
Suppliers
Trade Me Listing Rules
Shopify Products
The new views now include product thumbnails and inline labels.
You can also easily and quickly find the products, which do and don’t have rules or listings, as well as, which products have been configured for auto-listing etc.
Each view has its own set of search filters and quick action buttons. We will be adding more bulk actions to this in the future, e.g. bulk listing.
Trade Me Listing report
A new Trade Me Listing Detail report has been created, which provides a lot of information about all your listings.
The report can be configured to target specific date ranges, as well as individual products.
Saving your Shopify products
We have changed the way Shopify products are initially created, so they mimic the way Trade Me products are first created.
This is more apparent if you have multiple Shopify stores. When creating a new product the “other” stores will no longer be defaulted with the same product data, until you opt to add the Shopify settings to the product itself for that store.
Inventory Adjustment default
Now when you make an inventory adjustment to a product, which is not a stocktake or EOY reconciliation type adjustment, the quantity will default to 1, until you opt to change it.
Photos
In some circumstances, when uploading bulk photos we sometimes duplicated the image in error. So we have changed the way that we handle bulk photo uploads. The main effect is that if you want to replace previously uploaded photos then you must first re-import the Photo Identifier before triggering the bulk photo upload. The procedure for importing of new photos is unchanged.
Blank line separation above the Listing Footer text
We now separate the global footer text on your listing from the listing description with a blank line.
Changes to Importing Products
The only change to this release affects exporting not importing. We no longer export the Photo Identifier on the product Core Details (now known as the Product Information export) export.
Key Bug Fixes
When selecting all the products on the current view of the Product List, it wasn’t always possible to discern, which labels were or weren’t assigned.
Previously when confirming a sales order or a shipment etc, the status would change, which meant it was not possible to get to the next document without exiting and opening the next document. We have fixed this now for most scenarios.
We now retrieve our thumbnail images over https, so you should no longer encounter the mixed content warning on the Listings screen.
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.
We’re delighted to announce that Trade Me has entered into an agreement to purchase Tradevine. This will see the Tradevine team join the Trade Me team within the next few weeks, but it won’t spell the end of the Tradevine brand as it will continue to operate under the Trade Me banner.
Most importantly, the heart of the Tradevine operation will not change. We will remain in Christchurch and it is business as usual for us. You will continue to deal with the same team who will provide the same great Tradevine service you enjoy today. Apart from a change in email addresses over the next few weeks, you shouldn’t notice any changes.
We’re excited about the future, and we think the ability to strengthen the integration between Tradevine and Trade Me will be fantastic for our clients.
We have revamped the automatic listing settings to improve the options available to achieve a variety of differing listing strategies.
Listing durations can now be either:
fixed length (e.g. 7 days)
fixed length with a specific end time (e.g. 7 days to finish at 8pm)
can finish on a specific day of the week and time (e.g. finish on Sundays at 8pm)
When your listing durations are configured to end at a specific time, we will attempt to create the new listing within a few minutes either side of the specified time. Be aware that if you specify a specific end time then there are some circumstances where will we be unable to achieve the exact time, such as if there is limited inventory and an existing listing auto-extends. We will attempt to list for up to 20 mins past the target time before waiting for the next day. In practice this will mean that the target time -2/+3 minutes would normally be achieved, however it could be up to -2/+20 minutes if inventory is limited.
The listing durations and times can be configured globally on your Trade Me Selling Channel or individually on each Trade Me listing rule.
As a result of the changes to the listing durations, some of the import and export fields have changed. The relevant fields are:
Listing Duration Type – (Trade Me) – new
Listing Duration Days – (Trade Me) – input values modified
Listing End Day – (Trade Me) – new
Listing End Time – (Trade Me) – name change only
For more detailed information refer to the Import Fields Help page.
Manually make Fixed Price Offers
It is now possible to manually make Fixed Price Offers if you have chosen not to activate the automatic FPO feature.
You will find the FPO button on the Sold, Unsold and All tabs of the Listings screen where you will able to specify a price and, if relevant, an offer quantity.
EFTPOS Payment Method added
EFTPOS has been added as a Payment Method option.
Delete User Logins
You can now delete users from your organisation. You just can’t delete yourself for obvious reasons.
Compare at Price added to Shopify
Recommended retail price, alias Compare at Price has been added to your products Shopify settings.
Alternate product Codes
An Alternate Code field has been added to your products, which allows you to optionally specify a secondary product code.
In Product Core export file, the field is called Alternate Code.
Import Replacement Product Codes
You can now replace existing product codes with new codes via an import. This is particularly useful if you have created products automatically from say Trade Me and now you wish to use your own SKU numbering.
Be aware that if you have imported new replacement codes, you must use these new codes on all subsequent imports, otherwise, you run the risk of creating duplicate products , one with the original code and one with the new code.
In your import file, the field is called Replacement Code.
Upload photos via FTP
It is now possible to upload photos with an external FTP URL. We also support password protected FTP and HTTP servers.
Email content now persists for subsequent shipment emails
When confirming shipments and opting to email either the packing slip or the invoice, any text entered into the content panel will now persist for the next shipment confirmation.
NB: clearing your web browser cookies will remove the content.
Importing Products changes
If you import or re-import your products then you may be interested in the following changes:
Fields we have added:
Listing Duration Type – (Trade Me)
Listing End Day – (Trade Me)
Alternate Code (Core)
Replacement Code
Compare at Price (Shopify)
Fields which have changed:
Listing Duration Days – (Trade Me). The expected input values have changed.
Specific Listing End Time renamed to Listing End Time – (Trade Me)
For more explicit information refer to the Import Fields Help page.
Key Bug Fixes
Photos used on more than one product were sometimes also being deleted from the other product.
Re-uploading photos was duplicating the photos on the product.
Paid payments in Xero were missed in Tradevine, if the cash bank account in Xero had changed.
Shared product photos were only uploaded to Shopify for the first uploaded product.
What’s Next?
We are now working on improved product views with more tabs and columns etc.
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.
We now cater for multiple Trade Me accounts. Use the Organisation Selling Channels screen to add any additional Trade Me accounts. Also remember to configure your products for the new accounts.
If you are importing for more than one Trade Me account, then you will need to add the Trade Me Account Name field to your import file or specify the Trade Me username account to apply to each row.
New Reminders panel on sales orders
If you have configured your Trade Me Organisation settings for reminder emails, then your Trade Me sales orders will now include a Reminders panel, which is just below the order details.
Depending on your organisation settings, this will display the dates the first and second reminder emails were sent, as well as the date the sales order was tagged with your choice of reminder label.
Decline sending reminder emails to overdue Trade Me buyers
You can now decline sending chaser emails for specific Trade Me sales by editing the sales order.
If you have configured your Trade Me Organisation settings for reminder emails, then the option resides on the sales order in the Reminders panel, which is below the order details.
Trade Me category now defaults to the last one used
When adding products or listing rules, the category will be defaulted to the last category used across any listing rule for that Trade Me account.
Roadstar courier added
Roadstar has been added to the list of couriers to choose from.
Any tracking references on either the shipment or the buyers emails, also link directly to Roadstar’s shipment tracking website so you can view the shipments progress.
Packing Slip and Invoice emails include a list of products
The packing slip and invoice emails now include a list of the products relating to the shipment. This excludes the SHIP product.
Customer phone numbers now retrieved for Trade Me sales
Trade Me now allow us to retrieve the phone number the buyer supplies when they win your listing.
For repeat sales, the latest phone number supplied will always override any existing phone number on the customer.
Decline feedback for blacklisted or low feedback ratings
Fixed Price Offers for Trade Me bidders who lost out on winning your listing, will no longer be made to anyone on your blacklist.
You can also decline making FPOs to anyone whose feedback rating is less than desirable, by configuring the minimum percentage to check for on either your Trade Me organisation or your products.
Maximum character counter on Trade Me listing title and question answers
We have added our character-counter functionality to the listing title (50 chars max.) box as well as the answer field for questions (500 chars max.) to help you avoid exceeding the Trade Me limit for these fields.
Importing Products changes
If you import or re-import your products then you may be interested in the following changes:
Fields we have added
Account Name – (Trade Me)
For more explicit information refer to the Import Fields Help page.
Key Bug Fixes
The Product description was disappearing when creating a listing rule and then wasn’t editable.
Feedback was being sent for cancelled sales orders.
It was not possible to create a new listing for a product after changing the category, when the previous listing category had attributes.
It was sometimes difficult to log in when using a password manager.
Labels were sometimes applied to all products, when only a partial list of products was displayed on the Products List screen.
What’s Next?
We are now working on timed-finishes for listings, enhanced product list views including photo thumbnails and the ability to make manual fixed-price-offers from the listings grid.
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.
It is now possible to add a generic footer to some or all of your Trade Me listing descriptions.
Each product is configured to use the footer text by default.
Visit the Trade Me Organisation Settings screen to configure your footer text and to turn this feature on for all your Trade Me products. The footer text will only be used if both the product and the organisation setting are on.
If you are importing then you will need to add the Trade Me Is Listing Footer Enabled field to your import file and configure each product with a value of either Yes or No.
Specific Listing End Times
Previously you could only configure your listings to finish at a set 15 minute interval, now you can now specify the exact minute you want your product listings to end.
NB: there is a small bug on Trade Me’s side, where your end times may differ slightly, after updating a current listing. The older the listing, the more the updated time will vary.
Enhanced Fixed Price Offer Options
Previously you could only configure your Fixed Price Offers for percentage based markups or markdowns. Now you can also configure fixed dollar amount markups and markdowns.
You can also configure your products for fixed priced offers by importing from file. The new fields in the Trade Me Settings file are:
Trade Me FPO Base Field Plus Value
Trade Me FPO Base Field Plus Type
Delete Shipments
You can now delete uncompleted shipments. Deleting a shipment will revert the status of the sales order back to Pending and you will then be required to manually approve the sales order to progress it to Awaiting Shipment.
Up-to-date Tab counts on your List screens
The counters displayed in the heading of your Status Tabs on your List type screens should now update when items are either added or removed from a status tab or a search filter is invoked.
Immediate auto feedback after shipping
Feedback can now be placed immediately and automatically after a shipment has been processed, instead of having to wait at least one day.
To configure this, set the days after shipment field to zero on your Trade Me Organisation Settings screen.
Delete Labels
It is now possible to delete labels. The system will also remove the label from any documents, products, customers or suppliers, which were tagged with the label.
Sales Orders from Shopify purchased with variants
Shopify sales, which were based on products configured with variants, now come through into Tradevine as a sales order based on the variant the buyer purchased. Provided each variant has been setup in Tradevine as a separate product linked to the correct variant. We are working on getting the importer to populate this automatically.
It is also now possible to configure your products in Tradevine to handle products set up in Shopify with variants. We are still working on putting a full on framework in place to handle Shopify variants, so in the interim, please contact our support staff for more insight into how to currently set up for this.
Importing Products changes
If you import or re-import your products then you may be interested in the following changes:
Fields we have added
Is Listing Footer Enabled – (Trade Me)
FPO Base Field Plus Value – (Trade Me)
FPO Base Field Plus Type – (Trade Me)
For more explicit information refer to the Import Fields Help page.
Key Bug Fixes
The sales inventory reports have been updated to make them more accurate.
Some buttons like the Withdraw listing button, would sometimes not enable in some web browsers.
Labels already assigned to items like a product or a sales order etc, were being removed when applying labels to multiple items at once.
Non-taxable products in Tradevine are now created as non-taxable in Shopify.
Entering HTML formatted text into some fields was causing a page error. Now a validation warning is provided.
Photos were sometimes mismatched when uploading with numeric only product codes.
It was possible to delete your products from Shopify when importing without including the Is Listed on Shopify column, which previously defaulted No.
Photos downloaded from some external websites would fail with a 403 forbidden error.
The tracking reference when visiting the Pass the Parcel tracking website is case-sensitive, so we have made a change so this now works according for Pass the Parcel.
We are now working on multiple Trade Me accounts.
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 or feedback, feel free to drop us a line at suggestions@tradevine.co.nz.
You can now list your products in Trade Me with a quantity of more than one. Multiple quantity listings only cater for a Buy Now. This is all configurable on the Selling Channels tab of each product.
You can also configure your products for multiple quantities by importing from file. The new fields in the Trade Me Settings file are:
Trade Me Is Sold In Multiple Quantities
Trade Me Sell Multiple Quantity
Trade Me Is Shipping Price Per Quantity
Manual sales order approval for rural delivery or unrecognised addresses
We now provide the option to ensure that sales orders with either rural delivery addresses or unrecognised addresses require manual approval before the sales order can progress any further.
This helps you ensure the correct shipping costs have been applied, especially for rural delivery addresses.
The Dashboard now includes a Sales orders check address link to help you find these kind of orders.
Check out the Shipping panel on the Trade Me screen under the Settings menu, if this appeals to you.
Bulk mark your sales orders as paid
From the sales order list you can now mark multiple sales orders as paid with just one click of the Mark as Paid button.
If you are integrated with Xero, then it would be advisable to update your payments in Xero and let the system automatically update these in Tradevine and not use this feature.
Delete Product Photos
The delete button on the Photos tab of a product will now delete images even if they belong to active or closed Trade Me listings, The images will also be deleted from your Shopify products.
Import and export product Labels
Product labels applied to products are now included in the export. Labels can also be imported. Labels can be created, updated or removed from products via the import.
If you are importing then you will want to add a Label List column to your Product Core import file. Multiple labels will need to be separated by a comma. Label names which include a comma, should be enclosed inside double quotes.
View more than 10 Labels
You can now see all of your labels, whenever you view the list of labels to apply or remove from your products or orders etc.
Previously you could only see the first 10.
Dymo Shipping Labels
It is now possible to specify how many shipping labels you want to print for a shipment. The default quantity can be configured on the Trade Settings screen.
There is also now another field that can be used on your custom shipping label templates called FirstProductCode which prints the first product code of the shipment onto the label. Visit our DYMO Help page for instructions on how to add this field to your custom labels.
Next/Previous navigation through your Customers, Suppliers, Shipments and Goods Receipts
The ability to navigate to the next or previous record, has now been added to the customer, supplier, shipment and goods receipt screens. On the previous release we introduced the navigation to products, sales orders and purchase orders.
Importing Products changes
If you import or re-import your products then you may be interested in the following changes:
Fields we have added
Label List – (Core)
Is Sold In Multiple Quantities – (Trade Me)
Sell Multiple Quantity – (Trade Me)
Is Shipping Per Item – (Trade Me)
Fields which are no longer required:
Category Index – (Trade Me)
For more explicit information refer to the Import Fields Help page.
Key Bug Fixes
The Product Reorder count on the Dashboard now excludes non-inventory products.
A server error is no longer encountered when changing the shipping type on an Awaiting Shipment sales order when a customer address was not present.
You can now enable/disable the auto-listing flag in bulk on the products list without encountering any erroneous validation about gallery photos.
Trade Me Shipping Options now double quoted on the product export file to support commas in the shipping option name.
You can now have a solitary shipping cost for your Trade Me 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 or feedback, feel free to drop us a line at suggestions@tradevine.co.nz.
You can now get the system to automatically withdraw Trade Me listings, when product levels drop too low. You have the option to first withdraw either your active listing(s) or your active Fixed Price Offers. Auto withdraw can also be configured to take your draft or pending purchase orders into consideration.
Check out the Listing and Offer Options panel on your Organisation Selling Channels screen for the options that best suit you.
Trade Me listing rules
We have revamped the way you can configure your products to be listed on Trade Me to give you more control and customisation of each product listing. You can now create multiple listing rules for a product. This means you can customise any of the listing details and individualise the listings for a product. Each listing rule can be activated or deactivated using the Auto-listing setting.
The rules for each product can be prioritised, cloned or deleted.
If you already had multiple listings or categories for a product, then each of these will have been turned into an individual rule. Please review these to ensure they are now consistent with your listing expectations. The ability to sell bulk quantities in Trade Me is coming very soon, so you may want to configure your listing rules with this in mind.
If you re-import your products you will need to add the Rule Name to your import file.
Relist unsold listings
You can now manually relist unsold Trade Me listings.
The Relist button can be found next to recent listings on the Unsold tab.
Pass The Parcel Added
We have added Pass The Parcel into the Shipped With drop-down on your Shipment screen. When you save a tracking number, the system will create a link to their tracking page.
Pass the Parcel is a simple online courier solution for sending your parcels.
Product Description filter
You can now search your Products List by the product Description.
One click importing of your Shopify products
We have added the option to import your Shopify products and photos with just one click. You can do this from the Import Products screen.
Editable Tax Code
Your organisation’s Tax Code is no longer locked down. You can now edit and change an existing tax code. You just can’t blank it out, if you already had a tax code.
Updated Search Filter on the Listings screen
The Listings screen search filter has been extended to allow you to now search by labels, listing category, listing rule and listing description.
Checking your listing fees
When you check your listing fees these will now be specific to your Trade Me account and not just the listing category.
Wider Notes and Product Description panels
We have made the Notes panels on the sales orders wider. As well as widened the Product Description panel. These should also auto-size as you add more text.
Key Bug Fixes
If you imported some active listings, which were configured for buying in multiple quantities, then any sales orders generated from sold listings will now display the purchased quantity.
The Dashboard and Shipments List would sometimes time out.
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