Hey everyone.
We list about 50-100 items once a month. The items are all random and we attain them all at once.
I'm trying to understand how to simplify the process. Last month we didn't use the inventory feature at all and just listed our inventory out on an excel spreadsheet. We would then go through and list the items one at a time, marking that they were listed in the spreadsheet. Once the item would sell we would move the item and change it's color (all in excel). This seemed to work pretty well, but was not very automated.
This month we tried taking all of the 100 new items in and entering them into auctiva inventory (only a handful are multiple quantities) At the same time we were taking pictures that we'd then upload to auctiva.
The problem arose when we began to go through and list each of the inventory items. I expected that I'd be able to upload the description, pictures, price, etc. all to the inventory item, then "create listing" and have almost all of the listing ready to go. This obviously is not how auctiva is designed to work.
So my question is, can anyone recommend an easy way to accomplish this process of streamlining the inventory to listing process or are there other services (blackthorn, inkfrog, etc. that would be better aimed at making my life easy.
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