Hi Plussizetreasures,
Welcome to Auctiva! Danno's response is right on the money, however, I feel inclined to chime in to provide you with some specific instructions on how to create profiles within your account and use them when creating listings through Auctiva. In order to create Profiles for use in your Auctiva listings, first, you'll want to create profiles for each of the 4 individual profiles by clicking the "Profiles" tab within your account, and creating profiles for each of the components of the lister page.
Begin by clicking on the "Item Details" link on the profiles page and enter any information in that section that you'll want to load into each of your auctions. Most of the information in the item details section will vary from listing to listings, so the only thing you want to include in this section is any text you want to appear in the description of all your listings. If you'll be using the same template for all your listings, you may want to select the template as well. Once you have filled out this information, name you item details profile and save.
Next, click the "Marketing Tools" link on the profiles page. If you want to use the gallery feature in all your listings, check the box next to "gallery", name your marketing tools profile and save. Then, click the "Shipping Tools" link on the profiles page and enter your shipping information. Name your shipping tools profile and save. Next, click the "Checkout Options" link on the profiles page and fill out your checkout information. Name your checkout profile and save.
Once you have saved all 4 of these profiles, you'll want to combine them into a master profile. To accomplish this, click on the profiles tab and then "Master". Select each of the 4 profiles you just created from their respective pull down menus, name your master profile, and save.
Once you have done this, you can load your master profile at the beginning of creating your listing and all the profile information will be loaded into the listing. Just select your master profile from the master profile pull down menu at the top right of the page and click "Load". Or, you can choose the appropriate master profile from the “Create new listing from Master Profile” pull-down menu under the “Listings” tab, and click the adjacent “Go” button. Then, the lister page will be pre-filled with the information contained within the selected profile once loaded.
Any additional questions or concerns? Please feel free to contact our customer support team using the appropriate link on our help page:
http://www.auctiva.com/free-auction-software-help/help.aspx
-Mike