Hi, am new to auctiva and I am just getting use to it tools, I wanted to know if listings created on your Ebay stores gets displayed on Auctiva's scrolling gallery. Response would be greatly appreciated,thanks.
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I believe the scrolling gallery shows up to 14 listings using those ending nearest to the end time of the auction it is shown on. There is an option to hide listings which can sometimes help with what is shown.
The gallery udates every 2 to 4 hours. (I think) I don't have an eBay store so I'm not sure there.
booklady
The gallery udates every 2 to 4 hours. (I think) I don't have an eBay store so I'm not sure there.
booklady
Hi my_connect,
Welcome to Auctiva! Your eBay store listings, just like your other auction or fixed price listings, DO have the potential to be displayed in your scrolling gallery. However, they will likely be exhibited there less often than auction items due to the way the scrolling gallery populates.
The scrolling gallery is set to display 14 of your active listings at a time and is refreshed every 4 hours. Each time the store window refreshes, it is populated with another 14 of your current listings that are ending around the same time as the next auction of yours that is viewed. If a perspective buyer clicks the link on the bottom-right of your scrolling gallery, he/she will be directed to your Auctiva store, which displays all of your active listings at any given time.
The only way you can control what goes in your scrolling gallery is by making items hidden, an option which you can find by clicking the “Store Items” link under the “Store” tab within your account. Any listings that are made hidden will no longer be displayed in your Auctiva store, nor will they be displayed in your scrolling gallery the next time it refreshes, which it does about every 4 hours.
Any additional questions? Please file a support request using the appropriate link on our help page: http://www.auctiva.com/free-auction-software-help/help.aspx
-Mike
Welcome to Auctiva! Your eBay store listings, just like your other auction or fixed price listings, DO have the potential to be displayed in your scrolling gallery. However, they will likely be exhibited there less often than auction items due to the way the scrolling gallery populates.
The scrolling gallery is set to display 14 of your active listings at a time and is refreshed every 4 hours. Each time the store window refreshes, it is populated with another 14 of your current listings that are ending around the same time as the next auction of yours that is viewed. If a perspective buyer clicks the link on the bottom-right of your scrolling gallery, he/she will be directed to your Auctiva store, which displays all of your active listings at any given time.
The only way you can control what goes in your scrolling gallery is by making items hidden, an option which you can find by clicking the “Store Items” link under the “Store” tab within your account. Any listings that are made hidden will no longer be displayed in your Auctiva store, nor will they be displayed in your scrolling gallery the next time it refreshes, which it does about every 4 hours.
Any additional questions? Please file a support request using the appropriate link on our help page: http://www.auctiva.com/free-auction-software-help/help.aspx
-Mike
So the gallery actually populates from a feed basically from Auctiva .vs. calling eBays API?
It would certainly be beneficial if that is indeed the case to be able to control the gallery population to better target the consumer. For example if Customer "A" is looking at a vendors, "Mens Shoes" it would suit that the gallery scroll in other Shoes vs perhaps some Pilates DVD they also vend.
This should not be an engineering "nightmare" to accomplish assuming that the Gallery is fed via Auctiva. Vendors could make datasets that are logically linked to logical groupings product.
It would certainly be beneficial if that is indeed the case to be able to control the gallery population to better target the consumer. For example if Customer "A" is looking at a vendors, "Mens Shoes" it would suit that the gallery scroll in other Shoes vs perhaps some Pilates DVD they also vend.
This should not be an engineering "nightmare" to accomplish assuming that the Gallery is fed via Auctiva. Vendors could make datasets that are logically linked to logical groupings product.
If there's a feed from Auctiva, and there likely is, it would be nice to know about it. A while back I suggeted it in the Suggestions Forum, but got no responses. Am guessing the reason is that folks could reformat it anyway they wanted, doing away for the need for the scrolling window and hence a loss of Auctiva's advertising.
Right when I started building a template for use at eBay I went looking for a gallery type option for the pages. I ran across one that's javascript based and has you enter in item numbers of items to display in the gallery.
But... who wants to constantly be editing ad's and entering item numbers etc.
I'd imagine the javascript could be manipulated a bit to call eBays API directly. I've not really looked into the eBay API yet although I do have a developers tag there.
I'd guess the feed comes via Auctiva as it's probably alot faster than calling the eBay API direct for every listing a consumer might view. Maybe not
If its not done via Auctiva it should be.
As I noted, for a gallery scroller to really be at best effectiveness in upsell the merchant need use it to target similar items. Thus here sits an advertisement for Star Wars games. In the gallery we want show them more Star Wars games or Star Trek games or Space multimedia etc. We dont want them seeing, Sponge Bobs Big Race game.
Not knowing Auctiva's code model and structure I cant say whether it'd be easy or hard to implement. Optimally listing's should be able to be saved to "profiles" such as "Mens Shoes" etc. Then to set up a scroller one would have options such as "Get from profile" that would just randomly take other listings in the selected profile. Another where the vendor could select from any profile individual listings. That'd be the "basics" for more effective upsell.
One could of course go quite a bit further such as prioritization of profiles or listings. For example, perhaps in certain ad's (or all ads for that matter) the first things I'd like scrolled are my $1 auctions. I want them scrolled three times (as the buyer is reading my ad first not looking at the scroller), then after those three I want scroll in, "Mens Shoes" or specific listings.
If the scrollers just random then its true effectiveness cannot be realized.
But... who wants to constantly be editing ad's and entering item numbers etc.
I'd imagine the javascript could be manipulated a bit to call eBays API directly. I've not really looked into the eBay API yet although I do have a developers tag there.
I'd guess the feed comes via Auctiva as it's probably alot faster than calling the eBay API direct for every listing a consumer might view. Maybe not
If its not done via Auctiva it should be.
As I noted, for a gallery scroller to really be at best effectiveness in upsell the merchant need use it to target similar items. Thus here sits an advertisement for Star Wars games. In the gallery we want show them more Star Wars games or Star Trek games or Space multimedia etc. We dont want them seeing, Sponge Bobs Big Race game.
Not knowing Auctiva's code model and structure I cant say whether it'd be easy or hard to implement. Optimally listing's should be able to be saved to "profiles" such as "Mens Shoes" etc. Then to set up a scroller one would have options such as "Get from profile" that would just randomly take other listings in the selected profile. Another where the vendor could select from any profile individual listings. That'd be the "basics" for more effective upsell.
One could of course go quite a bit further such as prioritization of profiles or listings. For example, perhaps in certain ad's (or all ads for that matter) the first things I'd like scrolled are my $1 auctions. I want them scrolled three times (as the buyer is reading my ad first not looking at the scroller), then after those three I want scroll in, "Mens Shoes" or specific listings.
If the scrollers just random then its true effectiveness cannot be realized.
One thing I use the scrolling gallery for is to feature items that already have bids. I believe this draws more bidders to these items and tends to increase my number of auctions with multiple bidders (good thing 
).
You can do this by clicking on Store - Store Items and add featured. You can also use the "add featured" to select the specific items that you want in your scrolling gallery.
Happy selling,
Tim
).You can do this by clicking on Store - Store Items and add featured. You can also use the "add featured" to select the specific items that you want in your scrolling gallery.
Happy selling,
Tim