Auctionitis ‘ Relist – Selected ‘ Function – Do you use this process? If so….

we’d like to talk to you about it.  We are doing some development work and would like to get regular users feedback on this function, ask some questions, share some information etc.

If you can spare some time to talk to us (we’ll ring you at a time convenient to you), please contact us or e-mail with your name, trademe username, number and best time to contact and we’ll be in touch!

Happy New Year!

Auctionitis Software

Auctionitis December News, Improved Help Documentation & Remote Assistance & More!

Merry Christmas & Thank you from Evan & Tracey

It’s getting close to Christmas – thank you for your business this year.  We hope Auctionitis has served you well. Going into 2010 we are stepping up our development process and have a lot of cool new stuff coming out both ‘behind the scenes’ and function wise to make Auctionitis smarter and faster than ever before.

One of our aims for early 2010 is to make it as easy for you to list on Sella (see our latest blog post and find out why you cant afford to be left behind) as it is on Trade Me (and improve that too).  Sella is a great site and we’re pleased to work closely with Sella to enable you to ue Auctionitis to list on Sella with the minimum of fuss.

Do you have the latest Auctionitis Updates?

Over the past couple of months we’ve put out a few Auctionitis updates.  Take a few minutes to start Auctionitis and check for updates.  You can do this from the Utilities >Check for Updates menu option.  Use the Utilities menu to check for Category Updates if they are not set to automatically update.  More information on updates can be found in our knowledgebase.

A Brand New Auctionitis Knowledge Base is now Online

We’ve re-written the help including documentation for the different types of Windows Operating systems – from Windows 2000 through to 64 Bit Windows 7.  This is available in the User Guide on our website, or at the Auctionitis Knowledgebase.  If you are thinking of upgrading to Windows 7 we would highly recommend considering the Professional or Ultimate versions.

Whats New with Auctionitis & Sella

Want to find out about the new features and changes made lately to listing on Sella with Auctionitis? It’s all up to date and in one place here in the Listing on Sella Knowledgebase, complete with a new scheduler.  It really is so now – set and forget – no messing about with Windows Task Scheduler if you don’t want to!

Improved Auctionitis Web Based Support

We’ve recently upgraded our web based support technology – supplementary to e-mail support, with your consent we can access your PC remotely and troubleshoot/educate/assist. You can see everything we’re doing, chat with us, or disconnect us at any time! With the same level of safeness that online banking uses.

Free Remote Support Assistance & Training Offer

Do you need some assistance with making listing on Sella (and/or Trade Me) more efficient? Want to learn a few tips or tricks with Auctionitis without having to send emails or figure things out for yourself?

If you are currently listing on Sella, or considering it, we’re pleased to be able to offer you free remote support assistance and training.  At a time convenient to you (including evenings/weekends) we can show you the latest Sella functionality, set up the scheduler, discuss your needs/requirements and suggest the best way to make things happen for you.

If you are in the Auckland area we can even come and see you.  How’s that for an offer you can’t refuse? And it wont cost you anything but an hour or two of your time.

If you would like to take us up on this, or discuss it further, please let us know, and we can arrange to call you to discuss it further or set up a booking.  Just contact us!

Christmas Time…

If your Auctionitis licence is due for renewal in December/Early January consider renewing it before Christmas to avoid having any delay in it being processed due to holidays.  Please also allow additional time for support queries to be answered between 20 December and 10 January.

Thanks again for your business, support and your time – we do appreciate it and we look forward to hearing from you!

Considering selling on sella.co.nz with Auctionitis?

Considering selling on sella.co.nz?

Two reasons why you shouldn’t miss out: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10615503

“Auction website Sella claims to have grown rapidly in its first year and is near a “tipping point” to take off amid increasing competition for online sales…… The auction site says it has 125,000 registered members and 120,000 users in each of the past two weeks, due in part to Christmas.”

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/note.php?note_id=201526798963&id=1425441297&ref=mf

Sella growth highlights from January 2009 to December 2009.

• Listings increased from 40,000 to over 160,000 – an increase of 300%
• Users coming to the site have increased from 35,000 a week to over 120,000 – an increase of over 240%
• Members have increased from 20,000 to 125,000 and growing at over 2,000 a week – an increase of over 500%
• We are now selling thousands of individual items each week.
• Bids have increased to tens of thousands each week.
• The dollar value sold has grown from nothing in January to hundreds of thousands each week.
• sella.co.nz was named by Google as one of the top 10 fastest rising search terms this year.
• Over $750,000 was raised on sella for the KidsCan Big Night In Telethon and this weeks Air New Zealand Kids at Christmas charity auction.

Auctionitis Update to Build 1564 or Higher Now Available

Please Update to build 1564 0r Higher – “disappearing auctions” are back… a query to display the screen had been altered, so we’ve put it back the way it was before for further testing

Utilities – Check for Program Updates

Regards

Tracey

Auctionitis Latest Build – 1560 –

Dear Auctionitis Users

If you have upgraded to the latest build (1560) please do not be alarmed if it ‘appears’ your auctions have disappeared. They haven’t it just looks like it.  We will have an update out and the issue resolved later on today.  Thank you for your patience

If you have not upgraded please hold off upgrading until we advise further.

Regards

Tracey

Auctionitis Build 1535 available now – Improvements & Fixes

Included in this update: -

Improved Update Stock on Hand

Update Stock on hand figures will now be updated for all auctions with the same product code when a sale is made or when stock on hand is altered in the auction data entry screen. The item must have a Product Code in order to use this feature.

Added Debug level and property dump option to the About Auctionitis screen

The options will provide additional assistance and information for support call requests.

Modified the error message display to simplify error reporting

Fixed a bug in the picture upload process

If auctions had incorrect pictures assigned to them then the functions that upload pictures could get misleading picture counts causing the program to check the expired pictures on Trade Me unnecessarily. The program will now count the number of pictures actually uploaded to Trade Me instead of using the number of new pictures to calculate what the number of picutres on Trade Me should be

Modified the Sella Auction load process to check image references

In some circumstancesWhen adding an auction to sella the auction could be loaded without a picture due to an incorrect image id in the database. When loading an auction the return data is checked to see if the image exists on sella or not. If an error is thrown when adding the image to the listing then the image will be reloaded and a new reference will be obtained.

Modified the Trade Me Load Auction Cycle menu option

Modified the Trade Me Relist Auction Cycle menu option

Added a Sella Load Auction Cycle menu option

Auction Cycles can now be assigned to Sella Auctions and loaded using the load cycle function form the menu. The -CYCLE: option also works when specifying -ACTION:LOADSELLA as a command ine function either in a DOS window or as part of an entry in the Windows scheduler.

Auctionitis Integration with Sella’s Quick Pay System Completed

Hi

Just a quick note to let everyone know there’s a new Auctionitis build (1525) out today that integrates listing with Auctionitis and sella’s Quick Pay system.  Quick Pay allows you to accept credit card payments for sella.co.nz sales.

Quick Pay is sella’s official Credit Card Payment solution and has been developed in conjunction with Direct Payment Solutions, one of New Zealand’s largest providers of robust payment products.   Quick Pay has been designed to get money for items you sell, back to you quicker. Every user of Quick Pay will have their own DPS account and any money paid will be deposited into your bank account directly. Currently using the Quick Pay service is free, and sella will not take any commission on sales paid for using Quick Pay.

Configuring Auctionitis for Quick Pay – its literally as quick as 1, 2, 3!

1. Click File->Options
2. Select the Sella Tab
3. Click the Quickpay box

This enables the Quick Pay box in the Auction Input, Auction Defaults and Update Selected Auctions Windows.  Once enabled, click the Quick Pay checkbox in the Payment Instructions section to allow Quick Pay on a Sella auction.

To join or set up a free sella store:

Please contact the Sella Business Development team or phone on 0800 823 225 – make sure to let sella know you are an Auctionitis user.

Quick Links:

• About Quick Pay
• How it Works
• How to Register
• Important Quick Pay seller FAQs
• Checking for Auctionitis Updates

Thanks!

Tracey

Why you should be listing on Sella as well as TradeMe – Guest Blog from Auctionitis User

Why you should be listing on Sella as well as TradeMe

Hi, I’m Adrian and I’ve been selling on TradeMe for the past 4 years.

Recently we decided to give listing on Sella a go. And why not? There are no success fees, and you can use the Auctionitis technology to do all the listing work for you.  While TradeMe is always likely to be your biggest income source, we are selling a couple of hundred dollars a week thru Sella, so its worth doing. Once a week, it takes us just 5 – 10 minutes, to set up 1100 auctions to load to Sella.

My message to all Auctionitis users is that if you haven’t got round to listing on Sella yet, you are missing out. If you are selling on TradeMe you may as well try Sella as well. You’ve got nothing to lose. You’ll be making more on each sale with no success fees.

Auctionitis Update Build 1513: New Features to make multi-site listing easy

Hello

Auctionitis Build Update:

Today we’ve released build 1513 (or higher) of Auctionitis which has a few ‘often requested’  improvements for listing on sella. During the installation of this upgrade ALL sella listings in Auctionitis will be set to current.  This does not affect their status on the sella website.  It is recommended that prior to running the update you delete any old or obsolete sella listings in Auctionitis that may have been hanging around for a while!  Any sella templates or clones  will not be set to current.  Once the update is installed, run a Sella – Update Database to correctly set the status to current, sold or unsold.

In this update:

Added Filter to console to select by Auction Site

Auctionitis Auction Website Filter

Easily switch between auction site listings in the Auctionitis Console.

Added Update Database option to Sella Menu

Sella Update Database Function in Auctionitis

It is important to update the database regularly to synchronise the auction statuses with sella. This will make it easier to work with your auctions and manage stock.  The update database will NOT import auctions or changes made on sella.  The Trade Me update database function will not update sella auctions, and vice versa.

What exactly does the update database do?

It updates the ’status’ of all the auctions entered into Auctionitis by retrieving the status of the auction listing via the sella api.

Added Windows Scheduler Command Line Option

Many functions can be scheduled to occur automatically using the windows scheduler with Auctionitis.  sella update database functions can be run using the following command:

-ACTION:UPDATEDBSELLA

For more on the windows  scheduler visit our website.

Updated Shipping Options

Please see our previous blog post for  the changes made to the shipping options on sella listings.   If you have not updated your shipping options in Auctionitis for sella listings, please do so now or auctions may fail to load in the coming week.

Cheers

Tracey

Auctionitis Build 1496 Release – Shipping Options for Sella Enhancement

Hello

Auctionitis Build Update:

Today we’ve released build 1496 (or higher) of Auctionitis which has enhanced shipping options for listing on sella.  What this essentially means is the shipping layout in Auctionitis for sella now functions and looks the same as the shipping options for Trade Me.  When converting a sella listing from a Trade Me listing within Auctionitis the sella shipping options are automatically created based on the Trade Me shipping options already entered for that listing.

We will be rolling out some further enhancements over the coming few days based on our user feedback from our recent phone survey and the many customer emails we receive.  This will include an update database for sella so that items will move from current  to sold/unsold just like they do for Trade Me.

I’ll update the help for sella next week, however this is a fairly intuitive/obvious update that will make your lives easier when sales are made on sella.  Go on, give it a go… its still FREE to list on sella, and this enhancement is guaranteed to make the exercise even simpler!

Updated Help Links:

The new Auctionitis and Tradar help link is now: http://www.auctionitis.co.nz/index.php?page=auctionitis-tradar-user-guides.shtml

Cheers

Tracey