I'm looking into the possibility of integrating the turbo lister feature with my online catalogue. If there's anyone that has used the turbo lister I would be grateful for any comments you may have on how possible this would be or if there are any other solutions which can be used to list items on EBay straight from the catalogue. The problem is, I want to put hundreds, eventually thousands of items on Ebay every week and this is an extremely tedious task if you are continuously changing descriptions layouts etc.
I love Turbo Lister Turbo Lister can export and import csv files - try messing around with that, and you can likely layout an Excell file that can be exported in csv and imported into Turbo Lister. You may even be able to export your catalogue to csv depending on its original format. I haven't tested any of this but thats what I'd try out first if I were facing this same question.
Ideally I'd like to build a system where I can just select a list of items on my Admin pages and click Add to EBay and off they go. I've got a system set up where all the info I need comes up so I copy and paste but it just seems such a waste of time. The catalogue is all listed in mySQL databases so I could theoretically save them as csv's but I'm not sure if I'd be able to get it fully automated. I would also need to log the Item numbers which EBay assign to each listing on the Admin pages. I emailed eBay to find if there was a way I could send a form of product data to list items but they haven't replied yet. I figured with Turbo Lister it must be doing something along those lines with a secure server.
Is there a way of saving CSV's without going into cpanel to do it? I may be able to save a bit of time if I can select items to go on Ebay and then save the database that comes up as a csv.
I've no idea what you're talking about but it's just another 1 of those little projects that gets put on the backburner. Maybe 1 day I'll get round to finishing it
Quick Question from a relative newby..... I'm just curious, what language is the Turbo Lister written in? Just wondering, been trying to learn new stuff. Thanks for your help!
I'm going to do the same as you there Weirfire and am imagining it to be fairly straight forward. But like you, it;s not one of my priorities. However, I do have fully automated feed builders for shopzilla and froogle, built it myself. They create complete csv dumps from the entire catalogue (could make it so you can choose products first) and it FTPs it straight to Froogle/Shopzilla. Some alterations and it could go off in the proper eBay format instantly. Let me know if you want some code bits to show you how to build such a feed form MySQL into CSV and FTP it.
It's way down my list of priorities now that my client is taking over the eBay side of things. It just wasn't that profitable for me to be doing it and I'd prefer to concentrate my time on other things. I did have about 70% of the info getting uploaded to the turbo lister but there's that many places where it can go wrong that it just isn't worth the grief unless the site you are building it for is your own. I could probably sell the whole package for a nice amount if I got it working as it is a massive time saver but like you said T0PS, there's other priorities. I've just been using my quicky script to copy and paste the product details from the Admin pages to ebay which takes about 2 minutes per product. Obviously 100 items would be submitted in 5 minutes with the Turbo Lister so there is a good incentive to get that working. Good luck with the scripting T0PS
Turbolister is the way forward, just don't expect a stable bit of software especially when running on Windows Vista. Backup your work regularly. BACK-UP! BACK-UP! This software crashes 10 times a day sometimes, then other days its fine. You have been warned.
Look into Ebay's File Exchange (Free to qualified sellers) I forgot what you needed to qualify but it was simple (Something like Total number of listing and feedback) Using file exchange you'd upload a single file to add/update/end multiple listings. I've used it for about 6 months now I can't include links since I'm new but search File Exchange on Ebay Help Steve