I’ve been selling surplus industrial electronics on eBay for several years now. I want to set up an eCommerce website with all 2400+ listings I have on eBay and be able to sync the inventory across both channels. Since everything I sell is surplus, I buy whatever is available from whoever has something to sell. If an item runs out of stock, I can’t call a vendor and say I need more, so I can go months or years without getting more of that item. So, I need a master inventory database that can keep track of such items and the SKU #, vendor, price paid, etc. of each one. I also need to be able to import all of my eBay listings into my eCommerce site, because I just don’t have the time to relist 2400 different items. Once its setup, I want to list one time to eBay and have that listing pushed to my eCommerce site. I can’t find a solution that covers everything I need and don’t know if everything I want is available, but any help is appreciated.
You can do this at a full on enterprise level with Magento and this http://m2epro.com/ I typically say its a piece of cake but it requires something above a 3 dollar shared hosting account and bit of elbow grease. Its entirely doable though and certainly the soundest way to go about things. I would have a few comments about speed and a few other things but you can get a pretty sweet magento theme that is suitable here without having to reinvent the wheel. http://themeforest.net/category/ecommerce/magento If you have things in a CSV file you can also import everything in one shot into Magento. I use a third party app from sourceforge or github. I forget where it lives. Its a tad technical but entirely doable without much fuss. hope that helps, Nigel
Thanks for the info. I looked into Magento Enterprise and it's out of my price range right now. Are there any more affordable solutions? A good inventory program and the ability to sync my inventory in eBay and my eCommerce store are the most important features for me right now. I can get by with having to list to each channel.
You dont require magento enterprise. You use the free one and you wind up with an enterprise level solution. What I was saying was that you use Magento and you get an amazing site. The plugin I listed is free as well and does exactly what you need. http://www.magentocommerce.com/download you require the community edition. N.
E-commerce is abbreviated as electronic commerce which is defined for buying and selling of products and services.E-commerce is also refers to use of exchange of information needed to do the online transaction like the pricing of data.E-commerce integration is the combination of a online company's and backend inventory system.E-commerce business currently have only one way integration and updates of the batch.
you should try custom ecommerce script other then ready made modules. By this you can add new features anytime in future or change the existing one also. you can find the cheepest one with Uniquescriptz.com or just follow the link http://www.uniquescriptz.com/ecommerce-script/
You're looking for something like Solid Commerce. We build our solution to help sellers do exactly what you're trying to do. Multi-channel selling is exactly what we're for. We'll help you synchronize your eBay selling and your eCommerce website so that when one runs out of inventory you won't have buyers trying to purchase that same product on another channel. When inventory drops on eBay, Solid Commerce makes sure that your inventory displayed on your webstore reflects these changes. And that's not all -- we're basically built out to help you manage EVERY part of your online selling process. Inventory management, listings, orders, vendors, drop-shippers, repricing...everything. And all in a single interface. No matter how complicated your online selling situation gets, Solid Commerce will make it nice and simple. Basically, we can help you do the work of an entire team of employees, all by your onesy. We'll make it nice and easy for you to push your inventory to as many selling channels as you can come up with, and will make sure that everything stays perfectly synchronized and easily managed.