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Listing tools to help Microsoft Dynamics users maximize the benefits of selling on eBay

by Steve Weber
CEO, nChannel,

If you have a good number of items to sell on eBay, it doesn't take long to see the importance of finding a good method to list them on the site. Without one, you can spend hours or days trying to organize and enter them.

The first step of this often arduous process is to identify the necessary information, which includes:  

  • Product title and subtitle
  • Category
  • Description
  • Item specifics
  • Item condition
  • Product details
  • Pictures
  • Selling format
  • Price
  • Listing duration
  • Payment methods
  • Shipping cost, location and method
  • Return policy
  • Upgrades

But simply gathering all the information isn't enough. Some of the information may not be stored in your Microsoft Dynamics ERP system (i.e. images, detailed descriptions, return policy, etc.). You must also factor in the eBay-specific rules and specifications for each field before it is entered. For example, you can utilize a maximum number of 300 categories and they can only be 3 layers deep. Furthermore, a category can hold either child categories or items but not both. And then even after you list your items, the amount of manual labor can rise exponentially as you try to manage item changes, prices, promotions, inventory, etc. It's easy to see how the task can quickly become too unruly to manage.

Options for Listing Items

There are many ways to get your item data to eBay. Some involve tools that automate and streamline the entire process from Dynamics to ...

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About Steve Weber

Steve Weber is the CEO of nChannel.com. nChannel is a complete web-based, multi-channel management platform. nChannel can connect many of the systems you use to manage sales environments and easily manage the operations associated with multi-channel selling - using the systems you already own. Steve is a 13 year veteran and former Vice-President of eMarketplace Outsourcing Services for Sterling Commerce, a division of IBM. More recently Steve was named Microsoft Partner of the Year for Dynamics Retail and awarded Microsoft Retail Independent Software Vendor (ISV) of the year for his company's data sync solutions.

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