mam98031 • Volunteer Community Member • Buyer/Seller since 1999
For sellers that are still using TurboLister, we are all painfully aware that at some point it will be retired and no longer available for us to use.
With the announcement of TL being retired this month on the UK site, it puts us all on notice here on the US site.
In an effort to prepare and be ready for the demise of TL so that we do not experience any down time for our businesses, I thought it would be a good idea to be a bit proactive and get some advice from experienced users of other programs.
Speaking for myself, some of the important points with TL are [in no particular order]:
1. The ability to work and create listings offline.
2. The ability to store lots of templates.
3. The ability to store 1,000's of old listings for future use.
4. The ability to work with multiple Ebay IDs
5. The ability to pull Ebay listings in and mass edit, then update the listings on Ebay.
I know there are more. But this at least gets the conversation started. For those of you out there using other listing programs, please share your pros and cons. To include pricing if you know that. This thread is intended to help sellers that are currently using TL and need to work our way onto another program BEFORE we are cut off from the program all together.
I think an important part of a new program would be the ability transfer the info we have in TL into the new program chosen to move forward with. So if you know if this is possible, please share.
I look forward to learning more on this subject.
Thank you in advanced for your time and willingness to help.
@moo*cow*corner wrote:Thanks for the answers, Bob. I use Shipworks too, and I love it, although I'm very small. I have orders pulled directly from Paypal. I sure hope ebay will allow a way to retrieve orders so I don't have to change THAT.
I didn't like FedEx's billing procedures so I dropped them several years ago. I may look into it again. My UPS account is right in Shipworks, and I know I can add FedEx if I decide to get an account again.
So many changes in such a short time! Ugh!
Yeah... USPS charges you when you print the label. UPS & FedEx charge you after delivery. It's great....sorta...since you get your payment long before the bill for shipping. But it's only great if you take the time to make sure you hold onto that shipping charge and don't spend it on more inventory. 🙂 I still have my account with FedEx - I just don't need it much. Used to be I could use my FedEx employee shipping account and save...but that's not allowed anymore. I guess too many FedEx employees figured out they could really save a bundle and get premium shipping! 
-Bob.
@moo*cow*corner wrote:---General Reply with an Update----
I'm going to try Wonderlister.
They just released a new version...with a neat new toy...
You can flag a listing to end before the GTC automatic roll over. It's available on the listing template form as a checkbox. Bulk edits to add the flag can be done also. A listing will be ended ONLY if it has NO sales history against it.
Just got a beta release announcement from SixBit stating pretty much the same thing:
"Added support for Custom Durations to be specified in the Submit Item Window for eBay Fixed Price Listings. The background Agent will automatically end listings at the appointed time. If an allocation plan is used on the Item, it will Relist if so specified. Custom Duration is also available for Batch Change of Running Listings and will set the Auto End Date to the number of specified days past the Start Date."
The 'Agent' is a background program started when Windows starts - it updates your database on a periodic schedule and is responsible for running a lot of the automated tasks that SB performs, even when the desktop app is not running.
Allocation Plans are the user-defined controls that determine how inventory changes are handled, cancelling listings on multiple venues when inventory is gone, adjusting prices during automated relists. AP's are only available at Enterprise level and above.
The Batch Change process is slick -- it allows you to select a group of Items or Listings and perform the same change(s) on all of them. You can select for just about any data retained in the records, so you can select Current or Archived Items, Running or Ended listings, or even things like Profile, Start Date, Starting Bid, Listing Format (Fixed Price/Auction) and a lot more. And you can change multiple fields at one time, and have the option to append, prefix, replace, and in the case of select fields, increase, decrease, increase/decrease by a percentage, and more. Very useful -- I set up two prestored Batch Change definitions for one of my clients -- one puts new Items into one Profile (Seller ID), the other into another Profile. Makes move product between the two companies quick and easy. And the prestored Batch Change definitions don't forget to change a field -- the same set of changes each time they are used, unless I change them.
-Bob.
@wvdisney wrote:
Castlemagic:
I'm an IT guy with 24 years of experience...and file exchange looked pretty steep of a learning curve, but that was just a quick glance that took perhaps 1-2 minutes. Could you perhaps expand a bit on the basics of file exchange? Just the very basic concept of listing a new item in File Exchange - how do you do the description, upload the photos, specify shipping, etc.
If it really is an easy to use solution once you get past the learning curve, perhaps it would work for many Turbo Lister users.
This is an old thread that is likely to get closed now that you and I have posted on it.
Hi everyone,
Due to the length of time that has passed since this thread began, we have locked it from future replies. Since Turbo Lister is being retired soon this likely warrants further discussion, so please don't hesitate to begin a new thread here on this topic.
Thanks.
