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I have a new store subscription up and running and a few more questions arose:
1. On the Store Management Page (upper right) is a choice to Revert to my old Store ... have NOT clicked that, what does it do?
2. Cannot find where to set up Categories ... in the lower left of this screen shot is the word Categories and a clickable link BUT when I click the link nothing happens.
3. Promoted Listings: I read several sections of the Promoted Listings offer by eBay (NOT part of the screen shot below) whereby you can Pay up to 20% to apparently increase visibility of your listings AND the Fee will ONLY be assessed if the item sells. I will not be doing that at present but looking at all the fee examples, etc. this seems to be equivilent to offering the Promotional fee as a discount off the sale price (I assume JUST the item and NOT shipping, but that does not seem to be explained). So in my mind, to offset the use of the promotion and still get the price you want for your item you need to add the promotion percentage on to the price ... while they mention this my be beneficial for categories with huge numbers of listings (like Women's Clothing) it probably is true for many categories ...
1. On the
@labs118 wrote:Mr lincoln
Your ebay categories have nothing to do with your store categories.
Say you make a category for Pottery & glass, you now list a piece of fiesta using ebays pottery & glass category , You still need to select what category it is going into in your store
So if you set up a pottery & glass category for your store you need to put it there like my above screen shot.
If you do not select a store catergory in the ebay lisitng it will all dump into other
You will want maybe a category for your Model & Kits or something like that , Pottery and Glass,Etc
They will fall in to the category as long as you have a category set up in your store and enter that store category on your ebay lisitng as I showed above.
Make sense?
Yes Labs, that makes perfect sense now, thanks for the clear and concie explanation.
@scga912 wrote:There are eBay categories and Store categories - completely different.
If you click on my ID and then choose View Seller's Items, you will see the Ebay Listing Categories on the left. If you go through the store "door," you'll see my created categories. If you click on China For Your Table - you will see all of my sub-cats
Might I add that you not only create your main store cats but create those sub cats right away too if you're going to use them. They are handy for some breakdown. Otherwise you'll be pulling your hair out. You'll have to edit the listing and remove it from the main category back to other and then create the sub and then re-edit the item again to add it to the new sub-cat.
Thank you Suzanne ... very nice store btw ... love the silverplate listings ... I should probably be asking you for pattern i.d., that's my biggest challenge with the flatware I get ... if you know of any sources for that and can share them I would appreciate it. Nice organization too ... I get it now and appreciate the feedback ... will keep working on the store. My thrust, because I travel with my job at times AND have had more success with Auction listings is toe do 5, 7 & 10 days opposed to 30 day FP ... it limits the total number of things I sell but if the average sale price is decent then quanity is less of an issue.
@scga912 wrote:There are eBay categories and Store categories - completely different.
If you click on my ID and then choose View Seller's Items, you will see the Ebay Listing Categories on the left. If you go through the store "door," you'll see my created categories. If you click on China For Your Table - you will see all of my sub-cats
Might I add that you not only create your main store cats but create those sub cats right away too if you're going to use them. They are handy for some breakdown. Otherwise you'll be pulling your hair out. You'll have to edit the listing and remove it from the main category back to other and then create the sub and then re-edit the item again to add it to the new sub-cat.
Not necessary 🙂
You can bulk edit stuff into your store cats 🙂
Select the Items from Active Listings
In the bulk editor, select "Edit Fields" >> Catagories
Will bring up a screen that looks like this ("Glassware and Pottery" is the main Store Cat > "Serving and Service" is a subcat) ... also note (for Mr Lincoln) that you can choose 2 different store catagories to put your items in 😉
@penguins_dont_fly wrote:
@scga912 wrote:There are eBay categories and Store categories - completely different.
If you click on my ID and then choose View Seller's Items, you will see the Ebay Listing Categories on the left. If you go through the store "door," you'll see my created categories. If you click on China For Your Table - you will see all of my sub-cats
Might I add that you not only create your main store cats but create those sub cats right away too if you're going to use them. They are handy for some breakdown. Otherwise you'll be pulling your hair out. You'll have to edit the listing and remove it from the main category back to other and then create the sub and then re-edit the item again to add it to the new sub-cat.
Not necessary 🙂
You can bulk edit stuff into your store cats 🙂
Select the Items from Active Listings
In the bulk editor, select "Edit Fields" >> Catagories
Will bring up a screen that looks like this ("Glassware and Pottery" is the main Store Cat > "Serving and Service" is a subcat) ... also note (for Mr Lincoln) that you can choose 2 different store catagories to put your items in 😉
Thanks "p-d-f" !!! ... will definately try that
