| Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | calsbricks  | | Posted: | Jul 15, 2021 10:31 | | Subject: | Sellers tools - Query by Form (QBF) | | Viewed: | 97 times | | Topic: | General | |
| Sellers Tools – Query by Form
Here is an idea which could help both sellers and buyers using a simple Query
by form (qbf)
I am not a software screen or form designer but the fields could be something
like this:
Top half of screen
Lot No/Product Code Lot no brings up product description, clour and condition;
Product
code lets you key in colour and condition
Colour Bricklink colour
Condition Bricklink conditions
Date Range Could include all or various ranges including custom
Sort on Could have default or by any of the array fields
Transaction Type Should show Manual add, order, adjustment; part out; mass upload,
etc
Once those key choices are made the system then goes and finds the transactions
that fit your criteria
The array fields should show at least the following
Qty
Date
TransType
Reference
Unit Value
Total value
Balance
Could make the array a lot more complex with avg value calculated etc, costing
etc but initially this QBF would be of value to sellers and could be used by
buyers to see their buying history by product
If I forgot anything you think might be useful, please feel free to comment/add.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jul 9, 2021 10:20 | | Subject: | Sellers Tools ????? | | Viewed: | 242 times | | Topic: | General | |
| Sellers tools – what should that Include
We think the following minimum areas of functionality should be included
1. Allow stores to have staff with their own password and levels of access
2. Allow more parameters for stores in all areas on the site, especially store
settings, and templates
3. Inventory management – complex area perhaps split between standard and advanced
4. Sales metrics
a. Ability to see the reality of what is selling and where and of course , for
how much
5. Costing – could be included in advanced inventory management
6. More queries by form
7. Changes to My Inventory page including multidimensional filters and more update
capabilities especially to do with pricing
8. More printing and report options both for the seller, with other filters available
such as country, region, all etc, as well as buyers.
Those items, which are by no means exhaustive, are fine for starters. What could
happen is polls to be run to consolidate the multitude of opinions and suggestions
from which design work could take place, ultimately leading to programming, testing,
documentation and release.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jul 9, 2021 08:48 | | Subject: | Bricklink Part Out feature | | Viewed: | 157 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
| The Bricklink part out feature needs work and a revisit
For almost 10 years we have been using Brickstock to do our part outs and then
uploading the xml file to Bricklink. Due to the recent changes to the catalogue
surrounding minifig to minifigure this has become laborious (Minifig images and
price information will not load into Brickstock). I know about Brickstore and
am considering it but the part out in BL is archaic to say the least. No permanent
record of the parting out other than a part out log which says you parted out
this set with no backup information whatsoever. It also causes problems with
pricing because you cannot see your existing prices without a lot of fiddling.
Bricklink needs to combine the features of the 3rd party products to offer a
fully functional part out facility and it needs to store the results of the part
out not just a date in the log.
I wonder if this is in the “sellers tools” functionality that has been talked
about for 8 years now and really has not materialised.
Lots of development time on conformance – fine that is required but what else
is going on? Please do not tell me it is XP
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jul 2, 2021 10:26 | | Subject: | The nutshell we were referring to | | Viewed: | 203 times | | Topic: | General | |
| | Try this one for size |
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jul 2, 2021 06:15 | | Subject: | In a nutshell | | Viewed: | 286 times | | Topic: | General | |
| OK the EU Marketplace VAT changes are released and in the throes of being examined,
and as pretty much normal, there are things missing. That is not new. We are
still waiting for the sales tax exemption for the US and that was a long time
ago. We are also still waiting on the zip code pricing for the US, as well as
weight and volume based pricing for most of Europe (Lots have workarounds for
this). We must not forget the margin scheme in all of tjhis – yet another complication
All sellers who have not implemented an onsite payment method are not affected
by these changes as Bricklink has limited the payment methods to either Paypal
or Stripe, where they have an arrangement to collect the monies directly before
the seller gets paid.
If you have implemented onsite payments then you are affected one way or the
other. Depends on what country you are in or selling from and also has a dependency
on your cumulative turnover in the EU currently 10k euros, (That hasn’t been
implemented yet either) Seeing a pattern ? we do. Big picture design and programming
works well in some circumstances but not all, the same as agile development
In time maybe the missing features will be added, only Bricklink knows that at
present. In the meantime we have a great deal of sympathy for those that are
caught up in this, both buyers, who are going to pay more and sellers who will
have an additional administrative burden and cost landed on them (You pay Paypal
or Stripe fees based on the total value of the orger (Which includes VAR, where
appropriate. Still that isn’t a lot is it?
I have left out lots of complicated bits here as that was not the point, How
is Bricklink going to know if a sellers turnover reaches 10k in a 12 month period,
for example unless the seller declares it.
Good fun and always, yes always a challenge.
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