Sixbit Now Available for Etsy too

Couple of things here.
One is with the amount of listing you guys have, who knows how large that database would be with SixBit. If over 10 gigs then the Micro Soft SQL free server won’t handle it and you would have to then buy your own SQL version for several hundreds of dollars so that would take you wayup and over the $50 month level. Or you would have to buy more space on your current server which you are familiar with, but who knows how much with that blotted size of SixBit files and you would have to check your server guy for a cost. Who knows you could run into terabytes of data.

On Wonderlister as you say the $50 a month plan would let you go up to 10,000 listings and that would handle your current store and leave you room for 4,000 +/-. So some room to grow.

How I work our current situation is you have to have one computer dedicated as the “main server” where the SQL database is stored. Our laptop has a version of WL installed and we have a “local network” set-up so when we fire up the laptop it automatically opens, sees the desk-top file in the network and connects. All done seamlessly. We can use the laptop and the desktop both at the same time and do anything we want EXCEPT work on the same LISTING AT THE SAME TIME. But that’s no bigger.

So as soon as we buy some items we bring them home. I open WL on my desktop and open a folder I created a long time ago called Warehouse Inventory. This is where I always keep about 50 blank templates of several types always on hand as well as all of our unlisted inventory. Great at tax time. So, again, I open a blank template and do a very fast basic entry. Not more than sixty seconds. A rough title, a create our SKU number [ a process I can show you in 60 seconds some day when you and Ryanne are ready and drop that into the SKU box and then hang a tag on the item with the same number and place the item on the needs photography table. From there our “former” helper would work from the laptop. When she came in all she would do is open up the laptop and go to the Warehouse folder and open it. Then she could select any line item she would want to work on, click to open and then fill in the weight, item specifics, and description, and leaving the price blank for the time being. Then she would type RFR in the note section and click save. What this did was create a duplicate of the listing into a folder I created especially for her called RFR=Ready for Review”. This is where she “parked” all of the listings for my review. My wife, Susan, does photography and we, just like you, do photos in batches and save from a card into dated folders. When time for listings, I open the RFR folder, select which ever ones I want to list and open them. I look over everything she has done, correct if needed, attach Susans photos and drop in the price and done. From there I can upload immediately or schedule them for specific intervals in between listings or set them to up load on certain days or times.

Now to your direct request. That laptop acts just like a “slave” computer in any corporation. It accesses WL by way of a wireless net work, operates just like any individual and separate database, only it is tying into my desktop as it’s main host server.
With the amount of listings you guys have and as many photos you will probably just want to go ahead and set it up your server instead of a laptop. Think about it if you hit 10,000 kisting even at an avg. of 10 photos per listing that is over 100,000 photos [frined that is 1/10th of a million photos.]

So here is the question, can WonderLister be set-up on a separate file server…Yes, can the second version that you put on a laptop access it along with a desktop, unsure but I can ask. Don’t forget, I am a Beta Tester for WonderLister and have access to the Support and Engineering team. Many suggestions I have made over the last couple of years has made it’s way into the intergration of WonderLister. The newest release 3.0 which is really slick by the way and jsut out a few weeks ago, has many of my inputs active in it.

On a final note, if you just want to have one PC, then get one and have your WL database stored on your private server. P.S. WL support team will also help you get it all set up. At this time Sixbit has several “paid support plans”. WL does not, unless they get just swamped with future growth, for now atleast their support is free and fairly quick.

Hopefully I have answered some of your questions. If you have other questions throw them up on the table and I can get answers directly from the team I report to. Heck maybe if you want to talk to Support I may be able to arrange for you to talk directly to them or maybe even contact the owner Chavi. That might make an interesting interview, remote control on an Ebay by other means rather than using Ebay’s system-method. Don’t know.

mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta