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Not sure if anybody on here has any experience with this. I’m attempting for the 2nd time to get a full stand-alone website with its own shopping cart setup for the model train business. There are several distributors that simply will not sell to me unless I have that at a minimum.
The biggest obstacle I’m running into is unified inventory between my existing eBay store and this new website. That means everything on eBay is also on my Shopify site and if something sells on one platform then it gets removed automatically from the other. I also want one place to create new items and manage existing ones. Shopify used to have an ebay app provided by ebay however I learned this week that they pulled the app because it didn’t work right and ebay didn’t want to fix it. I’ve been playing around with some 3rd party apps in the Shopify store that claim to do the same thing and they are all total garbage and don’t work for much other than a one-time bulk import/export tool. I’ve looked into List Perfectly and Vendoo and they seem more focused on getting items posted quickly across many platforms and not so much on good management of inventory across all those sales channels (Vendoo seems better but you still have to manually end items). Is this really such a hard thing to do? With the direction online commerce is going (seamless multi-channel selling) it boggles my mind that the biggest private e-commerce platform (Shopify) and the biggest online marketplace for used items (eBay) simply can’t talk to each other.
I know most folks on here are more focused on just random used stuff on eBay but I’m hoping maybe somebody has delt with this or maybe has some suggestion on what else to try.
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Michael used to post here often. HE also was planning on building his own website with shopify and use Sixbit to handle the same inventory but different platforms.
If you email us, I can see if I have his email to reach out to him.
The issue is that all the different selling platforms use different API’s and require different information. Im not sure platforms wants sellers to be able to list elsewhere so dont make it easy.
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I use ecomdash to do what you want. I sell on eBay, Amazon, and Shopify web store. Sales on any of those will sync inventory with the other 2, etc. They are a bit pricey at $95 per month, but manually syncing is time-consuming, and out of stock after a sale causes customer issues which can also take time and possible negative feedback.
I’t been a while since I set this up, over 5 years, and I don’t remember all the setup details but I’ve always been satisfied with their support as far as time and accurate responses, and they have an excellent knowledge base. As I recall they had a 30-day free trial period, which they extended when I could not get everything (over 2000 SKUs completed in 30 days. It pretty much runs itself after setup.
Don’t take my word for any of the above, as I said my memory is hazy since it’s been so long since I started with them. Call them for details, as I recall they offer great assistance during the setup.
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@Jay, I looked at Sixbit a little while back and don’t remember being impressed but I’ll have to take another look as I was focused on a more powerful listing tool back then and multi-platform was less of a priority. @Old Dad, I completely forgot about ecomdash. $95/month is more than I wanted to spend but if that’s the only thing that does the trick then I might just suck it up and pay. I’ll have to do some more research on them.
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@JasonK – I use Sixbit for eBay and Etsy integration. It is supposed to integrate with Shopify as well, though I haven’t tried. I found the learning curve steep, but once set up it is pretty easy. Pricey, too, at $122.99 per month. Overall general support is responsive and good, though I have had several instances where it has been a headache to identify and resolve issues. First 30 days has “Gold” level support which was helpful to have them walk me through some set up issues. I’d give them a 7 out of 10. Doesn’t seem to be anyone else out there that provides the same level of integration, though.
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@Lukastreasure thanks for sharing your experience on Sixbit. I seem to remember Sixbit having the unified inventory I’m looking for but I’m curious how well it integrates with things like business policies in ebay. Do you have employees that do listing for you at all? I seem to remember that was one of the useful things of Sixbit was user permissions.
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Hi Jason – It integrates fairly well with shipping policies. The one thing to keep in mind is that each time you create a new policy, you must first apply it to a listing on eBay, then refresh the listing in Sixbit before it will show up as an option in Sixbit to apply to other listings. Same deal with Etsy.
I am the only one using it for my store. Not sure how that would work, as the database is local. I assume you could put it on a server or allow other computers to connect via a local network. No web interface, which is a drawback.
It could be used for inventory, but it is not a robust solution. See pic. The section in the middle is where the info goes. This can feed into a pick list.
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Well, guess that doesn’t view very well. HEre is a blow up:
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Oh man, I totally forgot that sixbit installs the database on the local PC. They want over $100/month for multi channel support and they don’t even have a hosted solution that’s pretty bad. The worst part about it is if I want to do work at home, or on the road, I’d have to remote into my office PC to access sixbit. Ok, hopefully I can find something else that’s not Sixbit.
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