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Greetings all! I am looking at putting the 750 items I have listed into categories. For some reason I thought this was an automatic thing but when I view my store almost all of my items are in the “other” category. Does anyone have tips or tricks on how they organized their store? I figure it will most likely just be tedious process.
We are also working on getting all of our inventory management, hoping to make it easier to find items. It is a big job but for anyone out there wanting to do it…. it is worth it! It takes time, you just need to commit yourself to working on one box a day. You will have it done in no time!
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Basically we have racks and each rack has a letter, we then just add either boxes or bins and put the corresponding rack letter then add a number. Like Rack E box 11, we just put E11 on the box. If you have similar items in a box it can be easier to inventory. From the manage active listings page you can add a Custom Label (SKU) easily without having to go into the actual item. So lets say I have a box of ties, I can then go to my manage active listing page and search for my items I have listed that say tie in the title, then I can easily go down the list of ties and add the custom label (Scu). The Custom Label field seems to give you quite a few characters, so for example you can put: Red barn Shelf A box 1, or whatever works for you.
Does that makes sense? Clear as mud? I learn best with pictures so I can definitely do a step by step if that would be easier. 🙂
I think if you do at least one box a day… you will get there eventually. We have only 750 items at this point so it is a lot faster job for us. -
Hi Rhianna, I just did both things, the new categories and moving all my inventory into a new system. I love the new system, but it is a big job.
For the categories, this is what I found.
1. You have categories e.g. clothes; shoes, sub-categories e.g. women’s clothes; men’s shoes, and sub-sub-categories e.g. women’s tops; women’s dresses; men’s dress shoes; men’s athletic shoes. Three levels: clothes>women’s clothes>women’s tops. You can create up to 300 (iirc) categories, but for the purposes of counting, eBay includes subs as categories. So if you have 10 categories and 5 subcategories in each, eBay calls it as 50 categories.
2. You cannot adjust categories or subs once you have stuff in there. It’s a real PITA to move them too, takes 24 hours to effect the change, so do yourself a favor. Work out your categories and sub-categories in advance. Type them into a Notepad or Word doc that you can copy/paste later.
3. There is a character limit on each category and sub, but you can group things together. So you can put Toys, Plush, Games all in one category, then create subs that separate them. It’s the same principle as an Amazon or eBay search: have a broad category and then allow drill-down in search.
4. Once you have subs within a category, it’s easy to add more subs later if you need them. However, if you have items in the category/sub and you try to amend something, it will either refuse to do it or delete all your items from the category. If you need to adjust a category, create a category called Temp or Transfer and move all your stuff there. Wait 24 hours. Make your changes. Wait 24 hours. Move everything back. Told you it was a PITA! 😉
Hope this helps!
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I wish ebay would allow us to tie the item specifics to store categories. Imagine you have a store category for womens shoes. You could then pick a few item specifics to link to that category and ebay would automatically create a sub-folder system for those item specifics.
With the click of a button you could have all your shoes sorted by brand, size, color, etc!
As it sits now, I use categories mainly to keep track of how many of each type of item I have. I don’t think any of my customers use it as I have very, very few return customers or multiple item purchases.
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