online inventory management systems? (eg channelgrabber)

[ModernAndy]

Hi,

do any PH'ers have experience of using systems such as channelgrabber, sellerexpress or brightpearl, particularly with an eBay only business?

I'm going to need to use one of these starting this week so would appreciate some feedback. It would be particularly useful if you've had experience in putting kits/bundles (where 1 eBay listing is made up of 2 or more SKU's) on using one of these inventory managers.

Thanks.

[DSLiverpool]

Just gone with Brightpearl after weighing up all options.
We have approx 5k skus across 5 country variants and 3 platforms.
We got 9 licenses and set up and you pay the lot monthly.

[ModernAndy]

DSLiverpool said:

Just gone with Brightpearl after weighing up all options.
We have approx 5k skus across 5 country variants and 3 platforms.
We got 9 licenses and set up and you pay the lot monthly.

Is it any good then? Easy to create new listings? Easy to create listings made up of a product using 2 or more SKU's? Etc.

I am looking at bright pearl so would be good to know your experience so far. I'm favouring linnworks in my research at the mo but could be swayed

[DSLiverpool]

Linworks is over complicated for bundles and IMHO totally unsuitable to sellers who make one product out of several skus and sell it on various platforms / countries.
We are 1 week in and it will be live in August

[ModernAndy]

DSLiverpool said:

Linworks is over complicated for bundles and IMHO totally unsuitable to sellers who make one product out of several skus and sell it on various platforms / countries.
We are 1 week in and it will be live in August

Is it particularly easy to do the bundles on the bright pearl system then? Their competitive advantage perhaps?

[rich1231]

DSLiverpool said:

Linworks is over complicated for bundles and IMHO totally unsuitable to sellers who make one product out of several skus and sell it on various platforms / countries.
We are 1 week in and it will be live in August

Did you not look at Orderwise in the end?

[DSLiverpool]

Orderwise was great but Brightpearl really wanted the business and were cost flexible, assistance generous and it did all we need plus they are relatively local which pleased me but I am not sure why.

Heavily redoing our SKU`s stupidly we had different skus for each country and even platform due to being stupid hence we have to re SKU everything it will take over a month.

[ModernAndy]

I've got a demo arranged with Bright Pearl for tomorrow. Do you use them to list onto ebay using their system? If so, is it any good? (I would want to do all listings by CSV upload)

[DSLiverpool]

Signed up 2 weeks ago - integration will take 2+ months !!! and were not big! so cant comment on how its doing but estimated accountancy and staff savings circa £15k p/a plus brightperal additional costs

[ModernAndy]

I'm doing this as a new start but utilising one of our existing ebay shops so integration should take all of 2 minutes really. I've got my fingers crossed that the demo goes well tomorrow and we can get on with things quickly

[DSLiverpool]

We have 2 ebay id`s selling in 3 countrys - it can handle that no problem.