selling on ebay as a business

[CR0X]

I could have done a search, but wouldn't know to start.

For many reasons, I might be getting involved with a small company that sells a lot of stuff through ebay and amazon.

Is there back office software that makes it easy in terms of raising invoices, reconciling payments (through Paypal for example), and then, preferably, linking into a version of Sage?

At the moment, it is a bit adhoc, and we want to drive through savings in terms of increasing efficiency in the accounts side of things.

Anyone got any advice or recommendations? They are using zencart for their actual site too.

[Baxter 69]

Hi there,

What does the Company do? What does it sell?

[CR0X]

I'd rather not say ... keeping cards close to my chest on this one as it is something quite different ...

[Baxter 69]

Well, all I can say is that if you are dealing with Branded goods... 95% of Ebay products are replicas. If your thinking of selling something branded and to be taken seriously, look elsewhere if I was you.

If it is completely different and my guess is way off the mark, just go for it!

And Good Luck!

[CR0X]

cheers, it is certainly not branded, not that type of product.

[MarkoTVR]

There's a ton of eBay selling info on their site....

http://pages.ebay.com/sell/resources.html

There's a forum on there, so it might be worth seeing what others have done via that route.

[JonX2C]

Ebays back office is brialliant and provides you with all the means to raising invoices and dispatching.

IF not try auctiva.com which is free.

I prefer using ebay as everything is there which you could need.

Have you ever sold on ebay before, from personal experience setting up a shop is not as easy as it seems especially when it comes to listing items in the correct places and also with all the new rules in place on ebay I would take a look at their policies as they are constatly changing at present