Stock Control Software compatible with eBay

[Mudgey]

Hello,

I'm in desperate need of some automation and efficiency in my ecommerce business, I now have close to 500 lines of product with no stock control software and unfortunately mistakes are starting to be made and think its time to get something in place before it gets out of control!

From peoples experience is there anything out there that can automatically sync with eBay and Magento ?

The biggy I need is that I need eBay to automatically up the item price so that I don't lose my listing position rather than actually remove it from sale.

Thanks!

[951TSE]

As I understand it these guys use magento as a stock control back end for Ebay, Amazon and their own websites. There's a plugin for Magento endorsed by Ebay called M2EPro which I gather is the link, not read it in detail still in the pipeline for me. they seem friendly though:

http://understandinge.com/

Loads of online tutorials both free and paid for, you may find what you're looking for there.

[DSLiverpool]

We have gone with Brightpearl it covers all platforms and countries

[ModernAndy]

I'm using brightpearl and 3 months in its had its issues but is good once you get used to it. It won't up your prices (and I don't think any other software really does) but it does keep their ranking on ebay when they go out of stock apparently.

[russy01]

We're channel advisor.
Ebay listings can run out of stock and relist whilst retaining previous sales history.
Makes a bit of difference but not as much you think. The Best match filter is more affected by sales/views and watchers over a short period. You can have 5000 sales on a listing, but if you haven't had any decent sales activity in several days it can rank well below a new listing which has sold many in 24 hrs.
We sometimes put a listing at cost for a day, sell a shed load to climb up through the results and then level the price out with our competition.
Plus don't get hung up on it, if the product you sell is very specific (I.e would be whittled down to a certain model) then a lot of buyers scrap best match and search by price - Making sales history redundant anyway.

But yes sounds like you need some software. Managing 2-300 skus manually is fairly easy, but when you start pushing 500+ and selling in volume it can get tricky. Plus at this growth stage of your business you want to be concentrating on things other than pissing about raising prices to preserve a listing.

Best of luck.