Best way to sell on Amazon and Ebay from Magento

[69thelememt]

Currently, I'm still on M1 and I'm looking at all the options to make my life easier when listing to Amazon and eBay (minefield)

For Amazon, I did a product file upload months ago and have slowly just been removing items as they have changed rather than updating them. (I really find Amazon data sheets tedious). For eBay, I use Inkfrog which is a great little platform for the price

As of right now I sell high ticket items, average cart value is £700, BUT I seriously want to expand (or at least have the option to) the product range in future, maybe into selling a lot of lower ticket items

To try and simplify the whole process, so far I've used:

Expandly - (awful) apparently they are a little better lately and I tried them maybe 18 months ago, but the platform was unusable.
'boostmyshop' - extension which didn't work at all, just threw up a load of errors and didn't even update 'matched' products already on Amazon and the support just shrugged their shoulders and said 'they had no idea of the reason why'

Channel Advisor and the higher prices options are out of my league, as is maybe M2Epro as turn over is at around £500-600K per year so it takes it to silly pricing
I'm not trying to do things on the cheap just I think some of the big boys that offer the POS, the multi-warehouse, the shipping API's and all the rest seem to think that because you sell on more than one platform you must be 'rolling in it' or a big player. I'm looking for a good option for a small business that's looking to expand

Linnworks is one I'm really interested in and have heard good things about
I've also now heard that M2 will have the integration built into it natively soon as well. I spent thousands on M1 and extensions and development, (why oh why cant it be like wordpress and just have a rolling update?)

Features I need are:
Product sync and bulk upload to platforms - update
Possible different pricing on platforms (Amazon commissions is a bitch)
One thing Linnworks (i believe is to automaticaly update stock from a dropbox location) this would be good as we get these from our dropship suppliers. You just have to 'map' the fields - the shipping service API might be good also
Processing orders

So I have the dilemma of,
A) do I go to Linnworks and stick with M1
B) Migrate to M2 and hope the native solution is good
C) Migrate to M2 and use one of the 3rd party solutions that might be better
D) pay a freelancer to take care of the product sheet, the upkeep and the stock levels from the dropship suppliers?
E) a combination of the above

Any help on all the abouve would be great as I'mm really lost on this and as you know you need to put so much effort into any of the above directions I need to get it right first time

 

[HC-Samuel]

What about something like Tradegecko or OrderHive?

 

[heimerdinger]

C) Migrate to M2 and use one of the 3rd party solutions that might be better

You might be heard of Magestore Omnichannel Solution before?

 

[AntonyL]

Feedback on using the following in case it might help (only with Magento to Ebay);

M2Epro - used for a few years up until 12 months ago. Significant system and no small load on a system. Never noticed the load since I have a dedicated server. Support none existent or just plain useless when you get any, which is a big problem with such a complete system. Works well when its working. Impossible to get support to accept issues with the system. Real happy to not be using it now.

Codisto - due to the hassle with M2Epro I gave Codisto a go. Initially looks really good and lightweight compared to M2Epro. They even handle the conversion of M2Epro listings to there system. Turned into a nightmare and they corrupted all the Ebay listings and the original M2Epro records. Do not touch.

Best of luck.

 

[d3lvedesign]

We've recently integrated a M1 website with M2Epro. It works very well with no issues yet. So far we have it sync'd up with Ebay, the next step is to sync it with Amazon.