stock control for shop,website,ebay and amazon

[michellew01]

what would be the best soloution for software for these? i've looked at tradebox but that seems to be for online only ekm,amazon and ebay etc,

i'm looking for something that will control the stock from my new shop too,

i realise it's probably not going to be cheap but then I cannot afford a lot either

has anyone found a solution that does not cost a fortune ???

 

[michellew01]

is there nothing available for this then? I can't be the only person looking for stock control on 4 sale platforms?
if anyone can help that would be great

 

[movietub]

We are with Pearl Cart that tie in online and offline sales. I believe they have plans to bring Ebay in soon.

Amazon is much less suitable for full integration.

Having said that it would be quite easy for us to sell on ebay (or anywhere) and maintain accurate stock and accounts by selling through the pearl epos at cost price to the ebay division of the business.

Many basic cart providers integrate with ebay, but those advanced enough to run an inventory dont. I suspect this is because the integration could never be tight enough to keep proper control of stock and accounts. Fully automated sytems work great but rarely with another system.

 

[glennborthwick]

this might help www.easify.co.uk

 

[michellew01]

thank you I'll take a look at both the companies mentioned

 

[Rhyl Lightworks]

I looked into this and found it is really expensive (or time consuming) for a single shop selling many lines (in our case about 20 000). A website is less so, but usually it is necessary to tie in the two. You either have to enter in a computer every time you sell an item in the shop or have a sophisticated till and programme it for many different items. I found in our case, it was less time consuming, and certainly less costly, just to write down manually when an item was sold which brought the stock levels down to a pre-determined need to re-order. This does depend on you and your staff always adhering to this system, but then so does any system.

Barrie

 

[bridges]

I looked into this and found it is really expensive (or time consuming) for a single shop selling many lines (in our case about 20 000). A website is less so, but usually it is necessary to tie in the two. You either have to enter in a computer every time you sell an item in the shop or have a sophisticated till and programme it for many different items. I found in our case, it was less time consuming, and certainly less costly, just to write down manually when an item was sold which brought the stock levels down to a pre-determined need to re-order. This does depend on you and your staff always adhering to this system, but then so does any system.

Barrie

And then you could always hire someone to input that information for you...

Shameless, I know :redface:

B x

 

[michellew01]

Thanks Barrie, I already have spreadsheets for my stock control that I amnually adjust when i sell on each platform and as you can imagine this is very time consuming, especially in the silly season and there can be human error

i wanted to try and find an easier way, but do not have a mage large budget so may have to continue the way i'm doing it for now