Meet Our Customers – Baking Time Club
This week we spent some time catching up with Expandly user Lavinia Drake – founder and owner of Baking Time Club – to talk sprinkles, rolling pins and multichannel selling, over a cupcake (or two!) Talk Sprinkles to Me – What is Baking Time Club? Baking Time Club is the cherry on top of every home-baker’s dream: […]
How to link eBay to your multichannel management software
Connecting your eBay account to Expandly is easy; allowing you to import and manage your existing eBay inventory, listings and sales orders – without interrupting current live listings. So let’s see just how easy it is (prefer images? Scroll down): 1. Click Getting Started in the left-hand side menu and then Add Sales Channel. 2. […]
August News Round Up
August – the month of holidays, sunshine (rain, wind and hail), National Burger Day(!) and the following not-to-be-missed August eCommerce news: The Taxman’s Taken All My… Fees – well, 20% of them. From the beginning of August 2017, eBay began slapping on 20% VAT to their fees. This follows a restructuring meaning that UK sellers contract […]
I Don’t Know About You But I’m Feeling 22! Happy Birthday eBay
eBay turns 22 this week so let’s celebrate with 22 facts about the commerce giant: 1. eBay wasn’t always so called – it started out as the self-explanatory AuctionWeb. 2. The first item sold was a broken laser pointer…to a broken laser pointer collector. 3. eBay didn’t open in the UK until 1999, […]
Top Five Ways Multichannel Management Software Can Save Time
If your August Bank Holiday or September Labor Day is going to be spent manually listing to Amazon, eBay and Etsy; updating your Shopify shopping cart; or individually printing invoices and shipping labels then stop right there (thank you very much) as we (quickly) tell you how multichannel management software can save your holiday. 1. […]
California Dreamin’ – Blackbox Connect
California Dreamin’ turned into a dream come true in 2015 for our CEO Alan Wilson, who beat stiff competition to win a place on the renowned Blackbox Connect programme. And this week, two years’ later, he’s attending the 19th programme but this time as an entrepreneur in residence. Blackbox Connect Blackbox is a global non-profit that aims […]
Top Tips for Bank Holiday & Labor Day Selling
With the UK August bank holiday and the US September Labor Day fast approaching, now is the best time to make sure you’re all set to maximise sales. When The UK’s last summer bank holiday takes place on Monday 28th August, whilst over the pond, Americans will be relaxing on September 04th Labor Day. What […]
Amazon Set Speedier Shipping Requirements
This week it emerged that Amazon is asking its American sellers of books, CDs and DVDs to increase their delivery times by up to 40%. From 31 August USA media sellers will be required to deliver items within four to eight days, instead of the current four to 7 days. “Customers are more likely to […]
Inventory Management Explained
What’s the Problem? You have three items for sale: You’re smart and want to increase the number of ways that customers can reach you so you list them on multiple sales channel(s): Amazon, Etsy and eBay (as well as your web cart like Shopify WooCommerce BigCommerce): A happy customer comes along and orders all […]
July eCommerce News Round Up from Expandly
July – the month of American independence, British Summer (or not as the case may be), David Hasselhoff’s birthday and the following not-to-be-missed eCommerce news: Now You See Me – Now You Don’t Last month Etsy announced that it was testing the inclusion of postage on its search page prices. Fast forward one month (or three […]
Ready for My Close Up: Top Tips for Product Photography
It’s World Photo Day on 19 August 2017 and with recent news that Etsy has increased its photo limit to ten, its file size to 3000 pixels and added improved zoom features, what better time to celebrate. Importance 67% of consumers consider the quality of product images to be “very important” so it is even […]
Find out eBay’s Exciting New Features
We might not yet be as road-free as Doc predicted but we are at least half a step back to the future with word-free searching. Two New eBay Search Features eBay announced not one but two new futuristic developments last week: Image Search Allowing buyers to enter an image instead of text, this new eBay […]