Auction Expeditor

Find this feature
From the Main Menu of your Site Manager, click the Products link (in the Products column), and then click Export eBay.
Auction Expeditor is a paid add-on feature and won’t be available in your Site Manager unless you purchased it. For information on purchasing this feature, talk to our Web Promotions department at 888-919-7627.

Introduction

Auction Expeditor allows you to export products from your eMerchantClub website to a file which you can upload to eBay’s auction site.

Each product which is in stock can be exported to eBay. On the Products page, you’ll find an Export eBay link for each product. Click this link to open the eBay Lister Export Wizard in a new window. If you do not see this window open, try holding down either the SHIFT key or the CTRL key while you click Export eBay.

eBay Item Export Wizard

Settings

In the Settings column, select your choices for:

· Auction Site (probably US or Canada)

· Currency (probably US$ or Can$)

· Duration of the auction (1, 3, 5, 7, or 10 days)

Other Payment Options

Besides PayPal, you can select what other payment options you are capable of accepting. If you have a merchant account with the ability to accept certain credit card types, select those.

Select other payment types you choose to accept, such as a Money Order/Cashier’s Check, Personal check, or others.

Pricing options

Each price and cost is figured by multiplying the base price by the % box associated with that field. For example, in Starting Price, if we want to charge 70% of the Retail price, we will select Retail in the Starting Price selection box, and then enter a value of 70 in the % box (as shown in the example below).

On the pricing row, set:

· Starting Price - base price your auction item begins at

· Reserve Price - minimum price you will accept for the product – this price is hidden from the auction bidder. (See eBay’s website for more information)

· Buy-It-Now Price - price a bidder can pay to end the auction early

· Shipping Cost - amount you will charge for shipping this product

Learn more about payment acceptance options with these payment acceptance video tutorials.

Product row

Use the product row to control each product added to this auction submission.

Title / Category Id

Assign a title and category ID for each product as they should appear on eBay.

· Title - the title of the product

· Category ID - which category or department the product belongs in

Description and preview

The description appears on the listing on eBay when someone views your product. The description field is filled with HTML and text, and references the image.

Be careful when making changes to this field unless you are familiar with HTML.

To see how this product will appear to shoppers on eBay, click preview. The preview will appear in a new window.

Prices

Verify that the Starting Price, Reserve Price, BIN (Buy It Now) Price, and Shipping are all set as you like. Prices on this row will change by altering rows 1 and 2, then clicking the calc-all or re-calc – see below for more information.

Delete and Recalculation

· del-all - deletes all of the items that have been added to the export wizard

· delete – deletes the product on that row

calc-all - re-calculates all of the items in the export wizard with the information changed in the pricing area

· re-calc - re-calculates the items on the same row with the information changed in the pricing area

Add more items

To add additional products, click on one of the Add more items links above or below the item listing. Next, click [Export_eBay] on another item to send that item to the export wizard.

Export items to a file

When everything is set to your satisfaction (all products added, prices and other options configured correctly), the next step is to export the items to a file.

Click [Export Items].

This begins the File Download, which displays a File Download – Security Warning box.

Click Save

Next, the Save As box appears.

Save the file in a place that can be easily found in the future, such as to the Desktop or another easy-to-find location.

The default filename is eBayItems.csv, but any filename that ends with .csv will work. Using the date (without slashes) works well.

	The Save as type: should be Microsoft Office Excel Comma Separated Value (CSV) or .csv Document, or something similar with .csv as the extension.
Once all of the options have been set properly, click Save.

If the filename selected already exists, a new Save As dialog box appears to ask whether or not you wish to overwrite the existing file. Choose Yes to overwrite the existing file, and choose No to go back and change the filename.