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| | | Author: | calsbricks  | | Posted: | Jan 8, 2016 02:54 | | Subject: | Bricklink logins/accounts | | Viewed: | 268 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Discarded | |
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| This one has been around a long time and unfortunately nothing seems to be happening
with it.
Bricklink needs to change the way the login/accounts function works. As a medium
sized store with an owner and 3 employees we need to allow the employees to log
into Bricklink and update store inventory, prices etc almost every day and as
things currently stand they have to use the owners login details (Poor security).
SQL, which is used for the database has quite a good security system built in
so even if we went native with that, it would be better than the current situation.
The same thing applies for stores with multiple locations - we have two processing
centres - one where all of our Lego inventory is stored, picked etc and one where
orders are packed and shipped from. Hence we want to set up a shipping from address
and a shipping to address. The fact that not all stores support the alternate
address system on Bricklink, as it currently stands means the only real way to
do this is using alternates on Paypal (for those that use Paypal).
So in summary - multiple logins to the stores with security/control permissions
and a minimum of 2 address for each store - one for ship from and 1 for ship
to.
As an afterthought it might not be a bad idea to allow store owners to have two
accounts - one for buying and one for selling, with the appropriate feedback
associated with each function. This might make a difference as to how people
look at a situation - In our case we have over 800 buying feedback and over 2000
selling feedbacks.
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| | | | | Author: | Rob_and_Shelagh | | Posted: | Jan 8, 2016 03:51 | | Subject: | Re: Bricklink logins/accounts | | Viewed: | 76 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, calsbricks writes:
| | This one has been around a long time and unfortunately nothing seems to be happening
with it.
Bricklink needs to change the way the login/accounts function works. As a medium
sized store with an owner and 3 employees we need to allow the employees to log
into Bricklink and update store inventory, prices etc almost every day and as
things currently stand they have to use the owners login details (Poor security).
SQL, which is used for the database has quite a good security system built in
so even if we went native with that, it would be better than the current situation.
The same thing applies for stores with multiple locations - we have two processing
centres - one where all of our Lego inventory is stored, picked etc and one where
orders are packed and shipped from. Hence we want to set up a shipping from address
and a shipping to address. The fact that not all stores support the alternate
address system on Bricklink, as it currently stands means the only real way to
do this is using alternates on Paypal (for those that use Paypal).
So in summary - multiple logins to the stores with security/control permissions
and a minimum of 2 address for each store - one for ship from and 1 for ship
to.
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The above would be a nice to have for us.... but had to vote no because of the
below.
| | As an afterthought it might not be a bad idea to allow store owners to have two
accounts - one for buying and one for selling, with the appropriate feedback
associated with each function. This might make a difference as to how people
look at a situation - In our case we have over 800 buying feedback and over 2000
selling feedbacks.
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Robert
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| | | | | | | Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jan 8, 2016 04:43 | | Subject: | Re: Bricklink logins/accounts | | Viewed: | 61 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Rob_and_Shelagh writes:
| | In Suggestions, calsbricks writes:
| | This one has been around a long time and unfortunately nothing seems to be happening
with it.
Bricklink needs to change the way the login/accounts function works. As a medium
sized store with an owner and 3 employees we need to allow the employees to log
into Bricklink and update store inventory, prices etc almost every day and as
things currently stand they have to use the owners login details (Poor security).
SQL, which is used for the database has quite a good security system built in
so even if we went native with that, it would be better than the current situation.
The same thing applies for stores with multiple locations - we have two processing
centres - one where all of our Lego inventory is stored, picked etc and one where
orders are packed and shipped from. Hence we want to set up a shipping from address
and a shipping to address. The fact that not all stores support the alternate
address system on Bricklink, as it currently stands means the only real way to
do this is using alternates on Paypal (for those that use Paypal).
So in summary - multiple logins to the stores with security/control permissions
and a minimum of 2 address for each store - one for ship from and 1 for ship
to.
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The above would be a nice to have for us.... but had to vote no because of the
below.
| | As an afterthought it might not be a bad idea to allow store owners to have two
accounts - one for buying and one for selling, with the appropriate feedback
associated with each function. This might make a difference as to how people
look at a situation - In our case we have over 800 buying feedback and over 2000
selling feedbacks.
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Robert
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Interesting Robert - can you elaborate? We know you can see the individual feedbacks
as to buying or selling by looking at the feedback profile but if they had a
facility for this it would save time and issues with a number of us.
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | Rob_and_Shelagh | | Posted: | Jan 8, 2016 05:14 | | Subject: | Re: Bricklink logins/accounts | | Viewed: | 90 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, calsbricks writes:
| | In Suggestions, Rob_and_Shelagh writes:
| | In Suggestions, calsbricks writes:
| | This one has been around a long time and unfortunately nothing seems to be happening
with it.
Bricklink needs to change the way the login/accounts function works. As a medium
sized store with an owner and 3 employees we need to allow the employees to log
into Bricklink and update store inventory, prices etc almost every day and as
things currently stand they have to use the owners login details (Poor security).
SQL, which is used for the database has quite a good security system built in
so even if we went native with that, it would be better than the current situation.
The same thing applies for stores with multiple locations - we have two processing
centres - one where all of our Lego inventory is stored, picked etc and one where
orders are packed and shipped from. Hence we want to set up a shipping from address
and a shipping to address. The fact that not all stores support the alternate
address system on Bricklink, as it currently stands means the only real way to
do this is using alternates on Paypal (for those that use Paypal).
So in summary - multiple logins to the stores with security/control permissions
and a minimum of 2 address for each store - one for ship from and 1 for ship
to.
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The above would be a nice to have for us.... but had to vote no because of the
below.
| | As an afterthought it might not be a bad idea to allow store owners to have two
accounts - one for buying and one for selling, with the appropriate feedback
associated with each function. This might make a difference as to how people
look at a situation - In our case we have over 800 buying feedback and over 2000
selling feedbacks.
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Robert
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Interesting Robert - can you elaborate? We know you can see the individual feedbacks
as to buying or selling by looking at the feedback profile but if they had a
facility for this it would save time and issues with a number of us.
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The whole idea behind NOT having 2 accounts is to avoid potential abuse by sellers
who want one "clean" feedback account for selling and another "dirty" one which
would allow them to play games with other sellers without tarnishing their store
reputation (not suggesting you would use it that way Bill but there are many
who would). I personally like the way it is now so you can see on the FB page
how a member behaves as a seller and as a buyer. If anything I'd like the
FB the member leaves for others (as buyer and seller) to be more obvious/visible
but I'd much rather leave what ain't broke alone.
Robert
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jan 8, 2016 06:34 | | Subject: | Re: Bricklink logins/accounts | | Viewed: | 74 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Rob_and_Shelagh writes:
| | In Suggestions, calsbricks writes:
| | In Suggestions, Rob_and_Shelagh writes:
| | In Suggestions, calsbricks writes:
| | This one has been around a long time and unfortunately nothing seems to be happening
with it.
Bricklink needs to change the way the login/accounts function works. As a medium
sized store with an owner and 3 employees we need to allow the employees to log
into Bricklink and update store inventory, prices etc almost every day and as
things currently stand they have to use the owners login details (Poor security).
SQL, which is used for the database has quite a good security system built in
so even if we went native with that, it would be better than the current situation.
The same thing applies for stores with multiple locations - we have two processing
centres - one where all of our Lego inventory is stored, picked etc and one where
orders are packed and shipped from. Hence we want to set up a shipping from address
and a shipping to address. The fact that not all stores support the alternate
address system on Bricklink, as it currently stands means the only real way to
do this is using alternates on Paypal (for those that use Paypal).
So in summary - multiple logins to the stores with security/control permissions
and a minimum of 2 address for each store - one for ship from and 1 for ship
to.
|
The above would be a nice to have for us.... but had to vote no because of the
below.
| | As an afterthought it might not be a bad idea to allow store owners to have two
accounts - one for buying and one for selling, with the appropriate feedback
associated with each function. This might make a difference as to how people
look at a situation - In our case we have over 800 buying feedback and over 2000
selling feedbacks.
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Robert
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Interesting Robert - can you elaborate? We know you can see the individual feedbacks
as to buying or selling by looking at the feedback profile but if they had a
facility for this it would save time and issues with a number of us.
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The whole idea behind NOT having 2 accounts is to avoid potential abuse by sellers
who want one "clean" feedback account for selling and another "dirty" one which
would allow them to play games with other sellers without tarnishing their store
reputation (not suggesting you would use it that way Bill but there are many
who would). I personally like the way it is now so you can see on the FB page
how a member behaves as a seller and as a buyer. If anything I'd like the
FB the member leaves for others (as buyer and seller) to be more obvious/visible
but I'd much rather leave what ain't broke alone.
Robert
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Understand - thanks for clarifying. Will cancel this and re-do without the 'afterthought'.
To be honest not sure I should cause the way suggestions are set up is not very
good or productive - it is almost to the stage of why bother......
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| | | | | Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Jan 8, 2016 04:32 | | Subject: | Re: Bricklink logins/accounts | | Viewed: | 55 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | | Bricklink needs to change the way the login/accounts function works. As a medium
sized store with an owner and 3 employees we need to allow the employees to log
into Bricklink and update store inventory, prices etc almost every day and as
things currently stand they have to use the owners login details (Poor security).
SQL, which is used for the database has quite a good security system built in
so even if we went native with that, it would be better than the current situation.
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What is the suggestion here, that you can have "minion" sub-accounts that can
access some functions but not others?
| | The same thing applies for stores with multiple locations - we have two processing
centres - one where all of our Lego inventory is stored, picked etc and one where
orders are packed and shipped from. Hence we want to set up a shipping from address
and a shipping to address. The fact that not all stores support the alternate
address system on Bricklink, as it currently stands means the only real way to
do this is using alternates on Paypal (for those that use Paypal).
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Why not just use the ship to address? Does it matter if a buyer thinks you are
shipping it from location A when in reality it comes from location B? Surely
any returns eventually go to the storage location A and not the packing location
anyway.
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| | | | | | | Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jan 8, 2016 04:49 | | Subject: | Re: Bricklink logins/accounts | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, mabccc writes:
| | | | Bricklink needs to change the way the login/accounts function works. As a medium
sized store with an owner and 3 employees we need to allow the employees to log
into Bricklink and update store inventory, prices etc almost every day and as
things currently stand they have to use the owners login details (Poor security).
SQL, which is used for the database has quite a good security system built in
so even if we went native with that, it would be better than the current situation.
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What is the suggestion here, that you can have "minion" sub-accounts that can
access some functions but not others?
| | The same thing applies for stores with multiple locations - we have two processing
centres - one where all of our Lego inventory is stored, picked etc and one where
orders are packed and shipped from. Hence we want to set up a shipping from address
and a shipping to address. The fact that not all stores support the alternate
address system on Bricklink, as it currently stands means the only real way to
do this is using alternates on Paypal (for those that use Paypal).
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Why not just use the ship to address? Does it matter if a buyer thinks you are
shipping it from location A when in reality it comes from location B? Surely
any returns eventually go to the storage location A and not the packing location
anyway.
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Good morning and thank you for taking the time to comment.
The multiple logins for each store would allow us to set up our employees and
give them certain functions - not complete administration which they have now
due to logging in with the single account. Not sure I would want to call them
minions though.
The ship to and ship from addresses are not used as you outline them so perhaps
we didn't explain that properly. When we buy items they are not always destined
for the storage centre, so to save going back and forth all deliveries go to
the order packing centre - are processed there and then whatever needs to go
to the other site goes and what doesn't doesn't. Hope I have made that
clearer. We cope at the moment by instructing the stores we buy from to send
to the paypal address not the Bricklink one but from time to time they miss that
and send it to the storage area which delays things.
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| | | | | Author: | Geniac | | Posted: | Jan 8, 2016 17:48 | | Subject: | Re: Bricklink logins/accounts | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| I'm also not so sure about the 2 account thing, but I'd love to have
separate logins for the store. My wife and both use the forums, but she always
makes sure to note that it's her and not me. It would be nice if she could
have her own login so she wouldn't have to do that.
Shaun
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