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 Author: calsbricks View Messages Posted By calsbricks
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Sellers tools – what should that Include

We think the following minimum areas of functionality should be included

1. Allow stores to have staff with their own password and levels of access
2. Allow more parameters for stores in all areas on the site, especially store
settings, and templates
3. Inventory management – complex area perhaps split between standard and advanced
4. Sales metrics
a. Ability to see the reality of what is selling and where and of course , for
how much
5. Costing – could be included in advanced inventory management
6. More queries by form
7. Changes to My Inventory page including multidimensional filters and more update
capabilities especially to do with pricing
8. More printing and report options both for the seller, with other filters available
such as country, region, all etc, as well as buyers.


Those items, which are by no means exhaustive, are fine for starters. What could
happen is polls to be run to consolidate the multitude of opinions and suggestions
from which design work could take place, ultimately leading to programming, testing,
documentation and release.
 Author: mooselover View Messages Posted By mooselover
 Posted: Jul 9, 2021 10:44
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In General, calsbricks writes:
  Sellers tools – what should that Include

We think the following minimum areas of functionality should be included

1. Allow stores to have staff with their own password and levels of access

I think that around 99% of stores would not need this functionality. It would
be nice to have, but in terms of need vs time spent making it happen, this would
probably be a very low-priority item

  2. Allow more parameters for stores in all areas on the site, especially store
settings, and templates

This is vague. What, specifically, would you like to see here?

  3. Inventory management – complex area perhaps split between standard and advanced

Again, vague. What would you like it to do?

  4. Sales metrics

YES YES YES YES YES


My most wanted feature isn't seller-specific, but applies to the whole site.
I'd love to see better/easier ways to find the specific part I want. I'm
currently inputting my initial inventory and even when I know the part number
(or think I do), it can be next to impossible to find that part.
Example: parts with multiple molds. Put in the part number and you get an error
saying it can't be found. You have to know in advance that it's the number
with an a, b, c or something after it. It should be able to still find the part
from the number, then show you links to the variations of it.
I find myself using rebrickable for this functionality... it's far, far,
FAR easier to find parts on there, and they provide a bricklink link right on
their page. That gets me to the right spot on BL, but it's a pain, especially
when you've got 100K pieces to input.
Worse: pieces that are printed. On rebrickable, you put in the part number for
the main part, then it shows you thumbnails of all the printed variations of
that part (especially helpful for tiles!). BL's method of finding a specific
print is time-consuming, frustrating, and difficult. Again, I tend to launch
rebrickable, find the piece on there, then use their link back to bricklink.

Perhaps BL has better searching tools or tricks that I'm not aware of and
all of the things I mentioned are already 'fixed.' If that's the
case, then what needs to change is the user interface that makes users aware
that these tools exist and makes it easier to find them... because it's not
intuitive at all right now.
 Author: calsbricks View Messages Posted By calsbricks
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In General, mooselover writes:
  In General, calsbricks writes:
  Sellers tools – what should that Include

We think the following minimum areas of functionality should be included

1. Allow stores to have staff with their own password and levels of access

I think that around 99% of stores would not need this functionality. It would
be nice to have, but in terms of need vs time spent making it happen, this would
probably be a very low-priority item

Not sure where you got your figures from but small stores are not what Bricklink
are interested in. Some of the larger stores in Germany have 20+ employees and
a suitable system would be helpful. If a smaller store does not need it then
they wouldn't use it.
  
  2. Allow more parameters for stores in all areas on the site, especially store
settings, and templates

This is vague. What, specifically, would you like to see here? - Meant to be - far too many areas to mention. Would come out in the polls.

  3. Inventory management – complex area perhaps split between standard and advanced

Again, vague. What would you like it to do? - far too comlicated to get into detail here - oncde again the polls and ultimately the design docuent.

  4. Sales metrics

YES YES YES YES YES - well we can see where y our interest lies. Maybe after you have been her a bit longer and gained a lot more excperience you will change your opinions.


My most wanted feature isn't seller-specific, but applies to the whole site.
I'd love to see better/easier ways to find the specific part I want. I'm
currently inputting my initial inventory and even when I know the part number
(or think I do), it can be next to impossible to find that part.
Example: parts with multiple molds. Put in the part number and you get an error
saying it can't be found. You have to know in advance that it's the number
with an a, b, c or something after it. It should be able to still find the part
from the number, then show you links to the variations of it.
I find myself using rebrickable for this functionality... it's far, far,
FAR easier to find parts on there, and they provide a bricklink link right on
their page. That gets me to the right spot on BL, but it's a pain, especially
when you've got 100K pieces to input.
Worse: pieces that are printed. On rebrickable, you put in the part number for
the main part, then it shows you thumbnails of all the printed variations of
that part (especially helpful for tiles!). BL's method of finding a specific
print is time-consuming, frustrating, and difficult. Again, I tend to launch
rebrickable, find the piece on there, then use their link back to bricklink.


Here is a perfect example of lack of experience. If you are looking for a part
that has variants or not sure whether it does or not simply use the part number
e.g. 4085 followed by an * and they will all appear.
  Perhaps BL has better searching tools or tricks that I'm not aware of and
all of the things I mentioned are already 'fixed.' If that's the
case, then what needs to change is the user interface that makes users aware
that these tools exist and makes it easier to find them... because it's not
intuitive at all right n

Most people would agree the user interface needs modernization and the documentation
also needs updating but thaqt should be part of their overall goals, not specific
to sewllers tools..
 Author: Reki_Lobsheek View Messages Posted By Reki_Lobsheek
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In General, calsbricks writes:

  
Not sure where you got your figures from but small stores are not what Bricklink
are interested in. Some of the larger stores in Germany have 20+ employees and
a suitable system would be helpful. If a smaller store does not need it then
they wouldn't use it.


I think it's safe to assume that the vast majority of sellers on this platform
are "small fishes" and that the nr of sellers having personnel to operate their
store is well below 5% of all sellers.
It might be true that about 50 sellers worldwide produce 30-40% of the monthly
fees for Bricklink and I full heartedly agree that the more professional sellers
are in need of more and more professional seller tools.

But, as you said: as long as it's optional I don't see the "harm" in
providing more and better seller tools.


Erikk
 Author: MYLEGOBRICKS View Messages Posted By MYLEGOBRICKS
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I've been waiting and hoping for "seller tools" but from the looks of it
will never happen. sad it is.
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 Author: enig View Messages Posted By enig
 Posted: Jul 9, 2021 10:47
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* Allow multiple VAT percentages *and* to exclude certain items from VAT all-together.
In many countries different product categories have different VAT% than the standard
rate

I.e. Printed Media ; Used goods ; Clothing/footwear

* Re-work lot consolidating when uploading inventory. I have not tested it to
see what exactly is going on, but if you have multiple lots of the same item
it seems that consolidating defaults to the smallest lot ID. Even if there already
is a newer bulk-lot and even if it matches the bulk-size
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In General, enig writes:
  * Allow multiple VAT percentages *and* to exclude certain items from VAT all-together.
In many countries different product categories have different VAT% than the standard
rate

I.e. Printed Media ; Used goods ; Clothing/footwear

* Re-work lot consolidating when uploading inventory. I have not tested it to
see what exactly is going on, but if you have multiple lots of the same item
it seems that consolidating defaults to the smallest lot ID. Even if there already
is a newer bulk-lot and even if it matches the bulk-size

Good points especially on the VAT UK systems have either a vat code against each
product or each type of expense (Partially exempt organisations)
 Author: ErwinNL View Messages Posted By ErwinNL
 Posted: Jul 9, 2021 11:33
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In General, calsbricks writes:
  Sellers tools – what should that Include

We think the following minimum areas of functionality should be included

1. Allow stores to have staff with their own password and levels of access
2. Allow more parameters for stores in all areas on the site, especially store
settings, and templates
3. Inventory management – complex area perhaps split between standard and advanced
4. Sales metrics
a. Ability to see the reality of what is selling and where and of course , for
how much
5. Costing – could be included in advanced inventory management
6. More queries by form
7. Changes to My Inventory page including multidimensional filters and more update
capabilities especially to do with pricing
8. More printing and report options both for the seller, with other filters available
such as country, region, all etc, as well as buyers.


Those items, which are by no means exhaustive, are fine for starters. What could
happen is polls to be run to consolidate the multitude of opinions and suggestions
from which design work could take place, ultimately leading to programming, testing,
documentation and release.

This is work for multiple years, I have implemented some of these things in my
project, and I am nowhere close to finished. Some of the things you suggested
will never be added, it is just not financially interesting to spent huge amounts
of time on features that are rarely used.

BL is really busy with their Tax & VAT implementations, XP is still being developed,
they are way too busy with their designer project, I doubt they will have time
for huge (enormous) projects like this but I wish they would implement some of
it.

I have also learned that there are as many workflows on BL as there are sellers,
and it is impossible to make everyone happy. making a top-wanted-feature list,
one with good arguments and descriptions, wouldn't be a bad idea, I'd
love to see what sellers want, but I am not expecting BL to implement any of
it, there needs to be a major change in how BL communicates and works before
that happens.

As a developer, BL is not really helpful either, their API is incomplete and
outdated, ToS is restrictive, and the number of calls you can make is not enough
to make real management tools possible, I rarely get replies from support, and
bugs aren't fixed.

As you might notice, I am not full of confidence that either BL or independent
devs would get this done.

Sorry, rant.
 Author: calsbricks View Messages Posted By calsbricks
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In General, ErwinNL writes:
  In General, calsbricks writes:
  Sellers tools – what should that Include

We think the following minimum areas of functionality should be included

1. Allow stores to have staff with their own password and levels of access
2. Allow more parameters for stores in all areas on the site, especially store
settings, and templates
3. Inventory management – complex area perhaps split between standard and advanced
4. Sales metrics
a. Ability to see the reality of what is selling and where and of course , for
how much
5. Costing – could be included in advanced inventory management
6. More queries by form
7. Changes to My Inventory page including multidimensional filters and more update
capabilities especially to do with pricing
8. More printing and report options both for the seller, with other filters available
such as country, region, all etc, as well as buyers.


Those items, which are by no means exhaustive, are fine for starters. What could
happen is polls to be run to consolidate the multitude of opinions and suggestions
from which design work could take place, ultimately leading to programming, testing,
documentation and release.

This is work for multiple years, I have implemented some of these things in my
project, and I am nowhere close to finished. Some of the things you suggested
will never be added, it is just not financially interesting to spent huge amounts
of time on features that are rarely used.

BL is really busy with their Tax & VAT implementations, XP is still being developed,
they are way too busy with their designer project, I doubt they will have time
for huge (enormous) projects like this but I wish they would implement some of
it.

I have also learned that there are as many workflows on BL as there are sellers,
and it is impossible to make everyone happy. making a top-wanted-feature list,
one with good arguments and descriptions, wouldn't be a bad idea, I'd
love to see what sellers want, but I am not expecting BL to implement any of
it, there needs to be a major change in how BL communicates and works before
that happens.

As a developer, BL is not really helpful either, their API is incomplete and
outdated, ToS is restrictive, and the number of calls you can make is not enough
to make real management tools possible, I rarely get replies from support, and
bugs aren't fixed.

As you might notice, I am not full of confidence that either BL or independent
devs would get this done.

Sorry, rant.

Your comments are noted and in the main very factual. You never, however get
anything that you don't ask for (or something like that.) The tools were
promised by JK in his takeover in 2013 but MP had other ideas and we got Mosaick
Stud.io, and other bits and bobs no one wanted. They continue working on xp -
another project which, in many peoples view is not wanted, so with the myriad
of what is going on now and the involvement TLG are now taking who knows.
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In General, calsbricks writes:
  In General, ErwinNL writes:
  In General, calsbricks writes:
  Sellers tools – what should that Include

We think the following minimum areas of functionality should be included

1. Allow stores to have staff with their own password and levels of access
2. Allow more parameters for stores in all areas on the site, especially store
settings, and templates
3. Inventory management – complex area perhaps split between standard and advanced
4. Sales metrics
a. Ability to see the reality of what is selling and where and of course , for
how much
5. Costing – could be included in advanced inventory management
6. More queries by form
7. Changes to My Inventory page including multidimensional filters and more update
capabilities especially to do with pricing
8. More printing and report options both for the seller, with other filters available
such as country, region, all etc, as well as buyers.


Those items, which are by no means exhaustive, are fine for starters. What could
happen is polls to be run to consolidate the multitude of opinions and suggestions
from which design work could take place, ultimately leading to programming, testing,
documentation and release.

This is work for multiple years, I have implemented some of these things in my
project, and I am nowhere close to finished. Some of the things you suggested
will never be added, it is just not financially interesting to spent huge amounts
of time on features that are rarely used.

BL is really busy with their Tax & VAT implementations, XP is still being developed,
they are way too busy with their designer project, I doubt they will have time
for huge (enormous) projects like this but I wish they would implement some of
it.

I have also learned that there are as many workflows on BL as there are sellers,
and it is impossible to make everyone happy. making a top-wanted-feature list,
one with good arguments and descriptions, wouldn't be a bad idea, I'd
love to see what sellers want, but I am not expecting BL to implement any of
it, there needs to be a major change in how BL communicates and works before
that happens.

As a developer, BL is not really helpful either, their API is incomplete and
outdated, ToS is restrictive, and the number of calls you can make is not enough
to make real management tools possible, I rarely get replies from support, and
bugs aren't fixed.

As you might notice, I am not full of confidence that either BL or independent
devs would get this done.

Sorry, rant.

Your comments are noted and in the main very factual. You never, however get
anything that you don't ask for (or something like that.) The tools were
promised by JK in his takeover in 2013 but MP had other ideas and we got Mosaick
Stud.io, and other bits and bobs no one wanted. They continue working on xp -
another project which, in many peoples view is not wanted, so with the myriad
of what is going on now and the involvement TLG are now taking who knows.
 
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In General, Mevitsbricks writes:
  In General, calsbricks writes:
  In General, ErwinNL writes:
  In General, calsbricks writes:
  Sellers tools – what should that Include

We think the following minimum areas of functionality should be included

1. Allow stores to have staff with their own password and levels of access
2. Allow more parameters for stores in all areas on the site, especially store
settings, and templates
3. Inventory management – complex area perhaps split between standard and advanced
4. Sales metrics
a. Ability to see the reality of what is selling and where and of course , for
how much
5. Costing – could be included in advanced inventory management
6. More queries by form
7. Changes to My Inventory page including multidimensional filters and more update
capabilities especially to do with pricing
8. More printing and report options both for the seller, with other filters available
such as country, region, all etc, as well as buyers.


Those items, which are by no means exhaustive, are fine for starters. What could
happen is polls to be run to consolidate the multitude of opinions and suggestions
from which design work could take place, ultimately leading to programming, testing,
documentation and release.

This is work for multiple years, I have implemented some of these things in my
project, and I am nowhere close to finished. Some of the things you suggested
will never be added, it is just not financially interesting to spent huge amounts
of time on features that are rarely used.

BL is really busy with their Tax & VAT implementations, XP is still being developed,
they are way too busy with their designer project, I doubt they will have time
for huge (enormous) projects like this but I wish they would implement some of
it.

I have also learned that there are as many workflows on BL as there are sellers,
and it is impossible to make everyone happy. making a top-wanted-feature list,
one with good arguments and descriptions, wouldn't be a bad idea, I'd
love to see what sellers want, but I am not expecting BL to implement any of
it, there needs to be a major change in how BL communicates and works before
that happens.

As a developer, BL is not really helpful either, their API is incomplete and
outdated, ToS is restrictive, and the number of calls you can make is not enough
to make real management tools possible, I rarely get replies from support, and
bugs aren't fixed.

As you might notice, I am not full of confidence that either BL or independent
devs would get this done.

Sorry, rant.

Your comments are noted and in the main very factual. You never, however get
anything that you don't ask for (or something like that.) The tools were
promised by JK in his takeover in 2013 but MP had other ideas and we got Mosaick
Stud.io, and other bits and bobs no one wanted. They continue working on xp -
another project which, in many peoples view is not wanted, so with the myriad
of what is going on now and the involvement TLG are now taking who knows.

have no fear :d
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In General, calsbricks writes:
  
Your comments are noted and in the main very factual. You never, however get
anything that you don't ask for (or something like that.) The tools were
promised by JK in his takeover in 2013 but MP had other ideas and we got Mosaick
Stud.io, and other bits and bobs no one wanted. They continue working on xp -
another project which, in many peoples view is not wanted, so with the myriad
of what is going on now and the involvement TLG are now taking who knows.

While the sellers might not care for XP, there are more people buying than selling,
and those people would be much happier buying from a site that doesn't look
like a geocities shopping cart.
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In General, KaijuHunter writes:
  In General, calsbricks writes:
  
Your comments are noted and in the main very factual. You never, however get
anything that you don't ask for (or something like that.) The tools were
promised by JK in his takeover in 2013 but MP had other ideas and we got Mosaick
Stud.io, and other bits and bobs no one wanted. They continue working on xp -
another project which, in many peoples view is not wanted, so with the myriad
of what is going on now and the involvement TLG are now taking who knows.

While the sellers might not care for XP, there are more people buying than selling,
and those people would be much happier buying from a site that doesn't look
like a geocities shopping cart.

you might find that buyers go where the product is and I think it is more than
fair to say if xp, as it currently stands, becomes the standard, will not be
here
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In General, calsbricks writes:

  Your comments are noted and in the main very factual. You never, however get
anything that you don't ask for (or something like that.) The tools were
promised by JK in his takeover in 2013 but MP had other ideas and we got Mosaick
Stud.io, and other bits and bobs no one wanted. They continue working on xp -
another project which, in many peoples view is not wanted, so with the myriad
of what is going on now and the involvement TLG are now taking who knows.

I agree, keep asking, you never know, and it can start a nice discussion between
sellers and, who knows, BL admins.
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In General, ErwinNL writes:
  In General, calsbricks writes:

  Your comments are noted and in the main very factual. You never, however get
anything that you don't ask for (or something like that.) The tools were
promised by JK in his takeover in 2013 but MP had other ideas and we got Mosaick
Stud.io, and other bits and bobs no one wanted. They continue working on xp -
another project which, in many peoples view is not wanted, so with the myriad
of what is going on now and the involvement TLG are now taking who knows.

I agree, keep asking, you never know, and it can start a nice discussion between
sellers and, who knows, BL admins

agreed and never fear it wI'll stay in front as fa as we are concerned.
 Author: brickbiters View Messages Posted By brickbiters
 Posted: Jul 9, 2021 20:17
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Location:  USA, Arizona
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i guess the bottom line is this: if you want all that stuff then sign up to be
a legit lego retailer and they'll hook you up.

https://www.lego.com/en-us/service/help/fun-for-fans/more-about-us/selling-lego-products-in-your-shop-408100000008300

In General, calsbricks writes:
  Sellers tools – what should that Include

We think the following minimum areas of functionality should be included

1. Allow stores to have staff with their own password and levels of access
2. Allow more parameters for stores in all areas on the site, especially store
settings, and templates
3. Inventory management – complex area perhaps split between standard and advanced
4. Sales metrics
a. Ability to see the reality of what is selling and where and of course , for
how much
5. Costing – could be included in advanced inventory management
6. More queries by form
7. Changes to My Inventory page including multidimensional filters and more update
capabilities especially to do with pricing
8. More printing and report options both for the seller, with other filters available
such as country, region, all etc, as well as buyers.


Those items, which are by no means exhaustive, are fine for starters. What could
happen is polls to be run to consolidate the multitude of opinions and suggestions
from which design work could take place, ultimately leading to programming, testing,
documentation and release.
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 Posted: Jul 10, 2021 03:37
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Location:  United Kingdom, England
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In General, jhess writes:
  i guess the bottom line is this: if you want all that stuff then sign up to be
a legit lego retailer and they'll hook you up.

https://www.lego.com/en-us/service/help/fun-for-fans/more-about-us/selling-lego-products-in-your-shop-408100000008300

Tried that many years ago when we had a sore front - just joined the queue. Having
said that the TLG employees that we have spoken to think Bricklink is wonderful
for getting at information, so what does that tell you?
  
In General, calsbricks writes:
  Sellers tools – what should that Include

We think the following minimum areas of functionality should be included

1. Allow stores to have staff with their own password and levels of access
2. Allow more parameters for stores in all areas on the site, especially store
settings, and templates
3. Inventory management – complex area perhaps split between standard and advanced
4. Sales metrics
a. Ability to see the reality of what is selling and where and of course , for
how much
5. Costing – could be included in advanced inventory management
6. More queries by form
7. Changes to My Inventory page including multidimensional filters and more update
capabilities especially to do with pricing
8. More printing and report options both for the seller, with other filters available
such as country, region, all etc, as well as buyers.


Those items, which are by no means exhaustive, are fine for starters. What could
happen is polls to be run to consolidate the multitude of opinions and suggestions
from which design work could take place, ultimately leading to programming, testing,
documentation and release.
 Author: BGP View Messages Posted By BGP
 Posted: Jul 14, 2021 12:57
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Location:  Denmark
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It would be nice to could organize the order by remarks, so it would be quicker
to find the parts when packing the order.

maybe it's already available, but I havent found it yet.
 Author: Nubs_Select View Messages Posted By Nubs_Select
 Posted: Jul 14, 2021 13:06
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Location:  Canada, Ontario
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https://www.bricklink.com/orderSettings.asp
On the right side where it says "Sort Orders Received Items By:" Change it to
one of the options that say Remarks first