In-Auction integrates directly with your Product Catalog and Shopping Cart to automatically sell your entire inventory through eBay™ Auctions and eBay™ Store. It lists your products on eBay, manages your inventory, automatically relists, manages payments, and much more. Please note that In-Auction requires In-Commerce module for full automation.
Benefits of eBay Automation
As a successful online entrepreneur, you know about the importance of getting maximum exposure for your business. Offering your products through eBay – the world’s largest online marketplace, is an unparalleled means of getting that exposure. Any eBay PowerSeller would emphasize that the key to success on eBay is a high volume and quality of listings and re-listings – a task that may be difficult if not impossible to manage manually.
In-Auction solves this problem by helping you fully automate all your processes on eBay. It integrates directly into your existing Product Catalog and Shopping Cart. With In-Commerce and In-Auction there is no need to run two separate services for your online store and eBay listings management. In-Auction solution offers a single centralized solution for inventory management, order processing, and combined checkout capabilities for your entire online store. With In-Auction you can continue selling your products through your online store while increasing your bottom line by listing the same products on eBay™.
eBay Auction Management Automation
- Handles the entire auction management process from listing through leaving feedback.
- Automatically converts your Products into eBay listings from your Product Catalog with Full Support for eBay Auctions and eBay Stores.
- Dual Selling lets you simultaneously sell the same products on eBay and your online store.
- Automatically track your inventory for your online store and eBay. Know when to restock before you run out without risk of overselling.
- Set minimum inventory levels for products and receive automatic notifications when minimum inventory counts are reached.
- Automatically create new listings or re-list until inventory is depleted to a designated level without a need to set any auction settings.
- Automatically adjust pricing or set a fixed price to be used for re-listings of a particular product.
- Built-in Content Management for custom visually appealing product listings. Create listings in seconds using custom listing templates without need of using HTML.
- Support for Dutch auctions, Fixed Price Listings, and Buy It Now.
- Ability to consolidate multiple purchases from the same buyer on invoices.
- Automatically e-mail invoices and send winning bidder notifications.
- Listing Scheduler allows you to schedule listings for future dates and without incurring any eBay Scheduling fees.
- The checkout can take place through your online store through your integrated shopping cart where you can cross-sell and up-sell your products.
- Allow winning bidders of multiple items to complete check out for all listings at one time.
- Accept any form of payment. Automatically identify incoming PayPal transfers and apply them to orders.
- Automatic disputes / non-payment reminders.
- And hundreds of other features…
Shipping Management
- Automatically get shipping prices from shipping carriers of choice (UPS, FedEx, DHL, or USPS) and post them to product listings on eBay listings.
- Automatically generate and print shipping labels form carriers of choice (UPS, FedEx, DHL, or USPS) and provide customers with live tracking information.
- Track all shipments through UPS, FedEx, DHL, or USPS from the Administrative Console
- Automatically print shipping lists, manifests, invoices, instructions or any other documentation that needs to accompany the shipment.
Customer & Feedback Management
- Collect and store any bidder and buyer information such as email addresses, names, total purchases, recent purchases, etc.
- Send Second Chance offers to past winners and bidders.
- Automate feedbacks by automatically leaving positive feedback to buyers, after they have left a positive feedback for you.
- Track feedback for all your products to identify “favorites” as well as “reputation risks” among all your listings.
- Track and identify problem buyers that are leaving multiple negative feedbacks for your listings.
Reporting & Analysis
- Track and analyze your performance on eBay using configurable reports.
- Track and analyze effectiveness of your Second Chance offers, discounts, cross-selling, and other marketing strategies.
- View and modify your open and completed listings with pertinent information such as: bid counts, highest/winning bidder, selling price, etc.
- Analyze historical sales data reports, charts and graphs to identify optimal pricing and listing volumes.
- Use reports to identify eBay market trends within specific categories (such as top selling items during holidays).
- Track and analyze your competitors’ activity such as their top selling items, new items, and worst selling items.
- Access and view a wide range of reports such as sales statistics, eBay fee statements or projections, profitability analysis, and much more.
Business Support & Certification
In-Auction is an eBay Certified application that communicates directly with eBay servers in real time. This level of integration gives your business unparallel advantage but your online store is required by eBay to pass additional certification to receive a unique token issued by eBay. All tokens are generated by eBay specifically for your eBay account. In-Portal team will gladly assist you with the entire certification process by communicating with eBay on your behalf and by submitting the necessary documentation. Usually, the certification process takes three to five business days once your website has been setup.
Just as with In-Commerce, In-Auction lets you have peace of mind that your business is in reliable hands. Should your business ever require any immediate assistance, In- Auction module comes with priority customer support for your website and your business.
