Topic: Selling Topics

Using the Batch Editor

The booth batch editor is your best friend for managing your inventory when you have more than a few items. It lets you operate on groups of items in bunches, rather than having to manually edit each item. What more do you need to know?

What's the quick and dirty rundown on how the batch editor works?

Basically, the idea is that you pick whatever items you want to perform an action on, you choose what action you want to perform, you hit submit, and all of the items you picked are changed.

How do I select the items I want to act upon?

In the simplest cases, you just pick the items by clicking on the items' row, which selects the checkbox at the left side of the row and changes the color of the row to indicate that the item has been selected.

If you want to operate on many items and you don't want to click on tens or hundreds of rows, you have a couple options:

• Use the "Filter Items" feature (positioned to the right of the "Apply to Selected Items" area) to narrow down what items are shown in your list of items. Once you've narrowed down the items shown, you can click on the checkbox under the words "Select All" and all items in your list will be selected at once. If you don't want to operate on every item in that list, you can go unselect the items you don't want to act on by clicking on those items' rows.
• Alternately, you can click the link above the "Filter Items" dialog box that says "If you'd rather apply action to all items that match your filter, click here." When you enter this mode, you don't use checkboxes anymore -- you will now operate on every item that matches your filter (or if you aren't applying a filter, you'll act on every item in your booth), whether it is shown on the current page or not. This option is useful for sellers that have more than 250 items (the current maximum number of items that are shown on a page) and who want to perform an action on most or all of their inventory at once.

How do I choose an action to perform?

Presently, there are three pages of actions available to you, a page of "Basic" options (delete items, change their status, apply discount to the items, etc.); a page of shipping options (set international shipping, set shipping prices); and a page of actions for changing the text in your items (replace text, add or remove text from beginning or end of item description). To change between the pages, click the links to the left of the "Submit" button that say "See shipping options," "See text options," or "See basic options." You can see what page you are currently on by looking at the header of the page, it will say something like "Batch Edit Items: Basic Options."

Applying an action to your items is as simple as clicking the radio button to the left of the action you want to perform, and then clicking the "Submit" button below the options. Note that only the option you had picked will be applied to your selected items, that is, if you pick the radio button to change your items' category, then the batch editor will only change the category of your items when you click submit. It will not change the status of your items, mark them as "Used," or do anything else pertaining to the other actions shown on the page. It ignores these actions since they aren't selected.

I picked an action and the batch editor told me no items were affected. What gives?

There are a couple common reasons that you may be told that no items were affected when you use the batch editor. The most common reasons are the most obvious ones: that you either forgot to click the radio button next to an action, or you forgot to select items to act upon from the list of items in the batch editor. Another possibility is that the action you selected may not be possible. For instance, you can not change the properties of sold items, so if you selected an item that was sold and tried to change its status to "For sale," nothing will happen (hint: if you want to relist an item, go to your "Sold items" from the My Bonanzle page and click "Relist items" under the offer that your items were sold in).

Why does the batch editor sometimes act on my items immediately, and sometimes tell me that it's processing?

If you are submitting a large number of items to be modified, or you are performing an action that takes a long time for our system to process (such as changing text in the description) then we add your batch edit request to a queue that is processed while you do other things on the site. In most cases, your action will begin processing within a couple minutes after you submitted it. Depending on the action you performed and how many items you performed it on, processing may take from a minute to an hour or more.

Tell me more about the text replacing features.

These warrant a topic unto themselves. Please see our page on batch edit text functionality.

Tell me more about the item trait setting features.

These, too, warrant a topic unto themselves. Please see our page on Item Traits.

Tell me more about setting up international shipping.

Setting up international shipping for your items means that when a buyer in another country is interested in buying your items, they can do so immediately without waiting for you to respond to their offer and negotiate an appropriate shipping cost.

You can set up to 9 international shipping policies for each item that you list. This allows you to setup separate costs for shipping to each of the nine regions available. If you have two overlapping options set (such as shipping policies for "Germany" and for "Europe"), the site will choose the more specific region to calculate shipping costs.

To create multiple international shipping policies, you would repeatedly pick your region(s), set your cost, and click the "Submit" button on the batch editor (with the items you want to apply the shipping policy to) selected.

Other Users Say

BookbinEtc (551) wrote on January 29

How to put your booth on vacation

We have a great tool that allows you to put your items on “Reserve” while you are away. Then when you return you can change their status to “For Sale.”

To Place items on “Reserve”

* Login and go to your sell window. Find the link in the white window (BASICS) titled “Batch Editor.” * Click on Batch edit * Click on the field to change the status from “For Sale” to “Reserved” * Select all the items you wish to place on reserve. * Then click on submit.

Important: Make sure to not accidentally mark them sold or delete. Those actions cannot be reversed. The items will not show, they are in the background.

You can recall the items by going to your Batch Edit “Filter” and recalling the reserved items. Once they are recalled you can mark them all and change the status to “For Sale” and then submit. Then update your booth and they will show.

fridge-magnets-by-me (3943) wrote on January 30

The Batch Editor link can always be found on your My Bonanzle page (left hand side). The Batch Editor link will also appear in your sell window once you have at least 15 items in your booth and your booth is activated.

AlphaOils (532) wrote on February 27

The Batch Editor is awesome! Be sure to utilize the Search Optimization feature as often as possible to help your items achieve better search results in Froogle.

shoppingnetty (589) wrote on November 15

Q. What does the ‘Ready to Sell’ status mean? My booth is on vacation and I made a revision to one of my ‘Reserved’ items, and now it say ‘Ready to Sell’.
A. “Ready to Sell” are items that are ready to sell and will go live just as soon as you “Update” your booth on your “Sell” window.