Bonanzle tips : How to calculate shipping cost base on weight?

Hai there , today im going to show you step by step how to calculate your item shipping cost base on it's weight. Bonanzle platform supports 2 shipping companies UPS and USPS. It is easier this way because you dont have to calculate seperately and put one by one via fix shipping cost.

Lets how to do it.

Step 1 :



First of All open your listing window , choose buyer pays calculated and fill the form for lbs and oz , select wheather you use normal package , big package or etc. save the listing and update your booth.




When buyer visits your listing , he/she will see get price link on the listing page.





When he/she click on the get price link the calculated shipping will be shown automatically.

How to zoom and crop any part of your product

In this tutorial i will show you how to zoom into any part of your product's picture and crop it out using Bonanzle crop tool.




When you click on add product button , you will be taken to the product listing window.




Click on Crop/Rotate link and you will be taken to the crop tool window





Drag to the left the zoom button to zoom our your product and drag the picture to the left ,right , bottom or up to go to the exact part of the product you that you wanted to crop.save it and you got yourself a cropped picture for your listing. You have to use high resolution picture to make sure the picture wont blur when you do the zooming process.

How to create your own bonanzle banner

There are alot of software that can be used to create banner. In this tutorial i will show you how to create a simple banner using Adobe photoshop.




First of all create a new file.



Set the image size to 692 x 104 pixels according to bonanzle standard banner size.




Open any picture you want to put on the banner and set the height less than the height of the banner for the picture fits well. In this case i put 103 pixels.





Drag the picture into your banner.





Type your slogan besides the image .





Save the banner as jpeg




Open Bonanzle banner uploader




Upload the banner and you are done , you got yourself a new banner. Banner creation is quite subjective , you can use your imagination to create any kind of banner that makes your booth looks attractive.

Bonanzle batch text editing

If you have thousands of listings imported from ebay or craiglist and you find out some part of the description needed to be changed. How are you going to do it? one by one ? hell no !!!. We are fortunate enough because my darling bonanzle offers a batch text editor to make your life a lot easier. This tutorial will show in a very simple way how to do it.

1. first of all you have to go to my bonanza

2. At the left side you will see "batch edit items"

3. open it you will see something like this.



- First check any item you want to edit,

-If you want to add something at the end of the description choose the first field.

-If you want to add something at the beginning of the description choose the second field.

-If you want to replace anything in the description just type the word or sentence you want to replace on the third field and type the word or sentence you want to replace with on the fourth field .

Click submit and wait for a few minute for bonanzle to process your request and then you are done. All your listings fixed Easy right!!

How to write description in rich HTML text formatting?

If you are starting to list our your item on bonanzle you will find that there are no button to click for html mode. This tutorial will show how to make your description more colorful organize.




1- First of all go to the listing product interface





2- Type few line of description and press enter , you will see a link "full size edit will appear"





3 - click on the link and now paste your description in the text field and you are done. You can also put pictures using html tag here.

How to create bonanzle widget

If you have a blog may be you want to show your items to your readers. Bonanzle let us to create a widget to help us boost the traffic. This tutorial will show you step by step on how to create a new widget.



1- First of all click on my bonanzle




2- click on "create a widget"





3- click on the button





4- Fill in the form , Click on create list . You can set the size and many row the widget would be.




5- Go back to your booth and click create widget.






6-This will automatically add first 15 items on your booth. You can choose to add or remove any item on your booth later. Copy the code and paste into your blog and you are done.

Bonanzle bulk quantity product listing

Eventhough listing on bonanzle is incredibly easy yet it still can be tiring if you are listing thousand of products in your inventory. In this tutorial i will show you how to put your listing on csv file and upload the whole inventory .

Step 1

Put your inventory in a correct csv format.

Column Name	Data expected	Required?	Also known as	Example data
title	The title of your item (up to 60 characters)	Yes	name	Doggie
description	Description of your item	Yes	desc	Small, slightly used mutt.
price	Price of your item, as an integer (we'll make it into an integer if it's given as a decimal)	Yes	cost	10.0
images	You can have as many images columns as necessary. Each should give a full URL (e.g., http://www.bonanzle.com/images/myimage.jpg) to an image for this item.	No	image1, image2, image, image_link	http://www.williambharding.com/images/rand11.jpg
id	A unique number or string to identify your item, so if you upload your file multiple times, items with identical ids will update (rather than re-add)	No		ITEM001
category	The numeric category for your item, from first and second level eBay category IDs, listed here.	No	category 1	1281
shipping_price	The flat rate price to ship your item within the continental U.S.	No	shipping, shipping_price, shipping & handling	3.50
quantity	The number of this item that you possess.	No		12
condition	Whether item is new or used. If condition is the word "new", the item is considered new. If it's anything else, it's considered used.	No		new
upc	UPC code for the item (improves rank in Google Product search).	No		012345029950
isbn	ISBN number for the item (improves rank in Google Product search).	No		0-87654-321-2
mpn	Manufacturer part number for the item (improves rank in Google Product search).	No		DOGGIE12

Credit to bonanzle.com

Example :

If you open you spreadsheet you will put your colum as

id,title,description,price,images,shipping_price

Below this column you will insert your data until you finished.


Step 2

click on Sell



Click on inventory file ,



Now your file is ready to be uploaded.

How to setup combine shipping discount?

This is a pretty important function because bonanzle is not an auction site. sometimes buyer wants to buy more than one item and you need to give them some discount on shipping charges.

How to do this , pretty simple.

Step 1

1-Click on my bonanzle

2-Click edit booth

3- click on advance option


Step 2

Go to this section



click to enlarge on the image to enlarge

Just put your charge on additional item and you are done

How to know what items were already sold?

How to view items sold on bonanzle ? Simple !!

First step

Click buy !!



If you want to search completed sales for mobile phone , just type the mobile phone in the search box.

Second step
Click find



Go to the left of the page checked "sold in last year"

Third step






Click find again All items were already sold should be shown on this page.

How to post a picture in forum

If you want to post a picture on bonanzle forum , the method of posting picture is quite different from other forum.

Usually we use [img][/img] tag to post picture. however on bonanzle you have to put !pictureurl! to post picture.





Click post topic and you re done , simple right!!. If you have just posted new items on your store , you can put it on the forum to make it more visible.

Submitting your bonanzle booth to Google Base

You have already setup your booth and now what? If you want to sell your products then you need to have traffic . By sending your products to Google base your booth will be visible to fresh potential buyer who are looking for your product.

How to submit your products to Google base ? You have 2 options to get it done.



Option 1: Setup a Recurring Item Grab - By using this option the feeding to google base will be done automatically. You dont have to submit or remove everytime you change your product inventory.

Option 2: Do a One-Time Item Submission - This option is less technical to do. However you have to add and remove the product manually every you make changes.



here is the instruction from bonanzle . I will show step by step how to get this done.

Instructions to Setup a Recurring Google Item Grab

Follow these instructions, and Google will grab the items from your booth as often as once per day.

1. Log into Google Base. If you don't already have a Google Account, create one.
2. From the main Google Base page (http://www.google.com/base), click on "Data Feed" from the options on the right side of the page.
3. In the upper left corner of the page, click the button that says "New Data Feed".
4. You'll be taken to a page asking you about your display name, item feed description, and website URL. Fill in the display name with the name you'd like buyers to see alongside your items (e.g., "Bonanzle"). For the web site address, enter your booth address, "http://www.bonanzle.com/booths/thesoapcompany" (don't copy the quotes). Then click "Next."
5. You'll be taken to a new page asking about your feed details. For the item type, pick "Products," and for the type of data feed, leave "googlebase" selected (like so). For the data feed filename, paste in the following filename:
   
   
   thesoapcompany.xml
   
   
6. Click the "Register Data Feed" button at the bottom of the page, and you're just about done. The only remaining item is to schedule how often you want your feed updated. On the page that lists your data feeds click the "Create" link just to the right of the word "Schedule." A box will pop up asking how often you want your items updated. Choose whatever frequency you want (See how this looks). It also asks for the "Url of the file," paste this in:
   
   
   http://www.bonanzle.com/booth_feeds/thesoapcompany.xml

   And you're done! Nice going! Buyers, here you come!

Option 1: Setup a Recurring Item Grab


Step 1





Login to Google base and click new datafeed . Fill the data feed file name with the name given by bonanzle. In my case the name is thesoapcompany.xml Click register datafeed


Step 2



Once you clicked on register datafeed you will be taken to this page. the only thing left is to schedule the feeding. Click on create link besides the schedule.



The name of url file should bonanzle.com/booth_feeds/yourxmlfilename.xml
Click schedule and you are done.


Option 2: Do a One-Time Item Submission

This is an easy one even my granny could do it.



Click on have bonanzle send your items to google ,







fill in your google email and password and you are done.




Want to see how your products stats on google base , just click on active items . Not so hard right?

Bonanzle 101 - fee structure & seller account setup

Bonanzle is the best alternative of ebay so far that can generate decent sales for seller. They dont charge any listing fees only small charges for completed sales.

here is bonanzle's fees structure

Final Offer Value 1	Fee
Less than $10	$0.50 ($0 if registered during beta)
Less than $50	$1
Less than $100	$3
Less than $1000	$5
$1000 or more	$10

Pretty awesome right ? Sellers have been ripped off long time enough at the other site now everybody can make decent money through this marketplace.

I already setup my own booth on bonanzle , guess what the process of setting up seller acount is very very easy. No credit card needed just fill in a simple form and you are set to go.







Fill in the registration form and activate your account through your email.





Login and click sell to start selling , pick any option you want walla you just get yourself a new seller account.