Getting busy on Ebay!

stacey1981_2

Hi, hoping for some advise. I have been running an ebay store since feb this year. Luckily it is growing very well, im top rated and sales are increasing weekly.

The problem I have at the moment is organising things, ie print outs ect. At the moment, I print out the address and label invoice, I then cut the address label off and keep the bottom for my records, sellotaping the label to the parcel.

Im just thinking there must be a quicker way! does anybody know how I would be able to print out the address on sticky labels? while still printing out a copy for my files?

Also any tips on how I could do things quicker ( packing ect) I would be very grateful.

Also, is there an alternative to Royal Mail Packet post? at the moment we`r nearing £400 a week at the post office but do not want to go packet post

Thanks in advance:beer:

the_lunatic_is_in_my_head

http://www.aimcosoftware.co.uk/packingpartner.html

We use A4 sheets of 14 labels (big enough for address and PPI label, if not using the PPI label 21 or 254 per sheet is good enough), the software pulls the address and formats it for you so it looks correct rather than all in lower case with London included 3 times. You can print packing and picking listings and if you go for the invoice addition it will handle these as well (personally I don't bother with invoices but it depends on your items/market/etc).

keep the bottom for my records,

You can download your Paypal history for any chosen period which will include all the details on the buyer and the item as well as the Paypal fees. If you accept postal payments keep a record in a spreadsheet and when it comes to book keeping it's nice and simple and saves keeping mountains of paper.

Also, is there an alternative to Royal Mail Packet post? at the moment we`r nearing £400 a week at the post office but do not want to go packet post

May I ask why? It can save you a lot of money.

lovinituk

I use 1stoporders orders software. I trialled it alongside aimco but personally found 1stoporders to be the better of the 2. I have heard that Linnworks are offering a free cut down version now. Linnworks are probably the best of them all and I really need to look into it at some point.

Why don't you want to go to Packetpost? Its the easiest way to save a huge amount of money on your Royal Mail bill.

stacey1981_2

Hi, thanks for reply, for some reason we did not pass the credit for packet post, we`r still looking into this but as its taking a while to sort just wondered if there was any alternatives?

lovinituk

stacey1981 wrote: »

Hi, thanks for reply, for some reason we did not pass the credit for packet post, we`r still looking into this but as its taking a while to sort just wondered if there was any alternatives?

Packetpost is probably the cheapest option. You could try a franking company like Pitneybowes but you will be paying them extra fees on top of the postage rate.

If you are sending mostly packets/parcels (as opposed to letters/large letters) you could try and get a quote from a courier.

Another alternative is to look at a fulfillment company. You send them all the stock and they deal with the orders, pack and send them for you. Again a bit more expensive due to their fees but the big savings are in time so you can concentrate on growing your business.

the_lunatic_is_in_my_head

Franking can be expensive, I'd keep on with Royal Mail and pester them for PPI. Fulfilment is an option but it's an added expense per shipment plus sending the goods there and paying for storage. Amazon will do fulfilment but their fees on sales from elsewhere 9i.e those not from Amazon) are expensive.

The only other option I can think of is if there is another local business using PPI, share the account if beneficial to both parties but I'm not sure how RM feel about this.

lovinituk

ludovico wrote: »

Franking can be expensive, I'd keep on with Royal Mail and pester them for PPI. Fulfilment is an option but it's an added expense per shipment plus sending the goods there and paying for storage. Amazon will do fulfilment but their fees on sales from elsewhere 9i.e those not from Amazon) are expensive.

Agreed - I looked into both but PPI/Packetpost was the cheapest option. Unfortunately if the OP can't a RM buisiness account they might have to look at other options.

stacey1981_2

Thanks for all your replies will try to sort it with RM

grintricha

i read the thread title all wrong, I thought you meant something entirely different

I hope you sort it out though