The eBay integration is part of the active-e E-Commerce package. This integration works with eBay’s Blackthorne Pro Software.
In AIMsi you can assign eBay specific information to an individual sku. This information can be exported to the Blackthorne Pro software. Sales information can be exported form Blackthorne so that you can easily invoice the customer through AIMsi. You will use the Blackthorne software to manage the rest of the eBay auction process.
The eBay information is stored at the Sku level. So you can have an eBay record for each color/size combination. You are allowed up to 12 images per eBay record. You can hover your mouse over the Listing Format and Duration boxes to see the valid entries. Hit F6 in the Category 1 & 2 boxes for a drill down listing of eBay categories to select from. You can right click in the Description box to pull up an HTML editor. Your descriptions can be entered as straight text or as HTML. The Update eBay check box is what triggers this item to be exported to eBay the next time you run the export routine.
To export your eBay skus to Blackthorne run the active-e eBay Export program.
Enter your selection criteria on the left side and click refresh. Any items that have an eBay record and have the Update eBay checked will be listed in the grid. You can check or un-check any items that you want to be exported. Select your seller account and click export.
To import your eBay sales run the active-e Import E-Commerce Orders. This is the same program that is used to download your active-e Shopping Cart orders.
Click the eBay Orders button. This will pull all the eBay sales into AIMsi. For each sale you can click the Find Customer to match up to an existing customer or click the Create Customer button to create a new customer record. If a customer is found with a matching email address, it will already be linked to the correct customer. If the shipping address is different you can create a new shipping address record. Click the Create Order button to create the order. Your Shipping, Insurance and Handling amounts will be combined into one shipping amount on the order.
Ship the product. The act of creating the order in AIMsi can automatically create information that UPS or Fed-ex shipping software can access. UPS and Fed-ex can also provide the shipping amount and tracking info back to AIMsi. If you are using the UPS or Fed-ex integration, you can enter the AIMsi order number in UPS/Fed-ex and it will pull in the order shipping information. See AIMsiWorldShip.doc for additional information on this.
Pull the order into the sales invoice. This can be done from the sales invoice program or you can run Modules/Purchase Order/Invoice Orders. The Invoice Orders program will list all received or picked orders and allow you to automatically open the sales invoice program to pull the order in. If you are using the UPS or Fed-ex integration, your tracking numbers and shipping amounts can automatically be pulled into the invoice. When the order was created in AIMsi, a deposit was created for the amount that the customer paid. So make sure that you pay the invoice with the deposit.