eBay Selling Software - What to Look for Before You Make Your Purchase

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If you're just a casual eBay seller, you may not have a need for selling software. If you plan to earn good money with online auctions, you will likely need some time of eBay selling software to manage your auctions, payments and customers.

Here's an extensive list of 37 features you should look for when buying software, provided by my friend Vera Raposo -- she's completed more than 40,000 auctions in the past 7 years and always has a bunch on  the go:

1.   Upload all your auction history including items to relist
2.   Winning bidder notification
3.   Research completed auctions quickly
4.   List items fast
5.   Ability to save your listings as templates
6.   Have listing templates within your listings that will reflect information on specials you are running, payment details, checkout procedures
7.   Templates that provide a professional image
8.   Search for a specific archived listing
9.   Have a photo library
10. List the same item on a schedule
11. Bulk list
12. Plan ahead for high sales days
13. Have an archive of all items listed
14. Email a ton of customers at once – send the same email or different emails to each customer
15. Have email templates for different emails
16. Manage your auctions with ease
17. Combine checkouts
18. Search for your customer by name, item number, or email address
19. See a detailed list of all emails that you’ve sent to the bidder
20. Name, address, city, state, zip
21. Phone number
22. Email address
23. Ability to change the customers email address
24. Each individual item that was sold and it’s price
25. Ability to give discount on multiple items
26. Each individual auction total
27. Shipping & handling total
28. Final auction total
29. Comments box to keep track of what the conversation has been between you and your customer
30. Automatic feedback
31. Ability to leave different feedback comments at random
32. Automatic payment received email
33. Automatic item shipped email
34. Automatic feedback left email
35. Manage non paying bidders
36. Customer manager so you can email customer about your specials at a later date
37. Free trial 2 weeks? 1 month?

That's a pretty exhaustive list, I know...but getting the right software now, will save you plenty of headache letter.

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