Multiple item Payments and Shipping Discounts

[Cancelcollector]

Although there seem to have been a few threads that have peripherally touched on this, I am trying to find some kind concise answer... which I haven't been able to.

Scenario: I sell stamps to collectors. Most of the time, any given buyer purchases more than one item from me. In fact, my "average sale" in 15+ years of doing this is about 4 items per sale.

Issue 1: Is there no automatic "multiple item checkout" on Ebid? As in, someone buys four items from me (or any "one seller"), they are grouped together, and a buyer can just automatically check out?

Issue 2: is there no "automatic shipping discount" feature on Ebid? As in, when someone buys those four stamps, I can have a "shipping rule" called something like "75p shipping for the first item, and 10p extra for each subsequent item sent to the same address."

For many sellers, these are truly fundamental and integral parts of normal ecommerce. Maybe they are buried somewhere in "advanced features" and I just haven't found them.

Help, please!
~Peter

[burgyeb]

The multiple item checkout I have seen does not calculate the discounts. Most of my buyers wait until I send a combined invoice for payment. This invoice includes discounts as advertised in My Notices, for multi-item or shipping discounts.

I do not think that the discounts are automated on eBid yet; if they are I have never seen them. Never caused me much of a problem, as if buyer pays the full non-discounted amount, I do instant refunds if PayPal used, or with shipment of purchase.

I would also like to see this feature available here.

[deanosaur1972]

Although there seem to have been a few threads that have peripherally touched on this, I am trying to find some kind concise answer... which I haven't been able to.

Scenario: I sell stamps to collectors. Most of the time, any given buyer purchases more than one item from me. In fact, my "average sale" in 15+ years of doing this is about 4 items per sale.

Issue 1: Is there no automatic "multiple item checkout" on Ebid? As in, someone buys four items from me (or any "one seller"), they are grouped together, and a buyer can just automatically check out?

Issue 2: is there no "automatic shipping discount" feature on Ebid? As in, when someone buys those four stamps, I can have a "shipping rule" called something like "75p shipping for the first item, and 10p extra for each subsequent item sent to the same address."

For many sellers, these are truly fundamental and integral parts of normal ecommerce. Maybe they are buried somewhere in "advanced features" and I just haven't found them.

Help, please!
~Peter

Yes there is an automatic Multiple instant checkout on eBid - I have been using it for well over 18 months and it is fantastic.

Instructions to follow:

(based on your example of 75p and 10p for each extra item)

Multiple Instant Checkout

Go to your: My options > My Defaults

On the first tab, which is the general defaults:

Enable Multiple Instant Checkout - select 'only listings with a shipping code'

Go to the third tab which is your shipping defaults:

Make a name for your shipping code (you can name it anything).
Input shipping at £0.75 and select your shipping type
Put a tick in the box below to select the option Each extra item using this shipping code will add £ - and then if you want auto combine with 10p per additional item then just put in £0.10.

You will see that you can do the international shipping in the box below this to input your details as or if required.

Once you have completed that - do a bulk edit on all your items, once you have all of your items in bulk edit - select make changes to the items. Then if you scroll down the page you will see where you can put a check against Shipping Code and select your named shipping code from the drop down box. Then submit the changes for review - will take while to do them all.



If you have completed all this correctly you will see on all of your listings (click on a few to check) that after the shipping cost there is an addition which states extra item £0.10.

[Cancelcollector]

Deanosaur1972, thank you SO much for your detailed instructions-- really appreciate it, and will go set that up now. I figured there had to be a way, given this is an old and established site.

~Peter

[burgyeb]

Good to know it can be done; will have to work on it as I do offer multiple purchase s/h discounts regularly.

[gxjenkins]

Good info. Just what I needed to know.

[CopperLocker]

Yes there is an automatic Multiple instant checkout on eBid - I have been using it for well over 18 months and it is fantastic.

Great reply and lesson. I have to ask. When this happens with a multiple purchase, if there are two different shipping cost on two different auctions with one having a higher cost of shipping than the other, will it choose the higher priced shipping first then add the discount to the other?

[Saskconnection]

Great reply and lesson. I have to ask. When this happens with a multiple purchase, if there are two different shipping cost on two different auctions with one having a higher cost of shipping than the other, will it choose the higher priced shipping first then add the discount to the other?

It is now the end of September and so far there is no answer to the question posed by CopperLocker.

It is very important that sellers have a way to manage the S&H rules for multiple purchases.

In the listing script we can add the additional amount for S&H for a 2nd or subsequent purchase of a lot where multiple quantities are available, but there is no option to do this when the quantity available is only 1.

As the previous poster noted, may buyers purchase multiple lots from a single seller and the size and weight of these items may vary widely.

The option available under the Shipping Defaults assumes that everything that a seller has for sale is the same size and weight and ships for the same cost and this is certainly not the case for us.

Adding the extra cost for larger items to the selling price penalizes the buyers who purchase multiple items.