Comments on: Sales reporting with more details

By: Adam G

Adam G — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:25:36 +0000

I’ve solved the problem. I simply wasn’t very proficient at importing a Text file into an Excel workbook. Cutting and pasting didn’t quite do it, but it wasn’t hard to do. Excel help guided me through the process. “Data”–>”Get External Data”–>”Import text file.” It takes about five quick steps. Everything works fine now.

–Adam G.

By: Administrator

Administrator — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:24:02 +0000

Adam, I think that is a Firefox problem… if you copy and paste the text from the report to a text file and THEN into excel, the colums stay intact. If you copy+paste directly, it seems that excel looses the formatting!

By: Adam G

Adam G — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:52:41 +0000

Actually, I have a question about how to perform a specific sort of operation using the sales report interface. When my payments were passed through to me via PayPal, in the old days, this enabled me to accumulate a mailing list: the email addresses of those who’d purchased my products. I could fairly easily download a sales report using my PayPal history and paste it into an Excel spreadsheet. The email addresses all sorted into a single column.

When I tried to download my April sales report just now using the Tradebit sales report interface, almost all the information sorted itself, delimited by semicolons, into column A of the spreadsheet. In other words, there wasn’t one specific column of email addresses.

Can you address this problem with your interface–or tell me what I’m doing wrong? Thanks.

–Adam G.

By: Adam G

Adam G — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 01:02:07 +0000

Ralf:

I can’t believe you referred to me by name! But yes: the moment I saw the new sales report interface, I said a silent Thank you. You have indeed proved to be resourceful and responsive, and I thank you for that. I like the way the new system works.

–Adam