Questions about ebay integration

Yesterday an email with questions about the ebay integration reached me - here are some parts which might be of broader interest:

> ...Does the Tradebit integration work for
> ebay Fixed Price Buy It Now?
> I did NOT see your answer.

Yes, ebay is transmitting the auction ID to paypal and paypal is transmitting the auction ID to tradebit.

Tradebit looks into the database, if that auction ID was registered to a product and generates a download code mail, if the minimum price was met.

Just make sure, that you enter PRICE - 1 cent as the minimum price. that should be fine!


> My additional questions on that subject are:
>
> 1. In the "Sales - Marketing Section" it says after an eBay
> auction to
> enter the final price and set to restricted in Tradebit System. Is
> that for Fixed Price also?

The best way is to enter your product in tradebit with the full details, including the targetted price... if you enter an auction now, you take the full details over.

You product is on sale on tradebit AND on ebay on the same time.

The description covers ONLY the old, manual version. In the new version the stuff is automated, once you registered the auction.

> 2. For Fixed Price (Buy It Now) on eBay can we sell an
> unlimited number of
> the same digital item in each auction - OR just one item per auction?

ebay transmitts the SAME auction ID for these "many sales" items and that works. chalmersc is doing that all day...

> 3. In the "eBay Auction Automation Section" It says enter ebay item
> number, set minimum price & expiration. After that is all filled in,
> is there anything else that has to be done for Fixed Price (Buy It
> Now) items after customer pays thru pay pal-----OR is the delivery to
> the customer automatic after that.

You just have to make sure, that the IPN for paypal is set...
see the FLASH video, on how to set that:

[www.tradebit.com]

that is crucial, because paypal sends the payment data to tradebit and our server generates everything for the buyer...
no notification = no interaction...

The rest is automated...

Puzzler

Just an addition: the file does not HAVE to be restricted, it just should be either on sale or restricted... if it is on sale, it is "restricted" by nature

I don't quite understand how to sell a tradebit download on eBay. Is there a tutorial for that, which will take me step by step through the process?

Since ebay limited that feature, we have not worked too much on it. But it should still work:

The best way is the: "same title technique"

- That means you register a file with us.
- You start an eBay auction with EXCATLY the same title (we compare the title for 100% match)
- You configure the IPN value of your paypal email on file with us and eBay (that must match, too)

That should do the trick... I have not tested it in a while and you can email me, when you are trying it... puzzler(at)tradebit.com

ok?

ralf

Uh... I feel stupid. And I used to be a techsupport rep! (for cell phones, but still.) OK, what is IPN configuration? And I still don't get it, how do I set up an ebay item so the customer gets an automated download?

I've been selling my book from my ebay store since 2002, and I got tired of having to attach files to an email and send an email every time somebody buys one. Having to send an email means the customer doesn't get the item until the next time I'm on the computer, so it isn't instantaneous like an automated download. So what I want to do sell an automated download. That's why I came to tradebit in the first place, but apparently nobody actually buys anything from here, so I want to try to use ebay's customer base to sell things and tradebit's automated download capability to deliver the product. Which apparently other people are doing, but I have no clue how to do it.

hi, no problem and sorry for the long delay: there are 2 major things to prepare, if you want to enable automated downloads...


first: the IPN is the Instant Payment Notification from paypal - it is a link you enter in your paypal account, so tradebit knows about a sale that came from another domain (ebay in this case)

This means, you have to enter your IPN url that we provide in the power admin section under SALES.... when someone pays you, paypal sends that notification to that URL. It must be the paypal account you have in your profile on tradebit.

second: The name of the auction must be 100% the name you use on tradebit for the product title. When paypal tells tradebit: "hey, we got money for file YOUR TITLE OF THE AUCTION for the RECIEVEREMAIL", tradebit does 2 things...

we look into the files belonging to RECIEVEREMAIL and fetch the file with that YOUR TITLE OF THE AUCTION title... if we find one, it is mailed automatically to your buyer...

does that help?

ralf



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/03/2009 12:14PM by puzzler.