I’m still pressing forward with my BuyItSellIt (BISI) store having recently added my 1,000th item to the shop and spent a weekend figuring out how to customize my theme.
There’s been some downtime this week, but it appears all was back to normal tonight as I was inside working for 45 minutes or so on adding a few more items. While I was working I noticed a new tab in my workflow–and if you’ve yet to try BISI it’s the easy workflow which really sold me in the end–”Discount Rules”.
As a seller of unique goods, “Discount Rules” actually falls under the does not apply heading for me, but I’m always happy to see my chosen platform adding features. Problem is, if I wanted to use “Discount Rules,” if it did apply, I really would have a hard time implementing it and would most likely have to backtrack to update all of my items individually.
BISI needs bulk editing features. Technically they’re there, you just export a CSV file, make your changes and import the new file back in. I’ve tried this a couple of times and encountered the same problems both times: 1) My images don’t export; 2) My updated file doesn’t overwrite the old items thus there are duplicate listings until you get around to deleting the earlier items.
Frankly I’d like to change all of my shipping rates. To do this with 1k+ items even with the method mentioned above would take quite a bit of time. The alternative is editing each individual item listing, which isn’t very realistic. So what have I done? Nothing. In fact, to keep my rates consistent I’m still importing new items at the higher rates that I want to eventually abolish working under the hopes that bulk editing comes soon.
Obviously bulk editing would help in other areas as well. Despite BISI being the closest thing to a perfect e-commerce solution for my set-up I have to admit it’s somewhat ludicrous that it lacks this one very basic function. Anyway, until I have bulk update any other new features, no matter how exciting they are to read about, are rendered useless to me as I have no way to implement them across my entire stock on the platform.