Shopify Marketplace Connect

One final amendment. The staff helping at Codisto is terrific. Keeping one point off since the niche I am in does not show all the details that can be entered on eBay and it is likely that the account is losing some sales due to that. There are a number of options to be filled out if on the site that help items to come up in search that simply aren't there in the software used by Codisto. Overall, once the system is learned it does what it is supposed to do.

Amending this from two to three stars. As soon as I left this review I received a phone call from a shift leader at Codisto. He offered to help me, which he just did through a teams meeting. He was able to see why I was so frustrated at the time it took to list anything and the fact that inventory levels were not updating from Shopify to eBay. He found a solution that he is still implementing. I am hopeful it will work and that I will be amending this higher. Their help, I must say, is very good. ------------------------------- I trialed this. I really wanted to like it. I switched to it from the soon to be retired eBay channel. The help is good so I didn't give it a 1, but the execution of the product not so much. Also, related to the help, they ask you to leave a five star review on the app store almost every time you interact with them so take all the highly rated reviews with a grain of salt. My items didn't pull into eBay correctly which means I was going through one by one to see if they were truly linked correctly or not. I figured one time issue and I could deal, but it would have cost me many hours of extra work. I had to end items on eBay and re-add them. Items are extremely slow to list from one platform to another. My final straw was seeing an item on eBay that I knew had sold previously that day. It had been five hours already and there was no update to inventory. I need something more responsive for inventory levels to avoid sell outs.

I'm changing my review. After many back and forwards with eBay and with the help of Market place connect support team we managed to get the eBay account live, it was far from easy however.

The issue was it was a new eBay account with only a couple of products being listed before. After installing the app I was trying to send up 50 products, this instantly flagged the account and it was closed with no recourse. So my advise would be to use this app with an established account not a new one, as, actually, it is a very powerful tool, so take it easy build the ebay business a little and then gently use the app by sending a few listings and making sure to use where possible the correct categories.

The App- it is very intuitive and works fine, listing up to both amazon and ebay with ease, syncing stock and prices effortlessly.

Support, Harryl in particular has been super helpful, they are on it to help resolve issues, long may it last.

Frustration points are related to amazon and eBay and how they operate their categories, for eBay the correct catagories do not always allow variations. Amazon sending up new product that has never been listed before, it can take some time to work through them so be prepared to spend some time on this.

I would recommend this app and the suport, however, be aware you will need to invest some quality time to learn it and get it right or there is a risk (especially with market place new accounts).

-- Original Review --

BE AWARE! This app has caused my eBay account to be permanently suspended for breaching eBay policies!

There were no issues at all until I used this app, at first i got a restriction 2 hours after using the app, got the account live again, waited 24 hours then used the app again to re-list the suspended items then 2 hours later I got my account permanently suspended. I am now in a fight with eBay to get the account back again.

This has cost me a crazy amount of time and money.

Hopefully someone will respond from the app, but there is something in the sync that is triggering eBay to automatically close seller account. NOTE my eBay account is newish but be very careful.

> On the plus side it is very easy to use and lists items in seconds.

-- End Original Review --

We just want to say that this application is by far the best one we have used submitting our products to eBay. Easy to use, instant inventory update, instant pricing update, instant image update, etc. The app is glitch free, and we love, love, love using this app. The other thing that we also love about this app, is that, the support team is available all the time to assist you. You do not need to wait hours to reach support, they are right there to assist you within minutes. One last thing we would like to add is that the support goes out and beyond to make sure your experience using their app meets all your expectations. Thank you once again for the amazing application, as well as the support team!

So I'm sure like many others I switched to this app since Ebay was removing support for their own official app. I'm not going to lie this was not my first choice. I originally went with another app that had similar ratings. I had nothing but problems with that other app. Switched over to this app, and right off the bat all those problems disappeared. Inventory synced right away, products linked no issue (even the ones already created on Ebay). I had some minor issues, not because the app wasn't working, but because I was still new to the UI, and needed help setting up some of the features of this app. The support for this app is top notch. I spoke to 3 different reps and each and every one of them were excellent. They walked me through what I needed, explained things perfectly, and were all around really great. You will get your moneys worth based on just the functionality of the app alone, but the customer service is just the cherry on top.

Works a lot better now the app follows Shopify design guidelines. The new pricing structure is a lot clearer.

There are a few things which could use some improvement.

---Amazon---
1. Variants are too dependent on their parent for key information.

Amazon treats each variant as a stand-alone product. When sending listing information for variants there is not enough flexibility to alter specific attributes for each child.

Example: Item Package Quantity is set on a parent level. However, our variations include 'pack sizes' offering a discount when ordering multiple items. It would be preferred to set this attribute on a variant level.

Another example: Bullet points are set on a parent level. For variants like 'StyleName' we may want to enter unique bullet points at a variant level to highlight key features of that specific variant.

2. Variations can only be mapped to the exact value & layout from Shopify.

For some of our products, we need to map variation values to specific amazon friendly values. For example: 'ItemPackageQuantity-Color' variation. In our store, we call the value 'Blue / Pack of 1'. However, Amazon requires '1 / Blue'. The only way to achieve this is to reorder the variations in Shopify and change all the values to Amazon-friendly ones.

This was done very well in Amazon by Codisto. You simply entered the variation values on each child before creating the variation. I don't know why the app is trying to map from Shopify. It's more complicated than it needs to be and causes issues. Just let us enter the values manually on a child level.

-- eBay --
1. Variation problems

eBay does not allow a variation layout to be changed once the listing is created. This causes problems when you need to rearrange values to meet Amazon's guidelines. This would be solved if we could manually map the Amazon values as mentioned above.

Or even better, if eBay variations could be joined together under one variation heading.

For example:
Variation Name: 'Choose Options:'
Values: 'Pack of 1 / Blue', 'Pack of 2 / Red'.

Many other integrations offer this to prevent eBay errors when adding or removing variations.

-- Bulk Edit --
1. There is no way to bulk edit to 'blank'. Sometimes I'd like to simply unset a value. Not all values are required by Amazon.

2. Sometimes I would like to override mapping on a specific value on a specific product without having to unmap every product. Instead of a strict 'map to value', could there be a 'default to value'.

3. Coloured Columns: The colours on Codisto were helpful to find the right column, especially when you are working with so many of them. Setting column colours is something that should be available across Shopify.

4. Bulk editing variant. There is currently no way to bulk edit variants. This means you have to painstakingly click through each one to check values and alter them. Which is made worse by my next point.

-- General --

1. The loading times are quite slow between pages. This means when you are working on your entire catalogue you spend more time loading pages than making edits. Especially on variants. This would be much improved if variants could be bulk edited.

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Overall, I'm looking forward to seeing how the app improves now it's part of Shopify. I just hope that the customer service live chat remains funded as it's really fast and helpful. Additionally, I'm really hoping this doesn't become another third-party marketplace app which Shopify discontinues.