Hey Everyone, I’m Hossein Zoda, The lead developer of ResellKit.

In the last three years I had the honor to play a small part in the eCommerce business of the RK users. I believe it’s time to build a new set of features for the app to address some of the important concerns that many users have.

Brief​

There are four features I believe is worth adding to the v2 upgrade.

A robust inventory manager​

This will help with keeping track of all active listings and updating obvious changes on every platform. It’d also report issues that require the store manager’s attention. Such that they can ensure the health of their store on all platforms.

Connecting multiple devices​

The current version of RK can only run on a single device. With this feature users can run and work on the app simultaneously on multiple devices.

Enabling cross-listing for remote workers​

Delegating the publishing process to someone else is useful if you want to save time. This feature is designed to enable that while you don’t need to worry about sharing your login information or having concerns about signing in to your account from another location.

Description generator from item specifics​

Let’s face it not every marketplace is created equal. And most sellers have a primary store where they list most of their items and then they will cross-listed to other platforms.

The description generator will help you get the most out of the source platform, Even if the attribute is not in the other platform, It’s at least listed in the description.

The first release of the generator will only work on listings imported from eBay.

The proposal​

The detailed version of the proposal is in this post.

Will this affect me if I’m not interested in this?​

No, The app should continue to work as before with no change in your credits and how it is spent. The proposed features can be enabled if you opt-in for them.

Timeline & pre-sale​

I estimate the project could take up to 3 months to get completed, Once it’s shipped users would be able to unlock the features by purchasing the v2ticket, At the mark price of $59. With NO recurring payments (no monthly commitment).

Pre-sale of the tickets are about 10 to 20 percent discount. If enough users would like to participate in the pre-sale, I'll run the fund-raising campaign and will start building once it has been funded.

Reach out​

Please fill out this Survey to let me know what you think about this. I appreciate it.

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The following is a set of features proposed for RK2.0.

A robust inventory manager (semi-automatic)​

As of today the autopilot feature is still in beta, This is due to it having some major flaws in its design. And I believe a redesign is needed.

The inventory manager should do more than updating the latest orders. It should watch all active listings in every platform and to search for inconsistencies and fix them.

However, The solution for some issues is not obvious where it requires the store manager’s attention, So there’ll be a queue of issues in the store that the manager needs to fix.

Here are the notable features of the inventory manager

1. Cross-posting will get integrated in the inventory manager, Since this feature requires us to retrieve all of the listings in every platform and it keeps updating them.
   So it’s naturally expected that this process should also replace the import function.
2. Relink a listing when its link to other cross-listed items breaks for any reason, An example would be to relist an item outside of the app. Which will break the link to it since it changes the id of the listing.
   The goal is to automatically relink the broken links. However, For some cases it may be uncertain that if it actually is the same listing, It will report them to the store manager to handle.
   Our goal is to fully automate this process. That’s why there will be a feature to tag listings in their description if they don’t support sku such that the app would be able to detect the same listing on all platforms.
3. Detecting duplicate listings across all platforms by their cover photo. It should suggest to the store manager which listings are considered duplicates. With possible options, Like delete one or mark it as false positive. Or link the listing if it was cross-listed outside of the app.
4. Inconsistency in price or quantity can also be reported and fixed depending on user’s preference.

More features may be added to the list above.

Multi-device support by having remote sync of the store’s database​

In the current design of the app, It saves almost everything locally in your computer. This is helpful for protecting your privacy and it also helps us in not requiring users to subscribe for a monthly expense. Since we don’t need to manage your data.

We have also integrated a cloud backup feature on google drive to help with recovering lost data or rolling back certain major mistakes.

The downside of this is that the app can only run on one computer at a time. And it’s not that easy to move the data back and forth between computers. Here’s where remote syncing can come to the rescue. So the app can run on multiple devices and all of them can work simultaneously.

Simply put, The app makes sure the database is in sync on all connected devices. Similar to how Whatsapp is syncing its database across all devices.

Enabling cross-listing for remote workers​

Some users would like to delegate the listing process to remote workers (a.k.a virtual assistant or VA). However, It can become difficult to set up an environment for enabling this. Since there are some limitations we are facing from the marketplaces. Not all platforms allow connections to their platform from outside of the US. This feature is designed to fix this and allow remote publishing, Also this feature limits remote worker’s access to your store.

Note. This feature only works when one of your devices is running and has a stable internet connection. Since the communications to the platforms are routed from your device.

Description generator from item specifics​

The generator takes a template and builds a description from the item specifics, title and the description of the source listing.

A template builder and help on how it can be used will be created on the Settings page.

The first release of the generator will only work on listings imported from eBay.