Bulk Price Editing (Beta)

April 30, 2009

I have been wanting to add this ability for a long time, and I am very happy to announce the first beta version of the CheckOutMyCards Price Editing tool.

This tool can be used to easily make thousands of price changes at a time, and it should help hundreds of our sellers save many hours or even days worth for time.

This tool leverages a lot of different client and server technologies, and we had to do a number of architectural, database improvements to be able to handle the volume of price changes that this tool can now generate.

While we are beta testing the tool, the tool can be used for free, but it won’t work on the 1st day the month. We are still working out the details of how we plan to charge for the the use of the tool.

Download Tool (login required)

System Requirements
– Windows XP or later
– Microsoft Office Access 2007 or the Access 2007 Runtime (Free Download)

How to Install
– If you do not have Access 2007 or are not sure if you do, download and install the Access 2007 runtime from Microsoft
– Download and install the CheckOutMyCards Price Editing tool (login required)

How to Use
– From the start menu or the desktop, click on the CheckOutMyCards Price Editing shortcut
CheckOutMyCards Price Editing shortcut
– This will bring up a login form for logging into your account on CheckOutMyCards.com
– It will then start downloading the items from your inventory
importing-inventory1
– You can then search your inventory for groups of cards that you would like to perform bulk operations upon
search-inventory
When I get more time I plan to make this more powerful and easier to use, but this is a functional start.
– Once you have selected the group of items you would like to perform a bulk price change to, you can select the type of bulk operation to perform
bulk-operation
– Now you can review the pending price changes.
– You can click in the orange cells to manually edit any of the pending price changes.
– Finally, you can submit your price changes to the website.

Enjoy! Let us know if you hit any bugs or have any feature requests.


Seattle area show on Saturday

April 17, 2009

Steve Hollander will be at the Meridian Park School Show this weekend representing CheckOutMyCards.com. You are welcome to drop off cards that you would like to have added to your account.

The show will run from 10AM to 4PM on Saturday April 18th.


2009 Q1 Stats

April 15, 2009

Here are the 2009 Q1 stats. Thank you so much for continuing to help us continue the record setting trends!

2009-q1-stats

* Page Views are based on Google Analytics.
* Cards Added tracks the rate at which we upload new cards into sellers accounts. It does not track when the sellers started setting asking prices.
* Total Sellers is the total number of users that have sent us cards and set asking prices on their cards. Many sellers have sold their entire inventory and do not currently have any more cards for sale.
* Total Accounts only counts users that have created and activated their accounts. It does not count people that have purchased cards off of the site without creating an account.