Comments on: eBay Sales Log Spreadsheet v1.5 Update

By: Angie

Angie — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:25:42 +0000

Thank you for the absolutely wonderful site. I am slowly delving into the online auction world. With the many types of fees associated along with different types of posting options; you have definitely took a lot of the work and confusion out of it for the intimidated and clueless-like me I am somewhat OCD so not tracking sales, profit margins, ect. is not an option. Sadly enough the only auction experience I have had was on World of Warcraft. LOL Thanks again

By: Ryan Olbe

Ryan Olbe — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:26:40 +0000

In version 1.6 of the Sales Log I've added a new field for sales tax and provide monthly/yearly tax totals in the YTD worksheet. You can read more about the changes I've made in 1.6 here: http://www.rolbe.com/2010/01/20/ebay-sales-log-spreadsheet-1-6/ As for keeping track of unsold items, right now you can either enter the item's Ending Price as $0 or set it's Qty to 0 to specify that it didn't sell. In the future I could add a SKU field. Do you just want the SKU field by itself or should it connect to something like an Inventory worksheet that records how many times each item was listed/sold?

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:54:14 +0000

Your calculators are AWESOME! Thanks so much. I cannot wait to see a Google Checkout one.

By: Ryan Olbe

Ryan Olbe — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:29:50 +0000

Hi Emily, I don't use Auctiva myself so you would have to e-mail me a sample CSV file of theirs so I can study their format in order to import it correctly. Importing data directly from eBay/PayPal is going to be the next big feature I add into the spreadsheet because A LOT of people have been asking me for it. I'm planning to release that in version 2.0. It's going to be an automated process, you click a button and your sales get filled in. For all the people who purchase the spreadsheet now it's going to be a free upgrade. For all new customers I'm going to be increasing the price of the spreadsheet because it's a complex feature to program. For now you can download your sales manually for eBay here: http://cgi3.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?DownloadInvoice&invoiceMonthYear=&requestType=AccountStatus&StartDate=&EndDate=&cid=001 and manually for PayPal here: https://history.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_history-download&nav=0.3.2 Both of which require you to log in first. The eBay download will include all the items you've sold on eBay. The PayPal download will include all the items you've sold on eBay plus any other miscellaneous PayPal payments you may have received.

By: emily

emily — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 01:01:29 +0000

Hello, I've just come across your site and am just beginning selling on ebay. I've got about 1500 items to sell, about 400 unique items. I've gotten Auctiva and am using that service - I'm wondering if you have any functions that I can use to import my ebay/auctiva data into your spreadsheets for tracking, etc. If you have any suggestions of what I might use instead of Auctiva, I'd greatly appreciate that information as well. I'm most likely going to buy your spreadsheet anyways, but was wondering about that potential feature as Auctiva offers an export of .csv. Thank you!