CREATING AN INVENTORY A. Individual Seller From the TextbookX.com homepage, locate the Sell Your Items search box. Choose a product type from the dropdown, and then enter either the ISBN for books, or the UPC for games and movies. If the image and description matches what you are selling, click the Post button. If the ISBN or UPC matches your item but the description is different, please let us know with the Report link so that we can make the necessary correction. Check off the images which best represent the condition of your item. You can also enter a specific comment on the item, the quantity that you have available, and the date range that you want the item available for sale. Choose a price that you think is fair for your item. To help you decide, we provide information on other sellers, as well as our own price for the same item. In addition to the book price, you will receive a shipping credit. Confirm the information you have entered so far. You can make changes if you need to; otherwise click the Post button. Congratulations! Your item is now posted for sale on TextbookX.com. You may view your inventory by clicking the "Sales" tab from your account page. B. Store Using your favorite spreadsheet program, create an inventory file with the following columns: ISBN, Condition (1=Fair, 2=Average, 3=Good, 4=Very Good, 5=New), Price, Comments, Seller SKU, and an Action Code (a="Add new item", u="Update an item", r="Remove an item"). Save the spreadsheet you created in CSV format. To do this in Excel, click on File -> Save As... from the menu, and then select CSV (Comma delimited) as the file type. Once your inventory CSV file is saved, login to your account on TextbookX.com, and click the Sales subtab at the top of the page. Find the Upload Inventory File box on the left side of the page. Click the Browse button, and in the dialog box that opens select and open the CSV file that you saved on your computer. Click the Upload File button. Congratulations! Your inventory items are now posted for sale on TextbookX.com. Using the different action codes, you can edit and remove your inventory with future uploads. You may also view and edit your inventory by clicking the "Sales" tab from your account page. C. Volume Seller Volume Sellers choose to manage their inventory and sales through direct file transfers, rather than through the website. Becoming a Volume Seller on the TextbookX.com marketplace requires three points of contact: Inventory the seller is offering (inventory). Orders placed for the sellers inventory (orders). Shipment confirmation (confirmation). Communication method The seller will use FTP to transfer files to (inventory and confirmation) and from (orders) a server hosted by TextbookX.com. The address of the server as well as a username and password for the FTP server will be provided by TextbookX.com. The frequency of the transfers can be specified by the seller. File names and locations Each file name contains a time-stamp made up of a four digit year, two digit month, two digit day, two digit hour in 24 hour format, two digit minute, and two digit second. The time stamp is EST. inventory_YYYYMMDDHHmmSS.csv orders_YYYYMMDDHHmmSS.csv confirmation_YYYYMMDDHHmmSS.csv An example of a properly formatted inventory file would be: "inventory_20051201023000", which would be read by our system as having a time-stamp of December 1, 2005 at 2:30am. The time-stamp will determine the order that files are processed if more than one is present when a transfer is initiated. File formats All files are in comma separated value (CSV) format with one record per line. Note that there are no header lines for any of these files. Inventory file isbn condition: [1-5] (1 = Fair, 2 = Average, 3 = Good, 4 = Very Good, 5 = New or Like New) quantity price: the price in dollars that you wish to sell your book for. This amount will be the listing price on textbookx.com; this means that our commissions will come out of this price when your book sells. You will also receive an additional shipping credit. comment: a comment up to 255 characters long that will be displayed to potential buyers describing this book sku: up to 255 characters that will be included in the order file, but will not be displayed to potential buyers. action: indicates whether you want to add, update, or remove this item (a = add, u = update, r = remove). Any row that does not contain one of these three action commands will be ignored. Note: sku is a unique identifier Order file order id item id ship method: [MM, PM] (MM = media mail, PM = priority mail) order date: YYYYMMDD ship name ship address line 1 ship address line 2 ship city ship state/province ship postal code ship country: two character iso 3166 codes (currently only 'US') isbn condition: [1-5] (1 = Fair, 2 = Average, 3 = Good, 4 = Very Good, 5 = New or Like New) ordered quantity seller sku Note: order id and item id together form a unique identifier Confirmation file order id item id confirmed quantity: the quantity of this item shipped carrier: [USPS, UPS, AE, FEDEX, DHL] tracking number Note: should you need to cancel an order, set the quantity to 0 in the confirmation file. "Carrier" and "tracking number" should be left blank.   Copyright © 2005 Akademos, Inc. All rights reserved. Terms and Conditions of Use, Security and Privacy Policy.