Shopping Cart Comparisons, Vendio
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There are about as many ways to sell online as there are things to sell online with eBay, Amazon and many other eBay alternatives offering to host and promote your listings and open source communities like OSCommerce and CRE Loaded offering to help you create your own website to list products on.
This makes getting clear, correct easily understood information is a little hard, especially when those who know the most are often the least able to express their knowledge clearly in a language that will be understood by everybody.
So Chinavasion will be running a series on the different ecommerce software / platform options available to you, go through how they work and talk about their benefits and problems.
- This is the sixth part in an ongoing series. For an introduction to other shopping systems check out the links below:
Vendio
Vendio falls into the same ecommerce solutions as Yahoo Shopping and Auctiva Commerce as a platform which is relatively easy to use but comes at a cost.
Like Auctiva, Vendio is a lot cheaper to list on than Yahoo Shopping, with an online store on Vendio being completely free.
Where Vendio and Auctiva really excel is their ability to take those listings off their respective marketplaces and put them into other locations. Vendio, for example, has an option to put products into Amazon, eBay, Google Product Search, Shopping.com, Shopzilla and your own online store. Vendio charges US$10 a month plus the other sites’ listing fees plus image hosting fees of three USD a month for 3MB of space. After that the company charges final value fees of 1.95% of sales for monthly sales between 1- US$1000 and 1.5% for monthly sales between US$2500.01 and US$5000.
Vendio also sets itself apart from Auctiva by offering:
- find and replace editing
- add images inline
- advanced scheduling
- best offer support
- second chance offer support
- giving works support
- auto delete and manage images
- advanced inventory management
- eBay refund process support
- create new orders on the fly
- add to existing orders
- cancel order updates inventory
- federal express supported
Amongst other features
While you’d think that, with all these features people would be
fighting each other to sing Vendio’s praises this is not in fact
the case. Its reputation in the marketplace is mainly positive
however it does have its detractors.
Members of the Auction Software review community (
auctionsoftwarereview.com/software/vendio-platform.asp ) give it
an overall review rating of 3.5 out of five, saying while the
overall experience can be good for people starting out in the
industry it can be buggy, not exactly the most SEO friendly of
sites and not the most ideal option for people who have been in
the industry a long time.
A writer from All business auctions (
allbusinessauctions.com/blog/2009/05/16/vendio-platform-review-the-answer-for-ecommerce/
) also suggested in May this year that while there had been a lot
of effort poured into Vendio there were little things to iron
out.
So, as you can see, it would be worth examining Vendio alongside
Auctiva Commerce and Yahoo Shopping if you’re looking for a
fairly easy entry point and you aren’t adverse to spend a
little money to do it.
Let us know what you think of Vendio in the comments below or
take part in our polls to let us know which ecommerce platform
you run your business with.
- Name: Vendio
- Number Visitors: 40,540 U.S. visitors per month According to Compete.com
- Set-Up Cost:$0
- Monthly Cost:$0 (to list on the site only)
- Transaction Cost:1.95% per month (for sales $1000 or less)
- Customizationability:Quite customizable
- Help:vendio.com/ecommerce/training
- Software Requirements: None
- Find At: vendio.com
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Thanks for writing about Vendio. I wanted to make a correction to your article.
The Vendio online store is 100% free. There is no trial or free period. This includes item, order, customer management as well as image hosting, domain, web hosting, professional storefront templates, unlimited products…all for free.
What costs money is our Marketplaces Plan. This enables you to take the items in your store and sell them on eBay and Amazon. This costs just $10 a month plus a small success fee.
We encourage every seller to set-up a free Vendio store – there is no risk & we don’t even require a credit card to sign up.
Best regards,
Helen
@Vendio
Hi Helen, thanks for that correction, fixed.
How do you get started up selling your prodits. I would like to get started A.S.A.P and how much does it coast? Do I have to have my own web site to get started? If not and you send it from China what’s on the return lable or can I have you put my address on it?And how long will it take the person to recieve it? Thank you for your time. Chip
Hi Chip,
Thanks for all your interest. For a quick guide on how to get started selling products from Chinavasion you might want to check out our blog Dropshipping Made Easy, China Dropshipping Explained or Killer Dropship Hints For Better Profits And Happier Customers.
To answer your questions regarding shipping labels we use a trading company which makes it impossible for your customers to trace the packages back to us. Unfortunately we are unable to put your address on the sending address. For more questions about shipping and cost you might want to check out our FAQ page.
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