Update: Trades, Want Ads, Manual Orders and Currency

Jeff Mack · 2015-05-09T11:47:12.000Z

Today a big update was pushed on Brick Classifieds. One major change was the way that the site handles currency. Before it was doing a bunch of conversions to try and handle the currency conversions. It worked, but was not ideal. A lot of pages have been reworked and it is the way it should have been done from the start. Make sure your store currency is set properly and whatever you enter as a value it will hold. No more conversions unless you are need to see it in different currency and at checkout. NOTE: If you are selling on Brick Classifieds and your store currency is not USD, please take a few minutes to visit your shop and make sure all your products are set at the price you want them to be at. WANT ADS We also added a few new features to help build business conversations with potential buyers. The first is Want Ads. This is a pretty straight forward feature for buyers and sellers. All registered users can post a Want Ad. You will fill out a title, description of what you are looking for, price range, quantity, condition as well as location that the item you would like it to come from. After you fill out your post, you will see listings like this: At this point, vendors will be allowed to come to your post and create a bid for your business. Vendors will need to have this item in their store inventory. They will then select it from their inventory and put a price. If it works for you, you can accept their offer. When the offer is accepted, the vendor can then go into the shop admin area and build an invoice in the new Manual Order feature. It is pretty simple to use. Once the invoice is created, the vendor can search for the interested user and they will be emailed the invoice. If the buyer clicks the button to confirm the order, they will be taken directly to the shopping cart on the site, all the items in the invoice will already be waiting in the cart and they will just need to checkout with the agreed upon price and shipping. TRADES Another feature we added was the ability to do trades with other vendors (Note: All trades must be done vendor to vendor and again, the items of trade must be in your shop inventory). Like the Want Ads, vendors can ad items to their listing from their inventory. They can add a title and description about what they are interested in trading for. Once the trade is posted, other vendors can come in and offer items from their inventory and submit to the original poster. You can go back and forth negotiating until you both agree on the items being offered. You will click a link to approve each offer which will then lock in the trade. The entire transaction including any cash offerings are done however you wish outside of Brick Classifieds. Once everyone receives their items, you will be able to click a button that says that you are received what you were promised and then provide feedback on the trade. Users will now be able to get feedback on regular shop purchases, want ad and trade transactions. Give it all a try, feel free to PM with feedback. I wanted to get the features out there and of course they can be improved. We need to start somewhere though.