Help!

Hi everyone

I run an online yarn store and have a weekly sale which is incredibly
popular (selling about £800 in around an hour most weeks). Until now,
I have been manually updating my sale page as items sell, but each week
as I get more customers buying, I'm finding it impossible to update
quickly enough to prevent duplicate (and more) purchases of the same
items. I don't use shopping cart software, as it doesn't update quickly
enough either. The big issue is that once I load the sale page, I have
about 100 people all trying to buy the same items as once.

The only current solution I can see is selling through eBay, as they
seem to have it set up so that it is impossible to have duplicate
orders, no matter how long people spend browsing, or how long between
purchasing and paying they take. But the fees are so high that I really
want to find another solution. Any suggestions most gratefully
received!

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Dee

Dee,

Since you aren't using a shopping cart, Salery seems the perfect
solution for you. It creates web pages and uploads them to your
server, exactly the same way you do manually now.

Each time when you sell an item, disable the item in the store
and update the Index. Simple as that. When you add a new item to
the store, upload the new page and update the Index. You can do
it all from within Salery.

We are working on a new version. Information about the old
version can be found at <http://www.salery.biz>. If you contact
Salery support, we will give you access to the new version which
is currently in beta stage.

Best regards,

Mark Schonewille

info DeleteThis @poshyarn.co.uk wrote:
> Hi everyone
>
> I run an online yarn store and have a weekly sale which is incredibly
> popular (selling about £800 in around an hour most weeks). Until now,
> I have been manually updating my sale page as items sell, but each week
> as I get more customers buying, I'm finding it impossible to update
> quickly enough to prevent duplicate (and more) purchases of the same
> items. I don't use shopping cart software, as it doesn't update quickly
> enough either. The big issue is that once I load the sale page, I have
> about 100 people all trying to buy the same items as once.
>
> The only current solution I can see is selling through eBay, as they
> seem to have it set up so that it is impossible to have duplicate
> orders, no matter how long people spend browsing, or how long between
> purchasing and paying they take. But the fees are so high that I really
> want to find another solution. Any suggestions most gratefully
> received!
>
> --
> Dee
>

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