Comments on: eBay add tracking feature for selected carriers

By: ebuyerfb

ebuyerfb — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:11:16 +0000

This is the barcode scanner I use.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Brand-New-USB-Barcode-Reader-Cue-Cat-CueCat-UPC-Scanner_W0QQitemZ380181455494QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item588494a286

They must be getting rare since I got mine for around $5 three years ago. No software needed since it just emulates a USB keyboard. Keep in mind that it types the barcode number and then presses the ‘Enter’ key when it is done so make sure whatever you use it on can work like that.

By: JP

JP — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:55:22 +0000

Points of note. On Firefox, sometimes your have to submit them twice for them to appear.

Interlink are not included – would be nice to add them!

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:54:05 +0000

Not sure what’s happening with “Project Echo” in the UK. But a CSV barcode import function could be useful.

By: Hereford United Fan

Hereford United Fan — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:01:57 +0000

I ship about 80 a day and about 150 on a monday at the moment. It is a good idea but would add a lot of time.

By: Chris Dawson

Chris Dawson — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:50:11 +0000

I tend to double label – slap an Aimco packing partner label on as I pack, print out Parcelforce etc labels, scan em into SMP and then slap them onto the parcel.

It’s not too bad if you’re only doing a couple of dozen parcels, but it’s not a solution for anyone shipping large numbers of items/day

By: Hereford United Fan

Hereford United Fan — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:44:01 +0000

I do use aimco but only to produce picking lists now. I use royal mails despatch express which is excellent although not very user friendly.

By: Chris Dawson

Chris Dawson — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:39:36 +0000

So far no CSV as far as I can see, also no *useful* information on the page to enter the tracking number. Would be a lot more useful to have the SMP invoice number or record number.

One tip… if you print out labels using software such as Aimco packing partner you can add the record number to the address label which helps link the item with the tracking number.

By: Hereford United Fan

Hereford United Fan — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:17:30 +0000

So Chris a barcode scanner saves you the time of typing in the code but you still have to link the parcel with the user and select add tracking number etc.

Do you know if they are planning a simple upload process from a csv?

Thanks

By: Chris Dawson

Chris Dawson — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:03:51 +0000

I use a Welsh Allen barcode scanner – manual at http://www.timeclocksoft.com/2380TechnicalManual.pdf

To be honest I need to reprogram as it has a “return” at the end of each scan which annoyingly doesn’t move to the next field (as a tab would do) but clicks the enter button! Doh! Just haven’t had time to piddle around with the programming but I’ll get it done one day (soon!!)

No software needed – just sits inline with keyboard as data entry device. Computer doesn’t know I didn’t manually type the letter/numbers in

By: Roget

Roget — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:37:27 +0000

Hi, Chris
Thanks for this information, would you mind telling abit more on Bar-code scaner, which one to buy and any software to use with it which is compactible with SMP.

Thanks, Roger