Shop Manager for shop owners

tissue · 05-22-2007, 14:00

Hello all shop owners,

I am a proud member of Miner's Mafia. Since some time we have our own society shop. One of our members bought a shop and was kind enough to let us all use it. One person is managing this shop.

As you might know, letting more people use one shop, needs some administration. There are a lot of people that have stuff inside the shop for sale.

First it was attempted to keep track of all sales in an excell spread sheet. But because it was growing every day, it got more difficult. Our total turnover of the shop is already over 100k peds. With that kind of cash flow, it is really important to know what PED's has which owner.

So i decided to start coding on an online shop manager system. Where it would be more easy to keep track of the items sold, and the peds earned by it. The system uses different status for every object being sold: "item received", "item put in shop", "item sold", "peds reserved for seller", "seller payed" or "item removed from shop". Every item that gets sold in shop, goes trough some of these states. The person operating the Shop Manager supplies all the data needed.

This online application works prety well. As far as I know the Miner's Mafia Society Shop Manager is pretty content with it. Also I have already received some positive responses from others who tried out this application.
So I was thinking maybe there are other shops who sell stuff from multiple avatars. And maybe they can benefit from this application.
Also shop owners that sell only their own stuff can use the manager, if they want their inventory to be shown online, and want to keep track of the markup their stuff sells for.
But in the first place it is designed for multiple user shops.

Also you can manage more than one shop in one shop manager! The fee of items is calculated automatically. The % of fee is adjustable for each shop in the shop manager.

Here are some of the features of the Shop Manager:

This is the main window the manager of a shop uses:

All information is summerized in an inventory list available for the public. So every shopper can see what is in stock, even without logging in. Also this public inventory list shows the prices and calculates the markup:

Here is the inventory of our society shop (up to date)

Furthermore there is a summery of all sellers using the shop, with totals of peds that needs to be payed or reserved:

A summery of items that have been sold over a year/month/week period. Including mean markup values and the time the item has spend inside the shop:

A log of all important events that happened with an item (put in shop/sold/seller payed):

Also every user of the shop can log in to check his own items in the shop, without having to log in into Entropia Universe and walk to the shop itself.

Parses
There are also other sites where you might want to show your inventory. For this, there is also a "parse" available for other sites. You can easily copy and paste the whole inventory, so it will on the other site in the right layout.
So far there are parses available for:
- Entropia Directory
- Entropia Forum (example)

How to get it

I can install a copy of the shopmanager on my own server. You can access it with the adress and the login info I can give you. After that you can start trying out the shopmanager.

So if you wanna try this application, you can contact me by PM on this forum.

grtz Tissue

Nitrosomonas · 05-22-2007, 15:51

This application has really been helpfull for managing our soc, and very handy to check your own stock without loggin in

i give this a big thumbs up

and a little bump

giuly_adm · 05-22-2007, 16:33

yes, this works really well...

now time for a big bump

sahel · 05-22-2007, 17:28

Thumbs up for this great guy! I'm the manager of the Miner's Mafia Ore & Enmatter shop, and can't do a day without this application. Made administrating as easy as it can get, within peass if needed.

Beside that its the ultimate tool to 'share' your shop with others, it's also a very pleasant application for 'normal' shops (1 person that owns items for sale), just because of the ease of administrating everything.

I can recommend everyone to atleast try it out if you are curious

+rep for your whole ouvre

roxy · 05-23-2007, 13:19

I've been selling my ore and enmatter via the society shop for some time now. The Shop Manager tool makes it very easy for me to know exactly how much PED I have in the shop for items that are both sold and unsold.

By pooling the resources of so many miners in Miner's Mafia, the shop is well stocked and has many regular customers. Our customers also like the fact that they can check the web site to see what's available before stopping by to purchase.

The Shop Manager tool is great, but the work Sahel does to manage the shop is phenomenal. Of course, since Sahel is the one handling the transactions he's the most popular guy in Miner's Mafia!

- Roxy

sahel · 05-24-2007, 11:36

Bump it up

Halfe · 05-24-2007, 16:05

I'm also a proud member of <---Miner's Mafia--->, and without that shop manager we wouldn't have come as far as we have now.

Big rep to Tissue and a big

Bump bump