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OMINS and multiple usernames

Yes, that’s right - OMINS fully supports multiple TradeMe usernames and e-commerce websites as a standard feature for no extra charge!

You can set up and manage unlimited TradeMe usernames, information sites and e-commerce websites. Each of these websites can be customised to contain different looks, such as logos and colour schemes.

These features are commonly used for branding purposes or operational management, such as a seperation of branches, departments, of even companies.

And of course, being a web-based application, OMINS supports multiple concurrent users so all of your staff can access your OMINS system simultaneously from anywhere in New Zealand or the world. This is essential if you do have multiple branches or departments.

There’s no need to run multiple applications just to manage your different usernames - it’s all available to you with OMINS.

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DVD Catalogue support on OMINS websites

As part of our support for TradeMe DVD Catalogues, all OMINS websites will now display DVD Catalogue products similarly to how they display on TradeMe. This makes it easy to use your information site to promote your DVD catalogue listings, as well as taking no extra effort to sell them on your website.

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Setting up your webstore just got easier!

When it comes to creating an online presense, there’s a lot to think about. You have to consider where to host it, who will design and maintain it, and more importantly - how to keep it up to date with current products and stock levels!

As a standard feature, all OMINS customers receive a highly dyamic e-commerce website, which is ready to use on first sign up. And when we say highly dynamic - we mean it! Your site is run from the same database as your TradeMe listings, and is always up-to-the-second accurate.

For most people the only thing that needed setting up was some custom website categories. That is, until now…

If you don’t want to set up custom categories for your website, you can now have them automatically populated with the approriate TradeMe categories that are already set up on your products. Not only does this remove the need for custom categories - it’s fully dyanamic and changes as your products do!

And of course, being an OMINS customer, the feature is available to use right now - no updating neccessary. Just select the Use TradeMe Categories option in the Web tab of your Promotion Group settings.

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Snipesoft on Silicon Welly

Snipesoft is now listed on Silicon Welly as a Cool Company - a community of Wellington based, and New Zealand owned technology and creative businesses individuals and organisations.

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Fixed Price Offers - making the most from your auctions

An auction on TradeMe is an investment. You take the time to find the best combination of titles, promotions and listing times to get the most exposure and interest in your products. And if all goes well - you’ll get a sale!

But wouldn’t it be better if you could get more exposure and hopefully another sale from a single auction? Of course it would! Thankfully TradeMe makes it quite easy; but of course it’s even easier with OMINS.

Within minutes of the auction closing, OMINS will automatically offer your products (subject to stock availability) to all available bidders and watchers, making the most of the high-energy, “want it now” atmosphere that often occurs at the end of an auction. The offer price can either be fixed, or varying (per-auction!) using highly customisable rules.

We have seen traders significantly increase there sales simply by implementing a good fixed price offer system. If you’re not currently taking advantage of this feature, or your current systems do not support it, now is a great time to take action and stop missing out!

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Web-based software - the future is now

The internet is a wonderful thing.

In our opinion, truer words have never been spoken. It opened up a vast new world of information, communication and of course, opportunity. You don’t even have to look very far to see people jumping on-board and making the most of this wonderful medium.

TradeMe

TradeMe - a runaway success story in it’s own right - has allowed anyone to extend their reach to all of New Zealand. Thousands of us - from stay-at-home mum’s to small businesses to large enterprises - are listing our products on TradeMe every day, joining in what has become the largest marketplace in New Zealand.

TradeMe is as successful at is is because it’s founders embraced the internet and learned how to get the most out of it.

Snipesoft

At Snipesoft, we do too.

While some software developers decided to stick with classic desktop based software, we knew the future is on the web. We don’t think it makes much sense trying to work with fresh new ideas in a legacy environment. When developing our flagship product - OMINS - we knew there could be no other way. One web-based system (OMINS) integrating with another (TradeMe) - what could fit better?

All of us at Snipesoft have a lot of experience with web-based development, and this has given us the unique ability to better understand TradeMe and how it works. Often, the best solution isn’t the most obvious one and our understanding of TradeMe allows us to avoid some common problems that tend to affect other developers.

Web-based development has given us so many great benefits. For example:

• TradeMe changed something? No worries! We can quickly update our software and you see the changes instantly - no downloading or installing necessary.
• We’re often coming up with new ways to increase sales and enhance your business. Thanks to web-based development, we’re able to quickly implement those changes and put them to work for you!

OMINS

We’ve also been able to implement many features for the OMINS system that either wouldn’t be possible, or would be unnecessarily difficult, without a centralized, web-based design.

• Fully integrated e-commerce websites - up-to-the-second accurate stock levels for all of your products
• Advanced TradeMe catalogue and information site - used up your free listing allowance? No worries! Display all of your products, and let customers request an auction for any that aren’t currently listed.
• Advanced after sales checkout system - super-easy communication and sales opportunity to all of your customers.
• 24/7 fast monitored link to TradeMe - no need to waste power leaving your PC on permanently just to list an auction at a specific time, only to find your computer or internet connection crashed at the last minute.

As you can see, the web has allowed us to stay on the cutting edge of software development, and that’s where we’ll be now and into the future.

Won’t you join us?

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TradeMe Catalogue DVD listing support

Do you sell DVDs? Don’t pay bulk bulk listing fees!

OMINS fully supports listing auctions utilizing the TradeMe DVD catalogue system. When listing a DVD auction using the catalogue, TradeMe will not charge fees for going over your listing allowance.

OMINS is the only commercially available system that allows you to list using this great feature!

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Special Advanced feature for $1 reserve auctions.

We have an Advanced feature for $1 reserve auctions. This feature is designed specifically for the benefit of those using $1 reserve or low reserve product setups. The feature is fairly advanced however once understood and utilized correctly it can have large benefits to the performance of $1 reserve or low reserve products.

This feature is available to all OMINS users, however will not be accessible by default. If you list $1 reserve auctions, please tell us and so we can explain the feature and how to make best use of it and enable it for you.

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TradeMe category update… not!

OMINS users do not need to worry about TradeMe category changes. OMINS will automatically update them within seconds of detecting a change.

And of course, because OMINS is web based, the changes are just there - no need to download, update or do anything! The updates categories are just there for you to use!

We couldn’t make it easier if we tried.

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Checkout Upgrade

We’ve added a new feature to the OMINS checkouts which will help increase sales with no extra effort from you.
The OMINS checkout will now offer your customers “related products” - that is products that have been purchased alongside the original purchased item(s) - automatically! This means your customers will always be offered the most accurately related products every time they visit your checkout.

This is a fantastic way to increase revenue whilst giving extra choice to the customer. For example, one of our client has gone from selling no accessories at all to selling over $1,000 in a only 5 days! It appears for many clients this new feature alone will allow OMINS to more than pay for itself.

And of course this feature is available to anyone who uses OMINS.

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