Although OMINS updates categories automatically the instant it detects a change, there is still the task of updating your products to match the new categories.  We understand this can take a bit of time, so we thought of how to best solve the problem…

We considered providing a list of changed categories to help customers adjust their products, but decided that just providing a list isn’t good enough.

So instead, we’ve devised a way to automatically correct your products when this happens.   This means that whenever Trade Me makes a category change, OMINS will automatically adjust your products to match up with the new categories and your products will continue listing without a hitch.

We’ll implement this feature within the next week, so next time a category change happens you probably won’t even notice!  In the mean time, we’ll run the script manually to update everyone’s categories due to this change so everyone’s products will continue to list.

Just another way OMINS saves you time.

Often you want to know how many items a tab (“section”) contains.  For example, how many sales does this product have?  How many auction rules are set up?

Previously you’d need to go into each tab to find this information out.  To avoid this, we’ve made a small change which now shows the count on the tab itself so you can see at a glance how many items are in that tab.

Just a small change, but a nice step forward for usability.

This is why we’re happy to announce that we have now upgraded our infrastructure to 64 bit, allowing us to take advantage of the newest server technology and keep up with the growing demand.

What this means for you, the OMINS customer, is that you will continue to receive the same high-speed access to your system, and indeed should notice a speed increase on the heavier features such as advanced reporting.

It also means you can feel good knowing you’re trading on the cutting-edge. Quite an exciting place to be, we think.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This re-enforces it’s position as the easiest to use and most secure checkout system available for the New Zealand e-commerce market.

This is just part of our continuous effort to improve and refine the customer experience when using OMINS-based services.