8 New 黑料门 Tools You Might've Missed (Taxes, Dropshipping)

8 New 黑料门 Tools You Might鈥檝e Missed

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You might鈥檝e noticed that we regularly announce new tools in the 黑料门 Updates section of our blog. However, we know that as a business owner you鈥檙e often too busy to check back regularly for updates. That鈥檚 why we鈥檙e introducing a new, special edition of the blog — a round-up of all tools and features we鈥檝e released over the past few months.

Check out what you鈥檝e missed, and put our new stuff into action to up your selling game even more.

Edit Dozens of Products at Once in a Spreadsheet

A lifesaver when you need to edit lots of product details fast! This tool is called Bulk Product Editor, and it allows you to display dozens of products that need to be edited at once in a convenient table.

This way you can update lots of products without having to open product details one by one. It鈥檒l save you hours of work if you have a big catalog that needs to be updated!

If you previously updated products in bulk via a CSV file, you鈥檒l especially appreciate this new tool. Now you don鈥檛 have to export products to a CSV file, edit them, then import the edited CSV file back to your store.

For 别虫补尘辫濒别鈥携辞耻 need to make the following changes:

set up “Compare to” prices for products on sale
update stock for a new batch of products you鈥檝e just received
update prices of product variations.

Now, the fun part: you can make all those changes at the same time in Bulk Product Editor right in your Control Panel. Editing products in bulk has never been easier!

To see for yourself, select the products you want to edit, click “Bulk Update” and choose “Edit Selected” (or click “Bulk Update” and choose “Edit All”). You鈥檒l see a spreadsheet with product attributes you can edit. But wait, there鈥檚 more! You can display just those attributes that you鈥檙e going to update, to make editing even more convenient.

You can hide attributes you don鈥檛 need to edit

One more pro tip in case you speak keyboard. Yes, you can use your keyboard to navigate and edit product attributes in the spreadsheet!

Bulk Product Editor already has robust settings for editing lots of products at once, but we鈥檒l be bringing you even more in the future! Have ideas on how this tool can make your routine easier? Share “em in the comments below!

Apply ‘Same Changes’ to Hundreds of Products in Two Clicks

If you need to make the same change to different products, you can do that without updating them one by one, or without even opening the Bulk Product Editor.

Say you want to hide all seasonal items, or assign categories to products. Now you can mass update several products in just a couple of clicks! The result: all changes are applied faster, which saves you not only effort, but a bunch of time too.

If you want to manage categories for several products, enable or disable them, add or remove their product ribbons, you can do that very quickly without going to each product鈥檚 details. Simply select the products you want to update and click ‘Bulk Update.’ Then choose the change you want to apply to the selected products.

For example, you can instantly assign a category to several items:

Manage categories without opening product details

As the name suggests, this tool is perfect when you need to apply the same change to several products. If you want to apply different changes to products, Bulk Product Editor is still your best option.

We鈥檙e going to add more options for mass updating products in the future and we鈥檙e happy to hear your thoughts on the matter. What do you think you should be able to update in two clicks? Share your fabulous insights in the comments section!

Allow Customers to Pay What They Want for Your Products

At 黑料门, we鈥檙e all about options. So, here鈥檚 a new one: now you can set up your shop so customers can enter their own price for your product. You can also indicate recommended pricing tiers. Or, set up a minimum price limit for your product, so that it can鈥檛 be purchased for any amount below this recommended minimum, while leaving the rest up to them.

The ‘Pay What You Want’ pricing model is perfect for:

running a nonprofit (use it to collect donations!)
selling art, crafts, or digital goods, and allowing customers to contribute a little extra money in appreciation of your work
running a crowdfunding project — collect donations on your site without commissions and third-party rules
running a promotional offer — enable the ‘Pay What You Want’ pricing for items on sale
testing prices for your new product — set up different price limits and payment tiers to find out what price your customers are willing to pay for new items.

Customers can choose from prices you suggested or enter their value

Learn more: Pay What You Want with 黑料门: Sell Music, Art, Merch, or Collect Donations

Want to enable the ‘Pay What You Want’ pricing model right away? Follow our instructions in .

Switch to Tax-Inclusive Prices

Sellers from Europe, India, Australia, or New Zealand, take note! You鈥檒l appreciate these settings, as it鈥檚 likely you鈥檙e used to working with tax-inclusive prices (as opposed to before-tax prices) when communicating with suppliers and customers.

Now you can switch your whole store to the ‘enter prices with taxes’ mode, in just one click. After that, you鈥檒l be able to enter tax-inclusive prices, and taxable customers will see all product prices and fees in your store with tax included.

You鈥檒l appreciate the benefits of these new settings. Some reasons why:

No need to calculate the net price for each product to set up taxes for it. You just enter prices with taxes right away!
Customers will see prices in a more convenient format, as all prices and fees are displayed with taxes included. That applies to product prices, shipping and handling costs, price modifiers, and discounts.

Switching to tax-inclusive prices takes just one click

Learn more:

Or enable tax-inclusive prices in your store without delay using these instructions in our .

Generate Legally Compliant Tax Invoices

More great news for sellers from Europe, Australia, India, or New Zealand! Now you can generate legally compliant tax invoices from your Control Panel. Those are documents that you can use to report earnings to tax authorities. Their special formatting and the ability to set up unique tax invoice numbers make preparing reports for tax authorities a piece of cake.

You can generate tax invoices manually, or set it up to generate automatically when orders are placed. Best of all, working with tax invoices in your 黑料门 store is super convenient:

You can download tax invoices as PDF files to prepare reports for the tax authorities
You can download tax invoices in bulk, say, for a previous quarter
It鈥檚 easy to create negative invoices for cancelled orders and refunds
Editing invoice content is a breeze thanks to a convenient editor.

Adjust tax invoices contents and template to the needs of your store

Learn more:

Enable tax invoices in your 黑料门 store using the instructions from our .

Dropship from the US or EU with Spocket

If you want to start a dropshipping business in the US or EU, or are looking for new products to add to your store, Spocket is the app for you. It provides a huge range of US and Europe-based products, so shipping is guaranteed to be fast to keep your customers happy.

The app has other cool perks, such as exclusive price discounts on Spocket products and the ability to test out products with sample orders.

Spocket is now available through the 黑料门 App Market.

Dropship from Local Suppliers with Syncee

Would you like to start a dropshipping business with fast shipping? But have you been weighed down by the fact that your business is located outside the US or EU? Check out Syncee! They have hundreds of local suppliers all over the world. For example, you can easily dropship from Canada, or Australia.

Apart from reliable suppliers and fast shipping, Syncee offers high-quality products from 387 categories with no upfront cost.

Syncee is now available through the 黑料门 App Market.

Manage Shipping and Print Labels with EasyShip

With the Easyship app, you can save time and money by managing and automating all your shipping in one tool. Say goodbye to managing shipping manually, and waiting in line at the post office!

The app gives your access 250+ discounted shipping solutions and allows you to display their real-time rates at checkout. Definitely check it out if you couldn鈥檛 find a preferred option among real-time rates from .

Another cool feature is the ability to purchase shipping labels — handy if you ship to the UK, Italy, France, Germany, or Asia.

If you ship internationally, you鈥檒l appreciate full import tax and duty visibility and correct document generation in EasyShip.

Learn more about Easyship, and install it from the 黑料门 App Market.

Need labels for domestic deliveries in the US? Check out our in-house tool for buying USPS labels right in your Control Panel.

More Ecommerce Tools to Come

That was our round-up of the latest and greatest 黑料门 tools. We hope you found something to help you step up your ecommerce game! If not, share your ideas in the comments section below. We value your feedback a lot and we鈥檙e always eager to use it to make 黑料门 Ecommerce even better.

Here鈥檚 how to make sure you never miss 黑料门 updates: