Inventory screen within LinnLive allows you to see all the items you have in your inventory in Linnworks. Here you can search, browse, edit your stock items, as well as create listings and adjust them.
From the Inventory screen you can see which items are listed on your selling channels and if listings have templates in LinnLive.
To show all your items, click Search button. The system will load the list of items you have in your inventory. Maximum 500 items can be shown per page. You can browse through the pages from the bottom part of the screen.
Columns on the right hand side of the Inventory grid provide information about your listings on each selling channel integrated in LinnLive. Moving mouse over column header of each Channel will bring up a tooltip with the following information: Source – the name for the channel. SubSource – the account on the channel. Stock from location – location where the stock level is derived from. |
Regular search lets you look for an item either by its SKU or by its title. Extended Search window has more options (Fig. 4.1).
Extended search will open, if you click down-arrow in the Search field.
Clicking green plus symbol under Product details or Extended properties enables searching by item details or its extended properties. Full list of product details and extended properties which can be chosen as a search criteria is provided in the respective drop down menu. Note: you can choose several Product details and Extended properties to be included in search by clicking the plus symbol several times.
Ticking Show only changed products check box will display only items, whose details have been edited (in Listing Descriptions tab) but not updated on the channel yet. Such items have three exclamation marks next to their SKU and one exclamation mark next to the number of listings listed on a specific channel (Fig. 4.2). Note: If after changing item details you do not update the listing, the item will be marked with exclamation marks for 7 days only. After that exclamation marks will be removed by the system.
If you want to save the search criteria you used in Extended Search window, give your search a name and save it. This will allow you to use the same search later without having to specify all the criteria once again. Clicking filter symbol next to each column title will open up menu containing the list of all values existing within this column (Fig. 4.3). |
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Right-clicking on item title brings up a menu with the following options:
Copy- copies the title of the item.
Edit Item- opens a separate window where stock item details are recorded. This information can also be found in Linnworks Inventory.
In LinnLive these item details are grouped and represented in 4 tabs (Fig. 6.1):
Description - contains your stock item details and pictures. If Is main check box (Fig. 6.2) is ticked next to the image, then the image will be the first in the list of your product images in LinnLive, and by default will be set as the main image for your listing. Postage Definition - contains default postage details, weight and measurements of the package, as well as the packaging group the item belongs to. Box with default units of weight used in your system is contoured in red (Fig. 6.3). Listing Descriptions - If you want to adjust a listing, information for adjustment will be taken from this section. More information about adjustments can be found in How to adjust a listing? section. Extended Properties - here you can add, delete and edit extended properties of the item. |
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Adjust Prices
This option allows you to adjust the selling price of the selected item on different channels. Here you have the following options:
Adjust Listings
Here you can adjust listings on the selected or all selling channels. The following can be updated in the listing from this menu (Fig. 8.1):
Right-clicking a cell under the channel column brings up menu which allows you to do the following:
Copy - copies the number.
Edit Selected - opens the Listings screen (window where you can see the selected listings' details). Depending on the channel where the items are listed, respective window will be opened.
Show All Errors - opens a page where all listings with errors on current channel are listed.
Create Listings (is not available, if there is an error with the listing and it is highlighted in red, or if it is busy and is highlighted in grey) - opens up a list of configurators that you can choose from to create listings.
Note: If you have specified a configurator in the item's extended properties (option is available only for eBay), or you want to choose different configurators for different listings, you should choose Create Listings Without Configurators option. This will open the Listings Screen where templates for each listing will be displayed. If there was a configurator specified in extended properties, it will be picked up by the system. You will have to hit Create button against the template to create a listing.
Price Adjustment - offers the same options as Adjust Prices but for selected channel only.
Listing Adjustment - offers the same options as Adjust Listings but for selected channel only.
eBay and Amazon listings have an additional option Update Images. It should be used when the listing image has to be changed. In order for it to be changed extended property EBAY_IMAGE1 (or AMAZON_IMAGE1) has to be specified for the product. This extended property should contain image URL as value. During adjustment Update Images box has to be checked for EBAY_IMAGE1 to be used as the listing image.
Instant Adjustments offers the following 4 options:
Adjust Prices - will adjust price on the channel. This implies that price for the channel has been changed but have not been updated yet.
Adjust Titles - will adjust title on the channel. This implies that title for the channel has been changed but has not been updated yet.
Adjust Descriptions - will adjust item descriptions on the channel. This implies that description for the channel has been changed but has not been updated yet.
Adjust Prices + Titles + Description - will adjust all mentioned parameters.