New Features: Inventory Notification by Email, and Customizable Product Data

If you ask any of our affiliated retailers to list their top five Doba-related pain points, you’ll hear about items going out of inventory without any advance warning, as well as the sheer number of people attempting to sell many of the same products with the exact same product titles and descriptions. Today, I’m pleased to announce that we’ve made significant strides with respect to both issues. Doba members can now easily customize product title, description, weight, dimension, and more; and, by accessing the new and improved Watchlist, receive updates about product inventory by email.

In today’s post, I’m going to walk you through these changes, which we feel will ultimately make your Doba experience more pleasant and profitable. To get started, let’s first take a look at the new watchlist notification feature, which essentially allows you to receive updates about products within your Doba Watchlist via e-mail.

As you’ll see from the screen capture below, along with adding new functionality, we’ve spiced up the look and feel of certain parts of the Watchlist page:

As you can see, we’ve changed the “View” and “Export” buttons to icons, which are denoted above by binoculars and an arrow. The new addition — the one that allows you to receive email updates about inventory levels — can be accessed by clicking the Gear icon, which opens your Watchlist preferences as seen below.

Once inside Watchlist Preferences, there are many email notification options to choose from. For instance, you can choose to receive inventory level email notifications once or twice a day, and you can even specify what time of the day you’re to receive each one. When using this feature, keep in mind that all times listed on screen are Mountain Standard Time, so be sure to adjust accordingly.

You can also customize the conditions under which you receive updates (i.e., when the supplier’s inventory of the product falls below a certain quantity level, or when the product status changes to “out-of stock” or “discontinued”). As a result, you — the Doba-affiliated online retailer —  should no longer experience what was once a common frustration of selling items only to find out that they had been discontinued or gone out of stock without your knowledge.

You can manage your Watchlist notification preferences from the main Watchlist page by clicking on the gears icon in the right hand column of the page, as well as from each individual Watchlist page itself, as shown below.

We hope you’ll agree that managing a Doba watchlist is now easier than ever. Still, in the weeks to come, we will be creating and publishing a multimedia tutorial that takes members through the step-by-step use of these new features. Stay tuned for an announcement about the tutorial (we’ll post news about it here on the blog and mention it in our monthly eNewsletter and the Elite Seller Report).

The next big change I want to cover is the custom data product feature that gives you the ability to enter your own personalized product information for the more than 1.5 million items in the Doba’s catalog. For this particular platform enhancement, we have completed and published (in the member’s area of the site) a detailed multimedia tutorial. For those of you wanting just the highlights, here’s a quick overview:

When visiting a Doba product page, you’ll now notice some minor but important changes.

As you can see from the image above, there are now four action buttons, including: Watch, Push, Edit, and Order. The newly added “Edit” button allows you to edit specific product data that previously was un-editable outside of our Push To Marketplace tool. Clicking the Edit button will take you to a custom data worksheet displaying the original data on the left and customizable fields on the right, as shown below:

Using the fields on the right, you can now input custom data. Once you have gone through all of your changes, simply click the “Save Changes” button and your changes will be reflected on the product page.

For this particular product (shown above), the title and price were modified, and you can clearly see the changes in both the Title and Price fields. There is also a yellow highlighted section that allows you to see that you have indeed modified the product data, as well as an “Edited” icon. From the product page, you can now click on either the Edited icon or the green “Edit” button under the product description to return to your custom data worksheet to make additional changes.

For more information on this new feature, login to your Doba account, click the “Education” tab in the top navigation bar, and watch the Custom Product Data multimedia tutorial.

That’s all for today. I hope you take the time to explore these new platform features. If you have any questions, please contact Doba Support by calling 1-877-321-3622.