GoImagine

[BadBob]

Yes, they need this. I added a request to their feedback to integrate with QuickBooks.

https://goimagine.sleekplan.app/?search=quickbooks

[GrampaJim]

Got my first sale on Goimagine.  It's from another member, but I will take it.   Stripe worked perfectly, Shippo - not at all.  It kept telling me someone else has that email address.  LOL

[BadBob]

11 minutes ago, GrampaJim said:

Got my first sale on Goimagine.  It's from another member, but I will take it.   Stripe worked perfectly, Shippo - not at all.  It kept telling me someone else has that email address.  LOL

I've seen several comments posted about problems with Shippo.

[GrampaJim]

Hope they get it fixed soon 

[kmmcrafts]

5 hours ago, GrampaJim said:

Got my first sale on Goimagine.  It's from another member, but I will take it.   Stripe worked perfectly, Shippo - not at all.  It kept telling me someone else has that email address.  LOL

Congrats Jim!! Glad you got that sale and hoping you get many more on there.. Really like that site.. and hoping it does well for everyone.. Love the fact that the profits go to kids charities instead of a 3rd vacation home for the CEO etc. LOL... 

Shippo didn't work too great for me either.. I haven't had another sale but now shippo shows me my sale that I had and maybe that sale helped the connection issue I had with it connecting to GI.. at least it seems to be connecting now.. ever since I processed that sale it's worked as far as I can tell.

[GrampaJim]

The Shippo mess MIGHT be my fault.  About a year or so, I signed up and started putting together "Jim's Woodshop."  Then I dropped the whole thing.  Last month when I started again, I emailed them and said, set my shop name to "Faithfulwoods" and all was well, until I tried to use Shippo and it was all confused.  LOL

[BadBob]

When you create a listing in GoImagine that is Made To Order, do you select Track Inventory or Unlimited/Do Not Track?

[kmmcrafts]

9 hours ago, BadBob said:

When you create a listing in GoImagine that is Made To Order, do you select Track Inventory or Unlimited/Do Not Track?

I haven't done any Made To Order listings on there but I suppose it would depend on how many you want to get stuck making.. While probably not likely to happen but someone could potentially order a unlimited quantity.. I think if it were me I'd do it as track inventory and then select a small quantity number that I can reasonably make in whatever my shipping time frame is.. 

For instance the 21 praying hands clock order I received.. I had a quantity limit of 5.. customer messaged me and asked about a larger quantity and then that allowed me to explain the timeframe to the customer and then once they understand that I changed the quantity as well as the "processing time" so Amazon wouldn't ding me for a late shipment.. I do get asked quite often about large quantity orders.. mostly for ornaments but I have had a couple larger wedding gift table centerpieces that someone wanted.. If I had unlimited quantity that customer probably would have just ordered them and expected them to be delivered in the 10 days I have set in my shipping profile.. so I think you're better off tracking inventory.. 

[BadBob]

I have a few things set to unlimited. These are things that I can't imagine anyone ordering so many that I could not make them in ten days. Some of them, I could make a hundred in a day if I had to.

[BadBob]

I got my first sale on GoImagine today. Two items, one that I have sold on Etsy before and has been sitting without any sales for three years. The other was one of my original Etsy listings that never sold, and I had inactivated it. It's been on GoImagine for less than a month, and it sold.

I have reactivated the Etsy and GoImagine listings as made-to-order.

[kmmcrafts]

On 11/26/2023 at 8:02 AM, BadBob said:

I got my first sale on GoImagine today. Two items, one that I have sold on Etsy before and has been sitting without any sales for three years. The other was one of my original Etsy listings that never sold, and I had inactivated it. It's been on GoImagine for less than a month, and it sold.

I have reactivated the Etsy and GoImagine listings as made-to-order.

Congrats on the orders.. The item I sold was brand new to all sites this fall.. I've also found that some things that i cannot seem to sell on Etsy does well on Amazon or other site.. etc.. 

Etsy sales have picked up for me but still not what it should be and still down around 30% from last year which was also down from the previous year about 18%.. However Amazon is kicking my behind.. sales up 84%, LOL.. so all in all, my year might not turn out too bad still even if Etsy falls off dramatically, 

[kmmcrafts]

@BadBob @GrampaJim Have either of you found anywhere that indicates what your expenses are for your orders? You would think there should be a place that shows how much money was taken for the sale.. I realize stripe takes a % for transaction fee.. Isn't GI suppose to take a % too.. I have yet to find a breakdown of how much was charged to me.. It shows my sales and income on GI and that's it. Thankfully at this point I've only had one sale.. I can do my own calculation but what a pain that would be if I was busy like Etsy or Amazon with hundreds of orders a year.. end of year taxes would be a royal pain to figure out manually.. There must be some place that has this info.. I can't imagine sellers that's been there hasn't requested or complained about it by now, LOL

[BadBob]

7 hours ago, kmmcrafts said:

Have either of you found anywhere that indicates what your expenses are for your orders?

I've gone through both dashboards, and if it is there, I can't find it.

Edited November 28, 2023 by BadBob

[kmmcrafts]

I finally asked on the FB group.. I swear I've seen people on the group a few months ago showing a screenshot of their fee asking if it was correct.. as it seemed too high.. which is one reason I've been searching for it.. 

[BadBob]

I posted the same question on Maker Circle and sent it to support.
 

They need to integrate with QuickBooks.

I did not use Shippo to ship my order. There might be something there if I had. I used Pirateship.

 

Edited November 28, 2023 by BadBob
added info

[GrampaJim]

Yes, it is kind of muddy.  I got the notification of the sale amount from Stripe, than a couple of days later the deposit from Stripe and thought the difference was more than I expected.  Since I used Pirate Ship for the label, (and they billed me directly)  that can't be it.  

And as I was writing this the light went on - The difference was my monthly fee.    Still they need to made things clearer! 

[kmmcrafts]

3 hours ago, BadBob said:

I posted the same question on Maker Circle and sent it to support.
 

They need to integrate with QuickBooks.

I did not use Shippo to ship my order. There might be something there if I had. I used Pirateship.

 

 

55 minutes ago, GrampaJim said:

Yes, it is kind of muddy.  I got the notification of the sale amount from Stripe, than a couple of days later the deposit from Stripe and thought the difference was more than I expected.  Since I used Pirate Ship for the label, (and they billed me directly)  that can't be it.  

And as I was writing this the light went on - The difference was my monthly fee.    Still they need to made things clearer! 

Well on the FB group someone said the info was in the stripe account.. I went to hunting around and found it is in there... You have to click on the order details and then a page shows the charges but only shows the full fee charge bundled together... However if you hover the mouse over the ( i ) it shows a breakdown of the cost.. I screenshot the page but cropped out just the one section to hide any personal info.. see the photo.. 

Not a very easy method for keeping track of things.. Maybe at the end of the year they'll have a totals breakdown to download? or maybe it's there now in the stripe dashboard somewhere? I don't know but this will work for the time being I suppose.. Just not a very easy process..

[BadBob]

We will have to do a manual entry for each transaction.

[kmmcrafts]

5 hours ago, BadBob said:

We will have to do a manual entry for each transaction.

Honestly, for tax purposes it really doesn't have to be broken down into what fees went to who.. but they do need to see the total expense and income.. doesn't really have to be broke down like that.. but that said I like to break it all down for my own expense and income reviewing to see if there is something that can be cut back on to make more on the income side, LOL.. 

I don't think we need to have GI integrated to quickbooks.. but I think having stripe integrated is needed as they are the one that has all the expense breakdown.. Kinda like PayPal.. I have it integrated.. I bet on stripe you can integrate this activity into quickbooks.. I haven't had time to look into this but I bet this is where you need to do the integration at.. 

[BadBob]

I found a page where Stripe has a method to download a file you can import to Quickbooks. If you search for Quickbooks, you will find it.

[GrampaJim]

Fellow Goimagine AND Etsy sellers - Do you price the same item at the same price on both platforms?  I was just wondering..........

TIA

Jim

[BadBob]

55 minutes ago, GrampaJim said:

Fellow Goimagine AND Etsy sellers - Do you price the same item at the same price on both platforms?  I was just wondering..........

TIA

Jim

Yes, for the most part.

[kmmcrafts]

I sort of do, ... meaning yes my base price is the same across all sites I sell on.. Amazon takes a flat 15% so the most expensive to sell on.. ( sort of... but when you add listing fees etc to other sites it's not too far from the 15% ) they also require you not to sell cheaper on any other platform you may sell at, so all my prices are the same.. however I never run a sale on Amazon, don't even know how to do it as the site is so old school and clunky to use I don't even have all my offerings on there yet.. even though I've been on there for 5 years or more. Anyway I do run sale offerings etc through the other sites..

Amazon was always more of a back-up plan for me to step right in and run that store should Etsy randomly shut me down as you read they do sometimes.. Plus many times they are slow because they change the search algorithms etc.. ( this year for me ) as I believe they recently done this year.. Normally I outsell on Etsy over any other site.. This year Amazon ( with only 1/3 the listings ) has out sold Etsy by 50% or more.. Normally that is the other way around and expected because of the offerings quantity.. I've never promoted or even tried to sell on Amazon short of just putting my things on there.. I don't even put any tags etc in my listings, LOL  

While one site might be cheaper fees etc.. so it seems you could offer lower prices you also have to consider the time spent bringing in traffic.. I love goimagine, however I would not want to be a busy seller on there because the time it takes to process orders, bookkeeping isn't streamlined so there is more work on my end.. shipping isn't done right through the site and payment processing is through another site etc.. that is still time.. time is money and money is time.. You get what you put into selling on some sites.. 15% on Amazon is a lot but then I don't do very much effort to do anything there either.. no listing fees to deal with.. I have things on etsy that haven't sold in 5+ years yet those $0.20 listing fees to keep them on is costing.. 

I just finished packing 18 orders from sales overnight on Amazon.. This morning I had a whopping 4 orders on Etsy.. They flipped as that was the other way around in years past.. 

[GrampaJim]

I am planning on about a 10% increase in my prices real soon, so that got me thinking about both platforms and price.  Only had on sales on Goimagine so far, but I only started the end of October.  

[kmmcrafts]

I've only had the one sale on there too... I've been torn whether to put my dot.com site to goimagine or not.. I don't like the added work of bookkeeping and how payment and shipping processes work off site.. creates a bigger responsibility and workload for a seller.. I know improvements are coming.. My website now is through shopify and people can order directly through social sites without having to go to my website so there is a lot of features on my website that isn't offered on goimagine.. Shopify is pricey but again, time is money and paying those features take a lot of workload off of a one man operation.. I guess I just have to weigh my options.. I'll be staying with goimagine and grow with them.. just not sure how much effort I'll push to make that happen until more features come along.