Auctiva Launches Free Solution to Supplement eBay's Curtailed 'My Ebay' Service; 'YourBay' Helps Small Businesses Keep Records of eBay Auction Sales, While Limiting Load on eBay Servers.Business Editors and High Tech Writers OAKLAND Oakland, city (1990 pop. 372,242), seat of Alameda co., W Calif., on the eastern side of San Francisco Bay; inc. 1852. Together with San Francisco and San Jose, the city comprises the fourth largest metropolitan area in the United States. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 16, 2000 In an unprecedented show of loyalty and responsiveness to the needs of the online auction community, Auctiva (www.auctiva.com), a leading provider of Online Channel Management (OCM OCM Oracle Certified Master (database administrator certification) OCM Organization for Competitive Markets OCM Onondaga Cortland Madison (counties in New York) OCM Olympic Council of Malaysia ) solutions for online sellers, today announced the creation of "YourBay" a free service that allows sellers to keep accurate records of their eBay auction sales. Ebay's recent decision to limit the use of its "My eBay" service to 300 sale items followed its series of outages last month. YourBay provides these discontinued dis·con·tin·ue v. dis·con·tin·ued, dis·con·tin·u·ing, dis·con·tin·ues v.tr. 1. To stop doing or providing (something); end or abandon: services without putting any additional load on eBay servers, while shifting the load to Auctiva servers. For larger sellers who manage hundreds of eBay auctions at a time, this feature is critical to determining monthly sales and profits. Auctiva developed YourBay in response to urgent requests by sellers who were caught by surprise when this eBay feature was discontinued. "I couldn't believe how quickly Auctiva responded," said Christian Swartz of JamQuest.com, who lists about 10,000 products a month on eBay. "My eBay was critical to the way I run my business. I called Auctiva to ask if there was anything they could do, and within days they had me beta testing (programming) beta testing - Testing a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software by making it available to selected users. This term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the a solution!" Auctiva's CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Mark Schwartz says that Auctiva was glad to help. "With "YourBay," Auctiva reaffirms its commitment to the online auction community by providing peace of mind and alleviating traffic on eBay's servers, a step necessary to ensure uninterrupted business during the busy Holiday season," said Schwartz. Auctiva has added several new servers in preparation for the Holiday season ahead. YourBay provides an at-a-glance summary of sellers' running and ended auctions. This dynamic summary allows users to determine the current state of their online sales and analyze critical metrics metrics Managed care A popular term for standards by which the quality of a product, service, or outcome of a particular form of Pt management is evaluated. See TQM. for successful online selling. YourBay is offered as a free service for users of Auctiva's Showcase. "When eBay servers go down, everybody loses - sellers, buyers, eBay and Auctiva," added Schwartz. "Auctiva understands the symbiotic relationships This is an incomplete list of notable mutualistic symbiotic relationships, in which different species have a cooperative or mutually dependent relationship.
About Auctiva Auctiva (Oakland, Calif.) is a leading provider of multi-channel software solutions for online sellers. The company was founded in 1999 by seasoned veterans from Peoplesoft, Electronics for Imaging, and Liberate (Liberate Technologies, San Mateo, CA) A software company that specialized in the information appliance field. Formerly Network Computer, Inc. (NCI), a spin-off from Oracle in 1996, it changed its name in 1999. to provide an easy and efficient way for small businesses to become successful in ecommerce. With 40,000 registered users, Auctiva facilitates over 500,000 listings per month on eBay and other auction sites. Auctiva's Online Channel Management (OCM) services and software platform empowers online sellers to sell up to five times more merchandise by improving efficiency and simplifying the sales process A sales process is a systematic approach for performing product or service sales. The reasons for having a sales process include seller and buyer risk management, achieving standardized customer interaction in sales and scalable revenue generation. across multiple auction sites and electronic storefronts. Auctiva is privately held. Additional information can be found at http://www.auctiva.com. |
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