Discussion Page - Idea 64
#64: Merchant's Inventory
This is a plug-in for retail websites.
Every retail website should have a way of exporting a plain Excel spreadsheet with their inventory or list of services. This would detail the infinite product or services variations, the prices, and optionally the stock quantities.
It sould be generated straight from the software the vendor uses to manage stock; this idea does not propose that someone will be typing all that daily.
This spreadsheet should also be standarized by each sector. That means that no matter if you are opening from store A or B you will quilckly locate the same information in both of them.
I just feel it would really ease things. It is possible to enter and browse a website, and don't find what you are looking for, even though it is there. That should make any vendor get shivers down the spine.
It is also possible to be so overwhelmed with fancy ad words and pictures that you can't even tell what the store sells properly.
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