I am very new to this site. How do I know if my booth is live for shoppers? I searched by category and did not see my listings.
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FineStyles Reputation: 10 See FineStyles' booth |
Hello @FineStyles,
Thanks for your reaching out and welcome to Bonanza!
After an item is listed on Bonanza and you have clicked “Activate Booth” or “Update Booth”, it can take up to 30 minutes for the item to be properly indexed into our databases before it can be found using the site-wide Bonanza search feature. However, the item can still be found by users who use the search option within your booth or by browsing your booth.
On rare occasions, the item can miss one of our indexing cycles and it can take 2 hours before it’s available for searching. If the item doesn’t show up within 24-48 hours, please let us know and we’ll take a closer look.
When searching for your items, you also want to make sure that you have properly set up your shipping options. For example, if you have not set up shipping to your own country and then do a site search for your items, they will not show. Our search is designed to only return results/items that are available to you based on your location. Here is a link to our available shipping [URL removed]
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If you don’t have any feedback, or if you are selling an item that hits our criteria (Electronics, expensive handbags, etc), then we will have to manually approve your booth before it can be activated. Normally we do a site wide approval a couple of times each day.
Hope that helps!
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Katyoke Reputation: 1512 See Katyoke's booth |
Load your products manually or import, once finished go to your booth if you see at the top near your booths name says you have “xxx” item but only “xxx” are published , hit publish and all your items will be active . Make sure you go through all the steps to activate your booth prior to insure they are live .
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SurrealHairBeauty Reputation: 461 See SurrealHairBeauty's booth |
There are now 8 items in your booth. There may be a delay in you or buyers seeing them when you first list them, usually shortly thereafter they are listed.
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misskeech Reputation: 1958 See misskeech's booth |
You can always check, how others see Your both by opening Your shop’s link, when You are logged out [URL removed]
Right now Your items (8) are visible to all visitors, but only in Your shop, they are not searchable on the site yet.
E.g. “Banana Republic Ladies Jacket” – 10 items from other [URL removed]
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“Anne Klein Ladies Black Shoulder Bag” – No items found. Instead, Bonanza shows “Bonus Items”:
When we don’t have many items that match your query, we automatically search our partner sites to help you find the best deal.
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Check late, if Your items are out of the indexing queue.
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ArtistsUnion Reputation: 3676 See ArtistsUnion's booth |
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