Price and stock monitoring
How Droopify keeps Inventory listings in line with the supplier's product with Price Monitoring and Stock Monitoring.
Stock Monitoring
Droopify periodically checks the supplier's product of every tracked listing.
- If the product can no longer be bought, or its shipping times exceed the store's Maximum delivery days, the listing becomes Out of Stock: the quantity on eBay goes to 0 and the listing stays published.
- When the product is available again, the quantity on eBay goes back to the Default Quantity.
- The reason appears in red under the row in the Inventory.
If Stock Monitoring is off, the listing's availability no longer changes when the supplier's does.
Price Monitoring
When the supplier's price changes, Droopify recalculates the selling price on eBay keeping the profit you set: Profit Percentage or Unit (Fixed profit), Price Cents, VAT (%) and eBay fees. The Purchase Price includes the supplier's shipping costs, if any.
If Price Monitoring is off, the selling price stays fixed even when the supplier changes price: check the Profit column, which may become low or negative.
Where the settings come from
| Setting | Where to change it for the whole store | Where to change it for one listing |
|---|---|---|
| Price Monitoring, Stock Monitoring, Default Quantity | The store's Prices & Stock tab (eBay Stores) | Price tab of the edit popup (Edit a listing's price and quantity) |
| Profit rules, cents and VAT | The store's Prices & Stock tab | Price tab of the edit popup |
| Maximum delivery days | The store's Prices & Stock tab | Can't be changed for a single listing |
To change several listings at once use Edit Listings (Bulk edit listings).
Manual changes and (Edited)
When you change some fields of a listing by hand, (Edited) appears next to them:
| Field changed | Effect |
|---|---|
| Availability | Droopify no longer updates it from the supplier |
| Profit Percentage, Unit (Fixed profit), Selling Price, Price Cents, VAT (%) | The listing no longer follows the store's price settings: when the supplier's price changes, the selling price is recalculated with the listing's values |
Reset Changes brings every field of the listing back to the supplier's and the store's values and turns automatic updates back on.
Notices under the row
| Notice | Meaning |
|---|---|
| "The product is out of stock because it is no longer available or has been permanently removed by the supplier" | The supplier no longer sells or ships the product |
| "The product is out of stock because the shipping times exceed the maximum days allowed by your preferences" | Shipping times exceed the Maximum delivery days |
| "Automatic stock monitoring has been disabled by you. …" | Stock Monitoring is off on the listing |
| "Automatic price monitoring has been disabled by you. …" | Price Monitoring is off on the listing |
Listings in the Untracked Inventory are not monitored until you synchronize them. If a listing is out of stock but the product is available at the supplier, see Listing out of stock.