logging in

[littlegemstx]

does anyone know if it's possible to log in, and stay logged in, for at least one whole day before having to log in again?

[acread]

Not unless you are in the store the whole time and actually doing things (clicking on things once in a while). If it stays idle it will kick you out (or more correctly ask you to reenter your login.) If you leave to another website that means you logged out. So when you come back you enter login. Try opening a second tab or browser page if you don't want to get logged out frequently and go in once in a while and do stuff.

[littlegemstx]

I've been doing that, but it's a bit of a pain when I'm trying to list, I don't type as fast as I'd like, & if I have to log back in before I finished my listing, I lose everything and have to start over. I thought typing was being active! LOL

Thank you for your time
Littlegemstx

[acread]

That sounds strange. How long are you exactly taking to finish listing one item?

Well try clicking on "update" while you are listing then. It will save what you have and you won't loose what you had.

[littlegemstx]

I have been making use of some good advice I got from thelivesandlovesofmaggiethecat, and have started adding more info about the gemstones I use, and sometimes I have to look them up from my supplier.

It takes too much time to do it as I'm listing, so in the future I'll just start keeping a list as I make my bead orders, and refer to that.

It does not help any, that sometimes I'm doing more than one thing at a time while I'm listing.....cooking , washing clothes, letting the dog in and out of the house, answering the phone....you get the idea. Like my DH says "I am woman, hear me roar"!

[acread]

Try creating a listing quickly with only a word or two in the description, check Hide. And list. Then you can go back later, click on edit button and change things, add description, image what not. And everytime you have to leave the computer just click on the "update" so it gets saved as it is. This way you won't loose what you did. when the listing is ready for customers just remove the Hide and update.

You can also make use of the "copy" feature to speed things a bit. Keep the similar parts and edit whatever is new in the new listing.

[maggiethehousecat]

Getting the boot happens frequently for me. It just did and I was writing a 2 sentence reply to a forum topic. Since not that many people complain about it I think it is more my ISP than eCRATER however this is the only place it happens.

I tried to respond to a seller in trouble the other day and spent quite a bit of time writing a reply, forgot to save it to clipboard before clicking enter and not only got the boot but when I resigned in I couldn't back page to what I had written. Usually here you can do that. When you get the sign in page again, sign in, then back page 3 times and you will get your work back again....usually.

[littlegemstx]

Thanks for the good info.

I don't even mind that it may take a while before I make my first sale...I can use the time getting used to how ecrater works. It's not really that hard, just different than what I'm used to with ebay. I'm a little nervous about my first sale here, never having gone through the checkout system here yet, but I know there's good people here to help if needed.

I still have my store there, but I list as cheaply as I can, because of all the fees. I hope to do well here and move everything to this store. I must say, it is a lot easier to get help here than "you know where".

Many Thanks,
littlegemstx

[thelivesandlovesofmaggiethecat]

Do a practice purchase from your store and stop before you pay or have a neighbor purchase while you watch.

[SheilaDeesPostcards]

[ZanesPlace]

I can't log in, even if I got through eCrater's main page. I get a "Navigation to webpage canceled" ...what's going on????

[acread]

[ZanesPlace]

Thank you....I tried this morning and it worked fine so not sure what was going on.