Auction Publishing 

Use

Sellers can use the selling via eBay® (SVE) application to publish auctions for listing on eBay®.

After you have published an auction and a bid has been made, you cannot remove the listing from eBay®, so be sure to check your auction data carefully before publishing.

You can publish an auction from the following places in the SVE application:

·        Auction Management ® Create Auctions ® Summary

·        Auction Management ® Monitor Auctions

·        Auction Management ® Manage Queue

Prerequisites

You have created and saved the auction you want to publish. For more information, see Auction Creation.

Activities

Scheduling Publishing

You can publish auctions immediately or schedule them to be published. Scheduled auctions are published by the system automatically, according to the scheduling task defined by your administrator. For more information, see Task Scheduling.

As a seller, you can set a publishing date for an auction, but the actual publishing date depends on how your administrator has set up the Publish Auctions task. For example, if your administrator has set up the task to publish auctions on the 10^th of each month, and you choose May 15 as the auction publishing date, the auction will not be published until June 10.

On June 10, the Publish Auctions task runs and publishes all auctions to be published on June 10 and all auctions with publishing dates between the last run and this run.

Managing the Publishing Queue

Choose Auction Management ® Manage Queue. Auctions can have one of the following statuses:

●     Unpublished

If an auction is no longer valid, you can remove it from the publishing queue. Choose Schedule or Publish, select the auctions, select Remove from Publishing, and choose Apply.

●     Publishing failed

Before you can publish an auction with this status, you must correct the errors.

●     Scheduled

Displaying the Quotation in the Back-End System

When you publish an auction on eBay®, your back-end system automatically creates a quotation to reserve the products, and assigns an item number to the auction. You can find the quotation ID on the Monitor Auctions page under General Details. The item number is displayed on eBay® in the auction listing.

You can display the quotation in your back-end system using the quotation ID or item number.

●     SAP CRM

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                            a.      In the SAP menu, choose Sales ® Maintain Sales Transactions.

                            b.      Enter the item number in the Ext. Reference field, or choose Open Business Transaction and enter the quotation ID in the Transaction No. field.

●     SAP ERP

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                            a.      In the SAP menu, choose Logistics ® Sales and Distribution ® Sales ® Quotation ® Display.

                            b.      Enter the quotation ID in the Quotation field, or enter the item number in the Purchase Order No. field.

After an auction has been closed with a winner, the back-end system creates an order referring to the quotation. This order has the same ID as the quotation.