Oct 5, 2009 Posted by BoxCycle

Order Management is Here!

Online order management I talked about in the last post is now live.  It’s going to enable a lot of very cool functionality in the future, but first things first.  Here is what it means today. Buyers can: Access up to date order status, status history, and order details online at any time View seller address and get directions for confirmed orders Mark orders complete after pickup or report issues... read more

Sep 24, 2009 Posted by BoxCycle

Box Order Management Is Coming Plus More Exposure for Sellers

There haven’t been many posts on the blog, but there has been quite a bit of product development happening at BoxCycle. Among the notable improvements released over the last few months is significant additional online exposure sellers now get by listing with us.  This was accomplished through improvements to our sitemap generation, addition of seller specific pages, and feeds to a variety of third... read more

Aug 16, 2009 Posted by BoxCycle

Buyer Appointment Selection Improvements

A while ago I wrote about changes to buyer appointment choice selection.  The basic idea worked well, but the initial implementation handled some situations less than ideally.  We only used the appointment start time to determine if buyer choices provide a sufficient time range when short-notice and are within seller lead time requirements. With today’s release we started to use the entire range... read more

Jul 11, 2009 Posted by BoxCycle

Sell Used Boxes Without Predictable Inventory

Sellers who receive boxes sporadically are quite common.  Ideally, we want them to store their boxes and either update their inventory manually or approximate it with an automated schedule.  But what typically happens is that boxes are stored for a short period of time and thrown out and the inventory is never updated. It’s hard to expect sellers to store boxes and remember to update inventory if... read more

Jul 7, 2009 Posted by BoxCycle

BoxCycle Makes Selling Used Boxes Easy

Most potential box sellers simply throw their boxes away (or at best recycle them) instead of letting them be reused.  Their reasons tend to be similar: lack of knowledge of other options, belief that reuse will be too time consuming, disruptive, or expensive, and lack of interest in dealing with retail consumers. Until BoxCycle these concerns would often be correct.  Although people tend to group us with... read more