It’s honestly appalling to me that arguably the biggest selling point/feature of a Pro subscription is the supposed ability to SYNC the inventory and listings in GarageSale app between multiple Macs because it is just ABSOLUTE GARBAGE!!!
I’m not going to go into details here about WHY it’s GARBAGE - if you’ve tried it, you know - and judging from the number of unresolved complaints and threads about this horrible broken syncing feature on this forum, I know I am not alone. I’ve gone back and forth and around in circles with Christian and the bottom line is simply this: GARBAGESALE…. excuse me, GARAGESALE is DATED/ANTIQUATED and needs to be retired. Why this program has not moved to the CLOUD is absolutely beyond me. If the stupid inventory were just in the cloud instead of stored locally on each machine, then they would ALWAYS be in sync without the need for this hideous syncing disaster that just DOES NOT work.
Now that I got that out of my system, here is the reason I am writing this post:
I am officially terminating my business’s reliance on GarbageSale as our inventory management platform because it just doesn’t work. (If anything, it makes our computers more OUT OF SYNC by doing everything wrong and creating conflicts where there shouldn’t be.)
So, I ask:
DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR CLOUD-BASED INVENTORY MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE? We signed up for 3DSellers last month to manage/create our listings and I’m sure it likely does an excellent job at managing inventory as well, I just need to figure that part out. However, before I do, is there any great web-based inventory management software I should check out to replace GarbageSale before going all-in with 3DSellers?
Thank you in advance for reading this and for any ideas that you all might have.
I expect that this thread will likely be flagged and removed, so hopefully I get a couple of answers before that happens…. (everything I said though is 100% absolutely true, syncing is total garbage and this system IS antiquated - time for GS to retire or move to the cloud….)
While I fully agree syncing is not done well at all [I will re-visit it when my super slow DSL connection finally gets upgraded to fiber - they installed the wiring on my property in June 2025, but have yet to “turn it on”], I will say that I for one am very happy the app is local. If I wanted to use “cloud” eBay management, I’d just use the eBay website. Having a local app running on my Mac gives me access to things their website would not allow - eg: just today I was able to quickly process a ton of listings to update their country of origin thanks to 1) the GS developers and 2) the fact that GS allows us to run local javascript. You can not bulk edit that, nor run custom JavaScript on eBay’s website. You’re beholden to whatever interface and features the website wants you to have. Endicia for Mac, for example, allows me to automate several processes that I can not do on the Endicia/Stamps website; and if they ever stop maintaining the Mac app, being forced to use their website with all the horizontal scrolling and such - I would quickly change to a different vendor for my postage.
While the GS app does have its quirks, it is properly maintained, improved upon, and overall increases my productivity vs using something cloud based.
To give another example of a solution to go with @Vaguery ‘s:
I have a plan on 3dsellers for two main automatic tasks: automated messages and syncing ebay to Shopify inventory. It costs me 150$ every single month and I still not added some features for over 50$/month (or more) if you need to centralize customer support. It mainly works good for those daily tasks that need to be automatized running 24H/D, but it is simply a total pain if you want to manage orders and create listing from there. GS is irreplaceable for doing these last tasks and its strong point is exactly what you are complaining about, which is the desktop based interface. It mainly depends on what you are doing (and the amount of work you do) and the way you are use to work. My suggestion is to use GS for the REAL work (creating listings and managing incoming orders) and leave anything else to a cloud app like 3dseller that will work on its own in the background. I have 5 Macs in the office and only one has active listings. It’s always switched on and it is the archive of running listings. Other 4 Macs only need to create listings and I will never substitute GS with anything else because simply there is not another website or tool that can perform like it. You can try to look for it, but you won’t find.
