I still wish we had an accessible, editable, searchable field somewhere where we could just put information we need and find it when we need it.
I admit I ask for it often, but…
(to clarify: User Properties cannot be searched or scripted, any text placed in the SKU field is pushed to eBay, the Private Notes field cannot be filtered in a Smart Group (and can’t hold more than one item or sort numerically), and the only other alternative seems to be adding it as visible text in the description.)
@ilja and others at GS: Could we just have a key:value store, string keys only, strong or integer values, associated with each Item record? It could literally just be the User Properties key/value thing you already have, except that we can’t get or set that information programmatically at all. Or it could even be a slightly better Private Comment field, which we can get and set programmatically, but cannot use in Smart Groups.
Use cases include:
- inventory location (this would be HUGELY helpful)
- purchase price
- packing weight (size of box, weight of box)
- dimensions
- acquired date
- weight
- original listing date
- notes
- post-sale info
- tax info
And yes, I know there is a “standard place” for some of these items elsewhere, for instance the weight can be set using extremely convoluted AppleScript. But the shipping weight of most items depends on their own weight, plus the expected weight of shipping supplies…
In other words, there are so many ways this sort of basic, user-entered but searchable info could be helpful for sellers.
Please.