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Database Options & Formats For Your Books

Homebase
If you are using Homebase from ABE then you need to follow these instructions

 

1/ Start Homebase
2/ On the menu go to File - Import / Export - Export
3/ Ensure that you have the correct export criteria (i.e. changed from)
4/ Click OK
5/ Name your file "adds.csv" without quotes
6/ Select "Homebase" as the Save As Type (You may need to overtype the file extension)
7/ Save your file
8/ Use FTP to upload that file to BookLovers or log in and use the browser option.
9/ Log into the site and you will be asked whether you wish to run your updates.

 

Note. The first file that you send us should be your complete database of books for sale. That needs to be done by email and should be in the same format as above. Please also note that you can zip the file to decrease the time taken to email it. I recommend WinZIp for that purpose

 

BookList
If you are using Booklist from Clique then follow these instructions

1/ Start Booklist
2/ Click "search" on the menu
3/ Enter your criteria (usually Unsold and date criteria)
4/ Click "search" again
5/ When you have the search results (books found ###) click "export" on the menu
6/ Select Tilde Delimited for database back up as the file of type required
7/ Enter "adds" as the file name for unsold books
8/ Enter "deletes" as the file name for sold books
9/ Use FTP to upload that file to BookLovers or log in and use the browser option.
10/ Log into the site and you will be asked whether you wish to run your updates.

 

Note. The first file that you send us should be your complete database of books for sale. That needs to be done by email and should be in the same format as above. Please also note that you can zip the file to decrease the time taken to email it. I recommend WinZip for that purpose

 

Access / Custom Systems
Your file structure should be as follows, if you list at Amazon.co.uk, then you can use the same file for BookLovers.co.uk as you do there if your field order is as below.

Field Name Comment Length / Type
product-id
ISBN if known 25 Chars Text
author
 

255 Chars Text

title
  255 Chars Text
price
  10 Chars Numeric
sku
Inventory Number / Unique ID 25 Chars Text
publisher
  155 Chars Text
pub-date
Year of Publication only 100 Chars Text
binding
Hardback / Paperback / DJ 50 Chars Text
item-condition
  255 Chars Text
quantity
Either 1 or 0 1 Char (1 = For Sale, 0 = Sold) Text
item-note
Other comments 255 Chars Text
illustrator
  255 Chars Text
condition
Book and/or Jacket condition 255 Chars Text
edition
  255 Chars Text
will-ship-internationally
Not used on our system Not required
add-delete
Not used on our system Not required
Please note that the field order needs to be as above, the file should be tab delimited with no field delimiters, must include the field names on the first line and must be named adds.txt for BookMonitor (our listing program) to recognise and add / delete your books.