Why it's hard to do by hand
A parts department changes stock all day: counter sales, service work orders, receiving. If Amazon and eBay quantities are typed in by hand, they drift, and a marketplace sale of a part you just sold at the counter means a cancellation and a hit to your seller metrics.
- Quantities have to follow Lightspeed, not a spreadsheet
- Prices have to cover marketplace fees and shipping without going under MAP
- Orders have to land in Lightspeed so the sale is invoiced and stock is relieved
How Dealer Portal does it
- Lightspeed is the source of truth. Parts and stock are read from Lightspeed. Quantities in Dealer Portal are read-only, so nothing overwrites your DMS.
- Channel switches per product. Turn Amazon, eBay and your parts website on or off for each SKU.
- Pricing rules. Set the marketplace fee %, shipping, minimum margin and minimum profit. Prices start at MAP or MSRP and only rise when fees and shipping would cut profit below your floor.
- Amazon approval queue. New Amazon items are matched to an existing ASIN or drafted as a new product, and wait for your approval before anything goes live.
- Stock held for open orders so a part already sold on one channel isn't sold again on another.
- Channel checks flag price mismatches, quantity mismatches and failed pushes.
- Orders into Lightspeed EVO. Amazon, eBay and website orders arrive in EVO Web Orders. EVO acknowledges, sells or cancels items and posts shipments back.
- Tracking goes back to Amazon and eBay when you ship from Dealer Portal.
What you need
- Lightspeed EVO with Web Orders turned on for your store (Lightspeed enables it)
- An Amazon Seller Central account and an eBay seller account
- Your pricing rules: fees, shipping cost and the profit you won't go below