Did Sku Grid Shut Down? Who's Next and How To Fix It!

Stu grid has just announced that they are shutting down their software for an undetermined period of time what does this mean for the eBay dropshipping community and more importantly what does it mean for you find out in this video so if you're not familiar with skew grits skew grid is a software that connects your eBay account to other websites like walmart. com so that if the price changes on Walmart is also going to change on your eBay listing as well now this is similar to other repricing softwares that other eBay dropshipping is such as DSM tool but for about a week now skew grid has been having some issues with their software they emailed everyone a week ago to let them know that the normal way that it connects with their eBay accounts wasn't working correctly so skew grade created a workaround that required you as the user to go into your eBay account and sign up for what's called a developer's program I don't want to get too technical here but basically you had to get these special keys from eBay and then copy them and paste them into your SKU go to crown account and that's what then linked the two up together now apparently from what I hear that wasn't really done like a smart way so basically eBay limits how much information can be pulled and used through those keys and because of that some people started to get in trouble with the developers program or using the keys incorrectly so in response to this just a couple of days ago skew grid decided to shut down their software they don't want to risk any up there our customers getting in trouble with the developer's program so they just shut down the software now it whilst the software skew grid will still pull information from the sources website like walmart. com and give you the price that it's supposed to be on eBay based on the formula that you created but it won't actually update the price on eBay for you so the first question I have is what happened to skew grit gonna happen to every other software out there like DSM tool as far as I understand it's not going to happen I spoke to the guys over at DIA some tool i spoke to mark from no BS dropshipping who created DSGE dsm tool has assured me that they are doing the best they can to comply with eBay's rules and policies so they don't foresee that their software is going to be an issue so if you have been using skew grid one great suggestion I have for you is to switch from skew grid over to DSM tool I personally use and love DSM tool and if you want to learn how to do that there should be a video that's going to pop up right here you click on that or click on the first link underneath this video that's going to take you to another video I did that shows you how to transfer all your listings from skew grid to DSM tool is actually really easy to do so check out that video if you're interested in doing that now skew grid has assured everyone that they are working around the clock to find a solution to this and that is only a matter of time before they fix it so if you do want to stick it out with skew grid you have an option of manually updating all your items and that won't be manually going in each item and changing the price I mean using something that's called eBay's file exchange if you've never used a file exchange it's just a way for you to create a Excel document a spreadsheet and depending on what data you enter into that spreadsheet which you would then upload into eBay's file exchange eBay will make changes to your account specifically to your item prices in this case now I have a buddy of mine Dave Locke who made a really great video showing how to do this and if you want to check out that video it's the third link in the description of this video but before you do that I do want to point out a couple of things too first of all as Dave is going to explain to you you've got to create this spreadsheet and at the top of the spreadsheet the first row of it each column header has a name to it and you have to be really careful with eBay's file exchange you need to make sure that the header on each column is exactly the correct spelling and capitalization if you change the capitalization at all the file exchange will not recognize it correctly and it will not work so make sure that you use the correct heading and to make this easier for you I actually created a template for you so if you click the second link in the description of this video and just enter your email address into the website that pops up I'm going to email you a copy of this template and that email is also going to contain a link to Dave's video so that you can then follow his directions to learn how to use the file exchange the last thing I'll say is when you create a document for the file exchange and you upload it every time you upload a new document it has to have a new name

so never reuse the same name when you upload a document to the file exchange otherwise the file exchange will not accept it so check out the second link get that free template and then check out Dave's video because I think it's gonna be really helpful for you if you want to stick with stew grid otherwise I suggest moving on to another software like DSM tool again I first we use and love it I hope you guys found this helpful I'm gonna be making more videos as we learn more about what's going on with skew grid exactly what went wrong there so if you want to make sure you don't miss that video make sure you do subscribe to the channel and if you found this helpful make sure to give it a thumbs up hope you found it helpful thanks so much for watching and I'll see you next time