The comparison you were going to do anyway
A spreadsheet, one marketplace, a web shop, or Worldwatch. Compared on what actually costs you time.
Luxembourg Gardens
1906
William James Glackens
How the alternatives compare
Read down the column you are on today.
| How the alternatives compare, capability by capability | A spreadsheetThe stock list you keep in Excel or Numbers. | One marketplaceEverything run from a single marketplace's own back office. | Your own web shopA product that publishes your own site and nothing beyond it. | WorldwatchOne record per watch, published out to the channels you already sell on. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Where the watch lives | In a row, with what you typed. The photos and the purchase invoice are somewhere else. | In the listing. A watch you have not listed there does not exist. | As a shop product, with the reference and what you paid bolted on, if at all. | In one place: reference, specs, photos, what you paid, who sold it to you and the invoice. Every listing reads from it. |
| Selling in more than one place | You retype the watch into each site. | Not what it is for. A second marketplace means doing it all again by hand. | Your own site, and anything else by hand. | List once and it goes to eBay, Shopify, WooCommerce, Wristler and Bezel. |
| Taking it down when it sells | You remember, or you sell it twice. | Handled, on the one marketplace there is. | Handled on your own site. Anywhere else is yours to remember. | Mark it sold and it comes off every marketplace in the same step. It will not let you finish while a listing is still live. |
| What the margin is measured against | Whatever you typed in the cost column, assuming you keep one. | Sale price and that marketplace's fees. What you paid for the watch is not theirs to know. | Order totals. What you paid is with your accountant. | What you paid, when, to whom, and the invoice are with the watch, so the margin is real, not a guess. |
| Orders and their paperwork | A folder of PDFs named after the buyer, mostly. | That marketplace's orders only, the way they present them. | Your own site's orders. Marketplace sales stay where they happened. | What you sold and what you bought, with the invoice, credit note, tracking and insurance certificate on each deal. |
| Numbers you can price against | Whatever you are willing to build with a pivot table. | How you did on that marketplace, which is not the same thing as your business. | Visitors and revenue on your own site. | What you made per brand, what is sitting too long, and where your sales came from, including the ones you made elsewhere. |
| Commission on what you sell | None, and no buyers either. | That marketplace’s own rate on every sale it settles. | Usually none beyond payment processing. | None on the Worldwatch dealer marketplace. A sale on eBay or Wristler still pays their fee; Worldwatch adds nothing on top. |
| Getting your existing stock in | It is already there, in the shape you invented. | Your listings are the stock, and whether you can take them with you is their decision. | A product export, in shop shape. | We read your stock from a marketplace, a spreadsheet or your own website, show you everything we found, and change nothing until you say so. |
The alternatives are categories rather than named products, because what any given platform does changes without telling us and one stale cell discredits the whole table. No rate is quoted here for the same reason. The marketplace commissions Worldwatch can state are on the pricing page.
What switching actually involves
- From a spreadsheet
- We read the spreadsheet you already keep, you tell us which column is which, and you see every watch before any is added. What you gain is a calm, structured feeling and buyers in five places.
- From one marketplace
- Keep it. Connect it, and add the others your buyers use. That marketplace goes on charging what it charges, and Worldwatch adds nothing on top; what changes is that the cost, the supplier and the margin stop living only in your head.
- From a web shop you already run
- Worldwatch does not replace it. Your Shopify or WooCommerce shop stays exactly where it is; what moves is everything behind it.
Who should stay on the free plan
The free plan is the spreadsheet, done properly: every watch, what you paid, photos and papers in one place, for as long as you want. Some dealers should stay there.
- Your stock is small and stays small
- If you turn over a handful of watches a year, retyping them is not what your week costs. Keep your stock on the free plan and leave it at that.
- You sell in the shop and nowhere else
- Listing online is most of what Starter pays for. If buyers walk through the door and nothing goes online, stay free until that changes.
- You sell to a closed book of clients
- Keeping your clients and their history in one place is useful, and the free plan has it. Pay when you want those clients, and new ones, to see your stock online.
Setzen Sie Ihren Bestand in Bewegung
Bring in what you already hold, connect a marketplace, and see what moves. Free to start, no card needed, and selling to other dealers here costs no commission.
Noch Fragen? Fragen Sie uns, und wir gehen es mit Ihrem eigenen Bestand durch.