What is Discogs?
Discogs, according to them, is a home for discovering music. It’s an extensive music and release Database connected to your personal Collection. It’s the venue for your lists and your guidebook to the world of collecting music. It’s a worldwide Marketplace with millions of titles where music enthusiasts gather, trade, transact & form communities.
Why Discogs?
There are various marketplaces where music sellers tend to sell their records, cds & other formats. Discogs’ huge database which has over 12 million releases tends to be a treasure trove for music sellers. From seamless user experience during the creation of a listing for sale which is done within a few clicks to smooth user friendly site navigation for customers, Discogs has become the go-to-marketplace for customers when it comes to selling music. Here’s an interesting comparison between selling music on Discogs & eBay.
How Discogs Marketplace works?
Discogs Marketplace allows you to list products by using the concept of a fixed price listing. However, Discogs does provide sellers with the option to allow customers to “Make Offers” which in turn allows customers to strike a perfect deal where both parties are satisfied. Besides that, Discogs does not charge for creation of a listing however charges a selling fee of 8% with a min amount of $0.10 to a max cap of $150 USD per sale.
When customers add something to their want list & if you’re selling the same product on Discogs, your products & any other seller who’s selling the same product will be showcased to the customer & the customer tends to buy from the same. This will bring about a battle of pricing, rating & service speeds and the most competitive seller tends to bag the deals. This however also applies to the majority of the customers who tend to search for the product they would like to purchase by selecting the same from the various listings that tend to appear on the drop down.
How to start selling on Discogs?
For starters, let’s see how to “register” an account with Discogs. You can do that checking out this article here.
Upon registration, you can list your products on Discogs. You can list single products on Discogs or you can do them in Bulk using the Discogs Quick Lister. Let’s look at efficient ways on how you can do this in the least amount of time. Read on!
Life hack to list products on Discogs easier without Release ID?
Selling on Discogs is quite easy as you’ve seen by now. Listing on Discogs might get a tad bit tricky unless you know the right tools to get the job done.
So what makes it tricky? – As you know, Discogs is home over 12million + releases and these release ID’s can be leveraged by sellers to list a product on Discogs as they hold information like title, artist, track list, images, videos, etc. The notable info here is each of these releases are associated with a Release ID.
So in order to list your products on Discogs in bulk, you need your Release ID. But most sellers tend to manually search for them & then list products. This is a really tedious task.
DisConnect’s Bulk Lister solves this problem for you. You can now list products on Discogs with only your Barcodes and DisConnect will automatically find our relevant Release ID’s. Here’s how it’s done. Using DisConnect’s Bulk Listing template, create a .csv data file in the same format with your Barcodes, Condition & Pricing (other fields are optional but highly recommended) & upload and watch as all your data will get uploaded on the Discogs Marketplace.
The unique value proposition behind the DisConnect’s Bulk Lister in comparison to the default Quick Lister on Discogs is while both tools fetch the respective release data based on Barcodes, DisConnect automatically creates your product listing on Discogs if there’s only one exact matching release for the product’s Barcode. However, the Quick Lister on Discogs will still seek your confirmation to list a product on Discogs despite all the data in your file having a perfect match with the available release on Discogs. A great deal of manual work is completely automated with DisConnect’s Bulk lister for Discogs.
Integrating your online Ecommerce store, Brick & Mortar store with Discogs?
Now that you’ve started selling on Discogs, you need to expand your reach & make your presence well-known by selling on your own personal store & promote awareness to generate additional revenue. Increasing brand awareness will most certainly help you generate additional bucks which when done right will prove to be a substantial add to your existing revenue.
The challenge of manually listing products on ecommerce stores is indeed cumbersome & usually prone to errors. Following which, ensuring your new stocks are updated across all platforms and managing your orders & inventory everytime there is an order is a really tedious task.
However, Life has never been easier with DisConnect. With DisConnect’s completely automated product sync, order & inventory management, selling on multiple channels has never been easier. Upon authenticating your channels (eg: Shopify, WooCommerce, Square POS, etc), DisConnect allows you to sync your products which you have on Discogs to all your connected target channels ensuring your products are synced across all channels.
That’s not all – DisConnect also helps you maintain your stock levels, sellers can update stock to their products on Discogs which syncs over to DisConnect or directly update the stock quantity for each product listing. Take full control of how your products sync over to your channels in terms of pricing, images, videos and customize every field & category based on your preferences so your pages are highly optimized for conversion.
Best part – your product pages are optimized for searches automatically, so customers will be able to find your products on search engines. Take complete control over the reins & completely automate your selling experience today
Expanding revenue by selling on other marketplaces?
Now that you’re selling on Discogs & other personal channels. It’s time to venture into other famous renowned marketplaces like eBay. Selling on eBay has some pros & cons compared to Discogs and there are several Discogs sellers who successfully leverage on the pros & make a huge revenue out of eBay. Here’s a guide which talks about various advantages of both Discogs & eBay.
Now that you’ve decided to increase your revenue by expanding your online presence by selling on eBay, you can do this by using DisConnect. DisConnect’s integration with eBay is deep – syncs almost every single attribute available on Discogs to eBay which provides a lot of information to a customer before they can make a purchase on eBay.
Streamline your synced eBay products by automating your product’s condition mapping, fulfillment, return & payment policy and all our parameters. Fulfillment policy aka Shipment policy can be configured to be unique different formats which will ensure optimal spending. All policies can be set up within DisConnect should you wish to create one.
The final verdict
Selling on Discogs is definitely a boon for music sellers. But unless you have the right automation tools to manage your selling on Discogs and more so on other channels which include ecommerce websites, marketplaces & POS, you will end up with a great deal of product, orders & inventory management issues. Good for us that DisConnect addresses all these problems & offers a completely customizable & automated solution for Discogs sellers to get rid of the cumbersome manual tasks by making your selling experience delightful.
