Q&A and Product Imports Now Available on Mainnet

Earlier today, Particl Desktop 2.1.0 was released on mainnet. This update includes all the latest Open Marketplace improvements as well as two new marketplace features: Question & Answers and Product Imports.

Questions & Answers: This feature allows you to ask and answer questions on a listed item. The questions can be answered by anyone else as well as the seller of the item. When a seller replies to a question, it is marked with a special designation so that it is obvious that it is the seller’s answer to the question. The feature isn’t unlike Amazon’s very popular Q&A section on each listed item’s page. This first version of the Q&A implementation does not currently include a notification system, but it will be part of a further update. A notification system for questions is already being worked on.

Questions & Answers

Product Imports: This feature allows you to import products and inventories from outside sources. Its first version will allow the importation of products from WooCommerce stores as well as from .csv (spreadsheet) files. This tool is designed to make it easier for sellers who are already selling online and those with large inventories to import and list their products more quickly. As all listings used to need to be added manually, one by one, this feature is going to save sellers a ton of time.

Product Imports

Get Started

Download Particl Desktop 2.0.2: https://github.com/particl/particl-desktop/releases/tag/v2.1.0

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Requirements

In order to “activate” the marketplace, you need to add a wallet named “Market” (any capitalization works). The marketplace is currently only available via the Particl Desktop on this wallet.

Notes

  • There will be an automatic update to the latest supported particl-core version, if applicable, when the marketplace is launched.
  • Your wallet needs to be unlocked in order to process buy and sell orders on the open marketplace, if the wallet is encrypted.
  • The marketplace is still in on-going development, and thus is considered to be a Beta release.
  • NB!! The source code linked to here is not the actual tagged release source code. Please contact Particl for source code information. The actual source code will be uploaded and made available after an appropriate interval of time has passed.

What’s New?

New Features

  • Inclusion of the first iteration of the Public Comments functionality, allowing for comments to be made on listings.
  • Product import functionality has been added.
  • Allows for a pre-defined reason to be selected when a bid request is being rejected.
  • The refresh button on the listings page now indicates that new listings have arrived.

Enhancements

  • Added the ability to collapse and expand sub-categories by main categories in the category dropdown selection.
  • Added the ability to select how long the wallet should be unlocked for (using the wallet unlock icon)
  • Add a quit menu option to MacOS builds
  • Terms and Conditions have been updated.

UI/UX Tweaks

  • An open marketplace enabled wallet now displays a shopping cart icon on the wallet sidebar
  • The layout for the Sell page > Add Listing page has been updated
  • Improvement made to the text to indicate that no listings are available (mostly applicable to new wallets still syncing)
  • Testnet wallets (when running on mainnet) are now longer displayed on the wallet selection sidebar

Fixed Issues

  • Refreshing the listing page on large screens, and/or resizing the application window (eg: toggling between full screen and windowed mode) now loads listings correctly.
  • Fixed a potential double bid placement.
  • Fixed an error preventing a saved template from being saved when the country value is changed.

Notes

  • There will be an automatic update to the latest supported particl-core version, if applicable, when the marketplace is launched.
  • Your wallet needs to be unlocked in order to process buy and sell orders on the open marketplace, if the wallet is encrypted.
  • The marketplace is still in on-going development, and thus is considered to be a Beta release.