Red Ink Diary

One of Bonanzle’s most hotly anticipated features has finally been unveiled to its vivacious seller community: support for international shipping.

Buyers and sellers around the globe are now in a better position than ever to join in Bonanzle’s rapidly growing buyer base. Currently over 50% of all new visitors at Bonanzle are from areas outside of the US.

How does it work? Bonanzle sellers can now pick the countries they want to ship to and associate a flat-rate international shipping cost with those items. Bonanzle’s simplicity-first policy has given birth to an interface where the seller can set international shipping policies for one or many items in a single action. Sellers currently have the option to ship to Australia, Japan, Europe, United Kingdom, Canada, North America, South America, Germany, Mexico, and Asia. When a buyer from one of these countries finds an item they want to buy, they can purchase the item immediately and have it en route that day.

International shipping is the most recent feature called for by the Bonanzle community via the “Next-Up Improvements” page, which allows basic democratic principles to drive feature development. Once a feature has been requested several times, it is added to the Next-Up Improvements page, where it is voted on, alongside other possible improvements for the site. Since the inception of the page in September, more than 10 user-requested features have been added to Bonanzle, proof of the Bonanzle team’s single-minded focus on listening to the community and producing results.

Other recently added buyer-centric features include item wish lists, improved search relevancy, and item archiving. User-focused item recommendations are slated to be launched in mid-November.