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Buy/Sell

You can buy or sell in MushroomsTrade in two ways:
1. Publish a buy or sell offer at MushroomsTrade.
2. Find and select companies in the MushroomsTrade directory and send them an email with your introduction, offers, trade leads, questions, or business proposals.

To publish a Buy or Sell offer at MushroomsTrade, the "Compose Offer " form must be filled in and the commodity published.
The offer will be saved in "My Catalog" and will be visible in the "Mushrooms Marketplace."
Offers can be edited in "My Catalog."

To reply to a Buy or Sell offer posted at MushroomsTrade, choose the "inquire now" option and send an email to the buyer or seller.

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This is a marketplace and directory exclusively for mushrooms - any other goods will be deleted. You can list fruits and vegetables under "product/services," "other products". Other goods can be listed in the "other products" field in your "personal profile."

You can use MT for your private business - no one else can view your private information. Users can see only what you want them to see, e.g., what you "publish."

You can use MT to keep records of your mushrooms instead of using Word or Excel documents, and from MT you can easily copy offers into emails for your clients by using the "Sandbox."

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Mushrooms Marketplace

This is the hub of the market where all the trading action takes place.

Here you can see your published offers as well as those of others:

You can use custom views to watch companies or offers.
You can see companies in either directory or market mode.
You can select and "import offer" into "my catalog."
You can select offers and view details.

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Companies Directory, Search

The Companies Directory and Search are used for selecting or searching for companies and offers.

You can select companies based on many parameters, and can search with keywords and within the official directory or just within your Portfolios.

Results can be viewed in either directory or market mode.

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Portfolios

Portfolios provide a place to store and keep track of companies and offers.

Portfolios have two functions:
1. To save contacts and companies, making them easy to work with.
2. To create groups for publishing rules and applying prices.

Portfolios enable you to:
- Use custom views to watch companies or offers.
- View companies in either directory or market mode.
- Select offers for import into your own catalog.
- Search for offers or companies and save the results to a Portfolio or Selection for later use.
- Email companies.

There are two ways to create a Portfolio:
- Click the "Create & Edit" link in the Portfolio menu.
- Click the "Settings" link, then click "Portfolio Editor."
Both will bring you to the Price/Portfolio Manager, where a new Portfolio is created by clicking the "Create New Portfolio" button.

In edit portfolio page:
"Publish rule" is safety lock so that you don't publish a buy offer to a buyer or sell offer to a seller by mistake. For example, if you choose "buy," then companies within this Portfolio will only be able to see your "buy" offers.
"Default view" is the page view/mode setting that will be used when you open this portfolio.
To edit price rules you have to click "Settings" link, then click "Price Manager."

Rules:
- Multiple Portfolios can be created, and companies can be added to or removed from them as desired.
- You may not duplicate a company within your Portfolios, e.g., a company can only be saved in one Portfolio at a time.
- If you are a free member you can save only one company in a Portfolio.
- You can apply price rules.
- You can apply publish rules.

You can add a company to a Portfolio by selecting an offer and choosing the Add Company to Portfolio option, or by selecting a company and choosing the Move To Portfolio or Copy To Portfolio option, depending on where you are.
Move To will remove the company from the current list and add it to the selected Portfolio.
Copy To will leave the company on the current list and add it to the selected Portfolio.

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Selection

A Selection is used for saving selected companies and offers. It is similar to a Portfolio, but doesn't allow rules to be applied to certain Selections, and a company can be saved in more then one Selection.

Selections are used for quick saving. Companies can be easily added or deleted, and it is simple to email companies within a Selection or see what they have available to sell.

Selections enable you to:
- Use custom views to watch companies or offers.
- View companies in either directory or market mode.
- Select offers for import into your own catalog.
- Email companies.

Rules:
- Multiple Selections can be created, and companies can be added to or removed from them as desired.
- Unlike Portfolios, you can duplicate a company within your Selections, e.g. you can have same company in more then one Selection.
- You can't apply price rules.
- You can't apply publish rules.

To save a company to a Selection:
- Choose either "Selected Companies" (check off those to be saved) or "Complete Selection" (to save all listed) from the "Save Selection" menu.
- Type the name of a Selection in the blank box to the right.
- Click Go when all options are complete.

If the Selection name does not already exist, it will be created as a new Selection.
If you have been working on a listing that has already been saved and wish to update the changes you made, enter the name of the selection currently open.
If you want to save in already existing selection, just type the name of existing selection in which you want to save and chosen companies will be added to existing list without deleting old entries.

A company can't be moved or copied from one Selection to another, but it can be saved as new Selection.

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My Catalog

My Catalog is used as an inventory catalog for saving your own products. You can create multiple catalogs with custom views to track product information.

In My Catalog, a new product can be added by clicking "compose offer." Products can be edited and published. Imported offers can be viewed, edited and published. Price rules can be applied to published products.

To create a new catalog, select "create & edit" from the My Catalog menu.

My Catalog Options:

Using Selected/Email/Sandbox:
- Choose "Send Email" to send an email to the selected owner of an offer or company if you have imported an offer.
- Choose an available Sandbox under "Copy to Sandbox" to choose what and how to copy the selected offers or companies to the Sandbox page.
- Click Go after choosing options.

Using Selected/Choose Catalog:
- Choose "move to," "copy to," or "copy to+photo to," choose a catalog in the box that follows and click Go.
Move To moves the selected offers from the current catalog to the chosen catalog.
Copy To leaves a copy of the selected offers in the current catalog. Makes new copy of the text of the selected offer only, without photo.
Copy To+Photo To also leaves a copy of the selected offers in the current catalog but includes complete offers with text and photo when copying to the chosen catalog. Makes new copy of selected offer, both text and photo.

If you want to create a new offer similar to one that already exists, you can use the "copy" function so that you don't have to type everything over again. When you copy an offer, "publish" and "price" rules will not be copied.

How to watch offers:
- You can narrow the view scope by choosing options from Choose Type, Choose Form, Buy/Sell, and All Publishing.
- Choosing types and forms allow you to choose what mushrooms are viewed. Select All Types or All Forms to view everything.
- Buy/Sell allows you to choose what offers are viewed to include both buy and sell, buy only or sell only.
- All Publishing allows you choose what offers are viewed to include all published and all unpublished, or published only or unpublished only.

Using Change Page View:
- You can select an existing view or your custom view from the Change View menu.

To create a new view, click "Settings," then "View Editor," and then "My Catalog View", or select "Create & Edit" from the Create View menu, depending on where you are.
To edit or delete an existing view, go to the View Editor (click "Settings" then "View Editor") and click one of the icons in the Actions column.

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Compose Offer

To create a mushroom commodity, the Compose Offer form must be completed. This allows you to buy or sell and to add mushroom into "My Catalog." Clicking "Compose Offer" calls up the form.

After filling in basic information about the mushroom, location, price, and quantity, you can start working with the offer.
There are 3 options:
- Publish.
- Price rules.
- Companies can import the offer.

An offer can be posted when one or more of the "Publish" checkboxes are selected as long as a price is also entered - an offer can't be published without a price.

If you want to create a new offer similar to one that already exists, you can use the "copy" function so that you don't have to type everything over again. When you copy an offer, "publish" and "price" rules will not be copied.

Published offers are valid for 14 days, after that you need to verify the offer. If an offer is not verified, it will be removed from being published automatically. You will be notified via email two days before an offer will expire. In the catalog, offers which need verification are marked in a light grey color, and offers that have been removed are marked in dark grey.

You can only publish offers for mushrooms in bulk. Canned, spawn, substrate, and consumer packed products can't be published as offers at this time, but you can list them in text fields. Use the "remarks" and "product/services" text fields to explain exactly what mushrooms you are buying or selling.

This is a marketplace and directory exclusively for mushrooms - any other goods will be deleted. You can list fruits and vegetables under "product/services," "other products". Other goods can be listed in the "other products" field in your "personal profile."

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"Publish" options indicate which user(s) will be able to see your published offer.
Commodities are published in the Mushroom Marketplace, allowing you to publish privately.
Publishing groups are Portfolios.

"Price rules" are for changing the price automatically - you can set a discount or higher price for certain users.

With "publish rules" a company can choose who will see an offer.
With "price rules" a company can choose what price will be seen by certain members.

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Portfolios have two functions:
1. To save contacts and companies, making them easy to work with.
2. To create groups for publishing rules and applying prices.

A Portfolio's price and publishing rules start to work when you publish your offers.

Example 1:
A company can choose not to publish for free members and to publish only to paid members.
A company can choose only to publish to 1WW Portfolio.
A company can choose to publish to free members at a 10% higher price then for the 1WW Portfolio.
A company can choose not to publish for free members; not to publish to the 1WW Portfolio; to publish to the ABC Portfolio; and to publish to the GPP Portfolio at a 10% higher price then to the ABC Portfolio.
(ABC,1WW,GPP are Portfolio names in this example)

Example 2:
You are selling frozen boletus edulis. For your established clients the price is $3, and for paid members the price is $3.5. Established clients are saved in Portfolio ABC. Now apply publish and price rules:
- Publish: pmem, ABC.
- Price Rules: Checked - The rule set up for pmem is +0.5, so pmem will see a price increased by $0.5 from the price for established clients.

Example 3:
You are selling frozen boletus edulis. For all clients the price is $3, and for your agents the price is $2.5. Agents are saved in Portfolio GPP. Now apply publish and price rules:
- Publish: All.
- Price Rules: Checked - The rule set up for GPP is -0.5, so contacts in the GPP Portfolio will see a price decreased by $0.5 from the all-client price.

The same thing could be accomplished by publishing separate offers with different prices.

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Companies can import offers.
You can choose whether or not to allow an offer to be imported.

You can see who has imported and who has republished your offer:
- Have imported this offer: names of companies who have imported your offer.
- Have republish this offer: names of companies who have published your offer.

To republish is to publish an offer which has been imported from one company, then published again under a new company name, e.g., the importer's name.

If a company has an imported offer, it doesn't mean that they will republish it. An offer can be imported without any obligation to republish it.

You can stipulate whether or not to allow offers to be imported with the "Companies can import the offer" option. Check the box if you wish to allow import.

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Import Offers

Importing offer is a solution for agents and brokers or for working with your suppliers.
You can import a provider's published offers and republish them automatically.
To publish (republish) an imported offer, you need to open the imported offer in edit mode, choose "publish," and click "submit." You can apply publish and price rules as you desire.
Provider is the imported offer's owner, the one who has the published offer you have imported.

To import offer you have to select an offer, choose the "Import Offer to My Catalog" option, and choose in what catalog to import the offer into.

Rules can be applied to an offer when it is republished:
- Apply an original price change automatically.
- Stop the offer from being published automatically when the original offer is no longer found.
- Stop the offer from being published automatically when the original price is changed.
- Companies can import the offer - an option whether or not to allow other companies to import the offer just as you have imported it.

When a provider make changes on an original offer, you will be notified:
- When a price change occurs in the original, your imported offer's row turns green.
- When an original is no longer published (removed), your imported offer's row turns red.
When this happens you can apply rules to apply or not apply changes automatically.

Imported offers are stored in "My Catalogs"
You can see them in catalogs listing among your other offers

To add new mushroom offer use "Compose Offer"

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Directory and Market Mode

Directory mode displays all companies listed in a row-style "directory" view. In this mode you are watching a company's data from all the companies listed in the Selection or Portfolio or Search.
Directory mode is for watching company information.

Market mode displays offers listed in a column-style "market" view, from companies within the Selection or Portfolio or Search.
Only offers are shown.
If a company doesn't have any published offers, it is not visible in market mode.
Market mode works the same in both Portfolios and Selections; it is used for watching published offers.

Example:

Directory mode:
Xiamen Yimei Food Industry Co., Ltd
Megamic Globus Est (have offer)
Himalya International Ltd
FOODAIDS (have offer)
Xi'an TechTeam Engineering & Industry (Group) Co., Ltd
Hillgreen Herbals Private Limited (have offer)
Volagel SA


Market mode:
(Hillgreen Herbals Private Limited) boletus edulis dried 2.sort sliced EUR 13.00
(Hillgreen Herbals Private Limited) boletus edulis dried D sliced USD 9.33
(Hillgreen Herbals Private Limited) boletus edulis dried C sliced USD 12.33
(Megamic Globus Est) boletus edulis brined stems whole EUR 2.00
(Megamic Globus Est) boletus pinicola frozen 1.sort whole 22 USD
(Hillgreen Herbals Private Limited) boletus pinicola dried 1.sort sliced EUR 18.00
(FOODAIDS) lentinus edodes dried whole 5-8cm USD 6.45
(FOODAIDS) lentinus edodes extracts polysaccharide >20% USD 57.00
(Megamic Globus Est) suillus granulatus brined USD 0.615
(Megamic Globus Est) verpa bohemica frozen EUR 12.00
(Megamic Globus Est) verpa bohemica frozen EUR 12.00
(FOODAIDS) volarariella volvacea brined Peeled 15 - 19mm USD 1046


Directory or Market mode can be used in almost every listing: Marketplace, Directory, Portfolios, Selections or Search results

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Views

You can create multiple custom views to show companies and offers as you prefer to see them listed by specifying what columns or rows are displayed, and in what order.

Views can be created for:
- My Catalog
- Directory Mode
- Market Mode
- Sandbox

Directory or Market mode can be used in almost every listing: Marketplace, Directory, Portfolios, Selections or Search results.

To create a new view, click "Settings," then "View Editor," and then "My Catalog View",
or select "Create & Edit" from the Create View menu, depending on where you are.
Then click "Sandbox View," "Directory View," "Market View," or "My Catalog View."

To edit or delete an existing view, go to the View Editor (click "Settings" then "View Editor") and click one of the icons in the Actions column.

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Sandbox

The Sandbox is used for copying, as in a normal copy/paste function. Select one or more offers and click "Sandbox" to copy them to sandbox page.

On the Sandbox page, you can edit, delete or write more offers, or any other text, whatever you want, as if you were using Notepad or any other text editor. Once you have the text as you want it, click "Save Changes" to save.

You can choose what will be copied, and in what order, by creating views. To create a new view, click "Settings," then "view editor," then "sandbox view," or click "Create & Edit View" if you are in the Sandbox.

To edit or delete an existing view, go to the View Editor (click "Settings" then "View Editor") and click one of the icons in the Actions column.

The Sandbox can be useful for when you want to email your clients with offers to sell or buy. Select from any listing offers which you want to include in the email, click on Sandbox to copy them, then go to the Sandbox page and copy/paste offers into your email.

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Stats

Numbers shown below are just for example:

Directory 34 - Directory mode, 34 companies in total listed in this Selection.

Market 5/18 - Market mode, 5 companies listed (only those who have published offers), 18 published offers in total from these 5 companies.

My 12/3/7 - The number of companies saved in certain Portfolios (out of the entire Selection) - 12 companies in total (out of 34 total in directory)/3 with published offers (out of 5)/7 published offers in total from these 3 companies (out of 18).

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Settings

In "Settings," you can:
- Edit your personal profile.
- Change your password.
- Create and edit "My Catalogs."
- Create and edit a "Portfolio."
- Create and edit "Selections."
- Create and edit "Views."
- Create and edit "Price Rules."

The "Settings" link is accessible at the top of the page

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Personal Profile

The Personal Profile allows you can change and edit your personal username and company information.
All fields marked with an asterisk * are required and must be completed before the form is submitted.
Note that password changes must be done elsewhere. Go to "Settings," then choose "Change password."

Under "Business Flow Information" you are describing your company and business. You will be visible in the Companies Directory and Search according to how you fill in the given fields. Please select only those fields which apply to describe your business.

- Local - domestic.
- Im - import.
- Ex - export.
MushroomsTrade is a wholesale marketplace. Local means domestic wholesale, not retail.

The following options are available under "Trading Mushrooms":
- Wild, Cultivated, Truffles – The types you work with.
- Fresh, Frozen, Dried, Brined, Extract, Powder - The forms you work with.
- Canned - If you buy/sell canned mushrooms and truffles.
- Products - If you buy/sell a consumer packaged product.
- Remarks - Provide additional explanations and information.

If you don't select any "types," it will be assumed you are working with all types (wild, cultivated and truffles), it is better to select what are you working with in combination with other fields to more precisely describe your interest and what are you doing.

This is a marketplace and directory exclusively for mushrooms - any other goods will be deleted. You can list fruits and vegetables under "product/services," "other products". Other goods can be listed in the "other products" field in your "personal profile."

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Some Columns Explained

Info - Information field - informations about: Name of the Portfolio where a company is stored; whether company has published offers or not; do I have their imported offers.

Position - Name of the catalog where an offer is stored; useful in "View All Published."

Provider - Original owner of an imported offer.

In Price - Original offer price of an imported offer.

Offer Root - Name of the Portfolio where the original owner of an imported offer is stored.

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Some Options Explained

Add Company to Portfolio
- Choose what Portfolio in which to save selected companies.

Import Offer to My Catalog
- Select an offer to import into your own catalog so that you can republish it.

Save Selection: Selected, Complete
- Save selected companies or the complete listing into a Selection so that you can watch or use them later.

selected: Inquire Now, Sandbox, Remove
- Inquire Now - Send an email to the seller or buyer.
- Sandbox - Copy to Sandbox; choose with what Sandbox to copy to, what columns to copy.
- Remove - Remove temporarily (but not delete) from listing.

Change View: Default Directory, Default Market, Custom Views
- Switch between Market and Directory modes and change views.

All Types, All Forms, Buy/Sell
- Choose what mushrooms are listed.

View: Selected Offers, Selected Offers Expanded, All Offers from Selected
- Selected Offers - Open only selected offers in listing.
- Selected Offers Expanded - Open details of selected offers.
- All Offers from Selected - Open all offers from selected company (offers owner company).

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View and View Offers - depending on where are you, one of these options is available in the “View Offers” or “View” menu:

When you are in Selections, Mushrooms Marketplace, Search Results, or a custom listing:

View Offers:
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All - Show all.
My - Show only companies or offers which have been saved in some of your Portfolios.
Not My - Show only companies or offers which have not been saved in some of your Portfolios .
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On/Off Me - Show or don't show your published offers among the offers of others.
Only Me - Show only your own published offers.
On/Off Exp - Show or don't show basic or your basic expanded published offers.
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When you are in portfolios:

View Offers:
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All - Portfolios offers + me.
On/Off Me
Only Me
On/Off exp - Only basic or all offers/prices.
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Basic Offer - You can publish an offer with or without applying rules. A basic offer is an offer to which you have applied rules. A basic offer is marked with an "PB."

Expanded Basic Offer - It is possible to see your offers published to various categories. This means, for example, you will see one offer to which you have applied rules as three offers, one for each rule. When you apply rules to the offer, it is same as if you have published separate offers, marked with "PBA."

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