Hi Pete
I use Gemm and use lists. Make an Excel spreadsheet of your entries and in the first line do the headers, theres a list of headings on Gemm you can use, I use something like MY CATALOGUE NUMBER, ARTIST, TITLE, LABEL, DESCRIPTION, PRICE IN £, FORMAT, CONDITION, CATEGORY.
in excel columns something like this for each entry:
00001 | James Brown | Sex Machine | Polydor | Funk record Pete doesn't like | £3 | 7" | EX | FUNK,SOUL,NEW ADDITIONS
Under Category, you can list up to 3 categories with commas inbetween, so you could do NORTHERN SOUL, SKA, NEW ADDITIONS for example, and those categories would show up at the bottom of your Gemm Catalogue page. You make these up yourself with as many different ones as you like to a max of 3 per record.
Once you've completed your excel spreadsheet, save it as Excel then save it as .csv or .txt
Do not change the column headings or whether you use .csv or .txt from now on, this is the template you must use for every update.
In the Seller page there is an option to upload and replace your entire catalogue. browse for your Text file (not the Excel file) and upload it.
In the first instance it may take a day or two, as the Gemm people check the format is right and set up your template.
From then on, use the same process, but REMOVE the first line with the column headings in, as after the very first upload Gemm have set your template up so the Gemm Server knows what each column means. Just replace your catalogue each time. Only bind is you have to manually delete entries from your spreadsheet each time or you'll put up records you've sold.
Also it is important that if you are using your own catalogue numbers in the first column that each one is unique, if you use the same catalogue number for 2 records the second will not show up. If you have more than one copy give them seperate personal catalogue numbers. The Gemm system removes all sales from the site as they go along.
Drop me a mail if you need any more help I found it confusing at first, but once you get your head round it it works well,
cheers Paul
soulcitizen@yahoo.co.uk