BookRouter™
One inventory, kept current everywhere
Listed across AbeBooks, Biblio, eBay, Alibris, Amazon, and more. Your own pricing on each marketplace, uploads on your schedule, and a sold book comes down everywhere within minutes.
Where BookRouter started
The unglamorous part
BookRouter™ has spent years doing the work nobody goes into bookselling to do. It keeps one inventory current across every major antiquarian marketplace, uploads on the schedule you set, applies your pricing for each marketplace, hosts the photos, and takes a listing down when the book sells.
It means knowing how each marketplace reads a record, field by field, and keeping up when that changes. None of it is glamorous, and all of it is the difference between selling in one place and selling in a dozen.
Where your books go
Everywhere we support
Each marketplace has a connection we build and maintain. Support means something different on each one, and the label under each name says which kind. Routing to most marketplaces is included with every Bibliopolis website. Amazon and eBay are the only add-ons.
AbeBooks Full sync 
Biblio Full sync 
ABAA Full sync, via Biblio 
Alibris Full sync 
Amazon Full sync in US & Canada, add-on 
eBay Full sync, add-on 
Antiqbook Full sync 
viaLibri Harvest feed 
Google Products Product feed 
Facebook & Instagram Product feed 
LiveAuctioneers Catalog file 
Invaluable Catalog file
The four types
What each kind of support means
Full sync. Your listings go out and orders come back into BookRouter™. Where the marketplace accepts updates, the order status and tracking go back when you ship. AbeBooks, Alibris, Amazon, Antiqbook, Biblio, eBay, and the ABAA through Biblio. Amazon is full sync in the US and Canada; on other Amazon marketplaces it is a catalog file.
Harvest feed. We publish a feed and viaLibri harvests it. Shoppers who find your book there buy it on your own website, so it arrives as an ordinary website order.
Product feed. A file the platform fetches on its own schedule to keep your listings current. Google Products and Facebook & Instagram.
Catalog file. A file you download from us and upload to the marketplace yourself. LiveAuctioneers and Invaluable, with your lot numbers and estimates, and Amazon outside the US and Canada.
Not on the list
Export files for everywhere else
Plenty of places want a file rather than a connection. You can export your inventory as BookRouter, BookRouter Extended, BookHound 8, AbeBooks Standard, HomeBase, UIEE, or a column layout you define yourself, and hand it to anyone who asks.
We can also send a file out on a schedule by FTP to a host of your choosing. That is how our sellers feed other website platforms and marketplaces we have not built a full connection for.
How it works
From cataloging to sale
You do two things. BookRouter™ does the rest.
Catalog the book
Add it in BookRouter™ or send a file by FTP. It is formatted the way each marketplace wants it, priced the way you set for that marketplace, and uploaded on your schedule.
Sell the book
When the book sells, whether on your website, in person, or on a marketplace, it comes off everywhere else on its own. Then you process and ship the order in BookRouter™.
Sold once
Off every other marketplace within minutes
A book that sells on AbeBooks comes off Biblio, eBay, and everywhere else you route to, usually within a few minutes of the order arriving.
It is not instant, and a buyer can still reach a listing in those few minutes. What no longer happens is a sold book staying listed until the next morning.
Your shop first
Delay your marketplace listings
Routing can hold new listings back from each marketplace for as many days as you choose. The listing goes up on your own website first, where a sale costs you no commission.
The head start helps in search too. Google can find the book on your website before any marketplace copy appears, so your page is the first listing for it that Google sees.
Many shops pair the delay with their new arrival emails, so their mailing list sees new listings first.
Built for this trade
Mapping built for how booksellers describe books
BookRouter™ was built for the antiquarian and used trade, not adapted from a general multichannel tool. The difference shows up in the mapping.
Fine in dust jacket
Every marketplace grades condition differently, and some barely grade it at all. BookRouter™ maps your grading and your bindings to each marketplace's own vocabulary. A Fine copy does not arrive described as Good. The rules are yours to see and adjust.
Your shelves, their taxonomy
Your categories and catalogs map to each marketplace's own categories, down to eBay's and your eBay store's. On eBay, your author, publisher, and year also become the item specifics buyers filter by. Set it once and new listings follow it.
Marketplace rules change without warning
Marketplaces change their systems and formatting rules, usually without telling anyone. We track the changes and update the mapping. This is most of the work and none of it is visible.
The next chapter
The connection runs both ways
Routing outward was only ever half of it. Marketplace orders come back into BookRouter™, where you process and ship them alongside everything else, and the status goes back to the marketplace when you ship.
Try it for yourself
We will set you up with a demo login so you can explore the routing settings and tools.