To remove (delete) books from the abebooks.com online system using HomeBase 2, you must change the status of the book(s) to "Sold" and send these changes to abebooks.com.
Some booksellers accidentally delete (remove) their books from HomeBase 2 and then upload their data to abebooks.com believing that abebooks.com will automatically recognise the book is gone. This will NOT happen because abebooks.com and HomeBase 2 are completely separate from each other.
When you send a file of "Sold" books, abebooks.com matches those book numbers against the ones already online. When it reads (say) book #1234 is marked as "Sold" it removes (deletes) the listing from abebooks.com.
It is imperative you send sold books to abebooks.com on a regular basis.
To recognise "Sold" books in HomeBase 2, choose the books that need to be marked as sold from the book list by double clicking the book in question.
When the book record opens, change the status field to 'Sold' and click 'Save' to mark the book as 'Sold.'
Note: To select multiple items in a list, hold down the [Ctrl] key and click on the leftmost column of the row (the grey area to the left of the BookNumber field). Repeat this for each item you wish to select. When you are selecting items you must ensure the background colour is blue. If the background is black that item is NOT selected.
Right-click your mouse and choose "Mark selected Books as Sold".
The best way to keep track of "Sold" books in HomeBase is to create a 'Sold' catalogue and move all "Sold" books into it.
a) Click 'Catalogs' on the abebooks.com spine.
b) Create the "Sold" catalog.
c) Return to 'Books'.
d) Right-click and select "Move all sold books to..."
e) Choose the 'Sold' catalogue and click [OK].
All books marked "Sold" will now be moved into your 'Sold' catalogue.
You are now ready to send this information to abebooks.com. In "Send Data to abebooks.com" click 'Selected Catalogs' and choose the Sold catalogue by using [Add] and [OK]. Click [Send] and save the file. Then proceed to upload the file in the usual manner.