I am having a lot of problems trying to track my Aliexpress orders. The only way I have figured out is to stop using Aliexpress.
Now hold on, that's a bit overly drastic isn't it?
But I figured I am doing something wrong. I hope someone has come up with a method to track orders. I cannot find anything on the package that helps. The biggest problem I have is duplicate (ie many) orders of the same item or type of item.
Ah, sounds like you have much higher volume of orders than I do. So, even the item values are often identical for your orders?
Anyway, here's my very simple and effective system. Needs nothing but a clean plain text editor.
I have one folder in my 'lists' tree, called "purchases_online". Every time I order something, while I still have the order page onscreen, I ctl-c copy the entire block of purchase information. Open a new .TXT file in the editor, past in the details. Save that file in my purchases online folder, with a filename in the form yyyymmdd_description_of_item.txt
The sensible date format means all the files sort sequentially, always, never mind what stupid f*ckery Windows does with file-creation attributes. (The one exception is when you badly mistyped the year, and the file gets 'lost' in the list. Then just switch to sort by creation date, and the lost file is near most recent end. Fix the date in the filename, resort by name.)
That file becomes a diary of any further events related to buying that item. Each new event gets a ruler "-------------"
then the date, again in yyyymmdd format (don't be lazy!) then a description of what happened. Usually just 'arrived today'.
If there's any dispute process, record it in this file too.
If the thing is something significant enough to have it's own folder in my 'equipment' folder tree, stuff like photos and tech info will go there. The purchase sequence can stay in just text file in 'lists'.
I'm often amazed how computer literate people sometimes fail to leverage the power of the most simple things, like plain text files.
Of course I use "My AliExpress - Orders". I want to delete orders that I really get. But I have gotten so confused I have started to delete all orders starting with the lowest cost items and stop ordering and use eBay and Amazon. I got up to 12 pages or orders (too much wine at night )
Reading their excessive emails is hard but it this is a way then maybe I need to start reading them?\
Ha. Well, I guess my not drinking alcohol might also be part of why I don't have this problem. No wait, it's probably just being poor.
As for the aliexpress emails... what, you read them? Mine just go into a mailbox I very rarely read. Unless I actually asked someone a question.