MyBCKS is a web management tool available to advanced and expert users. It manages messages, BCKS ads, and account information. It allows the user to collect all responses and replies to their ads and to other seller's ads in one place on the BCKS network. Responses are stored on the network but there is an option to also send any responses to your regular email address. To use MyBCKS you must first register using the "register" link on the Advanced page.

The following message will appear after you submit your registration information.

You will receive a email similar to the following one.

Clicking on the link in the email above should result in the response below,

Below is a typical screen shot of the MyBCKS page.

Starting with the links at the top of the page, "Messages to my ad" refer to incoming messages from prospective buyers. The link is in bold if active as shown in the screen shot above. The "Messages to my ad" screen shows on the left side, the incoming query, indicates how many there have been, and how many new ones have occurred. They are sorted by ad id number ( not shown ). Bold face messages have not been opened. To the right, are your replies to these ads.

Messages, both queries and replies, will be deleted when the ad expires or the ad is removed using the "Change Ad" screen which has a "delete" option. Checking the "delete" box to the right of each ad with responses on the MyBCKS screen will remove all responses to that ad by clicking on the "Delete checked messages" box. To remove only a specific message, click on the message to open it. A "delete" option will be available at the bottom of the message screen.

The "Create Ad" and "Change Ad" links are for a regular BCKS Ad not the BCKS Ad Plus available to the expert user.

The "Account" link goes to a page which shows account status, your email address, allows you to change your e-mail address, password, and whether you want messages sent to your regular e-mail in addition to being stored in MyBCKS.

The "Logout" link logs the user out and returns them to the BCKS home page. The "home" link returns the user to the home page without logging out. For example, clicking on "Logout" takes the user to the home page. If the user uses the browers "back" button to go back to the MyBCKS page, and then clicks on the "Create Ad" link, a "invalid access" message will appear. Doing the same thing with the "home" link will allow the user to create an ad.

The message search function not only searches the headers of the messages which are displayed in MyBCKS but the message body as well

Supposing you do a search on the word "C-740" and the results page shows the following,

If you wish to ask the seller a question, just click on the "envelope" icon in their ad. A message screen will appear for you to fill in your email address, subject, and message as shown here by example.

The advanced user recipient of your query can log-in and will see on the left side of their MyBCKS screen this information,

Clicking on the link "Questions" opens the message you sent.

If the advanced recipient wants to reply, they need only click on "reply", fill in the form, and "Send Message". The following response will be had if the reply is successful.