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Initial setup and operation.
Click the Online button in BookTrakker. Open BN Upload on the Plugins button.
It will open up to Account Setup. Fill in Username and Password, confirm Password, then click the dropdown
to select what File to Upload. Select the file you want to upload to
BN.com
when you do uploads. Upload_1.txt or some other file. Do
Not type in a filename, select it from the list.
Click the Test button.
If you get: Barnes and Noble Account Test Succeeded!
then click OK twice.
If not, go back to Account Setup and correct, then Test again. Everything is case sensitive.
The B&N Uploader Control Panel appears. This is what you will see when you select the BN Upload plugin from the Online Plugins button after setup.
Six buttons: Upload, Purge, Download Reports, View Reports, Account Setup, Check For Update and Close. For new users there is a Purchase
B&N uploader button as well.
During normal operation you would finish your upload to all other services, then open up the
BN.com
plugin and click Upload. You have to do this after EVERY regular upload to other services.
It uploads the designated file, then writes the success or failure to the Export Log. Close the BN uploader panel after the upload is finished, then click Refresh Logs to see the information on Success/Failure of the upload. Standard success/failure messages.
Do not check BN.com
as active in your Online Services list, if you do you will get error messages. Do NOT try and test the service from the Online Services list, it will fail.
Purge works by creating a file of All Online Inventory and renaming it with Purge as part of the
name of the file you selected when you did Account Setup, then uploading it to
BN.com to Purge all available records and replace with the records in the file.
DO NOT check All Online Inventory yourself.
When BN.com emails you their file processing report you can click Download Reports, then view Reports to see the results. They should
match the email. What the email does not give you is the error message when there is one, the Reports Viewer does. Right now the
only error I'm getting is because I use Poor in Book.
SKU|Transaction|File Record#|Error#|Error Text
||9|11102|Invalid Data. Value 'Poor' for Tag 'CN|' cannot be recognized.|
BarnesandNoble.com
just doesn't allow Poor books to be listed. Fair, yes. You can change Poor to Fair if you really want the Poor books
listed, I'm not sure its worth the hassle.
Caveat: There is no relationship between the SKU in the report and BookTrakker.
You must have Very Good selected on the Export Setup form for
BarnesandNoble.com
to process the Condition properly:
File > Export > UIEE/Online > Export Setup > (or Export Setup from the Online screen, followed by UIEE/Online > Export Setup) Set Book/DJ display at the bottom of the form:
WARNING: BN.com only processes the Book in Book/DJ, and at present does not post the Book/DJ description on the website, with your listings. If in doubt about an order you should contact the customer. They do say they plan to address this issue, next year.
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