These release notes list new and enhanced features, usability improvements, and bug fixes.
·
BookTrakker
Features
o
Enabled Internal Help
to work again. Needs updating.
o
Added full support
for Amazon Shipping Templates including Hit List operation (Removed old fields
and check boxes)
o
Added Default
Setting for Amazon Services in Tools > Options to set all New Records to
upload to Amazon.
o
Consolidated Amazon
Defaults onto separate form in Tools > Options
o
Added popup
notification when ISBN is not found on Amazon during data entry.
o
Added popup
notification when Amazon account is suspended, blocking ISBN lookup or uploads
to Amazon.
o
Added an Upload
button to List View to display Records Set for Upload
o
Fixed error in
Defects and Features causing loss of first record when typing “.
o
Instituted backup
upon confirmation for every 5th program closing.
o
Fixed popup Copy
Previous Record message to default to No
o
Removed check
Internet Connection in Tools > Options > Online
o
Fixed Tab Order
issues
o
Fixed
Source/Shelved Display issue on the Keywords tab
o
Added Quick Search
to Find for Available Records, runs as a Hit List on
Author, Title, Publisher or Illustrator.
o
Removed Overwrite
and Zip check boxes in Online
o
Added Upload
Failure Notification to Export Log – Failed service entry will be highlighted
in Red.
o
Added Upload
Failure Help button to Export Log
o
Added message box
to alert users to when their computer date is in the future, preventing Amazon
Lookup from working.
o
Set ISBN and ASIN
field to automatically locate ISBN or ASIN in correct field.
o
ISBN 13 digit
converted to 10 digit when available.
o
Minor bug fixes
·
CheckIt Features
o
Added support to download
Shipping Templates and assign to Inventory Records
·
Grabit Features
o
Removed deprecated
Amazon Shipping choices. Will update Shipping Templates later.
·
UploadIt
o
Updated Amazon
Upload Templates to include Shipping Templates Support
o
Added Delete Product
and Listing capability for Amazon
o
Added Cassette to
Cover/Type for Amazon matching.
o
Added LooseLeaf to cover for Amazon matching,
matches on loose in Cover.
·
App Manager Features
o
Added ScanIt/SellIt to App choices for
when they are released.
o
Added ability to
see and manage all computers in the user’s account (Computers/Network tab)
o
Added enhanced
Networking capability to help set up Networking.
o
Enabled user
control over deleting computers from their account when they are no longer in
operation.
o
Added Amazon
Inventory Import capability for new subscribers (Utilities tab Import Amazon
Data)
o
Updated Quick
Support on the Utilities tab, enabling faster and easier connections for
Support
o
Eliminated pop up
window from automatic update process.
·
BookTrakker
Features
o
Added NDIA (No
Dustjacket As Issued) to Dustjacket Condition
o
Fixed/Implemented
Expedite Shipping Action Hit List.
o
Enabled restoration
of original Status when cancelling book or invoice.
o
Minor bug fixes
·
Grabit Features
o
GrabIt can now automatically refresh BT Inventory (Experimental)
·
UploadIt
o
FTPS for Abebooks and Fillz
o
Export of NDIA
o
Rename ABE upload
files using unique name which addresses issues related to failed uploads that
left a file with a prefix of ‘.in.’
on server
which blocked further uploads of files with the same name.
·
BookTrakker
Features
o
Added ISBNdb.com
ISBN lookup: Tools > Options > ISBN
o
Simplified Amazon
upload setup
o
Converted
BookTrakker to subscription model
o
Moved ISBN check
boxes to GrabIt, on the BookTrakker tab
·
CheckIt Features
o
CheckIt is now free for all Pro and Network issues
o
Moved Book Loader
operations to UploadIt
o
Updated code to
Amazon MWS
·
Grabit Features
o
Updated code to
Amazon MWS
·
UploadIt
o
Added UploadIt to
manage uploads
o
Added multiple
image uploads to Amazon for Collectible sellers
o
Added Weight to the
Book Loader upload
·
BN uploader
o
Included as part of
Pro or Network subscriptions
o
Added multiple
image uploads to Amazon for Collectible sellers
·
BookTrakker
Features
o
Support for
Fulfillment by Amazon.
o
Integration of
B&N Uploader into the standard One-Click Upload process.
o
Additional Amazon
shipping options.
o
Copy Record now
copies Categories.
o
Full width logo on
Invoice.
o
Support for UNC
Path for Networked installations.
o
Added various list
items such as Compiler in the Signed By dropdown list.
o
Expanded Hit List
capabilities.
o
Expanded Invoice From label to 6 lines.
o
Enabled removal of
colored lines in List View.
o
Added Address field
3 to New Customer form in Invoices.
o
Changed List View
search box to ignore Articles (The, A, etc.).
o
Improved support for
Windows Vista and Windows 7 including 64-bit versions.
o
Overhauled the
Remote Site Data Entry system to allow for unique numbering.
o
Improved the
Registration process.
·
CheckIt Features
o
Latest version is
now shipped with BookTrakker Installation Package.
·
Grabit Features
o
Expanded Item Note
field to 2000 chars.
·
Fixed Bugs
o
Various bugs were
fixed and overall stability improved.
·
BookTrakker
Features
o
Amazon UK and CA
support.
o
Single record ISBN
Lookup.
o
Added Amazon ASIN Field
o
Set Price Sold to
actual price on Invoice.
o
Customer Credit
Card numbers are encrypted and password protected.
o
Find field can now
be set to a default choice.
o
Upload selection
for Hit Lists – Sets defined Hit List to Upload.
o
Process and Upload
to one service only.
o
Label on Invoices
can now be added to a queue to print them all on one sheet.
o
Append or Prepend
data to fields via an Action Hit List.
o
Title and Subtitle
are searched via Find: Title.
o
Reupload sold records via Action Hit List.
o
Added Weight field
to database, uploads to all sites other than Amazon.
o
Added a Confirm
Printing box when Print is clicked. Eliminates accidental printing.
o
Significantly
improved Reports interface.
o
Re-enabled ability
to sell by hit list using Sell Books Dialog Box.
·
Grabit Features
o
Import of files
containing list of ISBNs.
o
Export ASINs and
ISBNs to appropriate fields in BookTrakker.
o
Improved Pricing
Controls
·
Fixed Bugs
o
Various bugs were
fixed using new tracking system.
·
BookTrakker
Features
o
Mailing Labels
o
Email Customer from
Contacts form
o
Invoice Logo
o
Invoice Header
Suppression for Letterhead
o
‘New’ in Book/DJ
Field
o
Improved Importing
of Data
o
Third Address Field
in Contacts
o
Improved Emailing
of Invoices
o
Use of Default Browser
if not IE
o
Updated Service
List
o
Added Online Export
Menus to Online Module
o
Automated Program
Registration Process
o
Trial Period
Extension now possible
o
Hit Lists now
support searching for empty fields
·
Grabit Features
o
Increased accuracy
of Basin Matching
o
Reduced number of
rejected records on Repricing and Lookup
o
Improved Pricing
Controls
·
Fixed Bugs
o
Invoice Printing
Improved
o
Amazon Upload
Failure
o
Various Hit List
bugs
o
Editing Amazon
Online Service
o
Import bugs
o
Basin/ISBN Lookup
·
GrabIt! is now a plug-in
·
Amazon Upload bug
fixed
·
Item-Note now
supports 1,000 Chars
·
UIEE Fields added
·
Added ‘Getting
Started’ dialog at startup
·
Help Menu updated
·
Amazon Online
Service
o Upload records to
Amazon MarketPlace or zShops
using BookTrakker’s One-Click Upload. BookTrakker uploads files in Amazon’s
tab-delimited upload
format including choices such as New, Used or Collectable, Expedite or
International, MarketPlace or zShops
and image link upload to Amazon.
o If MarketPlace is left unchecked
on the Amazon tab, then Shipping and Handling amounts stated in the
Price tab are automatically uploaded to zShops.
·
Import from Amazon
Open Listings Report or Seller Engine Export Item Report
·
Collection
Categories
o The Catalog button at the bottom of Inventory Detail
is renamed Category to distinguish it from the Catalog tab on the
left side of the screen. Click the
Category button to quickly assign the current inventory record to one or
more Collection Categories (Hit Lists).
·
Collection Category
Selection List
o Select
which Category list you want to work with by clicking on the multiple
dropdown listbox in the upper right-hand corner of
the Inventory Detail View screen.
Select Show, Sort or Category. Then select the Category you want
to work with.
·
Contact Data Export
o Export contact data in tab-delimited (.txt) or comma-separated
(.csv) file format and choose whether or not to enclose fields in quotes. Six choices offered
for Address Source.
·
Database Backup
Reminder
o Every 5th time BookTrakker is opened and closed
a form appears reminding you to back up your database. The automatic reminder
can be turned off by
unchecking the Backup DB Reminder checkbox which can be found in Tools
> Options menu under Program > Inventory.
·
Feature
Enhancements and Usability Improvements
o
Sell Multiple Books
– another method
·
In addition to
clicking the Sell button and then simply typing in Record Numbers, a second
method involving Re-clicking the Sell button saves the typing
in of Inventory Record Numbers. Click the Sell button to open the multiple
books sold form. Click the Sell
button again and the record number of the
record you are viewing is automatically entered into the form. While the form is still open, place the
cursor in the Rec # field and type
in the number
of another book that needs to be marked Sold. Press Enter. BookTrakker goes to that next
record. Click the Sell button again
and the record being
viewed is added to the multiple books sold form. Repeat procedure to continue adding Record
#s. This method is useful if you want to avoid having to
type the record number or if you want to view the record before changing its
Status to Sold. After entering all the record numbers of books that have Sold,
click Get Records, then click Mark Sold to change the status of
those records to Sold.
o
Book ID (Category)
Hit Lists are Editable
·
Limited editing
capability has been added to the Category Hit Lists. Execute the Category Hit List, select
a record in the list, click Detail View tab to open
Inventory Details View. Next click
Edit. After editing record, continue
Editing other records by clicking Next Record. When editing is finished, click Done.
When you click Done, BookTrakker automatically updates the Hit List and closes
the Hit List. Click Execute to rerun
and reopen the Hit List with the new changes.
o
Amazon Upload
Status Page Button Added to Browser
·
Click the Browser
button in the main menu bar, then click the a button in the sub-menu to open the
Amazon Upload Status Page.
o
Zip Upload Files
Restored
·
*Note: Not all services accept Zip files. Check if an Online Service accepts Zipped
files before uploading.
·
Click the Online
button in the top menu bar. In the
Online Services list section a new column Zip has been added. In the Zip
column, click inside a
box next to an online service to insert a checkmark. Zip files will be sent to those Online
Services with a checkmark in the box in the Zip column.
o
Turn Off On-The-Fly
Editing Option in Defects, Features and Notes
·
Turn off F4 editing
options in Defects, Features and Notes [
Tools > Options
> Program >
Editing > uncheck the box for On the Fly Editing ].
To turn them back on, simply recheck the box.
o List View and Details View in Orders are now synchronized
·
Image URL Field
o Adds an image URL into the ImgURL
field under the Optional tab in Inventory Detail View. The ImgURL
field can be added to the export fields.
Add a field in Export
Mapping by clicking in the blank field at the end of the list in Export
Mapping. Click the box that appears in
the field to open a drop down field list, then select ImgURL
to add it to the list.
o The link address in the Image URL field is created
automatically when you scan in your image or resave an existing image. Set this
up in Tools > Options > Online:
Image URL Prefix. Type in the complete URL for your hosting service and account
and when you scan in an image BookTrakker will combine the two into the Image
URL field.
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Invoices - Email
Invoice to Customer and Update/Edit Contact Information
o
Email an Invoice to a Customer for one or for multiple items
sold and update/edit the customer’s Contact information during
creation of Invoice using either the
View button or by opening Contacts.
o
Click the Email button in Orders Detail
View to email the Invoice to the customer.
o This works for Quotes, also.
·
Add Books from
Inventory Detail View to Customer Invoice
o Click the Orders button and select New to create a new invoice.
o
The background
on the Orders button turns to green indicating that you are in Orders
Edit Mode. The New Order Record
form immediately pops up presenting you
with a number of choices. Select Invoice,
then click OK to close the form.
o
After the form closes,
a drop down list of Contacts appears in the right hand section of the
Orders Detail screen.
o
In the blank field
above the list of Contacts either start typing in the Customer’s name or
select a Customer or click New in the Customer section to add a New
Customer.
o
At this point, the
Details screen in Orders is visible, the background of the Orders button is
still green, and the customer’s information has been added to
Sold To and Ship To fields.
o
Leaving everything the
way it is, click Inventory in the top menu bar to open Inventory
Details.
o
To add an Inventory
Record to an Invoice, change the record’s Status to Sold.
§ add a single Inventory Record to the Invoice using one of
the following:
·
1) navigate
to the record, hit the S key (Ctrl-S
for alphanumeric users) on the computer keyboard. A form asks you to confirm that the record
should
be marked Sold.
·
2) navigate
to the record, click the Sell button, then click the Sell button for a second
time to add the Rec # of the book that will be marked Sold and
added to the Invoice.
·
3) or,
on any record that appears on the screen, click the Sell button and type in the
record number of the book that will be marked Sold and added
to the Invoice.
·
add multiple Inventory
Records to an Invoice
·
select and repeat one
of the methods described above
·
when all Inventory Records to be added to the Invoice have been
marked Sold, click on the Orders button to return to the Invoice.
·
AlphaNumeric Record Code
o Numeric or AlphaNumeric Record Codes can be used in the Rec
# field. To begin using AlphaNumeric
Record Codes [ Tools >
Options > Program
> click the box
after Use Alpha Record Code to add a checkmark ]. Uncheck this box to return to using Numeric
Record Codes.
·
Export Formats
o Advanced and Pro and Network
editions offer Auto Export and 3 additional catalog-based export
formats: HTML 3-column, HTML Catalog,
and RTF Catalog.
·
Feature
Enhancements and Usability Improvements
o AutoEdit Functions
o Export Formats
o
Find/Replace Count
o Improved performance and stability
§ The database engine was updated from Jet 3.51 to Jet 4,
resulting in improved performance and stability within the program.
o Lists for MultiUser
Configurations
o Network Performance
o Online Internet Help
o Online Service List Updates
o Payment Types for Invoices
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Inventory Quantity
Field
o A Quantity field has been added to the database and has
been integrated into the Sales and Invoicing system so that the familiar
shortcuts for selling books still work
but now take the Quantity into account.
Books are not marked SOLD until the Quantity drops to zero,
and the record is uploaded again each time it is sold to ensure
a continuous presence until the Quantity drops to zero whereupon the book is
removed from the Online Systems.
·
Multiple Book Sales
Interface
o Instead of creating a Hit List to sell multiple books,
simply click the Sell button in the Inventory Detail View and enter Rec
#s into a list form. When finished,
a Preview
button retrieves the books and switches to List View for verification. When you are satisfied that the list looks
good, one click on the Mark Sold button processes the
entire list of records automatically.
An entry is added to a daily House Invoice to keep a record of the
sales.
·
Plugin Architecture
o BookTrakker v3.0 accepts Plugins, add-on software modules
that are purchased separately to add specific features or services. Plugins are
being developed and will
be announced on the site as they become available.
·
Zero Price Checking
o
If you try to save an
Inventory Record that shows a selling price of zero, a prompt message appears
on your screen with the message, You have
not entered a price.
Do you wish to continue?
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