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Add Retail Price To Add Inventory, Tags & View Item
You can now specify a 'Retail' price while adding inventory or editing/updating existing inventory. If specified, you'll now see Retail: $x.xx print on the tags -- e.g. if you specify a Retail price of $75.00, you'll see 'Retail: $75.00' print on the tag.
This is purely a 'marketing' price and does not impact or effect the actual price of the item. It's like showing the 'MSRP' so the shopper can see what they would *normally* pay vs. the deal they're getting in your store. :)
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'Search eBay' Button on Add Inventory Screen
Added a 'Search eBay' button on the Add Inventory screen. :) This does a search on eBay of completed listings, which match your selected Department > Category > Category Detail #1 (e.g. Brand).
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Remove 'Minimize' Box from Certain Screens/Forms/Windows
I've removed the 'Minimize' control box from the top-right of the following screens:
• Search Accounts
• Search Items
• View Account
• Search Sales
• Search Layaways
This prevents a screen from being minimized down to the bottom-left, making it difficult to see/find again. :)
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Transfer/Move Items from One Account to Another
You can now move items from one account to another! Accidentally add inventory to the wrong consignor? The 'Move Items' feature lets you move Available inventory from one account to the other.
To move inventory from one account to another, head to the account where the items are currently located. Right-click on an item and click 'Move Items...'. By default, the From/Through Barcode ID will be set to the item you right-clicked. You can select the items to move based on the Barcode ID From/Through, as well as the Date-In From/Through.
Search for/select the account you'd like to move the items to and click 'View Items'. You'll see the list of items you're about to move and once you click the 'Move!' button, you'll be asked to confirm you truly want to move these items.
Some highlights and awesome things I did for this process. :)
• You can't set the 'Through' Barcode ID to be less than the 'From' Barcode ID -- e.g. you can't say 'Move items 200 through 100'.
• You can't set the Date-In 'Through' to be a date *before* the Date-in 'From' -- e.g. you can't say, 'Move items with a Date-in from 11/14/2017 through 11/1/2017'.
• In the list of possible destination accounts, I do not display the current account you're in -- you can't move items from/to the same account. :)
• When you move items, I automatically create a note named 'Moved Items' in *both* the original + the destination accounts, showing which user moved the items and how many items were moved from/to, respectively.
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Move 'Note' To Its Own Field on Add Inventory
We've moved the 'Note' field directly to the Add Inventory screen, instead of having to click 'Add Note' while entering items.
This makes for quicker-access when adding a note to an item + it also ties-in with the ability to print tags that display the Note that's been entered. :)
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Print Inventory 'Note' on Tag
There are now two new Tags/Labels that print the 'Note' field on them -- 1-Across Tags (Portrait w/ Note) and 2-Across Tags (Portrait w/ Note).
If you utilize the 'Note' field on items -- e.g. for things like 'New w/ Tags!!!' -- either of these Tags/Labels will include this text on the tag. :)
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Tag Count for Printing Multiple Tags
You can now set a 'Tag Count' on items! This allows you to print multiple tags, for a single item. This is not the same as 'Quantity' for an item, which would be a multi-quantity item.
Tag Count would be utilized in situations where you have a 'set' of items and want to print a tag for each -- e.g. for a set of cups, for a dining room set, etc.
I've intentionally limited the maximum Tag Count @ 20 tags. :)
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Show # of Items About to be Paid
On the Pay Account screen within a consignor's account, I now display the 'Total Items' that are included in the Payout you're about to cut.
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Detect if NumLock is Off on Add Inventory + POS Scan Items Screens
Peeps' software now detects if your NumLock key is off on your keyboard, when starting a sale! :) Over the years, I've taken quite a few support calls where the owner or employee couldn't enter dollar amounts. Turned-out, it was just the NumLock was off and the keypad on the keyboard wouldn't let them type numbers. :)
I also detect this on the Add Inventory screen too, only when you enter the Price field.
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Ability To Accept Checks @ POS
You can now accept checks as a form of payment @ POS! :) I've changed the Credit/Debit button to read 'CC/Other'.
The last button is a Check payment button.
When clicking this (or when using the keyboard shortcut 'K'), you'll be prompted to specify the dollar amount (the full Total Due is auto-filled), and you'll be prompted to enter the (optional) Check #.
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Add Average Sale $, Average # Items Per Sale & Total Voided Sales to Daily Email
I've added these averages to the Daily Summary Email, so stores can get a day-to-day snapshot of sales stats. :)
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Add a Visual Cue When a Split Is Changed During Add Inventory, Based On Category
I've added a new visual queue/icon that appears *if* the Split is changed during Add Inventory, if a custom Category Split has been set.
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When A Per-Category Split Is In-Play, Split Should Fall-Back to Account's Split
When adding inventory, if a custom Split was specified at the Category level, if said Category was selected during the Add Inventory process, it would remain as the selected Split. e.g. If you were entering clothing, then entered a handbag with a unique Split, then entered more clothing, the custom Split for the handbag would persist.
This is good if you're entering 10 handbags and don't want to have to keep re-selecting the Split, however, if you were only entering one handbag in the middle of a clothing consignment, subsequent clothing items would use that custom Split.
You can control this behavior under Settings > Store > Preferences @ 'Remember Split'
This ties-in with issue #676. :)
Michelle @ Second To None noticed this behavior and reported this issue. :)
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Completed Layaway Totals Not Showing on POS Payment Totals Report
When completing a Layaway, the last payment was being logged with the original date, so the payments would not calculate in the POS Payment Summary report for the day the Layaway was completed.
Sherry @ Sadie's reported this. :)
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Add Merchant/Cardholder Copy for BluePay Receipt
Two credit card receipts now automatically print when using BluePay as your credit card processor.
As per the DataCap specification, a receipt with 'Merchant Copy' + a receipt with 'Cardholder Copy' must be printed for each credit card sale.
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Add Store Info. to BluePay CC Receipt
Added the store's info (Store Name + Address) to the top of the CC receipt that prints when using BluePay for your credit card processor.
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Ability to Hide/Disable Categories
You can now hide/disable Categories that you no longer want to use or see during the Add Inventory process. To hide a Category, head to Settings > Inventory. Select the Department that contains the Category in question and then double-click the Category.
You'll see a new 'Visibility' section and you can set the Category in question to Active = Yes/No.
Any existing items will still be able to sell and function, but when you go to either Add Inventory or View/Edit Inventory, the Category will no longer be available to choose.
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'txtDateThrough' Error When Paying An Account & Printing a Payout Report
Fixed the 'txtDateThrough' message that appeared when paying an individual account *and* having the 'Print Report Payout' box checked.
This report is the same one utilized when paying accounts in bulk, which offers a From/Through date selection to only pay accounts for items that sold during a particular time frame. The individual payout routine does not (yet) have From/Through date selections, so the message was popping-up since no 'Through' date was in-play. :)
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An Item Can Be Sold Twice If the Item Is Scanned @ POS On One PC but Completed On Another
This one was a pretty big one in my eyes, but not one that would typically come up -- not that that's an excuse for not properly checking to see what the *current* state of an item is before selling it. :)
Sherry @ Sadie's reported being able to sell an item twice. I knew you couldn't scan/sell an item that was already sold, so it wasn't a 'Sold' item being sold again. Since Peeps' Consignment Software logs every portion of every process, I checked the log files for the point of sale systems.
What I found was, a volunteer had scanned the item in on POS #2 and started the sale -- the item was Available, the sale was not completed yet. Then, 10 minutes later, the same volunteer took those items over to POS #1, scanned-in the same item, then completed the sale. 5 minutes later, they went back to POS #2 and completed the sale over there too. :)
This is my fault for not checking the item's current status/quantity/state when it's being marked as sold. I check when you scan the item IN to a sale, but not when you click 'Complete'.
Now, I check the item's quantity and if it's 0, it cannot be sold. This also prevents multi-quantity items from being 'over sold' if someone scans-in the same item on two different POS stations and the quantity is sold from underneath it, during the sale.
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Sticky Date-In On Add Inventory w/ Option
I've added a new 'Remember Date-In' feature under Settings > Store > Preferences. If checked, whatever date you select will *stick* during the Add Inventory process, until you're done with that batch.
So if you're 'back-dating' or 'pre-dating' inventory and want to set the date to a Date-In other than today, you won't have to keep re-selecting the date on each item -- it will hold until you're done with that batch. :)
Also, if you do change the date, the 'Date-In' text changes to *red* if it's a date in the past or *orange* if it's a date in the future. This is so you can have a visual queue that the date is something other than today.
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Duplicate Store Credit Payment, If New Layaway Is Created Using A Store Credit Payment
When creating a layaway, if the customer is using a Store Credit payment as their down payment, it created (deducted) two Store Credit payments on their Account History.
Sherry @ Sadie's found this issue. :)
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Inventory List Not Displaying Items When Emailed
Fixed an issue that caused some stores to see no list of items, when emailing an Inventory List to the consignor. It would display their account info, the total items and the total dollar amount, but not the individual items.
This was being caused by the Split and whether or not the store was using Pickup By/Expires On/Store Property days for their Splits.
This was reported by Kathie @ The Ruffled Closet.
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'Digital Signature' On Checks
I've added the ability to set a custom, 'digital signature' to your checks. :) For stores who cut checks in bulk, signing 500+ checks can be tedious.
To assign your 'digital signature' to each check, you'll first need to have your signature saved in an image format -- specifically, a .PNG file.
Next, make sure the file is named 'check_signature.png'.
And lastly, place this image file within the C:\_consignment_anywhere\reports\ folder. There's already a placeholder, 'blank' signature file there named check_signature.png, which you can overwrite.
Christine @ Encore requested this. :)
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'System Out of Memory' Alert When Printing
When printing receipts, tags, etc. -- and especially for stores that print a LOT of these, or have multiple copies of receipts enabled -- by the end of the day, they could run into a 'System Out of Memory' warning the next time they went to print.
The print *object* benefits from being Disposed after each use, thus releasing Memory vs. just stacking on top of itself.
I've applied the Dispose to everywhere printing happens -- e.g. receipts, tags, payouts (previous update), reports, lists, etc.
This was reported by Donna & Christine @ Encore.
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Payout Amount If 'Refresh' Isn't Clicked on Pay Accounts After Changing From/Through Dates
I changed the Pay Accounts screen so you no longer have to click 'Refresh' if you change the From/Through Dates.
This was causing a pretty big issue, which would include totals through today, thus making the check amount larger than what was intended -- i.e. the total of only Account History entries through the Through date selected.
Now, the totals refresh as soon as you change the From/Through Dates. :)
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Itemized Check Columns On Stub Cut-off Barcode ID
The Barcode ID was cutting-off on the 'stub' of checks, if 5 digits or greater.
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Add Note to Account When Item is Voided
When changing an item's status to 'Voided', I now add a Note to the consignor's account. :) This Note is set as an 'Important' note, documents which employee voided the item, and shows the Barcode ID + Item Details.
Also, when viewing this note, it cannot be deleted or updated, preventing employees with access to Void inventory from 'covering their tracks' after voiding an item.
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Re-Work the Adding Images Process for Inventory
I've re-worked the image-adding process on the View Item screen.
You'll now see an Images tab (which can be enabled/disabled via Settings > Store Options > Preferences). You can add up to 10 images by dragging and dropping the images onto the item.
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Jewelry Label Changes/Improvements
I've made a bunch of cosmetic + usability improvements to the jewelry labels.
Changes:
• The labels print right-side-up vs. upside-down. This means that when printing Batches, the first item will be at the bottom, the last item will be at the top.
• Changed font.
• Added Account ID.
• Rearranged things -- Barcode + Price are on the left 'wing', Category + Category Detail, along with Barcode ID and Account ID are on the right 'wing'.
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QuickBooks Import 'Imported record has an invalid date' Error
It was the file itself, when created by the .NET StreamWriter. :) You could take the contents of the file and paste it into a file that was not created by the StreamWriter and the import would work.
I rebuilt the .IIF file creation/record appending routine and now the .IIF file imports without error.
This was discovered by Christine @ Encore.
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If POS Misc Item is First Item In the Sale, When Scanning/Entering a Barcode, Warning Appears
Resolved the pop-up/warning when scanning items @ POS, if the first item in the list was a 'POS Misc. Item'. It would pop-up an alert that it couldn't detect if the item was or was not already in the list. Superficial, but annoying. :)
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Add 'Voided' and 'Not for Sale' To Search Inventory Screen
I've added both 'Voided' and 'Not for Sale' Status selections to the Search Inventory screen.
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Add Store Fee (Original + Discounted) To Items Sold Report
Added Store Fees (Both Original + Sold amount, if fees are discounted @ POS) to the Items Sold report!
This was requested by Michelle @ Second To None. :)
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Check If Amount Entered for Credit Card Payment is Greater Than The Total Due
On the 'Amount to Process' screen, you can no longer enter an amount greater than the Total Due. There is no 'change' with credit card payments, so you should never be able to enter more than what's owed.
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Square Jewelry Labels -- Barcode Cutting-off + Improvements
The barcode was getting cut-off a bit + I wasn't super-happy with the design/layout, so I've revamped the square jewelry label @ font, layout, size, etc. :)
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Total Sale Amount Not Reduced When Using % Off Coupon @ POS
The total sale amount was not discounting when a %-off coupon was used, so 'Discrepancy' would display on the Primary Sales Report. This would make your sales for the day look higher/be off vs. what the itemized/actual sales were. :(
This should've been more extensible code to begin with, to prevent this from happening, so this has since been changed to a better method @ handling what goes-in to/comes out of the list of items in a sale.
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Move 'Credit' & 'Debit' Buttons to 'Tasks' Area So 'Stats' Can Be Expanded
We've moved the 'Credit' and 'Debit' buttons within an account, from the 'More...' tab, to the main page, under 'Tasks'. The buttons have also been named 'Account Credit' and 'Account Debit'.
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Store Facebook, Twitter, etc. Cut-off If Over 45 Characters Long
The store's Facebook URL wouldn't go over 45 characters (both data field + text field were capped @ 45 characters) // I've bumped both of these up to 255 characters, so the Facebook (or Twitter) URL won't get cut-off anymore!
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Re-Brand to "Peeps" vs. "Consignment Anywhere"
The software is now officially...Peeps! There was too much confusion @ "Who is Consignment Anywhere?" "Are you them?" " Is that another company you recommend for Consignment Software?"
So the logo, the name, the website, etc. will all be changed to reflect the new Peeps brand!
We felt this was easier and better-fit under the Peeps *umbrella* -- i.e. stores use Peeps for everything! From consignment software, to system support, to system security...it's just...Peeps! :)
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Sort Pay Accounts by FIRST Name
You can now sort the Pay Accounts check-run by First Name! This was requested by Sherry @ Sadie's. :)
Previously, you could sort by Account ID or Last Name, so the checks print out in either order, respectively.
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Stats Reports! Department, Category, Brand, and More!
We've added an all-new section of reports -- 'Stats'! :) Something we hear storeowners talk about all the time, but not find in their existing consignment software, is stats reports. We've added a bunch of reports that make it easy to see core stats, quickly.
Those reports are:
• Department Stats -- Shows a total count, as well as total sold dollar amount, grouped by Departments.
• Category Stats -- Shows a total count, as well as total sold dollar amount, grouped by Category.
• Brand Stats -- Shows a total count, as well as total sold dollar amount, grouped by Brand. (Note: Brand is considered the first Category Detail in the list of Category Details for a Category).
• Tax Stats -- Shows the total dollar amount of tax collected, as well as total sold dollar amount, grouped by Tax Name.
• Account Stats -- Shows a total count of items sold, as well as total sold dollar amount, grouped by Account ID & Account Name.
• POS Misc. Item Stats -- Shows a total count, as well as total sold dollar amount, grouped by POS Misc. Item name.
• POS Coupon Stats -- Shows a total count, as well as total dollar amount redeemed, grouped by POS Coupon name.
These are available via All Reports > Stats, along with a date filter so you can report based on a specific date or range of dates.
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Added an 'End-of-Day' option on the Settings tab. If checked, when closing the software, it will automatically print both the Summary report, as well as the Primary Sales Report for the day. :)
We've configured this to only do so if the program is closed between 3:30 PM and 8:30 PM though. This way, if you close the software in the middle of the day, you don't have to wait for the sales reports to print.
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'Last Month' Quick Link for Reports
Added a 'Last Month' quick link to reports. :)
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Breakout 'Change' for Sales
'Change' is now itemized as its own (negative) payment for a sale. So on the Primary Sales Report, for example, you can now see the detail of change given, if any.
On receipts, the Change prints out in the list of payments, if any change was given.
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Multiple Quantity Items Handled on Reports
Multi-quantity items are now supported on the Items Sold report! For stores utilizing the 'Qty' field on inventory, this report now reflects each quantity sold vs. just the single line-item.
This was reported by Sherry @ Sadie's. :)
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Tag printing should be noticeably faster now. In v2.05, I changed the tag printing routine to handle printing Markdowns on tags. This caused tag printing to be 'slow'.
The issue was, I was doing a For Each, which made it so one tag would print, the print object would complete, then the next tag, and so on, and so on. This meant the 'Print Tags/Labels' screen would stay open while this For Each loop was processed.
Now, I've moved the data to be printed to a database View, which means when we send the print job through, it can send all *20 tags* and close the Print Tags/Labels screen, while the tags continue to process through the print queue.
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Make 'Category Details' Listbox Larger Font to Line-up Better w/ Detail Values
I've made the 'Category Details' listbox font larger and more-aligned with the values next to them.
Basically, the Add Inventory and View/Edit Items screens should be even easier/clearer @ Category Details. :)
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Payout Advance for Paying Consignors A Specific Dollar Amount
We've added a new Payout Advance option! This lets you pay a consignor a specific dollar amount, ahead of their payout.
Some tips & features about this new option:
• To do a Payout Advance, click More... > Payout Advance within the consignor's account.
• If the account's balance is at or below $0.00, you'll be alerted that cutting a Payout Advance will put their account in the hole.
• A Note is automatically added to their account, logging that a Payout Advance was done, what the amount was, and which employee cut the Payout.
• The account's History tab will be show a debit/negative entry named 'Payout Advance', in the amount of the Payout.
• The Payout's tab will show the new Check/Cash Payout that was cut.
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Tray Icon Disposes/Closes if Exit, then No Is Clicked
If you right-clicked the sofware icon down in the System Tray (down by the clock), clicked 'Exit', but answered 'No' to the 'Are you sure you want to close Peeps?', the icon would go away.
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Reprinting the 2-Across Tag Was Rotated/Flipped
Fixed the issue that caused the 2-Across tag to flip/rotate IF reprinted.
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Ability to Hide/Disable Category Details
You can now hide/disable Category Details that you no longer want to use or see during the Add Inventory process. To hide a Category Detail, head to Settings > Inventory. Select the Department > Category in question and then double-click the Category Detail, then the Detail Value.
You'll see a new 'Visibility' section and you can set the Category Detail in question to Active = Yes/No.
Any existing items will still be able to sell and function, but when you go to either Add Inventory or View/Edit Inventory, the Category Detail Value will no longer be available to choose.
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