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Release Update 23.12.12 DB Version 201

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The current 23.12.12 release is 23.12.12q DB201 updated on 4/1/2025

 

------------ Release Update 23.12.12 DB Version 201 ----------

Customer Properties

- New Attention Field to customer properties which allows for a new checkbox option to be dragged and added to your customer properties designer screens.  Using this option will call attention to the user at POS by turning the color of the customer to RED and calling attention to the user.  

- Also added to the Customer Search function and able to be used as a search criteria.

Number of Search Criteria Fields Increased 

- Increased the number of search fields on the following search / find forms in IMRCHNT: 

-- PC Settings Finder
-- Author Find
-- Coupon Account Find
-- Customer List Find
-- Customer Order Find
-- DTH Finder


-- POS Sale Finder
Also includes other items in Transaction Finder:

--  Product Sales Transactions
-- Service Sale Transactions
-- Balance Card Sale Transactions
-- Tender Transactions
-- Find Sale For Review
-- Imported Sales
-- Find Sales By Hour
-- Detailed Journal Listing
-- Tax Exempt Listing


-- Recycled Balance Card Finder
Also includes other items in Global Edits:

-- Find Tender Accounts
-- Find Customer for Global Editing
-- Find Coupon Accounts for Global Editing
-- Find PO Detail for Global Editing
-- Find Product for Global Editing


-- Tender Balance History Find
-- Tender Accounts Find
-- Product Finder
-- Front List Find
-- Purchase Order Finder
-- PO Product Detail Finder
-- Return Find
-- Return Detail Finder
-- To Be Returned Find
-- Sale Find
-- Vendor Find
-- Vendor Mapping Finder
-- Drawer Management Find
-- Service Find


Last Allocation Date

- New field capturing the date and time of the Last Allocation.   This field and column will be available in Customer Order Properties.  Use detail find under Modules > Customer Orders to search by Last Allocation Date on particular Customer Orders in your system.


iM Web APP

- Updated access to search by Store ID.

- Release Update 23.12.12b DB Version 201

Last Allocation Date Bug Fix

- During receiving the Customer Order Allocation Save window didn't pop up.  Fixed Bug in Finding Customer Orders Related to Products and updates Last Allocation Date to current date / time.

- Release Update 23.12.12c DB Version 201

Pineapple Payments Customer Tokens / Saved Credit Cards

- Update to fix Pineapple Payments token saving credit cards for customers for later usage.  

- Release Update 23.12.12d DB Version 201

Indie Commerce / Import Export Files 

- Feature in Indie Commerce Properties / Import Export Data that allowing the user to pick between regular txt file exports or creating a csv type of file with new checkbox option on form.  

- Removed the Delete button from the toolbar to stop users from accidentally deleting records.  Moved the delete button into the Edit menu with 2 are you sure confirmation messages.


Pineapple Payments Customer Tokens / Saved Credit Cards

- Update to fix Pineapple Payments token saving credit cards for customers for later usage.  Allows for manual entry at Pineapple device.

- Release Update 23.12.12e DB Version 201

Purchase Orders and Vendor Policy 

- Update the Estimated Arrival Day to include the Vendor Policy setting of Lead Time Days.  New value will be Today + Lead Time Days.  

- Release Update 23.12.12f DB Version 201

Indie Commerce / Import Export Files

- Added quotes around data when exporting Custom Products and WordPress Export Types.  

- Added new schedule task options to automate the Custom Product and the WordPress Exports.  Custom Product export now also includes same available column options for export as WordPress export type.  The custom product export will run a new query every time of all products that match the search an export the file.  The WordPress export type will only export data from the last time a file was created, using only progressive updates in each new file.   

The new parameters now available include:

- ExportProductUpdates
- CustomProductExport

- Release Update 23.12.12g DB Version 201

Indie Commerce / Import Export Files

- INDIE COMMERCE CUSTOMERS MUST ADD THE FULL URL IF UPGRADING FROM A PREVIOUS VERSION OF IMRCHNT.
 

  • Alter the column length for the Production URL to 500 characters.  Allowing customers to enter the full path to your Website Export Order File.  Also removed the default path for the production URL.  Indie Commerce customers need to set their full URL in this space.  Use the following paths along with your domain name.  Make sure to include the http:// or https:// depending on which URL you need to point to.
  • Indie Commerce 1.0:   https://www.YOURWEBSITEDOMAIN.com/admin/store/orders/export.csv
  • Indie Commerce 2.0:  https://www.YOURWEBSITEDOMAIN.com/pos-export/imrchnt
  • WordPress: YOURDOMAIN.com
    • Make sure the following path is an active valid location.  Update your BookMarketID in Tools > Options
    • Path: https://www.YOURDOMAIN.com/wp-content/uploads/orderexportfiles/orders-[WP_BookMarketVendorID].csv"

- Release Update 23.12.12h DB Version 201

Customer Finder

  • New Customer Contact Method column added to Customer Finder screen.  

- Release Update 23.12.12i DB Version 201

Indie Commerce

  • Update to fix downloading of Web Order File for Indie Commerce 2.0 customers.

- Release Update 23.12.12j DB Version 201

Customer Finder

  • Update to Customer Contact Method in Customer Finder screen including export to csv function.  

Customer Attention Settings at POS

- Update to POS with a customer attached to a sale for clearing the color of the attention field when moving from sale to sale.

- Release Update 23.12.12k DB Version 201

Customer Orders

  • Bug fix when using Tools > System Option > Customer Order Tab "Automatically allocate from available stock on initial entry", when checked this will automatically fill in the Last Allocated Time Date.  

- Release Update 23.12.12l DB Version 201

Point of Sale Response Codes

  • New response codes for failed transactions including user time outs, user cancels, device not online and device not available errors.  If the user lets the device time out, IMRCHNT will respond with the following message.  If you click Retry, it will automatically prompt the user again on the pin pad for payment again.  

Point of Sale Escape Function

  • Fix to not allow escape function after completing a sale at POS and after the approval message but before printing of a receipt.

Product Image Finder

  • Added instructions for Product Images Finder for type of pictures.

Find Vendor

  • Additional columns added to Find Vendor grid, Contact, Address, City, State, Zip, Email, Phone, SAN, EDI and Master Account.

- Release Update 23.12.12m DB Version 201

Web Order Importer

  • Added the columns Accounting Category, Department Category, Tax Code, Discount and Reorder Rule as default options when new products are adding through the web order importer.  

- Release Update 23.12.12n DB Version 201

Indie Commerce / Import Export Tool

  • Update to Custom Product / Store Book Export file creation to fix header and extra line being added to export file.

- Release Update 23.12.12o DB Version 201

Find Vendor

  • Option added the Find Vendor to allow limiting which Vendor Address Type is shown on the search results.  A default value was added to the system options screen or you can use the VIEW menu to limit options also.  

Product Photo Lookup at Ingram

  • Added validation check for blank ISBNs when doing Ingram web services photo look up to stop any extra lag that may be caused by sending null value.    

System Options

  • New System options for Default Customer Type and Default Vendor Address Type to Show in Find Vendor.

- Release Update 23.12.12p DB Version 201

Product Photo Lookup at Ingram

  • Ingram Web API bug fix. 

POS Round Up Split Tenders

  • Bug fix to allow Round Up when using a split tender at POS with zero priced security is set in POS Security option enabled. 

Customer Finder

  • Added Cust_Code3 to the Customer Finder Display Columns.

- Release Update 23.12.12q DB Version 201

Custom Product Photos

  • New Image Hosting Space available on IMRCHNT allowing more than 18 million custom images now.  
    In your IMRCHNT settings, change your base image URL to: img.venstock.com/imSharedFiles/

    Also new No Image Found Default Image: http://img.venstock.com/imSharedFiles/MISC/noimagefound.jpg

    Folder Structure for IM Shared Files Folder:

    Product Number Length > 0 And Product Number Length < 5
    ' IMAGE GOES IN MISC FOLDER FOR IMAGE

    Product Number is Not Numeric 
    ' IMAGE GOES IN MISC FOLDER FOR IMAGE

    Product Number is Numeric 
    And Product Number Starts With -978 Or Product Number Starts With -979 
    ' IMAGE GOES IN FOLDER ISBN_[5THDIGIT OF PRODUCT NUMBER]

    Product Number is Numeric 
    And Product Number Doesn't Starts With -978 Or Product Number Doesn't Starts With -979 
    ' IMAGE GOES IN FOLDER [4THDIGIT OF PRODUCT NUMBER]

Scheduled Tasks

  • Added a new schedule task options to automate the Store Books Exports.   
    The new parameters now available when using imRunBatchProgram.exe:

    - StoreBooksExport

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