Bookstore Manager Emails

The monthly update disc you receive from BSMGR for RMS contains a current copy of the Christian Books & More^® database, new images, music samples, and program changes. Remember to run IVDC after installing your update to reflect retail prices changes for your store’s inventory items. When that program completes, you can use IVL to print labels with the new prices. For your convenience, the RMS program changes included with this update are listed below.

The following price files for the active and upcoming Munce sales catalogs are included on this update.

• M-CHR-RN.TXT = Regular Christmas Sales Event Catalog [Oct – Nov]
  (30-Oct-2017 thru 26-Nov-2017)
• M-CHR-CN.TXT = Conservative Christmas Sales Event Catalog [Oct – Nov]
  (30-Oct-2017 thru 26-Nov-2017)
• M-CHR-RD.TXT = Regular Christmas Sales Event Catalog [Oct – Dec]
  (30-Oct-2017 thru 24-Dec-2017)
• M-CHR-CD.TXT = Conservative Christmas Sales Event Catalog [Oct – Dec]
  (30-Oct-2017 thru 24-Dec-2017)
• M-2DAY-R.TXT = Regular 2 Day Sales Event Catalog [After Thanksgiving]
  (24-Nov-2017 thru 25-Nov-2017)
• M-CTC-R.TXT = Regular Countdown To Christmas Sales Catalog
  (27-Nov-2017 thru 31-Dec-2017)

If you are sending out one of these Munce catalogs to your customers, you can run "IVPROMO" in BSMGR and enter the appropriate file name.

As a reminder, the program will check your inventory file for the following:

• If you are missing products from the catalog, the program will prompt you to add them, pulling basic information (title, author, retail, etc.) from the Christian Books & More database.
• Once missing products have been added to your inventory file, the program will set up the following for all the products in the catalog file:
  » Sale price; » Sale start date; » Sale end date; » Promo code.

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Enhancements and Changes for 8.10

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CBALOCAL:

• NEW PASSWORD LOGIC – MADE A SMALL CHANGE TO THE LOGIC CREATING A NEW PASSWORD AT PARABLE’S REQUEST.

COMM:

• DIRECT CALL TO FTPTRAN – WE DON’T USE THE VARIOUS OPTIONS ON THIS SCREEN, SO IT NOW CALLS FTPTRAN AND EXITS.

DAILY:

• ADDED LOG FILE – DAILYPROGRAM.LOG.

EOITRAN:

• ADDED A WARNING IF CHILKAT FTP CONTROL IS NOT REGISTERED.

IVM:

• CHANGE ISBN OPTION – BUTTON NO LONGER SHOWS IN ADD MODE.

MLM2:

• COSMETIC – CHANGED THE WORDS “TITLE” TO “DESC.”.

POS:

• NON-TOUCH POS WASN’T TIMING OUT.

• TURNED OFF SIGNATURE CAPTURE FOR PAX DEBIT.

QSCAN:

• CHANGED THE FILTERING OF INVALID CHARACTERS IN THE ITEM NUMBERS.

SLE:

• ADDED A VIEW ONLY OPTION.

SLP:

• G/L LINK – WHEN POSTING DEPTS 1-96 SALES TO GL, IF BSM CAN’T FIND THE G/L NUMBER IT NO GIVES THE DEPARTMENT NUMBER IN THE ERROR MESSAGE.

SLTR:

• TWEAKED THE WAY A USER SIGNATURE IS PRINTED.

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Please contact us if you experience problems installing your update.

Remember, you can view program enhancements and fixes as well as other emailed communications from Bookstore Manager at emails.bsmgr.com.

Your BSMGR Support Team
support@bsmgr.com | (800) 997-6724 (option 2)

     

The monthly update disc you receive from BSMGR for RMS contains a current copy of the Christian Books & More^® database, new images, music samples, and program changes. Remember to run IVDC after installing your update to reflect retail prices changes for your store’s inventory items. When that program completes, you can use IVL to print labels with the new prices. For your convenience, the RMS program changes included with this update are listed below.

The following price files for the active Munce sales catalogs are included on this update. Unfortunately, the files have incorrect data for the Capital One Week Sale (November 21-26). The corrected files are available for download. You should have already received an email with instructions on downloading them. If you don’t remember seeing that email, click here to access our online email archive.

• M-FAL-R.TXT = Regular Fall Sales Catalog
  (11-Sep-2017 thru 29-Oct-2017)
• M-FAL-C.TXT = Conservative Fall Sales Catalog
  (11-Sep-2017 thru 29-Oct-2017)

• M-CHR-RN.TXT = Regular Christmas Sales Event Catalog [Oct – Nov]
  (30-Oct-2017 thru 26-Nov-2017)
• M-CHR-CN.TXT = Conservative Christmas Sales Event Catalog [Oct – Nov]
  (30-Oct-2017 thru 26-Nov-2017)

• M-CHR-RD.TXT = Regular Christmas Sales Event Catalog [Oct – Dec]
  (30-Oct-2017 thru 24-Dec-2017)
• M-CHR-CD.TXT = Conservative Christmas Sales Event Catalog [Oct – Dec]
  (30-Oct-2017 thru 24-Dec-2017)

• M-2DAY-R.TXT = Regular 2 Day Sales Event Catalog [After Thanksgiving]
  (24-Nov-2017 thru 25-Nov-2017)

If you are sending out one of these Munce catalogs to your customers, you can run "IVPROMO" in BSMGR and enter the appropriate file name.

As a reminder, the program will check your inventory file for the following:

• If you are missing products from the catalog, the program will prompt you to add them, pulling basic information (title, author, retail, etc.) from the Christian Books & More database.
• Once missing products have been added to your inventory file, the program will set up the following for all the products in the catalog file:
  » Sale price; » Sale start date; » Sale end date; » Promo code.

CBALOCAL:

• NEW PROGRAM – AUTOMATE CONFIGURING BSMGR FOR PARTICIPATING IN THE PARABLE/CBA PARTNERSHIP IN THE NATIONAL “GET IT LOCAL” PROGRAM.

EZDATA:

• FIXED FILE UPLOAD ISSUE.

FTPTRAN:

• MULTI-ADDRESS FOR MULTI-STORE – THIS FEATURE APPARENTLY HASN’T BEEN USED SINCE WE CONVERTED FROM USING BSMINET TO CHILKAT FOR FTP ORDERING. THE REMOTE URL WASN’T BEING SET FOR ACKS, SO IT COULDN’T DOWNLOAD THE CONFIRMATION FILES.

IVBMMLT:

• MULTI-STORE WORK ORDER – SOLD IN XX DAYS. WAS TAKING INTO ACCOUNT ITEMS ALREADY ON ORDER.

IVVM:

• MULTI-ADDRESS – FIXED OVERLAPPING BUTTONS ON MULTI-STORE TAB (MULTI-ADDRESS FEATURE).

IVWO:

• MULTI-STORE – RUNNING A REPORT FOR STORES OTHER THAN #1 AT STORE 1 AND USING THE SOLD BETWEEN DATES ALWAYS USED THE EXTENDED DAILY FOR FOR STORE #1 REGARDLESS OF THE STORE CHOSEN.

SCHEDULE:

• DIAG TAB – ADDED PARABLE VARIABLES – ADDED “SEND MAIL” AND “SEND SALES” VALUES.

• FIXED AN ISSUE WITH EOI LOGGING.

SLUL:

• NEW OPTION FOR PURGING TRANSACTION FILE – THIS IS THE FILE USED IN SLTR. IT CAN BE A HUGE FILE. IT IS LOCATED IN THE DIRECTORY AND IS CALLED “TRANFILE”. THIS NEW UTILITY WILL LET YOU PURGED BASED UPON OLDEST DATE YOU WANT TO KEEP.

SYS:

• 7016 SCREEN CHANGES – MISC. CONFIG 7016 IS THE SETUP INFO SCREEN FOR PARABLE. REMOVED BBS NUMBER, PROTOCOL, BAUD RATE AND OTHER FIELDS NO LONGER USED/NEEDED.

TRAN:

• MULTI-STORE PRINT – TRANSFER LINE DIDN’T HAVE ITEM# ON IT.

TUTOR:

• ADD “SECURITY METRICS SAQ-C 3.2” – ADDED NEW TUTOR DOCUMENT ON HOW TO FILL OUT THE SAQ-C 3.2 FORM ON THE SECURITY METRICS WEBSITE.

Please contact us if you experience problems installing your update.

Remember, you can view program enhancements and fixes as well as other emailed communications from Bookstore Manager at emails.bsmgr.com.

Your BSMGR Support Team
support@bsmgr.com | (800) 997-6724 (option 2)

The monthly update disc you receive from BSMGR for RMS contains a current copy of the Christian Books & More^® database, new images, music samples, and program changes. Remember to run IVDC after installing your update to reflect retail prices changes for your store’s inventory items. When that program completes, you can use IVL to print labels with the new prices. For your convenience, the RMS program changes included with this update are listed below.

The price file for the active Munce catalog is included on this update.

• M-FAL-R.TXT = Regular Fall Sales Catalog
  (11-Sep-2017 thru 29-Oct-2017)
• M-FAL-C.TXT = Conservative Fall Sales Catalog
  (11-Sep-2017 thru 29-Oct-2017)

If you are sending out one of these Munce catalogs to your customers, you can run "IVPROMO" in BSMGR and enter the appropriate file name.

As a reminder, the program will check your inventory file for the following:

• If you are missing products from the catalog, the program will prompt you to add them, pulling basic information (title, author, retail, etc.) from the Christian Books & More database.
• Once missing products have been added to your inventory file, the program will set up the following for all the products in the catalog file:
  » Sale price; » Sale start date; » Sale end date; » Promo code.

ARM:

• MULTI-STORE – BATCH MODE ON ADDING TO OTHER STORES WAS GETTING FILE ERROR 39,02.

IVBC:

• TWEAKS FOR CONSISTENCY WITH IVMMINMX.

IVL:

• NOW SHOWS COUNT OF LABELS IN FILE.

• TWEAKS FOR CONSISTENCY WITH IVMMINMX.

IVMIO:

• TWEAKED ERROR MESSAGES – IF MULTI-STORE BRANCHES ARE SET TO A NUMBER THAT IS HIGHER THAN THE NUMBER OF IVM FILES IN THE BOOK FOLDER, THE ERROR MESSAGES DIDN’T HAVE A SPACE AFTER THE FILE NAME MAKING THE MESSAGE NOT AS EASILY READ AS IT SHOULD BE.

IVMMINMX:

• NOT PRINTING BARCODE ON LABELS – WHEN PRINTING LABELS FROM OPTION #19 IN IVUL TO A BLAZER/BLASTER/ZEBRA PRINTER, THE LABELS DIDN’T HAVE THE BARCODE. THEY WERE ALSO MISSING THE LAST RECEIVED DATE THAT NORMALLY PRINTS NEXT TO THE PRODUCT DESCRIPTION.

IVP:

• MULTI-STORE – SOLD SINCE WASN’T ALWAYS WORKING PROPERLY.

IVST:

• MULTI-STORE SORT NOW HAS A CHECK BOX FOR SALES SINCE INCEPTION.

MENU:

• CHECKS BACKUP AND EOI RESULT. NOTIFIES OF FAILURE. IT ONLY CHECKS ONCE PER DAY ON USER 0.

PAX:

• TWEAKED “IN BATCH” VOID.

POS:

• NEW POS TIMEOUT OPTION – SYS | ENVIRONMENT | ADD ‘POS-TIMEOUT-MIN X’ WHERE X = TIME IN MINUTES BEFORE TIMING OUT. THE TIMEOUT IS ONLY TRIGGERED IF NO ITEMS HAVE BEEN RUNG UP (WON’T TIMEOUT MID-TRANSACTION) AND THE CURSOR MUST BE IN THE ITEM # FIELD. AFTER A TIMEOUT, THE EMPLOYEE MUST RE-ENTER THEIR CREDENTIALS TO ACCESS POS.

• MULTI-STORE – BATCH MODE ON ADDING TO OTHER STORES WAS GETTING FILE ERROR 39,02.

• RINGING UP BACK-TO-BACK GIFT CARDS WOULD FAIL.

POSSCRNS:

• PAY ON LAYAWAY WAS TRUNCATED ON TOUCH POS.

SCHEDULE:

• THERE ARE 4 BOGUS GL FILES IN THE COPY-LIST THAT FAIL TO COPY AND MAKE THE REPORT A FAILURE. NOW ALLOWS UP TO 4 FILE COPY FAILS FROM CPR.

SLA:

• 10-YEAR EXCEL NOT WORKING.

SLFC:

• INDEX OUT OF BOUNDS ERROR – THERE WAS AN INCORRECT QUARTER ARRAY VALUE FOR THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER. ALSO ADDED A POP-UP WINDOW TO SHOW WHEN THE PROGRAM IS RUNNING.

SYS:

• RECEIVED FEEDBACK THAT THE WORDING ON 4074, 4075, AND 4076 WAS CONFUSING – CHANGED.

TRAN:

• MULTI-STORE – PICKING SLIPS NOW HAVE A NUMBER AND ARE RECEIVED BY THAT NUMBER.

TUTOR:

• ADD QSCAN DOCUMENTATION LINK.

Please contact us if you experience problems installing your update.

Remember, you can view program enhancements and fixes as well as other emailed communications from Bookstore Manager at emails.bsmgr.com.

Your BSMGR Support Team
support@bsmgr.com | (800) 997-6724 (option 2)