Boost Store Traffic with CBA’s Get It Local Today Initiative

Get It Local

Your store matters. To you. To your customers. To us. To the industry. To the Kingdom.

That’s why we’re fully supporting CBA’s industry-wide program, Get It Local Today, which connects online consumers to local Christian stores-for the entire industry’s benefit.

If you haven’t heard of the program, Get It Local Today allows retailers like you to:

  • Receive direct customer referrals from participating Christian publishers
  • Help customers find your store
  • Broadcast your store’s inventory online-even if you don’t have a website!
  • Increase your sales

Will you join? It’s FREE to you and you can participate by visiting GetItLocalToday.com/enroll. We hope you’ll join this joint effort to boost store traffic.

After you enroll, you need to configure BSMGR to fully participate. You can do that in two steps.

  1. At the Enter Program Name, run “CBALOCAL”. If you get a Program Not Found response, you need to install the October 2017 update.
  2. Make sure the Windows Task Scheduler is running the SCHEDULE program.
    Click here for instructions on setting up SCHEDULE in Windows® 10
    Click here for instructions on setting up SCHEDULE in Windows® 8
    Click here for instructions on setting up SCHEDULE in Windows® 7

    If you have any problems getting everything set up in BSMGR, please let us know.

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RMS Version 8.10P Program Changes on the October 2017 Update

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.


Enhancements and Changes for 8.10


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.

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Corrected Files for the Munce 2017 Christmas Sales Event Catalogs

NOTE: If you are not sending one of the 2017 Munce Christmas Sales Event catalogs, you can ignore this message.

The October update includes files to help automate configuring BSMGR for the 2017 Christmas Sales Event catalogs. Unfortunately, the files have incorrect data for the Capital One Week Sale (November 21-26). The corrected files are available for download.

If you plan on sending the 2017 Munce Winter catalog, please download and process the data file that will prepare your inventory.

  1. If you haven’t already installed the October 2017 update, please do so.
  2. Download the Zipped catalog data files by clicking here.
  3. When the download completes, open the Zip file and extract/copy the files to your BOOK folder.
  4. In BSMGR, run “IVPROMO” at the Enter Program Name prompt.
  5. At the “Enter File Name” prompt, type in the appropriate file name (see details below), then click the OK button.
  6. Any products that are in the catalog and not in your inventory will open the IVM “Add” screen. Add the missing product(s) to your inventory. The catalog’s promo code, start date, end date, and sale price will be set for all the products in the catalog.
  • 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)

Please note the information in the 2 Day Sales Event Catalog file are not impacted by this correction.

If you have any problems downloading the file or getting the file to process from within IVPROMO, please let us know.

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