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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.

IMAGEBTN:

• IF A PRODUCT’S CUSTOM IMAGE IS FROM AN EXISTING IMAGE FILE THAT HAS SPACES THE FILE NAME, THE LOCAL COPY OF THE ORIGINAL DIDN’T COPY. THE PROGRAM NOW ALLOWS SOURCE IMAGE FILE NAMES TO HAVE SPACES.

MLMPAGE:

• ADDED TOWARD NEXT COUPON TO SEARCH SCREEN SCREEN ADDED TWO VALUES. AMT TOWARD COUPON AND VISITS TOWARD NEXT COUPON.

• UNSOLICITED EMAILS OK? FIELD NOW SHOWS YES OR NO ON THE LOOKUP SCREEN.

CONV810:

• ADDED MULTI-STORE CONVERSION SUPPORT – ONE STEP IN THE CONVERSION IS TO CONVERT EXT01. IN A MULTI-STORE SETTING, WE ALSO NEED TO CONVERT EXT02, EXT03, ETC. BASED ON THE NUMBER OF LOCATIONS.

FTP:

• UPDATED FROM USING THE 2013 ChilkatFtp2.dll TO USING THE 2016 ChilkatAx-9.5.0-win32.dll FOR FTP. IN ADDITION TO FTP AND FTPS, IT ALSO NOW SUPPORT SFTP.

FTPTRAN:

• CHANGES FOR FLASHBACK – NOW USING BSMGR FTP INSTEAD OF BSMINET.

IVO:

• CALL FTPTRAN INSTEAD OF COMM – WHEN YOU CLICK “SEND ELECTRONICALLY”, THE PROGRAM NOW CALLS FTPTRAN INSTEAD OF COMM.

OE:

• PASSWORD WASN’T KEEPING EMP NAME.

POS:

• TOUCH POS – CHANGED F5 TO CHANGE FROM A LABEL TO A BUTTON ON THE PRICE VERIFY SCREEN.

• PRINT PREVIOUS GIFT RECEIPT REQUIRED EXITING BSM BEFORE IT PRINTED.

• PRICE VERIFY SCREEN – YOU CAN NOW OVERRIDE THE SYSTEM SETTING FOR PRICE-VERIFY IN POINT OF SALE BY SETTING THE VARIABLE “PRICE-VERIFY” TO EITHER AN “N” OR A “Y”. SOME STORES WANT IT TO VERIFY THE PRICE IF THEY ARE USING A TABLET TO RUN POS.

• MISC. CONFIGURATIONS #4040 – COUPON EXCLUSIONS – WE NOW HAVE UP TO 5 MAIL LIST CODES TO EXCLUDE IN-STORE COUPONS BASED UPON PURCHASES.

SLTR:

• VIEW BY CUSTOMER WASN’T DISPLAYING ALL OF THE RECORDS.

• FIXED ISSUE THAT COULD TRIGGER INDEX OUT OF BOUNDS ERROR.

• WHEN DOING A FIND, BSM DIDN’T MOVE THE HORIZONTAL SCROLL POSITION TO THE COLUMN WHERE THE DATA WAS FOUND.

• COULDN’T DO SEARCHES WITHOUT GOING IN AND OUT OF SLTR.

SYS:

• MISC. CONFIGURATIONS #4040 – COUPON EXCLUSIONS – WE NOW HAVE UP TO 5 MAIL LIST CODES TO EXCLUDE IN-STORE COUPONS BASED UPON PURCHASES.

• UPDATED USER ENV CREDIT CARD TAB TO MATCH USERENV.

USERENV:

• CHECKS TO SEE IF IT WAS CALLED BY SYS AND PROCEEDS ACCORDINGLY.

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 files for multiple Munce catalogs are included on this update.

• M-WIN-R.TXT = Regular Winter Sales Catalog (active thru 26-Feb-2017)
  

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• M-EAS-R.TXT = Regular Easter Sales Catalog (27-Feb-2017 thru 16-Apr-2017)
• M-EAS-C.TXT = Conservative Easter Sales Catalog (27-Feb-2017 thru 16-Apr-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.

DATERTNS:

• ADDING/SUBTRACT DAYS FROM A GIVEN DATE CHANGED THE WAY THE CALCULATION WAS DONE TO CORRECT BEHAVIOUR THAT WAS OFF ONE DAY IN 2017.

EMP:

• COULDN’T ADD NEW ACCOUNT – GETTING ERROR MESSAGE, “THE LONG PASSWORD CANNOT BE BLANK”.

FIXPROMO:

• SWITCHED DATE ARRANGEMENT – RECEIVED REQUEST TO CHANGE DATE ARRANGEMENT FROM YYMMDD TO MMDDYY SO IT MATCHES HOW THE PROMO DATES ARE ENTERED IN IVM.

POS:

• FIXED POP WINDOW DIMENSIONS FOR MISC->ASSIGN FREQ BUYER.

SLOC:

• DEBUG LINE – CREATE POS FILES WASN’T WORKING.

INVOPRT:

• RETURN MESSAGE ETC. ON INVOICE PRINT – SYS CONFIG 4011 ALLOWED FOR A MESSAGE TO PRINT AFTER EVERY TRANSACTION. THE MESSAGE DID NOT PRINT ON THE INVOICE. WE HAVE ADDED THE MESSAGE TO THE 8.5 BY 11 INVOICE PRINT AS WELL.

OE:

• WRONG EMP FILE.

SLEMP:

• FULL NAME WASN’T PRINTING CORRECT.

SLIV:

• WASN’T RUNNING WHEN CALLED BY DAILY.

SLTR:

• ADDED WORDPAD OPTION.

• SOMETIMES DIDN’T SHOW DATA.

TIME:

• LABEL CHANGE – INSTEAD OF SHOWING 45.50 ON TIME REPORT IT NOW SHOWS 45:50 FOR HRS:MINS.

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)

RMS Version 8.02L and 8.10G Program Changes on the January 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.

EMP:

• ADDED “SHOW PASSWORD” BUTTON – BY DEFAULT, BOTH THE SHORT AND LONG PASSWORDS ARE NOW DISGUISED. YOU CAN CLICK THE NEW “SHOW PASSWORD” BUTTON TO SEE AND CHANGE THEM.

IVUL:

• OPTION 8 GAVE A FILE ERROR 48.

POS:

• FIXED ISSUE WITH SELECTING A CUSTOMER BY FREQUENT BUYER NUMBER.

IVR:

• PRINT/VIEW/EMAIL A RETURN HAD NO CANCEL BUTTON.

POS:

• DECLINED/INSUFFICIENT CREDIT CARDS – IF THE TRANSACTION ISN’T COMPLETED BSM NOW POPS A WINDOW ASKING USER TO PRESS TO CONTINUE. THIS PREVENTS USERS FROM ACCIDENTLY FINISHING THE SALE AS A CASH TRANSACTION.

SLIV:

• THE DATE SOLD COLUMN IN EXCEL WAS PLACING MONTH IN BOTH DAY AND MONTH FIELDS.

SLTR:

• ADDED GRID FOR REGISTER TAPES.

SYS:

• MISC CONFIG #4068 – CHANGE LABEL “DEPARTMENT 1-48” TO “DEPARTMENT 1-96”.

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.

ARE:

• MADE THE ENTRY SCREEN A BIT MORE INTUITIVE BY ADDING AN “END BATCH” BUTTON.

• REFERENCE LIST BOX – MADE THE ITEMS MORE DESCRIPTIVE AS TO THE EFFECT THEY HAVE ON THE ACCOUNT BALANCE. HAD TO SHRINK THE FONT IN ORDER TO DO SO.

EMP:

• COSMETIC – MLD ACCESS NOW READS MLUL/MLD ACCESS.

EZADMAIL:

• TWEAKED THE BLOCKING OF BAD IMAGE FILE TYPES.

• FIXED FE 39 ON RAWTS.

EZDATA:

• FIXED ISSUE WITH PRODUCT SELECTION – IF THERE WERE MORE THAN 99 ITEMS IN THE “AVAILABLE” LIST BOX, SELECTING AN ITEM BEYOND THE 99TH ITEM IN THE LIST WOULD SHOW/SELECT THE INCORRECT ITEM.

IVOP:

• CLARIFIED MESSAGE FOR BigBISACv3 – BigBISACv3 REQUIRES THE LOGIN-STRING, PASSWORD-STRING, AND BILL-TO ACCOUNT INFORMATION ON THE ELECTRONIC VARIABLES TAB IN IVVM. IF ANY ARE BLANK, IVO NOW SHOWS A MESSAGE THAT SPECIFIES THESE MUST BE FILLED IN FOR BigBISACv3.

IVRC:

• KEYWORD FILE IN IVI – BSMGR NOW CREATES A KEYWORD LOOKUP FILE FOR ARCHIVED DELETED ITEMS IN INVENTORY. BEFORE USING, USER MUST RUN IVUL #14.

LOGS:

• FIXED FE39 ON NAMES00.

MLUL:

• NOW ASKS FOR PASSCODE.

NOTEPROG:

• FIXED ISSUE WITH PASTING TEXT.

POS:

• FIXED ISSUE WHERE SYS 7002 SET TO WELCOME RESPONDERS ONLY WOULD STILL PROMPT FOR EMAIL RECEIPT.

SLOC:

• PRINT CONSIGNEE REPORT – IF YOU JUST PUT IN A CONSIGNEE # AND THEN CLICK “CONTINUE”, THE PROGRAM DIDN’T REACT. YOU HAD TO PRESS ENTER OR TAB. THIS HAS BEEN CORRECTED.

SYS:

• ADDED CHECK BOX TO SELECT TO USE A WELCOME COUPON IN EZDATA.

ACCESS:

• ADDED SALE PRICES AND NOTES TO BSMGR.MDB. THE NOTES ARE IN A TABLE CALLED INVENTORY NOTES.

• IVM NOTES NOW EXPORTED.

FTPTRAN:

• REMOVED STL AND ADDED INGRAM ALTERNATE.

IVO:

• REMOVED STL FROM FULL PO STOCK CHECK.

IVOP:

• OUT OF BOUNDS ERROR PRINT DEPT COST.

IVR:

• DEPT TOTALS WERE INCORRECT.

POS:

• MODIFY DISCOUNTS WASN’T WORKING CORRECTLY.

• MANAGER LOGIN WAS COMING UP WHEN EMP PASSWORDS WERE NOT USED.

• FIXED ISSUE WHERE SYS 7002 SET TO WELCOME RESPONDERS ONLY WOULD STILL PROMPT FOR EMAIL RECEIPT.

SCHEDULE:

• FIXED ISSUE WITH FTPING MISC FILES.

SLCM:

• FIXED FE 39 ON SLHDR.

SLGL:

• ALLOW OTHER NON-BSM GIFT CARDS – ASSUMING OTHER GIFT CARDS HAVE BEEN IMPORTED INTO BSM, WE CAN NOW TRANSLATE OLD BARCODES TO THE BSM FORMAT WITH NEW ENV VARIABLE “GIFTCARD-LAYOUT”. LENGTH OF PREFIX “,” PREFIX “,” LENGTH OF NUMBER TO USE. FOR EXAMPLE: 5,07654,6 WITH “07654000123456” TRANSLATES TO “R 123456”.

SYS:

• REMOVED STL FROM MISC. CONFIG #2075.

THEFLAGS:

• REMOVED STL FROM STOCK STATUS.

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 on this update are listed below.

The price files for multiple Munce catalogs are included on this update.

• M-NOV-RN.TXT = Regular sale pricing – November catalog (31-Oct-2016 thru 27-Nov-2016)
• M-NOV-RD.TXT = Regular sale pricing – November catalog (31-Oct-2016 thru 24-Dec-2016)
  

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• M-NOV-CN.TXT = Conservative sale pricing – November catalog (31-Oct-2016 thru 27-Nov-2016)
• M-NOV-CD.TXT = Conservative sale pricing – November catalog (31-Oct-2016 thru 24-Dec-2016)
  

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• M-2DAY-R.TXT = Regular sale pricing – November/December 2 Day Sale (Set dates in IVPROMO)
  

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• M-DEC-R.TXT = Regular sale pricing – December catalog (28-Nov-2016 thru 31-Dec-2016)

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. You will need to specify the start and end dates for the 2 Day sales catalog items.

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.

EXITPRO:

• EXIT TO COMMAND PROMPT FROM MENU – WHEN BSMGR IS STARTED "AS ADMINISTRATOR", THE EXIT TO COMMAND PROMPT OPTION FROM THE MENU WOULDN’T WORK PROPERLY.

EZDATA:

• FIXED AN ISSUE WITH "SEND CAMPAIGN" FROM THE FIRST SCREEN.

IVGL:

• ADDED TITLE OPTION.

IVPR:

• UNRECEIVING OF SPECIAL ORDERS.

IVR:

• FIXED ISSUE WITH MULTIPLE "TO" EMAIL ADDRESSES.

IVUL:

• THE SALE PRICES WERE OFF ON IMPORT FROM EXCEL.

MENU:

• ADDED THE ABILITY TO TYPE "QUIT" AT THE "ENTER PROGRAM NAME" PROMPT TO EXIT BSMGR.

MLCD:

• NEW PROGRAM – SETS FRQ. BUYER DISC FOR A CUSTOMER TYPE. ALSO ADDED AS AN OPTION IN MLUL.

• ADDED DATE VALIDATION.

MLUL:

• ADDED SUPPORT FOR NEW MLCD PROGRAM.

QBS:

• CALL TO QBS_UPDATER.EXE AS ADMINISTRATOR – IF QBS IS RUN "AS ADMINISTRATOR", THE CALL TO QBS_UPDATER.EXE WAS NOT WORKING.

SCHEDULE:

• FIXED ISSUE WITH FTPING MISC FILES.

SLCCP:

• TWEAKED SCREEN LAYOUT FOR 1280 X 1024.

USERENV:

• TWEAKED PAX OPTIONS DISPLAY WHEN SWITCHING BETWEEN TCP AND USB.

GETCATS:

• DEPTS 49-96 WERE NOT ADDING INTO TOTALS OF ORDER CORRECTLY.

IVM:

• WHOLESALE AND DISCOUNT FIELDS IF SYS | CONFIG | MISC. CONFIGURATIONS | #2017 IS SET TO A "Y" TO BLANK THE WHOLESALE AND DISCOUNT LABELS OR THEY ARE IN READ-ONLY-MODE DUE TO A FAILURE TO INPUT THE CORRECT PASSCODE, THE DISCOUNT ENTRY WHOLESALE FIELDS WILL NO LONGER BE VISIBLE.

SCHEDULE:

• FIXED LINKAGE ISSUE WITH POSDEF.

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 on this update are listed below.

The price files for multiple Munce catalogs are included on this update.

• M-OCT-R.TXT = Regular sale pricing – October catalog (26-Sep-2016 thru 31-Oct-2016)
  

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• M-NOV-RN.TXT = Regular sale pricing – November catalog (31-Oct-2016 thru 27-Nov-2016)
• M-NOV-RD.TXT = Regular sale pricing – November catalog (31-Oct-2016 thru 24-Dec-2016)
  

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• M-NOV-CN.TXT = Conservative sale pricing – November catalog (31-Oct-2016 thru 27-Nov-2016)
• M-NOV-CD.TXT = Conservative sale pricing – November catalog (31-Oct-2016 thru 24-Dec-2016)
  

  ---

• M-2DAY-R.TXT = Regular sale pricing – November/December 2 Day Sale (Set dates in IVPROMO)

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. You will need to specify the start and end dates for the 2 Day sales catalog items.

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.

APE:

• FIXED LINKAGE ERROR CALLING DATERTNS.

EZADMAIL:

• FIXED ISSUE WITH USAGE REPORTING.

• BLOCK BOGUS IMAGE NAMES FROM SEASONS FOLDER.

IVIR:

• YOU CAN NOW LIMIT INVOICES PULLED USING RECEIVED BY DATES.

IVL:

• WE NOW STRIP THE QUOTES OR COMMAS OUT OF THE MISC. FIELD. THEY CAUSE PROBLEMS WITH THE DELIMITER IN THE TEXT FILE.

PAXDIAG:

• ADDED PORT 10009 TO THE GROUP OF PORTS THAT ARE CHECKED.

PAXOMNI:

• NEW PROGRAM – SETTLES ALL PAX TERMINALS FROM ONE LOCATION.

SLT:

• CORRECTED CHECK BOXES FOR DAYS TO INCLUDE – SUNDAY TOTALS WERE SATURDAYS, SATURDAYS WERE FRIDAYS, ETC.

POSMENU:

• IN ADDITION TO THE EXISTING “MOVE BUTTON” FEATURE, YOU CAN NOW COPY A BUTTON AND PASTE IT’S SETTINGS ELSEWHERE.

As a reminder, each month’s update disc also includes a folder titled “Manual” that contains the current RMS manual. The file is in Microsoft Word format, and there is a free Word viewer program in the folder in case you don’t have a copy of Microsoft Word installed on your computer.

Please contact us if you experience problems installing your update.

Remember, you can view ECN notices and other emailed communications from Bookstore Manager at emails.bsmgr.com.

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