Changelog for SellerEngine Plus

1.10.8.3, UK and DE - August 26, 2008

New Features

• Purge and Replace is available again.

Fixes:

• Prices from Amazon are now able to be retrieved.

Known Issues:

• Setting the export and delete flags and then using the Purge and Replace option creates errors at Amazon. It will purge all listings but SellerEngine Plus does not notify you that there are errors.
• When using the 'Remove listings marked for delete' upload function make sure the items are not marked for export and also for deletion when you select the option for 'all items marked for export' as this might result in suspended feeds at Amazon.

1.10.8.3, US only - August 22, 2008

New Features

• Purge and Replace is available again.

Fixes:

• Prices from Amazon are now able to be retrieved.

Known Issues:

• Setting the export and delete flags and then using the Purge and Replace option creates errors at Amazon. It will purge all listings but SellerEngine Plus does not notify you that there are errors.
• When using the 'Remove listings marked for delete' upload function make sure the items are not marked for export and also for deletion when you select the option for 'all items marked for export' as this might result in suspended feeds at Amazon.

1.10.8, US only - July 18, 2008

New Features

• FBA functionality has made a comeback, and is now available to Beta users!
• FBA users can now set shipment status to 'working' from SE+ in order to take advantage of special shipping rates available only through the SellerCentral website.

Fixes:

• Sorter and Custom Condition now display correctly in the edit dialog.
• Sorter and Shipment can now be saved as part of the template used to add items.
• AFN and Active Listings reports now download and import correctly, regardless of the order in which Amazon sends them.
• Canceling an FBA shipment now removes it from the shipping queue.
• Quantities for split FBA shipments now display properly.
• Several FBA shipments synchronization issues now resolved.
• FBA module now is more in synch with Amazon's display of information.
• Several FNSKU retrieval problems fixed.
• Several sku related errors were fixed.
• Speed improved when synching FBA shipments.
• Sending NULL values was causing feeds to fail. When Amazon sends us NULL values, we no longer send them back as NULL.
• Amazon errors returned are now easier for the user to understand.
• When a shipment is deleted, items now return to inventory list with correct quantities.

Known Issues:

• If you scan items in very quick succession, sometimes a label will fail to print.
• On Amazon, the same merchant SKU may be present as MFN and AFN. However, the item is present as an active listing only on one channel (MFN or AFN). In SE+, a merchant SKU denotes an item present only as MFN or AFN. As a result, when downloading items from Amazon, the duplicates wizard may trigger. If this happens, you should do the following:
  1. Select one field at a time from left panel of the window. The right side populates with inventory items that have different values which must be merged prior to import.
  2. Select all items (on the right)
  3. Click on "Update [field name]"
     • You may safely skip the following fields: ItemId, ItemTypeId, BrowsePath,ImageURL, FNSKU, AFNCondition
     • You should update all items for the following fields: ItemName, Price, Quantity, OpenDate, ConditionId, ItemNote, ListingID, IsOnline, IsExpedited, InShip, MyPrice, CategoryId, ListedState, QuantityAmazon
• If you reorder your list of orders and then print, the print out still has the orders listed in the order they were received.
• The 30 per page print labels setting does not work correctly. Labels need to be printed one per page at this time.
• FBA Amazon fulfilled orders are not imported into SellerEngine Plus.
• FBA sellers can set expedited and international shipping flags even if they are not able to ship expedited or internationally. Do not use these options with Amazon Fulfilled listings.
• FBA sellers can see all items from synched shipments in the inventory grid, regardless of quantity available.
• Amazon returns confusing errors if you try to send an FBA shipment without your return address specified in preferences. If you receive an error while sending shipment, check to be sure your preferences have the correct information.

1.9.25 - July 7, 2008

Fixes:

• Checkboxes are set correctly (used to randomly be set incorrectly).
• People using old printer drivers can now print titles on pick lists.
• Order report now chooses the number of days based on last request date. It chooses the values 3,7,15,30, or 60 as the possible numbers of days, as supported by Amazon. Does not allow 'one day' because payment validations from Amazon could take up to 72 hours.
• Inventory upload files are generated after order download quantities are synched.
• If orders download is canceled or encounters errors, user can still chose to go on with an inventory upload.
• Exporting orders with "," as decimal separators no longer results in a crash.
• Purge and Replace upload method reinstated for Marketplace users.
• Quick Find has been brought back to life. (For faster performance, reduce the number of columns showing in the grid.)
• Custom Import and Export templates are being saved and loaded correctly.
• When new items are entered, they are added to the inventory at the end of the list.
• Help files are now available online rather than bundled with the product as a complied .chm file.

Known Issues:

• FBA Module is not functioning correctly. Use at your own risk.

1.9.22 (patch)- June 12, 2008

Fixes:

• Fixes slow speed issues with price check.
• All price check data is brought in correctly. NOTE: DE users may receive incorrect seller feedback and ratings for competing offers.
• Manual repricing in inventory grid available and correct.

1.9.21 - May 27, 2008

Fixes:

• Deleting more than 2,000 items at a time no longer produces errors.
• Large inventories may now be repriced without errors.
• Seller Reports are available via Export.
• You can no longer edit a schema during a price check, which resulted in errors.
• All users feedback is now available.
• The 'Recover Password' link at http://www.sellerengine.com/recover.php now works.
• You can no longer save a template without a condition, which led to errors when no condition was selected in the add item entry box.

New Features:

• Migrated Seller Central Amazon support.
• FBA Amazon Support.
• Sorter is now available, allowing you to decide what books to keep and list, and which aren't worth trying to sell, as you enter them!
• UIEE files can be imported.

Known Issues:

• Quick find is not available.
• Price checks randomly do not bring in the lowest price for some items.
• Entering price data in the inventory grid sometimes leads to numbers being input backwards, or incorrectly.
• There is no option to set the limit to lowest price regardless of condition in the reprice wizard.
• When attempting to save an export file, if the path contains “.” or comma characters SellerEnginePlus will give an error.
• The‘Edit’ window is not sticky and also not resizable.
• Assigning a schema during a price check will result in an error. Avoid any actions during price check.
• With some items, the Edit custom button in the price check tab below overlaps the "Custom" button. This happens in the quick item add and especially when windows are resized.
• International Shipping Flag is returned by Amazon as a simple yes or no value, so Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.de users who download their listings fresh from Amazon will not have the proper values retrieved. We have an open ticket with Amazon to resolve this issue. International Shipping Flags set in SellerEngine Plus UK and DE and uploaded to Amazon will list correctly. Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.de users who set their International Shipping Flags in SellerEngine Plus UK or DE and then download an open listings report will keep the correct International Shipping Flags. This is only an issue when the inventory is first downloaded from Amazon.
• The Import Duplicates Dialog does not appear when importing listings from a file. Instead, the duplicated items will be imported with no SKU assigned. If the newly imported versions of these listings should replace the old offering, you will need to update the old offering to match or remove the old listing from Amazon and assign the new ones new SKUs. Amazon will not allow you to upload an item with no SKU.
• The Reprice Rules Filter 'Exclude Sellers from specific location' is not yet relevant. Your items will be compared against sellers from the localization of SellerEngine Plus which you are using.
• The Reprice Rules Filter 'Exclude items in specific category' should say 'Exclude items in a specified condition'.
• The drop-down menu allowing you to configure the rules in the case that there is no competitive information for the item allows you to choose competitive information for the basis of the price.
• When configuring your reprice rule exceptions, the dialog should say 'Condition' rather than 'Category'.
• Deselecting the option 'Switch Condition Tab to Match Your Item Condition' does not result in changing the tab back to 'All'.
• The names of fields listed in the Search Inventory dialog do not match the column names available in the following cases:
  • Product Name - Searches Title
  • Exported - Searches Export to Amazon
  • Previous Price - Searches Last Price
  Some fields are not available for searching.
• When you search with the option 'Load query and edit', the radio button for 'AND or 'OR' will be deselected. You need to reselect it before running the query.
• When you search with the option 'Load query and edit, the changes you make to the query will not be saved by default. If you want to save the changes to your query, you must do so explicitly.
• When using the Select toolbar button to select items of a particular condition , if no items of the condition selected are in your inventory, the items currently selected will not be deselected.
• The View Data Entry History feature is not currently supported.

1.5.6.2 (patch) - May 8, 2008

Fixes:

• The program has been fixed to make it compatible with certain processors.

1.5.6.1 (patch) - April 23, 2008

Fixes:

• The program has been fixed to make it compatible with latest Amazon changes.

1.5.6 - September 6, 2007

Fixes:

• Subject category for items now works
• If communication errors are received pricing will not slow or stall because of them
• Data in zShops fields now persists in imports and exports.
• Browse Paths are now supported
• Image URL is now supported
• Reprice help tool opens if no schema is assigned to products while price checking
• Changing tab order while in the edit panel no longer results in an error
• Generating local SKU's for more than 20,000 items no longer results in an error
• Fixed login authentification issue
• Fixed Email template error when spaces in file name issue

New Features:

• In Item Info if you click the SKU field the SKU generator wizard will come up.
• In the Preferences panel now you have the possibility to be notified in case of errors. Go to Preference, Confirmations and select "Play sounds for errors" or "Play sounds for unknown products".
• In orders inventory you can send e-mails to customers and also print pick lists and pack slips.
• When you are importing orders, now you have a window that will notify you if the stock quantity is not enough or the item is not in the inventory.

Known Issues:

• There is no option to set the limit to lowest price regardless of condition in the reprice wizard.
• When attempting to save an export file, if the path contains “.” or comma characters SellerEnginePlus will give an error.
• The‘Edit’ window is not sticky and also not resizable.
• Assigning a schema during a price check will result in an error. Avoid any actions during price check.
• If you save a template but do not include the condition field, then when you go to enter the next item using that template no condition is listed. If you do not remember to explicitly choose a condition, SelleEnginePlus will give an error.
• UIEE files cannot be imported.
With some items, the Edit custom button in the price check tab below overlaps the "Custom" button. This happens in the quick item add and especially when windows are resized.
• The 'Recover Password' link does not currently work. The web page http://www.sellerengine.com/recover.php displays the not found error. To recover your password, email support@sellerengine.com
• International Shipping Flag is returned by Amazon as a simple yes or no value, so Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.de users who download their listings fresh from Amazon will not have the proper values retrieved. We have an open ticket with Amazon to resolve this issue. International Shipping Flags set in SellerEngine Plus UK and DE and uploaded to Amazon will list correctly. Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.de users who set their International Shipping Flags in SellerEngine Plus UK or DE and then download an open listings report will keep the correct International Shipping Flags. This is only an issue when the inventory is first downloaded from Amazon.
• The Import Duplicates Dialog does not appear when importing listings from a file. Instead, the duplicated items will be imported with no SKU assigned. If the newly imported versions of these listings should replace the old offering, you will need to update the old offering to match or remove the old listing from Amazon and assign the new ones new SKUs. Amazon will not allow you to upload an item with no SKU.
• If you save a template without saving a value for the 'Condition' field, you must remember to set condition for the items you enter. If you do not specify a Condition when adding an item, SellerEngine Plus crashes.
• The Reprice Rules Filter 'Exclude Sellers from specific location' is not yet relevant. Your items will be compared against sellers from the localization of SellerEngine Plus which you are using.
• The Reprice Rules Filter 'Exclude items in specific category' should say 'Exclude items in a specified condition'.
• The drop-down menu allowing you to configure the rules in the case that there is no competitive information for the item allows you to choose competitive information for the basis of the price.
• When configuring your reprice rule exceptions, the dialog should say 'Condition' rather than 'Category'.
• Deselecting the option 'Switch Condition Tab to Match Your Item Condition' does not result in changing the tab back to 'All'.
• The names of fields listed in the Search Inventory dialog do not match the column names available in the following cases:
  • Product Name - Searches Title
  • Exported - Searches Export to Amazon
  • Previous Price - Searches Last Price
  Some fields are not available for searching.
• When you search with the option 'Load query and edit', the radio button for 'AND or 'OR' will be deselected. You need to reselect it before running the query.
• When you search with the option 'Load query and edit, the changes you make to the query will not be saved by default. If you want to save the changes to your query, you must do so explicitly.
• When using the Select toolbar button to select items of a particular condition , if no items of the condition selected are in your inventory, the items currently selected will not be deselected.
• The View Data Entry History feature is not currently supported.

1.5.1 (patch) - 2007-06-11

Fixes:

• The pricing tool has been fixed to make it compatible with latest Amazon changes

Known Issues:

• The custom import function is not importing the latest character from the latest column. As a quick fix for this problem we recommend you to add a dummy column with data you do not need to import and ignore that column when doing the custom import. You can easily add another column to your file using Excel

1.4.4 - 2007-04-20

Fixes:

• Lower Limits and Upper Limits no longer reassign your existing price if there are no other sellers compared
• Lower Limits and Upper Limits now work properly when the original price is outside those limits
• Filtering the first number of sellers that match a condition now works correctly
• Previous Price column now updates properly after a bulk edit of the Price for items
• Previous Price column now updates properly when a price is changed manually
• Double clicking on the price field no longer opens an Edit dialog for the next item in the list
• Inventory grid now updates Authors field even when only editors are specified
• Highest Collectible Price column now updates properly
• Highest New Price column now updates properly when there are more sellers with condition "new" but all of them have *same* price
• Limit of numbers of sellers to 10/ condition is now working
• Highest Used Price colums is now updating properly when all sellers have *same* price or when there is only one seller with condition used
• The following columns are now properly aligned: average new price, highest new price, average used price, highest used price, average collectible price
• The following columns now have the $ sign: Average New Price, Highest New Price, Average Used Price, Highest Used Price, Average Collectible Price, Highest Collectible Price
• Access violation error when importing incorrectly formatted files is now trapped
• Database manager no longer causes Access Violations
• Database manager no longer causes SellerEngine Plus to close
• Local SKU generation now works correctly from the SKU Configuration dialog
• Save templates now works for all product types
• International Shipping Flag now uploads to Amazon correctly
• International Shipping Flag now downloads over existing listings correctly

New Features:

• Orders may now be imported from an Amazon download of orders
• Orders may now be imported from a SellerEngine Plus exported file of orders
• Database Manager now allows the creation of multiple databases in the location of your choice
• Added option to "first get orders to update sold quatities" in the Upload changes to Amazon dialog box
• zShop specific columns are now hidden by default since zShops items are no longer supported
• Spaces are eliminated from ProductIDs when price checking
• Seller comments are now saved by default when pricing
• My Price on Amazon is now available as a column in the Inventory grid
• List Price value is now available when defining the limits in the Automatic Reprice Rules Wizard
• Saving a template now shows you exactly which fields are being saved at the time it is created
• Print Label button is now available in the toolbar
• Set Amazon Flags and Set Pricer Flags are now available as separate buttons on the toolbar

Known Issues:

• International Shipping Flag is returned by Amazon as a simple yes or no value, so Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.de users who download their listings fresh from Amazon will not have the proper values retrieved. We have an open ticket with Amazon to resolve this issue. International Shipping Flags set in SellerEngine Plus UK and DE and uploaded to Amazon will list correctly. Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.de users who set their International Shipping Flags in SellerEngine Plus UK or DE and then download an open listings report will keep the correct International Shipping Flags. This is only an issue when the inventory is first downloaded from Amazon.
• The Amazon constraints on the pricing of Collectible items are not enforced by SellerEngine Plus. If you reprice an item in Collectible condition to under the Amazon List Price or if there is no Amazon price, below $10, it will be removed from your listings when you upload that price change.

1.3.3 - 2007-03-08

• New feature: overall price check speed increased
• New feature: automatic update is now able to download and install the most recent SellerEngine Plus version without redownloading the whole setup file
• New feature: get writer from Amazon for books that don't have authors but only editors or adapters
• New feature: when upper limit is lower then the lower limit, ignore the upper limit and consider only the lower limit
• fixed application freezing while repricing large amount of books at once
• fast checking all export flags doesn't freeze the application for large inventories
• fixed application hanging when customizing grid with large number of items
• correct numbers for total new and used sellers are now retrieved
• fixed incorrect template showing for the various item types
• inventory value does not refresh after delete – fixed
• fixed downloading an empty Amazon listing report and selecting the option to delete your local inventory generating errors
• fixed installation over previous installation causing errors
• fixed International Shipping flag not uploading properly
• fixed lower Limit and upper limit not working when there are no sellers competing with you
• fixed problem with float values in reprice limits

1.1.0.0 - 2007-02-05

• improved pricing stability and speed
• fixed problem with expedited shipping flags
• removed page scraping

1.0.0.35 - 2006-12-27

• fixed problem with number of concurrent threads

1.0.0.33 - 2006-12-20

• support for ISBN-13
• major improvements in price check code regarding speed and stability
• fixed problem with Local SKU editing

1.0.0.32 - 2006-10-09

• fixed problem with exporting UPC and EAN product codes

1.0.0.31 - 2006-10-06

• fixed problem with UPC or EAN price checks returning as unknown
• fixed problem with focus moving to the top of the list after some deletes
• added more error checking to import procedure to skip faulty records and import the rest

1.0.0.30 - 2006-10-03

• fixed reported problem on open listings reports
• fixed orders report not being imported
• fixed sku cloning problem

1.0.0.29 - 2006-09-29

• completely redesigned import system
• fixed sku and specific product id problems in listing (the item editor)

1.0.0.27 - 2006-09-06

• fixed problem with importing open listings
• fixed comment appending problem in the item editor

1.0.0.26 - 2006-09-06

• fixed problem with freezing open listings imported
• added Expedited Shipping back in the item editor panel
• fixed yet another problem with importing german open listings (thank god for the testing account)
• fixed problem when seplus was sending two upload feeds (for condition update) when it wasn’t necessary
• fixed problem when newly created databases were not being updated to the latest version
• localized currency signs are now shown within the interface no matter what the local regional settings are
• delete prompt problem fixed
• added Ctrl+P shortcut for printing labels and changed Preferenced from Ctrl+P to Shift+Ctrl+P

1.0.0.25 - 2006-08-29

• updating quantity in inventory list toggles the export box
• fixed problem with order reports import
• extra search fields added
• fixed truncated phrases in the item editor notes list
• fixed problem with importing German open listings on English locales

1.0.0.24 - 2006-08-24

• fixed problem with sales rank search
• fixed item editor problem

1.0.0.23 - 2006-08-22

• fixed problem with club-condition CDs not being price checked
• added a new toolbar button for quickly selecting New, Used or Collectible items
• added inventory list fields for Highest New Price, Highest Used Price, Highest Collectible Price, Average New Price, Average Used Price, Average Collectible Price, Number of New Sellers, Number of Used Sellers and Number of Collectible Sellers
• added feature to automatically relist an item if it was previsouly listed and the user modified its condition
• added option to retrieve the available quantity for competitors' offers
• added option to manage multiple databases
• several improvements aimed at the overall application speed
• fixed problem when reassigning skus was not performed in the order by which the inventory list was sorted
• the price check operation is now timed and you have the total elapsed time for the process and the time/item one

1.0.0.22 - 2006-07-08

• DE: fixed orders import problem on non-German regional settings

1.0.0.21 - 2006-07-06

• you can now import condition texts (like "Used - Like New") into the database as valid conditions
• weight value is now correctly displayed as a decimal value in the inventory details view
• more tweaking in the database compact section
• added toolbar button for quickly selecting/deselcting Run Price Check and Export fields
• black/white scheme available now in the inventory grid configuration
• customizable date column format in the inventory grid configuration
• problem with long descriptions being truncated on import is fixed

1.0.0.20 - 2006-06-19

• added Buyer Waiting Price column in inventory
• added UIEE (Fillz compatible) export format
• added integrity check for ISBNs. it is automatically triggered after an import and can also be run manually
• added automatic check for valid ISBNs. if there are missing zeros at the beginning, the application now automatically adds them
• added option to export orders based on their shipping status
• fixed IsOnline problem
• selection is now saved when resorting the inventory list

1.0.0.19 - 2006-06-05

• database compacting now works
• fixed problem with large databases taking too long to be refreshed and price checked
• fixed problem with repricer where it would set the price to the lower limit if there was no competition. price is left unchanged now.

1.0.0.18 - 2006-05-18

• added advanced search feature
• quick find now works faster when searching directly for product ids (ISBN, UPC or EAN)
• added option to manually compact the database
• added option not to save offer comments to keep database size to a minimum

1.0.0.17 - 2006-05-16

• fixed invalid floating point error occuring mostly on UK after price checking
• fixed problem with program crashing when trying to compact the database upon exit (with a dataset closed error)

1.0.0.16 - 2006-05-12

• fixed problem with currency conversion when prices were null

1.0.0.15 - 2006-05-11

• added reprice filter for seller location
• added reprice filter for including only a specific list of sellers
• number of third party sellers included in inventory export
• double clicking a column in the title lookup window will open the Amazon webpage for that item
• weight retrieval now supports unit conversion to the unit you're using. default value is ponuds
• items marked for deletion will be highlighted in red in the inventory list
• the item editor now saves its window position and restores it when reopened
• total inventory value displayed in the status bar

1.0.0.14 - 2006-05-04

• weight information is now retrieved from Amazon when price checking
• availability string is now being set in the main inventory list for Amazon's offer (if any)
• new column in inventory for total number of third party sellers
• reprice filter for number of feedbacks value
• open listings reports being downloaded now overwrite existing price and quantity data for matching items

1.0.0.13 - 2006-04-25

• fixed problem when items were not visible after being imported from a SellerEngine Plus complete inventory file
• updated repricer to allow keeping items in the same category (new, used or collectible)

1.0.0.12 - 2006-04-20

• new SKU management system available
• new inventory Search function
• author name now returned in [Last Name, First Name] format
• inventory list is now unsorted by default (only available on new installations). you can use Edit > Clear Sorting to clear sorting after you have sorted by a column
• repricer will not change your price if after all the exclusions (if any), you remain as the only seller in the list. this is most useful when you are the only seller in a category and reprice against competitors there
• Local SKU and Minimum Price have been added to the custom import feature
• option not to save seller information in the database to keep size to a minumum (automatic repricing will be done on the fly)

1.0.0.11 - 2006-04-11

• UPC and EAN price check now available on all locales
• Location field added to custom import
• Local SKU field added to complete export
• new price flag available for only seller in a specific category
• repice filter added to exclude items in fixed condition categories (New, Used and Collectable)
• option to discard saving seller data when repricing large inventories to keep database size to a minimum
• barcode scanning performance improved
• UK: duplicate SKU problem in open listings reports now treated correctly

1.0.0.10 - 2006-04-04

• quantity field was not saved in the item template
• reprice log feature turned off by default
• new inventory selection save/load feature
• fixed a regression on the download function

1.0.0.9 - 2006-04-03

• fixed inventory import issue for listings without SKUs
• fixed label printing on the fly (title was not printer corectly)
• option to update quantity when adding similar items (matched by ASIN + Condition)
• option to disable automatic SKU generation

1.0.0.8 - 2006-03-31

• the correct open listings report is now downloaded and imported
• fixed a problem with saving the Seller ID field in the preferences dialog

1.0.0.7 - 2006-03-30

• more problems with open listings download fixed

1.0.0.6 - 2006-03-29

• fixed problem with importing some open listings reports

1.0.0.5 - 2006-03-28

• fixed problem with marking items for deletion
• Modify/Delete upload is now working
• fixed random item selection issue
• fixed title lookup not saving the ISBN when editing an item

1.0.0.4 - 2006-03-27

• fixed problem when own nickname wasn't recognized during price check and reprice
• very long descriptions now import fine in the Item Note field
• fixed issue when some electronics might have appeared as default type value (books)
• listing id is now skipped when cloning an item
• fixed problem when checking the Delete box moved the grid selection away

1.0.0.3 - 2006-03-24

• UPC search improved
• fixed update check problem
• search-as-you-type is now available in the inventory list
• 2nd and 3rd prices are now available for repricing

1.0.0.2 - 2006-03-22

• UPC search is now working on all locales if items have a listing id
• loading/saving custom export layouts is now available
• fixed a problem with scanning item barcodes (in the Item Editor)

1.0.0.1 - 2006-03-20

• US: fixed UPC search