Detailed What's New List ( Previous Changes)

Jewelry Shopkeeper New Features, Modifications, Irmprovements

Jewelry Shopkeeper is constantly being improved so it runs better and so your business runs better.

Here are some of the more older changes. However, if you weren't aware of an "old" update, then it's new to you !

Version 4.140                                                 12/30/2019

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The Pandora catalog program has about 275 new items for early 2020 including

 Valentines and Mothers Day items.

 (This feature requires the Maintenance Plan)

On the sales screen, you can modify the usual tax status by unchecking

 checking the Tax boxes on the right edge of the sales Sku lines.

 In previous versions, the tax and sale total calculation at the bottom

 of the screen were not updated until you saved that Sku line and went

 to the next line. Even though that would only be a few seconds, starting

 with this version, the tax totals are recalculated and redisplayed

 instantly for a more responsive reaction.

The data-entry boxes on the Receive Inventory screens

 have been changed to use an easier-to-read color combination.

 (Black on white now, not black on fuchsia.)

The email form in Shopkeeper (for emailing receipts, appraisals, reports, etc.)

 Now has a button to fill in email settings for many of the most

 common email platforms such as Gmail, Outlook-Online, AOL, Comcast, AT&T, etc.

 Also, it will change certain technical settings depending on which

 email method you use. E.g. in most cases, if you use the "dotNet" email

 method, it's best to use "port 587", otherwise "port 465" is best for the

 "direct CDO" method.

 However, it's still best if you check your email system's configuration

 guide for the technical settings such as SMTP server, Port, SSL, etc.,

 because the email systems do change their requirements periodically.

When you choose to email a report or a receipt and if there is no pre-filled-in

 email address, previous versions of Shopkeeper would create the PDF file

 but would *not* proceed to the email screen; it would ignore that option as being

 impossible. Starting this version it will open the email screen in such a case.

 (But of course, you still can't actually send the report until you type in an email

 address        in the email screen.)

Some Windows printer drivers occasionally print doubled half-height lines and a previous

 VJS update added the "80" option so you can choose to use an alternative print engine

 for such printers. However, the "80" option was not compatible if you periodically

 chose to send a receipt or report to a PDF file or email, so you'd have to manually

 turn the "80" option off temporarily. Starting this version, the "80" option will

 be ignored when you are sending the report or receipt to a PDF file so you don't have

 to turn the "80" option off and back on.

When receiving inventory the usual setting for the Quantity box is to allow numbers up

 to 9999 - without any decimals. In previous versions, in Preferences, you could change

 the Quantity format to 99.9 or 9.99 in case you need to receive fractional quantities.

 Note that for space reasons, you lost some digits for hundreds or thousands if you

 wanted space for decimals.

 Starting this version, you can choose an input format of 9999.99 in case some items

 need hundreds or more and other items need fractions.  You select this option on

 the Inventory page of Preferences.

 (Note: This is *not* related to weights; for items sold by the weight, you have

 always been able to enter many decimals.)

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Version 4.131                                                 12/04/2019

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Adds a pause after updating the cost or retail of an assembled item

 so you can see which cost and retail were applied.

Adds an additional receipt layout "31 - Full Page Receipt - Raised Summary"

 which may be of use for long receipts if pagination problems occur.

 * A fix to accept large payments, over 500,000

 * A fix for a miscellaneous intermittent error message 1231 on the checkbook screen

When you change the description of a major code, the description of the dummy

 Sku (-00001) for that major code will now also change starting with this update.

 (But it will not change if the description of the dummy Sku was previously

 different than the prior major code description - i.e. if it was not "hard-linked.")

Version 4.130                                                 11/26/2019

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You can now require filling in customers' addresses. In the Customer

 Defaults page of Preferences, you can choose ACSZ to require the

 Address and the City and the State and the Zip, or you could choose

 to require just some of those address elements - e.g. Z for Zip alone.

Updates to enable adding images to archived appraisals.

 (in some cases this was not possible before)

Updates to Interstore inventory transfer to transfer the extended details

 such as pre-appraisal notes, etc.

When you use the SMS-Texting features and employ the template merging

 such as including the customer's name in the message, previous

 versions would include the name as typed-in even if it were in

 all-capitals such as JONATHAN. Starting with this version, the SMS

 text will make that upper and lower like Jonathan.

If you use integrated credit card processing and attempt to erase/void an

 authorized credit card payment from a previous date, VJS will now

 not attempt the void as that's almost always problematic; instead it

 will suggest that the user try to do a negative/return charge to the card.

 On the same topic, if you use integrated credit card processing, and if you

 use a generic Cash Sale name on the sale, that can make voiding the charges

 awkward - because voids have to be linked to the original charge authorization

 and with a generic Cash Sale name, you'd have to sift through a large number

 of transactions. The current version adds an alert to avoid this situation.

A new security option allows you to prevent certain users from modifying the

 extended notes area of the customer profile while still allowing

 them to add new notes. You can find the option "Edit Customer Profile Notes"

 on the More Security Settings page of Preferences. For users who are

 affected by this security lock-out, a "plus sign" icon above the Notes

 box will appear which will allow adding additional notes.

 * A fix to accept large payments, over 500,000

 * A fix for a miscellaneous intermittent error message 1231 on the checkbook screen

Version 4.128                                                 11/14/2019

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The Pandora catalog program has about 75 new items.

 (Requires the Maintenance Plan)

If you use the new screen resize feature and significantly enlarge the sales

 or credit slip screen, previous versions would not always scroll through

 the entire list of payment types. This problem has been resolved in this update.

Includes a fix for some credit slips being marked as "Used"

 prematurely. (Occurred only in the one prior update version.)

Version 4.127                                                 11/11/2019

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The newest David Geller / Jeweler Profit Repair Blue Book

 is now available to add to Jewelry Shopkeeper.

 This is a catalog of over 6,300 repair tasks with

 revised pricing which helps ensure you don't under price

 your services. The increases can range from 10 to 100% over the

 last major revision.

 To use this feature, you will need to request Jeweler Profit

 to send us the OK for the most current Blue Book Digital License.

 http://www.jewelerprofit.com/contact_us.html

A program module to add the Lafonn Catalog of over 3000 items

 (including pictures) has been added to this Shopkeeper update.

Version 4.126                                                 11/01/2019

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In previous versions there were occasional problem with in-house credit slips

 which had long numbers (over 10 digits long.) This has been resolved

The credit slip and gift certificate report now simultaneously creates an

 Excel version of the report information and puts it in the file

 Credit-Slips.xls in the VJS Reports folder. This may be useful if you

 intend to do mailings or emailings to certain customers with outstanding

 credit slips and gift certificates

Version 4.125                                                 10/24/2019

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The Pandora catalog program has about 200 new new items and over 100 additional

 price and cost changes beyond those of the August and September updates.

Version 4.123                                                 10/11/2019

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The minimize button on the Inventory Entry screen wasn't active in

 previous versions, but now is.

On the sales screen, an unhelpful alert about a missing sales clerk

 has been removed.

The report screen would be too short in certain cases in prior versions

 and this has been fixed in this update.

The Inventory Web Site Export has always had an option to put the image

 files in a "staging folder" ready for upload to the website.

 In this update a new option is to copy just the files that are not

 already in the staging folder.  This can save time in preparing

 the export for cases where there are a large number of pictures,

 but where most are already in the staging folder.

Version 4.121                                                   09/18/2019

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A more thorough search for an unused sale number in case the

 next suggested sale number was already used.

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Version 4.120                                                   09/07/2019

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The Pandora catalog program has a small number of new items and

 additional price and cost changes since the bigger August update.

If form resizing is active (see v 4.115 notes below), the reports

 selection screens can now remember different resizing and positions for

 different types of reports, whereas previously the resizing for

 one type of report selection screen affected all other types.

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Version 4.120                                                   08/28/2019

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The Pandora catalog program has about 250 new items for Fall 2019.

 About 50 previous items have price and cost changes which are to

 go into effect on August 29.

 This update adds about 220 new image files.

New options have been added for credit card integration with support

 now available vis PAX Technology and Heartland.

Version 4.116                                                   08/23/2019

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The Alex and Ani catalog import program has been updated with over

 215 new items for Summer, Fall and Holiday 2019

Different computers can now maintain different sale number sequences.

 You can activate this option by assigning a sale number prefeix letter

 in Local Defaults page 2 of Preferences. While this prefix option was

 available in previous versions, using it didn't maintain a separate

 sequence number.

Misc adjustments

 [det_inv->Notes, skulistrcont, convert2repair, receiptposcprinter, shorteremvsn]

Version 4.115                            07/22/2019 - 08/01/2019

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The Pandora catalog program has about 250 new items for early summer 2019.

 There is a small number of items with price and/or cost changes.

 This update adds about 50 new image files.

On the Sales Screen, on rare occasions, you may want to modify the Style

 box for non-inventory Sku's such as repairs. In previous versions this

 box would allow lower-case letters which could lead to inconsistent results.

 Starting this version, the style is automatically made upper-case.

 This box also has updated keyboard support such that pressing Enter or Tab

 will both save the changes and will land on the Save button in the Sku line.

Some jewelers have received gift cards with 16-digit numbers embossed on them.

 While that's not preferred, Shopkeeper has accepted such numbers for over a year.

 What's new in this update is that if you type or scan a number that long, it will

 automatically Not increment the next regular number in the sequence. E.g. after

 registering such a gift card number, it won't update the credit number sequence,

 even if you don't uncheck the Increment Next Number button.

A new Un-Archive utility can move a sale from the Archive sales file to the Current

 sales file if it (somehow) got into the Archive file. It can also do the reverse;

 move a sale from the Current File to the Archive file. (utility: unarchive.)

The resize window feature remembers the preferred enlargement and positioning of each

 resizable window. Starting with this version, there is the option of remembering

 resize-down settings. (This is expected to be rarely useful and is not active

 by default. Ask for instructions if interested.)

 Resizing enlarges the entire Shopkeeper form, including fonts, for easier reading

 and easier selection of buttons - especially on high resolution monitors.

 When resizing is activated, not only is the enlargement of each screen remembered,

 but also the position is remembered, which is helpful on large monitors.

 This feature can be activated via the Local Defaults p.3 page of Preferences.

Version 4.10                                        07/11/2019

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The Internet Customer Search by Phone Number has been updated. Because changes

 were made to the www.411.info website, the search results were organized

 differently than before, which hindered VJS's ability to extract the name

 correctly - especially in cases where there was a middle name. The current VJS

 can now correctly select the first, middle and last-name portions of the results.

The Alternative Second Currency option for price tags has two changes.

 - Normally, the second currency is the selling price multiplied by the conversion

 factor. In this update, you can optionally choose to present it as the MSRP

 multiplied by the conversion factor. To do that, add the keyword

 ALTCURRENCYMSRP anywhere in the Miscellaneous Options box in Preferences.

 - The second currency can now be rounded to a multiple of any number, such as

 5, 10, 25, 50 or 100. E.g., instead of $149 x 19.5 resulting in 2905.50, you could

 make it round to 3000. To do this, In Preferences on the Inventory Tags page under

 Inventory preferences, in the Round box, type UP 10 or UP 50, etc.

 (Less likely, but you could also round down, by typing DOWN 10 or DOWN 25, etc.)

The small calendar icons next to Date boxes have been more reactive, to reduce

 the frequency with which you might have to click a couple of times before

 they react.

The option to press Ctrl while you click the Print a Tag button on the Inventory

 Status screen has been restored. This instantly        send the tag print request to

 the printer, bypassing a few dialog boxes which would normally appear before

 printing.

When you restock a particular merchandise style, the basic inventory information

 such as description, cost, price and picture have always been copied to the

 new Sku of that style. Starting with this version, the extended Notes / pre-appraisal

 will also be copied to the new Sku of the same style.

When recording an invoice of received merchandise, if you type a new vendor name

 but the vendor name is similar to a previous one, the Enter Inventory

 screen in previous versions would not let you add the new vendor at that time.

 I.e. you'd have to add it first  via the Vendor Maintenance screen.

 Starting with this version, you can add such a vendor on the fly from this same

 invoice screen. This also applies to Memos, Purchase Orders, Non-Inventory payables.

When you receive an invoice of inventory, there is an option to print out the invoice

 details. There are two changes in that area in this update: Previously there was not

 a layout that included the retail price but excluded the cost and now there is.

 Previously, the version which included the cost and retail totaled the cost value

 but not the retail value; now the retail total is printed at the bottom of the report.

Version 4.000                                        05/31/2019

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Resizing of VJS windows is introduced

In previous versions of Shopkeeper, certain combinations of receipt

 options, combined with a slower network, could cause significant

 delays before receipt started printing. This version has additional optimization

 to avoid such delays.

When retrieving and unlocking an existing layaway or special order or repair

 sale, the cursor now initially lands on the first unused Sku line.

 This is more convenient than in previous versions where the cursor initially

 landed on one of the existing Sku lines. (This also applies to Cash Sales,

 though it's fairly uncommon to modify Cash sales.)

The Assemble Disassemble screen has a one-touch feature to both remove an assembled item

 from stock and to return to stock all the components.

 In the Assemble screen, type/select the master/assembled Sku

 then click the Delete trash icon at the top of the screen.

 You will have options as to whether the components will continue to appear

 in the list for that item but with zero quantity, or if they should be

 removed from the component list. (In either case, they will be added

 back to the on-hand inventory count.)

 You will also have the option as to whether to delete the assembled

 item entirely, or to zero the quantity, so that it can be looked up

 later.

The Physical Inventory Exception report by location has a new option

 to show only those items which were scanned as being in a location,

 say XX, which was not expected to have any in that location.

 Such items would have appeared on the regular physical inventory

 exception report by location, but the regular version also shows

 items where fewer were scanned than were expected. I.e. this typically

 highlights the excess / unexpected items.

The Physical Inventory by Trac Tech RFID has a new option whereby you can

 save the memory of the RFID to a text file on disk and then import that list.

 This would be useful if you use the wand at a location which does not have the

 Shopkeeper installed locally. E.g. if a remote store were running Shopkeeper

 from the main store via remote control, the Wand may not work by remote desktop

 or LogMeIn, etc., but the list file method does work over remote connections.

The Chart of Accounts screen now makes it harder to accidentally reassign an account

 to a different number. I.e. the Account Number box is now "double-locked"

 and you have to Ctrl-click it in order to unlock it and change the account number.

When you click on a date field, the cursor will jump to the most logical point to

 make it easier to adjust the date.

 If you click in either of the digits for the day, the cursor will jump

         to the beginning of the day.

 If you click in either of the digits for the month, the cursor will jump

         to the beginning of the month.

 If you click in either of the digits for the year, the cursor will jump

         to the beginning of the year.

 As before, unchanged is the behavior that if the date is empty (or, in fact

 if you click anywhere in a non-date box) then clicking anywhere in the box

 will jump the cursor to the beginning of that box.

The Google Image Search feature of Shopkeeper was no longer working correctly

 in many cases because the Google Images site had changed. This VJS update

 makes changes in that area to remain compatible with Google Images.

After issuing a donated gift certificate (with no payment), in previous versions the

 gift certificate screen didn't show a confirmation message and not every box was

 emptied. Also, the screen didn't immediately wait for the next customer name.

 So it might have been unclear to the user whether or not the certificate

 was actually created. This update adds a prompt and more clarity so that the

 user doesn't wonder if the certificate was created or not.

Previously, the SMS / Texting screen would set the message to all upper-case

 if you had set a Preference for customer names + addresses to be upper-case.

 Now the message will be left as originally typed - upper and lower case.

The Itemized Sales Report now has an option to filter the report to just a single

 Sku Number.

Version 3.910                                        03/22/2019

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The Pandora catalog program has about 650 new items for Spring 2019.

 There is a large number (over 200 of price and cost changes.

 This update adds about 200 new image files.

 NB: The U.S. price changes go into effect on April 2, 2019 so one should

         wait until that date before updating the catalog.

         (For Canada, the price chnages are effective March 14.)

A new feature allows creation of in-house Accounts Receivable installment

 contracts. This uses a Microsoft Word document file as a template so

 that you can create a contract with any wording and formatting that you need.

 Shopkeeper will fill in the sale details including customer name and address,

 interest rate, monthly payment plan, interest rate. etc.

 From the sales screen, chooose Options, More Options, Installment Contract.

The Entire Customer History Report could be too slow in some cases after the

 last update. This update resolves that speed issue.

The Print Tags screen has a new option to print tags for just those

 items in one particular location. Choose "Full Selection" at the top

 of the Print Tags screen to access this option.

When adding new unbilled repair jobs (i.e. not from within a sales ticket)

 VJS checks for duplicate repair numbers. Previously, VJS would accept

 a previously-used repair number if it was several years old and already

 in the archived data. Starting with this update, even numbers from the

 archived repair file will not be allowed to be reused.

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The Customer History Report can be run via the Customer X-Tra Search

 screen and a new option is to select only Accounts Receivable

 transactions. I.e. you can exclude cash sales, layaways and special orders

 to focus on just the in-house charge account transactions.

 In addition, the Excel file that is created at the same time of the customer

 history report is now more complete, such as including sales tax amounts.

The Return to Vendor inventory report was previously supposed to

 have an option to sort and group by Brand (Mfg), but that sort

 option was not active. Starting with this update that sort option

 it is now available.

The Go! button to access a vendor's website from the vendor profile

 screen became unresponsive in a recent update. This update restores

 that Go! button.

In the summary area of the Sales Payment Spreadsheet report,

 some wording has been clarified.

 What was "Labor" is now "No Tax Services" for non-taxable

 items in class codes for repairs, custom work and appraisals.

 What was "Repair" is now "All Services" for non-taxable

 items in class codes for repairs, custom work and appraisals.

Occasionally, one may inadvertently send a gigantic print job or many copies

 of a print job to the Windows printer queues, which can be difficult to clear

 from Windows. Visual Jewelry Shopkeeper has long had a shortcut to clear these

 printer queues, but recent versions of Windows may have prevented VJS from

 clearing the queues. This update includes changes to request Windows Administrator

 rights in order to clear the queues. This option is found via the VJS File Center

 by choosing Options, then Clear Printer Queues.

The Activity page of Inventory Status has the option to show Wish-List / Quote

 records for the currently select item. Previous versions would show

 Wish-List / Quote records just for the current Sku Number, but starting

 this version Wish-List / Quote records will be shown for all Sku's sharing

 the same Brand Code and Style. I.e. if a customer wants Style XYZ, it doesn't

 matter whether that's Sku 100-10022 or Sku 100-10758.

The Multi-Year Sales Comparisons Report previously had a quirk where you

 had to specifically select a starting month before it would consider

 a specific month-range selection. That has been resolved in this update.

Improvements to the Google Image search option for adding pictures

 to finished inventory from established vendors.

Version 3.902                                        02/21/2019

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The Alex and Ani catalog import program has been updated with over

 540 new items for Valentines, Mothers Day, Sprint and Summer 2019

The Podium integration program was updated to support the new, longer

 Podium transaction ID numbers.

Version 3.900                                        02/11/2019

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Within the past year, the preferred method of adding images to Shopkeeper

 inventory and repairs with a webcam has been to use a screen-grab

 program such as GreenShot, then to right-click the No-Image box on-screen

 in Shopkeeper, to pop down a small menu from which one chooses Paste.

 However, on many computers, the right-click behavior is not always very

 "direct" - i.e. it could take 2 or 3 right-clicks before kicking in.

 With this update, the right-click on the image behavior should be much more

 reliable than before for first-time recognition.

 Also, most image boxes are accompanied by a "Paste" button on-screen to

 further make pasting images quicker and easier.

 Further, in the inventory take-in screen, next to each item within the inventory

 grid, there is a small camera icon which used to be only to open the picture

 manager screen from which you could then add or view a picture. Starting this version,

 if you click that icon at a time when you have just used GreenShot to capture an image

 to the Windows clipboard, it will immediately paste that image into that inventory item.

 I.e. one-click instead of several.

Many screens in Shopkeeper have small green "Go!" arrow-buttons next to data boxes to activate

 a related task. For example, the Go! button by the Email box on the customer

 profile opens a Send Email window. Clicking the Go! button by the SMS/Text

 option on certain screens starts sending an SMS/Text.

 However, on many computers, it could take 2 or 3 clicks, or careful click-speed

 before kicking in. With this update, the click action of such Go! buttons should

 be much more reliable than before for first-time recognition.

Similarly, the "Print a Tag" icon at the bottom right corner of the Inventory Status

 screen should be much more reliable than before for first-time recognition.

The Sales Payment Spreadsheet has an adjustment to the sales tax breakdown

 in the summary area, which helps for cases where there are multiple

 taxes that apply at different price-points.

The Itemized Sales Report has a new Report Organization option:

 "3 Taxables" to show 3 separate taxable amount columns which can help

 if you have multiple sales tax rates. (The normal Sales Tax layout option

 shows the 3 separate sales tax amounts per item, but not the taxable amount

 per item.)

You can now temporarily turn off the automatic pop up of the Podium review

 request screens when finishing sales or repairs.  To do that, go to

 the Web Services Settings screen, which is towards the bottom of the list

 categories in the Preferences screen. There, add the word OFF to the beginning

 of the Podium Options box. Remove the word OFF when you want to resume

 auto pop-ups. Even with this set to OFF, you can still send requests

 manually from the customer profile screen by choosing Options, Podium.

 Note that this affects *all* computers if you have more than one.

If you want to turn the off the automatic pop up of the Podium review request screens

 at just *certain* computers, from the Local Defaults page in Preferences, in the box

 "Miscellaneous Options for Just This Computer", add the following words

 (before or after any other words already in the box:

         PODIUM OFF

 For example, you may want to turn off automatic pop-ups from the accounting computer

 but leave them on at the register and repair take-in computers.

As you receive an invoice / shipment of merchandise, within the Inventory Entry

 screen it's possible to print a price tag for each line. In previous versions

 the item line had to be saved already before you could print the tag. (i.e., you'd

 have to save it and then re-click on that line.) Starting this update, you ca

 click Options Print a Tag for a new item even before clicking the Save button.

The size of the job picture on the repair tracking screen has been increased

 a bit. (About 50% more area.)

The date-stamp on reports will now include the time the report was printed

 and, further, it will include the initials of the person logged-in.

Version 3.868B                                        01/21/2019

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Typing 19 into the year part of a date field would typically result

 in the year looking like 1919 (prior to pressing Enter). Previous

 versions of Shopkeeper had auto-adjust for odd dates, but 1919 was

 previously interpreted as 2000, for historical reasons. Going forward,

 this will be auto-adjusted to 2019.

A standard option you can activate in Preferences for sales is to require

 the entry of the clerk's / sales person's initials. A new, non-standard,

 option allows you to require two sets of initials per sale.

 To use this feature, at any computer that needs to use alternative

 credentials, in Preferences, on p.1 in the box "Miscellaneous Options"

 box        add the following word, before or after any other words already in the box:

         REQ2CLERKS

Version 3.868                                        12/29/2018

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The Sales Reports by Clerk has many different layouts and in previous versions

 the layout with subtotals by major class code within each vendor

 had problems with the turnover (# of days to sell) on the major class subtotal lines.

 That problem has been resolved in this update.

Also in the Sales Reports by Clerk, starting this version, the Turnover

 # of days to sell) now leaves out of the calculations the service and repair

 items. That's because such items would typically show unhelpful numbers

 which could be 1000's of days because the repair Sku could have been

 created        5 or 10 years ago. These values are left out of individual

 lines and of the subtotals per clerk.

When taking physical inventory with an RFID reader or if importing a list

 of Sku's from a portable barcode reader data collector, in previous versions,

 if multiple people were taking physical inventory at the same time, occasionally

 VJS would show a 'conflict' error message. While this alert was benign and could

 be safely ignored, it was unhelpful and has been resolved in this update.

Version 3.867                                        12/27/2018

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Various updates for credit card processing as needed to remain current.

A new utility can reposition the accounts. E.g. If you have a new

 bank account in the fourth position, you could move it to the

 top line position.

Miscellaneous updates.

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Version 3.866                                        11/27/2018

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When you run an itemized inventory report, or when you receive or edit

 an invoice of merchandise or a batch of inventory without an invoice,

 or enter a purchase order, Shopkeeper now simultaneously creates

 a small file containing just the Sku number and the quantity in stock.

 The file format is suitable for importing the entire list into certain

 inventory management screens.

         Return to Vendor, Interstore Transfer, Relocate, Deduct from Inventory,

         Assemble & Disassemble, Physical Inventory

 This can speed up your work if you need, for example, to return to

 vendor an entire invoice, or you want to remove from inventory all

 items over 5 years old from vendor XXX. (I.e. you'd choose those criteria

 from the Inventory Reports screen.)

 Note that if you edit a received invoice without making changes, the list

 is recreated again. Every time the list is recreated, the prior copy of the

 file is replaced.

 The name of the file created is SKU-LIST.TXT and it is put into the VJS Reports

 folder which is on the Windows Desktop. To import the list into the screens above,

 you click the "Import a List" button then select "A List of Sku Numbers."  If the list

 is not precisely the list you need, you can easily remove or add Sku's before you choose

 to Save and continue your work. You can also Cancel if the list is entirely wrong.

When you choose to print tags for a received invoice of merchandise, when you

 get to the list of items to be tagged, by default all lines are selected.

 For cases where you just added a line or two at the end of the invoice a new

 option can save you time.  If you Right-click the checkbox, that unchecks

 (deselects) all other items in the list and selects just that item.

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Version 3.865                                        11/20/2018

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The Pandora catalog program has about 160 new items for Fall/Holiday 2018.

 There is a small number of price and cost changes

 This update adds about 260 new image files; - i.e. in addition to pictures for

 new items, it adds images for some prior summer items for which the picture was not

 previously available.

The Image area of inventory (or repairs, etc.) can now accept video files in .MOV or .MP4

 format. Of course, such files take up a lot more storage space and will not print

 on reports or tickets.

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Version 3.860                                        10/19/2018

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There is now an option to delete a non-inventory payable.

 (Previously, you could zero the amount, but not remove a non-inventory payable.)

 This is accessed via the Non-Invent Payables tab after choosing

 Add or Change Accounts Payable from the Accounting Menu.

Podium Review Request integration updates:

 From the top of the repair detail tracking screen, when you click

 on Options there is a new choice to manually pop up the review

 request screen. (I.e. the same choice as available from the sales

 screen and from the customer profile screen.)

 You can now make VJS automatically pop up the review request screen

 when you fill in a repair's customer pick-up information. To do that

 add the keyword PICKUP in the Podium Options box in Preferences.

 (In most cases, this is not necessary, because the request screen

 would appear when you print the sales ticket for the completed repair.

 However, you might want to use this option if you don't generally

 print a sales receipt at repair pick-up time.)

In previous versions, the Inventory Web Export option could drop the last letter

 of the description in a small number of cases.

 (Only when every letter of both the short description lines were completely

 filled and when the export format included both description lines combined into one.)

 This has been resolved in this update.

Version 3.850                                        10/9/2018

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The Podium integration module has a new option whereby you can have

 more than one set of credentials for different locations even

 if those stores share the same set of books as the main store.

 To use this feature, at any computer that needs to use alternative

 credentials, open the Local Defaults p.2 page of Preferences

 and in the box "Miscellaneous Options for Just This Computer", add the following

 words (before or after any other words already in the box:

         PODIUM KEY "XXX-YYY-ZZZ" PODIUM ID "123456"  

 Where you add your own Podium authorization key and Podium Location Id

 between the quotes.

For times where you return all the items on an incoming invoice or memo

 a new option makes it easy to transfer the shipping charges to a separate

 payable. Retrieve the invoice or memo and proceed to the inventory list.

 At the top, click Options, then choose Transfer Freight to Another Invoice.

 You can type or select an existing payable for that vendor or you can type

 a new invoice number.

The Physical Inventory screen is primarily destined to produce a Physical Inventory

 Exception report - with just the problems. However, it has had the option

 to send your physical count list to an Excel spreadsheet file.

 This update adds additional columns to that XLS file, notably, the cost,

 the replacement cost, the extended cost value, the extended replacement

 cost value and the extended retail value. (Extended meaning quantity or weight

 multiplied by the unit cost or the unit retail.) Including the cost values in the XLS file

 is optional and is available only for users with sufficient security clearance.

 [As a reminder, note that simply entering the physical counts and exporting them,

 does not correct the quantities in Shopkeeper.]

Version 3.849                                        09/19/2018

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You have long been able to change the appearance ("skin") of VJS by choosing,

 from the Main Menu, Options, Screen Graphics. Starting this version,

 if you change the appearance for one set of books, that does not change the

 appearance for the other books. (E.g. you could set a different appearance

 for the DEMO / Evaluation books compared to the Main / real books, which

 can facilitate awareness of which set of books are being used.)

The Cash Register Journal Report has additional options.

 - Previously the payments were reported in the order they were

 entered. You now have the option to sort Date and Time.

 This will keep all transactions of the same date in the same grouping even

 if they were not entered in a strictly date-ordered sequence.

 - You can now select different combinations of payment types,

 of which certain aren't exactly payments. E.g. Accounts

 Receivable Adjustments, Charges to in-house A/R accounts,

 or only bank-depositable payments.

 -This report now automatically creates an Excel file (RegisterJournal.xls

 in the VJS Reports folder on the Windows Desktop ) of the report results

 in case you want to        create other presentations, sorts or calculations.

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Version 3.848                                        09/12/2018

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The Pandora catalog program has about 70 price changes beyond the change of

 August. These changes are primarily to set the retail price of promotion

 items back up to the normal price, but with the expectation that retailers

 will discount them 30 % at point of sale during the promotion.

 There are also a few other price and cost changes

 There are no new items beyond the August 2018 catalog update.

Version 3.845                                        08/27/2018

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The Pandora catalog program has about 1150 price and cost changes that

 need to go into effect on August 30, 2018.

 There are very few new items beyond the June 2018 catalog update.

Version 3.841                                        08/10/2018

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On the Inventory Cont. page of Preferences, you can now set, or reset

 the next Purchase Order number. Previouisly this number was

 not user-changeable.

An adjustment was made on the Podium Review Request screen to better

 handle the (unusual) case where there is only a spouse's mobile

 phone number, not a primary mobile phone number.

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Version 3.840                                        08/01/2018

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This update adds the multi-year and multi-month comparison sales

 and purchases reports. Going beyond the previously-available  

 Compare Two Date Ranges Report, this report can compare sales

 figures from ten different years or twelve separate months.

 Another available version of this report compares inventory purchases for

 each of the past twelve months. These reports may not be available

 if you have a lite version of VJS (without advanced sales analysis.)

In Preferences, you can optionally set a rule to require that repair customers

 have a phone number recorded. In previous versions, having just the Spouse's

 Mobile number alone wasn't enough - another phone number was required.

 Starting this version, the Spouse's Mobile alone is sufficient to

 satisfy that rule.

The Podium Review Request screen has a change whereby it's now possible

 to select the spouse (secondary) name with the primary mobile number

 and vice-versa. Depending on the situation, you may not always want a

 "hard-link" between the primary name and the primary mobile number.

The Large customer export Excel / CSV option from the mailing label report screen

 now includes a column for the Spouse's Mobile phone number.

 (This is in the Merge1.CSV file which is typically created in the VJS Reports

 folder which is on the Windows Desktop.)

The cost of sales line-items for repairs and service can now be typed in by lower-security

 users even if they can't normally adjust the cost for inventory items.

Version 3.830                                        07/24/2018

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A previous VJS update added the ability to send, using your Podium account,

 internet review requests to customers when recording sales or repairs.

 This update adds the ability to send SMS-text messages to customers

 on any subject or for repair status updates - i.e. unrelated to reviews.

 This SMS-texting feature was available in previous VJS versions, but only using

 an account with a company called Red Oxygen. So, if you already have a Podium account,

 you can get a second use out of it. See this FAQ help topic on texting:

 http://www.jewelryshopkeeper.com/help/vjs/faq/?sms_texting.htm

 See the Version 3.810 update notes below for more information on Podium integration

 in general.

In addition to the Podium SMS-texting addition, this update adds a new SMS-texting

 option whereby you can type each SMS-text message from scratch.

 In previous versions, you needed to create one or several SMS-text template

 messages ahead of time from which you picked one for each send.

 Starting from this version, you can start with a blank message and compose

 it on the fly. You can also select a template message and have the option

 to adjust or add to it for each message.

The inventory export to website file feature now includes the ability

 to include more than 254 letters of the Alternative Extended Description

 on the Style Detail page of Inventory status.

The Customer Reports by Special Events (Anniversaries, etc.) has previously

 had the option to include only those customers *with* items on their

 wish lists. This update adds the further option to include only

 those customers with special events and *without* a wish list item.

 This allows you to separate the lists in order to send more personalized

 mailings to those with particular items on their list, and more general

 mailings to those without.

Version 3.825                                        07/02/2018

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The Pandora catalog program has about 570 new items for Summer/Fall 2018.

 There are very few price changes, but there are quite a few  cost changes

 since the last update so you may want to update the prior catalog

 information - including the cost.

 So far, most of the new image files are not yet available, but we hope

 to receive those soon in order to integrate them in a forthcoming update.

The Itemized Sales Report has a new layout option to compare sales

 by year with one line per year. Choose: Sort By Year. In order

 to see many years at once, be sure to choose Full Selection

 then choose: Both for the Current vs Archive sales file.

Version 3.820                                        06/27/2018

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The Alex and Ani catalog import program has been updated with over

 300 new Summer and Fall 2018 items.

The Podium Online Review integration option added in Version 3.810

 now adds the option to select either the primary name or the spouse's

 name, along with the choice of which mobile phone number or email to use.

The Enter Existing Inventory screen now has an option to run a report

 of the batch of items that were just entered. This can be run either

 immediately after entering the items, or retroactively, if you re-open

 this screen and type a previous batch number.

The menu graphics have been updated.

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Version 3.810                                        06/08/2018

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A new feature is integration with the Podium Online Review and Online

 Customer Interaction Management system.

 Right at the point of sale a good time to propose sending a review request,

 Just when the customer most remembers the good experience shopping with you.

 To prevent missing out on these opportunities, Shopkeeper can automatically prompt

 you to initiate a Podium review request when you print receipts - or at any time

 you work with a customer.

 See this FAQ help topic for more details:

 http://www.jewelryshopkeeper.com/help/vjs/faq/?podium_on-line_review_requests.htm

You can now use the keyboard Escape-Escape shortcut to exit out of

 the repairs job billing selection screen, whereas previously you

 had to click Cancel or the [X] with the mouse.

 (As a reminder, in the Sku No. box of the sales screen, pressing Ctrl-R

 is the shortcut to pop up the Job Billing screen to show jobs

 that were entered loose/unbilled.)

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Version 3.800                                        05/23/2018

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The repairs and custom job screen now allows you to add a list of

 components from inventory. Choose the Parts tab at the bottom

 of the Job tracking screen, then choose Update Parts above the list.

 Notes: Sku's added to jobs are removed from stock immediately

 even if the job is not finalized and delivered.

 Sku's are not included in sales figures (The entire amount

 of the job will once it's finalized.)

 You can report a list of used parts by running the Itemized Sales Reports

 and selecting "Job Parts" for the "Components" option.

Some HP printers exhibit a symptom whereby certain text lines

 are printed in a stack of two half-height lines. The real solution

 is to install a new or a different Windows printer driver. However,

 this isn't always easy so this update adds a workaround. In the

 Print Options dialog box, type the number 80 in the "Options" box.

 To reiterate, this is just a workaround and the resulting printing

 may not be formatted quite right, and finding a better printer driver

 remains the real solution.

On the Inventory Status screen, the Print a Tag button at the bottom

 right previously had a ctrl-click option to simultaneously select

 a Sku and proceed to the tag printing. (Whereas a regular click

 added the Sku to the tag list and waited for the addition of

 further items.) The click and ctrl-click behavior could sometimes

 take a few clicks to register. As part of the adjustment to help that,

 in this update, the select-and-print-in-one option is now selected

 by pressing the middle button.

In previous versions, by design, miscellaneous bank adjustments and bank

 deposits had separate number sequences could overlap. Starting

 this version, a deposit and an adjustment cannot have the same number.

In previous versions, when you clicked with the mouse in certain empty date

 boxes, the cursor would start where you clicked so you'd have to arrow left

 before starting typing. In this update, clicking anywhere in an empty date

 box will move the cursor to the beginning so you can start typing immediately.

If you find that certain drop-down lists disappear a bit too quickly for

 you when you move the mouse out of them, this version has a "sensitivity"

 adjustment option. (Email us for details if you think this applies to you,

 it's not something we'd expect most people to tinker with.)

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Version 3.792                                        05/08/2018

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It's fairly common to create special Sku numbers which result

 in a credit on sale, such as Sku's for Trade-Ins, or Sku's

 for donated gift certificates or Sku's for promotion coupons,

 etc. On the sales screen, such sku's need to be entered with

 a positive price and a negative quantity.

 To save you from manually typing minus-one each time you use

 such a Sku, this version adds the feature for you to specify

 a Standard Sale Quantity for any Sku number. This is available

 on the Notes page of Inventory Status.

 This could also be used for positive quantities, such as items

 that are usually sold in twos - but where the price is entered

 as the per-individual value.

 Technical update for higher security ftp passwords.

 Adjustments to credit card processing timeout settings for smoother

         EMV credit card processing.

 Adjustments to lookup of inventory by Part Number for cases where

         there are similar part number but with different lengths.

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Version 3.790                                        05/02/2018

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A new module, Interstore Inventory Transfer, has been added with this update.

 If you have two stores with Shopkeeper inventory control, this allows

 you to record a list of items to be transferred to be deducted

 from one inventory and added to the other.

 It's important that the Sku numbering system for both stores

 be carefully coordinate and you'll need to ask Compulink for

 instructions before considering using this feature.

 This includes transfer of associated images.

 It can send a payable to the receiving store.

 Reports on outgoing and incoming transfers are available.

 The transfer files can be sent on a USB memory stick that accompanies

         the inventory items.

 Or the transfer files can be sent by Internet.

 This module is available for those with two or more licenses for

 the Full Version of Jewelry Shopkeeper.

 For smaller versions of Shopkeeper this module could possibly be purchased.

Version 3.782  ( incl. 3.775 a-k)                                         04/20/2018

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This version includes internet security updates that are necessary

 for integrated credit card processing which now has higher

 security requirements.

The Itemized Sales Report has a new sort option: by Part Number.

Version 3.780  ( incl. 3.775 a-k)                                         04/16/2018

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Shopkeeper has previously had a few methods of sending emails to

 customers (e.g. simple messages or sales receipts or appraisals or repairs.)

 Because email systems (e.g. Gmail, Yahoo, etc.) periodically change their

 security or protocol requirements, this update includes a new connection

 method which may help if the other methods don't work. This has been tested

 with Gmail, Yahoo and Outlook.com (the on-line Outlook.)

 When you get to the email screen, switch to the Settings page

 and you'll see the new option: Direct dot-Net. This does support

 the Secure SSL/TLS option, which, if used, would typically be used with Port

 587 or 465.

Some people may have experienced a problem looking up Sku numbers in inventory

 status in the prior version. This update addresses that.

The Slate and Tell catalog import program has been updated with over

 100 new Spring and Summer 2018 items. A second update in April added 15

 further new items which are shipping.

The Alex and Ani catalog import program has been updated with over

 700 new Spring and Summer 2018 items.

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Version 3.774                                        03/19/2018

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Just days after the huge cost and reprice update that went into effect on March 15, 2018,

 we have received a *further* catalog update.

 *) 150 new Styles (logo rings, letter charms, regular charms, bracelets, college jewelry bundles)

 *) Over 380 images that were previously missing from recent catalog updates.

Version 3.772                                        03/14/2018

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The Pandora catalog program includes over 300 retail price and wholesale cost updates.

 Even if further changes that need to go into effect on March 15, 2018. If you haven't

 updated the catalog recently, then about 600 new spring items will also be added.

The Alex and Ani catalog import program adds about 60 more Spring items

 (beyond Mothers Day 2018) - most with accompanying images.

Miscellaneous changes for credit card processing to keep in synch with the

 changes in the processors' systems.

A new utility allows you to retroactively apply a Dept Code to sales

 based on the presence of certain items on the sale. E.g. if you have

 previously applied promotion or discount sku's to sales, by applying

 Dept Codes to all items on those sales, you could report all the items

 on such sales to validate the result of the promotion.

 (The utility is u_dept_assign - in case of intereste ask Compulink for more details.)

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Version 3.771                                        02/26/2018

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The Alex and Ani catalog import program adds about 50 Mothers Day 2018

 items - most with images.

On the Inventory Status screen, certain "more sensitive" data boxes

 are "double-locked" so they remain protected even if the padlock at the

 top is unlocked. To unlock them you need to Ctrl-Click them. E.g., the

 Part Number, Style and Major Code have previously been double-locked.

 In this update, the Price by Weight vs. Price by Piece selection is

 also double-locked. This is because an accidentaly change of that field

 would have a serious effect on the price on the sales screen or the cost

 in the inventory cost total.

Version 3.770                                        02/15/2018

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The Pandora catalog program has about 600 new items for early 2018.

 Note: this does NOT yet include the new prices for March.

 Those price changes may not be applied before March 15, 2018.

VJS has has features for applying automatic discounts at the sales screen

 based on the major code, the minor code and the customer.

 A sneaky new option in this version allows you to round the resulting

 price up to the nearest dollar. E.g. $149.99 minus 15% = $127.49

 and you have the option to make the result round up to $149.00

 To do this, set the discount value to end in .01 such as 15.01% or 10.01%

You can now reorder the list of bank accounts within the accounting module.

 E.g. Perhaps your new/current bank account is #4 on the list, but it

 would make things easier if it were the default / #1 on the list.

 From the Checkbook Setup screen, choose Options, Change Order of Accounts.

The Chart of Accounts screen within the accounting module has a new feature

 to report the accounts along with a value from one of the prior 49

 months. This report also simultaneously creates an Excel XLS file of

 the results. From the Chart of Accounts screen, choose Options at the

 top then choose Report COA with Values.

The Adjustments list on the Activity page of Inventory Status will

 now hide most information if the person signed-in to Shopkeeper

 does not have security access to run an inventory adjustments report.

A new security feature allows you to restrict access to the report

 "Entire Customer History." However, note that this does not prevent

 users reviewing sales history in various on-screen grid-lists; it

 limits access just to the full-page report-style listing.

In certain cases where a sale has no Sku line, or only non-printing

 Sku lines, a receipt would print without the customer name. This

 has been addressed in this update.

In previous versions, when receiving an invoice of merchandise,

 in certain cases, when you type the major code and press <Enter>

 and very quickly start typing the minor code, the second digit

 of the minor code could overwrite the first - so you'd have to retype it.

 That has been resolved in this update.

Version 3.761                                        01/30/2018

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 The Alex and Ani catalog import program adds the new early 2018 / Valentines

 Harry Potter items and other new items for early 2018

Version 3.760                                        01/17/2018

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The sales activity list in Inventory Status now defaults to showing the

 most recent sales at the top rather than at the bottom.

 (Since regular inventory typically has a quantity of just one, this mostly

 affects generic Sku's which are re-used repeatedly.)

In previous versions, an invoice payable's discount date could get

 set to the due date in certain cases. That has been resolved.

Entering addresses with compass additions such as SE will remain

 as SE and not Se as was the case before. (In previous versions

 directionals like s.e. [with dots] already were being converted

 do capitals.)

The Repair Quick Status Update screen now adds the ability to update

 the Insurance Value for each job. To see this extra column, you'll need

 to increase the width of the screen (by dragging the corner with the mouse.)

 In addition, you can now increase the height of this screen to view extra rows

 of repairs. That's helpful if you update long lists of jobs, and if your

 monitor is tall enough.

Version 3.759                                        12/27/2017

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The sales receipt change in the previous version prevented the

 customer number from appearing on receipts in some cases.

 That has been fixed in this update.

The PDF version of some layouts of the inventory report did not

 include the minor code column. Starting this version, that column

 will be shown.

When adding the in-house charge account option to a customer records

 the options to turn OFF statements, finance charges and statements

 for this customer default to do not turn off, but in previous versions

 these options initially appeared blank so it wasn't always clear

 to users what the status was. Now these options are checkboxes so

 the status will be clearer.

Starting this version, VJS will check the status of Windows "network caching" and

 will warn you if it's on - since that can cause data problems. A fix for

 this Windows setting will be suggested.

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Version 3.758                                        11/17/2017

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The Pandora catalog program has about 200 new items for the holiday season.

If an Entire Customer History report is more than one page, starting

 with this update, the customer name will print in the header of

 each page - not just the first page.

The sales receipts and appraisals will now print the customer name

 including the spouse's last name. If the spouse's name is not specified,

 then it will print the same way as before (e.g. Jack & Jill Hillsworth)

 Actually, to be more precise, these receipts and appraisals will use

 the salutation format that you specify in the customer page of

 Preferences. Note that if you specify a format that uses titles (Mr. /Mrs.)

 then for customers without those titles, that aspect will be ignored.

 This change may be extended in subsequent updates to repair tickets.

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Version 3.751                                        11/03/2017

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The Alex and Ani catalog import program has a small number of new items -

 the Moon and Star items.

The Accounts Receivable balance audit utility has a new option to select

 an individual customer. When you choose just one customer, the results

 show the details of the transactions for that customer. (Normally,

 the utility shows just the total value of purchases and total of payments.)

Version 3.750                                        10/26/2017

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A new Managed Customer Alert system has been added in this version.

 You can create pop-up alerts or messages that appear when you record

 customer sales. These can be reminders to salespeople to ask customers

 questions or to inform customers of events. For example:

 - Remind customers of a Gent's Night event

 - Inform customers of a new line you carry

 - Ask customers if they have recently noticed your advertising

 - Ask customers if they need parking validation

 - Ask customers if they want to contribute to a Charity drive

 - Ask customers if they need a gift receipt or gift wrapping.

 - Ask customers if you have their current address, phone and email

 - Ask customers if they would like any jewelry item they are wearing to be cleaned

 - Etc.

 Using these alerts can improve customer service, learn more about customer awareness

 of your store's offerings, promote special events, increase add-on sales, etc.

 See this page in the online FAQ help pages for more details:

 http://www.jewelryshopkeeper.com/help/vjs/faq/?sales_screen_customer_alerts.htm

The X and Z reports will be shorter and tidier in many cases

 because the large number of Accounts Receivable lines and the

 Paid Out and Received lines are removed if there is no

 activity in those areas.

The Itemized Sales reports with tax columns have been adjusted

 to fix a problem which could have occurred before in certain

 rare situations. (Where the sales tax rate is multi-tiered

 based on price, and where two or more identical, very high-price

 items are sold on the same sales ticket.)

If you want all merchandise items added via a Memo type of invoice

 to be set to a specific        minor class code, add the keyword

 MEMOMINOR=XXX anywhere in the Miscellaneous Options box in Preferences,

 where you replace XXX with the desired minor code.

 Note that this should be rarely necessary, as inventory and sales

 reports can report memo inventory without needing a specific

 minor code.

The Alex and Ani Ugly Sweater item has been added to the Alex and Ani

 utility: u_alexanisep2017

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Version 3.740                                        09/25/2017

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A new customer mailing list option allows you to select customers

 based on Male / Female notations in the customer profile screen.

 This is a powerful new option to enable you to more easily do Ladies' Night

 or Gents' Night mailers.

 On the Customer Reports and Labels screen, choose Full Selection

 and in the Male/Female box you could type M or F  or MF or FM.

 Choosing F will pick only customers where either the First Name

 or the Spouse's Name was set to F. If the Spouse's Name is F

 then in the list, the First name will be set to the Spouse's Name

 E.g. John Smith would be ignored, Jane Smith would be included

 and Jack and Judy Smith would become Judy Smith.

 Similarly, Choosing M will pick only customers where either the First Name

 or the Spouse's Name was set to M.        E.g. Jane Smith would be ignored, John

 Smith would be included, and Judy and Jack Smith would become Jack Smith.

 If you select MF or FM then only customers which have both an M name and an F name

 are included - so you get only couples. MF would reorganize the results

 so that the Male name is first and the Female name is second, and FM would

 put the Female name first.

 E.g. for MF Jane Smith would be ignored, John Smith would be included, Bob & Mary Smith

 would be included as-is and Sally & Rich Smith would be included but with Rich in the

 first name and Sally in the Spouse's name.

 Note that the results for this selection apply only if you choose the

 Large Customer CSV export to create the Excel file MERGE1.CSV in the VJS Reports

 folder which is on the Windows Desktop. This version of the export file contains

 many, many columns, but you can erase any columns if that makes it easier to work with.

 Using that list, you can merge with Word or with your email program or create a call sheet.

 Note that in the resulting file, the spouse's name will still be included

 in the spouse column. Also note that if the first and spouse name are switched

 then so are the title and the email addresses.

 This way, if you do mail-merge and were doing a gent's night, you could make

 the letter or email say something like:

 Dear Rich,

 Come to our Gents' Night to find something special for Sally.

 Of course, this ability works only if you have put M or F next to the first and/or

 spouse's name in the customer profile screen.

 You don't have to use M or F specifically; you could use W or L or G, etc.

The Alex and Ani catalog program has been updated with 150 new

 items and corrected prices (or filled in prices) for hundreds

 of other fall items.

When running the Itemized Sales Report an Excel XLS file is simultaneously

 created. A difference in this update is that when that report is

 sorted by customer, the XLS file now includes an additional column

 for the customers' mobile phone number. (Along with all the other

 columns that were included in previous versions).

When you receive a shipment of inventory and some of the items are

 on pending special order sales, if the cost changes, that will change

 the cost in the pending special order sales record - this has been the

 case in previous versions. Starting this version, if you change the

 description as you receive such items, the description in the pending

 special order sales will also change.

When you receive a shipment of Loose Stones and you add extended detail

 at the same time you log it in, previous versions had a display quirk

 where if you added the stone details (e.g. MM, Clarify, etc.) then returned

 back to the invoice screen then went back to the stone details screen

 then the details wouldn't immediately show until you clicked in a detail box.

 This wasn't "dangerous" and only appeared with this limited combination. However,

 it could have been disconcerting if you happened to encounter that.

 This has been resolved in this update.

Version 3.732                                        08/31/2017

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The Pandora program has over 100 new items and includes over 400

 retail price and wholesale cost updates. Even if further changes may

 be released in the next few days, this release will help log

 in new Pandora shipments.

Version 3.730                                        08/17/2017

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The Pandora program has 3 more items - some dangles and a heart that

 have shipped recently.

The Appraisal feature can now print multiple appraisals together.

 Depending on the length of the appraisal text, multiple appraisals

 may print on one sheet or they may wrap to a second page, but still

 as a continuous appraisal.

 For this to be applicable:

 *) The multiple appraisals would have to be linked to line items

 on a single sale.

 *) Not all appraisal print formats support this option because they have

 limited space for appraisal text.

 *) The appraisal print format should be 'Appraisal for Letterhead,

 Multiple Per Page" or "Appraisal with Logo File, Multiple Per Page"

 *) From the Appraisal screen, choose Options, Appraisal Print Layout

 and check the box 'Print Multiple Appraisals Per Page"

 Note that if this checkbox does not appear, you'll need to choose from

 the VJS File Center "More" then "Update Data Files" - which requires

 all users to be out of Shopkeeper for a few minutes.

The Repair Status Quick Update screen, now allows you to

 see and update the Notes field - the one which is on

 the second page of the repair details screen. To enable

 that, click on the Edit Notes checkbox. Because that takes

 a certain amount of space, there is a bit less screen room

 available for other elements.

The Slate and Tell catalog import program has been updated with the current

 line and now includes over 3000 items and pictures.

 If you request your invoice files in Excel format, Shopkeeper can add

 the received quantities to stock.

One of the advantages of the Trac Tech RFID system is that

 Shopkeeper can simultaneously print a price tag, and

 encode the RFID number in the tag. That's instead of

 having a separate chip that you have to sandwich in the

 tag and then link to a Sku.

 However, there may be cases in which using the pre-made

 reusable RFID chips/wafers would be useful and VJS now

 also supports the Trac Tech re-usable tags.

 You can use a combination of both tag types: reusable and

 printer-"burned". Or, you could start with the reusable tags

 as an economy measure because you wouldn't immediately require

 the expensive RFID printer. (You could also forego the RFID

 wand to start; however, the wand reading is the main reason

 to use RFID in the first place.)

This update also adds support for the small "thumb-sized" USB

 RFID reader by Trac Tech. This can be used in the Inventory Status

 screen or any screen which accepts a list of Sku's (physical inventory,

 return to vendor, etc.)

 It can also be used to select items during sales. When the Sales screen

 is waiting for a Sku number, press Ctrl-I to switch into RFID lookup mode.

 The thumb-sized RFID readers (except the RDP model) require that you be

 running the        TracTech keyboard emulation driver program and that it be

 configured to "Use RETURN" and configure to not use TAB or DASH or PREFIX

 nor POSTFIX. TracTech will provide this driver and instructions.

Version 3.720                                        07/31/2017

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In some cases, you may want to flag a sales ticket for a repair

 as Special Order so that if it is pre-paid before pickup, it

 does not finalize automatically. In previous versions, if the

 sale total were zero (i.e. you hadn't yet any repair estimate)

 VJS wouldn't let you flag the associated sales ticket as

 special order, but starting this version, you can.

The inventory report version which is grouped and subtotaled by

 the invoice number in previous versions had a running total

 for the vendor after each invoice instead of just the per invoice

 subtotal. Starting this version, the subtotal after each invoice

 is the subtotal for just that invoice alone.

Shopkeeper has a Wholesale Pricing option whereby certain customers

 can receive one of four different levels of Wholesale pricing.

 In previous versions, the wholesale pricing would be set on a

 per style basis. Starting in this version, the Wholesale pricing

 can also be set on a per major class basic - where the wholesale

 price is cost plus different percentages.

 Contact Compulink for more details if interested.

In Version 3.71 the Shopkeeper menu icons were updated.

 You now have the option to display the old-style icons on the menus

 add the keyword 2004ICONS anywhere in the box

 Miscellaneous Options for Just This Computer Settings

 box on the Local Defaults page 2 of Preferences.

 I.e. this setting doesn't change the preference for all computers

 on a network; each computer can change the option individually.

As you enter new inventory, a character counting feature shows the

 length of the character as you type it. This might help in case

 you try to optimize the use of tag spaces by making word breaks

 at certain lengths. The counter is in the header of the

 description column of Inventory Entry.

In previous versions, for the inventory report combination where you select

 to show images and the replacement cost, the regular cost shown

 next to each item. With this update the actual replacement cost will show.

 (Unless it's zero in which case, as always, the regular cost will show.)

Version 3.718                                        07/17/2017

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The Alex and Ani Catalog utility has been updated with additional styles and

 pictures for Summer 2017.

In Preferences, there is a new option to disable printing inventory

 pictures on month-end accounts receivable statements.

In the Cash Register Paid-out and Received screen, in previous

 versions you could alternate between Paid-Out mode and Received

 mode by moving the mouse over the selection icons. However,

 starting this version you have to click the icons or the buttons

 not just move the mouse over them.

Now, if you change an invoice's vendor code, previously entered checks

 will be assigned the new vendor code too, in order to keep the checks linked

 to the invoice. You'll be given a choice of leaving the Payee Name on

 the check as it was originally entered (probably best if the check has

 already been printed and sent out), or changing the Payee Name on the

 checks to match the new vendor code.

Month-End Accounts Receivables Statements can now print a watermark of

 "Past Due" in very large letters. This option is activated in

 the Accounts Receivables Statement Layout page of Preferences.

The Fast Seller Report (Sales and Inventory Report Summarized by Style)

 has two additional columns: Price of Each Item and Cost of Each Item

 of the articles in stock inventory. This not necessarily the same

 as the price those items sold for.

Version 3.715                                        06/30/2017

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The Pandora Catalog program has a further 90 new items.

 Some of the new items are shipping, but this update also

 includes new items to come that will not ship until Fall 2017.

 It also includes a number of price and cost changes and

 adds over 400 pictures for items that previously didn't have

 an image.

Now, if you change an invoice's number, previously entered checks

 will be renumbered too, in order to keep the checks linked

 to the invoice.

Includes a fix for receipt printing Totals area, a problem that

 affected some copies of Version 3.710

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Version 3.710                                        06/16/2017

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This version introduced changes in the menu icons and graphics.

This update includes the addition of a rewards dollars system to help promote

 customer loyalty and repeat visits. The accumulation of Loyalty Points

 or Rewards dollars can be earned at different (or zero) percentages

 differently depending on the type of merchandise or service. The rewards

 can be used at point of sale as partial payments either at a rate of $1

 per point or at a percentage you configure.

 It's not extremely complicated, but there are enough details to consider and

 configure that you'll want to carefully read the guide, which is available on

 the online help / FAQ pages:

 www.jewelryshopkeeper.com/help/vjs/faq/?loyalty_rewards_program.htm

The inventory report has a new layout which summarizes the inventory by

 minor class code.

The customer reports screen has a new report option:

 "Special Events+Wish List Only." This choice is almost the

 same as "Special Events+Wish List" except that only those                                

 customers who have items on their wish list are reported.

 This makes for a much shorter, more focused report on customers who

 both have a special event coming up and who have registered

 specific wish list items.

The sales screen item list now shows negative amounts in red to make

 them stand out more.

Under certain conditions in previous versions, there was a difficulty

 adding Part Numbers to inventory in the inventory-entry grid. That

 has been resolved in this update.

Under certain conditions in previous versions, the repair QuickUpdate

 screen could replace the sales screen price with the repair screen

 estimate. That has been resolved in this update.

Version 3.700                                        05/30/2017

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In previous versions, on occasion some drop lists of selection

 items (e.g. a pick list of invoices, or class codes or clerks, etc.)

 would remain on-screen when it should have disappeared, and

 that could clutter the screen.

 Starting this update, that should not occur any more.

The Customer X-Tra Search screen within the Sales screen, has an

 adjustment such that when you edit a customer profile and make changes,

 it doesn't immediately assume to add a new sale when you've finished editing.

In previous versions, using the Undo button on the Sales screen

 and then selecting a different sale from X-Tra search could

 result in an error message. That is resolved in this update.

The repair report adds the option to sort the list by the date

 the jobs were sent to a Shop (or to a vendor or to a jeweler -

 depending on how you use that data field.)

Adjustments were made to the Vantiv / Blackline credit card processing.

Version 3.689                                        05/10/2017

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The Pandora Catalog program has a further 550 new items.

 Some of the new items are shipping, but this update also

 includes new items to come that will not ship until summer 2017.

 It also includes a number of price and cost changes.

The Aging Snapshot version of the inventory report has had

 the wording changed to be more clear. The first line was

 Under 3 Months, but the second and subsequent lines showed

 "Under 6 Months", "Under 12 Months", etc. Now they read

 "3 to 6 Months", "6 to 12 Months", etc.

The Non-Inventory Payables entry has been tweaked to allow the

 invoice date to not default to seven days prior. I.e. it now

 has the same options available as inventory payables and memos.

 For details, see the version 3.386 update notes below.

Version 3.688                                        05/05/2017

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In previous versions, a timing issue in certain inventory adjustment

 screens could cause the picture to be one behind - i.e. it could

 show the picture of the last item in the list, not the one you're currently

 adding. Screens: Relocate Inventory screen, Add to Existing Inventory,

 Deduct from Inventory. That has been resolved in this update.

Version 3.687                                        04/29/2017

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A new product catalog import program has been added: The

 Slate and Tell line of over 680 items and pictures can now

 be imported. Also, Slate & Tell will provide invoice files

 in Excel format so Shopkeeper can add received quantities.

In the customer X-Tra Search screen, when you have the repair

 list selected at the bottom right corner, now the image of

 each repair shows as you highlight each repair line. This can

 help you more positively select the right line based on the picture.

 If the image doesn't appear, you'll need to widen the X-Tra Search screen

 slightly to allow the extra room for the picture. Just drag the

 right edge of the X-Tra Search screen to widen it.

In the customer profile page, if you change the last name, a reminder

 note indicating the old name, the new name and the date of change is

 now automatically added to the customer notes

A few optimization changes when you add a new customer and change the state.

 You don't have to delete the default state; the default city and the zip

 code will self-erase because they couldn't be the same if the customer

 is out of state.

Version 3.683                                        03/31/2017

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The Pandora Catalog program has a *further* 140 new items (some of

 which might not be shipping yet.)

 It also includes the Canadian dollar values for the 100's of

 price and/or cost changes for March 2017

When receiving merchandise invoices, a running cost invoice total

 is shown at the bottom right corner of the screen. Added to that

 in this update is a running total of the retail value. That can help

 you keep an eye on the overall markup which could prevent accidental

 retail price errors.

When you assemble inventory component items into another item, the quantity

 of the components is deducted from stock. However, components which are

 in a labor or service category are not deducted. This version adds an

 alert in such cases because sometimes users are puzzled when certain

 items are not deducted from inventory.

 (In case you often assemble service and labor components, you can disable

 this alert by adding the keyword ASSEMBLESVCALERTOFF anywhere in

 Miscellaneous Settings on the first page of Preferences)

 When processing EMV/Chip credit cards via the Vantiv/Mercury

 processor, some on-screen prompts have been made clearer and more helpful.

When receiving merchandise invoices, the invoice date automatically

 defaults to seven days before the received date. The exact invoice

 date doesn't matter much as the received date is used for accounting

 but if you'd like to change the default invoice date to today, you can add

 the keyword INVOICEDATE anywhere in Miscellaneous Settings on the

 first page of Preferences. If you make the keyword INVOICEDATE1, that

 would set it to one day prior to the received date which may be handy

 if you get a lot of overnight shipments. You can change the number 1

 to another number such as 2 for two days earlier.

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Version 3.682                                        03/16/2017

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The Pandora Catalog program has a *further* 137 price and or cost

 changes

The position of the notes box on the customer profile screen got altered

 in the previous version. This update fixes the position.

On the sales screen, it is now possible to type in the cost of

 any sales line with a cost code. Activate this option

 via the Sales Screen Cont page in Preferences.

[Fix for negative/return charge processing with Vantiv Blackline ]

Version 3.680                                        03/09/2017

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The Pandora Catalog program will apply about 650 price and cost changes

 that are due to go into effect on March 16, 2017.

 Note that you probably *do* want to activate the option to Change

 Existing Costs because of the large number of cost changes.

 However, this does retroactively change the cost value

 of existing items in Shopkeeper, so you may want to print a summary

 inventory report for Pandora before and after the catalog change

 so you know what cost difference was caused.

 There are also about 30 new Pandora styles added.

*Note*

 The order of the data fields on the customer profile screen        has changed in

 that the Email address is now right after the customer's first name.

 This is to reflect the importance of registering email addresses.

 (The secondary email address box is still on the right-hand side.)

The Price Tag Designer allows additional data fields to be printed

 on the tags: Quantity in Stock, Quantity Received and Weight Received.

 By default, these data fields won't appear in the palette so if you want

 to use them, choose Modify Palette in the Tag Designer, then use the

 check boxes to select the fields you want to enable.

A new option can warn you if the repair ticket number sequence has "jumped"

 up or down. This feature is not active by default - ask Compulink if you

 think you may need it.

 [JOBSEQWARN]

Version 3.675                                        02/16/2017

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The Alex and Ani catalog import program has been updated with hundreds

 of the latest additions to their catalog - including items Mothers day 2017

 Many of the additions also include a picture - but some of the pictures

 won't be available until after the display date.

The basic mailing list report didn't include the spouse's

 name in previous versions, but starting with this update it does.

When sending the customer purchase report to a PDF file in previous

 versions, very long customer names (first and last) would

 be blank. This is resolved in this update.

When running a Return to Vendor report, an Excel export file

 is simultaneously put in the VJS Reports folder. The change in

 this update is that the minor class code column has been added

 to the XLS output file.

In previous versions the itemized sales report would show the cost

 regardless of one's security level. That might have required you

 to prevent certain users from accessing this sales report screen.

 The current update is modified such that the cost value will not

 show any more for lower-level login ID's.

The Cash Register Journal payment report now allows you to choose

 to show only layaway payments or just special order payments or

 just charge account payments or just cash sale payments.

The Itemized Sales Report sorted by customer shows sales details

 grouped by customer. In previous versions there was a synch problem

 such that the phone number printed by the name was the phone number

 for the customer above. That is fixed in this update.

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Version 3.670                                        01/24/2017

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The Pandora Catalog program adds ~70 additional items - including

 Mothers Day 2017. In addition, some of the items added earlier

 this month didn't previously have a price in the Pandora catalog data

 and this update adds many of the missing prices - so you'll want to run

 the Update step to fix those prices.

 50 additional image files for early 2017 and Valentines items are included

 in this update. (Further images will be included in later updates as

 they become available.)

A new security option allows you to restrict access to the ability

 to delete customer records. You can set the required security level

 on the More Security Settings page within Preferences.

A new security option allows you to restrict access to the ability

 to delete repair. You can set the required security level

 on the Sales Security page within Preferences.

It is now possible to require users to access the repair screen drop-down pick

 lists of canned wording and phrases. This can be helpful if you want people

 to be more consistent and complete with the descriptions and instructions.

 To enable this option the keywords REQREPDROPDOWND   and or REQREPDROPDOWNI

 anywhere in Miscellaneous Settings on the first page of Preferences

 The first one requires that the Description drop-down be activated

 and the second one requires that the Instructions drown-down be activated.

 Note that VJS will not require the users to actually select entries from the

 lists - but at the minimum they have to click in the drop-down pick list.

The Equifax / Metro export utility for accounts receivable reporting to

 credit bureaus has been updated and includes some additional required fields.

 It now additionally creates an XLS export file at the same time - beyond the

 previously created DBF and TXT export files.

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Version 3.665                                        01/12/2017

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The Pandora Catalog program adds ~400 additional items.

The Rank column was not included in the PDF version of

 the customer purchase report in previous versions, but

 is there now starting with this update.

The Advanced Customer Analysis options of the customer report

 now include the option to select customers based on sales

 in lists of brands and lists of major codes - instead of

 just by ranges. See the related notes in Version 3.660 for

 more details

The customer analysis export of customer purchases by zip code

 now no longer includes the zero-purchases customers.

Version 3.660                                        01/05/2017

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The Itemized Sales Report and the Inventory Report screens have

 some significant new selection options:

 Previously these reports have allowed you to select a *range* of

 major codes (e.g. 100-199) and a range of vendor codes (e.g. 001 to PAN)

 The new version still has these options but adds the ability to

 select a list of vendors or major class codes to include or exclude.

 For example you could select vendors ANA and PAN and CHA and END

 or you could run the reports for all vendors *Except* ANA, PAN, CHA, END.

 Similarly, you could run a report for just major codes 50 and 175 and 800 and 850

 or you could run a report for all major codes *except* 50, 175,800 and 850.

 Note that currently not all sales and inventory reporting choices have

 this option - just "Itemized Sales Reports" and "Inventory Reports." Other

 reports could see the addition of these options if there is demand for that.

 For example these options could allow you to run reports for just your

 charms vendors (or all *but* your charms vendors) or for reports for any major

 code containing pearls (or to exclude them.)

 Note that on the Itemized Sales Report the list option is for Brands whereas

 on the Inventory Reports the list option is for Vendors. In most cases these

 refer to same thing - the supplier.

 Note that in both cases, to access the option for the list of major codes

 selection criterion, you need to choose Full Selection at the top of the report

 screen.

When you start a sale of type "Special Order" when you land on the        

 Sku number line, VJS defaults to highlighting the Add Inventory

 option because special orders generally expect you to order a new

 item which has to be added to the inventory file.

 In case you do special order sales, but don't use this Add Inventory

 approach, a new option in the Sales screen configuration pages

 of Preferences allows you to NOT default to adding inventory. Instead

 the sales screen will wait in the Sku number box as with Cash Sales.

A new option in the Sales screen configuration pages of Preferences

 allows you to remove the Quick Sale option from the sales screen.

 If you don't use that feature, this will tidy the screen up a bit.

The Sales Payment Spreadsheet can now optionally include ZZ sales, either

 exclusively or all together with other sales. Unlike the X & Z reports,

 which cannot do so, the Sales Payment Spreadsheet can retroactively report

 ZZ sales. Contact Compulink if you need details on this report option.

The XLS export from the Commission Report / Sales Report by Clerk will now

 always be put in the VJS Reports folder. In previous versions, it could

 have been sent to an alternative folder - the one you select for the customer

 export. This change simplifies things.

Version 3.655                                        12/17/2016

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The repair envelopes used to print the Home phone number first.

 Now the primary Mobile phone number prints first to match

 the customer profile screen, where the mobile number was

 moved into the "pole position" in a previous update.

When you choose to edit a customer profile via the X-Tra Search

 screen (via the sales screen) , after you've closed the customer

 profile screen,        previous versions would immediately start with the new

 sale routine - i.e. it'll pop up the Sale number prompt and possibly

 any credit slip and wish list screens. Starting this version, VJS will

 return back        to X-Tra Search without assuming a new sale. This can

 reduce unwanted popups if you often edit or view customer profiles

 this way without necessarily wanting to start a new sale.

When you use the Repairs Quick Status Update screen, a new option allows

 you to store a log of any location changes. If you apply a new

 location and check the Log Location Changes box, then movements

 among locations are added to the repair Notes pages.

While unusual, it's possible to apply a zero-dollar payment to a sale.

 In previous versions the reference attached to such a payment would

 not appear on the Payment Spreadsheet report, but starting this

 version it will. One possible reason you might add a $0 payment

 record is to add a more explicit pickup record for a repair

 or a special order that was pre-paid but not previously finalized.

 Also, if you use Cash Register codes, adding a $0 payment is a way

 to make a sale appear on the Payment Spreadsheet report when you

 run the report for *only* a particular cash register code.

You can now make the sales screen pop up an alert message based on the

 major code of the item being sold. On the Major Class code screen,

 on the Other tab, add to the Class Code Notes <<MSG: Message Here >>,

 including the angle-brackets, and the "Message Here" words will

 appear on screen when you sell items in this major code. You can use

 this to remind staff about certain requirements, information or

 promotions to inform customers of when selling items in that category.

 If this feature becomes popular this message area may be moved to a

 dedicated sales pop-up message instead of being in the Notes box.

As with major codes, you can make the sales screen pop up an alert based on

 the vendor of the item being sold. Use the same  <<MSG: Message Here >>

 approach - adding this to the Notes area on the vendor profile screen.

The GMROI report has a subtle change in the calculation of the cost of sales figure.

 If it comes across an item with a zero cost in the sales records, previous

 versions would use the cost in the master inventory file. While there's

 a logic to that, it can make the report different from the itemized

 sales report.

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Version 3.650                                        12/1/2016

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The Alex and Ani catalog program will now download and link over

 1200 catalog images. Download and run the u_alexaninov2016b utility.

 Note the b at the end of the name and when it starts, be sure

 the title includes "With Pictures"

 Email Compulink to request more detailed instructions if needed.

The Sales Payment Spreadsheet report has a "Depositable" recap line

 at the bottom which, in previous versions, did not deduct the

 cash register Paid-Out total. Starting this version, the net Paid-Out

 amount will be deducted from that line of the summary.

The Cash Register Journal Report is a simplified listing of payment

 activity. What's new in this update is the option to select

 just Cash or just Checks or just credit cards or just credit slips.

 The default, as before, is to show all types of payment.

If you primarily use the Cayan Genius terminal for credit card

 processing, but you may want the option to sometimes have

 the on-screen pop-up processing screen to either swipe using a

 simple magnetic swipe reader or to type in a card number

 (in case the card cannot be chip-read or swiped.)

 A new option allows for this if you add a new payment method called:

         Cayan

 on the Payment types page of Preferences and check the box for

 magnetic swipe/chip. This way, when you select Visa or Amex,

 etc., the transaction will be passed to the Genius, but when

 you select the Cayan payment type the on-screen processing

 screen will appear which gives you the ability to swipe or

 type a card number. The pop-up processing screen defaults

 to swipe mode and allows you to switch to keyed (typed) mode

 but if you want the screen to start out in keyed mode,

 name that new payment method:

         Cayan Keyed

The Sales Screen will prevent applying a price that is lower than

 your discounting and security rules allow. Starting this version

 it will allow a lower price if the item is a return (has a negative

 quantity) This can help if certain returns are subject to a lower

 return value for credit, or if you use promotional "coupon" Sku's

 which are entered with a minus-one quantity and which you may want

 to be able to reduce in value if they are limited to the total of

 the sale.

Sales receipts can print an extra message at the end of the item

 description based on the major codes and the minor codes of the

 items sold. Because these messages can be quite long, by default

 they do not repeat if you sell multiple        items with the same

 major code or with the same minor code.

 This version adds the option to force certain messages to

 repeat for each item even if the message was already printed

 by another item on the same receipt.

 To enable this, start the extra receipt message/description

 on the major or minor code maintenance screen with the word

 REPEAT  - the word REPEAT will not print on the receipt, of course.

The inventory adjustment report simultaneously creates an Excel XLS

 list, but in previous versions, the Excel list included ALL

 the adjustments, not just the selection based on the report

 criteria. Starting with this update, the XLS list contents

 will be restricted by the report criteria.

A new utility can import spreadsheet files of vendor shipments

 of merchandise, even if the vendor is not one of the

 prepared catalogs in Shopkeeper (such as Pandora, Endless,

 Alex and Ani, Chamilia, etc.)

 Request details from Compulink on how to use this program module

 and how the spreadsheet file must be formatted.

When you send an email via the customer profile screen, a record

 of that email can be added to the customer notes  - if you turn

 that option on in Preferences. However, in previous versions,

 if you sent an email to the customer's alternative email address,

 the record was not made, but starting this version it will be.

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Version 3.640                                        11/02/2016

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The Pandora Catalog program includes the pricing changes that need to go

 into effect on November 3, 2016 both in the U.S. and in Canada.

 Around 100 items have changes to the wholesale cost, the retail price or both.

 The changes are a mix of reductions and increases

 Note: If you *have* run the Pandora catalog in VJS version 3.635

 (e.g. since October 26), then this update includes no additional styles. But if

 you have *not* run this Pandora catalog program within the past week then there

 will be many new items (I.e., see updates 3.365 and 3.615 and 3.600, etc., below.)

A previous update added the option to store .DOC, .DOCX, .XLS,

 .XLSX and .PDF files in addition to the more usual image files

 (such as .JPG) to inventory and repairs and customers and appraisals.

 In some cases in previous versions it wasn't possible to open those

 documents via Shopkeeper.

       Those files are now always viewable in VJS by double-clicking the place-

 holder PDF or DOC or XLS icon, or by right-clicking that place-holder

 and choosing View Image File.

The Inventory Status Notes search option is now available

 even to users logging in at a lower security level. In

 previous versions it was available only to users who

 could make changes in Inventory Status.

When receiving memo items, you should generally have a quantity of

 just 1 per Sku line because when you convert a memo item to invoiced/owned,

 you have to convert the entire quantity of that Sku. I.e. you can't convert

 just 1 out of 3 of a single Sku. Starting with this version, VJS will

 warn you if you attempt to enter 2 or more when receiving memo items

 in order to prevent problems down the road.

The customer report export file "Large CSV" can include

 the description        of the last Sku purchased. Starting

 this version, double quotes (often used for inches) in that

 description are stripped out because they can interfere

 with other programs reading in a CSV file.

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Version 3.635                                         10/26/2016

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The Pandora Catalog program adds ~130 additional items including

 the Disney Iconic Bracelet Gift Set

 Note: If you run this catalog update, you will still need to download

 and run a *further* download and update on or after November 2, 2016

 because of the numerous price changes due to take effect November 3.

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Version 3.630                                        10/10/2016

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The Alex and Ani catalog import program has been updated with hundreds

 of the latest additions to their catalog - including items for        Holiday 2016.

 The Canadian price feature has the option to allow you to accept the

 US wholesale cost multiplied by a value that you choose.

New features have been added to enable emailing month-end accounts receivable

 statements in bulk.        From the month-end statements screen, choose Full Selection

 then check the Email One-by-One choice. This would require that you

 have previously configured your email credentials in Shopkeeper.

 See this FAQ topic for that:

 http://www.jewelryshopkeeper.com/help/vjs/faq/?email_configuration.htm

The previous accounts receivable statement "print one-by-one" choice has been

 renamed "Enable Separate PDF's"        because the usual goal of this choice is to

 create a separate PDF statement file for each customer, rather than one large

 PDF encompassing all statements.

In previous versions, the largest value that could display for accounts receivable

 account balances on the Charge Account status screen was $999,999.99. Further,

 for balances over $10,000 there was not enough room to show the cents.

 Starting this version, the largest value is $9,999,999.99 and the cents will always show.

Note that both of the above statement choices produce an Excel XLS list

 of customer name, email and PDF details in case you or your computer

 tech want to set up your own custom method of sending statements in bulk.

From the Purchase Order tab of Inventory Entry, a new button, "Next P.O. No.",

 allows you to reset the purchase order numbering to your preferred sequence.

If you specifically choose for quantities in most screens to allow decimal places, then

 the physical inventory screen will allow now you to enter fractions for on-hand counts,

 which it didn't before.

In some previous versions, in the right-most column of the  

 Return to Vendor Report, the cents portion of the return

 value was partially falling off the edge of the report.

 This is corrected in this update.

 Also - previous versions of the RTV report had the option

 to include returns of memo items, but that option was on

 the Full Selection page. Starting this version, that option

 is on the first, Quick Selection page.

The Return to Vendor Reports now have the additional option to sort

 by style number within brand and to have subtotals per brand name.

 The previous options to sort and group by invoice or by return

 ticket number, are still available.

In previous version, the security setting for the credit card reports

 was via the setting "Cash Register Reports." Starting this version,

 it will be via the security option "Credit Card Payments Report."

 to make things clearer.

In the screens where you specify the G/L Code (accounting expense code)

 breakdown of invoices payable or checks, when you start typing a

 G/L code, the drop list will continuously search and navigate

 the list to help you find the right G/L code. (in previous versions

 you could drop down and navigate the list, but it didn't do a

 continuous automatic search.)

In the screen where the security level and password is assigned to clerks,

 previous versions listed the clerks in the order they were originally

 added. Starting this version the list is sorted by name. Where the list

 of clerks is long, this will make it easier to manage.

The time cards reports will now print at the top of each page the date range

 selected for the report.

When you start to make a sale, the next-sale-number-counter is incremented.

 But sometimes you may start to record a new sale, but then cancel out of it,

 or you may record a layaway then later cancel it. If the sale being canceled

 has a recent number, Shopkeeper will re-use that number for a new sale to avoid

 too many holes in the sales ticket sequence.

 However, some jewelers might prefer that sale numbers always march forward and

 don't want the unused numbers being used slightly out of sequence. This update

 adds that capability if you add the key word DONTRECYCLESALENO anywhere in the

 Miscellaneous Options box in Preferences.

When running a customer report and creating the large (more columns) export file

 and when you choose to calculate purchases, one of the columns in the export

 file is the Sku of the most recent item purchased. In previous versions only

 the current sales file was considered for this column; starting with this

 update, the archive file will be considered. Of course, this would make a difference

 only for customers who had not made a purchase in several years.

 misc-log txt / sales / inv

Version 3.620                                        09/01/2016

===============================================================

The Alex and Ani catalog program has five more styles that weren't

 in the early August update.

You can now paste a Cut-n-Paste type Windows Clipboard image into

 Shopkeeper. Using the Windows Snipping Tool (or any similar

 utility program) you can grab any part of any image from the

 computer display which copies the image to the Windows Clipboard.

 Then in Shopkeeper, right-click any No Image Saved box to paste into

 inventory, repairs, appraisals, etc.

 For example, this can be used to grab an image from the "viewfinder"

 of any Webcam program or from any website. I.e. this gives you

 another way to use a Webcam in cases where the Webcam doesn't

 "play nice" with Shopkeeper with your computer's installation of Windows.

 When you start VJS, it can ensure that your preferred screen capture

 program is always running and if you don't have a third-party program

 it can activate the Snipping Tool which is built-in to most installations

 of Windows. You can find this option in the Local Defaults p.3 in

 Preferences via the Maintenance Menu.

 See this help topic in the FAQ pages for more help:

 http://www.jewelryshopkeeper.com/help/vjs/faq/?adding_images_via_screen_captu.htm

The Picture Manager has a new button "Show in Windows Folder."

 which will open a Windows File Explorer window to the folder

 in which the original image file is stored and will select

 that image file.

 This makes it easy for you to drag the picture file to email or

 to Twitter or FaceBook or eBay, etc.

 In many cases, you access the Picture Manager screen by double-

 clicking an image in Shopkeeper, and from there choose

 "Picture Information" where you will see the "Show in Windows Folder"

 button.

 You can also access this option by right-clicking the image box

 within the Picture Manager.

The credit card report allows you to select a criterion to

 report just a single type of card. ( This also refers to any

 new payment type you might add such as Gold because new

 payment types are included in the credit card column of

 the payment spreadsheet report.)

 In previous versions, this selection of a single payment

 type worked only if the payment name were all capitals.

 Starting this version it will work even for card names

 including lower case letters - such as MasterCard.

The Repair Quick Update screen now allows you to assign a billing

 Sku No in the grid/list of jobs. (No drop list of Sku's is

 available in this grid so you'll need to know the valid

 billing Sku's.)

This version adds an improvement when searching for a Geller Blue Book

 task by the book's stock number. Previously it could be awkward

 landing on the right number when typing a number such as BB1017 when

 similar numbers exist such as BB10170 and BB10171, etc. and when

 they all had zero in stock.

Version 3.615                                        08/11/2016

===============================================================

The Pandora Catalog program adds ~250 additional items. This is beyond

 the 600 new items that were added on VJS update 3.600. Some of

 these additions are new items and some are a little older but

 were missing from previous downloadable catalogs.

On the Sales Tax page of Preferences is an option to retroactively

 change the sales tax on existing but open layaways in

 case you change the sales tax rates. Previously this option

 did not adjust changes to the tax cut off limits,

 but starting this version, it will do that.

If you choose to allow mixed case customer names and addresses,

 the customer screen may help fix some formatting, such as

 correcting "john" to "John"   Previous versions would also

 format the country which was problematic when it "fixed"

 USA to Usa. This version resolves that issue and will recognize

 the abbreviated country names: US, USA, UK, UAE, PRC,

 with or without periods between letters.

Version 3.610                                        08/08/2016

===============================================================

The newest David Geller / Jeweler Profit Repair Blue Book

 is now available to add to Jewelry Shopkeeper.

 This is a catalog of over 6,000 repair tasks with

 revised pricing which helps ensure you don't under price

 your services.

 To use this feature, you will need to request Jeweler Profit

 to send us the OK for the Blue Book Digital License.

 http://www.jewelerprofit.com/contact_us.html

The Endless Jewelry Catalog program can register in Shopkeeper over

 200 new inventory items for Summer 2016 along with their pictures.

 In addition, Endless has significantly changed the pricing of over

 700 previous items - by over 20% in many cases. The Endless catalog

 program update in Shopkeeper can retroactively apply the new prices

 to your old inventory records.

 This includes both U.S. and Canadian prices.

The Chamilia Catalog program has been updated with the Season 4 2016

 changes. This includes both U.S. and Canadian prices.

The daily backup from the VJS File Center now skips

 the backup of certain month-end files when the

 USB backup memory stick already has the same files.

 This will save a bit of time during most backups.

On the "Listing" page of Major Class Codes Maintenance,

 in some previous versions not all of the columns of

 information, such as the taxable status or category, etc

 was showing. That is resolved in this update.

In previous versions, after making a change to a pre-existing

 time card entry, exiting the time card screen was a bit

 awkward, with some unnecessary alert prompts. That has

 been improved in this update.

In all previous versions, if the preferred Windows printer driver

 for any print task was not found (or was renamed) the Print Options

 dialog box selects the overall default Windows printer.

 What's new in this version is that the Print Options screen will

 warn you that your preferred printer is not available.

Version 3.608                                          07/22/2016

===============================================================

When using Add to Existing Sku numbers, you might want to

 print price tags for the list of items you added. In

 previous versions there were issues in printing price

 tags and the list of items if you'd simultaneously changed

 some of the prices or costs. That has been resolved

 in this update.

One previous version showed a (benign) error message at the end

 of the Cleanup. This is resolved in this update.

Version 3.606                                          07/15/2016

===============================================================

The Commission Report / Sales by Salesperson report now creates

 an additional export XLS file with a summarized number of

 sales tickets per clerk per day. Beyond being a handy summary

 for yourself, the format can be used with the TraxSales

 company if you subscribe to their analysis services.

The Inventory Web Export is primarily summarized by style

 but it can include the most recent Sku number of each style.

 In previous versions, the Sku number included in the export

 files always used the number-only version of the Sku number.

 E.g. 125-12325 and not LSR-12325 if LSR were the mnemonic

 for major code 125. Starting this version, the export file

 will use whichever version is your usual default as per

 your selection in Preferences.

 In addition, the Web export file can now include a separate

 column for the 3-letter Mnemonic code - in case that's useful

 for your website formatting.

One page of the major class code maintenance screen has a grid

 listing of the major codes. In previous versions it wasn't

 intended that you could add new major codes via the grid, but

 it did let you. However, it let you use lower case letters

 for major code descriptions which is non-standard. Also, if

 you did add a major code via the grid, a dummy Sku number was

 not simultaneously generated.

 Starting this version, adding major codes via the listing / grid

 screen is ok and both of the above issues are addressed.

When you choose to delete the old physical inventory count list,

 Previous versions had an extra unnecessary (and possibly confusing)

 message indicating that the count file couldn't be opened. That

 unneeded prompt is removed in this update.

Under certain rare cases the Vendor X-Tra Search could take unusually

 long to open in previous versions. The cause was identified and

 resolved.

Version 3.600                                          06/30/2016

===============================================================

The Pandora Catalog program adds ~600 additional items for

 summer 2016.

 (You may need to request a new Maintenance Plan Code )

The Itemized Sales Report with picture option active was not

 previously completely suitable for the PDF output version as

 certain subtotals and totals were not formatted for the PDF file.

 It has been updated in this version.

On the Inventory Status screen, it's not very hard to add,

 blank stones detail record for items which don't need it.

 Normally you wouldn't notice them because your criteria

 would exclude blank entries. However, in case you run an

 entire stones report you'd see a few blank entries.

 In this update, when you run a cleanup with the condense

 option, any such blank records will be removed.

The repair report allows you to select based on a vendor/trade shop

 or a location. Previous versions allowed you to type in lower

 case criteria, even though that's not valid for this filter.

 This update makes sure that those criteria are typed in.

 upper-case only.

You can now print a price tag directly within the sales screen.

 This could be useful for cases where you are accepting

 a customer return or a trade-in and need to tag or retag

 the item.

 From within the Sku line of the sale, choose Options then

 Print Price Tag.

Running the Z report sometimes requires you to exit Shopkeeper back

 to the VJS File Center. Changes in this update will make that

 extra step much less frequent.

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Version 3.596                                                  05/28/2016

===============================================================

In any Date box (field) new shortcuts are available. Pressing

 the Letter B will fill in the beginning of the month and

 subsequent presses of B will fill in the beginning of the

 previous month.

 The Letter E will fill in the end of the month and

 subsequent presses of E will fill in the end of the

 subsequent month.

 (Not new, but as always, pressing T will fill in today's date.)

A previous update added the option for an on-screen pop-up

 when adding a new sale to alert you if the customer has

 available credit slips.

 This version adds a further Open-Credit-Slip alert any

 time you make a payment on a sale - even a layaway.

 This secondary alert is not a pop-up, just a small message

 near the payment amount box.

 This feature is turned on or off with the sale option within

 Preferences

Version 3.595                                                  05/20/2016

===============================================================

The Purchase Order Reports now allow you to filter

 the results of the report by the Cancel Date.

 This way, your report won't show $10,000's in outstanding

 orders that are effectively obsolete now. By default the

 report will omit orders that are beyond seven months

 after the cancel date. So, if your purchase order reports

 contain many outstanding obsolete orders, you can assign

 them a cancel date to omit them from the report.

On a related matter, when you add a new purchase order,

 the Cancel Date will now default to a date three months in

 the future; you can, of course, change this cancel date.

This version adds changes needed to support the most recent program

 update for the RFID Wave wand reader from Trac Tech.

 [I.e. it detects WaveConnector.exe as well as the previous

 WandRFIDreader.exe]

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Version 3.590                                                  05/12/2016

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If you add the comment "SMS Warning" in the notes or comments

 area of a customer's profile, then at a later date, if you

 were to attempt to send a text / SMS to that customer

 you would get a warning that the customer may not want to

 receive text messages. You would then be able to decide whether

 to continue sending the text or not - based on the

 circumstances.

 (See this FAQ topic for general notes on texting: http://goo.gl/ExSM22 )

A new option on the Customer page of Preferences allows you to

 require that customer type be filled in for each customer.

 ( For pre-existing customers, this requirement would kick in

 if/when you access a name on the customer maintenance screen. )

Another new option on the Customer page of Preferences allows you to

 require that the customer-specific clerk be filled in for each customer

 on the customer profile screens. ( This is separate from the option

 to require that a clerk be added to each sale.)

The Itemized Sales Report adds the option to sort and subtotal

 by Minor Class Code.

The Itemized Sales Report when sorted by Brand (which sorts by style

 within brand) previously did not show the full name of the associated

 vendor - it just showed the brand code. Starting this version the

 full name is included in each brand group's title.

Many drop-down pick-lists of items to choose from have been made taller

 so that you can see more options at first glance - without having to

 scroll down. This includes, (but certainly not limited to) the lists of

 sorting options in reports, the list of printers, etc.

The option to select inventory reports by size now has an additional option

 to select a *range* of sizes, not just a single size.

 In addition, if you select NONE for the size, you'll report all the inventory

 items that don't yet have a size.

 (see version 3.580 comments for more background on this option.)

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Version 3.580                                                  04/30/2016

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The Size data field was a recent addition to the inventory

 records, but it was not previously available as a selection

 criterion for inventory or sales reports.

 Starting this version you can select a specific Size when

 run the (regular) inventory reports and the Itemized Sales Reports.

 Note that if you want several sizes which have the same beginning

 you can add an asterisk to the criterion. E.g. selecting Size 18*

 would select sizes 18 or 18" or 18.5  etc.

When you add sales or repairs, VJS prompts you to confirm the sale

 or job number and gives you the chance to change the number.

 Previous versions had 'secret' ways of suppressing these prompts

 if you wanted to prevent people from assigning out-of-sequence numbers.

 Starting this version, these are standard options in Preferences.

 The options to look for are "Skip the Prompt for the Sale Number" in Sales

 Defaults and "Skip the Prompt for the Repair Number" in Repair Defaults

 in Preferences.

A long-available option for sales receipts is to print (or not) the

 regular price or the discount next to discounted sales items.

 The regular price was always the higher value of the normal selling

 price or the MSRP (if it was filled in.)

 This update adds the option to print the regular price (or discount)

 on the receipts but to consider only your normal selling price, and

 not the MSRP. You'll find the option "Use the MSRP as Regular Price?

 (if present" on the Receipts Options page of Defaults.

Previous versions had a 'less detailed' option for the

 Quick Layaway report. However, such a layout doesn't

 exist so selecting that option showed an error message

 in the past. Starting with this update, that less detailed

 version will not show as a choice.

Version 3.571                                                  04/20/2016

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When printing sales receipts for inventory items that have the

 loose stones details page filled in, previous versions

 used the word "Certificate" for the grading report.

 However, trade groups stress that the word "Report"

 is legally more suitable. This update includes this change.

When opening The Purchase Order Report, previous versions

 had the typo "Accounts Payable Report" in the title.

 That has been corrected in this update.

Version 3.57                                                  04/11/2016

===============================================================

The Alex and Ani catalog import program has been updated with

 the latest additions to their catalog - including items for

 Mothers Day and Summer 2016.

In the sales screen locating a previous sale by typing a sale number

 would search in just the current sales file (past 2 to 3 years.)

 Starting this version it will search both the current sales file

 and the archive sales file.

In previous versions on the Clerk Maintenance screen, when you clicked

 Add a New Clerk, the new clerk record was initialized with XXX

 in the Clerk initials box and <Type Name Here> for the name

 and you were to replace both with right entries. However, this

 approach wasn't intuitive to everyone, so now, when adding a new

 clerk a pop up window appears on top with just the initials

 and name to focus on. This should be simpler and clearer.

The Inventory Search window has a Word Search option which

 allows you to search for text anywhere in the description

 or style. The change in this version is that there is now

 a keyboard shortcut of Alt-W to select the Word Search option

 (i.e. as well as being able to click Word Search with the mouse.)

 This will be welcome to keyboard fans and will speed things up if

 you use this option frequently.

The VJS FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions and Answers ) web page is

 available by choosing Options at the top of any menu.

The web export feature from the Inventory Reports by style

 summarizes multiple Sku's with the same style into just

 one line. The export file contains the Last Sku (most recent

 Sku) of that style for information, but there could be other

 Sku's. This update has a small change such that when you

 select a single location to include, the Last Sku will now

 be the last Sku of that style in that location, whereas before,

 it was the most recent Sku of that style regardless of the location.

The web export feature from the Inventory Reports by style has a new

 export field option: Desc_Notes. This is a combination of

 the first and second basic description lines *and* the Sku's

 notes from the Notes page. These are all together in one field

 but this is limited to 254 total letters. ( exporting the entirety

 of very long notes is still possible in the export, but those are

 in the export fields Detail1 through Detail30.)

The Itemized Sales Report has a "Sort by Month" option which summarizes

 the sales to one line per month. The formatting of this version of

 the sales report has been adjusted to work better when sending

 the report to a PDF file. (previously the retail column was not included

 in the PDF version.)

A relocated inventory report was previously using the cost-access security setting

 from JS-Classic which made it awkward to prevent access to printing the cost

 on that report. That is resolved in this update.

When running the Inventory Report or the Itemized Sales Report where you select

 just one vendor, a recent update included the change such that the Excel

 XLS output version of the file (in the VJS Reports folder) would include

 the vendor code in the file name. This was done to help those who run many

 vendor-specific reports and who may send them off to the vendors.

 This update includes a small change to help avoid errors in cases where

 the vendor code includes characters that are "illegal" in filenames.

[203/bkupinst/dblage]

Version 3.564                                                  03/30/2016

===============================================================

In Customer Reports & Labels there is a choice to select

 customers by any "keyword" you have typed in the customer

 notes. Previous versions allowed you to report customers

 *with* certain keywords, starting this version you can

 also *Exclude* based on certain key words

 For a primer on selecting customers by keywords, see this FAQ page:

 http://www.jewelryshopkeeper.com/help/vjs/faq/?customer_type.htm

[ignoregeniusver]

Version 3.562                                                  03/23/2016

===============================================================

In previous versions Sales Receipt Layout #11, on the right-hand

 copy, the negative dollar figure next to each negative or zero

 dollar item did not show (though the total did factor them in,

 of course.) Starting this version, that value will print on

 the right copy (in red when using a color printer.)

Version 3.561                                                  03/20/2016

===============================================================

From the Customer X-Tra Search, when you choose to Add a New Customer,

 depending on the previous circumstances, Shopkeeper might, at times,

 assume you want to add a customer with the same name as the last-searched

 customer, so your choices were to Add that as the First Name or as

 the Last Name. In case neither is wanted, there is a specific

 "Add Blank Customer" button that you can click.

If you inadvertently choose to Add a New customer, then try to exit

 the customer screen, there are now no prompts warning you about

 the blank customer name.

VJS logs a limited amount of auditing of changes to inventory and other

 data files. However, since 'dummy' Sku's and repair Sku's can be

 used 100's or 1000's of times, the tracking of all the changes can

 take a fair amount of disk space. Given that adjustments to dummy

 Sku's is not very interesting (compared to adjusting diamond inventory_

 a list of changes to dummy Sku's is no longer logged.

 This change does not affect any reports or item history. All sales

 and repairs records will be in place just as before

 (as would be adjustments, returns to vendors, etc. -  although those

 would be rare for dummy Sku's.)

On a related note, when the cleanup is run without the Condense

 option ( which is normally used just a couple or so times per year)

 a partial condensing step is done to save disk space.

[packmemo]

Version 3.560                                                  03/16/2016

===============================================================

When creating a new special order inventory record during a sale

 in previous version, the Location box pick list was not a

 managed look-up list. Now this location box is linked to

 the same inventory location lookup list as in other screens.

The credit card breakdown report now allocates enough room for totals over $1M

 which is helpful when running the report for a large number of months.

The improvement to Return to Vendor lookup added in 3.553 (see below)

 introduced a problem making it difficult to retrieve a previous

 return. This is resolved in this update.

The pop-up inventory search screen now includes both of the two

 main inventory description lines. However, under normal circumstances

 the description column isn't wide enough to show very long

 descriptions. If you have a wide enough monitor, you can widen

 the description column by dragging the separator line in the column heading.

 It will likely be necessary to also widen the entire Inventory Search screen

 by dragging the window edge or corner.

When you run an inventory report, an Excel XLS version of the report

 is simultaneously put in the VJS Reports folder. A minor change

 in this version is that the MSRP column has been added to the XLS

 output file.

When you change the Mnemonic on the Major Class Code Maintenance

 screen, any existing item will now be automatically updated

 To help tidy up any pre-existing inconsistencies from the Major Class

 Code Maintenance screen, you can choose options, "Update Mnemonics in

 Inventory List" which updates for *all* major class codes.

In the Customer X-Tra Search, the sales grid on the bottom left corner

 didn't previously have room to show all digits of a Layaway

 balance over $100,000 and starting this version it does have enough

 room for balances that large.

In some cases the "managed lookup" list file could get unnecessarily large

 which would slow down certain screens in Shopkeeper. Starting this

 version, the cleanup does an extra step to make sure this file is

 cleared of unnecessary records.

In the Inventory Entry screen, when selecting to retrieve a previous invoice

 via the drop-list of invoices, in certain situations, VJS would respond

 "Already been recorded so another can't be added" - even though you were

 trying to retrieve an old invoice, not add a new one.

 This is resolved in this update.

Version 3.554                                                  02/29/2016

===============================================================

The accounts payable cash requirements reports adds the option to

 show the details of all checks applied against each invoice.

[ftpupdatecorrchk]

Version 3.553                                                  02/22/2016

===============================================================

Adds a further adjustment to the Not-Applicable Style behavior.

 (see recent changes in 3.550m below)

 If you type a style as *only* the non-applicable style prefix,

 then even the previous major code is not applied to the new item.

In the Return to Vendor screen, if you do not type a return number

 but simply click the drop-arrow to see previous returns, they

 will be presented in order of the most recent returns at the top.

 This is contrast to being sorted alphabetically/numerically as

 in previous versions. This makes it easier to find the recent

 returns - even if you have numbered them completely out of

 sequence (e.g. if you used return numbers provided by the vendors.)

[zrptnoexcl, editglichk]

Version 3.552                                                  02/19/2016

===============================================================

In certain cases, previous versions of VJS would generally not allow

 a payable to be added if the invoice number were the same

 as another invoice from a different vendor.

 That has been resolved in this update.

When dragging and dropping pictures into VJS, the source picture

 is left alone as and just a copy is made in the Shopkeeper

 data folders.

 It's now possible for the original picture file to be deleted

 (in order to keep the "staging folder" clear.

 To enable this option the keyword DELETEDRAGGEDPICTURE

 anywhere in Miscellaneous Settings on the first page of Preferences

 (for all computers on the network) or in the Miscellaneous Options

 box on the Local Settings Cont. page (if you want this to affect

 just one computer.)

When viewing an item on the Inventory Status screen, if the item was

 originally entered via a purchase order, a new "Go" button by

 the P.O. number will allow you to pop up the corresponding

 purchase order entry screen.

 Further, still in Inventory Status, you can right-click the Style

 box to see a list of purchase orders for that vendor so you can

 either add this style to an existing P.O. or you can add it to

 a new one. Note that the style number is added to the Windows

 clipboard, so that once in the purchase order entry screen you can

 press Ctrl-V to paste it into the style box.

[salenotesallbands]

Version 3.551                                                  02/12/2016

===============================================================

The Pandora Catalog program adds 100 additional items for

 Valentines and Mothers Day 2016 and other early 2016

 Disney items, etc.

Adds three 3-part receipt options for when printing

 sales quotes / wish list tickets.

Adds 3-part version of the credit slip / gift certificate

 for printing on letter size paper with 2 perforations.

 This helps if you already use that type of paper for

 all other receipts so you don't have to change paper.

[z_na_style->*;]

Version 3.550                                                  02/11/2016

===============================================================

The Endless jewelry catalog registration utility program has been

 updated with 117 new items and 200 new pictures

 [From the Main Menu, choose Options, Utilities,

 On Web Site, then download u_endlessfeb2016  ]

The Cash Register Journal Report has a new option

 to ignore the date and show only the un-Z'd payments

 so that the report matches the X-Report. This can

 help identify the outliers if new payments are added

 with a date *other* than today's date.

The Cash Register Journal Report previously had a column

 showing the sale subtotal without tax, but now

 that column is the sale total including tax. This makes

 it more intuitive since the next column over is the

 customer's payment amount - which would be tax-inclusive.

When receiving inventory with no style where you use style

 N/A (not applicable) previous versions would start the

 new item completely blank on purpose so that you could enter

 the new item information without erasing inherited details.

 starting this version, the major and minor code are inherited

 from a previous Sku. This saves some steps because if you receive

 an estate watch, you will likely want to assign it the same major

 code as a previous estate watch (but not the previous description,

 of course.) See Version 1.28 notes for more information on the

 N/A style.

When using the Trade-In option added to the Sales Screen

 (see Version 3.54 notes below) previous versions did not

 support the N/A (not applicable) style prefix so in previous

 versions, if you used a generic N/AWATCH or *WATCH style it

 would have copied the description and price etc from a previous

 Sku. Starting this version the Trade-In option (and Add-Inventory)

 from the Sales Screen will support the not applicable prefix.

 (See Version 1.28 notes below.)

The Accounts Payable Cash Requirements report now lets you select a from-and-to

 date range to be included for the Due Dates and for the

 Discount Date. In previous versions only a due date

 before, or a discount date after were available as

 selections.

Version 3.544                                                  02/05/2016

===============================================================

The Endless catalog registration utility program has been

 updated with the Valentines Twin Hearts Charm.

 [From the Main Menu, choose Options, Utilities,

 On Web Site, then download u_endlessjan2016  ]

Version 3.543                                                  02/02/2016

===============================================================

The Pandora Catalog program adds six Iconic Bracelet Gift Sets.

 See 3.542 notes below for other Valentines 2016 items.

A new catalog registration utility has been added for MantraBand

 (Ask Compulink for details if interested.)

A new catalog registration utility has been added for Thortiuda

 (Ask Compulink for details if interested.)

In the Return Inventory to Vendor screen, in the list

 of items, in previous versions the delete line check

 box was not enabled but it is starting this version.

If you notice a large number of duplicate entries in the

 "managed lookup lists" (the drop down lists for various

 data entry boxes such as location, customer type, etc.)

 a new utility can remove the duplicates.

 (Ask Compulink for details if interested.)

Version 3.542                                                  01/29/2016

===============================================================

The Pandora Catalog program adds the Valentines 2016 items

 and a large number of prior-release items that were not

 previously in the download.

 You may need to request a new Maintenance Plan Code if

 you don't have a recent one.

Even if you have already imported or typed new styles for

 Valentines 2016, about 150 picture files which were not previously

 available are now included and will be added.

Version 3.541                                                  01/27/2016

===============================================================

Fixes a Webcam problem that arose in version 3.540

Version 3.540                                                  01/27/2016

===============================================================

In the Customer X-Tra Search screen, the bottom left corner

 grid shows previous sales and there's a column for

 the balance due on layaways, repairs and special orders.

 In previous versions the balance was shown rounded to the

 nearest dollar (to save space.) Starting this version, the

 entire balance including cents is shown.

From the Inventory Status Screen you can click the drop-down

 arrow by the Sku number box to pop up the Inventory Search

 screen. By default the Inventory Search screen does not

 show zero-quantity inventory items - but you can click a

 check box to make them appear. Starting this version, you

 can make this Inventory Search screen default to showing

 the zero-quantity items. (when called from Inventory Status

 screen.) You can change this setting on the Inventory Cont.

 page of Preferences.

In the Pay Invoices Payable - Cut Checks screen, previous

 versions would default the date to today's date.

 starting this version, you will be prompted to either

 type a date or accept today's date. This may help you

 better control which dates are assigned to those checks.

If you accept a resalable Trade-in item during a sale you will

 want to create a new inventory item with a Sku number. In

 previous versions you would choose the in-Sku-line Options

 button then select either New Inv Item or Add Special Order

 which pop-up an Add Inventory Item screen.

 Starting this version, when you click on that Options button

 there is a specific Add Trade-in Item choice.

 This pops-up the same screen as with those other items, but

 with several helpful differences:

 - The P.O. information is removed;

 - The quantity is removed and assumed to be zero

   (previously the quantity defaulted to 1 and you had to change it to zero)

 - When the item is added to the sales screen, a selling quantity

   of minus-one is automatically filled in. (because you're buying

   the item, not selling it.)

 - If you enter both a cost and a price, the cost is used as the

   "selling" price for this sale because you won't give full retail

   credit on trade-in - just the wholesale value.

When selling a Sku on the Sales Screen, the inventory picture

 can be shown in the bottom left corner of the screen. In

 previous versions you could click the image to access the

 Picture Manager where you could add a picture at the time

 of sale. Starting this version, you can add a picture at

 the time of sale by just dragging and dropping a picture

 file within the sales screen.

 (This can be helpful when creating a Sku on the fly for a trade-in

 item - as above.)

A new program module is available to help export in-house charge-

 account credit information to the national credit bureaus

 using the new Metro 2 reporting standards. (If interested, ask

 Compulink for more details on the availability and details of

 this program.)

The backup from the File Center may take some extra space on your

 USB memory sticks because where previous versions did *not*

 backup certain Month-end files, VJS now does.

 In general, this will NOT cause extra backup time. . .

 . . .except that just the first time you backup to any particular

 memory stick that does not yet have these files, it will take an extra

 step just that onetime. It also might take some more space on the

 backup memory sticks, so if you have low-capacity memory sticks, you may

 need to use larger ones (e.g. 16GB or more.)

[bkmonthend \ invfptsz \ custxml \ highbal \ blackline \ geniusv5msg ]

Version 3.53                                                  01/13/2016

===============================================================

Some changes on the Physical Inventory Status screen.

 In many cases, clicking the checkbox to delete a line

 was unresponsive.

 Clicking the "X" header of the delete checkbox column

 means "Select All" - now you will be prompted to confirm

 that you want to select all items to delete.

The basic customer name and address and phone number report

 previously included the home and work phone number.

 Now it also includes the mobile number and the spouse's

 mobile number

A previous update improved the appraisal form by giving it a

 rust-colored decorative border. This version keeps this new version

 but        adds back, as an option, the version with the black decorative

 border. See the list of options by expanding the list of layouts when

 at the Print Options screen.

When adding a new sale, VJS verifies that the sale number selected

 has not been used before. Previous versions did not check

 the archived file of sales (more than 2 or 3 years old) so it

 could let you use a sale number that was already used a number

 of years ago. Starting this version, even old sale numbers

 cannot be re-used.

[except-deleted2  invckdebugv2, custmrgelastcust]

Version 3.525                                                  01/08/2016

===============================================================

The Itemized Sales Report has the option to sort and organize

 by customer. This way, you can run a sales report for, say,

 a week or a month grouped by customer. The customer's full

 name and address and phone numbers and email are included and

 this sort version can be combined with the Show Pictures option.

 This report can be very helpful for reviewing sales and follow-up

 messages. The XLS copy of this report (put in the VJS Reports Folder)

 now also includes the email address.

The Sales Summary - Compare Two Date Ranges report now adds the

 option to restrict the report based on the sales Dept code

 (This is the optional 3-letter code at the top of sales that can

 be used for flagging different types of sales such as responding

 to adverts, out of state, bridal registry, etc.)

 By default the ZZ Dept code sales are excluded.

 This option has previously been available on the Itemized Sales Reports.

 [invckdebug]

Version 3.52                                                  12/30/2015

===============================================================

The version of the appraisal form with a decorative border

 now has the border in a rust color.

The Customer Purchase Report now includes the email address below

 the address and phone numbers.

The Hot Seller Report has a new option to limit the results

 to only those items which you have received more than

 a certain quantity.

 This can be particularly useful when running reports for

 Pandora or Endless where you may have 1000's of styles

 registered in Shopkeeper but that you have never received.

 Selecting a Quantity of 1 or more received will prevent

 those "no-show" items appearing - even when you choose to

 see both items that have sold and those that have not sold.

In the Print Options dialog screen, the Selected Printer box

 has been widened and the font made smaller so that longer

 printer names can be seen fully. This can help ambiguity

 when you have long and similar printer names such as

         HP LaserJet 2300Series PCL 6 MFP     and

         HP LaserJet 2300Series PCL 6 MFP (Copy 1)

 In previous versions you might only see a part of the

 name and not know for sure which one was selected

Version 3.511                                                  12/22/2015

===============================================================

The Loose Stones Report now allows you to select items based

 on the date they were received.

If you made use of the change in version 3.51 to default the customer

 search to Last Name or First Name, then when Customer X-Tra

 search opened up, it would not initially select the most recently

 used customer. This update resolves that issue.

If using a EMV/Chip-Enabled Genius terminal from Cayan, starting with

 this update, VJS will include the Terminal ID value that you

 enter in the Local Defaults Cont page of Preferences. Note that

 the regulations require that each of your computers should specify

 a different Terminal ID number - just digits - from 1 to 3 digits long.

In previous versions, the Discount Dollars column of the sales report

 and commission reports by clerk was not reduced in the case of

 split sales. Starting this version, the Discount Dollars figure

 on those reports will be divided in the case of split sales.

Version 3.51                                                  12/18/2015

===============================================================

In the Payment Amount box in the Sales screen, if you accidently

 swipe a credit card at that moment all the credit card data

 is fed as keyboard entries and the result can be problematic.

 Starting this version if an unusually high payment amount

 is entered, VJS stops and requests confirmation.

In certain search boxes if you type a name or word

 that is not found, then press the Backspace key to correct

 the word, previous versions would no longer do the drop-list

 lookup to help you find the item. In this version, pressing

 the Backspace after a misspelling will now continue the searching.

The Customer X-Tra Search screen defaults to "Automatic" search

 where it simultaneously searches by last name, first name,

 and spouse's name. This is often the most helpful, but if you

 find it helpful to specifically search just by the Last Name

 or just the First Name, you can change the search option.

 Starting with this version, if you change the sort option

 to Last Name or First Name, VJS will remember that preference

 for you. This preference can be separate for each computer.

The Credit Slip report now has the option to separately report

 the gift certificates and credit slips (from return sales.)

 This report is accessed via Options on the Credit Slip screen.

In the "Large" customer export file (with many columns)

 where you also include purchase information, previous

 versions didn't include the Spouse's Gender column and

 this update adds that in.

This update adds additional status checks for Genius terminals.

 [MWGXPING]

The Cayan / Merchant Warehouse report in previous versions

 would show Discover instead of MasterCard - this is resolved

 in this update.

Adds an additional option to prevent any change to the date

 in the sales screen (both the sale date at the top and

 the payment dates at the bottom.) To enable this add

 the keyword LOCKSALEDATE anywhere in Miscellaneous Settings

 in Preferences - and set a high security level for

 "Override Date Restrictions on Sales."

When processing credit cards, if the customer address screen

 has a foreign country the zip/post code is not sent to

 the credit card processor. (actually, the zip code 12345

 is sent which is recommended for foreign addresses.)

Version 3.504                                                  11/28/2015

===============================================================

Includes a resolution for a problem that could occur in certain

 circumstances when processing a negative credit card charge.

Version 3.503                                                  11/25/2015

===============================================================

The Pandora Catalog program adds the 2015 Limited Edition Snowflake Ornament.

The Cash Register Paid-Out / Received screen and Z-Report Date

 now employ the Working Date if it's set.

 (see version 3.500 notes below for information on Working Date.)  

Version 3.502                                                  11/24/2015

===============================================================

The previous version caused the Wish-List/Quotes "receipts:

 to not print. This update resolves that.

The previous version could show an irrelevant disk error message

 when exiting VJS. This update resolves that.

In the previous version, if you didn't totally exit VJS

 in the evening, then the next day, Shopkeeper could

 default new sales to the previous day. This update

 prevents that. (Of course, it's still best to exit VJS

 before leaving.)

Version 3.500                                                  11/20/2015

===============================================================

The Pandora catalog program adds a further 5 new items        

 for including the Black Friday Wonderland charm and

 Heart of Mickey, etc. In addition, included in this update are 160

 images that were not previously available for some of the August

 through October        2015 drops (and a few older ones.)

Further to the new Inactive option for vendors (See version

 3.480 below) this version adds the option to print a

 report of *only* those vendors which are marked as inactive.

If you sometimes batch-enter sales or inventory at a later

 date, Shopkeeper will assume today's date for each entry and

 you have to be careful to re-date each entry to        match the

 transaction date. Trying to change the computer's date can

 cause all kinds of problems ( with Windows in general, not

 particularly with Shopkeeper.)

         Starting with this version, you can set a "Working Date"

 in the Local Defaults Cont page of Preferences to, say, three

 days ago. This way when you enter a stack of sales VJS will assign

 the 3-day old date to each sale        and all the corresponding payments.

 Note that every time you exit VJS the "Working Date" is set

 back to the actual date - it will *not* remember the Working Date

 from the previous VJS session.

When you create Web Export files of inventory items, you have the

 option of copying the related image files to a "staging" folder

 so you can upload them to the website. Previously this copy

 would copy all the related picture files (i.e. some inventory

 items could have several pictures.) Starting this version, you can

 select all pictures or just the first (default) picture or just

 the first two pictures.

A recent update to VJS included a change such that declined

 credit card charge attempts can be reported. This update

 includes a change so that cash register reports in

 JS-Classic do not show an error message when encountering

 one of these decline entries.

Includes a fix for an erroneous message that could appear

 when doing a negative amount credit card charge.

Version 3.49                                                  10/30/2015

===============================================================

The addition of the Dept Code criteria to the Simple Layaway

 Report in version 3.480 (see below) had an unintended

 side-effect which was that sales without a Dept code

 would not show unless you typed ALL for the dept code

 to include.

 With this update, if you don't select anything in the

 Dept Code criterion then all sales will show.

 Note that if you specifically want to show *just*

 the layaways *without* a Dept code, type three

 dashes (---) for the dept code. Or, if you type

 three dashes and choose Exclude then the sales

 with no Dept Code will be excluded.

The customer reports / labels export feature includes

 an additional format "Large - Tab Delimited"

 which may be preferred by some mailing houses - especially

 if there are certain characters in the report which

 can "confuse" the CSV file format.

If, in Preferences, you choose the option to show the cost

 in code on the Inventory Status screen, you can make

 the inventory status screen show the value in numbers

 by double-clicking the cost box. So far, that is not new;

 what is new is that in previous versions, if you then wanted

 to edit the cost, you had to lock then unlock the screen's

 padlock. Starting this version, if the padlock were already

 unlocked then you won't have to lock and then unlock in

 order to change the cost. This applies to the Replacement Cost

 as well. Of course, users who don't have security clearance to

 the cost cannot use this option.

         [minor1000]

Version 3.485                                                  10/30/2015

===============================================================

This version includes a changed needed in VJS to handle

 a change in the Cayan / Merchant Warehouse mainframe

 for jewelers using the "MWSECURE4" processing option

 with the simple magnetic card readers.

 (Without this update, the Cayan processing screen has

 been recently taking up to 40 seconds before it will accept

 the card swipe or the keyed card number.)

The Pandora catalog program adds a further 51 new items        

 for Holiday 2015 including some sets.

 Only three previous items have new retail prices but there

 are several Cost updates to prior items.

 The new picture files are not yet included. You can import

 the catalog changes now in order to log in new shipments

 and a subsequent update will add the pictures

Each Major code can be assigned an extra sales receipt message

 to print with the sold items. For example watch major codes

 might have an extra message indicating "1 year in-store warrantee."

 This update adds optional extra sales receipt messages for

 Minor Class codes. E.g. certain minor codes for treated

 stones might require an additional disclaimer on the receipt.

The Price Tag Designer previously had the option to print

 the details from the loose stones detail page, but

 not from the grid-like Extended details page.

 Starting this version, the details from first two center

 stones and the first two side stones are available

 to Tag Designer.

 Since the palette is limited in length, to access these

 details you'll need to choose Modify Palette and deselect

 some tag fields in order to then select these addition

 stones details fields

Version 3.480                                                                   10/26/2015

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You can now mark Vendors as Inactive. This is done

 on the Other Addresses and Notes page of Vendor Maintenance.

 Most lookup lists will not show Inactive vendors.

 Marking vendors as inactive has no effect on any inventory or payable

 or QB transfer. It simply removes them from certain vendor lookup lists

 so that they are less cluttered with essentially obsolete vendors.

 Since the X-Tra Search screen will not show the inactive

 vendors, the only way to retrieve such a vendor's profile

 is using the Search box at the top right of the

 Vendor Maintenance screen.

Credit slips can now have up to 16 digits for the

 number. This is useful in case you obtain gift cards

 that are pre-assigned long, credit-card style numbers.

Running customer reports based on purchase histories can

 be slower than other reports as the buying histories

 and customer files are reviewed. If your computer/network is

 particularly slow, a new option can help speed this

 report if you are considering sales only within the past

 2 or 3 years. The option does this by not looking in

 the Archives sales file.

 Choose Full Selection and set the Recalculate option to

 Yes - Current Sales File Only. Note: The current sales

 file typically contains the past 2 full prior calendar years

 plus the current calendar year.

 (of course, if your computer/network is very slow, you'd

 also want to have it improved.)

The Inventory Web Export can now include the Weight field.

 This is done via the Inventory by Style Report

 screen where you choose Web Export. To add this field

 to the export, also check the Config Export option.

 If a style has multiple Sku's, this weight field is not

 summed - it's the weight of one item.

When receiving inventory, the Size data field/box is now

 available directly on the inventory entry screen

 in the Inv. Details box at the bottom of the screen.

 I.e., you no longer have to click on the Extended Details

 button to pop up the full Inventory Status screen to

 access this field.

The Simple Layaway Report now lets you select results

 based on the sales Dept code; i.e. you can include or exclude

 sales with certain sales Departments codes. (Which is not

 related to the inventory major code/category.)

Choosing the "Delete" option at the top of the Inventory Status

 screen could in some cases generate an error message.

 (This was for certain cases where and old inventory list

 or a charm list was converted and imported into Shopkeeper.)

 That has been resolved in this update.

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Version 3.470                                                                   10/02/2015

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The OpenEdge/XCharge/Accelerated payments credit card processing

 features have been updated for EMV/Chip credit cards.

 Chip-card receipts include more transaction codes - this is a

 en EMV requirement.

 Email Compulink if you need the details on this development.

You can now add images to the Appraisal Screen by drag-n-drop

 even when the appraisal is tied to a specific inventory Sku.

 (In previous versions drag-n-drop of pictures was possible

 for non-stocked items such as customers' own items, but

 appraisal images for in-stock Sku's had to be added via

 the inventory screen.)

The Appraisal Screen's "New" button at the top is now active.

 (in previous versions you could choose to add an appraisal

 only via the Xtra-Search screen.)

A new utility program is available to update the Endless

 line of charms and bracelets. In addition to being

 able to revise the prices of your existing inventory

 (due to price increases) the new program will

 add over 400 new items for Fall and Holiday 2015.

The Inventory Reports by Style and the Inventory Web Export

 now let you select items based on the Web Status code and

 based on the Web Category code. (These codes are added via

 the "Style Det." page of Inventory Status.)

 In the report screen, if you don't remember all the codes,

 you can view a list of possible codes by right-clicking the

 selection criteria box.        If you want to select only items

 with *no* web code, type --- (three dashes.)

 You might use Web Status codes or Web Category Codes as a

 way of including or excluding items from your web export -

 because you may not want to send all of your inventory to the website.

 Or the status code may be a 'flag' on the website to indicate

 something 'special' about the item such as 'Call to Verify Stock',

 or 'Extra Shipping Time Needed', etc. ( Your web person would

 have to display the appropriate words based on the code

 on each item.)

The Inventory Web Export in prior version had the option to include

 in the export file the Web Status and the Web Category

 but previously only the short, 5-character, version was

 included. Now, you can choose to include in the export file the

 short code version or the longer description of the Web Status

 and Web Category, or both.

When you select the "Lower" or "Least" On-Screen Graphics

 setting in Shopkeeper, a large number of "data selection"

 lists will now be black text on a white background

 instead of the usual coloring.

When you add unbilled repairs (i.e. repairs added not

 via the sales screen and which start out not linked to

 a sales ticket) the next repair number is suggested

 which you can accept or change. A new option allows you

 to *not* have a suggested number appear. This would be useful

 if you have pre-printed repair tickets that you may not

 use in strict sequential order and so you may not want to

 erase the suggested number before typing your own one.

 To activate this option add the keyword NOAUTOJOBNO anywhere

 in the Miscellaneous Options box in Preferences.

Choose Full Selection on the Checkbook Reports screen to access

 the new "Summary" option which results in reports showing

 just the subtotals and totals for shorter versions of the reports.

 The layout varies depending on the sort option selected.

Version 3.461                                                                   08/28/2015

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The Pandora catalog program adds a further 58 new items        

 mostly Pandora Rose (tm) items but also some Disney

 Charms and some Limited Edition Bangles and

 Holiday 2015 items.

 [skipxreport]

Version 3.460                                                                   08/27/2015

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The Pandora catalog program adds the Olaf Disney Charm.

On the Repair and Custom job tracking screen the second

 page is for extended notes and this is accessed by

 clicking on the "Notes" tab at the bottom. Starting in

 this version this "Notes" tab at the bottom will include

 an asterisk ("Notes *") if there are actually notes to

 be seen. I.e. by having this indicator you can know

 when to check that page for extra information and when

 you don't have to bother.

On the Inventory Entry screen and on the Payables Entry

 screen, there is a new button "Checks Paid" which shows

 the list of checks paid against the selected payable.

The Cash Requirements (accounts payable) report now includes

 the Notes/Description of the invoice. This may help with

 payment scheduling information, etc.

The Return to Vendor screen would not previously save

 or print a return ticket if it had no items.

 It is now possible to add a ticket (with a description)

 and print it without having any items. E.g. you

 may want a return ticket even without previously having

 had an official sku number in stock.

One version of the Cash Register Payment Spreadsheet previously

 had some stray square brackets ] in the total line; these

 are removed in this update.

[u_findpx]

Version 3.450                                                                   08/20/2015

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Some pictures from the August Pandora Collection were not

 previously linked to the new items in the inventory list

 To get those pictures linked, In the Pandora for VJS utility

 run the Start Updating option on the first page. There is no

 need to run the Add Catalog items if you've already done that

 in the last week.

 A late addition, the Disney Olaf charm data has not been

 received yet - but it should be available soon.

In Preferences you can specify that certain customer types

 will cause a pop-up alert when retrieving customers.

 In this update, the alert box will also show you the customer

 comments and extended notes which can provide you with more

 information about what special case you're being alerted to.

When you select the PDF version of reports, the same file name

 is used every time so that you don't end up with 1000's of

 different files. E.g. Inventory-Report.pdf. Starting this

 version, if you select a single vendor for the report, a

 vendor-specific file is created - e.g. Inventory-Report-ABC.pdf.

 This applies to inventory reports, itemized sales reports,

 checkbook reports and accounts payables reports. The Excel XLS

 files that these reports create will also have a vendor-specific

 name. This can help when you have to send data to several vendors

 of just their product.

 (Reminder - the XLS files are put in the VJS Reports folder which

 is on the Windows Desktop and the PDF files [if selected] are put

 in the PDF folder which is inside the VJS Reports folder.)

When you prepare checks using the Pay Invoices Payable - Cut Checks

 screen, you can now select a check number of up to nine digits

 compared to 8 digits maximum in previous versions.

The Itemized Sales Report format for the combination of sorted by

 location and summarized is now compatible with the PDF output

 option.

 The various layouts of Itemized Sales Report have been updated

 with enough room to show total costs at the end of the report

 above ten million. (e.g. this is useful if you run the report for

 many years.)

Version 3.442                                                             08/10/2015

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The Alex and Ani catalog import program has been updated with

 the latest August 2015 additions to their catalog. It also includes

 Canadian pricing for styles sold in Canada.

The format of the Payment Spreadsheet report has been adjusted        

 to have a smaller bottom margin so it may take fewer

 pages for busy days or for reports covering more than one day.

Version 3.441                                                             08/04/2015

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Some copies of Version 3.440 yesterday would cause the Sales Screen

 to minimize to the Windows Task bar, requiring an extra

 click to make it appear. This update resolves that problem.

Yesterday's Version 3.440 contained various Pandora additions

 and price changes (see 3.440 information below for details)

 However, 46 more price changes were needed and which are included

 in this update. To get the price changes choose the "Start Updating"

 button on the first page of the Pandora Catalog program in order to

 reprice your inventory (and fix some descriptions.)

 [ftptimeout45]

Version 3.44                                                             08/03/2015

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The Pandora Import program for Maintenance Plan subscribers has

 two types of important update.

 *) The retail prices of about 220 *previous* items have been

 retroactively changed effective Monday August 3, 2015.

 These are mostly increases of $5 to $10.

 The catalog program will change them for you but if you need

 a list of specific items and your Pandora rep hasn't provided

 it, you can view the list of changes via the Compulink website:

 http://www.jewelryshopkeeper.com/help/misc/pandora-aug-2015-reprice-list.pdf

 http://www.jewelryshopkeeper.com/help/misc/pandora-aug-2015-reprice-announcement.pdf

 *) Note that you have to choose the "Start Updating" button on the first page

 of the Pandora Catalog program in order to reprice your inventory (and fix

 some descriptions.)

 *) The catalog program includes 100's of *new* items for Autumn

 and Holiday 2015 which will ship in August and October 2015 (but orders

 for these 'Drop 5' and 'Drop 6' can be placed with Pandora starting now.)

 This requires using the "Start Importing" button on the Add Catalog Items

 page of the Pandora Catalog program.

 * If you have not already updated the Pandora catalog since July 1, 2015

 you may need to request your updated maintenance plan code from Compulink

 - - -

A sale number change loophole has been found and closed.

 In previous versions it was found that retrieving an

 old quote sale, then making a change to it, then exiting

 by pressing the red [X] button then choosing the Delete

 option would reset the sale number sequence.

 (in order to recycle the number.) Starting this version, this

 combination will not reset the sale numbers if the change

 in number is more than 25. This is the same procedure that was

 in effect for when the Delete button (at the top of the

 sales screen) is used.

When running month-end Accounts Receivable statements and choosing

 the option to create PDF files (instead of printing to paper)

 some layouts did not print the account balance at the bottom.

 This has been addressed in this update.

Also on statements, some versions have the words "Due Date" at the

 bottom. Starting this version these words are removed if you

 haven't actually specified a due date. (where previously

 "Due Date" would print but there would be a blank by it.)

Some parts (The Description parts) of the side-by-side repair ticket layouts were

 not included in previous versions when creating the PDF version

 and this has been addressed in this update.

 In addition, since making a PDF version is primarily for emailing a

 copy to customers, a new full page (one per page) repair ticket layout has

 been added in this version. (emailing side-by-side duplicates is a bit odd.)

You can retroactively change the vendor code or invoice number of a

 vendor payable (vendor invoice) by clicking the padlock next to

 the vendor code or invoice number in the Inventory Entry screen.

 In some cases in previous versions this change could take a fair amount

 of time and this has been optimized and sped up in this update.

A further change in this area is that a loophole that could let you

 try to merge two vendor invoices together has been closed; trying

 to merge two inventory invoices would have been a problem.

The Itemized sales report has previously had a version

 which included only sold items that still have a quantity

 in stock. This version actually showed only items that

 specifically had just one (1) received and ignored

 any repair/service items [because it's a type of audit report]

 This update keeps that version and adds a similar version

 which includes any item with a quantity in stock.

The Itemized Sales reports with the Quantity Left option

 now can be combined with the Show Picture option.

 [The picture option still doesn't apply to *all* versions of

 the sales reports.]

In rare instances, when repair jobs entered unbilled (without a sales

 ticket) weren't saved, they may have remained in the 'scratch' pad

 where they could neither be retrieved nor removed. Starting this

 version, such jobs can be retrieved by typing the number in the

 repair screen and once retrieved they can be saved or deleted.

The TracTech P100 RFID tag printer layout screen has a fix

 such that any special font code entered before would

 not show in the designer when the layout was re-edited.

A minor change in the receive inventory from a purchase order makes

 the sequence easier when receiving a lower quantity than the

 quantity ordered. [previously you had to check the box on the left

 *before* selecting the quantity received - now you can select the

 quantity or check the box first or vice-versa.]

[salecomm/lcks/pmtck]

Version 3.43                                                             07/14/2015

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A new program is now available to import the Alex and Ani

 Catalog including the style number, description, cost

 retail, UPC barcode number. The pictures are not

 currently available yet - probably later.

 You can also import the quantities if you request an

 Excel version of your invoice

 * ask Compulink for instructions and more details.

On the Major Class Codes maintenance screen

 the dollars and cents parts of the markup were

 available for editing in the Listing Page, but

 the cents were not in previous versions. (The

 cents were changeable only on the Pricing page)

 Starting this version the cents are also available

 on the listing page, which can make it easier

 to update the markup formulas for many major

 codes in succession.

In Return Inventory to Vendor, when you return an item that

 is *not* valued based on the weight, entering a weight

 to return in previous versions has not deducted that

 weight from inventory. This was by design because for

 non-weight valued items, the weight is often of a

 descriptive nature. However, starting this version if

 you enter a weight to return, it will deduct from the

 in-stock weight - but you'd have to manually select

 this weight to return because for non-weight-valued items

 the suggested return weight will be zero.

Previous versions would handle 30 different payment types

 and starting this version 100 payment types can be

 accommodated.

The appraisal screen now accommodates values up to $99,999,999.99

 whereas previous versions were limited to $999,999.99

Version 3.42                                                             06/26/2015

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The Pandora Import program for Maintenance Plan subscribers has

 been updated to include about a dozen new "Drop 4" items

 with Pets and Travel themes.

When searching by phone number in the Customer X-Tra Search

 screen the most common method is to type a 10-digit number

 without punctuation. It has also been possible to search

 for a 7-digit phone number if you add the dash in the middle.

 Starting with this update you can also search for a 7-digit

 number without typing the dash. This adds consistency

 between the 10-digit and 7-digit search method.

A new sales report layout groups all of the items by the customer

 so you can see the details of what each customer bought.

 Even if you don't apply commissions, this report is found

 in the Sales by Clerk - Commission Reports screen if you

 change the Sort option to "Customer"

 The clerk is shown next to each sale, but there is no subtotaling

 by clerk.

Vendors can now be assigned a sales commission rate which will

 override the clerk's standard rate (and even the major

 class code's special rate if one exists.)

 This is set on the Payment Terms screen of the vendor

 profile.

JS-Classic (DOS Shopkeeper) has a fix for a problem the commission

 area that could arise when retroactively adding items to

 prior sales.

Version 3.413                                                             06/16/2015

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The Pandora catalog import program adds the 791359CZN spacer.

In the Sku line of the sales screen you can click on

 the in-line Options button and select Discount to

 pop up the Discount calculator. That was present before

 but the changes in this version are a) that you can use

 the Ctrl-D keyboard short cut from the price box to pop up  

 the Discount Calculator, b) In the discount calculator

 you can change or set the quantity of items. (previously

 the qty, if not 1, had to be set before invoking the

 Discount Calculator.)

Some users experienced a long delay when using the

 "Manager Override" feature from the sales screen.

 Some adjustments there appear to have eliminated

 those cases of slowness.

Some users experienced some screen "painting" issues

 recently. Some adjustments may help in those cases.

[single3411pr]

Version 3.411                                                             06/11/2015

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What used to be identified as the Spouse's Work phone number box

 has been re-titled the Spouse's Mobile phone number.

 None of the information will change, this is just a recognition

 that this data field is much more likely to be used for a mobile

 phone than a work phone.

The PDF version of the inventory report with pictures didn't

 have the total cost value at the bottom in previous versions

 but that does appear starting with this version.

[dontpopdrawer]

Version 3.411                                                             06/10/2015

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The Credit Slip / Gift Certificate Report now defaults to sorting

 by the customer last name (instead of by order entered.) It also

 now allows you to select which sort method will be used from:

 Last Name, Customer No., Credit Slip No., Date entered.

The % of Gross Profit column of the GMROI Report (sorted by Vendor)

 was misaligned in some previous versions and is adjusted

 in this update.

Version 3.41                                                               06/09/2015

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There have been some layout changes on the Main Menu and

 File Center to streamline the titles and the background.

In the Customer X-Tra Search screen, the default order of

 the columns has been adjusted so that less-used columns

 are further to the right making room for more useful columns.

 As before, you can resize X-Tra search and you can change

 the column widths if you want to hide or widen certain

 columns. If you want to set the columns back to the standard

 settings, right-click the mouse anywhere in the main customer

 grid.

When a phone number is typed in the Customer X-Tra Search screen

 VJS will now search the Spouse's Mobile phone number box in

 addition to simultaneously searching the other phone numbers.

 (home, work and primary mobile.)

When you modify items via the Relocate Inventory or the Deduct

 Inventory screen or Add to Existing Inventory screens, previous

 versions always dated the log file with the current date.

 Even though there was a date box, it was used only for searches

 and not applied to new "batches" of changes. Starting this version,

 you can set your own date (such as a prior date if needed) for

 new batches. This also applies to batches of inventory reductions

 and additions.

In previous versions, new customers were always assigned a number

 which was one higher than the largest customer number in your

 list even if that is beyond the sequence number you'd prefer to be

 at. Starting with this version the sequence can be set to a number

 lower than that (provided it's not used yet.)

Version 3.40                                                               05/18/2015

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When adding sales the Open Credit Slips listing screen

 or the open Wish List screen may appear and these

 screens now show additional notifications about the

 customer such as missing address, missing email address,

 outstanding repair jobs.

 [Future versions may well have options for these Notifications

 to appear even for when neither the Open Credit Slip nor

 Wish List screens show.]

Inventory items have a new Size field. This can be useful if you

 want to keep the size out of the Style so that reports

 summarized by Style ignore the size. Also, you may want this

 information to be included when you export your inventory

 to a web site. When you export, even though there is just

 one record per style, there is new SizeList field which

 contains a list of all the different sizes available.

 The Size can also be added to the price tag layouts.

 If you add it to the tags,k you may also want to use one

 of the Message fields on the tag to say "Size" or "Sz" and

 put it just before the actual Size field.

 The new Size field doesn't currently appear on any inventory

 report,        but it could be made to appear if needed.

The Sales Summary Report: Compare Two Date Ranges has six

 sort/organize options. In previous versions, the last three

 listed (Vendor by Sales, Vendor by Profit, Vendor by Units)

 were not actually active, but starting this version they are.

The Return on Investment (GMROI) Reports were not compatible

 with the Save-to-PDF option in previous versions but

 starting with this update they are compatible with

 PDF output.

On the Time Card entry screen, when you type in initials

 previous versions would not update the box showing

 the full name. (That didn't affect the time cards, however.)

 Starting this version, the full name will be updated

 and shown when the initials are changed and this will

 avoid any confusion there.

A miscellaneous error message when editing and re-saving

 credit invoices from returned merchandise has been

 cleared up.

[invckcat3er]

Version 3.391                                                 05/06/2015

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The Endless Jewelry import program for Maintenance Plan subscribers has

 been updated. About 200 new items and images will be added.

 From the VJS Main Menu choose "Options", "Shopkeeper Utilities"

 From the utilities Toolbox select "On Web Site" and download

 u_endlessmay2015.  Email a request for more detailed instructions

 if needed.

The update earlier today made the an Options button in

 the sales inactive (the one near the Save button in the Sku Line.)

 This update resolves that.

Previous Single-Computer versions of VJS could not use

 the "Manager Override" feature of the sales screen.

 (network versions always could use this feature)

 Starting with this update, Single-Computer VJS

 installations also have access.

[kltv10]

Version 3.390                                                 05/06/2015

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The Itemized Sales Report now has a layout which

 includes a column for the quantity remaining

 in stock next to each item. Choose Full Selection,

 then set the choice Qty Left Report to "Yes"

 This option used to appear but in previous versions,

 it would restrict the report to show *only * those sold

 skus that had one or more left in stock. This was a

 type of Audit report because if you stock only one of

 each Sku then any item you sell you would expect zero

 left in stock. This Audit version is still available

 if you choose "Yes (only Items w/Qty Left)

Categorizing a Wish List / Quote sale as Layaway or

 Special Order is "dangerous" because that makes

 it too easy to accidentally convert to an actual

 saved sale. They should be Cash Sale, because

 if you accidentally save as a sale, since there

 is no payment you'll be warned.

 In this update, saving a ticket as a Wish/Quote

 will automatically make it a Cash Sale type

 to avoid that problem when retrieving it later.

In previous versions on the Appraisal screen, if you drag

 and drop an image immediately after typing some text

 (with the cursor still in the text box) the text could

 be removed. That undesireable loophole has been resolved

 in this version.

When the X-Tra Search: Customer form appears, the most recently

 accessed customer name is pre-selected in the search box.

 This is almost always useful. However, if you prefer that

 X-Tra Search starts with an empty search box, you can

 activate a new bypass option starting with this version by adding

 the keyword XSBLANKCUSTOMER anywhere in the Miscellaneous

 Options box in Preferences.

The Main Menu has some font changes to use the more current        

 Segoe UI font.        If the Main Menu choices don't look clear

 you may        need to activate ClearType in Windows

 (Google: Activate ClearType Windows)

 If you have Windows XP, you may need to install all the

 Segoe UI fonts from Microsoft

 http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/family.aspx?FID=331

 The change on the Main Menu is a just a "shot over the bow" because

 other screens will likely follow. So do resolve it soon if the text

 on the Main Menu buttons is not crisp.

Under rare circumstances, the Sales Screen may have inccured

 some "shifting up" of screen elements making the form

 unclear. A change has been made in this version to solve that.

[menutextsegoe/triplelineicon]

Version 3.380                                               05/01/2015

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A new feature added is that when you add a new sale a

 a list will pop up showing all outstanding Wish List / Quote

 items for that customer. This can help save sales

 for wish list items that may have been forgotten.

 You can turn this feature off from the "Sales Cont." page

 of Preferences.

The feature to optionally *not* print the .00 cents

 part of prices is now active.

 You can activate this feature by choosing "More"

 on the Tag Designer / Layout screen

 or via the Inventory settings page in Preferences

The Pay Invoices Payable - Cut Checks screen previously

 would warn you if you were about to prepare a checks

 with a negative totals but it would allow you to

 override/allow it if you confirmed it.

 ( You may have your reasons e.g. when using a

 credit card as a bank account)

 However, previous versions of VJS would not continue the

 session unless at least one invoice had a positive payment.

 That limitation has been removed in this update.

[OrphanedSalesSkus]

Version 3.376                                                 04/21/2015

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A (benign) error message during the backup procedure

 appeared in the previous version. This update

 resolves that problem.

 Note that the backup routine now

 backs up a useful station-specific settings file

 (visualjs.ini) both from the workstation and

 from the server.

Version 3.375                                                 04/20/2015

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The Pandora Import program for Maintenance Plan subscribers has

 been updated. The previous Spring update include about 60

 Disney collection items, this update adds 25 additional Disney items.

 Note that if you previously imported the Spring catalog last month

 you would have imported some of the Disney items and since then some

 costs have changed. In that case before importing the new items

 you'll also want to run the Start Updating step on the Update Existing Items

 page and *do check the Change Existing Costs option*

   (which is not normally pre-checked for you.)

The Inventory Snapshot Aging Summary report now has some

 additional measurements in the report footer.

         Average Cost of each item

         Average Retail of each item

         Unit-Weighted Overall average inventory age

         Cost-Weighted Overall average inventory age

The Alternative / Web Description area of inventory

 status now permits the description to be

 mixed upper and lower case even if you have

 chosen for the Regular inventory description

 (e.g. for tags) to always be upper-case

Version 3.370                                                   04/03/2015

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This update fixes a formatting problem on the box for the

 Rep's name on the vendor profile screen.

On the Sales Screen, you can select the default sale

 type such as Cash Sale, Layaway, Special Order,

 Repair or House Charge.

 In previous versions, the default you selected

 applied to all computers on a network. Starting this

 version, you can select a different default sale type

 at each workstation. For example, your repair take-in

 computer could default to Repair type, while other

 computers default to Cash Sale.

When you delete a customer, VJS will require that you

 close the charge account (if it exists) first.

 This is to prevent orphaned charge accounts.

The invoice number column on the accounts payable

 cash requirements report has been widened to reduce

 the number of cases where the invoice number wraps.

When printing Layaway Statements, under very infrequent

 circumstances, the sales for some customers would

 appear twice. This has been resolved in this update.

Version 3.360                                                   03/27/2015

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If you have network version of VJS, on the sign-in screen

 you can now select a different default clerk/ID at each

 computer. Previously there was one default that applied

 to all computers. As before, to select the default

 Clerk/ID, choose "More" on the Sign-in screen,

 highlight the desired default clerk and check the

 "Default to This Name" box in the lower half of the

 screen then choose "Save Changes."

Version 2.88 (see below) added the option to store .DOC,

 .XLS and .PDF files in addition to the more usual

 image files (such as .JPG) to inventory and repairs.

 This update makes the same option available for

 appraisal images ( was not only incompletely available before)

When entering new inventory or editing items from

 the Inventory Status screen, an alert will show

 for any item that has a blank inventory location code.

 (This warning will not appear if you have chosen, in Preferences,

 to not enter inventory locations.)

When the Customer Profile screen includes a Country, the U.S. phone number

 formatting will not be enforced. I.e. you could put an international

 phone number such as +52 4 784 571

 The same change applies to the Vendor Profile screen.

When you print price tags it has been possible to change the

 price printed on the tag without changing the price

 in the inventory file (this is subject to security

 restrictions, of course.)

 Starting with this update, it is also possible to

 change the costcode that prints on the tag without

 affecting the inventory file cost. (this requires

 security level 10) Note that this option doesn't verify

 that you enter a valid cost code. I.e. you could even

 simply add extra letter codes to the normal cost code

 to indicate "something special" to the sales people.

From the Inventory Status Screen, you can access the Vendor

 Profile screen via the green "go" arrow by the vendor code.

 Previously this access method did not check security settings.

 Starting this version, access to the Vendor Profile screen

 from here checks the same security settings as needed

 to get to the vendor Profile screen via the Maintenance Menu.

When adding physical inventory counts with a wand RFID reader,

 duplicate reads of the same Sku are usually ignored

 and added to an error list.

 Starting this version, you can allow multiple reads of

 the same Sku by adding the keyword RFIDMULTIPLESOK anywhere

 in the Miscellaneous Options box in Preferences.

Misc: a stray  "]" has been removed from the subtotal lines

 of the Payment Spreadsheet reports.

Version 3.350                                                   03/11/2015

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The Pandora Import program for Maintenance Plan subscribers has

 been updated. There are two aspects to this:

 *) The Disney Collection with about 60 new items and images

         has been added. ( Merchandise shipments expected April 2015)

 *) The prior catalog update with about 300 new items for spring 2015 and

         Mothers Day 2015 contained some incorrect descriptions. So, if you

         imported that previously, you will want to run the "Update" step of

         the Pandora catalog program to correct the descriptions. (in addition

         to running the "Add Catalog Items" step for Disney)

 See the Version 3.10 & 3.11 notes below on new options for

 automatically logging in quantities from a Pandora Excel invoice file.

Some computers need to use a "simplified interface" to

 webcams if they can't handle the "advanced interface".

 The usual way to use the simpler approach is to add

 the keyword ALTWEBCAM1 anywhere in the Miscellaneous

 Options box in Preferences. However, this affects

 all computers on a network.

 In this version, there is a new This-Computer-Only

 version of the Miscellaneous Options on the Local

 Defaults Cont. page of Preferences. If you add

 the ALTWEBCAM1 keyword on this page, the change will

 affect just this computer, and the other computers

 can continue to use the regular (advanced) interface

 for webcams.

When paying invoices payable, the current version will

 warn you, before the checks are generated, if any

 of them would result in a negative total.

When editing old, outstanding layaways, cancelling them

 and issuing a credit slip for the initial down-payment,

 previous versions would assign the initial date to the

 credit slip. The current version will assign today's

 date.

In update version 3.33 when the price or cost or MSRP

 on the Inventory Status screen is changed, VJS would check

 the inventory for similar items and prompt if all Sku's for that

 style should be updated. (see 3.33 notes below for more details.)

 However, if you changed the Price *and* the Cost *and* the MSRP,

 that would be 3 separate prompts.

 In this update, whichever answer you choose for the Price

 update will be assumed for the Cost and MSRP, to reduce

 the number of on-screen prompts.

 Further, if you *never* want to be prompted to possibly

 update all Sku's of the same style, you can add this key word

 anywhere in the Miscellaneous Options box in Preferences

         SKIPISSKUSTYLEUPDATEPROMPT

Version 3.34 included significant improvements in the Customer X-Tra Search

 screen (see 3.34 below) but had a flaw in that if you checked the box

 to see only those customers with an in-house accounts receivable account,

 it sometimes also showed customers without an in-house account.

 That has been resolved in this update.

[dropn/aprefix]        

Version 3.343                                                   03/01/2015

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Adjustment to the Merchant Warehouse reports by Date.

 In previous versions the last date of the date

 range you selected was not included. That problem

 is resolved now.

Version 3.342                                                   02/26/2015

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The last update caused layaway receipts to incorrectly

 show a zero balance.

The updated customer search features introduced in

 Version 3.34 failed with names including apostrophes

 such as O'Brien. This update resolves that problem.

Version 3.34                                                   02/23/2015

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The Customer X-Tra Search screen has been updated to

 greatly facilitate searching by customer names.

 Previously, you  could search by first name or last name or

 spouse's name, however, the search results were not altogether

 complete. For example, if you searched for DAVID, VJS would have

 probably found customers with last DAVID and DAVIDS and

 DAVIDSON but it wouldn't *also* show you customers whose

 first name was DAVID unless you specifically switched from

 Automatic Search to First Name Search, or if there were no

 customers with last name DAVID.

 Similarly, if you searched for SMITH,JOAN, VJS would have

 shown you Joan Smith, but wouldn't show the customer record

 Bob Smith with Joan in the spouse's first name box.

 Starting this version, all combinations of customer last name,

 first name, spouse's last name and spouse's first name will be

 searched and all matching results will be shown. In addition, the

 Last,first search method will work whether or not you put

 a space after the comma.

An additional 3-part repair ticket layout has been added.

 This one is for the Impact Specialties Repair Card, part

 number #LRC. It's heavy paper/thin card and offers the

 same three (differently sized) repair tickets as the

 other 3-part tickets. The difference here is that the

 entire sheet is letter-sized which makes it easier to

 load in printers. Because it's a little taller than the

 previous repair tickets, the top inch or two tears

 off. These stubs are printed on and so they can

 serve as mini-repair tickets. e.g. they can easily

 be stored in the wallets of customers.

A new optional feature will add to a customer's notes area

 a log of emails sent (the subject line, date and time)

 This can be turned on in the Customer page of Preferences.

A small adjustment to the "Require Customer Email" feature

 stops VJS from asking for the email address on a new

 customer before you have even filled in the customer name.

 Now it will wait until you actually continue to the sales

 screen before checking and warning about a blank email field.

 [see version 3.13 notes below for more details on that

 feature.]

Adjustment to image backup routine needed in case there is a

 space in the folder name. (data path)

Version 3.33                                                       02/12/2015

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The optional Pandora Import program for Maintenance Plan subscribers has

 been updated with about 300 new items for spring 2015 and

 Mothers Day 2015 including images. This is beyond the additions

 for Valentines 2015

 See the Version 3.10 & 3.11 notes below on new options for

 automatically logging in a Pandora invoice from an Excel file

In X-Tra Search, the quantity column in the list of items doesn't

 normally appear, a) because there's not much room, b) because

 the quantity is overwhelmingly just 1.  Starting this update

 if you widen the X-Tra Search screen sufficiently, then the

 Quantity column will now appear.

The inventory report has a new sort option "Major-Style" which

 has the primary sort and grouping by major class code and

 within each class code sort by vendor style number.

When you change the cost or MSRP of an item in the Inventory Status

 screen, starting in this update, VJS will check if you

 have other Sku's of the same style number (still in stock)

 and will ask you if you want to change the MSRP price

 and/or the Wholesale Cost of just this one Sku or all Sku's

 with the same style. This can help when you receive new prices

 from your suppliers or when you change prices due to gold-price

 fluctuations.

 [This is analogous with the selling price feature change in

 Version 3.325 below - but this change adds MSRP and Wholesale Cost.]

Version 3.325                                                       02/07/2015

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Jewelers using the encrypted credit card reader for Merchant

 Warehouse (now called Cayan) credit card processing recently

 noticed that it was necessary to click the processing

 screen before the card could be swiped. Compulink assumes

 this was a change in the Cayan computer, but this VJS

 update adds an "auto-click" so you won't need to do that.

 Another minor change is that you can Maximize the Merchant

 Warehouse processing screen. This may be useful, if you ever

 need to key a credit card and some of the help bubbles (e.g. for

 Zip Code) are not fully visible.

 You can even make this screen automatically maximize, in case

 you decide it's "cleaner" to hide everything else on the monitor

 until the card is processed.

 This option is activated by adding the keyword MAXCCPROCESSING in

 Miscellaneous Options in Preferences

When you change the selling price of an item in the Inventory Status

 screen, starting in this update, VJS will check if you

 have other Sku's of the same style number (still in stock)

 and will ask you if you want to change the retail price

 of just this one Sku or all Sku's with the same style.

 This can help when you receive new prices from your suppliers

 or when you change prices due to gold-price fluctuations.

Certain 'bulk' inventory screens such as Return to Vendor

 Physical Inventory , Relocate, Deduct or Add to Inventory,

 could occasionally be extremely slow for some users.

 It was found that a "timing" issue would affect a small

 number of computers, probably if the computer and the

 network had a particular speed. This is expected to

 be resolved for all computers starting with this update.

Version 3.321                                                       01/30/2015

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The optional Endless Jewelry  Import program has been updated

 with a large number of new items including the

 Valentines 2015 items and gift sets - including images.

 [contact us for an updated Maintenance Plan Code

 and instructions.]

In the Time Card screen in older versions, a certain uncommon

 keyboard sequence would result in two copies of the timecard

 entry being saved. This is resolved in this update.

 [trackroa][picomp]

Version 3.32                                                       01/22/2015

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The option to print the A/R account balance on sales

 receipts (for customers with an in-house charge account)

 has long been available. In previous versions, printing

 the balance would prevent the customer phone numbers from

 printing. Now, the A/R balance and the phone numbers

 can both print on receipts.

A couple more reports were found that were not optimized in

 previous versions for the save-as-PDF output option.

 The Itemized Sales Report summarized by major code and

 the Return on Investment Report by Major Code.

 Those reports layout have been updated now.

The accounting P&L report previously did not show the

 gross sales figure lines - just the net sales.

 Starting this update, the Gross sales (merchandise

 and service) lines will appear.

From the Inventory Status screen, by the invoice number

 there is a green "drill down" arrow to bring

 up the payables/inventory entry screen for that

 invoice. If you have some items without an invoice

 [such as bead or charm inventory entered without

 a payable] in previous versions, clicking that arrow

 would *create* a payable which was awkward. Starting

 with this invoice, an alert message will appear instead

 in such a case.

The Add to Existing Sku Number screen and the Deduct from Inventory

 screen now require that a Reference be entered. Previous

 versions didn't require this, which would then make

 it difficult to re print a list. Further, having no

 reference in the items' adjustment activity log isn't desirable.

When you run the Itemized Sales Report, in addition to getting the

 report formatted for printing, an Excel XLS file of the results

 is created in the VJS Reports folder. That has always been the case;

 what's new in this update is that in addition to the Selling Price column

 there are the columns Retail (which is your ticketed selling price) and

 the MSRP (the optional suggested price of the manufacturer.)

 These additional fields can enable you to do further calculations in Excel

 involving discounting.

 [assb/wt; ]

Version 3.31                                                       01/09/2015

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The optional Pandora Import program has been updated

 with a large number of new items including the

 Valentines 2015 items and gift sets - including images.

 [currently just 2 images are not yet available: USB792900, USB794018]

 This is for Maintenance Plan subscribers and you'll

 need to email us to request an updated "Maintenance Plan Code."

 See the Version 3.10 & 3.11 notes below on new options for

 logging in a Pandora invoice from an Excel file

-->        It's unrelated to the Pandora update, but note that if

 you have not done a Shopkeeper update yet in 2015

 then your first update in 2015 may take a couple of

 extra minutes - see the Version 3.30 notes below.

When you run a Cash Requirements report, an Excel XLS

 version of the results is put in the VJS Reports folder.

 What's new in this update is that two extra columns

 are included: Freight & Other Expense.

In previous versions, in the itemized inventory report by Sku number

 the Quantity Ordered and Quantity Received columns were not

 included in the send-to-PDF version of the report.

 That has been resolved in this update.        

Version 3.301-2                                                   01/07/2015

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Minor adjustments relating to the Data Structure update

 of version 3.30.

In the Physical Inventory Exception reports in previous versions

 certain columns were not completely compatible with the

 send-to-PDF option. That has been resolved in this update.

[Physical Inventory 'Force' utility updated to support

 Vendor selection in conjunction with Location selection.]

Version 3.30                                                   01/05/2015

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 * Note For All Users

 ---------------------

         Unlike most updates, this update will require a

         "Data Structure Update" which means that a

         backup will be requested first. For those running

         a network version of VJS, all computers will need

         to be out of VJS while the first computer runs this

         backup and Structure Update. After this first computer

         runs the update, all additional stations must also run

         the update. However, the additional stations*can* run the

         update while others are in VJS.

         I.e. This update might require a few extra minutes compared

         to 'regular' updates.

         ------------

Adding pictures via webcams.        

 This update has an update to the "engine" used for capturing

 images from webcams. This should be better for most computers.

 Unfortunately, there may be some computers which don't "get along"

 with the new webcam interface. ( Which ones is impossible to predict

 given the infinite combinations of Windows versions, Windows patches,

 installed software, installed hardware, installed drivers. etc.)

 If your computer doesn't "like" the new webcam update, let us know.

 As a workaround you can revert to a simpler webcam engine by adding

 the word ALTWEBCAM1 anywhere in the Miscellaneous Options box in Preferences.

 It's possible that you already reverted to the simpler webcam engine

 in the past. In that case, we suggest you see if the new webcam engine

 works for you now. To do that, *remove* any ALTWEBCAM word from

 the Miscellaneous Options box in Preferences.

When locating customers in Customer X-Tra Search, there are

 several methods of searching for customers (phone, last name,

 first name, customer number, etc.) There are two search improvements in this update:

 When searching by last name        *and* first name you now would type

 SMITH,ZACH *without* typing a space after the comma. In Previous

 versions it was necessary to type the space after the comma which might

 not have been intuitive. This is useful when searching with common

 names such as Smith        or Fernandez.

 When searching by customer number a problem in the past has been that

 you might type a number such as 2125 and Shopkeeper would favor

 the phone number lookup and show you a customer with a 10-digit phone

 number starting with (212) 5 or a 7-digit phone number starting with 212-5

 In this version, adding a period after the number, e.g. "2125." forces Shopkeeper

 to search by customer number.

Version 3.14                                                   12/31/2014

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The security settings for the Customer Profile screen have been updated.

 In previous versions you could prevent access to the

 customer screen but if you granted access it was always for both

 lookup *and* making changes. Starting this version, you can set

 one security settings for lookup and a different (e.g. higher)

 required level in order to update the customer profile.

Some reports or tickets have both a full-sheet layout for

 letter-size paper and a 40-column layout for a roll-of-paper

 receipt printer. Sending a 40-column layout to a letter-size

 printer or vice-versa will cause an error 1298.

 Starting in this version most inappropriate combinations

 are detected before printing and a clearer warning is displayed

 rather than a semi-obscure error.

The "Hand-check" feature (writing a check *not* against an invoice

 payable) previously did not use the alternative "Remittance Address"

 which is available in the Vendor profile screen. This is resolved

 in this update.

The checkbook report now allows you to search / filter by a specific

 invoice number. This way you can more quickly identify when and

 with which check you paid a suppliers invoice.

 Choose Full Selection from the checkbook report        screen to see

 this new option.

If an inventory item is deleted via the "Inventory Status" screen

 starting this version, the Sku will be blanked, but not 100% removed

 and an audit entry will be added to note when it was "deleted."

 This matches the behavior when you delete an item via the

 invoice entry screen.

 [prtqt/dtinvrec1]

Version 3.133                                                   12/24/2014

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On sales receipts payments are identified as "Cash", "Check"

 or "Charge." Starting this version, the word "Charge" is

 removed because when you add other payment types, such as

 Scrap Gold or PayPal, they may not be really "charge."

 Actual Charge payments will still look ok because they'll

 include the card type such as Visa.

A miscellaneous error situation has been resolved - one that

 occurred after trying to add a new gift certificate

 with a previously used number.

Version 3.132                                                   12/19/2014

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When issuing a gift certificate, if you fail to enter

 the payment a warning message now appears.

 Further, a new security option in the Sales Security

 page of Preferences can allow you to disallow

 ignoring the payment (e.g. for donated or promotional

 gift certificates.)

You can add an extra sales receipt message based on

 the type of item sold - which is added via the major class codes

 screen. This feature has been available before but what's

 new in this update is that the message can be

 upper and lower-case where previous versions made

 it upper-case only, so now it can look better.

Version 3.131                                                   12/16/2014

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To help with busier computer networks where other computers

 may momentarily lock some data files, VJS will now

 wait another couple of seconds before giving up.

 [The delay can also be customized with REPROCESSxx

 in Miscellaneous Options - ask for details if needed.]

Fixed miscellaneous error message when selecting amount

 different tag layouts.

The inventory adjustment report resulted in an error message        

 in rare circumstances - which is resolved in this update.

Version 3.13                                                   12/11/2014

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Email marketing is very important for many jewelers

 so a new option on the Customer page of Preferences allows

 you to show a warning whenever you pull up a customer

 whose email address is not recorded. You can choose

 option S to just Suggest that an email address be filled

 in, or you can choose option R to Require that an email

 address be filled in.

 Either way, if a customer declines to give you one, you

 can stop that prompt reoccurring for individual customers by entering

 an invalid email address such as "N/A" or "None" or "Decline."

From the Vendor X-Tra Search screen, a list of prior invoices

 shows at the bottom left corner. You can double-click

 a merchandise invoice to select and edit that invoice.

 With this update, this "drill down" feature also

 works for non-inventory payables.

Version 2.97 added the feature to print price tags based

 on the list of inventory additions made via the

 "Add to Existing Sku Numbers Screen."

 However, the feature could be used only before you saved

 the list, not later on.

 This update adds the ability to print the tags retroactively.

 Open the Add to Existing Sku Numbers Screen, type in

 the original Reference/Explanation and original Date

 and click on "Tags" at the top of the screen.

The Repair details screen has a Parts Used tab. Currently

 this doesn't allow *adding* parts but it does show

 the list of Sku's / parts that were added via JS-Classic.

 [a future update can be expected to allow adding parts.]

 [CrSlip]

Version 3.122                                                   12/03/2014

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Some previous versions would not let you manually modify

 or delete the list of image files associated with an

 inventory (or repair item). This has been resolved in

 this update.

 From Inventory Status, double click the image zone

 to pop-up the Picture Manager. From there, click on

 "Picture Information" where you can directly edit the list

 of pictures linked to the current item.

From the Checkbook entry screen, the look-up list

 for the vendors had problems in the last update.

 That has been resolved. In addition, there are now

 more columns in the vendor list which may help

 you select the right vendor in cases of similar or

 same names (i.e. the phone and account number show now.)

The Customer Reports and Labels screen allows you to select

 customers based on purchases - which you can fine tune

 by date, major code, etc. A new criteria now available

 is the sale location. I.e. you can select only those

 customers who have purchased from location, say, CC.

In previous versions, the Credit Card Payments Report

 could show you multiple subtotals for one card type

 if you had entries with different cases - e.g.

 some with VISA and some        with Visa.

 Starting this version the case will be ignored

 so such variations would be subtotaled together as the same card.

Version 3.121                                                   11/29/2014

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The optional Pandora Import program has been updated

 with a small number of new items - some additional size 48

 items plus a Holiday 2014 ornament, including images.

 * Note that there is no pre-defined major code for the

 ornament so on the import page select a major code for

 "Pandora Other"

The Customer Reports and Labels screen has always had the

 option to create export files for use with mail-merge,

 mailing houses, email marketing.

 "Constant Contact" is a commonly use email marketing tool

 and we found it had difficulty importing the Shopkeeper

 export file. In this update the format of the "Export List Small CSV"

 file has been adjusted so that it is more easily imported

 into Constant contact.

 In addition it combines the first name and spouse's first name

 into a single field which can help with other mailings in addition

 to Constant Contact.

 In addition (not for Constant Contact) the Salutation column in

 this export list now will include the spouse's last name if present,

 e.g. John Smith & Jackie Jones. This can help improve formatting

 other mailings performed with the Export file.

 The Carrier route was removed from this format too.

 If you happen to need the old format - say your mail merge depends on

 the old layout - you can still access that by choosing the

 "Export List Small Orig."

[TracTechP100]

Version 3.12                                                     11/14/2014

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In the Customer Mailings / Reports screen you can export

 the resulting customer list in a few ways. In this

 update the additional export option "Export List Small TAB"

 creates a "Tab Delimited" file called custlist.txt in

 the VJS Reports folder. This was added in case your

 mail house or email program (such as Constant Contact)

 has difficulties reading the other formats.

On the repair screen, the Cost box will not appear if

 the logged in person does not have access to view

 inventory costs. Starting this version, there is a

 separate security setting for the cost on the repair screen.

 This way, you can grant access to the repair cost box

 but disallow viewing the inventory cost.

 This option is on the "Other Security Settings" page

 in Preference.

In the sales screen, the "New" button at the top would simply

 clear the screen without any questions which could be awkward

 if it were clicked accidently after entering 10 Sku's.

 Starting this version it will ask what you want to do with

 the current sale if there is one on-screen already.

From the Vendor Maintenance screen, a list of payables shows

 on the "Buying History" page. In previous versions

 you could retrieve a particular payable by double-clicking

 it in the grid - but only for merchandise invoices.

 Starting this version you can also retrieve non-merchandise

 invoices this way.

On the Cut Checks for Accounts Payable, a running total appears

 at the bottom of the Selected Net Payment column. In previous