This month our runner-up from June came out on top. ‘Fourth Wing (#1 The Empyrean)’ sold 2,028 copies (+516). ‘All Fours’ also moved up a place to come second with 1,177 (-3) copies sold. Third place went to ‘Storm Child (#4 Cyrus Haven)’ by Michael Robotham with 1,155 sales.
In July we worked on:
New Features:
• The General Ledger now includes services to populate and validate basic accounts, improve payment accuracy, support gift card redemptions, and refine invoice translations
• A new filter was added to Best Sellers, allowing users to sort by author
• Additionally, a search endpoint for monthly stock cache was created to enhance the accuracy of profit and loss data
Improvements this month concentrated on:
• Elastic & Elastic Search: Enhanced stock log tracking, reporting, and quantity accuracy
• Sales Report: Refactored for accurate cost-price reporting
• Inbox Category: Ongoing item mapping improvements
• Pre-orders: Improved performance and user experience
• Circle Gift Card: Added pagination for better loading times
• Customer Orders: Developed a more efficient shipping API
• BackOffice: Enhanced community comparison feature
• General Ledger: Simplified ledger process by removing “undrop” feature
• MailGun: Updated email handling for better accuracy
Housekeeping & Upgrades concentrated primarily on Rails, Elastic Search and Vue 3
This month our runner-up from June came out on top. ‘Fourth Wing (#1 The Empyrean)’ sold 2,028 copies (+516). ‘All Fours’ also moved up a place to come second with 1,177 (-3) copies sold. Third place went to ‘Storm Child (#4 Cyrus Haven)’ by Michael Robotham with 1,155 sales.
More fabulous new titles in this month’s bestseller list, including Long Island by Colm Tóibín which sold 2,497 copies. Also new to the list was Table for Two by Amor Towles which sold 1,309 copies. Coming in third was Caledonian Road by Andrew O’Hagan with 1,269 copies.
In June we worked on:
New Features:
• In General Ledger we made significant progress by adding validations for ledger accuracy, implementing tax-exempt handling, and simplifying the process by removing the ability to un-drop payments and invoices.
• In Stock Valuation Cache we created a P&L cache database to track and analyse monthly stock values.
Housekeeping concentrated primarily on Rails, Vue 3 and Deadlocks
Improvements this month concentrated on:
• External Services
• Settings
• Pre orders
In May we worked on:
New Features:
• In General Ledger we progressed Layby and tax-exempt items
• The Gmail Mailer was improved and now complies with DMARC rules.
• We have enabled seamless integration and improved product visibility in the Google Merchant feature.
Housekeeping concentrated primarily on Rails and POS. We also addressed Flaky Specs, Feature Flags, Vue 3 and Ruby.
Improvements this month concentrated on:
• Stripe
• Pre Orders
• POS
• Spreadsheet Deals
• MailGun
• GiftCard Load
• SEO & Social Media
More fabulous new titles in this month’s bestseller list, including Long Island by Colm Tóibín which sold 2,497 copies. Also new to the list was Table for Two by Amor Towles which sold 1,309 copies. Coming in third was Caledonian Road by Andrew O’Hagan with 1,269 copies.
In April we worked on:
• Load Stock & Search & Update: Improved feedback during stock searches to reduce user confusion; locked the “Search & Update” button after clicking to ensure stability; automated updates to the “Reg Price” field for accurate pricing information.
• Core Code: Optimised the codebase to improve performance and maintainability.
• Association Portal: Added a flag to identify second-hand books for better categorisation.
• Deals Interface: Implemented a responsive design for better accessibility on smaller screens; added features for marking deals as done or in progress; supported timezones; improved pagination, filters, sorting, and deal product views.
• General Ledger: Implemented functionality to handle CREDIT & DEBIT special items; allowed for slight deviations in amounts when creating new transactions; developed handling for Non-Tracked Items and introduced a method to translate Shipping into the Ledger.
Housekeeping concentrated on: Flaky Tests; Deprecate Feature Flags; Switch to BETA; Rails; Ruby; Core Code; Gems & Vue 3
The April 2024 bestseller list saw lots of fresh titles. Bri Lee’s ‘The Work’ came in first with 1,812 sales. In second place was ‘Sanctuary’ by Garry Disher with 1,304 sales. Third spot went to ‘The Scarlet Shedder’ #12 in the popular children’s series, Dog Man with 1,270 sales.
In March we worked on:
• Deals API and Deal Interface: – We worked a lot on improving the functionality of discounted prices
• Website – We have upgraded to ES 8.0 (Elastic Search); this app is responsible for the quick search box and reports pages. Main benefits include speed, reduced memory usage) and security
• Self Onboarding – More improvements to to improve user experience to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of the onboarding process
• Housekeeping – Bug Fixes, Github CI, Vue, Site Settings, Rails, Ruby, Codecheck, Gem Deprecation, Vue 3 Cypress Integration, Webhooks,
• Upgrades – We have now completed the R6 upgrade rollout! This has been an enormous task that delivers improved security and performance. The rollout has been gradual so we do not expect too many issue but email support if you strike any. (Now we start on R7 🙂