Getting the most from Wishlists and Notify me
Using these features can get you more sales.
In May this year we made some upgrades to the wishlist feature on the website. In the Backoffice you can now sort it by date and add a sub menu to split out orders that are dealt with and those that still need an action (add those to the pile right!)
Circle Community Best Sellers August 2020
A new title to the list, “The Happiest Man on Earth” took the no.1 spot this month with 1586 sales.
“The Yield” moved up two positions to take 2nd place with 1428 sales (-202).
Third position went to “Midnight Sun” Stephanie Meyer’s new release.
System Updates 1 July 2020 to 1 Aug 2020
Since the Last Update This month we we did a lot more work on API’s and infrastructure. We also delivered improvements in the POS, website, customer orders and deals. Improvements DB optimisations Improved indexes on the product_categories table #172674280 Matrix products Added a feature flag to hide matrix product functions as they are not needed … Read More
Circle Community Best Sellers July 2020
David Walliams’ new title, ‘The World’s Worst Parents’ takes the top spot this month with 1,867 sales.
This is followed closely by the hardback copy of ‘A Room Made of Leaves’ which sold 1,771 copies.
‘Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark’ dropped two places to third, selling 1,737 copies (-195).
System Updates 1 June 2020 to 1 July 2020
Since the Last Update This month we delivered improvements to API’s, customer orders, website and system upgrades. Improvements OpenID Allow non-SSL clients to authenticate using an ENV for setup. This is part of ongoing development to make it easier for other services to interact with Circle. #173007453 Messaging Improved error pages GH #4082 Change action … Read More
Circle Community Best Sellers June 2020
No change to our two top titles this month. ‘Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark’ sold 1932 copies (-302).
‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ sold 1091 copies (-260).
‘Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture’ rose from #13 to #3 with 1089 sales this month (+587).
Circle Community Best Sellers May 2020
‘Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark’ was #1 with 2234 sales, up from #2 with 1239 sales last month.
‘Normal People’ rose to #2 from #16 (367) with 1451 sales this month
‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ holds at #3 with 1351
To continue the monitoring of ‘Bluey’ titles in the top 50, there are 6 titles this month and their total beats the #1 this month with a total sales of 2398.
System Updates 1 May 2020 to 1 June 2020
Since the Last Update This month saw a lot of sys admin and database optimization along with some rollbacks where the optimizations did not work. We resolved eWay issues , improved checkout, the forgot password process, file uploads (a big job) and customer orders with a new item based view and improved wish list contact … Read More
Circle Community Best Sellers April 2020
‘A Bigger Picture (Malcolm Turnbull, HB)’ was #1 in April with 1762 units sold.
‘Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark’ was #2 with 1243 sales.
‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ dropped down one spot to #3 with 1077 sales (- 127)
As a small aside the combined sales of the six ‘Bluey’ titles in the top 50 are greater than Malcolm Turnbull’s ‘A Bigger Picture’.