System Updates 1 – 31 July 2024

August 15, 2024By Emma VeldeBest Selling Books 2024, System Updates 2024

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

‘The Work’, Top Seller for April 2024

May 23, 2024By Emma VeldeBest Selling Books 2024

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.

‘Lola in the Mirror’, Top Seller for February 2024

March 1, 2024By Emma VeldeBest Selling Books 2024, Uncategorized

The February Best Sellers appeared like a well shuffled deck of cards, lots of familiar faces but in a different order. About a dozen new titles featured with The Women selling the most of the new titles. Trent Dalton’s Lola in the Mirror retained number one spot selling 1,385 copies (-576). Likewise The Bee Sting maintained second place with 1,372 (-490) copies. It seems even the best seller list is susceptible to the recent Taylor Swift phenomenon. Her Little Golden Book Biography took third spot (up from 17th last month) with 1290 sales (+530).  

‘Question 7’, Top Seller for December 2023

January 26, 2024By Emma VeldeBest Selling Books 2023

Question 7 by Richard Flanagan retained number one spot in December selling 5,693 ( +1,789) copies. Trent Dalton’s Lola in the Mirror also maintained its second position selling 5,165 (+2,200).

Prophet Song moved all the way from the bottom of the list last month to third position selling 5,092 (+4,535).