Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.10, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # CirclePOS.com Bookshop Systems Specialists ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://circlepos.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - ['Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump' - July 2026](https://circlepos.com/regime-change-inside-the-imperial-presidency-of-donald-trump-july-2026/) - Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump claimed the top spot this month with 2,846 sales. Whistler took second place with 2,742 sales—a dip of 1,191 from last month—and Yesteryear held onto third with 2,626 sales (down 565). - [System Updates June 2026](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-june-2026/) - September System Updates – at a Glance New Features •Click and Collect option in checkout •Mobile POS: Local icon loading and Safer request identification •Checkout Enhancements: Address auto-complete and Automated test fixes •Pubnet Integration service •Gift Card Automation in General Ledger •New Responsive Backoffice Header Improvements •Backoffice Layout: Switched to ViewComponent; Adaptive layout with Hotwire •Onboarding: .circlepos.com domain default •Draft Invoices Enhancements: Added Return Authorisation Number; Improved credit note handling •Breadcrumbs in Category Mapping •Accessibility Fixes (mobile UI) •Association Portal SEO Improvements •Movers Report Performance •API Redirect Handling •Tax Enhancements: Only active tax settings apply; Exempt items show 0 tax; Combined tax types handled correctly; Cart displays single clear total - ['Whistler' - June 2026](https://circlepos.com/whistler-june-2026/) - Whistler joined the list in the number one spot this month with 3,933 sales. Land also joined this month’s bestseller list with 3,760 sales. In the third spot is Yesteryear with 3,181 sales, which is up 34 sales from last month. - [System Updates May 2026](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-may-2026/) - September System Updates – at a Glance New Features •Click and Collect option in checkout •Mobile POS: Local icon loading and Safer request identification •Checkout Enhancements: Address auto-complete and Automated test fixes •Pubnet Integration service •Gift Card Automation in General Ledger •New Responsive Backoffice Header Improvements •Backoffice Layout: Switched to ViewComponent; Adaptive layout with Hotwire •Onboarding: .circlepos.com domain default •Draft Invoices Enhancements: Added Return Authorisation Number; Improved credit note handling •Breadcrumbs in Category Mapping •Accessibility Fixes (mobile UI) •Association Portal SEO Improvements •Movers Report Performance •API Redirect Handling •Tax Enhancements: Only active tax settings apply; Exempt items show 0 tax; Combined tax types handled correctly; Cart displays single clear total - ['The Things We Never Say' - May 2026](https://circlepos.com/the-things-we-never-say-may-2026/) - The Things We Never Say takes the top spot with 4,998 sales. Yesteryear has surged into second with 3,147 sales, marking a massive jump of 2,731 over the past month. Meanwhile, Three Reasons for Revenge claims third with 3,014 sales—up 2,171 from its previous total. - [System Updates April 2026](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-april-2026/) - September System Updates – at a Glance New Features •Click and Collect option in checkout •Mobile POS: Local icon loading and Safer request identification •Checkout Enhancements: Address auto-complete and Automated test fixes •Pubnet Integration service •Gift Card Automation in General Ledger •New Responsive Backoffice Header Improvements •Backoffice Layout: Switched to ViewComponent; Adaptive layout with Hotwire •Onboarding: .circlepos.com domain default •Draft Invoices Enhancements: Added Return Authorisation Number; Improved credit note handling •Breadcrumbs in Category Mapping •Accessibility Fixes (mobile UI) •Association Portal SEO Improvements •Movers Report Performance •API Redirect Handling •Tax Enhancements: Only active tax settings apply; Exempt items show 0 tax; Combined tax types handled correctly; Cart displays single clear total - ['The Correspondent' - April 2026](https://circlepos.com/the-correspondent-april-2026-2/) - The Correspondent holds the top spot with 2,015 sales, up 51 from last month. Project Hail Mary surged into second with 1,509 sales, a massive jump of 604. Meanwhile, Heart the Lover takes third with 1,248 sales, down 88 from its previous total - [System Updates 1 - 31 march 2026](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-31-march-2026/) - September System Updates – at a Glance New Features •Click and Collect option in checkout •Mobile POS: Local icon loading and Safer request identification •Checkout Enhancements: Address auto-complete and Automated test fixes •Pubnet Integration service •Gift Card Automation in General Ledger •New Responsive Backoffice Header Improvements •Backoffice Layout: Switched to ViewComponent; Adaptive layout with Hotwire •Onboarding: .circlepos.com domain default •Draft Invoices Enhancements: Added Return Authorisation Number; Improved credit note handling •Breadcrumbs in Category Mapping •Accessibility Fixes (mobile UI) •Association Portal SEO Improvements •Movers Report Performance •API Redirect Handling •Tax Enhancements: Only active tax settings apply; Exempt items show 0 tax; Combined tax types handled correctly; Cart displays single clear total - ['The Correspondent' - March 2026](https://circlepos.com/the-correspondent-march-2026/) - The Correspondent continues to lead this month with 1,964 sales, an increase of 343 from last month. Climbing to second place is Heart the Lover with 1,336 sales, though down by 117 compared to last month. Mother Mary Comes to Me ranks third with 1,120 sales, marking a modest gain of 32 from the previous month. - [System Updates 1 - 28 feb 2026](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-28-feb-2026/) - September System Updates – at a Glance New Features •Click and Collect option in checkout •Mobile POS: Local icon loading and Safer request identification •Checkout Enhancements: Address auto-complete and Automated test fixes •Pubnet Integration service •Gift Card Automation in General Ledger •New Responsive Backoffice Header Improvements •Backoffice Layout: Switched to ViewComponent; Adaptive layout with Hotwire •Onboarding: .circlepos.com domain default •Draft Invoices Enhancements: Added Return Authorisation Number; Improved credit note handling •Breadcrumbs in Category Mapping •Accessibility Fixes (mobile UI) •Association Portal SEO Improvements •Movers Report Performance •API Redirect Handling •Tax Enhancements: Only active tax settings apply; Exempt items show 0 tax; Combined tax types handled correctly; Cart displays single clear total - ['The Correspondent' - February 2026](https://circlepos.com/the-correspondent-february-2026/) - The Correspondent remained the top favorite this month with 1,621 sales, down 306 from last month. Jumping up to second place, Where the Light Gets In: Simple, Playful, and Profound Perspective Shifts to Change Your Life achieved 1,462 sales—217 more than last month. In third place is Heart the Lover, with 1,453 sales, up 319 from the past month. - [System Updates 1 - 30 Jan 2026](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-30-jan-2026/) - September System Updates – at a Glance New Features •Click and Collect option in checkout •Mobile POS: Local icon loading and Safer request identification •Checkout Enhancements: Address auto-complete and Automated test fixes •Pubnet Integration service •Gift Card Automation in General Ledger •New Responsive Backoffice Header Improvements •Backoffice Layout: Switched to ViewComponent; Adaptive layout with Hotwire •Onboarding: .circlepos.com domain default •Draft Invoices Enhancements: Added Return Authorisation Number; Improved credit note handling •Breadcrumbs in Category Mapping •Accessibility Fixes (mobile UI) •Association Portal SEO Improvements •Movers Report Performance •API Redirect Handling •Tax Enhancements: Only active tax settings apply; Exempt items show 0 tax; Combined tax types handled correctly; Cart displays single clear total - ['The Correspondent' - January 2026](https://circlepos.com/the-correspondent-january-2026/) - The Correspondent claimed the top spot this month with 1,927 sales, building on last month’s performance with an increase of 425 sales. Following closely in second place, Mad Mabel achieved 1,539 sales, continuing to be a strong performer on the list. Rounding out the top titles, Flesh remained a consistent favorite, posting 1,438 sales and maintaining its position among the month’s bestsellers. - ['The Mushroom Tapes: Conversations on a Triple Murder Trial' - December 2025](https://circlepos.com/the-mushroom-tapes-conversations-on-a-triple-murder-trial-december-2025/) - The Mushroom Tapes: Conversations on a Triple Murder Trial remains in the number one spot this month with 5,098 sales, up 42 from last month. Climbing to number two is Flesh, with 4,354 sales this month—an increase of 2,566 from last month. Holding steady at number three is Last One Out: No One Stays Forever, with 4,216 sales—up 1,380 from last month. - ['The Mushroom Tapes: Conversations on a Triple Murder Trial' - November 2025](https://circlepos.com/the-mushroom-tapes-conversations-on-a-triple-murder-trial-november-2025/) - The Mushroom Tapes: Conversations on a Triple Murder Trial joined the bestseller list this month with 5,056 sales. Climbing up to number 2 is Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice, with 3,032 sales this month—1,764 more than last month. Dropping to third place is Last One Out: No One Stays Forever, with 2,836 sales—382 fewer than last month. - [System Updates 1 - 30 Nov 2025](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-30-nov-2025/) - September System Updates – at a Glance New Features •Click and Collect option in checkout •Mobile POS: Local icon loading and Safer request identification •Checkout Enhancements: Address auto-complete and Automated test fixes •Pubnet Integration service •Gift Card Automation in General Ledger •New Responsive Backoffice Header Improvements •Backoffice Layout: Switched to ViewComponent; Adaptive layout with Hotwire •Onboarding: .circlepos.com domain default •Draft Invoices Enhancements: Added Return Authorisation Number; Improved credit note handling •Breadcrumbs in Category Mapping •Accessibility Fixes (mobile UI) •Association Portal SEO Improvements •Movers Report Performance •API Redirect Handling •Tax Enhancements: Only active tax settings apply; Exempt items show 0 tax; Combined tax types handled correctly; Cart displays single clear total - [System Updates 1 - 30 October 2025](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-30-october-2025/) - September System Updates – at a Glance New Features •Click and Collect option in checkout •Mobile POS: Local icon loading and Safer request identification •Checkout Enhancements: Address auto-complete and Automated test fixes •Pubnet Integration service •Gift Card Automation in General Ledger •New Responsive Backoffice Header Improvements •Backoffice Layout: Switched to ViewComponent; Adaptive layout with Hotwire •Onboarding: .circlepos.com domain default •Draft Invoices Enhancements: Added Return Authorisation Number; Improved credit note handling •Breadcrumbs in Category Mapping •Accessibility Fixes (mobile UI) •Association Portal SEO Improvements •Movers Report Performance •API Redirect Handling •Tax Enhancements: Only active tax settings apply; Exempt items show 0 tax; Combined tax types handled correctly; Cart displays single clear total - ['Gravity Let Me Go' - October 2025](https://circlepos.com/gravity-let-me-go-october-2025/) - Gravity Let Me Go climbed to the number one spot this month with 4055 sales, up from 1155 last month. Joining the top sellers is Last One Out: No One Stays Forever with 3218 sales. Dropping to third place is The Impossible Fortune with 3107 sales, up from 2401 last month. - [System Updates 1 - 31 May 2025](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-31-may-2025/) - May System Updates – at a Glance New Features • Added automated testing and support for non-book items in Mobile POS. • Enabled favourite product management in Mobile POS. • Introduced automatic retry for failed critical ledger jobs. • Fixed permission issues in Data Export API for secure integration. • Enabled fast access to daily book sales by ISBN via Data Export. Improvements • Added tracking for sign-ups, product views, and promotions in Google Tag Manager. • Automated draft credit notes for returns. • Improved clarity in the Invoice tab for returns. • Introduced one-time use limit for discount codes. - [The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking About](https://circlepos.com/the-let-them-theory-a-life-changing-tool-that-millions-of-people-cant-stop-talking-about-2/) - June Bestsellers: A Different Kind of Power tops the list. New entries include Hard New World and The Let Them Theory holds strong at No. 2. - [Circle Community Best Sellers March 2022](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-march-2022/) - Sarah Winman's "Still Life" moved up from second last month to top position in March with 848 sales (-23). Close behind was Trent Dalton's "Love Stories Uplifting True Stories about Love" with 789 sales (-404). Popular author, Marian Keyes moved up from 11th into third with "Again Rachel", selling 732 copies (+140). - ['Lola in the Mirror', Top Seller for February 2024](https://circlepos.com/lola-in-the-mirror-top-seller-for-february-2024/) - 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). - ['Fourth Wing (#1 The Empyrean)', Top Seller for July 2024](https://circlepos.com/fourth-wing-top-seller-july2024/) - 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. - [System Updates 1 - 30 November 2024](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-30-november-2024/) - In October, we focused on: • New Features: Launched a dedicated account for Vii Gift Cards in the General Ledger to improve liability tracking. • Improvements: Enhanced P&L for recurring expense tracking. Added TitlePage API key storage to support integration. • Housekeeping & Updates: Upgraded to Vue 3.5, streamlined ISBN requests in stock management, and improved loyalty data tracking. Upgraded Redis and Sidekiq, handled deprecations, and fixed CI pipeline timeout issues. Enhanced security, environment support, and resolved issues in Rails 7.1 for smoother system performance. - [System Updates 1 - 30 September 2025](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-30-september-2025/) - September System Updates – at a Glance New Features •Click and Collect option in checkout •Mobile POS: Local icon loading and Safer request identification •Checkout Enhancements: Address auto-complete and Automated test fixes •Pubnet Integration service •Gift Card Automation in General Ledger •New Responsive Backoffice Header Improvements •Backoffice Layout: Switched to ViewComponent; Adaptive layout with Hotwire •Onboarding: .circlepos.com domain default •Draft Invoices Enhancements: Added Return Authorisation Number; Improved credit note handling •Breadcrumbs in Category Mapping •Accessibility Fixes (mobile UI) •Association Portal SEO Improvements •Movers Report Performance •API Redirect Handling •Tax Enhancements: Only active tax settings apply; Exempt items show 0 tax; Combined tax types handled correctly; Cart displays single clear total - [System Updates 1 - 31 August 2025](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-31-august-2025/) - August System Updates – at a Glance New Features • Mobile POS: Auto-applied customer discounts at checkout; Redeem loyalty points with clear colour indicators; Customer details now show loyalty + discount info • Checkout: Address, shipping & payment combined into one simple step • Multiple Taxes: Correct tax applied across cart & checkout; easier to edit/delete rules • Pubnet Integration: Purchase orders now convert to EDI format for supplier connections • General Ledger: Cleaner handling of loyalty + gift card records (no crashes or duplicates) • Design System: Consistent forms, labels & number inputs for a smoother experience • Data Export: New API for sales totals by payment type Improvements • Reports: Sales This Week report → now with week selector • Stocktake Diff List → faster page load • Website: Better SEO & Google indexing with cleaner product URLs - ['The Hallmarked Man: Cormoran Strike Book 8' - September 2025](https://circlepos.com/the-hallmarked-man-cormoran-strike-book-8-september-2025/) - The Hallmarked Man: Comoran Strike Book 8 claimed the top spot with 2,493 sales. The Impossible Fortune (Thursday Murder Club #5) followed closely in second place with 2,401 sales. In third place, What We Can Know made it's debut with 1,999 sales. - [Promotions Tool Feature - Guide for Bookstores](https://circlepos.com/promotions-tool-feature-guide-for-bookstores/) - In this guide, we show you how our promotions tool works and why it's great for a bookstore business. - ['Ghost Cities' - Best Seller August 2025](https://circlepos.com/ghost-cities-best-seller-august-2025/) - Ghost Cities jumped back into the top spot this month with 1,827 sales - up 1,278 from last month. An Inside Job enter this month's bestseller in second place with 1,023 sales. The Let Them Theory slipped to third with 990 sales - down 148 from last month. - ['The Let Them Theory' Bestseller July 2025](https://circlepos.com/the-let-them-theory-a-life-changing-tool-that-millions-of-people-cant-stop-talking-about/) - Bestsellers in July: The Let Them Theory jumped back into top spot this month with 2,054 sales - up 681 from last month. A Different Kind of Power: A Memoir slipped to second spot with 1,113 sales - 2,673. The Emperor of Gladness came in third (up from 12th spot) with 1101 sales - up 395 sales. - [System Updates 1 - 31 July 2025](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-31-july-2025/) - July System Updates – at a Glance New Features • Checkout: Updated review step for mobile-friendly, accurate order detail display. • Mobile POS: Built iOS version with feature parity to Android. • Multiple Taxes: Enabled API updates/deletes of tax schema for complex tax rules. • General Ledger: Removed outdated v1 voucher logic; cleaned up ledger processing. • Design System: Created reusable button component with consistent visual styles. Improvements • Checkout: Required loyalty survey completion before proceeding. • Data Export: Optimized export APIs for speed and efficiency. • SEO: Auto-assigned domains for new sites and ensured proper redirects. • Generate Credit Note Drafts: Redirected users to Draft Invoices/CNs after returns. • POS > Stripe: Made post-payment wait time configurable and reduced to zero. • Gift Card: Removed legacy Redeem page; restricted access to admins in test. • Deadlocks: Reduced database deadlocks with Redis cache invalidation. • Website > Business Account: Displayed “Business Account” option only for approved customers. • Website > Click & Collect: Removed “Add to Cart” button for pickup items. - [Book Supply Chain Issues: How APIs Can Be A Solution | Circle](https://circlepos.com/how-apis-could-alleviate-book-industry-supply-chain-pain/) - This topic is on the table at every conference, I think we could move forward if we understood that supply chain issues are generally information issues. This years Leading Edge conference was no exception and I see it on the upcoming ABA agenda as well. I stood up at the LE conference to back Chris - [Rank Your Bookstore Higher in Google's Top Search Ecommerce SEO](https://circlepos.com/rank-your-bookstore-higher-in-googles-top-search-ecommerce-seo/) - Tips for improving Bookstore Ecommerce SEO Rankings For most Ecommerce websites, including online bookstores, SEO or search engine optimisation is the best way to rank higher in Google’s search results. When compared to other marketing strategies, SEO provides a higher ROI, yet most online bookstores do not pay much attention to search engine optimisation. Most - [Promotions Tool with Discount Codes for Bookstores](https://circlepos.com/promotions-tool-with-discount-codes-for-bookstores/) - Find out why it's necessary to use discount codes for books. Bookstore owners, we explain why it's in your best interest to do so! Use CirclePOS and sell more. - [Moving from Lightspeed to CirclePOS - A Review](https://circlepos.com/moving-from-lightspeed-to-circlepos-a-review/) - Thinking of switching POS systems? Discover why Huxley & Hiro, an indie bookstore in Delaware, made the move from Lightspeed to CirclePOS - [Case Study: First Edition Bookstore](https://circlepos.com/case-study-first-edition/) - Darren found the CirclePOS system a great fit for his bookstore. "Lower cost, accessible user interface, and inclusion of a website puts them well ahead of others". - [How to Open a Bookstore](https://circlepos.com/how-to-open-a-bookstore/) - Opening a bookstore is a great thing to do and you will be joining a supportive and inclusive community. Before you do, have a clear idea on what sort of store you want to be and if there is a local customer community for you. Use suppliers and associations to get advice and support and make sure you have enough capital to properly stock your store. Finally, get organised well in advance of opening, which of course includes getting a bookstore management system. - [A website designed specially for local bookstores](https://circlepos.com/a-website-designed-specially-for-local-bookstores/) - CirclePOS takes your bookstore online as well as helps you reach it's maximum potential. With our strategically designed websites you can sell more and easier! - [Featured Bookstore #3: Megalong Books](https://circlepos.com/featured-bookstore-3-megalong-books/) - Behind the Shelves with Megalong Books In a 100-year-old building a Blue Mountains bookshop works to serve locals and visitors alike. An hour and a half by train or car from central Sydney, the Blue Mountains have become a favoured destination for people wanting a convenient place to get away from it all – either - [Analysis: Modern Server Rendering Frameworks in Developing a Bookstore Site](https://circlepos.com/analysis-modern-server-rendering-frameworks-in-developing-a-bookstore-site/) - Single Page Applications (SPAs) have gained popularity due to their responsiveness, interactivity, and enhanced development experience. However, they often fall short in terms of SEO, performance, and user experience. Modern server rendering frameworks have been crafted to overcome these shortcomings, offering a range of optimisations. - [How to get website orders for books that are out of stock but on the way!](https://circlepos.com/how-to-get-website-orders-for-books-that-are-out-of-stock-but-on-the-way/) - Check out how you can get orgers for books that are out of stock with CirclePOS. - [Case Study: Barclay Books](https://circlepos.com/case-study-barclay-books-wa/) - Using CirclePOS for Second-Hand Bookselling - [System Updates 1 - 30 June 2025](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-30-june-2025/) - June System Updates – at a Glance New Features • Enhanced General Ledger: Improved sales recording and alert messaging; Faster setup and more accurate, cleaner accounting data; Handling for expired loyalty values to prevent report errors • Expanded Multiple Taxes functionality: Secure API actions to manage store-specific tax schemas; Support for deeply nested, flexible tax rule models • Refactored Google Tag Manager integration to improve event tracking and follow industry best practices Improvements • Click & Collect Interface: Removed “Add to Cart” button to streamline the pickup process • Single Product/Editing Page: Renamed “Change” column to “Changed From” for better clarity • BackOffice – Product & Invoice Pages: Improved layout and messaging for GST-exempt settings to reduce user errors - ['A Different Kind of Power: A Memoir' Top Seller for June 2025](https://circlepos.com/a-different-kind-of-power-a-memoir-top-seller-for-june-2025/) - June Bestsellers: A Different Kind of Power tops the list. New entries include Hard New World and The Let Them Theory holds strong at No. 2. - [Create The Best Website Design For Retail Sites | CirclePOS](https://circlepos.com/best-practice-website-design-for-retail-sites/) - We took a look at best practice design ideas and some of the top sites on the net that are focused on selling things. www.amazon.com www.bookdepository.com www.torpedo7.co.nz www.dealextreme.com There are some common practices A daily deal item on the home page is a key part top retail sites and occupies the most prominent place on - [How Smaller Suppliers Can Integrate With CirclePOS](https://circlepos.com/how-smaller-suppliers-can-integrate-with-circle-stores/) - Last month we talked about APIs and how they can be used to feed real time data between systems. Baker and Taylor is a case example of this (more are on the way). This month I want to talk about how smaller suppliers who do not have APIs can also participate. Small suppliers that do not have - [Sell More Books With Strategic Website Design Practices](https://circlepos.com/best-practice-website-design-if-you-want-to-sell-books/) - These extraordinary times require bookshops to operate in a remarkably different way. Life in a time of Covid is forcing shops to reinvent the way they sell books and many are having surprising success at doing this. - [Is CirclePOS right for Second Hand Bookselling](https://circlepos.com/secondhand-bookstore-features/) - Home ‣ Feature Articles ‣ Is CirclePOS right for Second Hand Bookselling Introduction Originally designed for new bookstores, CirclePOS has evolved over the years to support a growing number of second hand stores. Second hand bookselling is a specialised business with unique requirements and stock. Not least of which is the challenge of not being - [Special Order Follow-up Feature](https://circlepos.com/special-order-follow-up-feature/) - The CirclePOS Promotions Tool with Discount Codes for Bookstores is a handy feature that lets bookstores craft personalised online promotions tailored for specific target audiences using discount codes. - [How bookstores can use loyalty in promotions](https://circlepos.com/how-bookstores-can-use-loyalty-in-promotions/) - The CirclePOS Promotions Tool with Discount Codes for Bookstores is a handy feature that lets bookstores craft personalised online promotions tailored for specific target audiences using discount codes. - [Financial Aspects of Starting a Bookstore](https://circlepos.com/financial-aspects-of-starting-a-bookstore/) - Starting a bookstore requires careful consideration of various financial aspects. From stocking an appropriate amount of inventory to designing an efficient floor plan, every detail impacts the success of the business. Understanding the costs involved in shop fitting, signage, branding, hardware, and other essentials is crucial for planning and budgeting. By being aware of these financial aspects and making informed decisions, aspiring bookstore owners can avoid costly mistakes and create a successful and sustainable business. - [Reach More Book Buyers With Wishlists](https://circlepos.com/use-wishlists-in-your-bookstore-pos-system-to-reach-more-customers/) - How to use your bookstore POS system wishlists in to reach more customers online. At CirclePos, we believe a positive customer experience is crucial for the success of your bookstore. From the moment a customer clicks on your website, or enters through your doors, you have endless opportunities to influence their perception and gain their - [System Updates 1 - 31 January 2025](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-31-january-2025/) - In January, we focused on: New Features & Upgrades • Introduced a new API endpoint for real-time transaction updates. • Upgraded to Rails 8.0 and 7.2 for improved compatibility and reliable testing. Housekeeping & Maintenance • Stabilized flaky tests and refined the onboarding process. • Removed the feature flag for the author filter in the Best Sellers report. • Optimized slow database queries, product metadata, and invoice processing. • Modernized UI elements and state management with the Vue 3 upgrade. • Improved automated tests for more consistent outcomes. - [System Updates 1 - 31 March 2025](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-31-march-2025/) - March System Updates – at a Glance New Features • Mobile POS – Added reader provider settings that persist after relaunch. • Mobile POS – Enabled seamless cash/EFTPOS posting via Stripe readers. • General Ledger – Improved handling of legacy database migrations. Improvements • Email Recovery – Failed order emails sent; orders recreated; email system improvements underway. • Gift Cards – Stripe now available as a payment method for purchasing gift cards. • Rails & Ruby – Upgraded to Rails 8.0.2 and Ruby 3.4 with full compatibility. • Onboarding – Introduced password generator in Manager Setup for faster, more secure setup. • API Security – Locked down key endpoints to Staff, Managers, and Admins only. • Performance Monitoring – Tools added for tracking long-running DB transactions and improved logging. • Web Order Invoices – Set up a process to generate and email customer invoices. - [System Updates 1 - 28 February 2025](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-28-february-2025/) - In February, we focused on: New Features • Mobile POS Enhancements: New payment interface for better checkout management. • Faster Payments: API updates and improved Stripe reader transactions. • Barcode Scanning: Use your mobile camera to scan products in POS. Key Improvements • Reports & Financials: More intuitive Profit & Loss expense entry and better tracking of returns. • Stock & Inventory: Cleaner stock export CSV and automatic deal expiration settings. • Portal & Website: New "Go to Store" button for a unified purchasing experience. Upgrades & Optimizations • System Stability: Environment upgrades for better performance and security. • Database Performance: Faster product updates and reduced processing delays. - [System Updates 1 - 30 April 2025](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-30-april-2025/) - April System Updates – at a Glance New Features • Mobile POS: Device info screen, conditional settings, automated testing, EFTPOS skip, Stripe refund details • Data Export: API for exporting site ISBNs and categories • General Ledger: API to download ledger transactions as CSV Improvements • Website & SEO: Better sitemap structure, improved SEO, enhanced analytics tracking • POS – Stripe: Stripe setting added, payment issues resolved • Backoffice – PO Cart: New column shows group stock levels for smarter reordering - [CirclePOS: A Saviour For Independent Bookstores During Lockdowns!](https://circlepos.com/how-independent-bookstores-have-used-circle-to-survive-lockdowns/) - These extraordinary times require bookshops to operate in a remarkably different way. Life in a time of Covid is forcing shops to reinvent the way they sell books and many are having surprising success at doing this. Melbourne based The Little Book Room has found Click & Collect to be a valuable tool to sell - [How to think about loyalty and make best use of a loyalty programme](https://circlepos.com/how-to-think-about-loyalty-and-make-best-use-of-a-loyalty-programme/) - Loyalty programmes for bookshops that focus on 'creating' good customers. Learn about the CirclePOS no-strings attached loyalty programme. - [Featured Bookstore #4: The Chestnut Tree Bookshop](https://circlepos.com/featured-bookstore-4-the-chestnut-tree-bookshop/) - The Chestnut Tree Bookshop – a profile The Melbourne inner-city suburb of Footscray is one of the most diverse in Australia, a community that expects a local independent bookshop to reflect and support that diversity. Reem Sweid’s The Chestnut Tree Bookshop (and café) meets those expectations with a broad product range, several community reading initiatives - [Featured Bookstore #1: Matilda Bookshop](https://circlepos.com/featured-bookstore-2-matilda-bookshop/) - Behind the Shelves with Matilda Bookshop An Adelaide Hills bookshop looks forward and back, respecting its forty-year history while embracing new technology and new methods. Perhaps it’s the climate that makes the South Australia town of Stirling, 15 km north of the Adelaide CBD, such a community of booklovers. It has a reputation as the - [Featured Bookstore #5: Treasure Trove](https://circlepos.com/featured-bookstore-5-treasure-trove/) - Behind the Shelves with Treasure Trove In the heart of Geneva, Treasure Trove is a cosy independent bookshop specialising in English-language children's books. We're excited to welcome Treasure Trove as the first European bookstore to join the YourBookstore.io community through CirclePOS. Run by Diana, a former academic turned passionate bookseller, this shop has quickly - [Featured Bookstore #6: Black Swan Bookshop](https://circlepos.com/featured-bookstore-6-black-swan-bookshop/) - Black Swan Bookshop in Norfolk, Tasmania - A featured article on CirclePOS exploring bookstore management and community engagement - [Gift Cards: A simple way to drive revenue and customer loyalty for your bookstore](https://circlepos.com/gift-cards-a-simple-way-to-drive-revenue-and-customer-loyalty-for-your-bookstore/) - Home ‣ Feature Articles ‣ Gift Cards: A simple way to drive revenue and customer loyalty for your bookstore Introduction Gift cards are both a nice service for customers and valuable for your bookstore. A gift card is a great way to give someone the exact book they want. For a shop there are significant - [CirclePOS for Groups and Franchises](https://circlepos.com/circlepos-for-groups-and-franchises/) - Ultimately, all businesses are systems. The quality and the reproducibility of those systems separates the good from the bad. A good group or franchise is, at its core, a good system. Running a group or franchise is difficult as not only do the stores themselves need to run well, but there needs to be synchronisation and commonality between stores. Centralised information/systems are required; making cloud applications ideal. A cloud application has the ‘have your cake and eat it’ advantage of being centralised and accessible from anywhere. If you are a multi store operation you should be looking at this kind of architecture. - ['Onyx Storm (#3 The Empyrean)' Top Seller for January 2025](https://circlepos.com/onyx-storm-3-the-empyrean-top-seller-for-january-2025/) - In December, our top three chart-toppers were Helen Garner's The Season with 7,905 copies sold (+5,068), Orbital by Samantha Harvey with 7,148 sales (+5,848), and Tim Winton's Juice with 4,656 sales (+4,214). - ['The Let Them Theory' Top Seller for February 2025](https://circlepos.com/the-let-them-theory-top-seller-for-february-2025/) - In February our no 1 best seller, and new title was The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking About selling 2,694 copies. Orbital remained in second place for the third month running with 2,118 sales (+421). The Season was rolled to fifth place with another new title, Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks with 1,545 sales. No 1 best seller, and new title was The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking About selling 2,694 copies. Read on for the complete list of CirclePos bestsellers - ['The Let Them Theory' Top Seller for March 2025](https://circlepos.com/the-let-them-theory-top-seller-for-march-2025/) - The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking About maintained top spot in March selling 3447 copies (+753). Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games) joined the list in second spot with 3,000 sales. Orbital slipped to third spot with 1,666 sales (-453). Rediscover last month’s hits and uncover timeless favorites that readers can’t get enough of! - ['The Let Them Theory' Top Seller for April 2025](https://circlepos.com/the-let-them-theory-top-seller-for-april-2025/) - "The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking About" held its top position in April, selling 3,332 copies—a slight dip of 115 units. "Sunrise on the Reaping" (The Hunger Games) also retained its second-place ranking, with 2,781 copies sold, down 219 from the previous month. "Orbital" slipped to fourth place, overtaken by newcomer "Lyrebird" by Jane Caro, which debuted on the bestseller list with an impressive 1,438 copies sold. - ['The Unquiet Grave' Top Seller for May 2025](https://circlepos.com/the-unquiet-grave-top-seller-for-may-2025/) - Bestsellers in May: A Shake-Up at the Top May brought a fresh shift to the charts, with The Unquiet Grave claiming the top spot at 2,625 copies sold—knocking The Let Them Theory into second place after a notable dip of 1,010 sales. Meanwhile, fans flocked to the long-awaited fourth installment in the Nevermoor series, Silverborn, securing a strong third with 1,800 sales. - [Case Study: PDL Distributors](https://circlepos.com/how-circle-can-help-bookshop-suppliers-pdl-case-study/) - How Cloud-Based Circle Can Help Bookshop Suppliers - [Featured Bookstore #2: The Rosebud Book Barn](https://circlepos.com/featured-bookstore-1-the-rosebud-book-barn/) - Behind the Shelves with Rosebud Book Barn In the world of bookselling, every bookshop has a unique tale to tell. In this second edition of our 'Behind the Shelves' series, we had the privilege of chatting with Matt Lupica, the dynamic force behind the renowned Rosebud Book Barn in Australia. The Bookselling Journey Matt is - ['Lola in the Mirror', Top Seller for January 2024](https://circlepos.com/lola-in-the-mirror-top-seller-for-january-2024/) - Trent Dalton's Lola in the Mirror jumped back up to number one spot in January selling 1,961 copies (-3,204). The Bee Sting moved up to second place selling 1, 862 copies (-1,463). Good Material moved up from fourth to third place with 1862 sales (-1,429). - ['The Season' Top Seller for December 2024](https://circlepos.com/the-season-top-seller-for-december-2024/) - In December, our top three chart-toppers were Helen Garner's The Season with 7,905 copies sold (+5,068), Orbital by Samantha Harvey with 7,148 sales (+5,848), and Tim Winton's Juice with 4,656 sales (+4,214). - ['RecipeTin Eats' Top Seller for November 2024](https://circlepos.com/recipetin-eats-top-seller-for-november-2024/) - The November Top 50 list is here! Our favorite titles shuffled things up a bit! Taking the crown this month is RecipeTin Eats: Tonight by Nagi Maehashi with 2,326 sales (yum!). Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo follows closely in second with 2,192 sales, and Tim Winton’s Juice rounds out the top three with 2,086 sales. ✨ Check out the full list to see where your favorites landed! - [System Updates 1 - 31 August 2024](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-31-august-2024/) - In August we worked on: New Features: • General Ledger: Added tests for sales, payments, and allocations, expanded loyalty reward tracking in the ledger, and improved loyalty management by preventing duplicates and ensuring accurate liability and store tracking. • P&L: Created a new Profit & Loss interface with Vue 3, enhancing data display, API metrics, and adding a mobile view for easier financial data access and analysis. • Web POS: Set up a workspace to organize apps and reuse packages, improving back-office system management. Improvements this month concentrated on: • Shipped Items • Web Orders • Quick Search • Referral Program • Cash Up Report • Gift Card Payment • Loyalty Redemption and Checkout • P&L • Font Awesome Icons • Checkout Loyalty • Returns • Stock Take Scanner Housekeeping & Upgrades concentrated primarily on Rails, Depreciate Feature Flags, Customer Orders and Vue 3 Upgrade - [System Updates 1 - 31 October 2024](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-31-october-2024/) - In October, we focused on: • New Features: Launched a dedicated account for Vii Gift Cards in the General Ledger to improve liability tracking. • Improvements: Enhanced P&L for recurring expense tracking. Added TitlePage API key storage to support integration. • Housekeeping & Updates: Upgraded to Vue 3.5, streamlined ISBN requests in stock management, and improved loyalty data tracking. Upgraded Redis and Sidekiq, handled deprecations, and fixed CI pipeline timeout issues. Enhanced security, environment support, and resolved issues in Rails 7.1 for smoother system performance. - ['Intermezzo' Top Seller for October 2024](https://circlepos.com/intermezzo-top-seller-for-october-2024/) - September brought a fresh wave of bestsellers to our independent bookstores, with all three of our top-selling books making their debut on the list. Leading the pack was Sally Rooney's Intermezzo, which, with both its hardback special edition and paperback formats combined, sold an impressive 3,868 copies. Hot on its heels was Liane Moriarty's novel Here One Moment, racking up 3,435 sales. Rounding out the top three was Richard Osborne’s We Solve Murders, securing its spot with 2,930 copies sold. - [The Benefits of Personal Training for CirclePOS onboarding](https://circlepos.com/the-benefits-of-training-with-circlepos/) - Utilising a personal trainer for your CirclePOS system is highly recommended, and will make getting up and running much easier and faster. “The benefit of one-on-one training is the opportunity to speak directly with an experienced bookseller who has a firm understanding of the CirclePOS Inventory Management System.” Matt Lupica - CirclePOS trainer and manager of the Bookbarn group - [Bookstore Inventory Software & Organic Traffic](https://circlepos.com/using-bookstore-software-to-drived-organic-traffic/) - Driving Organic Traffic to your Online Bookstore with Bookstore Inventory Software With ecommerce firmly on the rise, it's more important than ever to have a reliable bookstore inventory software to handle the increased number of people preferring online shopping over going out to a physical store for their requirements. Consumer requirements and shopping behaviour are influenced - ['The Land of Lost Things (#1 Adventures Unlimited)' Top Seller for August 2024](https://circlepos.com/the-land-of-lost-things-1-adventures-unlimited-august-bestseller/) - 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. - [System Updates 1 - 31 July 2024](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-31-july-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 - ['Intermezzo' Top Seller for September 2024](https://circlepos.com/intermezzo-september-bestseller/) - September brought a fresh wave of bestsellers to our independent bookstores, with all three of our top-selling books making their debut on the list. Leading the pack was Sally Rooney's Intermezzo, which, with both its hardback special edition and paperback formats combined, sold an impressive 3,868 copies. Hot on its heels was Liane Moriarty's novel Here One Moment, racking up 3,435 sales. Rounding out the top three was Richard Osborne’s We Solve Murders, securing its spot with 2,930 copies sold. - [System Updates 1 - 30 September 2024](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-30-september-2024/) - In September we worked on: New Features: • Introduced a General Ledger feature for better tracking of customer transactions. • Enhanced visual and usability aspects of the Web/Mobile POS system. Improvements this month concentrated on: • Enhanced visibility of item availability in Layby transactions. • Improved matching of invoices with credit notes in the Xero webhook. • Created a Recurrent Expense Config table for easier reporting. • Upgraded the author filter in best seller reports for greater accuracy. • Simplified login process for the Web/Mobile POS. • Real-time recalculation of loyalty points during checkout. Housekeeping & Updates included the upgrade of Sidekiq and the resolution of test failures in Rails 7.1 for improved performance, alongside the deletion of duplicated payment records during Xero migrations and enhancements to app reliability with Vue upgrades. - [System Updates 1 - 30 April 2024](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-30-april-2024/) - 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 - [System Updates 1 - 31 May 2024](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-31-may-2024/) - 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 - [System Updates 1 - 30 June 2024](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-30-june-2024/) - 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 - ['Long Island', Top Seller again for June 2024](https://circlepos.com/long-island-top-seller-again-for-june-2024/) - 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. - ['Long Island', Top Seller for May 2024](https://circlepos.com/long-island-top-seller-for-may-2024/) - 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. - ['The Work', Top Seller for April 2024](https://circlepos.com/the-work-top-seller-for-april-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. - [System Updates 1 - 31 March 2024](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-31-march-2024/) - 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 :) - ['What Happened to Nina?', Top Seller for March 2024](https://circlepos.com/what-happened-to-nina-top-seller-for-march-2024/) - The March 2024 bestsellers list features some exciting new titles that have shaken things up! Leading the pack is Dervla McTiernan's What Happened to Nina? with 2,390 sales. In second place is The Bee Sting with 1,314 sales, followed by Beatrix Bakes: Another Slice debuting in third with 1,046 sales. - [Budget Your Bookstore The Barefoot Investor Way | CirclePOS](https://circlepos.com/budgeting-for-bookstores-the-barefoot-investor-way/) - Budgeting for Bookstores, the Barefoot Investor Way Scott Pape, author of the best-selling financial advice book The Barefoot Investor, urges readers to divide their income into 60 per cent ‘safety’, 20 per cent ‘saving’, and 20 percent ‘splurge’. In other words – to set up their buckets. Viva Books have taken this method and applied it to - [System Updates 1 - 29 February 2024](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-29-february-2024/) - In February we worked on: • General Ledger - a new general ledger feature; gift card and credit note improvements • Webhooks - We created a CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) interface for managing webhook statuses using Vue • Website - Pre-Order functionality added to group websites • Self Onboarding - More improvements to to improve user experience • Housekeeping - Rails 6 & 6.1, Vue3 Upgrade (& Ruby) - continuing upgrades, Ledger, Website SEO and Gems - [System Updates 1 - 31 January 2024](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-31-january-2024/) - In January we worked on: • General Ledger - a new general ledger feature; gift card and credit note improvements • Stripe - further enhancement of the refund process • Website - SEO, Footer, Category and Click and Collect features • Self Onboarding - We introduced a user-friendly dashboard on the sys-admin page to track user signups and progress, enabling sales teams to follow up on potential clients and reduce abandoned signups • Housekeeping - Rails 6 & 6.1, Vue3 Upgrade (& Ruby) - continuing upgrades - [The Last Devil To Die: The Thursday Murder Club 4 - Top Seller September 2023](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-selling-books-september-2023/) - The Last Devil To Die: The Thursday Murder Club 4 took top seller spot for September, coming to the list with 3,137 sales This was followed by The 169-Storey Treehouse,the last book in the worldwide bestselling Treehouse series by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton. This sold 2,389 copies. The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the Detail You Need maintained third place with 1,982 sales (-457). - [System Updates 31 January - 31 March 2019](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-31-jan-31-mar-2019/) - January has been all about getting the changes held back over Christmas out to prod. There have been a lot of bug fixes but also optimisations, improvements and new features moved to beta. - [Circle Community Best Sellers April 2020](https://circlepos.com/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'. - [Circle Community Best Sellers October 2020](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-october/) - The bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe, Trent Dalton returns to the top of the Bestseller list with All Our Shimmering Skies, selling an impressive 4402 copies (+ 2927). The Survivors by Jane Harper holds its second spot with 2810 sales (+655). Craig Silvey's Honeybee jumps to third place from 45th with 1912 sales (+1517). - [Circle Community Best Sellers December 2020](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-december/) - Barack Obama's 'A Promised Land' continued to hold top position in December selling a huge 4,534 copies (+ 2,217). 2020's Booker Prize Winning novel, 'Shuggie Bain' came in a close second with 4,188 sales while Trent Dalton's 'All Our Shimmering Skies' slipped to third position with 3,691 sales (+1,460). - [System Updates 1 - 31 March 2022](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-31-march-2022/) - Since the Last Update In March work continued on the Circle gift card system including the design of the interface to sell Circle gift cards thorough the website. We also added an improvement to the Product Field, making it possible to add any selected special fields to the advanced Search. System upgrade work continued including - [System Updates 1 - 31 October 2022](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-31-october-2022/) - Circle System Updates for October 2022 Some solid improvements during October including Xero integration and Website APIs. APIs can now handle product types other than books. Accounts payable consignment invoices can now be synced to Xero. New features included work on a promotions module and the association portal, making it possible to keep up to - [System Updates 1 - 31 December](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-31-december/) - In December we worked on: General Ledger – a new general ledger feature; gift card and credit note improvements Stripe – enhanced the refund process by linking Stripe payment data with local payment records Website – SEO enhancements Self Onboarding – API, ABA Deals and Managing Member improvements Housekeeping – Depreciate Feature flag, Bin Management Settings and website SEO R6, Vue3 Upgrade (& Ruby) – continuing upgrades - ['Question 7', Top Seller for December 2023](https://circlepos.com/question-7-top-seller-for-december-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). - [System Updates 1 - 30 November 2023](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-30-november-2023/) - In November we worked on: • General Ledger - a new general ledger feature and credit note improvements • Stripe - finessing the live connection, improving refund process. • Website - improvements to the website carousel and mobile views • R6, Vue3 Upgrade (& Ruby) - lots of upgrades this month in preparation for a smooth December - ['Question 7', Top Seller for November 2023](https://circlepos.com/question-7-top-seller-for-november-2023/) - Trent Dalton's latest offering, Lola in the Mirror (PB) took number one spot in October selling 5,456 copies This was followed by another title new to the list, Killing for Country: A Family Story, by David Marr. This sold 2,897 copies. The Seven, the latest thriller by Chris Hammer came in third with 2,072 sales. - [System Updates 1 - 31 October 2023](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-31-october-2023/) - In October we worked on: •. Self Onboarding - the process of getting started with Circle continues to improve •. Stripe - this connection is very close to being ready •. General Ledger - a new feature to increase reporting and tax management •. POS - A customer payment surcharge is now available on the Tyro integration •. Help - The new and improved help teb is worth having a look at in the back office •. Website - Book selection now opens in a new tab •. Performance - Continuing backend and front end upgrades to stay current and improve security and performance - [Lola in the Mirror, Top Seller for October 2023](https://circlepos.com/lola-in-the-mirror-top-seller-for-october-2023/) - Trent Dalton's latest offering, Lola in the Mirror (PB) took number one spot in October selling 5,456 copies This was followed by another title new to the list, Killing for Country: A Family Story, by David Marr. This sold 2,897 copies. The Seven, the latest thriller by Chris Hammer came in third with 2,072 sales. - [System Updates 1 - 30 September 2023](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-30-september-2023/) - In September we worked on: • Self Onboarding – the process of getting started with Circle is coming together really well. New sites will now be populated with stock that has a price value • Stripe – this connection is getting closer to being ready • Stock – out of stock ordering improvements • Credit Notes – POS issued credit notes can now use the value of the credit note first (followed by other payment types) this way change is created for the transaction • Continuing backend and front end upgrades to stay current and improve security and performance - [System Updates 1 - 31 January 2023](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-31-january-2023/) - Circle System Updates for January 2023 Improvements to speed, xero integration, association Category mapping, Click and Collect, Agency & Distributor, Forgotten password link and more. Added a separate "Customer Ref" field in invoices two-factor authentication; have a look at the video here. Vii gift cards; the web checkout now supports the selling of Vii digital Gift - [System Updates 1 - 28 February 2023](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-28-february-2023/) - Circle System Updates for February 2023 Improvements to Gift Cards, Speed, Self Onboarding, purchase orders, financial Settings, CSV Export - gift cards, stock and customers. Added an option for an alternative currency to display in the website cart. Test video here Added "eDahab Payment Option Group/Assn sites added A closest to me sort button R6 - [System Updates 1 - 31 May 2023](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-31-may-2023/) - System Updates May 2023 Added an inwards goods history export Housekeeping and tidy-ups concentrated on APIs among other things. Added a central group sales report Improvement to self onboarding, Vii, store transfers, Returns search and customer orders. New Features Purchasing Added an inwards goods history export - 184086237 Improvements Reports Reports] headoffice websites show - [System Updates 1 - 30 June 2023](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-30-june-2023/) - System Updates June 2023 Completed the integration of book2look Continued working on updating Web Order API improvements Added Data feed source tracking Gift card improvements New Features Website We're thrilled to announce the integration of book2look service! Explore books like never before with immersive previews, interactive content, and more. Get ready to dive into - [System Updates 1 - 31 July 2023](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-31-july-2023/) - System Updates July 2023 Continuing backend and front end upgrades to stay current and improve security and performance. Added the apply discounts to a whole category for promotions. Many improvements around bin fulfilment and bin reporting in the back office New Features Payment Kinds Users can add or delete the different payment types accepted - [System Updates 1 - 31 August 2023](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-31-august-2023/) - System Updates August 2023 Continuing backend and front end upgrades to stay current and improve security and performance. Self Onboarding process improvements to make it easier to get started on Circle Bin shipping improvements around part shipping Flagged exchange gift cards Improvements Customer Order>Bins The ability to print the Bin Slip when partially shipping an - [Circle Community Best Selling Books August 2023](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-selling-books-august-2023/) - Anna Funder's Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life maintains top spot in the August Best Sellers with 3,125 copies sold (-1,196). This was followed by Ann Patchett's Pandemic Novel , Tom Lake new to our list with 2,695 sales. The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the Detail You Need dropped to third place with 2439 sales (-1,629). - [Circle Community Best Sellers - August 2018](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-august-2018/) - Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton's '104-Storey Treehouse' is the Circle Best Seller this August with 1321 copies sold. 'Scrublands' by Chris Hammer has taken second place with 888 sales, and Scott Pape's 'Barefoot Investor' remains in the top three, selling 854 copies. - [Circle Community Best Sellers - September 2018](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-september-2018/) - Australian author Liane Mortiary's latest novel 'Nine Perfect Strangers' sold 2256 copies and is the September best seller. Yotam Ottolenghi's new cookbook 'Ottolenghi: Simple' sold 1560 copies, and 'Lord of the Fleas (The Adventures of Dog Man #5)' by Dav Pilkey is our third best seller, with 907 copies sold. - [Circle Community Best Sellers - October 2018](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-october-2018/) - Liane Moriarty's 'Nine Perfect Strangers' has retained the Best Seller position, selling 1671 copies in October. 'Any Ordinary Day: Blindsides, Resilience and What Happens after the Worst Day of Your Life' by Leigh Sales has come in second, selling 1387 copies. Following in a close third is Markus Zusak's 'Bridge of Clay', which sold 1218 copies this month. - [Circle Community Best Sellers - November 2018](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-november-2018/) - The second novel in Jessica Townsend's Nevermoor series 'Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow' is November's best seller, with 1566 copies sold. Best selling author Jane Harper returns with 'The Lost Man', which sold 1460 copies last month. She is closely followed by Jeff Kinney's latest instalment of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, 'The Meltdown (#13)', with 1449 sales. - [Circle Community Best Sellers - December 2018](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-december-2018/) - 'Ottolenghi Simple' by Yotam Ottolenghi was the best selling book in December, it sold 2841 copies. Michelle Obama's memoir 'Becoming: Michelle Obama' followed closely with 2788 copies sold, and 'The Lost Man' by Jane Harper came in third, selling 2221 copies. - [Circle Community Best Sellers - January 2018](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-january-2018/) - Much like his presidential campaign, 'Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House' has had a dramatic rise to the top of the poll. Michael Wolff's exposé has sold 1005 copies across the Circle Community and over 1.7 million copies worldwide since its release on the 5th of January. Manson's 'The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck' and Pape's 'The Barefoot Investor', continue to hold second and third positions selling 946 and 832 copies. - [Circle Community Best Sellers - February 2018](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-february-2018/) - February's Best Seller is Mark Manson's 'The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck', moving 883 copies. Scott Pape's ever-present 'The Barefoot Investor' remains in the top 3, selling 726 copies this month. While new release and New York Times Best Seller 'The Woman in the Window' by A. J. Finn follows with 501 copies sold. - [Circle Community Best Sellers - March 2018](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-march-2018/) - Tim Winton's latest novel 'The Shepherd's Hut' is March's Best Seller, selling 1722 copies. Followed by Andy Griffith's 'Terry's Dumb Dot Story: A Treehouse Tale' with 880 copies sold, and Mark Manson's 'The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck' remains in the top 3 selling 753 copies last month. - [Circle Community Best Sellers - April 2018](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-april-2018/) - Tim Winton's 'The Shepherd's Hut' is the Circle Community Best Seller for the second month in a row, selling 777 copies. Mark Mason's 'The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck' and Scott Pape's 'The Barefoot Investor' remain in the top 3, selling 711 and 601 respectively. - [Circle Community Best Sellers - May 2018](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-may-2018/) - Having been translated into over 30 languages, Mark Manson's 'The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck' is May's Best Seller with 673 copies. Tim Winton's 'The Shepherd's Hut' has slipped to second, selling 620 copies, and new to the top three is Gail Honeyman's novel, 'Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine', which sold 587 copies this month. - [Circle Community Best Sellers - June 2018](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-june-2018/) - David Walliams' latest book 'The World's Worst Children #3' is our June Best Seller, having sold 863 copies this month. Mark Manson's 'The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck' remains in the top three, selling 747 copies, and new release 'Warlight' by Michael Ondaatje has taken third place with 626 sales. - [Circle Community Best Sellers - July 2018](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-july-2018/) - '104-Storey Treehouse', the latest instalment by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton, has entered the Top 50 with an incredible 5659 sales since its release earlier in July. Scott Pape's 'Barefoot Investor' has returned to second place, selling 957 copies, and Mark Manson's 'The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck' has slipped to third with 729 copies sold. - [Circle Community Best Selling Books January 2023](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-selling-books-january-2023/) - 'Spare' by Prince Harry was the top seller for January selling 4,653 copies. The popular title, 'Lessons in Chemistry', held its second position with 1,641 sales (-3,275). Dropping from first to third spot was 'Bulldozed: Scott Morrison's Fall and Anthony Albanese's Rise' selling 1,530 copies (-2,723) - [Circle Community Best Selling Books February 2023](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-selling-books-february-2023/) - 'Spare' by Prince Harry was the top seller for January selling 4,653 copies. The popular title, 'Lessons in Chemistry', held its second position with 1,641 sales (-3,275). Dropping from first to third spot was 'Bulldozed: Scott Morrison's Fall and Anthony Albanese's Rise' selling 1,530 copies (-2,723) - [Circle Community Best Selling Books March 2023](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-selling-books-march-2023/) - The wonderfully quirky and engaging book, 'Lessons in Chemistry', maintained top spot in March with a healthy 2,088 sales (+447). The new title, 'The Bookbinder of Jericho' by Pip Williams came in a close second selling 1,943 copies. Eleanor Catton's 'Birnam Wood' also increased sales with 1,938 (+637) - [Circle Community Best Selling Books April 2023](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-selling-books-april-2023/) - 'The Bookbinder of Jericho' by Pip Williams took an emphatic lead to the Best Seller list for April selling 5,698 copies (+ 3,755 since last month). Kate Morton's 'Homecoming' came in second with 1,883 copies. 'Lessons in Chemistry' still holds ground coming in a close third with 1,852 (-236) copies sold. - [Circle Community Best Selling Books May 2023](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-selling-books-may-2023/) - 'The Bookbinder of Jericho' by Pip Williams held the lead for May selling 3,497 copies (- 2,201). Second place and new to the list was, 'The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the Detail You Need' selling 3,236 copies Also new to the list was the 8th edition of the Seven Sisters, 'Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt' which sold 2,122 copies. - [Circle Community Best Selling Books June 2023](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-selling-books-june-2023/) - Taking top seller spot for June with 5,661 sales (+2,425) was, 'The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the Detail You Need'. Indigenous leader Thomas Mayo and acclaimed journalist Kerry O’Brien have written this handbook to answer the most commonly asked questions about why the Voice should be enshrined in the Constitution, and how it might function to improve policies affecting Indigenous communities, and genuinely close the gap on inequalities at the most basic level of human dignity. 'The Bookbinder of Jericho' by Pip Williams dropped from first to second position selling 1,839 copies (-362) and popular title, 'Lessons in Chemistry' jumped back in to number three with 1,348 sales (+313). - [Circle Community Best Selling Books July 2023](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-selling-books-july-2023/) - New to the list was Anna Funder's Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life selling 4,321 copies. This was followed closely by The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the Detail You Need which sold 4,068 copies (-1,593). Moving up from fourth place last month was Yellowface with 2,300 (+977). - [Circle Community Best Sellers - January 2019](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-january-2019/) - January's best seller was Dr Michael Mosley's 'The Fast 800: How to Combine Rapid Weight Loss and Intermittent Fasting for Long-Term Health', which sold 1225 copies last month. Scott Pape's 'The Barefoot Investor' remains in the top 3, selling 1050 copies. 'Normal People' by Irish author Sally Rooney is the third best seller, with 992 copies sold. - [Circle Community Best Sellers - February 2019](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-february-2019/) - Dr Michael Mosley’s ‘The Fast 800: How to Combine Rapid Weight Loss and Intermittent Fasting for Long-Term Health’, maintains top spot in February, selling 1109 (down 16). Scott Pape’s ‘The Barefoot Investor’ is overtaken for 2nd position with ‘The Rosie Result (Rosie #3)’ by Graeme Simsion and third position goes to ‘Ottolenghi Simple’ by Yotam - [Circle Community Best Sellers - March 2019](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-march-2019/) - Top spot for March was the new children’s book from No. 1 bestselling author David Walliams, 'Fing' with 1,085 sales (up 22). Dr Michael Mosley’s ‘The Fast 800: How to Combine Rapid Weight Loss and Intermittent Fasting for Long-Term Health’, holds ground near the top with 594 sales (down 1). 'Dark Emu' by Bruce Pascoe comes a close third with 589 sales (up 6). - [Circle Community Best Sellers - April 2019](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-april-2019/) - [Circle Community Best Sellers May 2019](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-may-2019/) - Trent Dalton’s, ‘Boy Swallows Universe’, is top of May's list with a whopping 1549 copies sold (up form 2nd position +607 sales). New to the list and coming in second is, 'Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope' with 742 sales. Third place is "Dark Emu' with 644 sales (up from 7th place +135). - [Circle Community Best Sellers June 2019](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-june-2019/) - Trent Dalton’s, ‘Boy Swallows Universe’, maintains the top spot again for June with 1388 copies sold (-161). 'Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture' moves from third place to second with 1072 sales (+428). ‘Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope’ drops one place to third with 774 sales (-32). - [Circle Community Best Sellers July 2019](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-july-2019/) - 'The 117-Storey Treehouse' is the ninth book in Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton's wacky treehouse adventure series. This month it joined the best seller list in first place, selling 1706 copies. Also joining the list with 1479 copies sold is another one for the children, 'The World’s Worst Teachers' by David Walliams. Trent Dalton's, 'Boy Swallows Universe' holds ground with 1213 sales (-175). - [Circle Community Best Sellers August 2019](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-august-2019/) - 'The 117-Storey Treehouse' remained in the top spot for August with 2023 copies sold (+317). 'Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture' moved up 2 places with 1474 sales (+289) while third position was taken with 'Three Women' up from 7th spot last month with 1045 sales (+342). - [Circle Community Best Sellers September 2019](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-september-2019/) - New to the list and in no.1 spot with 2,341 sales is the brand new novel by Margaret Atwood, 'The Testaments'. Atwood's sequel to 'The Handmaid's Tale' picks up the story 15 years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead. 'Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture' sold 1,049 copies (-425) with third position taken by 'Boy Swallows Universe' up from 5th spot last month with 752 sales (-171). - [Circle Community Best Sellers October 2019](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-october-2019/) - New to the list and in no.1 spot with 1,426 sales is Kitty Flanagan's '488 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Idiots'. Margaret Atwood's, 'The Testaments' is a close second with 1012 (- 1329) sales while 'Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture' is third with 995 sales (- 54) - [Circle Community Best Sellers November 2019](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-november-2019/) - Books for younger readers featured prominently this month with 'Bluey' titles taking the top three; 'Bluey: The Beach (A Lift-the-Flap Book)' 1942; 'Bluey: Time to Play! Sticker Activity Book' 1552 and 'Bluey: Fruit Bat (A Glow-in-the-Dark Book)' with 1443 sales. - [Circle Community Best Sellers December 2019](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-december-2019/) - 'Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture' took the top spot for December with 2,593 (+1466) sales. Books for younger readers continued to feature for the holiday season with 'Bluey: The Beach (A Lift-the-Flap Book)' coming in second with 2,189 (+247) and 'The Beast of Buckingham Palace' third with 2,072 sales (+1551). Many popular titles like, 'Ottolenghi: Simple' and Sally Rooney's 'Normal People' returned to the list. - [Circle Community Best Sellers January 2020](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-january-2020/) - January sees a typical dip in sales figures compared to December. 'Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture' held top position for January with 1,237 (-1,716) sales. - [Circle Community Best Sellers February 2020](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-february-2020/) - No change to our top two titles this month, 'Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture' sold 1,088 copies in February (-149) and 'Where the Crawdads Sing' sold 1,043 (-29). 'The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse' moved up from 11th to third spot with 749 (+ 314) sales. - [Circle Community Best Sellers March 2020](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-march-2020/) - 'The Mirror & the Light' is new to the best sellers list this month and has gone straight to number one spot with 2930 units sold. - [Circle Community Best Sellers May 2020](https://circlepos.com/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. - [Circle Community Best Sellers June 2020](https://circlepos.com/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 July 2020](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-july-202/) - 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). - [Circle Community Best Sellers August 2020](https://circlepos.com/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. - [Circle Community Best Sellers September](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-september/) - The third instalment in Yotam Ottolenghi’s multi-award-winning PLENTY series, "Flavour" is top seller this month with 2,590 sales. "The Survivors" by Jane Harper comes fairly close behind with 2,155 sales. "The Happiest Man on Earth" drops from first to third with 1617 sales (-31). - [Circle Community Best Sellers November](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-november/) - New to the list, A Promised Land by Barack Obama was number one for November selling 2,317 copies. According to Penguin this is a riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making—from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy. Trent Dalton's All Our Shimmering Skies was close behind in second place with 2,231 sales (-2171). The 130-Storey Treehouse moved up from sixth place to third with 1916 sales (+347). - [Circle Community Best Sellers January 2021](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-january-2021/) - 2020's Booker Prize Winning novel, 'Shuggie Bain' edged out Barack Obama's 'A Promised Land' coming in first with 1778 sales (-2,410). Jane Harper's 'The Survivors ' moved up from 5th position to 2nd with 1137 sales (-1,908). The author's debut novel, 'The Dry' was very close behind with 1089 sales (+119), no doubt due to the recent cinematic adaption of the novel. - [Circle Community Best Sellers February 2021](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-february-2021/) - 2020's Booker Prize Winning novel, 'Shuggie Bain' held top position in February with 1120 sales (- 658). Charlie Mackesy's, "The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse" moved up from fifth to second position with 866 sales (-164) while "The Dictionary of Lost Words" by Pip Williams also moved up a couple of spots to third with 841 sales (-189). - [Circle Community Best Sellers March 2021](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-march-2021/) - The eighth novel by the Nobel Prize-winning British writer Kazuo Ishiguro, "Klara and the Sun" which was published in March is the top of the list with 2,150 sales. "The Dictionary of Lost Words" by Pip Williams moved up another spot to second with 1,169 sales (+328) while 'Shuggie Bain' drops to third with 989 sales (-131). - [Circle Community Best Sellers April 2021](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-april-2021/) - Kazuo Ishiguro's eighth novel, "Klara and the Sun" remained top of the list with 1,598 sales (-552). "The Dictionary of Lost Words" by Pip Williams maintained second position with 1,308 sales (+139) while 'Where's Bluey?' entered with 999 sales (one of four Bluey titles on the Best Seller list this month). - [Circle Community Best Sellers May 2021](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-may-2021/) - "Toxic: The Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry" by Richard Flanagan moved up from fifth to become May's top seller with 1583 sales (+657). "Klara and the Sun" dropped to second place with 1370 (-228) while "The Dictionary of Lost Words" by Pip Williams dropped one place to third with 1236 sales (-72). - [Circle Community Best Sellers June 2021](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-june-2021/) - Many new titles have joined the Best Seller list this month. "Still Life" by Sarah Winman had the most sales with 1,069. "The Dictionary of Lost Words" by Pip Williams moved up again to second with 872 sales (-364). Coming in third was "Who Gets to Be Smart: Privilege, Power and Knowledge" Bri Lee's latest offering by Allen and Unwin. This sold 793 copies. - [Circle Community Best Sellers July 2021](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-july-2021/) - Three new titles take the top Best Seller positions this month. "So You Think You Know What's Good for You?" by Norman Swan is a one-stop handbook designed to settle fruitless anxieties and allow people to focus on what matters to them. This had the most sales with 1,685. "Across the Sea (Wolf Girl #5)" is another offering in the popular Worlf Girl series by Anh Do. This sold 1,274 copies. Third position and the Miles Franklin winner for 2021 is "The Labyrinth" by Amanda Lohrey which sold 1,270 copies. - [Circle Community Best Sellers August 2021](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-august-2021/) - Top position and this year's Miles Franklin winner is "The Labyrinth" by Amanda Lohrey which sold 1,462 copies (+192). Sarah Winman's, "Still Life" came in second with 1111 sales (-140). This was top seller for June but dropped to fourth last month. "So You Think You Know What's Good for You?" by Norman Swan moved from first position to third selling 821 copies (-864). - [Circle Community Best Sellers September 2021](https://circlepos.com/best-sellers-september-2021/) - Top position for September and new to the Best Seller list was Sally Rooney's "Beautiful World Where Are You" selling 4,307 copies. Liane Moriarty's "Apples Never Fall" recently published in August 2021 was second with 3,423 sales. Sarah Winman's, "Still Life" dropped one place to third with 974 sales (-137). - [Circle Community Best Sellers October 2021](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-october-2021/) - Moving up from second place to take top spot for October was Liane Moriarty's "Apples Never Fall" with 2,779 sales (-644). Sally Rooney's "Beautiful World, Where Are You" dropped one spot with 2,264 sales (-2043). Third place and new to the list was "Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Shelf Love" with 1,854 sales. - [Circle Community Best Sellers November 2021](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-november-2021/) - New to the list with 2,541 sales was "Devotion" by Hannah Kent. Trent Dalton's "Love Stories Uplifting True Stories about Love" was second with 2,269 sales (+1,874). Dropping from first to third place was Liane Moriarty's "Apples Never Fall" with 1,752 sales (-1027). - [Circle Community Best Sellers January 2022](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-january-2022/) - Trent Dalton's "Love Stories Uplifting True Stories about Love" retained the number one spot in January with 1,678 sales (-2,132). Second was Still Life with 1,218 sales, up from fifth place (-1,740). "The Fast 800 Keto: Eat well, burn fat, manage your weight long term" was third with 1,072 sales. - [Circle Community Best Sellers February 2022](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-february-2022/) - Trent Dalton's "Love Stories Uplifting True Stories about Love" retained the number one spot for the third month running with 1,193 sales (-485). Coming in second again was Sarah Winman's "Still Life" with 871 sales (-347). An exciting new addition to the list was best-selling author, Isabel Allende's "Violeta" coming third with with 808 sales. - [Circle Community Best Sellers April 2022](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-april-2022/) - Lots of new titles join April's Best Seller list. "Ten Steps to Nanette" by Hannah Gadsby takes the number one spot with 914 sales. Bonnie Garmus comes in close behind with "Lessons in Chemistry", 907 sales. Third spot goes to another of the "Wings of Fire" books, "The Flames of Hope" nicely timed for a good school holiday read. It sold 851 copies. - [Circle Community Best Selling Books May 2022](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-may-2022/) - Two new titles took first and second this month. "The Murder Rule" by Dervla McTiernan took number one spot with 2,137 sales and "The World's Worst Pets" came second with 1,397 sales. Third spot went to "Lessons in Chemistry which was down one position from April with 1132 sales (-225). - [Circle Community Best Selling Books June 2022](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-selling-books-june-2022/) - Once again two new titles secure first and second position on the list. "Horse" by Geraldine Brooks was the number one seller for June with 1,441 sales. "Dirt Town" came second with 1,213 sales. Third spot for the second month in a row was "Lessons in Chemistry" with 909 sales (-223). - [Circle Community Best Selling Books July 2022](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-selling-books-july-2022/) - "Horse" by Geraldine Brooks remained the number one seller for July with 1889 sales (+448). "Where the Crawdads Sing" returned to the top 3 with 1,300 sales (+741). Third spot and new to the list was "Crash Course (Wolf Girl #7)" with 1299 sales. - [Circle Community Best Selling Books August 2022](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-selling-books-august-2022/) - "The Boy from Boomerang Crescent" by Eddie Betts was top of the August Bestseller list with 1,344 sales. "So You Want To Live Younger Longer? The Ultimate Guide to Longevity From Australia's Most Trusted Doctor" came in a very close second with 1,325 sales (+855). "Lessons in Chemistry" returned to the top three (previously seen in June) with 1,216 sales (+144). - [Circle Community Best Selling Books September 2022](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-selling-books-september-2022/) - New to the list and taking top spot for September's Bestsellers was"Exiles" by Jane Harper with 2,911 sales. 'The 156-Story Treehouse", the twelfth book in the illustrated chapter book series by Andy Griffiths and Terry Dalton was second with 2,206 sales. Richard Osman's "The Bullet That Missed" (#3 The Thursday Murder Club) came in close behind with 2, 195 sales. - [Circle Community Best Selling Books October 2022](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-selling-books-october-2022/) - "Exiles" by Jane Harper retained the top spot for the second month in a row with 3,519 sales (+608). Coming in second and new to the list was "It Starts with Us" by Colleen Hoover with 1,757 sales. Another new title, "Lucy by the Sea", from the Booker-shortlisted author Elizabeth Strout, was third with 1,559 sales. - [Circle Community Best Selling Books November 2022](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-selling-books-november-2022/) - "Exiles" by Jane Harper retained the top spot for the second month in a row with 3,519 sales (+608). Coming in second and new to the list was "It Starts with Us" by Colleen Hoover with 1,757 sales. Another new title, "Lucy by the Sea", from the Booker-shortlisted author Elizabeth Strout, was third with 1,559 sales. - [Circle Community Best Selling Books December 2022](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-selling-books-december-2022/) - 'Bulldozed: Scott Morrison's Fall and Anthony Albanese's Rise' took top spot for December selling 7,571 copies. Popular title, 'Lessons in Chemistry', came in second selling 4,916 (+3,397). Coming in third was 'Exiles (#3 Aaron Falk)' selling 3,803 copies (+1,899) - [Production update Oct 17 2014](https://circlepos.com/production-update-oct-17-2014/) - Most of the improvements are not very visible in this update, speed improvements, audit systems, background procession and bug fixes. The things you will notice are that customers no longer list by default in the customer order tab. This was done to improve speed when you click that tab and with the realisation that most - [Production upgrade Feb 19 2014](https://circlepos.com/production-upgrade-feb-19-2014/) - New features added July 1 2013 - Feb 19 2014 This update is mainly a system upgrade from Rails 2 to Rails 3. This have been a huge job with not much to show on the surface but it means that we are on current technology which is vital for a continuing service. In addition - [Production update 16 June 2014](https://circlepos.com/production-update-16-june-2014/) - New search engine Hidden items should no longer show in the website search Ability to differentiate how it operates between website and backoffice Out of print books or out of production items will not show in the website search but will show in the backoffice search. Ability to enter deposits with customer orders and print - [Production update July 18](https://circlepos.com/production-update-july-18/) - Search system update. Put search on resque to alleviate the load issues. The main reason is to push changes to production today is to improve system performance. Last week we changed the way the search indexed. This fixed many of the updating issues we were having with the new search but had the knock on effect of - [Production update Aug 4](https://circlepos.com/production-update-aug-4/) - Features and improvements The main things in this update were system speed improvements, additional website configuration options, improvements to the payment types interface and better integration of online payment options into the cash up. Additional website design customisation options (Setting > Templates) Keep the background out of the container on the content pages as it - [Production update September 2](https://circlepos.com/production-update-september-2/) - The main additions in this update are the addition of a Circle community data feed and additional data upload tools to make data migrations easier, faster and more reliable. Feature additions and improvements Allow full deletion of un-submitted inwards goods jobs. Expanded automatic testing Fix the stubbing for paypal and swipe Bookdata logging Optimize CartController#show_shipping_cost - [Production update Friday 13 March 2015](https://circlepos.com/production-update-friday-13-march-2015/) - The main new things in this release are; transfer EDI for group stores, sales history exports for stores that want to do their own reports and a new data migration system that enables support team rather than developers to migrate data from old systems. Feature additions Group 'Transfer' EDI has been added for transfers between group stores. When stock - [Production update April 9, 2015](https://circlepos.com/production-update-april-9-2015/) - This is a patch update, the main purpose was to push remaining fixes to production ahead of major new features we want to leave on beta for awhile so that they are well tested. Speed increases and full customer order display in the pick screen are also part of this update. Features: Improve customer order lookup speed - [August 2016 Updates](https://circlepos.com/august-2016-updates/) - The big achievement this month was the Google move. Thank you for your patience as we went through this and bedded it in. Now that we are on google infrastructure a whole new world of possibilities are open to us. We think we will be able to deliver your websites to customers anywhere in the world in under 3 seconds. We are now also able to infinitely scale up. - [September 2016 Updates](https://circlepos.com/september-2016-updates/) - NEW FEATURES Click & Collect This allows customers to hold stock using your website and then pop in to pick up and pay for it. This is great for customers that do not like paying online, want a faster online experience and like to also step into a real store but want to be sure what they - [System Updates as at 9 Oct 2016](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-as-at-9-oct-2016/) - Overview From the things we said we would do last month we managed to get the following to beta. New sales reports Print customer name on the POS receipt An integrated process for customer order deposits in the POS. In addition we managed to get the following from the long term list to the short - [System updates as at Dec 5 2016](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-as-at-dec-5-2016/) - The big thing going on behind the scenes is a website rewrite. It is early days yet but you can get an idea of what it will look and operate like here. This started out as a bootstrap upgrade and turned into a total rewrite. If you have ever gone to move a plug and ended up rewiring the house you will have an understanding of how we got to this. - [System updates Dec 16 - Mar 17](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-dec-16-mar-17/) - Since the last update The focus over the last couple of months has been on perfecting big new features that we would like you to test on beta. We have also implemented custom label printing and provided all sites with SSL encryption. This allows you are retain your own domain through the cart process and - [System updates 17 March - 30 April 2017](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-17-march-20-april-2017/) - Since the last update The focus over the last couple of months has been on perfecting big new features that we would like you to test on beta. We have also implemented custom label printing and provided all sites with SSL encryption. This allows you are retain your own domain through the cart process and - [System updates 31 May 2017](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-31-may-2017/) - Since the last update May has been another month of bug bashing as we try to perfect the big new features that we want to push to prod Agency and the new website. It is always difficult to get these things out the door (there is always a way to make something better) but we - [System updates 30 May to 30 June 2017](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-30-may-to-30-june-2017/) - Since the last update At the beginning of this month we rolled out the new agency feature that we had been working on for about a year. This month has been mostly about perfecting and improving this feature. New Features Agency feature Thursday 8th July Setting Agency and Distributor (Video 2:55) Adding a new Agency (Video 2:08) SEO - [System updates 30 June to 30 July 2017](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-30-june-to-30-july-2017/) - Since the last update July has been a quiet month due to staff taking leave but we managed to release the new website. It is now a matter of bedding this in as we work with designers to upgrade sites to the new version. New Features New Website Features include: (Video 6:42) Improved Search Engine - [System updates 30 July - September 18 2017](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-30-july-sep-18-2017/) - Since the last update We are back in action and with a new developer (Edwardo) on the team. A lot of stuff is being pushed out at the moment including an integration with Gardners Books. New Features Reading level special field added (Video 1:34) Browser based system to alert you when a new orders come - [System Updates September 18 - October 12 2017](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-18-sep-oct-9/) - Since the last update The focus at the moment is really on polishing and perfecting what we have before starting too many big new things. New Features GTM Deployed Google advanced eCommerce though Google Tag Manager to improve website performance tracking. Beta test request - Customer Orders After placing a customer order we now give - [System Updates October 12 - November 6 2017](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-oct-12-oct-31/) - Since the last update At this time of year the priority is on stability and speed rather than big feature rollouts. There were signs of POS slowness in big stores and resolving this took a large part of the month. On top of this there were a good number of improvements and bug fixes. I - [System Updates November 6 - November 30 2017](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-november-6-november-30-2017/) - Since the last update The big thing at the moment is the Rails 4 system upgrade and we are fairly confident that we will have all tests passed this month. It has taken a few months to get everything working on the new platform, but has been a lot faster than the last upgrade (r2 - [System Updates December 1 - December 31 2017](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-december-1-december-31-2017/) - The priority this month has been on speed and stability which required optimisations to POS requests and expanded servers as an insurance policy. The much requested Backorder Report that can be sent to suppliers was also delivered. We have also been pushing ahead with the Rails4 upgrade and hope to have a beta out in January. - [System Updates January 1 - January 31 2018](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-january-1-january-31-2018/) - The focus in January has been the Rails 4 upgrade and we are now at the point of wanting some brave, tech-savvy stores to beta test it. - [System Updates February 1 - February 28 2018](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-february-1-february-28-2018/) - The focus in February has been on the DPS EFTPOS integration, data migration tools, and Rails 4.2 testing - which we need more of to ensure fewer problems arise when we push to prod. - [System Updates March 1 - March 31 2018](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-march-1-march-31-2018/) - March has been spent improving the migration tool to speed up and improve the process of migrating data from other systems to Circle. - [System Updates 1 April - 30 April 2018](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-april-31-april-2018/) - We are teetering on the edge of pushing the R4 upgrade and are trying to resolve all the issues before we do so. There comes a point when you have to push forward and we have named May 5th/6th as the day we will upgrade (unless a show stopper presents itself before then). - [System Updates 1 May - 31 May 2018](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-may-31-may-2018/) - May was dedicated to improving the Agency and Distributor settings and the efficiency of setting up new stores, while we continue pushing towards upgrading the framework our application runs on from Rails 3 to Rails 4, which has proved to be quite the undertaking. The new Customer Order Interface is ready to look at and there is a video covering its features. - [System Updates 1 June - 30 June 2018](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-june-30-june-2018/) - June has again been focused on optimisations, bug fixes and improvements plus the ongoing effort to get the Rails 4 upgrade over the line. Delaying R4 is to make sure that it can handle the load and that as many bugs as possible are out before we move everyone onto it. Thank you to the stores that have been beta testing the R4 version. - [System Updates 1 July - 31 July 2018](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-july-31-july-2018/) - July has been focused on improvements and getting ready for some major system infrastructure upgrades. Implementing a Content Delivery Network (CDN) Google managed mysql and a load balancer. We are hoping to implement Google managed Mysql this weekend. - [System Updates 1 August - 31 August 2018](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-august-31-august-2018/) - This August we have focussed on improving the speed of the system and management of the load on our servers. We are developing a range of features that benefit secondhand booksellers; the first of these is a local image and we would appreciate shops testing it on beta for us. If you would like to suggest software changes that would assist secondhand sellers you are more than welcome to add to our work in progress document. - [System Updates 1 September - 30 September 2018](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-september-30-september-2018/) - September has been spent pushing Accounts and Inwards Goods improvements to beta. As always, we would like you to test these changes for us to smooth out any problems and to properly prepare your staff. We have also added a green star to the Movers and PO Cart to help you make the most of Leading Edge deals. - [System Updates 1 October - 31 October 2018](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-october-31-october-2018/) - At this end of the year we spend time improving performance and the issue alert and recovery systems. We have also taken the time to get some smaller things done that don't make the top of the priority list, but are nonetheless annoyances and easy to do. The big things we have been working on are a system to merge duplicated customers (in progress) and the box scan tool. - [System Updates 1 November - 30 November 2018](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-november-30-november-2018/) - Work in November has been focused on server performance and stability. We have completed a gift card integration with vii, as well as the Hachette price and availability integration. There are some new things on beta that we would like you to try, but with Christmas on the horizon we won't be pushing any large, non-urgent changes in December. - [System Updates 1 December - 31 December 2018](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-december-31-december-2018/) - In December we focussed on stability and speed, avoiding making any changes that did not directly improve this. The stability of the server over Christmas was as a result of this, so we have decided to devote a developer to this full time. - [System Updates 1 January - 31 January 2019](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-january-31-january-2019/) - January has been all about getting the changes held back over Christmas out to prod. There have been a lot of bug fixes but also optimisations, improvements and new features moved to beta. - [System Updates 1 April - 1 June 2019](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-april-1-june-2019/) - Since the Last Update In April and May we rolled out two major new features and a number of new stores plus a number of improvements. Beta Test Requests Rails 4 Please email support@circlesoft.net if you are interested in testing Rails 4. New Features Pacstream POA Integration Purchase Order Acknowledgements are now automatically fed back into - [System Updates 1 June to 1 July 2019](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-june-to-1-july-2019/) - Since the Last Update June has been dominated by effots to increase speed and to deal with load that turned out to be due to a flood of stock update requests from the POS. Despite this we were still able to roll out a customer merge feature, an ex gst invoice option and added author - [System Updates 1 July to 1 Aug 2019](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-july-to-1-aug-2019/) - Since the Last Update July has seen a continuation of efforts to improve speed in slow parts of the system. Improved monitoring has enabled us to better isolate the slow queries are. The areas we are working on are, customer order search, load stock, currently on order and account balance calculations. The other big thing - [System Updates 1 Aug to 1 Sep 2019](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-aug-to-1-sep-2019/) - Since the Last Update August has seen a continuation of efforts to improve speed in slow parts of the system and upgrade infrastructure. We also rolled out two big new features and a number of improvement New Features Consignment billing from pos Consignment billing is now also available through accounts payable. When you sell a - [System Updates 1 Sep to 1 Oct 2019](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-sep-to-1-oct-2019/) - Since the Last Update System speed has continued to improve through September as optimisations are rolled out. The system now runs faster than it ever has and further improvements are in the pipeline. We were also able to roll out the following new features and improvements. New Features A unique code generator for load stock. - [System Updates 1 Oct to 1 Nov 2019](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-oct-to-1-nov-2019/) - Since the Last Update A very long list of improvements and new features released last month in particular a new group website to give groups a central site that is able to represent all stock in all stores. A new SMS bulk messaging system was added to inwards goods and the group deal system and - [System Updates 1 Nov to 1 Dec 2019](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-nov-to-1-dec-2019/) - Since the Last Update At this time of year we focus in stability, removal of anything that can cause load spikes and small improvement and bug fixes. We found that may bots were 'parsing' sites so we have been putting in system to alert us to this activity and blocking the bots doing this. It - [System Updates 1 Dec 2019 to 1 Jan 2020](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-dec-2019-to-1-jan-2020/) - Since the Last Update December was quiet month for feature rollout due the Christmas change freeze. Plenty was going on in the background that you will hear about in the next post, a lot of bug fixing and work on upgrading to a new operating system. New Features Improvements Deals Improve the deals page load - [System Updates 1 Jan to 1 Feb 2020](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-jan-to-1-feb-2020/) - Since the Last Update Again no new features in Jan but lots of improvements and bug fixes and work to get everything up and running on the new R4 server. We expect to have the first sites running on this in February. Improvements Deals Emailed deals can now be cc'ed to publisher reps and have - [System Updates 1 Feb 2020 to 1 March 2020](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-feb-2020-to-1-march-2020/) - Since the Last Update Like last month the main focus has been on the r4 and infrastructure upgrades but there has also been a lot of bug fixing and improvements in the website, returns and community best sellers. Improvements New Returns Search We now arrange the Returns Search result based on how the ISBNs were - [System Updates 1 Mar 2020 to 1 Apr 2020](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-mar-2020-to-1-apr-2020/) - Since the Last Update This month we improved stocktake diff list editing, added customer order flagging and pub date to label printing, added title page lookup to an improved agency change interface and put the first sites on the new Rails 4 servers. This month the L4 lockdown also stared in New Zealand. Improvements Security - [System Updates 1 Apr 2020 to 1 May 2020](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-apr-2020-to-1-mar-2020/) - Since the Last Update This month we delivered stocktake, deal and account improvements that were work in progress and started on a whole lot of new website related tasks and countries go into various levels of lockdown and retail is forced online. Along side this system and infrastructure upgrades continue we are now up to - [System Updates 1 May 2020 to 1 June 2020](https://circlepos.com/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 - [System Updates 1 June 2020 to 1 July 2020](https://circlepos.com/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 - [System Updates 1 July 2020 to 1 Aug 2020](https://circlepos.com/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 - [System Updates 1 Aug 2020 to 1 Sept 2020](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-aug-2020-to-1-sept-2020/) - Since the Last Update In August we rolled out the z off movers function that limits what you see in movers to the what sold following the last time you looked. There is also a new website checkout, progress on bulk web order fulfillment, improved POS search, stage 1 in the Xero upgrade, lots of - [System Updates 1 Sep 2020 to 30 Sep 2020](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-sep-2020-to-30-sep-2020/) - Since the Last Update In September we rolled out sys admin, security and speed improvements as part of ongoing work. Bulk customer order fulfilment and the Xero upgrades were also progressed. We completed the eWay and data load upgrades. The last known things blocking r4 migrations have also been cleared. Improvements Sys admin We upgraded - [System Updates 1 Oct 2020 to 1 Nov 2020](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-oct-2020-to-1-nov-2020/) - Since the Last Update In October we rolled out improvements to the website checkout process and mob view, improved deals, speed and security and setup test infrastructure in Sydney. Improvements Security Create bundle of certificate instead of domain per certificate file. This is preparation for the introduction of additional security infrastructure. #174033228 Mobile View Change - [System Updates 1 Nov 2020 to 1 Dec 2020](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-nov-2020-to-1-dec-2020/) - Since the Last Update At this time of the year attention turns to speed and stability and most of the changes in November relate to this although large ongoing improvements continue, Xero upgrade and new customer order picking. Improvements Website Improved Product Information box layout Upgraded tinymce, this is the plugin/gem used to load images - [Ruby On Rails 4.2 - Beta Test Circle Software For Us | Circle](https://circlepos.com/ruby-on-rails-4-2/) - Ruby on Rails 4.2 Over the past year our developers have been upgrading the framework that the Circle system is built on, from Ruby on Rails 3.2 (R3.2) to Ruby on Rails 4.2 (R4.2). Now that we are at the stage of asking some of our technically minded customers to beta test it for us, - [System Updates 1 March - 30 April 2023](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-march-30-april-2023/) - System Updates March & April March and April updates saw significant improvements to Gift Cards and Self Onboarding, along with Speed and Website improvements. Housekeeping and tidy-ups concentrated on APIs among other things. New Features Purchasing Added an inwards goods history export - 184086237 Improvements Gift Cards Add Refunded totals to the API response. - [System Updates 1 - 31 November 2022](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-31-november-2022/) - Circle System Updates for November 2022 Work this month included getting the promotions module up and running. This feature is now available in the back office. The first cab off the rank is online discount code promotions (a training video will be released on this when all the parts needed to make it work are - [System Updates 1 - 30 September 2022](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-30-september-2022/) - Circle System Updates for September 2022 September saw quite a bit of work on Xero Integration. On the website you are now able to customise delivery time messages - have a look at the video here. The team continue with the R6 upgrade and bug fixes. New Features Association Portal Stock now displays in the - [System Updates 1 - 31 August 2022](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-31-august-2022/) - Circle System Updates for August 2022 August saw further improvements to Credit Notes. You are now able to make alterations and or refunds in the new Credit Note system. Contact support if you are keen to beta test. The "$" currency symbol has been removed to make the site work better in other currencies, you - [System Updates 1 - 31 July 2022](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-31-july-2022/) - Circle System Updates for July 2022 July was a busy month. We've added the ability to print a pick list for a selected customer. Improvements to Credit notes mean you are now able to generate cr notes from the POS to apply to unpaid invoices. Improvements to the Xero integration and Circle Gift Cards have - [System Updates 1 - 30 June 2022](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-30-june-2022/) - Since the Last Update In June we continued to make improvements to the Circle Gift Card System which is now in beta testing mode. A sharable url is now operational for customers to share their wish lists with friends and family, a handy feature that stores may want to promote in their newsletters. System upgrade - [System Updates 1 - 31 May 2022](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-31-may-2022/) - Since the Last Update In May we continued work on the Circle Gift Card System. This is now ready for beta testing so do get in touch with us if you would like to test. We're happy to announce credit notes can now be applied to invoices. It is featured flagged for safety so if - [Circle Community Best Sellers March 2015](https://circlepos.com/march-best-sellers/) - The March Top 50 Best Seller list is here. Top spot went to Kazuo Ishiguro's "The Buried Giant" with 394 copies sold by the Circle Community. - [System Updates 1 - 30 April 2022](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-30-april-2022/) - Since the Last Update In April the good work continued on the Circle gift card system. These are now ready for beta testing. Videos and detailed help files will be released soon. Another new feature developed was the ability to post completed credit notes to accounts payable. This is in a feature flag so contact - [System Updates 1 - 28 February 2022](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-28-february-2022/) - Since the Last Update In February work continued on the new Circle gift card system. It links into many parts of the system so it's turning out to be challenging to tidy up all the loose ends. We also added improvements to deals, bin fulfilment, accounts payable and purchasing. System upgrade work continued, the next - [System Updates 1 - 31 January 2022](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-31-january-2022/) - Since the Last Update In January the big things we worked on were the new gift card system and system upgrades. In addition to this we tidied and polished a number of other features. The group/association portal, bin fulfilment, deals, the website and Xero. New Features & Improvements. Bin fulfilment Add link to supplier order - [Circle Community Best Sellers December 2021](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-december-2021/) - December saw the same three popular titles but in a new order. Trent Dalton's "Love Stories Uplifting True Stories about Love" was number one with 3,810 sales (+1,541). Second, and up from third place last month was "Apples Never Fall" with 3,414 sales (+1,662). "Devotion" by Hannah Kent dropped from first to third place with 3,150 sales (-609). - [System Updates 1 - 30 November 2021](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-30-november-2021/) - Since the Last Update In November we continued work on a number of new features, webPOS, self-onboarding, the group/association portal, Circle gift card and bin fulfilment. A substantial amount of time was spent on the R6 upgrade and we improved stock exports, returns and inwards goods. New Features Web POS Added a line total to - [System Updates 1 - 31 October 2021](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-31-october-2021/) - Since the Last Update In October we really got into the R6 system upgrade but this is a big job and we have a long way to go. We continued work on the web POS which will offer a phone/tablet POS option. We started integrating the new gift card system into the POS and did - [System Updates 1 - 30 September 2021](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-30-september-2021/) - Since the Last Update In September we really jumped into the R6 upgrade with most devs doing something on it. We worked on the web pos and now are close to a MVP (Minimum Viable Product). If you would like to test pos on a phone let support know. Work on the group/association sites and - [System Updates 1 - 31 August 2021](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-31-august-2021/) - Since the Last Update August focused on central sites for groups and associations and the new Circle gift card system. This is close to the stage where we have a minimum viable product ready to be beta tested. The group/association site is all about enabling the public to find which shop has a book, making - [System Updates 1 - 31 July 2021](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-31-july-2021/) - Since the Last Update In July we spent a lot of time on the new Circle gift card system, bedded Xero in further, improved the agency code, improved how costs populate in inwards goods for new items, added options so that you have control over when web orders are invoiced, added links to stock logs - [System Updates 1 - 30 June 2021](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-30-june-2021/) - Since the Last Update In June we bedded in the Xero integration further, continued to develop the new Circle Gift Card system, improved threshold report speed and added automatic cost calculation to the deals system. We standardised how web orders are handled which caught many by surprise and triggered further work to enable shops to - [System Updates 1 May - 31 May 2021](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-may-31-may-2021/) - Since the Last Update In May we extended the Xero beta trial to more stores, added back office interfaces for the new gift card system and got the new bin fulfilment system to a point where it is ready for live testing. We increased cart load speed, split out cash accounts in aged receivables, improved - [System Updates 1 Apr - 1 May 2021](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-apr-1-may-2021/) - Since the Last Update In April work continued on the big things, bin fulfilment features, Circle gift card upgrade and the Xero integration which is now in beta with the first stores. We also completed the server move to Sydney, improved deals expiry time, increased speed and upgraded out system monitoring environment. New Feature Circle - [System Updates 29 Feb - 31 Mar 2021](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-29-feb-31-mar-2021/) - Since the Last Update Work continued on bin fulfilment features, Circle gift card upgrade and Xero integration. We improved the mover's time stamp system and changed the deal expiry to happen in the shop's time zone. A number of improvements were also made to catch and prevent transactions getting stuck in the POS. Finally a - [System Updates 1 Feb - 1 Mar 2021](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-feb-1-mar-2021/) - Since the Last Update The new checkout was rolled out for everyone, work continued on bin customer order fulfilment features and the Circle gift card upgrade. Some speed and SEO improvements were made along with system upgrades and fixes. New Feature Bin Fulfilment Create a feature to filter bins by Bin Type #176861452 Starshipit Integration - [System Updates 1 Jan - 1 Feb 2021](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-jan-1-feb-2021/) - Since the Last Update We rolled out new features around customer order fulfilment, improvements to the pacstream implementation and Titlepage integration. The Xero oauth2 version is now at a point where initial testing can start. Few Feature Item based customer order fulfilment Make bin settings interface mobile responsive #176046432 Starshipit Integration Create Service for creating - [System Updates 1 Dec 2020 to 1 Jan 2021](https://circlepos.com/system-updates-1-dec-2020-to-1-jan-2021/) - Since the Last Update The big developments continued in Dec, Xero upgrade and customer order picking. In addition there were SEO improvements, the start of starshipit integration and issues that came up related to EDI and background processing that needed to be resolved. Few Feature Starshipit Integration - starshipit.com is a shipping management system helpful - [Circle Community Best Sellers of 2017](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-of-2017/) - Scott Pape's 'The Barefoot Investor' sold 7251 copies in 2017 and is the Circle Community's best selling book of the year. 'Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls' by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo followed closely, selling 6585 copies. In third was David Walliams' latest children's book, 'Bad Dad', which sold 5251 copies. - [Circle Community Best Sellers - December 2017](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-december-2017/) - Moving almost twice as many copies as last months Best Seller, at 1849 copies is 'Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls' by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo. Following in second place is David Walliams' latest novel 'Bad Dad', selling 1724 copies. The third biggest seller this month has been Mark Manson's 'The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck', at 1474 copies. - [Circle Community Best Sellers - November 2017](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-november-2017/) - It is fabulous to see the top 5 Best Sellers this November are all children's or young adult books! Jeff Kinney's 'The Getaway (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #12)' is November's Best Seller, moving 955 copies. ‘Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow’ by Jessica Townsend placed second again with 941 sales (even more than last month), and David Walliams' 'Bad Dad' has taken an extremely close third position, selling 940 copies. - [Circle Community Best Sellers – October 2017](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-october-2017/) - Jane Harper's 'Force of Nature' is October's Best Seller with 1073 sales, rising from only 186 sales last month. 'Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow' by Jessica Townsend placed second with 897 sales, and Scott Pape's 'The Barefoot Investor' remains in third position, selling 610 copies. - [Circle Community Best Sellers – September 2017](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-september-2017/) - "The 91-Storey Treehouse" and seventh book of Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton's wacky treehouse adventures holds top spot again this month with 875 sales. "The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck" climbs up the list to reach 2nd place with 614 sales. The "Barefoot Investor" remains in 3rd position close behind at 542. - [Circle Community Best Sellers – August 2017](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-august-2017/) - "The 91-Storey Treehouse" and seventh book of Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton's wacky treehouse adventures totals a huge 2737 sales for the month of August. "Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls" comes in 2nd with 651 with the "Barefoot Investor" close behind at 585. - [Circle Community Best Sellers – July 2017](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-july-2017/) - "The Barefoot Investor" jumps back to no.1 spot for July, selling 557 copies. Close behind is "Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls" which sold 552. Third spot with 397 was "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness" - [Circle Community Best Sellers – June 2017](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-june-2017/) - The no 1. Best Seller for June was “The Clever Guts Diet: How to Revolutionise Your Body From the Inside Out”, selling 980 copies. Following this, and new to the top 50 list was “The Ministry of Utmost Happiness” with 616 copies sold. Also new to the list was "The World's Worst Children (#2)", the brilliant - [Circle Community Best Sellers - May 2017](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-may-2017/) - After four months of dominating the top spot "The Barefoot Investor" makes way for, "Into the Water", from the bestselling author of "The Girl on the Train", Paula Hawkins. "Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls" takes the 3rd position. Title Community Sold Rank Into the Water 549 1 The Barefoot Investor 459 2 Good - [Circle Community Best Sellers - April 2017](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-april-2017/) - "The Barefoot Investor" maintains the no.1 spot for a fourth month in a row selling 454 copies ( - [Circle Community Best Sellers - March 2017](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-march-2017/) - The Barefoot Investor’ maintains the no.1 spot for a third month in a row selling 581 copies (>40 Feb). "I'm Australian Too" joins the list in no.2 position selling 413 copies. "Gut: the Inside Story of Our Body's Most Under-Rated Organ" moves up from the bottom of list to no.3. - [Circle Community Best Sellers - February 2017](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-february-2017/) - 'The Barefoot Investor' maintains the no.1 spot in February selling 541 copies. 'Lion: A Long Way Home' holds both 2nd and 3rd spot with the Film Tie-In and Young Reader's Edition. - [Circle Community Best Sellers – January 2017](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-january-2017/) - 'The Barefoot Investor' jumped from 6th position to top spot in January. Other titles which moved up the list included 'Tatsuo Miyajima: Connect with Everything' up to no. 2 from 16th and 'Revolutionary Work: What’s the point of the 9 to 5?' to no.3 from 14th. - [Circle Community Best Sellers – December 2016](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-december-2016/) - The Best Seller for December was "The Sellout", which sold 1,211 copies. This was followed very closely by "The Midnight Gang" with 1149. Third was "The Good People" with 987 down from the top position in October. Cover Title Community Sold Rank The Sellout 1211 1 The Midnight Gang 1149 2 The - [Circle Community Best Sellers – November 2016](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-november-2016/) - "Double Down (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #11)" is another popular title by author Jeff Kinney. It's our no 1 seller for November with 990 copies sold. Second place goes to "The Midnight Gang", new to the list this month, it sold 775 copies. Lee Child's "Night School (Jack Reacher #21)"comes in third with 605 copies - [Circle Community Best Sellers - October 2016](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-october-2016/) - "The Good People" moves up from 26th position to take the no.1 spot in October. Also moving up the list is "Working Class Boy" from 14th to 2nd.The remarkable true stories of Tim Winton's latest offering, "The Boy Behind the Curtain" see it place 3rd. Cover Title Community Sold Rank The Good People 1190 1 - [Circle Community Best Sellers – September 2016](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-september-2016/) - The Treehouse legacy continues to prove popular with "The 78-Storey Treehouse" in paperback taking no 1 spot this month with 881 copies sold. "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Parts I & II Special Rehearsal Edition HB)" slips down to no 2. Third and new to the list is "Commonwealth" with 396 copies sold. Title Community - [Circle Community Best Sellers - August 2016](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-august-2016/) - August's no 1 spot was once again taken by “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” with a huge 3,864 copies sold. Close behind at no 2 spot was "the 78-Storey Treehouse" selling 2,755 copies. "Truly, Madly, Guilty" moves up one spot from last month to no.3. Cover Title Community Sold Rank Harry Potter and - [Circle Community Best Sellers – July 2016](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-july-2016/) - July's no 1 spot was easily secured by "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" with 1466 copies sold. The play, jointly written by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany will receive its world premiere in London's West End on 30th July 2016. "Course of Love" moves up from no 8 spot to no 2 - [Circle Community Best Sellers - June 2016](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-june-2016/) - New to the list and coming in at no.1 spot is, "Surprise the World: The Five Habits of Highly Missional People" by Michael Frost. "The World's Worst Children" moves up to second position from 9th and "Last Painting of Sara De Vos" moves up 1 to third. Cover Title Community Sold Rank Surprise the World: - [Circle Community Best Sellers - May 2016](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-may-2016/) - "My Life on the Road" by Gloria Steinem is new to the Best Seller list and in no 1 spot with 572 copies sold. "A Little Life" holds no 2 spot with 532 copies sold. "Everyone Brave is Forgiven" moves up the list from 6th to 3rd position. Cover Title Community Sold Rank My Life on - [Circle Community Best Sellers – April 2016](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-april-2016/) - "Everywhere I Look", a collection of short works by Australian writer Helen Garner is April's no.1 best seller with 1,138 copies sold. "A Little Life" moves up from 14th in March to no.2. "Talking to My Country" also moves up from 11th last month to 3rd. New to the list and coming in 4th is "The - [Circle Community Best Sellers – March 2016](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-march-2016/) - New title “Road to Ruin - How Tony Abbott and Peta Credlin Destroyed Their Own Government” takes the top spot this month with 1,973 copies sold. “The Treehouse Fun Book” also new, takes no.2 position with 972 sales. Close behind is “My Brilliant Friend (the Neapolitan Novels #1)” (up by 200 sales) in position no. 3. - [Circle Community Best Sellers – February 2016](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-february-2016/) - After seasonal back to school sales "All the Light We Cannot See" returns to top position with 611 copies sold. "Talking to My Country" follows closely with 556 while “My Brilliant Friend (the Neapolitan Novels #1)” sells an additional 50 copies, moving up to 541 sales. - [Circle Community Best Sellers – January 2016](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-january-2016/) - Grayson Perry's autobiography is the January no.1 best seller, coinciding nicely with his exhibition at the MCA Sydney (through to May this year). “My Brilliant Friend (the Neapolitan Novels #1)” has held onto position no 2 while "All the Light We Cannot See" drops 2 places to no.3. - [Circle Community Best Sellers – December 2015](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-december-2015/) - The top position for the end of the year went to Anthony Doerr's "All the Light We Cannot See" which moved up from no 3 place in November, selling 1260 copies. "A Little Life" jumped from 37th to 3rd while "My Brilliant Friend (the Neapolitan Novels #1)" moved up 3 places to no 2. In December 2014 - [Circle Community Best Sellers - November 2015](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-november-2015/) - New to the list and to top spot this month is, "Old School (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #10)"which sold 876 copies. "Special Delivery - Favourite Recipes to Make and Take" is runner up with 509 copies sold and Äll the Light We Cannot See moves up from 11th to 3rd spot. - [Circle Community Best Sellers October 2015](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-october-2015/) - October trends see "Reckoning - A Memoir" by Magda Szubanski, one of Australia's most beloved performers, jumps straight onto the top 50 in no 1 spot with 487 copies sold. "Grandpa's Great Escape" moves up from no. 17 to no.2 while notable Australian author Tim Winton's "Island Home" also moves up the list from no.42 to no. 3. - [Circle Community Bestsellers September 2015](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-bestsellers-september-2015/) - September's best seller is once again “The 65-Storey Treehouse” with 796 copies sold (down on August's 2,270). Titles creeping up the list include "Girl in the Spider's Web (Millennium #4)" which came in at no 2 with 750 copies sold and "Secret Garden - An Inky Treasure Hunt" up 2 places to no 3. New - [Circle Community Best Sellers August 2015](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-august-2015/) - Another high selling title for August! "The 65-Storey Treehouse" sold 2,270 copies. Äll the Light We Cannot See"was no 2 with 451 copies sold. July top seller, "Go Set A Watchman" fell from top spot to no 5. Adult colouring books continue to be very popular. - [Circle Community Best Sellers July 2015](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-july-2015/) - Go Set A Watchman has outperformed all other titles this month selling a record breaking 1567 copies. Just under the December best seller "Narrow Road to the Deep North" which sold 1979 (followed by "Plenty More" at 850). July also sees an explosion of adult colouring books. I've counted 13 but there are probably even more - [Circle Community Best Sellers June 2015](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-june-2015/) - Mindfulness Colouring Book: Anti-Stress Art Therapy for Busy People It must be time to escape the cold and enjoy some mindful Winter colouring-in. June's no. 1 Best Seller goes to Emma Farraron's, "Mindfulness Colouring Book: Anti-Stress Art Therapy for Busy People". It beat the “The Girl on the Train” (down 1 to no.2) by a significant 150 sales. "All the Light We Cannot See" moves up 3 to no.3 spot with 316 copies sold. - [Circle Community Best Sellers May 2015](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-may-2015/) - The Girl on the Train maintains top rank The May Top 50 Best Seller list sees “The Girl on the Train” by Paula Hawkins maintain its top position. This month 386 copies were sold by the Circle Community (up by 32). Kazuo Ishiguro’s “The Buried Giant” drops to position no 16 while some non-fiction items rank up, "Mindfulness - [Circle Community Best Sellers April 2015](https://circlepos.com/circle-community-best-sellers-april-2015/) - The April Top 50 Best Seller list is out. Top spot went to “The Girl on the Train” by Paula Hawkins with 359 copies sold by the Circle Community. Last month Kazuo Ishiguro’s “The Buried Giant” sold 394 copies. Its now at spot no 4. Mothers feature strong with "One Life: My Mother's Story" by Australian Kate Grenville at no. 2 and "Stuff I Forgot to Tell My Daughter" by Kiwi Michele A'Court at no. 27 - [Production update July 8 2014](https://circlepos.com/production-update-july-8-2014/) - Feature additions Add a field in the PO search interface that enables you to put a deposit on a customer order Add inwards good data migration tool Added dropbox link to POS > POS Download to make it easier to get the POS Additional site colour setting options. Settings > Templates Bug Fixes The 3/2/1 - [Development update - new features added 1st march to 31st June 2013](https://circlepos.com/development-update-new-features-added-1st-march-to-31st-june-2013/) - In addition to bug fixes the following features were added. Return search now has a total a the bottom so that you know exactly how many items you are returning. It also provides a double check on what you have scanned. - Backoffice > Returns Improved shipping and billing address display on invoices. This has been tricky - [March 2013 Stable version upgrade](https://circlepos.com/march-2013-stable-version-upgrade/) - This upgrade focused on bug fixes but also has the following feature additions. Deleted items are now hidden from the search results except on ISBN searches. In inwards goods you will get a warning if you try to submit the same invoice number from the same supplier twice. A -ve stock and hidden items report has been ## Pages - [Bookstore Software](https://circlepos.com/) - A cloud based inventory system for bookstores that makes you as good online as you are in store What is CirclePOS? Everything needed to run a bookshop online and in store: Inventory control, POS, accounts, ordering, returns, integrated website. Watch a short introductory video Problems CirclePOS solves for local bookstores Book a call Some of - [Development History](https://circlepos.com/development-history/) - Every month we publish our upgrades, new features and improvements that have been going on behind the scenes at CirclePOS. 2026 Updates, Improvements and New Features 2026 has focused on continued platform growth, with major progress across New Movers, MobPOS, order integrations, and the General Ledger rollout. New features included the Accounts in Credit report, - [Frequently Asked Questions](https://circlepos.com/faqs/) - Some Frequently Asked Questions about CirclePOS. Dive deep and find out how easier your life could be with CirclePOS - [Exciting Job Roles Await You: Be A Part Of Our Elite Team](https://circlepos.com/jobs/) - Jobs About the business Circle Software develops a SAAS application for bookshops. Circle started in New Zealand and has a strong growing community in Australia and is now aiming to start in other countries. We have developers around the world and are looking to build the team. CURRENT DEV SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGY Google cloud environment - [Best Selling Books](https://circlepos.com/best-selling-books/) - Every month we publish the top best selling books from the Circle community 2026 Best Selling books from 2026 are coming up here! The Correspondent, Virginia Evans is first off the block this year ‘Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump’ – July 2026 ‘Whistler’ – June 2026 ‘The Things We Never - [Talk to a Bookshop Expert](https://circlepos.com/book-a-call/) - Bryan Camua Bryan is based in New Zealand and has over 10 years experience in supporting the CirclePOS application. If you have a lot of technical questions about how the system works or the data migration process Bryan is the perfect guy to talk to. Matt Lupica Matt manages two book stores in Australia, the - [Articles](https://circlepos.com/articles/) - Feature Articles Articles on specific features and how they can help bookstores News Articles News from CirclePOS and the industry Bookstore Interviews Meet some of the stores behind CirclePOS, the owners behind the shelves in those stores and what makes them tick Best Sellers Check out the top books being sold by our stores Development - [CirclePOS Bookshop Management System Features](https://circlepos.com/features/) - Discover CirclePOS features that help you reach your business goals more easily. This software is built by bookstore owners for bookstores. Join for free today! - [Book a Call with Warwick Schaffer](https://circlepos.com/book-a-call-with-warwick-schaffer/) - Warwick Schaffer Warwick is the founder and Managing Director of CirclePOS. He is a good person to talk to if you have a complex operation, need special features or questions beyond simply wanting to be walked through the system. During August, September and October 2025 Warwick will be attending Trade Shows and Conferences in the - [Contact CirclePOS | Bookstore POS to cover all your needs](https://circlepos.com/contact/) - Contact CirclePOS Bookstore System Specialists Address 11 Leamington Street Christchurch 8024 New Zealand Phone +64 3 377 9698 New Zealand +61 2 8006 0005 Australia +353 1 437 2536 Europe +121 3497 0020 USA Email sales@circlepos.com Book a Demo or Sales Call Book a Training Session Book a Support Call Chat to us on Messenger Catch - [Book a Training Session](https://circlepos.com/training/) - If you're not sure about whether you need training, have a read of The Benefits of Training with CirclePOS Web conferencing details provided upon confirmation Matt Lupica Matt manages two book stores in Australia, the rosebudbookbarn.com.au & thebookbarn.com.au. Matt is the perfect option if you want to talk to someone that really understands bookselling (because he is - [Thank you for booking a Training session with CirclePOS](https://circlepos.com/thank-you-training/) - Thank you for your interest in learning more about CirclePOS You will receive details regarding your training session shortly. In the meantime you may like to read some of our Feature Articles Articles on specific features and how they can help bookstores News from CirclePOS and the industry Bookstore Interviews Past newsletters with monthly best - [Supplier and Association Directory](https://circlepos.com/supplier-and-association-directory/) - Introduction The building of this list grew out of our how to start a bookshop article. The structure of the industry is very different in different markets. In Australasia shops tend to deal with individual publishers and distributors whereas in the UK and North America most books are supplied via large centralised wholesalers. The aim - [Problems CirclePOS solves for local bookstores](https://circlepos.com/key-problems-circlepos-solves-for-independents/) - Start today CirclePOS has an easy onboarding process that allows you to begin quickly and hassle-free There are no upfront fees or long term contracts Let us help you make the transition to starting a bookstore Book a chat with an Expert Watch a short intro video Independent bookshops are the heart of many communities but - [CirclePOS Support & Sales Videos](https://circlepos.com/circlepos-support-sales-videos/) - Videos from the Team From a quick overview to a training session, enjoy a selection of videos from our team CirclePOS Overview Watch an Introduction to CirclePOS, a specialist cloud stock system for bookshops 7 minutes Watch more pre sales videos on our youtube channel https://youtu.be/rAYJoOCTijY?si=ZYxoIIO82cRauY4w General Overview General Overview of CirclePOS Book Inventory Management - [Book a Support Call](https://circlepos.com/book-a-support-call/) - Need help? 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For simpler problems, please send an email to support@circlepos.com Web conferencing details provided upon confirmation Our Support Team Bryan Camua Jay Valeroso Herslyn Narciso Carl Camua The CirclePOS Support - [Newsletter Archive - Latest News from Circle](https://circlepos.com/newsletter-archive/) - Newsletter Archive Recent Newsletters Catch up with our latest features, Best Sellers, KPIs and more 11/06/2025 June 2025 Newsletter - CirclePOS Bestsellers and Sales Stats Keep up to date with our latest features, bookstore interviews, updates and more Please correct the marked field(s) below. * 1,true,6,Contact Email,2 1,false,1,First Name,2 1,false,1,Last Name,2 - [CirclePOS Testimonials](https://circlepos.com/circlepos-testimonials/) - Home ‣ CirclePOS Testimonials First Edition Books “Honestly, as soon as I’d used it for a few days, I emailed Basil and told them we were moving on. The checkout process with Circle — both for us and for the customer — is so much more streamlined. It’s been a breath of fresh air. We - [Customers](https://circlepos.com/our-customers/) - See what our bookstores say about CirclePOS on the Testimonials Page | View the Supplier and Association Directory Independent & Local Bookstores Schrödinger’s Books Petone, New Zealand Bookshop of the year 2021 Wardini Books Hawkes Bay, New Zealand Bookshop of the year 2020 Time Out Auckland Aotearoa/New Zealand Bookshop of the year 2016 & - [Bookstore System Pricing with No Upfront Fees](https://circlepos.com/pricing/) - Pricing that is simple and fair and designed to help you grow! Price is based on size using turnover and number of sites. There are no terminal or user limits, there are no parts of the system that you have to pay extra to get and you are freely given all new development. For example, - [Software Integrations: What makes CirclePOS better than others](https://circlepos.com/integrations/) - Integrations offered with our Bookshop Management Software Integrations provide our customers with the most user friendly, cost effective product possible. See our current integrations below: Xero Founded in New Zealand in 2006, Xero is a cloud-based accounting software with over 1 million subscribers worldwide. Use our integration to export accounts payable and receivable from the - [Privacy Policy](https://circlepos.com/privacy-policy/) - Circle Software Privacy Policy Last updated: May 2022 Introduction Circle Software Limited (trading as CirclePOS, and also known as circlepos.com) is committed to protecting personal information and privacy rights generally. Circle Software Limited is also referred to as “Circle Software”, “we” and “us” in this privacy policy and when referred to, such reference includes - [About CirclePOS - More than just a Bookshop Point of Sale System](https://circlepos.com/about-us/) - About Circle is a complete point of sale, stock management and online sales solution for booksellers. It is an ideal platform for bricks and mortar stores that want to be online, but don’t want the hassle of managing a website and the shop floor independently. With Circle, all sales (in-store or online) are administered through - [Thank you for booking a time with our Sales Team](https://circlepos.com/thank-you-sales/) - Thank you for Your Interest! Thank you for your interest in CirclePOS. Our Sales team look forward to chatting with you soon.. 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