Release Notes – 4 May 2012

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Recent Changes to Tradevine

Release Date: 4 May 2012

Shopify

We are excited to announce that our beta Shopify Integration has been released. This means you can use Tradevine to manage your web shop, populate it with products, automatically receive sales orders from it and manage your inventory.  It is currently in a beta phase until further notice. Please make sure your Shopify store is set up as per our guidelines.  You can find our more about Shopify on their website.

UserVoice

This is a new forum to allow you to vote on features that you would like to see in Tradevine and even voice your own suggestions and ideas for others to vote upon.  We really do value your input and feedback in making Tradevine even better, help us by telling us what you think.

Inventory Breakdown

We have a new screen that has a visual representation of the various allocations of your inventory. This is really useful now that Tradevine has multiple sales channels. This screen is displayed on the Inventory Adjustments page, as well as on the Sales Order.

Inventory Check in Sales Orders

As you enter a Sales Order line the inventory will immediately be checked and visual feedback given to indicate if there is sufficient stock to fulfill the order. Green means all is good, Red that you don’t have any available and Orange that you have sold more than available and not all orders can be shipped.

Xero Authorisation

When you log on, Tradevine now automatically checks that Xero is authorised, if it isn’t, or if authorisation has expired, a notification to reauthorise will now appear on your Dashboard.

Delete Products

You are now able to delete individual products provided that no transactions have occurred for the product.

Second Invoice Layout

We have a new invoice layout to allow users to pack a folded invoice into the clear packing envelope and have the address displayed.

New Search Filters

A couple of new fields have been added to our order, shipment and receipt search filters.

In Sales Order List, a new filter has been added to allow you to search by the shipment method and payment method.

In Shipments List, new filter has been added to allow you to search by the product being shipped. The other is to allow you to search by the shipment method.

In Goods Receipts List, new filter has been added to allow you to search by the product being received.

Weight and Dimensions

On the Product Information screen new fields have been added to allow you to enter product characteristics such as weight, length, width and height. The weight will be passed to Shopify for use in weight based shipping charge calculations. The length, width and height are not yet being used, but you can enter the data now in anticipation of future Tradevine features.

Barcodes

On the Shipments screen, when scanning in the tracking reference, it will no longer automatically confirm shipment.  This will allow to you continue to make adjustments and alterations after the tracking reference has been entered.

Fast Shipment Options

It is now possible to add in an extra email address or to cc another person on the shipping invoice and or packing slip. This option will only become available if one or both of the email check boxes are selected.

Key Bug Fixes

  1. Tradevine will now check the Trade Me Category Codes for 4 chars during an import of data from Excel, if less than 4 chars is detected, Tradevine will now prefix 0’s appropriately.

All of these improvements are based on customer feedback. We are planning to release further improvements on a regular basis. Your feedback is vital to ensuring that we’re working on the most important things first. If you have any suggestions or feedback, feel free to drop us a line at suggestions@tradevine.co.nz.

We want to hear from you.

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We’ve learned that some of the best insights into Tradevine comes from our customers, those who use it every day. So we thought it’d be a great idea to provide an easy way for you to let us know what you’d like to see.

So we’ve created a forum which allows you to submit and vote on new feature suggestions, and recommendations for the system. The more ideas we get the better, so please take a moment to check it out. Your ideas will make Tradevine better!

You can log or vote for your ideas here.

 

Release Notes – 18 April 2012

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Recent Changes to Tradevine

Release Date: 18 April 2012

Posted journal

Tradevine now creates POSTED journals for sales and inventory adjustments.

KEY BUG FIXES

  1. Issue when linked to Xero and not GST registered
  2. Optimise Product Import to increase performance

All of these improvements are based on customer feedback. We are working hard on our Webstore functionality and are still planning to release further improvements on a regular basis. Your feedback is vital to ensuring that we’re working on the most important things first. If you have any suggestions or feedback, feel free to drop us a line at suggestions@tradevine.co.nz.

Release Notes – 12 April 2012

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Recent Changes to Tradevine

Release Date: 12 April 2012

Database changes

Behind the scenes work to allow even better performance and scalability.

Two more couriers added

We have added Toll and Mainfreight couriers into the Shipped With list. When you save a tracking number, the system will create the link to their tracking page.

Fastways URL fixed

Updated Fastways Tracking URL after their website was changed.

Key Bug Fixes

  1. Issues with Xero authorisation tokens have been resolved.
  2. Trade Me products were sometimes losing their listing attributes, this has been resolved.
  3. Sales Order Public Notes no longer get re-appended after updating the Sales Order.
  4. Sales Order status can no longer be set back to Pending.

All of these improvements are based on customer feedback. We are working hard on our Webstore functionality and are still planning to release further improvements on a regular basis. Your feedback is vital to ensuring that we’re working on the most important things first. If you have any suggestions or feedback, feel free to drop us a line at suggestions@tradevine.co.nz.

Tradevine and You – Revolutionising your Business

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We are super excited about the release of our new video. It tells the story about how Tradevine helps our customers transform their businesses.

With its multiple sales channels and integrated inventory management, Tradevine is revolutionising the way retailers sell online.

Imagine what Tradevine could do for your business.

Release Notes – 7 March 2012

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Recent Changes to Tradevine

Release Date: 7 March 2012

Improved Universal Searching Capability

The universal search at the top of every screen has been extended to include searching on the Trade Me name.

Removing Mandatory Printing

Remove mandatory printing of shipping documents when confirming a shipment.

Listings Filter

Modified filter to add Product Code and change Product name from being live search. This means you can now do wildcard searches in the listings e.g %Br%.

Key Bug Fixes

  1. Fixed the Inventory Reports, a couple of the columns were displaying zeros.
  2. Fast Shipping now ‘persists’ the selected email options.
  3. Placing Auto-Feedback on FPO’s is now working correctly in all cases.

All of these improvements are based on customer feedback. We are working hard on our Webstore functionality and are still planning to release further improvements on a regular basis. Your feedback is vital to ensuring that we’re working on the most important things first. If you have any suggestions or feedback, feel free to drop us a line at suggestions@tradevine.co.nz.

Tradevine & Xero in the field… Literally!

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When it comes to retailing, we want our customers to be able to sell anything, any time, anywhere.  And so for Craig Love, owner of Easy Gardener, Tradevine combined with Xero is a perfect fit.

Craig sells great quality log splitters, chainsaws, hedge trimmers, generators etc, on Trade Me, on-line and at A&P shows. So he needed a business solution that works literally everywhere.

Craig was at the recent Southern Field Days, in Waimumu, with his trusty iPad and 3G dongle.  With real-time access to Tradevine and Xero he had access to up to date inventory, all his financials and could process new sales whilst face-to-face with the customer. He could also keep an eye on his Trade Me listings, his bank account and see what was happening back at base in Blenheim.  Being out of the ‘office’ has never been this easy.

By using Tradevine, Craig, can manage his entire business – his sales, purchases, inventory, Trade Me listings,webstore,  feedback and questions, and coupled with Xero his accounting. Simple and easy.

Craig’s recent testimonial says it all…

“Time is the most valued asset in my business. Working for myself I have to manage importing of goods, Trademe Listings, Trademe orders, accounts, customers, and dispatching of goods. Tradevine is my one stop shop for TOTAL management of my entire business. At a glance I can see our Total sales, profit, and orders to process. What I like is that Tradevine is fully integrated with Xero accounting, no duplication of data is ever needed, it simply creates customer invoices for you.

Tradevine’s support is the best I have come across in 12 years working online, they actually help you with any queries you may have. I am looking forward to the future with Tradevine and for what’s in store in the coming months ahead.

Really, switching to Tradevine is a no brainer – Go Tradevine!”.

To find out how Tradevine and Xero can help your retail business contact us on support@tradevine.co.nz

Tradevine and Craig in a field…

Rising up – One year on…

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Today is the first anniversary of the devastating Christchurch earthquake that claimed the lives of 185.

February 22nd 2011 started like any other normal day for us. Our offices were in the old harbourmasters building in Lyttelton. There was nothing out of the ordinary as we worked away, coders coding, BAs BA’ing, testers testing, and bosses drinking coffee.

Then suddenly the earth shook violently. This wasn’t any ordinary aftershock, we had experienced hundreds after the September quake, but this was different, this was massive.

The building moved as it had never before, it heaved under the strain. In the split second as the shaking starts, people catch each others’ eyes, thinking will it stop or do we need to take cover.  The ceiling panels started falling, take cover it is. As people dived under desks, aircon units crashed off the wall, computer monitors literally flew sideways from desks.  We were right at the epicentre, but we didn’t know that yet. Power was out, alarms were ringing all around us, and the air was thick with settlling dust.

As we ran into the street we could see our building, along with what appeared to be every other building in the street was destroyed or severely damaged.  Later, as we struggled over the Port Hills, we looked down on our home city, the collapsed buildings, the streets under water, carnage everywhere.  We knew that things would never be the same.

In the weeks that followed the tenacity, ingenuity, resilience and generosity of the people of New Zealand, and the world shone through.  First with the rescue and now with the extensive recovery.

Our office was gone, but within a week we were writing code again and offers of help poured in from our friends, customers and strangers throughout the land. Thank you New Zealand.

Despite all of the personal issues, like trashed homes, kids losing schools, not having running water, and constant aftershocks (10,000+ and counting) our staff coped magnificently and Tradevine was launched in November, one month behind schedule.

We are the lucky ones, possessions are replaceable. To all those who lost their lives, we grieve for your untimely loss. For all those who were injured, we hope for a speedy mend, and for all in Christchurch whose lives have changed irrevocably in that instant, we stand together with you, as we rebuild our city and lives, together.

Kia Kaha

Crushed car. Our building in the background.

Directly across the road from the office. (note: the road had to be cleared of rubble, by hand, to allow emergency vehicles through)

Photos courtesy of Phil Styler.