The following is the new features and bug fixes. This document places the newest features and bug fixes at the top.

Updated 02/04/2008

Version 2008.1.13

Customer History – The Customer History Screen now includes the vendor name that the customer purchased on each line of the customer sales history screen. This column is on the extreme right-side of the grid but can permanently be moved anywhere just by dragging it into position.

EMT Purchase Order – The Quick Scan utility has been greatly optimized in speed. Also some multi-store functions have been corrected.

Finance Charges – When running finance charges, credit to account will no longer be considered as a credit for finance charge purposes.

Accounts Payable – Now all Accounts Payable reports ask for the checking account number to report upon.

Accounts Payable – The mark for payment grid printing function now prompts you to print either, only marked for payment items or you can choose to print every item on the grid without relation to marked payable items.

Accounts payable – The A/P Aging report has had bug corrected with the aging crossing over the year boundary.

Accounts Payable Mark for Payment – You may now limit the loading of the mark for payment items to a specific checking account number. The default for this value is the default checking account number as defined in the configuration program under the A/P Setup tab. This has been added so that multiple stores that are sharing a common database location can quickly work with a single checking account number. This typically corresponds to a single store location, but can also be a shared account for multiple stores.

Accounts Payable Split Payment – Now when you use the A/P Split Payment function it will split the Miscellaneous Amount and the Shipping Amounts. The Miscellaneous Amount and the Shipping Amount used to stay payable in the first payment but are not broken up into payments exactly like the invoice amount.

Receipt Copies – You can now set up how many copies of the receipt to print. This is done right from the POS Miscellaneous menu by choosing POS Options. On the POS options screen look in the upper right hand quadrant and find the text box for the number of copies and set your preference there.

General Ledger – You can now have up to nine general ledger BANK accounts. To do this, add to your chart of accounts up to nine bank accounts by naming them BANK 1, BANK 2, BANK 3 and on up to BANK 9. These numbers map to the default checking account as defined in the Accounts Payable setup. This is useful when you have multiple stores sharing the same data base but using different configurations with different store numbers and checking account numbers. With this new setup the general ledger will automatically map any transaction for the BANK account to the BANK # account. With this setup the default BANK account is no longer used but must still exist. Of course for a more human readable name you can set up aliases for the different BANK accounts.

Gift Certificates – Auto Numbering of Gift Certificates should now stay aligned in all circumstances. Also the Clerk ID is now prompted for on the same screen and is no longer prompted for in a separate dialog.

Persist Prices - Winsale will always use the latest price sold for future sales when persisting prices. Winsale now allows you to set pricing by both independent customer and major accounts and then persist those prices to their employees automatically. This is accomplished in one of two ways. In either case you must decide by individual customer whether to persist the pricing by checking the Persist Prices option in the customer profile. When you turn on the persist pricing for an individual customer (not one connected to a major account) the Point of Sale module will automatically use and sell at the price most previously sold for, if any. You can always over-ride this persisted sale price at the time of the sale.

If you turn on Persist Prices for a major account then all employees of that major account will use the price as defined in the major accounts sales history. Since major accounts usually have no sales history of their own you can set up pricing per style by creating a Sales Order for the major account. In Winsale, sales orders are typically used as quotes. The creation of sales orders creates a record of your pricing and doubles as history for the purpose of persisting pricing. Creating sales orders will not affect your accounting in anyway.

If sizes are involved only one item per style needs to be placed in the sales history. Winsale will automatically use the same price for every size combination of that style.

File Import – Everywhere that you can read in from a data collector (Inventory Variance, Purchase Orders, Transfers and Point of Sale modules) you may now also use file importing. This allows slower remote desktop connections to create a file from a data collector and then import it to the server computer instead of using the data collectors over a Remote Desktop Connection.

Auto Generate PO – A bug has been fixed that stopped the auto generate PO from limiting to a single vendor or vendor range.

Customer / Vendor Lookup – You may now renumber accounts directly from the customer / vendor lookup tables. Simply select the customer or vendor account that you want to renumber and then click on the ReNum button. You will be prompted for the new account number to renumber to.

Drawer Reconciliation – You may now reconcile multiple computers cash drawers with one reconciliation session. This is done by entering in multiple terminal ids’ when performing the drawer reconciliation. This is helpful for when two computers share the same cash drawer.

Point of Sale – Right Clicking on the POS grid area now has three new options. They are Copy, Paste and Insert Comment. The copy option will copy the current line of the sale and the paste option can then be used to paste the line into a new position on the sale. The Insert Comment option allows you to insert comments in between sale lines.

Power Spreadsheet – The Load where button on the power spreadsheet will now bring back only the exact record and not all matches to the group by setting. The exception to this is when you choose a different back-end database to derive the returned information to the front-end database.

A/P Password – Setting the access to Account payables to an “R” will no longer allow access to the check register, but will allow access to inputting new payable entries.

POS Receipt – When giving a store credit the receipt will now display store credit as the tending type.

Matrix – The matrix tables now have color alias that can be setup to alias the three digit values with a more descriptive color name. For example, WHT aliases to WHITE and BLK aliases to BLACK. This allows you to better describe your colors. This works on the matrix tables and matrix reports as well as on the matrix purchase orders.

Matrix – The matrix tables have been updated so that you can adjust the size and width/color values without having to use external menus and loose the current values you were inputting.

Periodic Hot Seller – A new Sales Person limitation option has been added allowing the report to limit sales activity by sales person. This is handy when running the report by Customer and Limiting to sales person for mailings and return calls.

Periodic Hot Seller – When running the Periodic Hot seller report by Major Account will now only list Major Accounts instead of all Customer billings.

Backdoor Password – Magnum Software’s internal backdoor password has been removed and in place a unique password that changes every hour that gets generated for those rare cases when needed.

Sales by Hour Report – A new report has been added to allow you to view your sales by hour. This report will allow you to analyze your busiest and least busy periods by day of the week and hour to help you to schedule your employees to your best advantage. This report is found on the Reports/Money menu.

General Ledger – The General Ledger system has been optimized to allow you to run any period within a two year boundary. This is an increase from being able to run the G/L for any period within a one year boundary.

Future Orders Report – This report can now also limit to a single department when running for any of the other available criteria.

Inventory item Lookup – When scanning into the lookup table with a scanner the miniature matrix display would sometimes display an incorrect table. This has been corrected.

Customer Number modifier – Now has an option to be store number dependent/independent when modifying customer numbers.

Inventory Table – The Inventory table now has an option on the bottom of the screen that you may check to only show items that have available quantity on hand to sell.

A/P Check Posting – New fault tolerance has been added to the posting of the A/P checks. For those users using wireless network connections, it is possible that the connection can temporarily disconnect at any moment. If you were in the middle of posting A/P checks and you are disconnected this can cause problems. Winsale will now make sure that everything got posted correctly. If the problems persist longer it will display a message showing what checks did not post.

Inventory Table – A bug has been corrected that stopped the inventory table from bringing back to the inventory screen the item selected. This bug only affected the inventory table from the inventory screen and not from any other module.

Item Creation – When creating items using the external UPC database you may now change the style number (and thus the item number). The change you make will change all of the items as they are validating into the inventory.

Receipt Form Definition – Two new fields are now available to be printed out on the receipt. They are Employee Number, and Division Number as defined on the customer profile screen. These fields can be placed onto your sales ticket with the form definition utility.

QuickBooks Interface - You may now use class names for Winsale to QuickBooks interfacing. This allows you to separate Winsale entities from other entities when printing financial statements within QuickBooks.

Customer Lookup Tables – These lookup tables no longer insist on being the top window on the screen. This is so that you can minimize or click on any other menu or task without closing the lookup tables first. The taskbar will display the lookup table as a task so that you can click on it to return to the lookup table.

Store to store transfers – You can now use the data collector interface when doing store to store transfer.

Accounts payable Status – The default payables status has been changed to ‘R’ for release instead of ‘P’ for Pay. This is so that it is not automatically set to pay in the mark for payment screen, but will have to be selected for payment there.

Major Account Invoice – A new form was created to allow the major account invoicing to print on a plain sheet of paper without a bitmap image for the background. This form is compatible with window envelopes so it can be easily mailed without additional addressing. This new form number is number 69. In order for this form to be automatically created you must enter into the configuration program and then press Save then Exit at the top of the screen. To adjust your invoice form number to this new form number use the preference button on the major invoicing screen and change the form number to 69. This form was designed for portrait printing so be sure to print in this mode.

Auto Generate Purchase Order - You no longer have to create auto-generated purchase Orders by one vendor at a time. This new version will automatically split up any auto-generated orders in to separate purchase order numbers accordingly to the vendor number assigned to the item. This will greatly simplify ordering redlines or any of the other types of auto-generating purchase orders. If you still would like to generate the purchase order by vendor number simply select a single vendor number when selecting your ranges. Otherwise multiple PO’s may be generated automatically.

Reprint Sale – When you reprint a sale you can now select to view it in the report viewer instead of reprinting it to a printer. This will allow you to save the reprinted sale so that you can email it to a customer. You can save the file to HTML or PDF and then attach the document to an email. When selecting the sale to reprint you will see a new check box; select it to view the sale instead of reprinting it to paper.

Sales Trend Report – A new report has been added to the inventory reports section. This report details each style’s sales by size for the current year and each of the previous 3 years. This will allow you to look at sales trends by style. You can limit the report by Style, Vendor, Department and Alt Department.

Customer Account Lookup – If the Customer has an Employee Number entered into the system, the lookup table will now display that number as you scroll though the names to help you make sure that you are selecting the correct customer.

Gift Certificates – The automatic numbering of the gift certificates was advancing even when the user cancelled the gift certificate purchase. This has been corrected.

Inventory Find – The new Inventory Find Item screen has now been optimized even more in several ways.

Un-Reconciled Payable Entries – You can now run a report on Un-Reconciled Payables Entries. This is done from the Check Register. To run it Choose the File Menu on the Check Register and then Choose Print Un-Reconciled Entries.

Mailing Program – A new selection has been added that will allow you to run mailings for all Email addresses that do not contain (X). With this new functionality you can send regular mail merges instead of e-mail merges for those accounts without the ‘@’ sign.

Periodic Hot Seller – When exporting to the Mailing Label/Merge system you will now be prompted where to save the export file and whether you wish to append to any existing file or overwrite it.

03-21-2007 Spring 2007 Update sent to all Service Contract Customers.

General Journal Entries – A warning will now appear when making a general journal entry that involves the bank accounts. The warning specifies that the check register will not be affected by this journal entry. If a journal entry is needed to increase or reduce the check register it should be entered as a miscellaneous deposit / payment from the accounts payable module.

Check Register – The check register printing mechanism will now be from the check register itself instead of converting the check register to another format and then printing. Because of this you will need to select the date range that you will want to print by only loading that portion of the check register. The check register report will then be printed directly to the printer, as viewing the report is no longer needed prior to printing.

Check Register – The check register file has been converted to allow for more precision in the number system diminishing the effect of rounding errors. This is the first in a larger list of files that will be converted in the future. The conversion of your data will occur automatically when first entering the check register or you may choose to rebuild the ZREGISTR.BTR file from the Rebuild Data menu option located on the data menu.

Reorder Notification Report – This report will now perform a sub sort by item number when creating the report by vendor number.

Physical Listing Report – This report will now perform a sub sort by item number when creating the report by vendor number.

Invoice Register Report – This report has been optimized for speed. It came to our attention that it was taking a long time to generate this report when running by sales person (the default) when the sales person numbers were sporadic triple digits numbers (i.e. 101, 356, 812, 987, etc). This has been corrected.

GL Disbursement Journal – You can now limit the GL Disbursement Journal to Sub Accounts. To do this when entering in the account number range use a period to designate the sub account portion of the account number. For example, if you wanted to run the disbursement journal for Main Account Number 4105 with a sub account of 1 you would enter 4105.1 for the beginning Account Number and 4105.1 for the ending account number.

Check Printing - When printing Accounts payable checks Winsale will now display a dialog to tell you how many checks to put into the printer and also the check number range that is required for printing.

Page Properties – You can now set up Margins for anything that you print that is first displayed on the screen. You can specify that you want this information to be the same every time that you run this same item. Suppose that you wanted to put a ½ inch margin around the purchase order before faxing it to your vendor. You would first generate the purchase order as normal. Once it is displayed on the screen you would press the page options button and define the margin settings that you want. If you check the option labeled ‘Remember these settings for this page type’ then every time that you print a purchase order these margins that you defined will be automatically assigned.

Inventory Variance – The Control Detail Report now lists and extends the cost value of the scanned inventory.

Major Account Invoicing – You can now set Major Account Invoicing so that it will not Invoice select accounts. This can be setup under the Major Account Profile in the Major Account Business Rules. This has been added so that your sister stores will not be invoiced inadvertently.

Label Printing – A new form definition has been added to allow you to print labels from the customer/vendor lookup screen to a barcode printer. If you use a zebra barcode printer then change the customer label form number to number 15. This is done from inside of the configuration program under A/R Setup.

Invoice Register – This report has been optimized to run quicker.

Matrix Purchase Orders – When printing matrix purchase order, any non matrix items will no longer be ignored. This new version will add any non matrix items to the matrix purchase order at the bottom of the printed copy.

Power Spreadsheet – A new button has been added to allow for removing duplicate records in any database. Highlight any duplicate record entries and press the remove duplicates button and every duplicate entry will be removed less one. In other words 1 entry will remain after this function has been run.

POS Comments – When adding comments to a sale either in the form of the COMMENT item number or when an item doesn’t have a pre-defined description you can now type very long messages and Winsale will break the line up into multiple lines so that it can be easily viewed on the printed copy.

Save to Outlook – Customer and Vendor information can now be saved to Microsoft Outlook’s Contacts Folder. This gives you the ability to enter information into one place (Winsale) and then save it to be used in Microsoft Outlook or any PDA utility that uses Outlook. Microsoft Active sync can then automatically transfer your information to and from a personal information management device. The Quick Save to Outlook key is F11 and can be used from the customer and vendor profile screens.

G/L Category – A new General Ledger category labeled Un-Reported is now available. This is used only for the new inventory variances that are automatically reflected into the General Ledger. If you assign this new account to have a Category of Un-Reported this information is ignored and will not be listed on the trial balance or the other financial reports.

Service Charge Posting – The date of the service charge as entered into the Check Book Reconciliation will now be the date that the service charge is posted.

POS Lookup – A couple of new wildcard search functions have been added with this release. They involve surrounding the text of what you are looking for inside of question marks (?). From the POS screen if you were looking for a particular word in the description of an item you can simply type it in the item number field but surround it with questions marks (?). For example, if you were looking for an item that had the word sports embedded inside of the description you would type ?SPORTS? for the item number. When you press enter every item in your inventory would be scanned and only the descriptions that have the word sports inside of it would then be displayed inside of the inventory table. You can also use the inventory table and do searches for the Item Number and Description fields in the same manner, by surrounding them with question marks (?).

Credit Card processing – If a customer profile has been added for the current credit card sale the credit card verification will have the zip code automatically entered for you.

Adding New Customers – For those states that have magnetic stripes on the back of their driver’s licenses, you can now simply swipe the drivers license from any field on the new customer quick add screen. This is done with the credit card reader and the customer name, address, and birth date will automatically be filled in for you. This is an improvement from having to click the Scan Driver’s license button first.

Adding New Customers – Normally the user will type the name of the customer to lookup and if not found presses the New Customer button. They then would have to retype the name all over again. This version will carry the name automatically into the Customer name field so that you will not have to re-key this information.

Gift Certificate Numbering – The gift certificates can now automatically number them selves. If you want to turn on automatic numbering then choose the File menu from the purchase gift certificate screen and choose Auto Numbering. You will be prompted for the initial number to start the auto numbering with. From then on, every gift certificate number will be sequentially numbered starting with the initial number chosen.

Power Spreadsheet – The power spreadsheet could always import new data, but now can also be used to update fields with in the existing data. Please call Magnum Software if this is something that you will be interested in.

Business Selection Menu – This menu can now be used to hide or to unhide inactive business selections. This is based on the terminal doing the procedure so that different work stations can have different business selection menus. To use this functionality right-click on the menu option to hide and choose Hide. To restore the menu back to the default settings, right-click and choose un-hide all.

Clock in / Clock out – This function now has the ability to leave a note for a single or all sales people that will be displayed when they clock in or out. To leave a note for a single salesperson, enter their salesperson number as if you were clocking in (or out), then click the Note button on the bottom left of the screen. This will pull up notepad and you can leave any length note that will be displayed once the employee clocks back in or out. If you wish to leave a note for all salespeople you will need to click the Manager menu and then choose the ‘Create Master Note’ choice, now type in the note to be viewed for all employees like in the above step. The Master note will have to be deleted from the manager menu.

Point of Sale – You can now use the F11 key from inside of the POS module to either add a new account or modify the existing account displayed on the screen. This function will add a new account if there is no account number entered into the sale, and will modify the account displayed if it is present.

Form Definition – The Department Name has been added as an option for the sales ticket form definition. This addition allows you to print out the department description in addition to or in lieu of the item description on the receipt. This was added so that if a major account needs to see an appropriate purchase by an employee it can easily be verified by them. For example, a company may opt to only purchase shoes and boots for employees if they are steel toed or are metatarsal foot wear. The departmental information caries this description and can now easily be printed out on the receipt. Please Call Magnum Software if you need assistance in adding this information to your sales receipt.

Gift Certificates – You can now turn on Auto numbering for gift certificates. This is for those stores that do not have pre-numbered gift certificate forms. To turn this on click the file menu on the gift certificate purchase dialog and place a check the menu choice for auto numbering.

Customer Profile – A new field has been added to the customer profile called Date Opened. This field represents the date that any new customer profile is added. This date will automatically be set to the current date when adding any new customer profiles. Also included in this update is a program that will go through the sales history and update this field to the first date anything was sold for every existing customer profile. This program was automatically installed when you installed this version. The program to execute if you want to update your customer profiles is found in the Winsale folder on your local hard drive and is named UpdateCusDateOpened.exe. When you run this program you will be prompted for the data folder to update but the default is the most common of c:\winsale\data.

Mailing label Program – This module will now take advantage of any customer label forms that you have defined within the form definition program. If you define a customer label within the form definition program the mailing merge program can use that label form to print mailing on. Select Form Def Custom Label to print to this label.

Inventory Table – You can now easily search the Item Number and Description fields in inventory for any partial string located inside of these fields. For example, if you know that you have an item that has the word ‘SUPER’ inside of the description you can surround the word you are looking for inside of ? marks and search the description field. The inventory table will know that you are doing a wildcard search and it will search the entire inventory database for every occurrence of that string. In the above example you would type ?SUPER? to look for any item in inventory with the word SUPER in the description.

Style Checker – The Style Checker Utility already does an amazing job of analyzing the styles in your inventory for integrity but it now can also be limited to a single vendor to quickly analyze a single vendor’s styles.

Accounts Payable – Winsale now lets you choose the date when printing batch checks. Just as you select the vendor number and checking account numbers to print you can now change the default check date for the check printing and posting.

Accounts Payable – Winsale now let’s you split Accounts Payable payments from both the Mark for Payment screen and also from the Post Payables Entries Windows. You can select how many payments that you want the original invoice to be split into and it will automatically calculate the appropriate payments for you and will bump the invoice date 30 days out for each additional payment. You can of course adjust these payments and payment dates to suit your particular needs. From the Mark for Payment screen right click on the item to split, or from the Post Payables screen highlight the item and click the Split button on the top of the Window. You can split the payment up to ten times.

Customer Quick Add – Most State Automobile Driver’s Licenses now have an embedded magnetic stripe on them that contains the owners Name and Address. This information can be read with a magnetic stripe reader that most of you already have for credit card processing. Winsale can now read this information and add it without you having to type a thing. This is done by using the new Swipe Driver’s License function from the Customer Quick Add from inside of the Customer lookup table. Simply press the ‘Swipe Driver’s License’ button from the Quick Add screen and then swipe the driver’s license with your credit card reader. The name and address will be filled in for you automatically including their birth date.

ROI/Sell Through – The Sell Through / ROI report has been updated to list items that have not sold yet. Also a new column has been added to it labeled Units Ordered. These two new additions greatly enhance the power and usefulness to this report as it will give you more buying power when it come to analyzing your performance by vendor or style, etcetera. Wow, what a great report!

General Ledger – Several new enhancements have been added to the General Ledger system. The Opening Balances are now included into the trial balance report. Processing the General ledger Disbursement report will now ask you for a range of G/L Account number to report on. Also entering Account numbers with sub account number will now be taken correctly without having to resort to the G/L lookup table.

Phone Dialing – You may now use the Lookup Table to automatically dial phone numbers if you have a modem installed in your computer and it is plugged into the phone line. Simply lookup the customer that you want to call with the lookup table and choose one of the phone numbers to dial. You will be brought to another screen to choose the correct formatting of the phone number to use. The modem will be automatically detected on your system. If you do not want to use this functionality you may turn it off from inside of the dialer screen.

Label Printing – Magnum Software is now offering inexpensive personal label printers that offer extremely easy customizable design for barcode label printing and printing of address labels from the Lookup tables and the mailing label program. Please contact us to learn more.

Label Printing – You may now print customer and vendor labels directly from the Account Number lookup Screen. Simply highlight any accounts that you want to print (holding the Shift Key down for a range or the Alt Key down to cherry pick). Then press the Label button located inside the address box to print the labels you have selected. The form definition is used to create or modify the label layout. A predefined label has been defined for you and is located under form number 14. This has been designed to print to a dot matrix printer that has 1.5 inch labels loaded. This same utility has also been designed to print to a Zebra label printer, but the form will have to be modified for that application. This label printing ability could also be used to print customer loyalty cards, etcetera.

Quick Check – You can now use the Quick Check to pay miscellaneous vendors or employees without having to setup a vendor for each entity. Simply set up one vendor called Cash (or anything that you want) and then when using the Quick Check, click into the address box and change it for the one time entry.

Inventory Table – This function was causing an error when minimizing the screen instead of closing the window completely with the Exit button. This has been corrected.

Backup Utility – A new utility has been added to the Data Menu that will backup your data and configuration files. This utility is optimized for Windows XP and if XP is found your data will be backed up to a recordable CD-ROM drive. If you don’t have Windows XP then you can still use it to backup your data to a drive letter of your choosing. In any case, all files will be backed up for you with just the click of the mouse.

Major Accounts – The major Account Invoice has been updated to print the payroll deduction amount which is now being prompted for when charging to a major industry. (You may view a sample PDF file of the new layout by browsing to www.magnumsoftware.com/update/MAinvoice.pdf). This new invoice form also has everything embedded onto it so that the invoice.imp (import file) is no longer used for header information. In order to use the new invoice, form number 68 should be deleted from inside of the form definition utility (Choose the Edit menu and then Delete current form after choosing the Major Account Invoice). To create the new default invoice form enter into and exit from the Configuration program as this will create the new default invoice form.

Receipt Printing – If you are set up to be prompted for the check number then the check number that you enter will now automatically print on the receipt. You can turn this option on by selecting the MISCELLANEOUS MENU from the POS screen then choose POS OPTIONS and place a check mark in front of ASK CHECK NUMBER AT TENDER.

Major Accounts – You are now prompted for the Payroll Deduction Amount when charging to a Major Account. The amount you enter is not a reduction of what is charged to the Major Account but is for informational purposes only. This information can then be printed out on the Major Account Invoice to help the Major Account keep up with this payroll deduction amount.

Account Number Lookup – This utility has been updated with more power search functions.

A/P Module – Many new validations have been added to the A/P Posting Screen to ensure that all of the pertinent information has been filled in. In addition, you will now be prompted to update the check register if you add a line into the Posting screen that has assigned a check number and check date.

Special Orders – You can now have the point of sale create special orders when using the Sales Order function.

Receipt Form Definition – The form definition can be used to place the size property of the item on the receipt if desired.

Mailing Label Program – When doing a mail merge function, you now have the ability to use a salutation (Mr. Mrs. Ms. Dr. etc) as one of the field names. The correct salutation needs to be part of the customer name for this field to bring back the correct data.

Inventory Table – The speed that an item is brought back to the Point of Sale screen is much quicker now on slower computers.

Customer History – A new index has been added to the history file to allow displaying customer history from newest dates to the oldest dates. You should rebuild the history file (Zmain.btr) in order to take advantage of this new feature.

6-26-2006 – Winsale Upgrade Sent to all Service Contract Customers.

Point of Sale – Better error logging has been added to the Point of Sale module and to the Record Manager. To view any critical events that have taken place at a machine level (not network level) use the event viewer located from inside of the control panel/Administrative Tools. The event viewer can be used to view any critical errors that took place on a particular computer. This was done so that if a network failure caused the error then it will still be able to be logged locally in the event viewer.

Mailing Label System – You can now save and recall a recipient list for future mailings. To do this, generate the list of people that you wish to include in the mailing. Edit out any unwanted recipients from the mail selection tool. Once you have the list that you want to save press the ‘Save Recipient List’ button. Save the file to a location of your choosing. When you wish to recall this list at a later time then enter into the mailing label system and choose ‘From Import file’ as the source for the mailing. Once you press the OK button you will be able to browse to the saved file created in the first step.

Mobile Sales Interface – As the complexity of different configurations has increased Winsale has moved with it. When exporting and importing data between your mobile work force and your in-store system, you will be prompted for the configurations of the to-and-from systems. This new setup allows for all possibilities to be selected with the click of the mouse rather than adjusting setup files.

Zip Code Database – The Zip Code database has been changed to allow for Canadian Postal Codes. This means the database will allow 6 character postal codes with a space in between the first 3 characters and the last 3 characters. IMPORTANT: In order for this new database format you must delete the ZIP.BTR file in the Winsale folder on each of your computers before installing the latest disk.

Major Account Credit Limits – If the employee to the Major Account is on credit limit but you are billing the Major Account and the Major Account is not on a credit hold status then Winsale will no longer request a credit status over-ride.

Credit Limit – The high credit limit setting used to be $32,000. If you need to set this credit limit to unlimited then you now set the credit limit to zero to signify unlimited credit limit.

Gross Profit Display – The Gross Profit will no longer be displayed on the customer history screen in case the customer is looking at your monitor.

Purchase Orders – A major patch has been applied to the Extended Matrix Purchase Orders. The PO Number will no longer advance to the next number unless the Finish with this Order button has been pressed or you exit the PO screen. Also the Receive Complete function has been made more fool proofed and will try a lot harder to make sure that the orders get received in total.

Accounts Payable – The Accounts Payable posting screen has a new field called Miscellaneous Charge that will allow you to attach an additional expense item to each Accounts payable Posting. This expense item is any item of your choice but it typically would be used for cases when you are charged shipping insurance, sales tax paid, GST Input Credit, etc. All of the reports will list this additional expense appropriately and the General Ledger will handle this new Miscellaneous Charge automatically.

Sell Through / ROI – A new report has been implemented into Winsale that gives another outlook into the profit picture. The Sell Through/ROI report shows you what investment was made in order to make a single sale. For example, you need to know more than what items are selling; you need to understand the stock to sales ratio that it takes to make that single sale. Winsale's Sell Thru report helps you understand how much of an investment is being made. (You may have to purchase 2 or more items just to sell 1) Obviously, the fewer products you have to invest in to make your selling goals is a very important. Your Return on Investment (ROI) and Sell through percentage can be a truer teller of the profit picture, more than just flat out sales dollars minus the cost of goods sold (COGS). The Sell thru/ROI report is an excellent tool to analyze sales history to see what best works for your clientele and your bottom line. For example, it can tell you what sizes to buy and which are truly the most profitable vendor lines because it can show you the amount of dollars in investment for any variant of product it takes to make a single sale. Of course, to use this report you must use purchase orders to bring your inventory into Winsale.

Periodic Hot Seller – The periodic Hot Seller now allows for the limitation of reporting to a range of Bill to (or Major) Accounts. With this addition you can now select to run the PHS report by any of its myriad of options and limit the output to a certain Major Account or a range of Major Accounts. This ability tied in with the two below listed new PHS options gives you a great way of supplying your customer with their sales history or employee sales history.

Periodic Hot Seller – You now have the option of hiding the profitability columns from displaying on the Periodic Hot Seller report. This allows you to generate this report without fear of your customer gaining insight into your profit picture.

Matrix Print Engine – A new print engine has been developed to allow other aspects of Winsale to print information in a Matrix Grid format. The first report to take advantage of this new engine is the already very powerful Periodic Hot Seller. The new matrix print engine is only in the first iteration of a beta release phase and yet is very powerful. Please try it out and let us know what you think. Simply choose Print Detail in Matrix Format when showing detail from the Periodic Hot Seller.

Employee Book by Major Account – This report has been updated to only list purchases when the Employee Account differs from the Major Account.

General Ledger – Modifying and Adding entries to the Accounts Receivable screen will now make internal G/L entries to the General Ledger.

Inventory Matrix – The mini matrix that displays on the bottom of the screen would show 3 blank entries when a matrix was designed to show no sizes instead of just one. This could cause confusion and has been corrected.

General Ledger – Inventory Variances are now automatically posted to the General Ledger with the new “Loss do to Shrinkage” Account. Therefore when a user changes the quantity for any item in inventory or anywhere else that inventory quantities can be manually changed the general ledger system will display the variance in cost dollars on the financial statements or trial balance or G/L Disbursement journal. Note: You can use an alias for any account description for printing out on financial statements. This is set up on the chart of accounts.

Purchase Orders – The Quick Scan Purchase Order utility can now be used with multiple vendors at the same time. In other words, you can use this utility to create purchase orders, receive purchase orders and create and receive purchase orders simply by scanning or typing in the item numbers to order. You no longer are limited to just doing one single vendor at a time. Winsale will now sort the items entered and group them by vendor number internally and do the requested actions automatically by vendor number groupings.

Purchase Orders – Several safeguards and check points have been added to ensure that the items you think are getting updated into inventory are in fact taking place. These safeguards check to make sure that inventory found on a Purchase Order is still found in inventory and was not accidentally archived. You will now get a status of successful updates/deletions when pressing the Finished with this order button.

General Ledger – If you create an alias on the chart of accounts this alias will print out on the financial statements instead of the Account Name.

Sales Order – Converting a sales order with Manual Tax to an invoice will now correctly use this manual tax as defined when you created the sales tax.

Miscellaneous Deposit – The A/P function Miscellaneous Deposit will now print out a statement of transaction when completing a Miscellaneous Deposit / Payment.

G/L Journal Entry – A statement of transaction will now print when completing a G/L Journal Entry.

Major Account Invoice – The new invoice (form 68) has been modified to print the new Employee Clock number and the new Employee Division number. To use the new Major Account Invoice form you will have to delete the old Major Account Invoice (form 68) from the form definition and then create a new form 68 by entering into and saving the configuration program. This will create the new form number. The new fields (Employee Clock number and Employee Division number) are found internally inside each customer profile. The Customer employee profile will have to be updated to be able to include this information.

A/R Aging Report – This report will now tab the invoice amount into the appropriate aging column (Current, Over 30, Over 60, Over 90) when the account type is an Open Item type account. Balance Forward and Revolving Accounts still operate in the same format they did previously.

Layaway Sales – When a user starts a sale as a layaway and then the customer pays it off in full, the sale is automatically converted to a Sale transaction instead of leaving it as a Layaway.

Inventory Value By Report – This report now reports the PO Rcvd amount for any category.

Close out A/R Period – The A/R type can now be enforced when running the close out procedures. This way the stores default A/R type as defined in the configuration program can be enforced during the close out. This should stop a mix matched bag of A/R types from occurring.

UPC – The UPC codes can now be added directly from the matrix module. Also a new button has been added from the Matrix Loader screen that can allow the user to verify and correct the UPC codes when they are found in the external UPC database.

Major Account Invoice – With some users Invoices would not print when multiple employees were selected from within one major account. This has been fixed.

Multiple Shipping Addresses – This version of Winsale Creates a new file that can contain multiple shipping addresses per client. Also several new fields have been added to the customer profile. These are Employee Number, Division Number, Birthday, and Social Security Number.

Mini Matrix – The mini matrix on the inventory screen will now display the sizes in logical order when the sizes contain S, M, L, XL, XXL.

Periodic Hot Seller Report – The periodic hot seller report can now be run by tax code charged. This can help the store manager determine the correct tax charged.

PO Status Report - This report will now run much faster.

The customer number modifier was not updating the Billed by field in the A/R File. This could stop major account invoices from running. This has been corrected.

Major Account Selection- The PO Number is now displayed and can be changed or sorted to print by PO Number from the Invoice Selection screen. If you change the PO Number from here, it updates the sales history.

Major Account Invoicing – New Columns are available that include Qty Sold and Extended Selling Price.

Gift Certificates – The Gift Certificate Creation had a bug where you could not use the customer lookup screen. This has been fixed.

Major Account Invoice – The Major Account Invoice has even more abilities than when released this January.

Periodic Hot Seller – This report has been modified to allow for the limitation by size.

Quick Payment – The quick payment was acting erratic this has been fixed.

Power Spreadsheet – A new load selection called Load Where has been added. This button gives the ability to have relational ability between two databases within Winsale or just greater loads selection ability within a single database.

Special Order – The split tend comment line is used to add a special order action line when the current transaction includes any special orders.

Voiding or Modifying at POS - Check the status of inventory to make sure that the inventory is there before proceeding with any voiding or modifying even in modifying a layaway. This is to stop status 4 errors.

Lookup Tables - The Customer/Vendor lookup tables have the ability for mouse scrolling.

Point of Sale - Check the status of inventory to make sure that the inventory is there before proceeding with any voiding or modifying. This is to stop status 4 errors.

Receipt Policy – You can now edit the receipt policy from the miscellaneous module on the POS screen.

Red Line PO – An index has been added to the inventory file so that creating PO’s with Auto Generate PO’s for red line quantities is many 100’s of times faster than before. The inventory file will have to be rebuilt in order for this functionality to take place.

Stamps.com Interface – An interface has been added to allow you to easily print postage (including address labeling) from several areas of Winsale. If you don’t currently have a Stamps.com account already, creating one now is well worth it. Contact Magnum Software at 843-423-3010 and we can set you up with free postage (Only new Accounts please). The areas that have been interfaced are; the lookup tables (Customer and Vendor), Customer Mailing Program, Accounts Payable Check Posting. In these areas you will be able to print out labels or envelopes or any media that Stamps.com supports. Postage will automatically be printed onto the media so no more stamps needed. This is huge time saver and it will automatically verify the addresses for you.

Inventory – The sale price and sale date will now update all items of the current style when being saved.

Inventory – The variance file will now record deletion and archival of inventory. It will also record the addition of new items numbers.

POS – The Point of sale will now not warn you when the Winsale system date is one day ahead of the Windows system Date. This has been modified so that the register can be closed early and any straggler sales can be completed on the following date by simply advancing the Winsale Date by one day.

Inventory – Two new buttons have been added to the record navigation area on the inventory screen. These buttons will allow you to navigate directly to the next style or to the previous style without having to scroll through all of the items within that style.

New Menu Structure - A new menu Heading has been added labeled 'Data'. This menu will be used for things like Backup and Restore Functions, Rebuilding data files, power spreadsheets, and a new recycle bin utilities section.

Accounts Receivable Aging Report - This report may now be limited to a sales territory range. This has been included because some stores use the sales territory field to segregate customer paying ability.

Accounts Receivable Detailed - The sales person who made the sale and the sales person who received the payment is now displayed on this Screen.

Reports - When printing reports sometimes the value is too large to print on the report. These values used to display an array of pound signs or train track symbols. This has been changed to display the value without the cents value. This will give three more spaces to display the number.

Customer Sales By Vendor Report - This report has been updated for speed and additional query ability. You may now run this report to view 'Customer Sales by: 'Item Number, Style, Size, Color, Date Code, Department, Alt Department, and Last PO Number as well as by Vendor. The report layout has not changed so that it will display by Vendor what the customer purchased, who the customer is but the new categories will be used to load the information.

Statement Printing - You will now be prompted the starting letter of the customers name when printing out statements. This has been added so that if the printer jams and you need to restart printing statements you will not have to start printing from the beginning.

Inventory Audit - The inventory audit will now verify the Last PO Number that the item was purchased on.

Mobile Import System - When importing with Mobile Truck system, only the current days layaways will import into the system.

Print Screen - You may now print the screen for nearly every screen within Winsale. To do this, right-click in any area outside of any framed in borders on the screen you want to print. Choose Print Screen from the menu and you will be prompted for the printer to print to.

Received on Account Detailed - The details grid in the center of the screen will now show the tender on how payments were paid.

Quick Check - You can now edit the name and address of the payee right on the quick check screen. Simply click into the fields to edit them. You will be prompted to make the changes permanent or not.

Speed Improvements - The Periodic Hot Seller and Category Summary have been totally reworked to get speed improvements. The results are fantastic. What took the Periodic Hot Seller 220 Seconds now takes 24 Seconds. The category summary speed improvement is even better. What took 780 Seconds now takes 36 Seconds.

Sub-Total Discounting - You may now discount a sale to the price that you want it to be by simply clicking into the sub-total field and typing the new sub-total amount into the box. The sale will be discounted by the amount of the difference of the original sub-total and the new requested sub-total.

Tax Total Discounting - You may now discount a sale to the price that you want it to be by simply clicking into the Total Due field and typing the new Total Due amount into the box. The sale will be discounted by the amount of the difference of the original Total Due and the new requested Total Due. The Tax Amount will get recalculated and the shipping amount will also be taken into consideration.

Dot-Matrix Label Printers - Inventory Labels being printed out on Dot-matrix printers would have Windows spool out an extra label at the end of each label run, thereby wasting a label with every new label run. This has been worked around so that the extra label is no longer ejected.

Power Spreadsheets - You may now load and select at the same time. This changes two common steps into one.

Power Spreadsheets - You may now unload items from the spreadsheet. This allows you to filter out un-needed items.

Layaway Special Order - Converting a layaway to a sales ticket that had a special order on it will now remove the special order flag when the conversion is made.

Reprinting Sale - You can now reprint a sale from inside of the inventory screen by selecting an items history and then showing specific sales details.

Special Order Actions - You can now define a special order action while creating the special order.

Special Order Report - Now includes layaway transactions as well as regular sales transactions.

Open Item A/R - Accounts with even partially paid off invoices will now roll the paid off portion into history and keep a remaining balance line open. In some cases this should drastically shorten the A/R aging report.

Receipt Printing - In some cases, receipts were not printing how the sale was tended. This has been fixed.

Major Account Invoicing - Some users were receiving an error of input past end of file. This has been fixed

Layaway - The layaway was not allowing new layaway numbers to be used that were larger than default next layaway number. This has been fixed.

Miniature Matrix Table - The inventory screen now incorporates a miniature matrix that you can view all the size runs that you have in-stock. This miniature matrix shares the same space as the inventory notes viewing window. If the item is not a matrix style item the note-viewing window will be displayed instead. You can press the Show Notes button to view notes when the Mini Matrix is displayed. You can also switch views to see Red Line Quantities and YTD Sales figures. In order to change any actual matrix quantity values you will need to choose the Matrix Button at the top of the screen and change them from within the Matrix Table itself.

Gift Receipts - To print gift receipts simply choose to reprint a receipt and then choose print Gift Receipt. The gift receipt will print out without any money references and is used to give with the gift being purchased so that an exchange can be made without giving the actual receipt to the gift recipient.

Color Coordination - You may now choose the color scheme for Winsale. This is accomplished from the Help menu.

Optimization - Winsale will now snap open modules and lookup tables.

Remote Store - Redundant file transfers will no longer take place when building data from remote sites. This will greatly increase the speed of record insertion at the receiving end.

Check Printing - Printing checks from the mark for payment will automatically only run the range of vendors that have been selected for check printing. In most cases this will dramatically increase speed of printing and posting of checks.

A/P Posting - The Accounts Payable Posting screen will now load considerably faster when many transactions are contained within a vendor.

Purchase Orders - You may now choose to print matrix purchase orders in the order that it was entered or have it sort it by style to keep all same style entries together.

Remote Store - You may now turn off the printing of the transfer receivals when inserting transfers from remotes stores. This will allow the insertion to take place on a timer without user intervention.

Matrix Table Printing - When printing the matrix table it will now print on one sheet of paper for better management.

Landscape Printing - You may now elect to have reports that are printed in a condensed format to print with a larger font in landscape mode versus portrait.
This configuration option is located in the configuration program under miscellaneous settings.

Physical Inventory - The detail summary report will now print alphabetically and not in the order that the items were entered in.

Matrix Table - Informational fields are now displayed for the item that the cursor is resting on in the matrix table.

Inventory Matrix - You may now enter a 10-digit style field into the matrix but will be warned of the potential item number overflow if 6 digits more are added to it with the Size and Width/color fields. The maximum length an item number can be is 15 digits. Because the item number is made up of the Style number and the Size and Width/color you have to be careful not to allow both a 3 digit size and a 3 digit width/color to be added onto a 10-digit style.

Invalid Dating - When a user enters a date that is not the windows date will now receive a warning upon first entering into the system. They will also get a warning when completing a sale.

Inventory Value By - This report now includes the percentage of inventory a line item represents. This will allow you to look at your inventory in comparisons of percentage in stock versus the dollar value in stock. This is a quick way of looking at where you may be over or under bought.

Open to Buy - The open to buy program has been completely reworked to allow the user to create an all inclusive open to buy forecast by planning your purchasing number without relation to departmental criteria and then gives you the ability to extrapolate this information down to the department level by percentage of sales by department.

4 Year Comparative Sales Journal - A new report has been added that is like the monthly sales journal except that each line represents a month of the year. The report will list out the last four years of sales by month with subtotals by year. This report is located on the Money Reports menu.

Lookup Table - All the lookup tables will now let you scroll to records less than originally requested. For example, if you type in the name "Smith" and then arrow up you can go before the name "Smith" to "Smite".

Reports - All reports will now remember the number of copies requested the last time the report was run.

Mailing Label Program - This program will now print First and Last Names in separate fields when saving the mailing to an export file or when using the mail merge function. This way mailing houses can personalize the mailing with the first name of the customer. Also, This file is now saved as a comma separated value file (CSV) so that it can be easily read into an Excel spreadsheet.

Mailing Label Program - You will now be prompted for which row to start printing on when you select to print on Avery laser labels. This way you can do smaller mailing and use partially used label pages.

Drawer Reconciliation - The system will now remember the number of copies that you select when printing out the daily sales from within the drawer reconciliation.

Layaway Statements - Layaway statements will now print out payment history with the dates the actual payments were taken on.

Speed Improvements - Subsequent starting Winsale after the first run of a new version will load much faster. This is because it will no longer check for needed file conversions after the first load of a new version of the software. The Inventory Module will now also load faster due to optimization of code.

Mass Email Ability - The Mail Merge/Mail Label program now can also do Emailing to your customers in lieu of printing labels or mail merging. You can Assign Email Addresses in the customer profile or when adding customers at the Point of Sale. As this Email / FYI field can also be used for FYI information the emailing program will determine if there is a valid email address in this field. Only customers with valid email addresses will be looked at when doing Mass Emailing. The body of the email should be designed with the Design Letter function. As the Design Letter function was designed to allow you to mail merge, the same capability is used for Mass Email. This means the email can be personalized with each customer's data. For example, you can use this functionality for sending out collection letters to overdue accounts. The name, address and balance due can automatically be filled in for you. This is accomplished by dropping in fields with the fields' button when designing the letter. Your stores emailing properties must be filled in under the Internet/Email/Properties. You do not have to use the Internet/Email/Address book as that is for one at a time emailing.

Gift Certificates - You may now use the purchase gift certificate to let your customers purchase an unlimited number of Gift Certificates in one transaction. This will ease the process when companies purchase gift certificates for their employees. Also a separate menu function has been added for voiding Gift Certificates to make this process more intuitive.

Accounts Payable - When posting Accounts Payable Checks you will be shown a listing of checks that were printed. Each Check has a Check Box to allow you to either let posting occur or you can take the check mark off to disallow posting of the check. This has been added so that if a check gets jammed in the printer you have the power not to post it or any checks thereafter.

Inventory Power Spreadsheet - If you use the Inventory Power Spreadsheet to change resale prices it will now automatically adjust the margin/markup for the item that has been changed.

Remote Store - The Accounts Payable Check Register and Inventory Variance files now transfer within the Remote Store communications. Also checks on valid files have been added to the Remote Store Utilities before the insertion process.

Multi-Store - You may now use the inventory table to make changes to the description, department and Alternate departments. In multi store configurations if you make a change then the changes are automatically sent to the other stores via a zero qty transfer. This facilitates the reassigning of department numbers and descriptions within the mother store for all the outlying stores.

Voiding Gift Certificates - When voiding a gift certificate the original customer number is automatically entered into the dialog, this ensures that the history for the customer is updated.

General Ledger - You may now select to report on only General Journal Entries when running the Trial Balance or the GL Disbursement Journal. This will help in auditing journal entries.

Reports - You may now save reports to PDF (portable document format). This is easily done by pressing the SAVE Menu button when the report is being viewed on the screen. PDF is a popular format because it is device-independent and because Adobe publishes many tools that allow you to create, manipulate, and view PDF documents. These tools include the free multi-platform document viewer Adobe Acrobat. The portability and high quality of the PDF documents make PDF an excellent choice for Web publishing. For more information on the PDF format and PDF utilities from Adobe and other sources, visit the Adobe Web site.

Received on Account (Detailed) - The default tender type that you set up in the configuration program under POS Options will now be used as the default payment type. You may also choose no default to force the user to make the proper selection.

Sales Statistics - You may now password-protect the viewing of Sales statistics from the Point of Sale Screen. This has been added because some stores do not want their sales people to view the sales figures. This is accomplished at Profiles/Passwords/POS Functions.

Invoice Register - You may now select to run this report to show only non-taxable transactions. This will help auditing the Tax Exemption report.

Major Account Invoicing - A new option has been added that will allow you to invoice customers for negative transactions.

Periodic Hot Seller - When you run the Periodic Hot Seller by Major Account you can now select it to print out the employees that purchased from you. To do this, check the box to Detail Employees on the report. This option is only available when you are running the Periodic Hot Seller by Major Account.

Commissionable Inventory - You may now select an item not to be commissionable when a sales person sells it. In order to make an item not be commissionable, you must place a check mark on the check box that is marked "Do not pay commission on this item". This check box can be found on the bottom of the inventory master screen. The sales commission report will not report on any sales of this item by any sales person.

Inventory Audit - A powerful new utility has been added to verify and maintain the integrity of your inventory. From several places inside Winsale an audit procedure is called to verify the integrity of your inventory. It uses the historical information recorded for the item to verify and repair if necessary the quantities recorded onto the inventory record. This auditing process will guarantee that your inventory counts are correct. You may manually run the audit directly from the following places: 1 - Inventory Master Screen. Choose the Audit button. 2-Drawer Reconciliation. This will audit the items sold during the current day automatically. 3-Inventory Power Spreadsheet. Pull up inventory in any fashion then select the items to audit, and then press the audit power button. 4 - Remote Store communications. 5 - Any power spreadsheet that has the item number and store number fields. 6 - Auto generate Purchase order when creating Red-Line Purchase orders. The inventory for the date range being inserted will automatically be audited. In the future, the audit utility will verify costing based on PO history and the setting of the inventory costing method Average, LIFO, FIFO) as defined in the configuration program.

Inventory Matrix - You may now select a check box to enable printing labels/tags for any new items being created within the matrix inventory table. The check box is located on the Style selector screen before proceeding into the matrix itself. If this checkbox is checked then any NEW items that are created may be printed when saving the matrix table.

Quick PO - You may now use the inventory hand-held data collector to receive, create, or create and receive Purchase Orders. If you own a data collector, you can simply scan the boxes and download it directly into the quick PO tool. Anything that you have scanned will be read into the Quick PO tool for easy receiving of purchase orders. You may use either the Single or two prompt method on the data collector. You may also use the same procedure for filling inventory by selecting Create Purchase Order in the Quick PO tool. If you use two prompts on the hand-held scanner then the quantity that you enter will be ordered.

Point of Sale - You may now use the inventory hand-held data collector to place items into a sale. This will likely be handy for large sales or when you want to sell a lot of inventory to one customer. An example of this is if you are donating older inventory to good will or are selling out older inventory to a jobber.

Periodic Hot Seller / Customer Book Reports - You may now limit to a particular zip code of the customer when running these reports. This is handy for looking at sales for a particular area or demographic.

Accounts Payable - You may now choose to select to only load unpaid payables into the Accounts Payable posting screen. This will allow much faster loading times when viewing a particular vendors posting screen.

Matrix Inventory - You may now select to print labels/tags when creating new items within Matrix Inventory. Simply check the Print labels check box before selecting the matrix table to use. If a new item is created within the matrix then a label will be printed out.

Remote Store – You may now set the communication process to no longer bring the whole inventory record for sales transactions. Instead it can use the sales history to update the store record during the insertion process. This holds many benefits including faster and more accurate record transversal. Remote Store users should only install this update when they can update both stores on the same day.

Reports - You may now save any report to html for inclusion in email or for publishing on the web.

Layaway Reason Code - A new reason code type has been added to Winsale. Now whenever you forfeit a layaway, you will be asked the reason for this forfeiture. The reason table is initially blank but you can add reason codes to it by pressing the <INS> on the keyboard. You can always remove the reason code from the questionnaire by pressing the <DEL> key on the keyboard. These Reason Codes are also shown on the customer history screen in the Layaway/Gift Certificate Section.

Remote Store - You may now set an option to have the extraction routine use math operators (+/-) when building sales information for inventory. In other words, if the store sells 1 item then it can be set to take whatever quantity is at the receiving store and subtract 1 item from this quantity. If you do not use this option then the remote stores inventory will over-ride the receiving store's inventory with whatever quantity the remote store has for that item at the time of building. This option has been added to the Remote Store configuration tab in the configuration program.

Inventory Value By - This report has a new option that will allow you to only view items in inventory where the quantity is below 0. This can give you an easy way of viewing possible back order/special order situations as well as show you inventory counts that are most likely incorrect.

Customer Lookup Tables - A bug has been fixed that sometimes would drop the first digit of the customer number when you were typing it in. This only happened when the user was entering a number and not an account name.

External UPC Database - When adding a new item via the external UPC database then every item of the style being added will be brought into inventory as well. This allows for easy validation of sizes and widths.

External UPC Database - The external UPC database has been updated to include Red Wings new 2003 Costs.

Inventory - The 1 Digit Open field has been converted to a location field. This means that you may put a one-digit identifier into this field to specify its location. The Inventory Value by report will then allow you to limit to this field. This is a great way of taking spot checks of your inventory by wall. Simply assign every style of a shoe on a specific wall a unique location code. Then run the Inventory value by report limiting it to that wall. You will then receive a report of only those items on the wall. You may run the inventory value by report by style to give you a single count by style number, regardless of size or width. Hint - See the common field inventory updater issue below.

Inventory - If a common field in a style is changed on the master inventory screen you will be prompted to make the same change for all items of the same style. For example, If you change a cost on Item Number '00105D090' then every item that is style '00105' can be updated with the same changed information.

Recycle Bin - A built in recycle bin has been added to Winsale. This means anytime that a crucial function takes place Winsale will try and backup it up to a folder off of the Data folder named Recycle Bin. If the file in question is open elsewhere, then the file cannot be backed up automatically. When the file is backed up it will have the same name, as the original file except it will be prefixed with the Date and Time. Manually backing up the data folder will require more time and storage space, so if any of these are of the essence then you should delete the recycle bin folder before proceeding. In the future this same technology will be used to create backups.