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"The Consignment Shop" Management Software Enhancements
included in Release 10.2.53.3
as of July 1st, 2019
Maintenance Upgrade.
"The Consignment Shop" Management Software Enhancements
included in Release 4.3.9
as of August 4th, 2015
1. Added an effective Posting Date Option for Posting Payments.
2. Improvements made to the Maintain Layaway Form
3. Added the ability to make payments to customers as well as Consignors and Vendors via the Post Payments form.
4, Several Maintenance Issues were addressed as reported by customers.
5. Changed the Auto Forfeit to ignore the "Do Not Donate" setting if Item is marked to be forfeited.
"The Consignment Shop" Management Software Enhancements
included in Release 4.2.5.7.8
as of January 8, 2015
1. Changed the Inventory Maintenance form so that after an item is sold the Type field remains enabled to allow for it to be modified.
2. Changed the Inventory Maintenance form so that it keeps the currently selected account number in the account number quick find field.
3. Added Birth Date and Email Sort options to Select Mailing Labels Form.
4. Made changes to speed up the Auto Donate Process.
5. Made changes to speed up the Auto Forfeit on Startup Process.
"The Consignment Shop" Management Software Enhancements
included in Release 4.2.5.7.5
as of November 4, 2014
1. Added new streamlined process for selling and processing Gift Certificates and Gift Cards.
2. Added support for Merchant Warehouse integrated Credit Card processing on Windows 8 platforms.
3. Added Coupon Payment Type to the Point of Sale Screen to capture payments made with coupons for tracking purposes.
4.Enabled the Process Sale button on the Point of Sale Screen to allow for zero balance due Sales.
5. Added option to allow Updates to Cash Drawer Opening Amount.
6. Changed program to include Sales Completed Prior to Opening Cash Drawer
7. On Payouts By Check, Added Option to Print Address Labels
8. Added Option to Exclude Consignor Address on Payment Checks & Reprints
9. Added new Year-End Summary Report sorted by Category.
10. Added new Forfeited Items Report showing Total Sold and Unsold Items.
11. Added an Option to Apply 2nd Sales Tax to All Categories
12. Added a New Report listing Inventory Items Sold By Employee
13. Changed the AutoForfeit Return to Consignor Begin/End Dates to be Optional. If no date is entered, all forfeited items will be shown.
14. All reported program issues reported to date were also addressed.
15. Added a new Backup Process to speed up the System Backups.
16. Changed the Sales Detail Report by Date to include Date and Time to the sort order.
17. Added the ability to create custom Email Lists
"The Consignment Shop" Management Software Enhancements
included in Release 3.9.2
as of November 20, 2013
1. Fixed issue with uploading Online Consignor Accounts caused by GoDaddy Internet Servcies Migration
2. Added formatting for phone number fields for Scotland.
3. Added a Frequent Buyer Loyalty program option. It can be setup via the Loyalty Card tab in the Company Profile.
4. Maintenance Upgrade - fix for issue related to the Loyalty Program feature.
5. Added the ability to return multiple items with a single transaction via the Point of Sale Screen.
6. Added an option to Maintain Accounts to not collect a charge card fee for the specified account.
7. Added an option to collect the check processing fee at the Account level.
8. Add Layaway Payment button to the POS Screen
9. Add the 2 new reports to frmInventory, Expired Items Report and Available Unsold Items Report
10. Fixed Pole Display bug showing incorrect amount due when Store Credit is used.
11. Added an option to disable layaways. Option is on the BusinessRules2 tab of the Company Profile.
12. Added an option to allow payment of different consignor commissions based on the item's sold price.
13. Added an Amount Tendered field to the Sales Layaway Payments form in Express Events to differentiate from the Amount Due field.
14. Maintenance Upgrade to address a few glitches reported in the 3.8.6 release.
15. Added optional start field for new entries on Maintain Accounts Screen.
16. Added the ability to insert the current date into the notes field.
17. Changes to only calculate consignor fees on the Consignor Reports Options form when the "Collect Consignor Fees" flag is set in the Company Profile.
18. Added Brand Name to Online Consignor Views
19. Fix for Year-End Purge where sold inventory records with the Store Record flag were not being purged.
20. Added optional starting position for Consignor Payment Due form.
21. Created a New Print Control Form to support additional types of printers and to eliminate the requirement to rename printers.
22. Add the Quality field to the Advanced Item Inquiry Form
23. Fixed the report associated with this form Consignor Payment Due to prevent doubling the amount due.
24. Maintain Consignor Payments form – Changed the code to allow for the deletion a payment even if it was not the last payout made. This applies to "Reverse Payment Batches" also.
25. Add an option to the Company Profile to unlock the Item Charge Field.
26. Fix for updating the next check number.
27. Fix to prevent the store discount and loyalty discount from being multiplied and/or off by pennies due to multiple items.
"The Consignment Shop" Management Software Enhancements
included in Release 3.8.8
as of June 19, 2013
1. Fixed issue with uploading Online Consignor Accounts caused by GoDaddy Internet Servcies Migration
2. Added formatting for phone number fields for
3. Added a Frequent Buyer Loyalty program option. It can be setup via the Loyalty Card tab in the Company Profile.
4. Maintenance Upgrade - fix for issue related to the Loyalty Program feature.
5. Added the ability to return multiple items with a single transaction via the Point of Sale Screen.
6. Added an option to Maintain Accounts to not collect a charge card fee for the specified account.
7. Added an option to collect the check processing fee at the Account level.
8. Add Layaway Payment button to the POS Screen
9. Add the 2 new reports to frmInventory, Expired Items Report and Available Unsold Items Report
10. Fixed Pole Display bug showing incorrect amount due when Store Credit is used.
11. Added an option to disable layaways. Option is on the BusinessRules2 tab of the Company Profile.
12. Added an option to allow payment of different consignor commissions based on the item's sold price.
13. Added an Amount Tendered field to the Sales Layaway Payments form in Express Events to differentiate from the Amount Due field.
14. Made Pole Display Changes to accommodate more COM ports and added support for the Bixolon Pole Display.
15. Maintenance Upgrade to address a few glitches reported in the 3.8.6 release.
"The Consignment Shop" Management Software Enhancements
included in Release 3.7.4
as of November 20, 2012
1. Added 2 new payment methods to the Point of Sale Screen. Paypal and Internal Usage.
2. Added the ability to identify the type Credit card being used to make the purchase on the Point of
3. Added the following new reports to the Sales Summary Report Menu.
3.1 Sales by Category by Payment Method.
3.2 Payment Methods used by Category
4. Added the following new reports to the Accounts List Menu.
4.1 Accounts with Inactive Status
4.2 Accounts with no activity within a specified number of months.
5. Added a check box to the Post Consignor Payments form labeled Process Zero Balance Payments, This is to allow for the ability to clear out sold items where the amount that is owed to the Consignor and the amount the Consignor owes the Store is equal creating a zero balance due situation that prevents the records from ever being washed out of the system.
6. Added an option to the Maintain Accounts form to not charge Credit Card fees to a Consignor for their items that were sold to a customer that used a credit or debit card to make the purchase. This will override the default setting in the Company Profile.
7. Added an option in the Company Profile BusinessRules2 to disable the Type of Charge Card being used for those not interested in capturing this type of information.
8. Added the ability to transfer sold but not paid inventory items from one account to another.
"The Consignment Shop" Management Software Enhancements
included in Release 3.6.3
as of June 26, 2012
1. Cancelled layaways are now handled differently than before. Instead of marking the items as sold and creating a new item with a new item number, the system now records the forfeited layaway deposit as a handling fee. The cancelled layaway items are then simply returned to an available for sale status.
2. Added a Quick Find by Account Number to the Buy Existing Inventory form.
3. Added a consignor Fees Paid report to the consignor report options menu.
4. Added an option to the Company Profile Printers tab for the Receipt Printer to print 2 copies versus only 1. One for the customer and one for the store.
5. Added a print button on the Item Pricing form.
6. Added the ability to have alternate consignment periods for certain Categories of Items. The current Consignment Period on BusinessRules1 of the Company Profile will be the default consignment period. If a consignment period is entered for a Category in the Category Lookup List, then it will override the default consignment period.
7. Added a Begin and
8. Added a link from the Maintain Accounts Screen to Wish List form to allow additions to the customer’s Wish List This also allows the Sales Clerk to add an item to the Wish List for a customer from the Point of Sale Screen.
9. Added an option to Unlock the Charge Card Fee field so that the Card processing fee on an individual item can be changed or deleted if desired. This new option is located on the Systems Configuration Tab of the Company Profile.
10. Added an option to the BusinessRules2 tab to disable the Store Discount field on the Point of
11. Changed the label on the Post Sales button on the Sales Screen to read Change Sales Date
12. Added an additional 3 Checks per page layout for compatibility with the Brother Printers that restricts the size of the top margin to no less than 16 . The new check report format is the" 3 QB Checks per page".
"The Consignment Shop" Management Software Enhancements
included in Release 3.5.5.9
as of March 12, 2012
1. Added functionality to support a Store Discount via the Point of Sale Screen. This feature enables you to give the customer a store discount by either entering the percentage of the discount, i.e 10 for 10% or you can click on the Percent Sign (%) button so that it changes to a dollar sign ($) and then enter the actual dollar amount of the Store Discount you are giving. The Store Discount will not impact the amount the consignor will be paid, as they will be paid based on the sold price of the item in the shopping basket.
2. Added the option of making a layaway payment against all items on the layaway in addition to making a payment against a single item on layaway via the Maintain Layaways form.
3. Added an option to the Company Profile - Business Rules2 to auto assign the next available number to a new item being entered into Inventory.
4. Changed the number of days before a demo expires from 45 to 35 days.
5. Added a print button on the Pricing Table form to allow the pricing information entered in the table to be printed.
6. Added a new Daily Activity Report to the Sales Detail Reports Menu that shows Sales, Cost of Goods sold, Non-Store Credit Payouts, Store Credit Payouts and Total Payouts.
7. Added a new option to Express Events to allow the customer to be added to the Sales Receipt after the sale has been processed for those instances where the Sales Clerk forgot to identify the customer at the time of the sale.
8. Added support for multiple consignment periods by category. To specify a different consignment period for a specific category, enter the consignment period in days via the Lookup List form in the Company Profile.
9. Added an option to the Company Profile - Business Rules 2 tab to restrict the upload for Online Consignor Account Activity to a specified number of months. The default is 12 months. This will help enhance to performance of the upload so that it will take less time for the upload process to complete.
10. Added additional options to including pending payments to the Company Profile Business Rules 2 for what consignor account information gets uploaded the the Web Site.
11. Added an option to the Company Profile Business Rules 2 to show pending payments on the Consignor Payment Due form. The default is set to not show pending payments as this option requires longer to calculate the additional pending payment information for very large data files.
12. Added the mailing address to the One at the Top Check format so that it fits inside the envelope window.
13. Added a link from the Maintain Accounts form to the Wish List allowing the Sales Clerks to enter customer wish list items from the Point of Sale Screen by selecting the customer and clicking the Edit button, then the Wish List button.
14. All known bugs have been fixed as of this release 3/12/2012.
"The Consignment Shop" Management Software Enhancements
included in Release 3.4.8.10
as of September 20, 2011
1. Added the ability to collect partial consignor fees and also the collect consignor fees not currently due via the Multi-Payment form option of the Point of Sale Screen. You do this by either increasing or decreasing the number of payments to be collected as indicated in the number of cycles field.
2. Added the option to present different views of the consignor's activity on the Web-based Online Consignor Accounts. You can select from the following options by clicking on the drop-down arrow associated with the Online Account Views field.
2.1 Full View
2.1 Payment Due with Details
2.1 Payment Due Only - No Details
2.1 Payment Due with Details and Available Inventory
3. Added First and Last Name to the Email export file of email addresses.
4. Added a new Tag Format 2.5 inches wide X 1.25 inches tall for Zebra Tag Printers
5. Added a check to make sure the Cash Drawer had been opened for the day when returning an item to inventory or accepting a layaway payment via Express Events.
6. Changed the Field Maintenance Form to allow field changes for all items to be modified regardless of status. For example both sold and unsold records will be modified.
7. Added a Notes tab to the Maintain Accounts Screen to provide a full view of the entire notes field.
8. Added the ability to process muli-item records as donated, damaged, forfeited, picked up, lost or stolen or placed in storage.
9. Fixed problems with updating QuickBooks (3.4.6 Release)
10. Fixed all other reported bugs as of the date of this release.
11. Fixed problem with Layaway not marking paid item as sold. (3.4.7)
12. Added an Auto Forfeit option to Business Rules1 tab in the Company Profile. If the Auto Forfeit box is checked, all eligible items will be automatically forfeited by the program on startup. (3.4.7.1)
13. Add a customer signature block on the sales receipt if the payment method was by credit or debit card. (3.4.7.1)
14. Changed Maintain Inventory and Instant Inventory forms to assign the item number for new items during the Save event instead of when the new item or consignor account is selected to prevent the possiblility of duplicate account numbers being assigned from 2 different work stations. (3.4.7.2)
15. Changed to Point of Sale Handling Fee to accept a negative amount.
16. Change to direct Online Accounts Upload to new Hosting Server. (3.4.7.5 )
17. Maintenance Upgrade (3.4.7.6)
18. Maintenance Upgrade (3.4.7.7)
19. Maintenance Upgrade (3.4.7.8) - Modified the Auto Forfeit form to use a Begin and End Date to locate forfeited item to be returned to the Consigors using the Date Forfeited.
20. Changed the Expired Consignments Report on the Inventory Report Options form so that the items are sorted in ascending numerical order.
21. Changed Express Events to allow forfeiting of a sold item as an override as long as the item has not been paid out.
22. Changed Express Events to allow a Forfeited Sold Item to be transferred back to the Consignor.
23. Changed the Consignor's Donated Inventory and Donated Inventory Short Report to include Items forfeited to the Store.
24. Also streamlined the Auto Donate and Auto Delete processing forms.
25. Fixed all reported bugs as of this release date (3.4.7.9)
26. Added an option to the Year-End Purge to include Customer, Consignor and Vendor Accounts with no activity during the current and previous year and no associated Inventory records.
27. Added a " Forfeit Items" option to the Defaults Tab of the Company Profile and a "Do Not Forfeit" checkbox to the Account Record to allow the "Do Not Forfeit" flag on new Inventory items being entered to be automaically set.
28. Fixed all reported bugs as of this release date (3.4.7.10)
29. Fixed all reported bugs as of this release date (3.4.7.11) - April 15, 2011
30. Added Address2 field to Check Printouts
31. Added Code to support Currency Internationalization.
32. Added new Item Tag for Zebra Tag Printer 1" X 1"
33. fixed problem with Consignor Payment History Detail Report and also reprinting checks.
34. Add code to support integrated credit card processing via the ChargeItPro gateway.
"The Consignment Shop" Management Software Enhancements
included in Release 3.3.8.3
as of July 11, 2010
1. Added a new Edit Customer command button to the Point of Sale screen to allow the Sales Clerk to verify and update an existing customer's information directly from the Point of Sale Screen.
2. Changed the logic for determining the path to the data base machine so that a networked client computer does not automatically default to the local data base when the master computer cannot be initially located. Instead, the user is notified and given the choice for determining the location of the data base.
3. Modified the Wish List so that the Category field is no longer a requred field for locating items on a customer's Wish List.
4. Added the capability to print a specific customer's wish list matches or all matached items for all customers from the Wish List data file.
5. Added a Print Report button to the Cash Drawer Reconciliation form.
6. Added the capability to simultaneously change all items in the Point of Sale Shopping basket to a specified price via the Price Change form.
7. Corrected a problem with the Vendor Purchase form where it was not retaining changes to the price of items after initially entering the price and then changing it.
8. Added the capability to the Vendor Purchase form to allow for associating new Inventory Items to either a Store Account which it previously did or to the Vendor Account the items are being purchased from.
9. Added an Online Message tab to the Company Profile for inclusion with the Consignor Accounts upload for viewing on the Consignor Internet Web Site.
10. Added 3 new reports, Daily Sales Abbreviated Summary, Monthly Sales Abbreviated Summary and Annual Sales Abbreviated Summary to the Sales Summary Report Options Menu.
11. Added the ability to do partial phrase searches on the Type and the Notes field via the Advanced Inventory Inquiry Screen.
12. Added the ability to restrict a search using the Advanced Inventory Inquiry Screen to items Consigned after a specified consignment date or items sold after a specified sold date.
13. Added the ability to delete Invoices via the Vendor Purchase form.
14. Revised the 1 X 4 Price Tags for Standard Printers that included the Mark Down Prices and a Barcode to include an extra line for the Type field.
15. Return Item to Inventory now allows a Sold Item that has been paid out to be returned to Inventory with the Consignor's Account being debited for the paid out amount.
16. A new "Debit Account" transaction has been added to Express Events to allow for a Consignor's Account to be debited for such things as an item that had to be dry-cleaned or a repair made to a piece of furniture. Debits will show up as a negative Credit to the Consignor's Account on the Credit Notes Outstanding Report.
17. A new Security control has been added for issuing Credit Notes and debiting an Account via the TCS Security Log-on. To set this up, you would need to require your employees to sign in with a User Name and Password and also set up those allowed to issue Credit Notes or debit Accounts via the Maintain Employees/Users Permissions form.
18. Added the ability to locate all customer looking for a specific item via the Wish List screen.
19. Added a new report "Consignor Payments Due Details" to the Consignor Report Options Menu.
20. Streamlined the Payment Process to eliminate 2 of the responses previously required to close out the process.
21. Added the ability to sort the Consignor Payments Due report by Account Number as well as Last Name.
22. Added a new form "Auto Return Stored Items" to provide the ability to return multiple items simultaneously from storage status to "available for sale".
23. Fixed all reported program issues as of May 7. 2010.
24. Added the ability to select a Customer on the Point of
25. Redesigned the Items Picked Up Report to reduce the amount of empty space on the report reducing the number of pages required to print a lengthy report.
26. Added a total for payments pending to the Consignor Payment Due form to show both the payment amount that is currently due the Consignor as well as the payment amount pending based on the date consigned and date sold deferral days set in the Company Profile.
"The Consignment Shop" Management Software Enhancements
included in Release 3.2.8
as of August 27, 2009
1. Added a Suspend a
2. Added a Delete Account (DA) Record to the QBExport log for tracking purposes.
3. Added a Sold Items Discount Report showing the amount and percentage of discounts given on sold items. The report is located on the Inventory Report Options Menu.
4. Addressed several maintenance issues:
1. Corrected the Lookup List Maintenance via the Company Profile where it was not allowing more than 1 update at a time.
2. Fixed a problem where deleting a Partial Payment was not deleting the associated Credit Note.
3. Fixed a problem where the designated minimum due before payment by check was not allowing a payout for that exact amount.
4. Fixed a problem where several Inventory Reports were not including information from the last day in the selected date range.
5. Fixed a problem where a Consignor's Name with an apostrophe in it would cause a syntax error when attempting to post a consignor's payment.
6. Fixed problem with updating Quickbooks for a Layaway transaction that included multiple items.
5. Added a new Income Report to the Sales Summary Report Menu options.
"The Consignment Shop" Management Software Enhancements
included in Release 3.1.10
as of March 24, 2009
1. Added Pricing Table to allow the Owner or Store Manager to set prices for automatic insertion for new items entered into inventory. This new feature allows for items with the same description, but varying degrees of quality such as "New" versus "Used Like New" or "Good Condition", etc. to be automatically priced accordingly. In order to use the new Pricing Table, you will need to indicate so by checking the Pricing Table box on the Business Rules2 tab in the Company Profile. The Pricing Table can be updated via the Update Price List selection from the Inventory Purchases Menu found via the Work with Inventory Menu options.
2. Added a finanacial tracking log file to record all system updates of a financial nature.
3. Added an automatic interface to Quickbooks. Please call the SBS Solutions Help Desk for details on setting your System up to use this new feature.
4. Added an Inventory PC flag to the Systems Configuration tab in the Company Profile to indicate whether the workstation is a networked computer being used to enter inventory items and print tags. This would not be the Master PC as it already has this functionality. The purpose of this designation is to speed up the process of printing tags from a remote non-master computer by temporarily storing inventory updates locally. A computer using this feature would not see new inventory items entered from other networked computers after starting up the program and initiating this process.
5. A new 2inch wide X 1 inch in height thermal label tag was added to the thermal tag print options menu.
6. Subtotals were added to the Monthly Sales Summary Report to show the Totals at the end of each month when more than 1 month is included on a report.
7. Added a new one line Consignor Payments Summary Totals report to the Consignor Report Options Menu.
8. Added the ability to export email addresses to a text file from the Email Processing form.
9. Added a new Cash Flow Report to the Sales Summary Reports Menu.
10. Added a Print Option to the Auto Forfeit Processing Form.
11. Added Markdowns as an option on the Thermal 3" wide by 1 1/4" height price tag.
12. Added Quality to the Lookup Lists.
13. Added additional Credit Notes Reports for Paid Notes and All Credit Notes Paid and Outstanding.
14. Revised the Cash Flow Report to show Cash Flow including taxes and excluding taxes collected.
15. Added support for the
16. Added indicator on the Inventory Maintenance Notes Tab to denote a comment is in the Notes field.
17. Maintenance Issues addressed.
1. Credit Amount Reissued during Point of Sale transactions was added to the Payment History Detail Reports so that the detail shown balances with the amount paid out.
2. If other payment methods used are sufficient to pay for an amount due during a Point of Sale transaction, then the Credits are excluded from the payment amount.
3. Added a filter to exclude donated multi-item records from being included in the Year-End Available Inventory Reports.
4. Added the ability to archive inactive customer records to the Year-End Purge process
5. Corrected a problem where the Consignor Fees were not being reported correctly on the detail line of the Profit and Loss Report.
6. Corrected a problem where the text of the email message was not recognizing carriage returns and line feeds causing the text to all run together.
7. Added Handling Fees to the Fees column of the Daily, Monthly and Annual Sales Summary Reports
18. Added optional Markdowns to the 1 1/2" X 2 3/4" Thermal Tags for the 2844 Zebra Tag Printer.
"The Consignment Shop" Management Software Enhancements
included in Release 2.17.14.1
as of July 12, 2008
1. Added support for a Pole Display Device for use with your Point of Sale Station which shows customers their purchases as they are entered and the total amount due and change to be returned when the
2. Revised the Daily, Monthly, and Annual Sales Summary Report formats and included the Sales Total field on all reports.
3. Removed the Totals Page from the Consignor Payment Summary Reports and created a new seperate Consignor Payment Summary Totals Report showing the payments made for each Account processed.
4. Added Service Option for uploading Consignor Account Information to the Info.MyConsigns.com Web Site allowing Consignors to check the status of their accounts online via the Internet. Payment Due, Available Inventory, Prior Payments, Expired Inventory and Donated Inventory status is available to Consignors online with this option. This will cut down on your phone calls from consignors asking if they are due a check.
5. Added a New Form to allow for the reversal of the last single payment or batch of payments posted. The new form is located by clicking on the "Work with Accounts" Menu, then Consignor Payments Menu, then select "Reverse Payment Transaction".
6. Added a New Form to allow for reprinting the last single payment or batch of payments posted. The new form is located by clicking on the "Work with Accounts" Menu, then Consignor Payments Menu, then select "Reprint Last Check Run ".
7. Changed the TCS Program Install Script to install the program and data file in a folder named SBSSolutions on the C Drive if the Windows OS is
8. Added Item details to the Online Accounts Payment History. Added a Print Button and sorted the Store Selection Window alphabetically by Store Name versus Store-ID.
9. Add Change Amount to the Point of Sale Display when the Process
10. Added ability to select a specific Customer associated with printing a history of the specified customer's purchases via the Sales Detail Report Options Menu.
11. Added Original Item Number field to the Online Consignor Accounts views to show what the Multi-Item record that spawned the Sold Item.
12. Added a check to the Point of Sale processing to ensure that an item being sold does not have a consignment date in the future. If the consignment date is greater than the date the item is being sold on, then the date consigned will be changed to match the sold date.
13. Enabled the Category and Brand Name Report Criteria Selection fields for the Profit and Loss Report on the Sales Report Selection Options Menu to provide a greater level of detail on analyzing profits by not only Department, but also by Category and/or Brand Name.
14. The method used to reload the multi items has been modified. You still click on the "Add Inventory" button. Then the button caption will change to Accept. Enter the amount to add or subtract and click Accept. Then the fields are updated.
Also, if you check the "Unlock Unit Cost" box on the Systems Configuration tab in the Company Profile, it will enable the Multi-Item Quantity and Multi-Item Available fields so that you can make any corrections needed. Be sure to uncheck the "Unlock Unit Cost" box on the Systems Configuration tab in the Company Profile after you have finished making your corrections.
15. Added Buyers Fee column to the "Sales Detail Report by Date" available via the Sales Detail Reports Menu.
"The Consignment Shop" Management Software Enhancements
included in Release 2.16.6
as of April 12, 2008
1. Added Service Option for uploading Consignor Account Information to the Info.MyConsigns.com Web Site allowing Consignors to check the status of their accounts online via the Internet. Payment Due, Available Inventory, Prior Payments, Expired Inventory and Donated Inventory status is available to Consignors online with this option. This will cut down on your phone calls from consignors asking if they are due a check.
2. Added a New Form to allow for the reversal of the last single payment or batch of payments posted. The new form is located by clicking on the "Work with Accounts" Menu, then Consignor Payments Menu, then select "Reverse Payment Transaction".
3. Added a New Form to allow for reprinting the last single payment or batch of payments posted. The new form is located by clicking on the "Work with Accounts" Menu, then Consignor Payments Menu, then select "Reprint Last Check Run ".
4. Changed the TCS Program Install Script to install the program and data file in a folder named Common_App_Data on the C Drive if the Windows OS is
5. Added Item details to the Online Accounts Payment History. Added a Print Button and sorted the Store Selection Window alphabetically by Store Name versus Store-ID.
"The Consignment Shop" Management Software Enhancements
included in Release 2.14.8.9
as of February 2, 2008
1. Added support for multiple point of sale stations with ability to individually reconcile cash drawers for each station. We are now tracking the Cash Register History by Machine Name. History records created prior to this Release can only be viewed from the Master PC.
2. Added ability to mark an account as "Inactive" via the Maintain Accounts form on the Status tab. Inactive Accounts will not appear on any of the display Screens throughout the system. Inactive accounts can be re-activated by simply unchecking the "Inactive" box in the Account record.
3. Added an additional check format to match the QuickBooks Check format with one check at the top and two vouchers below.
4. Added an option to sort the Name and Address information window by Date Opened for selecting mailing labels to be printed.
5. Added Cell Phone number to all Contact Short Reports.
6. Reworked the Company Profile to prevent losing the Profile information in cases where the front-end must be re-installed.
7. Added the Sales Tax and the Second Sales Tax fields to the Display Names optional display fields so that Stores that need to identify the type of tax, such as the Canadian PST and GST tax can do so.
8. Added 2 Year-end Inventory Reports to the Inventory Report Options Menu.
9. Added a sort to the Tags printed via the Zebra Tag Printer.
10. Added 4 new Layaway Reports to the Inventory Report Options Menu.
11. Activated theVendor Account Options for the following Reports on the Inventory Reports Options Menu
Aged Inventory
Available Inventory Summary Total
Create Vendor Receiving Document
Damaged Inventory
Show All Items
Show Only Available Inventory
Show Only Picked Up Inventory
Show Only Lost or Stolen Inventory
Show Only Sold Inventory
Year-End Inventory
12. Added the ability to print a Receiving Document that shows only the last items received for a Multi-Item Record.
13. Enabled and Activated the
14. Increased the Point of Sale Check Number field size to 20 and changed to text type from numeric only to alphanumeric.
15. Fixed some additional problems where the hidden form was not being displayed causing the user to have to close and reopen the program.
16. Changed the Reload button for a Multi-Item Record to Add to the existing Available Count versus replacing the count.
17. Added an option to Print Extra Copies for Multi-Item Records (Is restricted to 1 tag per run)
18. Added a new report titled Sales Receipt with Payment Method Details to the Sales Detail Reports Option Menu.
19. Added the ability to activate Buyer's fees for new inventory entered without setting the Buyer's Fee on existing inventory.
20. Added a Security code requirement to the Inventory Item Transfer form that allows unsold items to be transferred to a different account.
21. Added Address2 to the Standard Address Label Print-outs.
22. Added a smaller font option to the Label Report Options form to allow up to 32 characters per line.
Known bugs as of this date.
All Known and Reported Bugs have been fixed as of this date
"The Consignment Shop" Management Software Enhancements
included in Release 2.12.6.17.9
as of October 24, 2007
1. Added Customer Lookup by Home Phone Number to the Point of Sale Screen
2. Added Selection by Account Type to all System Reports
3. Redesigned the POS Sales Receipt to eliminate unnecessary information and added option to include discount percentage and amount given .
4. Added auto markup percentage for calculating the List Price for new Inventory entries to the Maintain Inventory Screen.
5. Add System feature to auto compact the data base every 7 days at shut-down.
6. Added option to allow over-ride for Donated Items where the consignment period has not as yet expired.
7. Added Date Consigned to the Post Consignor Payment Preview Report.
8. Added the ability to mark an Account as being non-taxable.
9. Added a edit to prevent multi-item records from inadvertently being updated via the Express Events Screen.
10. Added the ability to limit appropriate Inventory Reports to a
11. Added support for the STAR/Dell Thermal Receipt Printer and Cash Drawer
12. Added the option to Express Events to allow over-ride for forfeiting Items where the consignment period has not expired.
13. Added a new Report of Sales by Department
14. Added the ability to record an item as damaged via the Express Events Screen.
15. Added Item Cost Totals to the Daily Sales Detail Report.
16. Added partial word search capability to the Advanced Item Inquiry Screen for key words.
17. Added descending sorts to the Maintain Accounts and the Maintain Inventory Screens.
18. Added a new report "Inactive Consignor Payments Due" which allows you to generate a report of Consignor Payments due that have had no activity such as a consignment or a purchase since the specified date.
19. Added an additional Receiving document which prints out when the Account type is Vendor versus Consignor and is formatted specifically for Vendor type purchases versus consigned items.
20. Reduced the default view of Inventory Items available for printing tags and labels to only the last 10 days of entries. This will speed up the time it takes for the Print Item Tags Screen to open. You will still have the option of printing tags from earlier dates.
21. Added the ability to reprint a Return Item Receipt.
22. Added an option to update unsold Inventory Items when the Store Commission Rate is changed in the Consignor's Account record.
23. Added an option to the Receipt Number Finder form to locate the Sales Receipt Number from an Item Tag Number.
24. Eliminated the check for duplicate customer names when adding a new Customer via the Point of Sale Screen.
25. Added Date Filter to the Available Forfeited Items Report.
26. Added ability to Sort and then Report the Consignor Payment Summary Reports by Account Number.
27. Eliminated Page Number from the Consignor Payment Summary Reports and added a Payment Period through Date on the Report.
28. Added ability to select all Store Credits from the MultiPayment processing form.
Known bugs as of this date.
All Known and Reported Bugs have been fixed as of this date
"The Consignment Shop" Management Software Enhancements
included in Release 2.12.5.8
as of March 23, 2007
1. Added the ability to identify multiple payment methods when posting sales via the Point of Sale Screen. Choose the "Other" payment method which will bring up the new multiple payment method form. This form also replaces the previous credit processing form which has been integrated with the new multiple payment method form. Selecting a single payment method will continue to work as before.
2. Added the ability to select a specific consignor when using the Auto-Forfeit form.
3. Added the ability to return a single forfeited item to a consignor via the Express Events form.
4. Added the ability to reopen a closed cash drawer totals entry to make corrections discovered after the cash drawer totals were closed or to add additional comments.
5. Enhanced the amount of detail appearing on receipts for layaway purchases.
6. Added an optional Receiving Document which includes the Asking Price of the item. The Asking Price is reduced for any Buyer's Fees indicated. To use this alternate Receiving Document you will need to place a check mark in the Receiving Document w/Price box on the Business Rules 2 tab.
7. Added the ability to use a different Store Commission Rate default value for different Categories of items. There is now a Store Commission rate field associated with the Category List in the Lookup Tables form. If no Store Commission Rate is indicated for the Category, then the Store Commission Rate in the Consignor's Account record will be used as the default value when entering new inventory items.
8. Cancelled (Deleted) Layaways are now being recorded as sold items.
9. Added the ability to debit the Consignor's Account for a Charge Card Fee for Sales made where the Customer paid with a Credit or Debit Card. The Consignor Charge Card Fee percentage rate is located on the Business Rules 2 tab in the Company Profile.
10. Changed the way a dollar discount is calculated when spreading the discount among multiple items in the Point of Sale Shopping Basket so that the discount is distributed proportionately.
11. Added a new Year-end Inventory Report that shows Store-owned Inventory at the end of any specified fiscal year.
12. Added a Details button to the Consignor Payment Due Form to allow for an expanded view of the details that make up the Consignor's Payment Due amount.
13. Corrected Problem with Consignor Payment when a Consignor Fee with a Billing Cycle of One-Time was included. Corrected Problem with Color Tag Markdowns.
14. Added Grand Totals to the Payment History Reports
15. Added a "Do Not Forfeit" option flag to the Inventory Item Records which will prevent the item from being forfeited regardless of any other settings.
16. Added a Date Picker Popup to easily select
17. Added Tag Color to the Available Inventory Short Report
18. Added an Automatic System Backup which runs at Startup if a System Backup has not occurred within the last 2 days. This is a System Backup and should not be used in place of your regular Daily Backup.
19. Added the ability to attach documents to Emails sent from the TCS program.
20. Added a count for the number of Items in the Point of Sale Screen Shopping Basket to help verify that the number of items being purchased agrees with the number of items for which the Customer is being charged.
21. Added the ability to collect a Check Fee when paying out a Consignor. The Check Fee amount will need to be entered on the Business Rules 2 Tab of the Company Profile. Also, the Collect Check Fee box will need to be checked in the Consignor’s Account Record.
22. Added a new Report to the Account List Options Menu titled Customer List Sorted by Date of Last Purchase.
23. Added a new Report to the Account List Options Menu titled Consignor List Sorted by Date Last Consigned.
24. Added Vendor Accounts as an additional Account type to allow for processing Vendor invoices. The creation of Vendor Accounts, the recording of Vendor Invoices, the entry of merchandise purchased from commercial vendors, and the payments paid to commercial Vendor can all be accomplished via the new Vendor Purchase Processing form.
25. Added the ability to pay out only selected items via the Post Consignor Payment Screen.
26. Added a Buy Existing Consigned Items Outright form to allow for the outright purchase of expired consigned items that would otherwise have to be returned to the Consignor.
27. Added a new Expired Items Report for easy identification of items that have expired during a specified date range.
28. Added a Copy and Paste feature to the Maintain Inventory form to allow for the copying of an existing item description into a new item record.
29. Added a Quick Find feature to the Point of Sale Screen to locate an existing Customer by their Customer Number.
30. Added a Total Available Credit field to the Multi-Payment Processing Form.
31. Added a Buy Outright Processing form for purchasing items outright from Consignors and associating the items directly with a Store Account.
32. Added ability to identify Host Computer and Client Computers in a Network environment in order to speed up the initialization process on Client Computers.
33. Added the ability to pay a specified amount to a Consignor which may be less than what they are due.
34. Added Date Range option to the Donated Items Inventory Report.
Known bugs
All Reported Bugs have been fixed as of this update.
"The Consignment Shop" Management Software Enhancements
included in Release 2.10.27
as of July 2nd, 2006
1. Added Option to the Auto-Forfeit Form to allow items not marked as donate eligible to be forfeited. Also added the ability to restrict the items to be forfeited to items consigned before an optional specified date.
2. Added Option to the Print Item Tags form to restrict the view of the tags to select from for printing to a specific consignor.
3. Added additional Store Accounts to allow additional flexibility in tracking Store Items. The new Store Accounts functions exactly like the Primary Store Account except with a different Account Number.
4. Added a Multiple Item capability for new Inventory Records being created to allow a single record to produce a single Price Tag that can be used to process multiple like items via the Point of Sale Screen.
5. Added an Auto Pickup Inventory Screen to help speed up the process of marking the unsold items that are being or have been picked up your Consignors. The Auto Inventory Pickup Screen is located from the Main Menu/Administration/Inventory File Maintenance/Auto Pickup Eligible Inventory.
6. Added two new informational fields, a Date of Last Purchase and a Date of Last Consignment. These two new fields allows for additional flexibility in the selection of Name and Address data for the preparation of Labels or for the creation of a Comma-Delimited Merge File.
7. Added the ability to send email messages using the email addresses from "The Consignment Shop" data base. This should be very useful for keeping your customers and consignors informed about upcoming sales and specific items that your store may be in need of.
8. Added the ability to include Credits that are due for pay out to the Post Payments Due Before Date Filter.
9. Added the ability to include the Consignor's Name and Address information when the Consignor Contract is printed.
10. Revised the Year-end Processing Routine to reflect current types of records created.
11. Converted Rent Processing to Consignor Fee Processing with collection cycles of one-time, monthly, quarterly, semi-annually, and annually.
12. Added the ability to exclude accounts with email addresses from the Select Mailing Labels options.
13. Added Consignor Fees Due and Consignor Fees Paid to the Consignor Activity Report.
14. Added Change User and Current User buttons to the Point of Sale Menu Bar when User Name/Password Security is set on in the Company Profile.
15. Added the ability to change the names of the field labels that appear throughout the System on Screen Forms and Reports . The fields names that can be changed via the Company Profile are Department, Category, Brand Name, Type, Size, and Color.
16. Added a Reports button to the Menu Bar above the Screen Forms throughout the System.
17. Added the Auto Pickup, Auto Donate, Auto Forfeit, and Auto Delete group to the Jump To Menu Bar.
18. Added an option in the Company Profile to automatically Open the Cash Drawer for the day when the Sales Screen comes up if the Cash Drawer is not already open for today. When the Sales Screen is closed, the user is prompted to Reconcile the Cash Drawer. This feature is triggered from the Company Profile if the "Cash Drawer Prompt" flag is checked. If this option is set, then the Point of Sale Screen will not open until the Cash Drawer has been opened.
19. Added Check Number to the Payment Summary tab on the Consignor Payment Management Screen.
20. Added Option to Pay Consignors from the Cash Drawer
21. Added a Store Commission Rate to the Account Record to provide the capability to set different Store Commission Rates for new items being entered into Inventory. You will need to check the Store Commission Rate in each Consignor's Account Record before adding new Inventory Items to ensure the Default Rate is set properly.
22. Fixed problem with Consignor Activity Report where all the Paid and Unpaid Credits were not showing on the report.
23. Changed the method for reporting Store Credit used on the Consignor Payment History Report from showing the entire credit amount used during the transaction to only reporting the credit used to pay for the items purchased plus and change returned to the customer.
24. Added a Reload button to enable the Multi-Item Records to be reloaded and reused without having to create a new multi-item record.
25. Added the following Macros for use with the Consignor Contract: HPhone for Home Phone Number, WPhone for Work Phone Number, and changed CPhone to be Cell Phone Number.
26. Added ability to sort the mailing labels by Birthday on the Selective Mailing Labels Screen.
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27. Added a Reopen Button to the Cash Drawer to allow corrections made during the reconciliation process.
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28. Changed the way a dollar discount is calculated when spreading the discount among multiple items in the Point of Sale Shopping Basket so that the discount is distributed proportionately.
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29. Made changes to Consignor Payments Due Reports to exclude Consignors with negative balances so that reports match the Consignor Payments due shown on the Post Consignor Payments Screen.
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30. Corrected problem with Tag Color field not allowing color combinations to be entered via the Inventory Item Inquiry Screen.
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31. Added ability to select a specific store account to report on via the Inventory Report Options Menu.
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32. Changed the Consignor Payment Due Reports to include Credits and Consignor Fees.
33. Cancelled Layaways are now treated as Sold Items with the Option to Return Deposit to the Customer, Split the Deposit with the Customer, Forfeit the Deposit to the Store or Split the Forfeited Deposit with the Consignor. A New Item record with a new Item Number is also created when the Layaway Item is cancelled.
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34. Corrected problem where posting a Consignor Payment which included a Consignor Fee with a Billing Cycle of One-Time was aborting.
35. Fixed all known bugs as of this date.
Enhancements to "The Consignment Shop" Management Software
included in Beta Release 2.8.27
as of June 1st, 2005
1. Added a new Auto-Delete form which allows for the deletion of items that have been picked up, lost, or donated before a specified date.
2. Added an additional check format where the check will print at the top and then a customer voucher and a store voucher below the check.
3. Corrected the sort order for the Monthly Sales Summary Report.
4. Corrected the sort order for the Account Report Listings sorted by Account Number.
5. Added new Consignor Contract button to Maintain Account Screen. ( See "How Do I" for setup instructions)
6. Added new Thermal Tags 1 - 1/2 X 3 - 1/2 and 1 - 1/4 X 2 - 1/4 for the LP2844 Thermal Printer.
7. Fixed Access Empty Shell situation where after closing Inventory Report Forms and then the program, it left the Access Run-time Shell up requiring it to be deleted via the Windows Task Manager.
8. Corrected the sort order for Inventory and Consignor Payment Reports when sorting by Account Number.
9. Added a Quick Find by Item Number to the Maintain Inventory Screen to quickly locate a specific item for a specific consignor.
10 Fixed an intermittent problem where when entering Instant Inventory items, the program would close the Point of Sale form instead of the Instant Inventory form after entering the item into inventory and dropping it into the shopping basket.
11. Added
12. Added Primary and Secondary Sales Tax and Sales Totals to the Monthly Sales by Payment Method Report.
13. Added an Unlock Unit Cost flag to the Company Profile which allows the cost of an item to be changed after the item has been sold, but before the Consignor has been paid.
14. Added Sales Tax to the Monthly Sales Totals by Payment Method Report
15. Added code to reset the selected customer after the completion of a sale so that the previous customer selection does not inadvertently get used on the next sales transaction.
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16. Added Option to the Auto-Forfeit Form to allow items not marked as donate eligible to be forfeited. Also added the ability to restrict the items to be forfeited to items consigned before an optional specified date.
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17. Added Option to the Print Item Tags form to restrict the view of the tags to select for printing to a specific consignor.
18. Fixed all bugs reported as of current date of this release.
Enhancements to "The Consignment Shop" Management Software
included in Beta Release 2.8.11
as of January 28th, 2005
1. Added a new Buyer's Fee option to allow for the collection of an item fee from the Purchaser. The Buyer's fee is embedded in the price of the item when it is entered into the Point of Sale Shopping Basket and is subtracted from the sale price of each item before the consignor/store split is calculated. Please see the "How Do I" reference document for details on how to set up Buyer's Fees and how they are maintained.
2. All Consignor Reports have been modified to include Buyer's Fee information.
3. Expanded the size of the custom message that appears at the bottom of the Sales Receipt so that you are no longer restricted to only 50 characters.
4. Added a new Payment Deferral option based on the Date the Item was Sold. This Deferral option is in addition to the current Payment Deferral based on the Date the Item was Consigned.
5. The Point of Sale Screen now auto fills the Amount Tendered field with the Amount Due when either Check, Credit Card, or Debit Card is selected as the Payment Method.
6. Added a new feature to allow the return of forfeited items to the Consignor. This was added for those situations when you forfeit an item to the store, but for whatever reason need to return it to the Consignor.
7. Added support for Star Brand Receipt Printers.
8. Fixed the order in which Price Tags will print which is "Last Entered, First Printed" order.
9. Fixed a problem with the 1 X 4 Price Tags that includes the mark-down dates and prices so that the second and third mark-down dates and prices are excluded from the price tag when those mark-down periods are left blank or contain zero days and amounts.
10. Changed the Donate Eligible Default for new items being entered into Inventory to use the setting in the Consignor's Account record versus the setting in the Company Profile. The Donate Eligible Default setting in the Company Profile has been removed.
11. Added new Customer Purchase History Report to the Sales Detail Report Options Menu.
12. Added Network Data Directory Path Locator File to eliminate the requirement to reconnect the Client Computers to the Host Computer Data File after a System Upgrade.
13. Added an option to post only Consignor Payments for Items Sold Before a specified date to accommodate the situation where you only pay out Consignors on a monthly basis.
14. Added an option to skip payouts due during the Post Consignor Payments process for Consignors that prefer being paid with Store Credits .
15. Added a Locate Customer option to the Point of Sale Screen to allow for quickly locating an existing customer by typing the first few characters of their last name.
16. Added the ability to identify non-taxable items by Category.
17. Added Totals to the Advanced Inventory Inquiry Search Results.
18. Changed the Point of Sale Screen to automatically reset the Screen for the next
19. Fixed a problem where Cancelled Layaway Items were being marked as Sold.
20. Changed program to allow for the collection of rent payments against Credit Notes during the processing of Store Credits against purchases.