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Overview of this release
This release features many enhancements to improve and extend Communique’s capabilities making it more useful than ever. Product Brands and Categories have been added to this release along with 15 new reports. There are new Dashboards, 3 new themes, and the multi-level drill downs are complete and available in 7 reports.
Overstock order file support has been added to this release. For those selling on Overstock, you can import your order file into Communiqué, and use those orders like any other orders with your sales analysis and product replenishment.
The following is a summary of significant enhancements and fixes for this release. Not all improvements or fixes are listed.
General Enhancements or Fixes
•Brands: Full support for Brands and Brand Groups have been added to this release. The Brands Explorer can be found in the Products section.
•Busy Indicator: A new busy indicator has been added to all of the reports. When performing searches and other data intensive operations, the report will grey out and display a message “Retrieving report data please wait…” Once the processing is complete, the message will disappear and the report will return to its normal state.
•Categories: Full support for Categories and Category Groups have been added to this release. The Categories Explorer can be found in the Products section.
•Missing Option added to search tabs: In addition to the “Include” and “Exclude” option, “Missing” was added to the Brands, Categories, Countries, Markets, Ship Service, US States filter tabs. This option will list any records missing those assignments when selected.
•Overstock Order File Support: Support for importing Overstock orders are now full supported in this version of Communiqué. You can import Overstock order files via the Orders -> Data Feed.
•Product Status and Type Selectors: These filter selectors were moved to the SKUs tab. The general tab with some reports did not have sufficient space to accommodate these filters. Due to limited space we were not able to offer these filters on some reports so moving these filters to the SKUs tab resolved this issue.
•Product Status Filter: By default, reports utilizing the SKUs filter tab will exclude Inactive products.
•Recalc Order Option: Due to anomalies with the way Amazon fulfills orders especially when multiple items are shipped from different warehouses, it may be necessary to recalculate an order. These discrepancies can be found usually when reconciling settlements and orders. This option can found in the popup menu of the Orders Explorer.
New Themes and Look & Feel
Communique now sports the new Office 2013 look & feel.
3 new themes were added to this release:
•Communique Blue
•Communique Dark
•Communique Light
Multi-Level Drill-downs
The multi-level drill downs are now full incorporated into Communiqué where applicable. For those reports supporting this capability, you can select the “Display Orders” and/or “Display Items” option located in the Filter Options section of the data filters to enable this feature. The drill down capabilities are available for the following reports:
•Buyers Sales by Date: located in the Buyers section.
•Buyers Explorer: located in the Buyers section.
•Top Buyers: located in the Buyers section.
•Order Explorer: located in the Orders section.
•Sales Summary: located in the Orders section.
•Brand Sales by Date: located in the Buyers -> Brand section.
•Category Sales by Date: located in the Buyers -> Categories section.
Dashboards
•Gross Margins is a new dashboard added to this release. The purpose of this dashboard is to display the gross margin and percent by date period selected. You can optionally display Ship Cost, Fees, Cogs, and Revenue
•Settlements dashboard sort order was changed to new settlements display first.
•Top Buyers dashboard a Fees and Ship Cost column was added to include in the gross margin calculation.
•Top Products dashboard now references the ASIN from the Products table instead of the OrdersDetail table. This change was made to accommodate support for the Overstock sales file import. A Fees column was added to include in the gross margin calculation.
•Top Suppliers dashboard a Fees column was added to include in the gross margin calculation.
New Reports
•Brands Explorer: This report can be found in the Products section.
•Brand Sales by Date: This report can be found in the Orders -> Brand Sales section.
•Brand Monthly Sales Summary: This report can be found in the Orders -> Brand Sales section.
•Brand Weekly Sales Summary: This report can be found in the Orders -> Brand Sales section.
•Category Explorer: This report can be found in the Products section.
•Category Sales by Date: This report can be found in the Orders -> Categories section.
•Category Monthly Sales Summary: This report can be found in the Orders -> Categories section.
•Category Weekly Sales Summary: This report can be found in the Orders -> Categories section.
•Product Replenishment by FN SKU: This report can be found in the FBA section.
•Sales Analysis by Brand: This report can be found in the Orders -> Sales Analysis section.
•Sales Analysis by Category: This report can be found in the Orders -> Sales Analysis Section.
•Transaction Summary: This report can be found in the Settlements section.
•Transaction Summary by Item: This report can be found in the Settlements section.
•Variance Sales by Brand: This report can be found in the Orders -> Variance Sales section.
•Variance Sales by Category: This report can be found in the Orders -> Variance Sales section.
Fee % Column
The Fee % calculation column has been added to a number of reports for this release. The Fee % is calculated as the result of Total Fees / Revenue. Though it is useful to know the exact fees for an order or items, it is equally important to understand the percentage of fees in relation to the order or items. The following reports have been updated with the Fees % calculation.
•Best Product Sales: located in the Orders -> Product Sales section.
•Brand Sales by Date: Located in the Orders -> Brand Sales section.
•Buyers Explorer: located in the Buyers Sales section.
•Buyers Sales by Date: Located in the Buyers section.
•Category Sales by Date: Located in the Orders -> Category Sales section.
•Orders Explorer: Locate in the Orders section.
•Product Sales by Date: located in the Orders -> Product Sales section.
•Sales Summary: Located in the Orders section.
•Sales Summary by Product: Located in the Orders section.
•Settlement Order Summary: Located in the Settlements section.
•Settlement Product Summary: Located in the Settlements section.
•Top Buyers: Located in the Buyers section.
•Top Product Sales: Located in the Orders -> Product Sales section.
•Orders Product Tab: Added the fees column and made it part of the GM and GM % calculation.
Product Replenishment Reports
The “Use Lead Days as Minimum” option was added to the data filters. This option will use the lead days value set as the minimum ignoring any calculations less than the minimum. This is a useful feature if you determine the calculated lead days below the minimum are incorrect.
Other Report Enhancements & Fixes
ASIN, Barcode, FN SKU, and UPC columns were added to approximately 20 different reports. You can display these column in the report and group by them as well. These additional columns add greater dimension and capabilities to the reports.
Products – Monthly Sales Summary
•Brand and Category columns added to the report.
Products – Weekly Sales Summary
•Brand and Category columns added to the report.
Settlement Product Summary
•Brand, Category, and Supplier SKU columns added to the report.
Turnover Rate
•Brand, Category, Supplier Name, and Supplier SKU columns added to the report.
StoneEdge Data Synch
On Order Calculation: “Calculate on Order” option added to the Purchase Orders tab. This option calculates the On Order based on purchased orders imported into Communiqué, and not those found in StoneEdge. If you wish to use the On Order calculations from Stone then toggle this option of and use the “Calculate on Order” option from the Products tab instead.