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Overview of V2
We are proud to announce the immediate release of Communiqué Version 2 (V2). Version 2 (V2) is the most significant release since Communiqué's initial debut in March 2009.
Communiqué now ships with over 250 integrated standard reports. In this release 26 new standard reports have been added as well as report sub-sections like Locations, Packers, New Product Sales, Advertising Markets, Counties, Cities, Variance Sales, etc.
Report Scheduling
Most Importantly, this release contains one of the most sought after and requested feature for Communiqué since it's initial debut: Scheduling and Auto-run reports. V2 now supports report scheduling so you can automatically run and generate reports unattended. You can schedule reports to run once, daily, weekly, or monthly. Scheduled reports can be saved to a directory anywhere on your computer or network as an Adobe Acrobat (*.pdf) file, Excel (*.xls) file, Comma Separated Values (*.csv), Report Archive (*.raf) file. You can also send a scheduled report via email as well so you can have most any report sent to any email recipient you designate automatically and unattended. Imagine coming into work Monday morning with your key sales reports in your inbox waiting for you. Click here for more info and how to schedule a report for auto run.
Email To Option
With this release, we also included an Email To option so you can email any report to anyone you designate. This feature is available with all reports and accessing this feature is as simple as clicking the right mouse button on any report and selecting the "Email To" option from the popup menu. Click here for more info about how to email a report to select recipients.
Accounting Reports
With the addition of the Inventory Value report found in the Inventory section, Communiqué now contains all of the necessary minimum reports, which Roxanne Brown (our resident SEOM/QuickBooks expert and Advanced Certified QuickBooks Pro/Advisor) recommends should be run monthly for every SEOM user. With V2, you can schedule and run all of the necessary accounting reports directly from Communiqué automatically and unattended.
Advertising Markets
This release has a new set of reports located in the Geos section which helps you to determine and understand your top performing advertising markets (Additional data file required and sold separately). These reports are especially useful when you need to determine where and how much to allocate for your advertising budget.
Variance Reports
Since the initial debut, variance reports have been one of the most requested report categories. This release features 3 variance reports with more to come.
General Enhancements or Fixes
| • | During startup, Communiqué now rereads the store name from the database it's connected to. |
| • | Drop down year selectors have been expanded from 5 to 10 years to accommodate SEOM user's who've been using Order Manager for more than 5 years. The Sales by Year reports are mostly affected by this change. |
| • | 3 new date selections have been added L12M (last 12 months), L12W (last 12 weeks), 365 (365 days) to the date selectors for the data filters. |
| • | Improved and streamlined color scheme selection for Communiqué. It's no longer necessary to navigate the menus to choose a new color scheme. All color scheme options are not available directly on the appearance tab of the ribbon bar. |
| • | The default color scheme is now Office 2010 Blue. |
Dashboard
| • | The Work low Overview dashboard has been added. This is an area/line chart view which plots the order processing workflow. |
| • | User settings are no longer being retained for dashboard selections. Too many customers were having issues with too many dashboards open and extraordinarily long date selections which caused startup times to be rather excessive. This is expected behavior given the circumstance; however, we experienced an inordinate spike in tech support. Starting with V2, the user settings will no longer be saved and shut down and restored on start up. On start up, the main dashboards will look back 7 days and the sideboards will all be closed. |
| • | A Daily Shipping Summary dashboard has been added to the analytics tab. This dashboard summarizes your shipping operations for each day in the date range selected. |
| • | An Order Status dashboard has been added to the analytics tab. This dashboard provides an overview into the current status of orders being processed. |
| • | The Top Customers dashboard has been moved to the sideboard. |
| • | The Top Inventory dashboard has been moved to the sideboard. |
| • | The Top Suppliers dashboard has been moved to the sideboard. |
| • | The L12W used absolute days instead of absolute weeks causing a perception issue in conjunction with using the YTY filter. We resolved this issue by using absolute weeks; however, last year's weeks do not match this year's weeks due to the vagaries of how the calendar operates. |
| • | Added a splitter bar to the Analytics section so you can easily resize it and more easily view the data. The dashboards on the left occupied a disproportionate amount of screen space, especially when Communiqué is maximized, so this provides an opportunity to resize the analytics section for more comfortable viewing. |
Source of Sales Issue
FR 9 Build 312 introduced some new rules for handling manual orders assigned to a shopping cart. This caused an issue with some customers and the Sales Persons reports so we added a "All Manual Orders Only" filter which ignores this rule and lists all orders for a sales person which have been entered manually.
Credit Card Reconciliation (CCR)
| • | Added order number option. |
New Reports
| • | Advertising Areas - Sales by Date: This report is located in the Geos -> Advertising Areas section. |
| • | Advertising Areas - Top Advertising Markets: This report is located in the Geos -> Advertising Areas section. |
| • | Advertising Areas - Weekly Sales Summary: This report is located in the Geos -> Advertising Areas section. |
| • | Bins Out of Stock: This report is located in the Inventory -> Locations section. |
| • | Cities - Sales by Date: This report is located in the Geos -> Cities section. |
| • | Cities - Top Cities: This report is located in the Geos -> Cities section. |
| • | Cities - Weekly Sales Summary: This report is located in the Geos -> Cities section. |
| • | Counties - Sales by Date: This report is located in the Geos -> Counties section. |
| • | Counties - Top Cities: This report is located in the Geos -> Counties section. |
| • | Counties - Weekly Sales Summary: This report is located in the Geos -> Counties section. |
| • | Daily Shipping Summary : This report is located in the Shipping section. |
| • | Global SKU Sales: This report is located in the Geos section. |
| • | Inventory Value: This report is located in the Inventory section. |
| • | Multi-SKU Assignments: This report is located in the Inventory -> Locations section. |
| • | New Product Sales by SKU: This report is located in the Sales -> New Product Sales section. |
| • | New Unit Sales by SKU: This report is located in the Sales -> New Product Sales section. |
| • | Out of Stocks with Sales: This report is located in the Inventory section. |
| • | Packer Summary by Date: This report is located in the Shipping -> Packers section. |
| • | Pending Orders with a Balance: This report is located in the Orders -> Quick Filter section. |
| • | Product Ranking: This report is located in the Inventory section. |
| • | Revised Order Listing: This report is located in the Orders section. |
| • | Web Feed: This report is located in the Inventory section. |
| • | Variance by Category: This report is located in the Sales -> Variance Sales section. |
| • | Variance by SKU: This report is located in the Sales -> Variance Sales section. |
| • | Variance by Supplier: This report is located in the Sales -> Variance Sales section. |
| • | Zero Dollar Sales: This report is located in the Sales section. |
Report Enhancements and Fixes
Best Sellers
| • | Added a Margin column |
Carrier Summary
| • | Changed the # Orders column to # Packages since the number displayed was really packages and not orders. |
Category Sales by SKU
| • | Added a toggle to use Qty Ordered instead of Qty Shipped. |
Drop Ships - No Supplier Invoice
| • | Added a report grand total. |
Inventory Management Reports
| • | Added Supplier SKU to the data set so this data element is available when exported. |
Inventory Turnover Rate
| • | Added the RPoint (Reorder Point) column to the report. |
| • | Added the RQty (Reorder Quantity) column to the report. |
Purchase Orders - On Order by SKU
| • | Added a supplier filter to the data filters so you can filter this report by supplier. |
Purchasing Management Reports
| • | Added Supplier SKU to the data set so this data element is available when exported. |
Sales by SKU
| • | Added a toggle to use Qty Ordered instead of Qty Shipped. |
Sales by Supplier Products
| • | Added a Supplier SKU column |
Suggested Product Order Reports
| • | Added Supplier SKU to the data set so this data element is available when exported. |
Top Inventory
| • | Added a Margin column. |
| • | Changed the Net label to Profit. |