1. Discounted Ground Shipping. You can now optionally offer your customers
discounted ground shipping for orders over a certain dollar amount. You set
both the threshold for the discount and the amount of the discount. For example,
you could offer free shipping to your customers on all orders over $50, or,
for all orders over $25, shipping is $1, plus $.01 per item, etc. You can
call it whatever you like (e.g., "Super Saver" or "Free Shipping"),
and you can activate it, deactivate it, or change the variables as often as
you like.
To enable the Discounted Ground feature, on your admin homepage, click on
"Shipping/Gift Wrap Settings" on the left-hand navigation bar. Click
the check box next to "Discounted Ground," set the discount level,
and follow the directions below.
2. Optional Shipping. You may now exclude any method of shipping other
than Ground. So, for example, you can remove "International" shipping
as an option if you don't want to offer overseas shipments to your customers.
On the same page noted above, simply uncheck any shipping option you wish
to exclude.
3. Price by Binding Type. Currently, you can discount or mark up any
individual ISBN, all books on the Book Sense Bestseller List, and all books
in the wholesaler discount categories. We've now added the ability to discount
or mark up all books by certain binding types. For example, you could discount
all mass market paperbacks and mark up all library bindings.
From your admin page, click on "Edit Storewide Pricing" and follow
the directions.
4. Local Store Inventory Bug Fixed. For those of you uploading your
own inventory, we've now fixed the bug that was preventing non-book items
from showing an "On Our Shelves Now" inventory status.
5. Timeout Lengthened. At BookExpo America, many of you commented
that too often you would pause in your work for a few moments, come back to
the computer, click on something, and be thrown back to the login screen.
This happens because our system has a set number of minutes it allows any
session to be idle. We do this for reasons of both security and efficiency.
However, we did feel it would be safe to lengthen the waiting period, so now
your session can remain idle for 45 minutes before it will be terminated.
6. Report Bugs. There were several changes and bug fixes made to the
site reports -- accessible from the "View Site Reports" link on
the top of your admin homepage. Most notably, the system will now add orders
to reports based on their closing date rather than their creation date. This
is particularly important for the "Affiliate Sales Report," as affiliate
sales will now show up in the month in which they were closed.
7. Levenger. The Levenger icon now opens Levenger.com in a separate
window. When customers are done shopping, your window will still be open in
the background.
8. Book Image Alignment. Book images now align with the top of feature
sections in your local content, rather than in the middle.
