CFB Marketplace
While we have been relatively quiet on the BinderPOS side, ChannelFireball is making some noise with it’s newly released Marketplace! We really want to hand it to the Marketplace team. They’ve been hammering away for well over the past year and have something really awesome to show for it. If you haven’t already check it out: https://channelfireball.com
If you are already a BinderPOS customer and are located in the US you can can start selling on the CFB Marketplace right away. Reach out to your account managers for info on how to get started. We’ve also built an integration into the CFB Marketplace to make listing your inventory as easy as clicking a few buttons.
eBay
We realize that as awesome as the Marketplace is, it’s not helpful for our many customers outside of the US wanting to move inventory. Luckily CFB Marketplace isn’t the only platform we are integrating with. The eBay integration is now available for those in the UK and Canada. Please reach out to your account managers to begin the setup process.
Advanced Search
You may have noticed a slow down with some of our product search functions over the past few months. This wouldn’t have affected the point of sale search or the native Shopify search feature, but did impact the Products tab in the BinderPOS Portal and the Integrations tab and Advanced Search pages in Shopify.
A large contributing factor to that slowdown has been identified and eliminated as of 10-18-2021. In extreme cases, some queries that were taking up to 40 seconds were reduced to returning in less than a second. Some queries (especially those that involve inventory quantities and sorting) will still take a few seconds to respond, but overall general response times are quicker.
This is just beginning for our search feature. We now have a dedicated team that will be continuing efforts to make additional performance increases such as this one. We will also be leveraging some insight gained by the marketplace team on technologies we can use to add additional features and make things a bit snappier.
Point of Sale Inventory Bug
This has been one of the most troubling bugs we’ve dealt with in a long time. We’ve seen occasional reports of extra inventory being added to items in rapid succession when there have been issues with the cart that held those items. One of the signatures of this bug was ‘added by BinderPOS Point of Sale’ in rapid succession on Shopify’s inventory logs. This bug happens when there is a discrepancy in the POS Cart between the client and the server. The two main causes of this were network communication issues (system outages) and opening the same cart multiple times in different sessions. We’ve changed the way our system deals with these sorts of discrepancies and have now eliminated this bug in all of our test cases.
Release Notes
eBay
- Fixed exception when updating tracking information
- Ability to change listing categories is now available
CFB Marketplace
- Removed info button (left over from eBay)
- Aligned table headers with content under the Variant Review tab
Catalog Updater
- Items with a $0 price skip updating price when re updating product
- Advanced Search updated to handle additional sealed categories
- Metazoo singles now push properly to BinderPOS
Point of Sale
- Fixed issue with cart corruption which added duplicate stock when refreshing the cart
- Added multi-tender support for non-integrated payment options (beta)
- Fixed issue with the cart deletion screen not rendering properly on tablet mode
- Added newsfeed to homepage which will link to blog and updates
- Added status alerts through status page to the Portal
- Resolved issue with variant position returning incorrectly
Advanced Search
- Resolved issue with slow query performance, which will greatly reduce load times in portal and Shopify advanced search
Buylist
- Buylist exports now downloads with valid file extension
Events
- Resolved issue for some users where issues with unlimited tickets displayed as “Sold Out”
Misc
- Fixed issue with display of Freshchat widget