 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 em ail 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
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During startup, Communiqué now rereads the
store name from the database it's connected to.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The default color scheme is now Office 2010
Blue.
Dashboard
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The Workflow Overview dashboard has been
added. This is an area/line chart view which plots the
order processing workflow.
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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.
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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.
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An Order Status dashboard has been added to
the analytics tab. This dashboard provides an overview
into the current status of orders being processed.
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The Top Customers dashboard has been moved to
the sideboard.
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The Top Inventory dashboard has been moved to
the sideboard.
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The Top Suppliers dashboard has been moved to
the sideboard.
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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.
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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)
New Reports
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Advertising Areas - Sales by Date: This report
is located in the Geos -> Advertising Areas section.
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Advertising Areas - Top Advertising
Markets: This report
is located in the Geos -> Advertising Areas section.
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Advertising Areas - Weekly Sales Summary: This report
is located in the Geos -> Advertising Areas section.
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Bins Out of Stock: This report
is located in the Inventory -> Locations section.
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Cities - Sales by Date: This report
is located in the Geos -> Cities section.
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Cities - Top Cities: This report
is located in the Geos -> Cities section.
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Cities - Weekly Sales Summary: This report
is located in the Geos -> Cities section.
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Counties - Sales by Date: This report
is located in the Geos -> Counties section.
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Counties - Top Cities: This report
is located in the Geos -> Counties section.
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Counties - Weekly Sales Summary: This report
is located in the Geos -> Counties section.
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Daily Shipping Summary :
This report is located in the Shipping section.
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Global SKU Sales:
This report is located in the Geos
section.
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Inventory Value: This report
is located in the Inventory section.
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Multi-SKU Assignments: This report
is located in the Inventory -> Locations section.
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New Product Sales by SKU:
This report is located in the Sales -> New Product Sales
section.
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New Unit Sales by SKU:
This report is located in the Sales -> New Product Sales
section.
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Out of Stocks with Sales: This report
is located in the Inventory section.
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Packer Summary by Date: This report
is located in the Shipping -> Packers section.
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Pending Orders with a Balance:
This report is located in the Orders -> Quick Filter
section.
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Product Ranking: This report
is located in the Inventory section.
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Revised Order Listing: This report
is located in the Orders section.
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Web Feed: This report is located
in the Inventory section.
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Variance by Category: This
report is located in the Sales -> Variance Sales section.
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Variance by SKU: This report is
located in the Sales -> Variance Sales section.
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Variance by Supplier: This
report is located in the Sales -> Variance Sales section.
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Zero Dollar Sales: This report is
located in the Sales section.
Report Enhancements and Fixes
Best Sellers
Carrier Summary
Category Sales by SKU
Drop Ships - No Supplier Invoice
Inventory Management Reports
Inventory Turnover Rate
Purchase Orders - On Order by SKU
Purchasing Management Reports
Sales by SKU
Sales by Supplier Products
Suggested Product Order Reports
Top Inventory
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