Hello everyone:
There’s a new version of Venture available for updating: 2.0.58. This is a general bugfix release to fix problems that people were having when using the ‘auto-fill’ search box.
As always, please let me know about any problems you might have.
There was a problem in 2.0.55 where when processing orders that the customer had selected a freight service other than “Ground”, it was getting lost when you went to edit the order and process it. It ended up being a “race state” where the menus for freight service and options weren’t getting built in time to set them to the values in the header. I rearranged the code, and I think it’s all fixed.
Since this is a timing issue, even though it works for me, there might be cases where there are problems for other users. If you continue to see where the header isn’t matching what’s coming from Ecomm, let me know and I’ll have to take more drastic measures.
We changed how the fetching of freight carrier data happens in the latest 3.x code, it’s fetched when the client starts up and stored locally so we won’t have this sort of timing issue in the future.
Noticed an order that had a tax %, but didn’t show a tax amount on the final tab of order processing. It was finally found that this was a bug in the display of decimal numbers. A number like 0.9954 rounded to 2 places was showing 0.00 instead of the proper 1.00.
This is fixed.
There is a new version of the Venture client, 3.0.54, which adds better handling of direct-ship items.
In the item master there is now a type of item which is “Direct Ship” and all existing items that are direct ship type items should be changed in the item master maintenance.
Here’s how direct ship items work:
* Direct ship items ALWAYS show shippable on the order.
* Direct ship items NEVER show on the Venture P/O.
* Orders comprised of ONLY direct ship items don’t create a P/O in Venture.
* Direct ship items ALWAYS get sent to P21.
Orders with direct ship items still have to be confirmed as usual in Venture, and this is because order confirmation is when the email gets sent to the customer showing the order shipped. If we closed the order immediately it would show the order shipped the second the customer ordered it which might look a little strange. Plus we don’t know a tracking number at that point.
All employees that do item maintenance, or sales order processing should update their clients.
There are some changes to the sales order processing (SOP) items tab coming.
* Stock quantites will show:
Vendor Reported Qty Free: This is what P21 says is free, company-wide
Vendor Reported Qty Due-In: This is what P21 says is due-in, company-wide
Venture Qty Allocated: This is the sum quantity for the item in ‘O’ orders, which have been sent to P21
Venture Qty Pending: This is the sum quantity for the item in ‘O!’ orders, which haven’t been sent to P21
Vendor Estimated Qty Free: This is estimated free, which is calculated from vendor quantity free - venture quantity pending
* Item lookup in SOP will return Vendor Quantity Free & Vendor Due-In, instead of stock levels in Venture, which aren’t helpful
* Item code will automatically raise case on items tab
* Bug fix: Valid item codes would sometimes get rejected by the server due to internal data arrangement. This is fixed.
* Not implemented, but requested: Showing how many of an item are up for auction, so we don’t sell stock that is reserved for eBay auctions. The problem with this is auctions are cancelled outside of Venture, so the system would always assume those items are reserved in perpetuity. The other problem is if an eBay auction number is mis-entered, the item would show reserved in perpetuity. These are issues that will have to be considered for Venture 3.x, to provide better Venture <-> eBay integration, especially with reserving/de-reserving stock that is up for auction, then sold through SOP.
I’ll make the change after 5 today, so if you enter orders please update your client tomorrow morning!
There was a problem with searching for eBay auction numbers, in that when the order went from O! -> O status, the reference got broken, and searching by the eBay auction number would no longer return any results. This is fixed, but only orders checked out in the last 1/2 hour will be searchable by eBay auction number. This was a trade-off, at least now the reference isn’t broken, so we didn’t lose much and now it won’t break anymore.
The feature is now on the sales order header, there is a list box that shows all the eBay auctions that were checked out on the web for an order.
The client is up on the web and ready for download!
There’s a new version of Venture out: 2.0.49. This version has some minor user interface fixes (hopefully fixing the issue of lost frontpage screens — If you still experience this problem, please let me know!), text addigtions to the BOL plus one minor improvement:
If you bring up a customer, you might notice that there is a new flag - “Omit Prices Email”. Set this to ‘Yes’ if you don’t want prices to display on the emails sent to a customer. This was primarily added to make shipments to a customer but charged to a freight company (for freight claims) less confusing.
There is a new version of Venture out: 2.0.47. This version fixes the annoying bug on the open order lookup that causes some strangeness when the textbox prefills. We’ve removed autocomplete from the lookup there, but the box will still search ahead if you need it to — Just click the arrow or hit the ‘down’ button to view the top search results.
02/16/05 -
Hello Everyone!
There’s a new version of Venture out: 2.0.40
This version contains several bug fixes, an updated ship complete dialog, plus a couple of new features:
Venture Documentation:
There is now documentation available for portions of Venture. As of right now, the only page with documentation is Sales Order Processing, but the production of help pages is ongoing and so we will be adding to these pages periodically. When there is documentation available for a page, a ‘?’ button will appear in the upper-right hand portion of your screen. Just click on that and a help dialog will appear.
If you have any questions or comments, say if there are places where the documentation is sketchy and you think it needs to be better, just let any of the Venture development team know and we’ll make a note of it.
Databased Images:
We’ve changed the way we handle product images to give us more control over how they are displayed. If you right-click on the image viewer screen, there will be a separate menu option called ‘Image List’. This will bring up a dialog where you can change the sort order and
description of the image. Description is for internal use only - it doesn’t get displayed on the web site. Just try to keep it clean. 
As always, if you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask!
It was brought to my attention that web orders weren’t getting a CVV2 number along with the credit card validation data, which is fixed in 2.0.38. We have also changed it so the CVV2 number is stored for future orders where customers want to use existing CC info to place an order.
If your job involves sales order processing, this update is REQUIRED, as it costs us money if we don’t include the CVV2 data in the CC processing request. If you don’t update, no order will send CVV2 data since the client won’t look in the database for that data.
New History Navigation Bar:
Venture now has a new history bar that allows you to easily jump back and forth through your history. To enable it, just go to ‘File’, and then click ‘Display History Bar’. You can scroll forward/backward through the history by clicking the arrow buttons, or you can bring up your entire history by clicking the button to the left.
There was a bug in 2.0.36 where the Amazon order ID was getting lost when an order went from O! -> O status. This was causing duplicate Amazon orders to get into Venture.
This is fixed in 2.0.37, and if you process orders you MUST update to 2.0.37.
On the sales order header, we added a ‘CVV2′ field for credit card processing. ViaKlix, the vendor that processes credit cards for us is going to start charging $0.75 for each transaction that doesn’t have that information. We already collect it for orders coming across the web, so this is just for orders entered on the client.
The CVV2 is the 3-4 digit number on the back of the credit card that ensures the customer has the credit card in her hands. We don’t store that number anywhere in the system, so for repeat orders that want to use the same CC, you’ll have to get the CVV2 again.
Please get the CVV2 when taking orders from now on.
Venture 2.0.34 didn’t have the ability to print quotes. That is fixed now.
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