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Office & Phones Closed 3/29

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:34:30 -0400

The Acclivity offices (and phones) will be closed Friday, March 29, in observance of Good Friday.

Checkout 3.5.7 - January 2013 Update (2)

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 12:39:00 -0500

Checkout 3.5.7 addresses issues that were discovered in 3.5.6 and previous releases. This update will prompt for a database upgrade but, for those who are already running Checkout 3.5.6, it will be very quick.

Upgrading
- Fixed: A rare issue related to upgrading FIFO stores has been addressed.
Order/Sale/Quote
- Fixed: A rare, mistaken error message involving invoicing orders has been removed.
Reports
- Fixed: The “Sales” report no longer fails for stores linked to Enstore and using web order taxes.
- Fixed: The “Products Sold” report can be exported again. This was broken in 3.5.6 release.
- Fixed: The “Stock” and “Count Sheet” reports no longer show primary products next to the products’ variations.
- Fixed: The “Stock” report now accurately shows costs when returns are involved.
- Fixed: The “Employee” report no longer fails to display customer names with non-English letters.

Checkout 3.5.6 - January 2013 Update

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:39:52 -0500

Checkout 3.5.6 addresses performance issues and accuracy regarding product costs and margins.

Important: This update requires a database upgrade that could take some time, so please plan accordingly. For example one of our largest test stores with more then 100,000 orders took about 2 hours on the latest iMac. The upgrade process is about 5x faster than the 3.5 upgrade, but your experience can differ depending on the performance of your computer.

This upgrade includes a brand new implementation of product cost and margin. This implementation is roughly 50x faster than previous versions and also significantly reduces memory usage. Your store’s cost and margin data will be recalculated automatically.

Upgrading
- Fixed: Faster upgrade for those few stores that experienced a very slow upgrade to 3.5. All stores should now be able to upgrade to 3.5.
Product Manager
- Feature: The stock correction user interface has been changed to allow positive stock corrections to carry an user-provided cost.
Orders and Sales
- Fixed: A performance problem at payment time involving a sale with a product which has been sold thousands of times has been resolved.
Employee
- Fixed: A rare crash involving changing a user’s password has been resolved.
Quote
- Feature: Quotes no longer allocate stock.
Reports
- Feature: The “Stock” report now shows the default cost and the cost based on your store setting (FIFO or average cost).
- Feature: The “Stock” report now allows you to specify a date range and see product stock/cost at a previous point-in-time.
- Fixed: The “Tax” report now properly calculates VAT tax purchase amounts.
- Fixed: The “Employees” report no longer shows deleted employees and properly displays employees with blank names.
- Fixed: Reports which display margins (“Customers”, “Employees”, “Orders”, “Performance”, “Products Sold”, “Sales”, and “Stock Correction”) now show accurate margin/cost results.
- Fixed: The “Performance by Tag” and “Products by Tag” reports are faster in the case where your store has no Tags defined.

Checkout 3.5.5 - October 2012 Update

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:09:23 -0400

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Checkout 3.5.5 addresses an urgent issue with editing product variations.

Products

Fixed: Editing product variations where the master product has erroneous stock attached is possible again. Any master product with such stock will have an automatic stock correction applied.

Registration

Fixed: Checkout now activates and deactivates licensing with a new server.

Checkout 3.5.4 - September 2012 Update

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 13:24:00 -0400

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This release addresses various issues and is recommended for all Checkout users.

Mountain Lion

Fixed: Checkout can now be registered even if access to contacts is denied.

Template Manager

Fixed: Template Manager now handles very large margins properly.
Fixed: Changing Page Setup now refreshes the template.
Fixed: The Template Document Margin is now shown in the correct localized number format.

Product Manager

Fixed: A rare crash related to the creation of a new product is fixed.

Order Edit

Fixed: When the price of a product is changed, the price will not change in pending orders/quotes/sales that include that product.

Reports

Fixed: The Sales report now always shows the time in the correct time zone.
Fixed: The Customer report now sorts correctly after loading.

Ledger

Fixed: We also added support for .connect AccountEdge setting files during setup.

Checkout: Love What You Do

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 13:55:00 -0400

I want to get right to the point. We’re super excited about the launch of our new video Checkout: Love What You Do.

There’s a reccurring theme we hear whenever we speak with or visit customers. The common thread is the passion that you all have for your small business…you love what you do. And of course you’re using Checkout to help manage your business (and hopefully love it too).

So we started to discuss how we could speak to potential customers about Checkout in way that put a voice to this passion and also communicated that Checkout would be the right Mac point of sale solution for their business.

We contacted some of our customers, enlisted the assistance of a top video team and hit the streets of NYC. We shot over 20 hours of video between three Checkout customers over two days. Back in the studio the raw footage was edited, edited again….and then again.

We think the final product accomplishes our goals. A special thanks to Andrew @Self Edge NYC, Mark @ifixbyx and Christy & Jacki @Stick & Pop for making this possible.

Mountain Lion compatible version of Checkout now available

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 15:59:00 -0400

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This release addresses issues upgrading to the latest 3.5 build of Checkout.

Important: This update provides Mountain Lion compatibility and is required in order to run Checkout on Mac OS X 10.8.

Ledger:

Fixed: Prevented a crash during the configuration of QuickBooks Ledger Export.

Upgrade:

Fixed: Upgrading a store with no invoices no longer fails.
Fixed: Upgrading a store with double quotes in the name no longer fails.
Fixed: Restoring a backup with foreign characters in the name no longer fails.

Printing:

Fixed: Configurations with older Star Printer drivers now automatically open the cash drawer during automatic printing.
Fixed: Deleting a product from the Product Label Printing sheet no longer crashes.

Template Manager:

Fixed: The Week of Year token can now be dragged on to the Invoice number template.
Fixed: The Emerald template can now handle orders that don’t have a customer attached.

Till Count:

Fixed: The Remaining in Till and the Deposit in Till value wasn’t saved when you didn’t tab out first before hitting Submit button.

Pay:

Fixed: The ACH Direct Credit Card Payment form showing black or clear in the input fields has been updated.

General:

Fixed: We fixed a few random crash cases during startup and making the app active.
Fixed: The crash dialog “Open Log” and “Reveal Log” buttons function as expected.
Feature: The crash dialog displays the version and build number of the Checkout running.

If you have already upgraded to 10.8, please download the current version.

Checkout 3.5 has been released

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 13:22:00 -0400

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Important:

This will require a database upgrade step that could take a while, so please plan accordingly.
Last major version that will support Mac OS X 10.5.X

Customer Displays:

Feature: Customer Displays now supported. The following models are now supported: Logic Controls TD3000 U, LT900 UP and PD3000 UP.

Printing:

Feature: Using the Automatic Printing After Payment option in Store Settings will print receipts/invoices without displaying a dialog to your selected printer.
Feature: During automatic printing, we detect the first Receipt Printer attached to your computer and use that, no need to make it the default printer.
Feature: We automatically open all the cash drawers attached to your Receipt Printer, no need to setup anything.
Feature: Sales paid via Credit Card will now automatically print 2 copies of a receipt.
Feature: New option to always print out 2 copies of a receipt.
Feature: A Store Logo can now be printed on a receipt. This can be controlled in the Document and Footer Settings in the Template Manager
Fixed: Addressed an issue where automatic printing of receipts was not working for a Sale.

Products:

Fixed: Addressed an issue with Edit Variations. Variations can now be edited by selecting your product and clicking Show Variations and then Edit Variations.
Fixed: Removed a duplicate entry in the Genre Template Variation.

Order Window:

Performance: Performance has been improved in the magnitude of 5x - 10x faster especially for those stores with thousands of products and invoices especially when Checkout is left running for multiple days without a restart.
Fixed: The User Interface state like location of the main window and split view location wasn’t saved anymore for some of our users.

Reports:

Performance: Various reports have been hand tuned for performances: Countsheet (30 times faster), Sales (5.5 times faster), Tax (11 times faster), Stock (3.3 times faster), Product Sold (2.5 times faster), Employees (4.7x faster), Processed Payments (8x faster), Customer (6x faster)
Performance: Reports which have been tuned now require far less memory in the order of 5 times less.
Feature: A series of new custom reports have been added: Discounts Given, Orders, Performance by Brand, Performance by Tag, Price Exception Product By Brand, Product By Tag, Stock Correction
Feature: Sales report added grand total
Feature: Tax report shows now extra column with tax exempt sales
Feature: Brand column now available on the Stock report.
Feature: New Performance Report replaces the Turnover report.
Feature: Processed Payments report now shows the total amount.
Feature: Employees report includes quantity sold instead of number of invoices. The report has also been tuned for performance.
Feature: Product Sold report includes more detailed information
Fixed: Sorting for the Count sheet and Product Sold report have been fixed.
Fixed: Tax and Sales report now work with Enstore sales.
Fixed: End Of Day report sort by Till # per day, and also have a Total for all Tills per day, also fixed a rounding issue.
Fixed: Supplier report sort now by company name.
Fixed: Sales and Pending report print blank for the Customer if the customer has a Company and no contact (first/last). They should print the formatted name which includes both
Fixed: Tax report now supports orders from Enstore and various other issues with older taxes are fixed.
Fixed: Sales report some Tax columns were missing and certain tax rates were not appearing.
Fixed: There about 100 fixes and enhancements done on Reports.

Client Inspector:

Fixed: The client inspector Floating Palette disappears when the Checkout.app goes to the background.

Settings:

Feature: The database will now continually optimize for performance and because of this the option in Store Preferences->General->This Mac: the “Optimize database performance when idle” has been removed. When upgrading to v3.5 Checkout will optimize the full database at this time which will take additional time to complete.
Fixed Made sure that the 1st invoice numbers is a valid number
Fixed: Made sure that only valid characters are used in the invoice number pattern.

Ledger:

Feature: When exporting a Ledger, the previous chosen format is taken.
Performance: Ledger export is about 20x faster

A third Checkout 3.5 hint

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:59:00 -0400

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How much faster is Checkout 3.5 than previous versions of Checkout 3?

(comparisons are based upon a store with 6,848 Products, 10,308 Invoices, and 84,222 Journal Entries)

Another Checkout 3.5 hint

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 09:19:00 -0400

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What’s different with this picture?

A hint about Checkout 3.5?

Thu, 17 May 2012 11:56:00 -0400

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Recent picture from the NYC office. A hint for what’s coming in 3.5?

Checkout 3.1.1 is now available

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:17:00 -0400

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Today, Checkout 3.1.1 was released.

This update resolves several issues, including:

The Store Manager window is now resizable. The default size is larger.
A rare login issue that caused anonymous (employee) transactions to be created. All unknown employee transactions will be assigned to the first employee.
Issue with product variations UI when viewed on Lion. When scrolling, lines would appear in the product list.
Several rounding issues that caused crashes when viewing/exporting the Ledger.
When exporting the Ledger to AccountEdge, illegal characters (tabs, carriage returns, etc) have been removed, and the memo field will have a 256 character maximum length.
Synced Enstore Orders were causing the Ledger to crash.
Enstore Orders with multiple tax rates didn’t print the taxes correctly.
When printing an unallocated Order, the Total including Tax would print as the Tax amount.

Checkout 3.1 is now available

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:24:00 -0500

Read on at The Checkout Blog

Today, Checkout 3.1 was released.

This update includes minor enhancements and resolves several issues, including:

Resolved an issue where a crash would occur in the Stock Room, when working with newly created Products
We now support rounded product prices amounting to 6.99 including tax (as an example). At the same time, we addressed rounding throughout Checkout to ensure that Bankers Rounding was being used consistently. It is possible, in some cases, that the tax inclusive prices of some products may have a difference of 0.01 when compared to the previously calculated price in Checkout.
The thermal receipt was modified to print the last 4 digits of the credit card, card type (if the card was swiped) and approval code. The receipt was also modified to better handle multiple credit card payments of a single Invoice.
The Online Payments report was renamed to be the Processed Payment report and now displays/prints the last 4 digits of the credit card, card type (if the card was swiped) and approval code.
The Ledger export now allows integration with AccountEdge Basic as well as AccountEdge (including Plus, Pro and Network Edition).
The Enstore sync has been optimized to handle larger stores.
Issues are now reported more consistently, if an error is encountered when a store is being backed up.
When an Invoice is created, the Pay window now comes up automatically, if the option is enabled in your store’s Preferences.

Checkout 3.0.8 (build 7093) update released

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:05:18 -0500

This update includes a unified build that works on 10.5.8, 10.6.x and 10.7.x

Notes: If you use Checkout on multiple Macs, you will need to update it on all of them. Safari 5.0.6 (or greater) is now required to ensure that invoices and receipts render properly.

Improvements
- Fixed issues regarding MacOS X 10.7 (Lion).
- Fixed an issue where receipts were printing smaller after upgrading to Safari 5.0.6 or later.
- Fixed a crash when selecting a customer’s ship to address.
- Fixed a crash when syncing with Enstore.
- Fixed an issue where deposits did not print on receipts.
- Fixed the tooltip issue in the tax regions view (crash on showing tooltip)
- Fixed two DYMO label printers that printed in the wrong orientation

Checkout Heads West

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:06:27 -0400

The birthplace of Checkout, as many of you know, is (and always will be) beautiful Amsterdam. But events of the past few months have led us to assemble a new team in a new place. We’ve recently launched Acclivity NYC in Manhattan and we’re decidedly enthusiastic about this new chapter in Checkout’s history. The impact for customers? Initially, very little. You’ll continue to be supported by the same team in our New Jersey-based customer center. Over time, though, we expect the impact to be significant. We are building a larger team, which will, in turn, deliver a broader, deeper product. More features, faster response times, enhanced stability.

Did we mention we’re hiring?

Thank you Steve Jobs

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 21:47:55 -0400

Today, we all lost an inspiration whose vision helped shape the way we interact with the world around us. Thank you Steve.

New Enstore Manager released

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:45:50 -0400

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After months of hard work, the Enstore team rolled out a major update today. Details are available in the Enstore blog.

Most of the Enstore documentation was also rewritten.

Big news from Amsterdam

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:08:07 -0400

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Our friends and partners at Sofa have been acquired by Facebook. Yes, that Facebook. It seems Facebook recognizes world-class design when they see it. The Sofa team will be relocating to Silicon Valley in the coming months and working at Facebook HQ full-time.

So what of Checkout and Enstore?

Acclivity and (an affiliate of) Sofa have simultaneously agreed, in principle, to a deal where Acclivity will own, develop and sell both Checkout and Enstore going forward. We’re beyond excited at what the future holds for both products.

In summation, Checkout and Enstore customers won’t notice a difference in the short-term. Acclivity will be working hard on expanding Checkout and Enstore capabilities. The Sofa guys will be friending/unfriending people for the foreseeable future. Let the champagne flow….

How's your store doing?

Mon, 09 May 2011 11:42:00 -0400

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While Checkout helps you keep tabs on your sales, stock, and customers, how is your store really doing?

You have other expenses, such as rent, utilities, payroll, and insurance. Checkout helps you determine how healthy your bottom line really is by exporting General Journal entries to AccountEdge, so that you can run financial reports and get a better understanding of your profitability.

AccountEdge (including Plus and Network Edition) needs to be installed on the Mac that you’re doing the configuration on. This video covers how to configure the export, and how to import the General Journal Entries.

We're looking for new Checkout Resellers

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 09:56:55 -0400

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We’re actively seeking resellers to join our growing list of world wide consultants. If you would like to join our Checkout Reseller Program, drop us a line, and a member of our reseller team will be in touch to get you started. You’ll find reselling Checkout to be a rewarding way to grow your business. We look forward to adding you to our family of resellers.