Anthology - New Release Nov. 2025 Highlights:
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New BUNDLES Module – Create groups of items as a “Bundle”. Special barcode printed allows for quick single scan in CashRegister where items in selected group will ring up automatically. Allows for both Fixed Price Bundles and Fixed Discount Bundles. Includes Report options, picklist for staff to pull units together. Options for printing one single primary barcode label for a pre-packaged bundle or matching barcode labels for each included line item, showing total units in bundle
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New Quickbooks Export Format (CSV) for QBO users – New option to export both original QB Desktop IIF and now QB Online CSV format.
• SQUARE Sales semi-integration (Optional) – new tools for exporting all inventory or select BF list of items to standard Square import format. Upon return from event, downloading the “Square - Items Summary CSV” file from square, then from Bookfair | Actions menu “Process Square Sales” file to bring in the isbn’s, qty’s, $ and % amounts items sold offsite. Any items sold offsite that do not already exist in Anthology inventory file will be created as basic inventory record in the system
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Email/Print/Ask Options for Receipts & Ztape - new controls for EMAIL and PRINT receipts, can be set at each store workstation separately from other workstations. Go to Master Files | Stations | Details tab to make changes. Doing F3 Take Tenders will prompt for Email if configured as such. As the transaction is completing the prompt for Printing the receipt can be set, independent of sending to Email or not. Gift Receipts can now be set to automatically prompt for printing gift receipts for holiday events and have ability to reprint a receipt as a gift receipt. Go to Master Files | Stations | Details tab to toggle. X/Ztapes now also break out Shipping charges into Taxable and Non-Taxable subtotals.
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Faire.com Importing - New import format will allow stores to import their orders from Faire to create new inventory records in bulk in Anthology.
• Historical Inventory Status Report- will allow stores to run the inventory status for a previous date.
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New Inventory Export Formats (aka Inventory Upload) - New inventory export formats for Shopify and WooCommerce webstore platforms. This will allow stores to upload inventory from Anthology as needed to their website host.
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CR | SPO’s - Now offer option to apply a 100% pre-pay deposit with tax on all SPO line items. Setting is under Tools | Options | CashReg tab. Enable this setting, F10 Save and Close/Reopen Anthology to take effect. Setting will take into account the particular customer's selected tax profile at the time the SPO item is entered. The Deposit $ amount calculated can easily be edited to a different amount for special cases, reselect the item from right side tape area, edit amount and Enter Line to update.
• CBO Manager- New filter options by Status and includes new columns for date cancelled/completed info and “Cust PO” field that is populated from Customer Order PO # field. Also new search options to search within the data types of Status, Customer, Inventory and Transaction records. Added PubDate to display grid, see far right side for new columns. Use Tools | Maintain Views | Set as Default to preserve your workstation preferences. Corrections to possible CR SPO PrePay calculations error where items blocked from sales discount.
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Café module (optional) – new option for printed Pre-Pay Café receipts grouped by Departmen , allowing customers to view café item totals for tipping. Located under Master Files | Stations | Details tab as a new checkbox for “Group Pre-Print Café receipts by Department.” During transaction in CR, use Actions | Receipt Options | Print “Pre-Print Receipt. Also, better visually defined space for Tip amount on receipt.
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Bookfairs - Introduced Search by and Special Sort options for multi-tiered sorting and Section1 inclusion. Also Fixed an issue where address fields in the Bookfair Header tab were not populating as expected. New Actions menu option for flowing Header Discount down to all line items
• Purchase Order Generation- New "Restock from OnHand up to MAX" method for streamlined restocking. XLS or CSV outputs now include both Sku1 and Sku2. Pubnet based orders now allow non-book items (UPC sidelines) to be included in electronic ordering. Corrected issue where editing last item order qty# in draft PO and mouse clicking elsewhere instead of expected Enter key press or clicking Enter Line button, previously could fire "Error: 2012 Cannot call SetFocus from within a When, Valid, RangeHigh or RangeLow event".
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Quick Receive and Receiving modules - include search by Vendor Invoice #. Barcode labels will now print based on the current sort order. Action menu has gotten long, new grouping and consolidated choices available in Actions menu such as “Special Sorts” and “Special Moves”, the former showing all multilevel sort options and the latter containing the various Move to BF, CO, etc. Details tab grid now includes the PubDate. Fixed an issue where manually adding items required an extra click or tab to get to the "Enter Line" button.
• Overstock Returns & Overstock Generate - now includes a filter for Returnable items and picklist now includes Section1. Corrected issue where editing an overstock return will now correctly update the "last edited" date while leaving the original "date created" unchanged.
• New Weekly RBI tool for refreshing prices can be added to Anthology Task Scheduler (requires iDS fetch subscription). Contact Support@AnthologySoftware.com for setup details.
• Import External Data tool supports Ingram IPage's Excel file format and includes Section2 information. The Excel format includes reference Section information where the CSV/TXT formats did not. When in Import External Data, doing F6 Get Data, choose the "Files of Type = Excel (*.XLS)". Also added Section1 and Section2 to the display grid, the edit item area at bottom of the screen and under Action Menu | Reassign. Also added a “(None)” option to allow blanking out of existing Sections. Now also has a "Do not warn again" option for doing updates on many records. Also, now allows importing external records over to an Overstock Return memo. Ingram Ipage EXCEL format now imports prices.
• Tools | Options | External Data & IDS Fetch tabs offer expanded Fetch controls for stores on an Ingram Data Services subscription. New options for specifying the level of BISAC strings in Section1 and Section2 fields, choose from creating Section names using the Major, Sub and Minor topics as desired.
And Much Much More
Coming Soon:
• SHOPIFY - Real time Inventory Upload and Websale download integration (API)
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Expanded QuickBooks Offering – Expanded support for creating and uploading both Quickbooks Desktop (IIF) and Quickbooks Online (CSV) file types.
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Enhancements to Ingram Data Services & Refresh Bibliographic – New controls to better update existing inventory prices, including web price if retail price changes.
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License Plate Receiving for Ingram – Also called Advanced Shipment Notification, will allow stores to call up the contents of expected shipment using the provided barcode on boxes.
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Parent Publisher Database - A new option for looking up parent publishers and their related child imprints.
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WithFriends Reporting - enabling sharing of customer sales details and frequent buyers rewards via the WithFriends system.
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