Saturday, July 15, 2006

To do list

Here are some suggestions that was recently posted :

I keep a running inventory for tax purposes and would like to have things entered in the order of when they were bought, beginning with Jan. 1 of 2006. Could a "date bought" or "date acquired" be added with ability to sort by date acquired? That would be really helpful.

This is a good suggestion and it would not be too hard to implement sorting by Date Acquired & having this information displayed when you click on an item. However i was wondering if it was important to display the date acquired in the inventory listing and print current listing as there is not much room to fit another column.

Does the program reduce components inventory when you create a project? I realise it's a "work in progress" :-) ...
Also wondering if you're planning at some stage to have an automatic import of orders placed on BeadCharm? Cross-marketing :-D
I love the program... it's much more fun than my old Excel worksheet that is currently sitting on an old PC that may be dead!!!
I also love the fact that it doesn't pop-up advertsing... great!!
Thanks again
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Very good suggestions. I would probarly add a button under project components list & when you click on it, it automatically deducts what is required from your stock. I am not sure what name would be good for the button. I'm thinking "Deduct Project Components from Inventory"?

Automatic import would be a good feature but i can't think of a good way to implement it with other online stores. I understand that entering data can sometimes be a very tedious task especially after a shopping spree. There doesn't seem to be any easy way of doing this unless i can get other online stores to co operate which is highly unlikely. The only way i can think of implementing this feature is by copying and pasting your shopping list (no shipping details, cc details etc) from your e invoice into a textbox and having it run through a filter where it extracts the data and fill them into the appropriate fields similiar to how importing from excel works at the moment. This would probarly take a while as all online stores have different invoice formats and i don't really shop much online. Is there any other easier way to implement this?

When you login to CraftMemo, you are directed to the my account page where it displays what you have on CraftMemo, Latest CraftMemo Updates and items that are low on stock (<5). What other information would you like to see when you login?

If you have any suggestions, feel free to leave a comment.