Shopify Editions
Shopify Editions are biannual updates to Shopify such as Winter '25, Summer '24, etc..
Editions help you take advantage of new offerings or technologies and needed updates.
Shopify Service
Shopify Service helps you keep up with the new offerings in new Editions of Shopify.
ShippingEasy Timeouts
ShippingEasy Orders can get 200 orders at a time, but needs a little more time to do so.
ShippingEasy Settings let you change your defaults from 50 orders per request, to 200. In doing so, you may need to increase the Timeouts used by ShippingEasy Connect.
Set ShippingEasy Timeouts to 60 (seconds to connect) and 60 (seconds to process). This will avoid Curl Error 28, telling you the defaults of 5 and 7 are not quite enough.
Stores Customer Terms
Customer Terms is available as a Connect Preset to create new customers with Terms.
Using Stores to sort customers coming from online sales channels you want set Terms. Connect options that bring in new customers
Fast Pics
Fast Pics lets you keep full quality originals handy and use fast pics version for speed.
Drag and drop a full quality image of any kind and BigBusiness 15 will save it in Docs. A high quality version for screen and print will be created and saved locally for speed.
If you need a picture to email or upload to ecommerce, you will choose size and type. BigBusiness will automatically convert pictures' size and type and keep a copy handy.
SQLite Update
SQLite is the incredibly powerful, yet small, database used most, especially in phones.
SQLite is terrific at storing local data for instant access, which is ideal for BigBusiness. You need pictures and other documents at your fingertips, and fast to scroll through.
BigBusiness 15 adds encryption to SQLite to keep a local data store of Docs files safe. Controls will let you choose how to use SQLite to keep your data at your fingertips.
ShippingEasy Get Updated
ShippingEasy Settings let you review the parameters used to import Orders each time.
Get Updated tells BigBusiness to only get Orders updated on or after the timestamp. If blank, BigBusiness will get orders updated today, such as those you ship today.
Do not change this entry unless you want to repeat or skip orders in the next import. This setting is automatically updated when you import Orders into Orders or Invoices.
ShippingEasy Get Page
ShippingEasy Settings let you review the parameters used to import Orders each time.
Get Page tells BigBusiness the next set of Orders to import when results are paginated. If there are more orders than Get Max, the next page, like 2, will be automatically set.
Do not change this entry unless you are editing Get Updated to repeat or skip orders. This setting is automatically updated when you import Orders into Orders or Invoices.
ShippingEasy Get Status
ShippingEasy Settings let you choose the parameters used to import Orders each time.
Get Status tells BigBusiness to get shipments with ShippingEasy status of "shipped", "cleared", "pending_shipment", or "ready_for_shipment". The default is "shipped".
BigBusiness 15 can get your orders from ShippingEasy to do your accounting for you. Get shipped orders as invoices and payments you can reconcile and account for easily.
ShippingEasy Get Max
ShippingEasy Settings let you choose the parameters used to import Orders each time.
Get Max tells BigBusiness the maximum number of Orders to import at one time. The deafult is 50 and the range is any number from 1 to 200 of Orders imported per batch.
BigBusiness 15 can get your orders from ShippingEasy to do your accounting for you. Set a small number to test and larger number for Black Friday Cyber Monday volumes.
Stores Accounting Presets
Accounting Presets let you control accounting for your different Stores, real or online. You may want your Online Store to post income differently to better match its costs.
Connect options that bring in customers and orders automatically, can set Stores, too. This way your accounting or other presets are applied to all transactions for the store.
Mail Notify Note
Mail Notify automatically notifies you of events using your email address, first.
If your email address is not available in your Employee card, it sends you a Note.
WooCommerce Out-of-stock
WooCommerce Connect lets you set stock for your items so they are not oversold.
Turbo Mode
Turbo Mode groups import and export files for fast processing and clean notification.
BigBusiness allows time for FTP file transfers and runs multiple connections in series. Turbo Mode handles multiple files for one connection at once. This may delay others.
To enable Turbo Mode turn on Enable Timestamps in the Folder Connection settings. If you are using Mail Notify you will automatically receive more orders per email, too.
Chapter 160 Mail Notify Admin
Mail Notify is simple to administer. Start by describing the Event you'd like to report.
Say you would like an email of all orders imported from an online store, every 4 hours.
Email Address
Email Address has been added to Employees Search to help you manage Mail Notify.
Employees' Email Addresses are used for emails sent by Mail Notify for easy control.
Send From
Send From is a checkbox in Mail Notify settings that lets you use the recipient's email.
My Prefs includes your Send From setting where you can enter your email account(s).
Each User can set their email accounts they want to email from with BigBusiness Mail.
Click Send From, after Send Notifications To to use their account to send notifications. Then click Test to verify they receive an email using their current setup and Send Mail.
Ampersand Fix
Ampersand Fix corrects incoming XML files where they are not properly encoded.
This option was applied for some Folder Connect operations automatically and is now optional. In Folder setup, on the Advanced tab, click the checkbox for Ampersand Fix.
Account Code
Account Code helps you manage multiple Customers for one Folder Connect Account.
Code is an entry you create to prepend to Listing, Company Name or Customer Code.
Enter "ABC-" and Big Business will look for "ABC-Company Name" when importing.
To work the Code must be added to Customers for lookup. For ecommerce options this can be done when Big Business adds Customers. For other situations it is DIY.
Multi-Customer
Multi-Customer is a checkbox on Connect options to use multiple customer matches.
If you have one customer with multiple customer cards you can use an ID to separate. This allows you to import orders for any and assign correctly to one match using ID.