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LivingRoom

What's new in 2.0 — Part 1

Part 1 of 2.0. These changes are part of version 2.0, which is installed fresh: it does not open the data of 1.2.1 (see What's new in 2.0). Where this page speaks of installing it over your current version, or of a first start that backs up and updates your data, that is how later updates of 2.0 install.

This version of LivingRoom protects your data during updates, keeps your backups going while the app stays open, brings several corrections to the Walmart connection, and makes a number of screens clearer. How you work does not change. Install it over your current version like any update; your data is kept, and the new version backs it up before it changes anything (see How to install an update).

Safer updates

  • A backup before every update. The first time a new version starts, it backs up all your data before it updates anything. The backup is listed under Settings › Backup › Existing Backups with the label Before an update. If it cannot be made (for example because the disk is full), the app changes nothing and does not start: a window titled Backup before the update failed offers Try again and Quit.
  • Installing an older version asks first. If a newer version is already installed, the installer asks "You're installing an older version (…) over a newer one (…). Continue?" An older version never changes data that a newer version has updated: it shows Data from a newer version and stops, a company saved by a newer version is shown as unavailable, and a backup made by a newer version is not restored. Install the newer version again to go on. See Updates later.
  • The License Agreement. The installer shows the End-User License Agreement, and you click I Agree to install. The agreement and the Privacy Policy are also on the About page.

Backups

  • Automatic backups while the app stays open. The app now checks every hour, not only when it starts, and makes a backup when the last automatic one is 24 hours old, so a PC that runs for days still gets a daily backup. If an automatic backup fails, Admins see an amber bar, Automatic backup failed:, with the reason and a Back up now button. See How automatic backups work.
  • The company limit holds on restore. Restoring an archived company counts toward your license's company limit. If a full restore brings back more active companies than your license allows, the extra ones are restored but archived, and the restore message names them. See How to rename, archive or restore a company.
  • Your license key opens your backups. The manual and the agreement now say it plainly: anyone who has your license key and a copy of a backup file can open that backup. Keep the key as safe as a password.

Your license

  • "Renew your license". When a license has lapsed (it expired and its grace period is over, the license server refused it, or it could not be verified for 30 days), the License page shows whom to ask for a renewal instead of the free-trial notice. See The License page.
  • A "Beta" label next to the license type for keys issued to beta testers.
  • Lifetime licenses that are checked online are now checked with the license server when you activate them, like every other online-checked key.

Walmart

  • WFS orders are pulled too. Fetch orders now brings the orders of every kind of fulfillment: the ones you ship yourself, WFS orders and orders shipped by a 3PL. Before, only the orders you shipped yourself came. A pull that reaches Walmart's limit of 10,000 orders says so. See How to pull orders, settlements and inventory health from Walmart.
  • Choose a settlement report. After Fetch settlement, you can pick an earlier report under Another report.
  • Inventory health works with Walmart's report file. Fetch inventory health and Warehouse Reconciliation now read the report Walmart actually sends.
  • Inbound shipments show their items and the units Walmart has received so far.
  • Fees on the right product. When one Walmart order holds several products, each settlement fee now goes to the order line it belongs to, so each product's profit carries its own fees. Fees imported earlier were corrected the first time this version started.
  • Walmart's reimbursements count. Money Walmart pays you that belongs to no order (for example for an inbound shipment dispute) is added to net profit in the reports, sent to QuickBooks as a credit, and included in the journal CSV together with fees of the whole period, such as storage. See Chapter 8.
  • Walmart sign-in is coming. A Walmart sign-in card marked Coming soon shows where signing in with your Walmart account will replace copying API keys in a future update. Until then, connect with your API keys.

Connections: "Coming soon" and "Beta"

  • Connections that are built but not switched on yet show a Coming soon card instead of their settings, and nothing can be connected to them: the Amazon, eBay and Etsy API connections (their cards say that file imports for these marketplaces come in a future update), QuickBooks Online, the named 3PL providers and the Generic 3PL (REST API) connector. If you set up one of these 3PLs in an earlier version, its settings are kept and its syncing is paused.
  • The Generic 3PL (CSV files) connector works in folder mode and is labelled Beta: check its results carefully. It checks each file's columns and names any that are missing.
  • The Reporting API key (Power BI) is now created by an Admin in Settings › Integrations › Reporting API, with a choice of which companies it may read. See How to use Power BI and the Reporting API.

Inventory

  • Lots on hold. Only Admins and Managers can take units out of a lot on hold, with Log Removal or an Out adjustment, and they confirm it first. Warehouse Reconciliation never takes units from a lot on hold: it lists them for you to handle. See Batches and lots.
  • Default fulfillment warehouse. Tick Default fulfillment warehouse in the warehouse form to choose where your sales usually ship from (see Chapter 5).
  • The aged-stock alert follows your Inventory Age Flag (days) setting and names the warehouse.

Smaller improvements

  • Setup wizard: a refused value (for example a folder that cannot be used) shows its own reason instead of a general error; the storage step gives the same advice as this manual.
  • Upload Products: later rows with the same SKU start set to Skip, and a change of the Walmart link alone shows as Walmart Link Update.
  • Forms mark the fields the app requires (for example the note of a vendor credit).
  • Wipe Business Data says exactly what it resets: the company profile, the warehouses and the 3PL warehouse mapping.
  • Users page: what an Admin may do is described correctly, and the hints name the real way to give a user access to a company.
  • Sales Import: the marketplace choice is named Tag the imported orders with: it only tags the orders.
  • Keyboard: Alt+F opens the File menu and Alt+E the Edit menu.
  • Start and uninstall: the start window shows the version you installed and no empty frame first; uninstalling removes the program folder completely (your data stays, as before).

From version 1.2.1

If you are updating from 1.2.0, these changes of version 1.2.1 come with this version too:

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