We're pleased to announce eCat version 2023.6, the final eCat update of 2023! This concludes a total of 22 new eCat releases this year - including 6 major feature releases and numerous performance and other improvements. In this latest version of eCat you'll discover powerful new ways to gain sales insights for guiding your customers to success, improvements to the Library notice board for more efficient team communication, and enhancements to eCat's showroom tag creator. Check it out! You can now...

• Display Territory Item Sales in the catalog
• View Territory Item Placements in the catalog
• Assign titles to eCat Notices and show publication dates
• Create larger barcode hang tags with a new 3”’w x 4”h (portrait) layout
• Print double the number of products in showroom label print batches

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We’re excited to announce the 5th new eCat feature release of 2023. This update introduces new ways to use data for guiding customers to successful product selections and growing both their businesses and yours. It also introduces a message board to simplify communication with eCat users, two new PDF presentation formats, and new ways to manage and evaluate the effectiveness of customer showroom displays.

• Guide Customers to Success with Data-Driven Insights
• New Tools for Efficient Team Communication
• New Presentation Formats Show Related Items
• Manage Product Placements More Effectively
• New Alert Improves Scanned Order Accuracy

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We're delighted to announce eCat version 2023.4! This update brings an array of exciting new features designed to bolster communication, streamline productivity, and enhance your overall user experience. Read on to discover how they can elevate your business operations.

• eCat Notices: Instant customizable communication
• Library Badges: Stay updated and informed
• Edit 'Customer Lists': Tailor your presentations
• Address Change Notification: Ensure data accuracy
• Portrait Hang Tags: New customization option
• eCat Online Product URL: Seamless Integration
• Email Address Updates: Streamlined Process
• Enhanced Troubleshooting Support

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We are excited to release the latest version of eCat, 2023.3 with even richer PDF presentations, branded barcode tags, new sort options and more! This update introduces a range of new features designed to help your team work more efficiently and sell more effectively. Read on to discover how this new version of eCat can benefit your business!

• Sort & Filter by Product Classification
• Include Links in PDF Presentations/Catalogs
• Add Company Logo to Showroom Barcode Labels
• View Pricing in Related Items Views
• New Duplicate Scan Warning for Showroom Order Entry

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We're excited to announce the release of eCat 2023.2, packed with fantastic new features designed to streamline your business processes, improve data reliability, and offer more customization options. Read on to discover what this update has in store for you!

• Optionally Require Order Header Fields
• Securely Capture Credit Card Information
• Five Customizable Showroom Barcode Label Layouts

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The latest version of eCat is now available in the App Store. This version of eCat adds Resource Library navigation enhancements, improved alerts for required order header fields, and other general improvements.

• Library Now Supports PDF Page Thumbnail View
• Improved Error Messaging for Required Order Header Fields
• Improved Image Download Reliability

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The latest version of eCat is now available in the App Store. This version of eCat adds powerful new order and list scanning features, a new option for linking PDF presentations to your eCat Online product detail pages, and other order entry and general improvements.

• Order Scanning Enhancements
• Order Enhancements
• Enhanced QR Code Capabilities for PDF Presentations

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This version of eCat is a hotfix release:

• fix a crash related to searching collections

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This version of eCat introduces improvements to ordering custom configurable items and an enhancement to eCat's group scanning feature.

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Saturday morning's announced FTP file processing server upgrade went great. Total FTP site downtime was one minute. eCat (iPad app) and all eCat Online websites continued operating normally and were not affected. You should start noticing more consistently fast FTP site performance immediately.

Thank you for your business. It's our pleasure to serve you!

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For a brief period sometime between 5am and 8am Eastern time Saturday, September 11 it will not be possible to upload files to SuperCat's FTP server. All other eCat and eCat Online services will continue to function normally. Please notify your IT department so they will not be concerned by any error messages in your company's file transfer logs.

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This new version of eCat enables ordering from a list of multiple related items by scanning a single barcode and introduces other improvements.

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This version of eCat introduces a sales rank sorting capability that delivers powerful insights when used in combination with other eCat features.

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This new version of eCat includes changes to clarify feature descriptions along with a few usability tweaks.

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eCat version 2021.2 adds new functionality and important changes to the feature layout.

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Your data files are importing 5-10 times faster!

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Please note!  Apple will release iPadOS14 tomorrow, September 16. We're excited about the release, but we want to alert you to a very important change.

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eCat version 2020.3 provides powerful Library and order scanning enhancements.

It's now much easier to find your place in large PDF format Library documents.  The barcode scanning feature built into eCat has been completely reworked so it's lightning fast and automatically recognizes the 14 most common barcode types.

Version 2020.3 also delivers enhanced file security on the iPad and lays the groundwork for important new order management functionality to be delivered in the next two versions of eCat.

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On Saturday 3/14 we made major infrastructure changes as part of our ongoing process to maintain reliability and performance.  These included (1) switching to a new and faster production server, (2) updating critical software to ensure ongoing security and stability, and (3) turning off the legacy FTP server used for importing data and photos.  This was done without any interruption of service.  eCat and eCat Online continue to function normally.  

Please pass the following information on to your tech team to ensure your data updates continue to work normally.

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During the period just before the 2019 October High Point market SuperCat's file import servers processed over 25,000 new product photos  totaling over 4.5 terabytes along with more than 10,000 data files!  We're delighted what we were able to handle this load with no problems.  To support further growth and to improve service speed, we are upgrading our eCat FTP server and data import process.  This should reduce import processing time by 90% for certain types of files. 

If your company is currently uploading data files and photos to our server via FTP, these changes will affect you.  Please pass this notice along to your IT team so they can make necessary changes.

Here are the key points you need to know:

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Features

• Support pinch/zoom in library documents
• Export Excel files with embedded product photos
• Enable repeating items in SmartStacks for showroom walk-throughs
• Enable searching shipping locations
• Improve error handling when submitting showroom orders

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(10/3/19) Over the past few days we've processed thousands of new products photo into eCat for High Point Market introductions.  We'll process many thousands more in the coming days.  Look forward to seeing all that new product at market week after next!

As a reminder, to ensure faster image processing there is a 15MB size limit on product photos.  Any image files above that limit will be retained in the FTP site, but will not be processed.  Please review our product photo guidelines for further details.   You may want to pass these along to your graphic arts department.  Following the guidelines on image cropping can make a huge difference in the attractiveness of your products in the eCat catalog, PDF presentations, emails, etc.

All the best,

Your SuperCat Team

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(9/30/19) The most recent version of eCat, v2019.4.3.2 was released a week ago to accommodate changes introduced in iOS 13.  If you've followed the news you may have seen that iOS 13, which just came out for iPads 4 days ago, is buggier than normal.  Users have reported problems with eCat after updating their iPads to iOS 13.  

We've submitted a new version of eCat to the app store which fixes the problems that have been reported.  However, we recommend asking your eCat users to wait on updating to iOS 13 until things have settled down some.

Your SuperCat Team

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SuperCat has upgraded your photo server.  This affects your company in several ways.

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eCat's new PDF catalog creator enables eCat admins to define PDF catalog formats, choosing how they are laid out and the information they contain.  eCat users can select from the pre-defined formats on their iPads to create beautiful PDF catalog presentations in the different formats you define for them.  Users can personalize the catalogs with titles for specific customers, show specific pricing in the catalog, or hide pricing altogether.  Catalogs can be emailed, printed, saved, shared with file sharing services, or opened in other apps.

Check out these instructions to see how you can customize and provide catalog formats to your eCat users.

Be sure to send this training link to your eCat users so they'll know how to take full advantage of this great new feature

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Time flies!  It's hard to believe iPads were introduced to the world over six and a half years ago.  Five months later, the first orders were taken with eCat.  Both iPad and eCat have seen a lot of improvements since then!

Many eCat users use older iPad models.  We want to help you to get full value from your iPad purchase.  So we work hard to ensure eCat performs well on older iPads.  However we also want to use the power of late model iPads to provide awesome new selling tools.  This is why some new eCat features are available only on the newer iPad models that are powerful enough to handle them.

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