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Release Notes — 2021

Consolidated archive of all Maxanet system updates and release notes published in 2021. Features, bug fixes, and platform changes listed in reverse chronological order.

Written by Dan
Updated over a week ago

Overview

This archive consolidates every Maxanet system update and release note published during 2021, sorted in reverse chronological order (newest release first). Each section below lists the date the update went live and the full release notes from that date. Use this archive as a historical reference for features, bug fixes, and platform changes that were made to Maxanet throughout 2021.

Looking for a specific feature? Use your browser's Find function (Ctrl+F on Windows, ⌘+F on Mac) to search this page, or browse the other yearly Release Notes archives in the Release Notes collection.

December 31, 2021 — System Update

3 issues resolved that arose from the 12/29/2021 system update:

  • Admin:Auction:Invoices - when downloading/printing bidder invoices, blank pages were printing between the invoices. This has been fixed.

  • Admin:Auction:Add/Edit Item - an update was made to the Add/Edit item page where now only the 'Auction Fees' function has the checkbox auto-checked for use with the 'Save & Duplicate' feature.

  • Admin:Auction:Add/Edit Item - an update was made when using a mobile browser and the Next admin panel when adding/editing an item

December 29, 2021 — System Update

  • Admin: Auction: Clone an auction - Permissions that were set in the original auction will now get copied over to the new cloned auction.

  • Admin: Auction: Invoices - Updated invoice formats. Less white space, padding, removing of zebra striping (grey background) and more. An issue was found where blank pages are sometimes printing in between invoices and we are working on an update to address this.

  • Admin: Auction: Add/Edit item - we made some adjustments to the green 'checkboxes' that are used for duplicating aspects of an item description to a new item. An issue was found with this update on 12/29/2021 and we are planning to make an update/patch within the next 48hrs to fix this.

  • Public: Bidder login pop-up window - the language has been changed from 'Bidder ID/Email' to "Bidder# or Email'.

  • Public: Auction: Bidding - if a bidder raises their max bid on an item when that item is in auto-extended bidding, the countdown timer will no longer reset.

  • Public: Bidder: Bidder Watchlist - The watchlist has been updated to only display the list of auctions that the specific bidder has watched items in. Previously it was showing all auctions.

  • Public: Bidder: Bidder Watchlist - the watchlist has been updated to now include a 'won' message if the bidder was the high bidder on that item. Previously there was no indicator showing a bidder if they won/lost an item on their watchlist that was ended.

  • Public: Auctions: Search - the search results now show the Auction Title instead of one big list of items.

December 7, 2021 — System Update

Admin:Users - new SEARCH functions added to the Users page. There is now a drop down menu at the top of the page allowing the admin to choose to search by Bidder#, Name (first/last), Phone (all ph#'s), Address (billing and shipping), Email.

Tax Exemption - multiple updates made for Tax Exemption across the platform:
Public:Bidder Registration - the Tax Exemption upload form has been removed from the new bidder registration page for security purposes. Bidders must log in to their bidder profile and add/update their Tax Exemption from within their profile.

There is now only one required field for Tax Exemption forms now - the Tax Exemption Number. The Form Name and Expiration Date have been changed to be optional, along with the form/document upload itself.

Bidders can now have more than 1 Tax Form on file. The Admin can approve or reject a pending Tax Exemption form and we are adding new capabilities soon to allow the admin to Reject previously approved certificates.

November 29, 2021 — System Update

  • Admin:Auction:Dashboard - added a new 'BIDDERS' tab to the auction dashboard which will display the details of all participating bidders in that event including their current auction totals.

  • Admin:Users:Bidder Profile - added a new 'ACTIVITY' tab to the bidder profile which lists out the activity of the bidder. The default view will be current auctions, and display the total number of items bid on, items winning, current bid total, and max bid total. You can also use the drop down menu to select Past Auctions as well.

  • Admin:Users:Consignor Profile - added a new 'ACTIVITY' tab to view the consignors current auctions and items along with the current totals of those items.

  • Admin:Auction:Dashboard:Invoices: Invoice Export - the export MS Excel file that contains the auction results has been updated/revised and now includes all of the bidder contact details and tax exempt status.

  • Admin:Auction:Items:Add/Edit Item - increased the max image size from 4MB up to 5MB in size.

  • Admin:Auction:Invoices - multiple changes to the Invoices page including Invoice numbers, the totals at the top of the page now include Paid & Balance, the ordering of invoices on the page, and others

  • Admin:Auction:Invoices - the optional 'note' is now printed on the bidder invoice. This can allow you to add a tracking# or any other note onto the emailed/printed invoice.

  • Admin:Auction:Invoices - adjustments made to the invoices so they are more printer friendly

  • Admin:Auction:Invoices - changed the default visibility from 100 invoices to 200 invoices shown

  • Admin:GoToAdmin:Preferences - added new Facebook Pixel and Google AD tracking code boxes. You can now add in the supplied code for better AD tracking within the auction pages.

  • Public:Auction:Inventory Descriptions - Fixed an issue with the HTTPS:// in custom hyperlinks the admin adds.

  • Public:Bidder Profile - Fixed an issue where Canadian bidders could not add their postal code

  • Public:Auction:Inventory Description - Removed the 'no description' text if an item does not have a description

  • Public:Auction:Item Level - Fixed an issue with the displayed increment

  • Public:Auction/Calendar - removed the 'favicon' icon that's displayed on the tab of the web browser.

November 7, 2021 — System Update

  • Public:Auctions:Bidders - bidders who are logged in will be shown a pop-up window asking them if they'd like to stay logged in. The inactivity time has been increased to 18 minutes, with a 2 minute countdown timer.

  • Admin:Auctions:Add/Edit Auction - added a new 'Card Required to bid' option on the auction level. This allows the admin to require a bidder have a CC# on file. The Admin can exempt specific bidders by going to the bidder profile and turning this check off. Turning the check off in the bidder profile will also exempt the bidder from any 'collect deposit' amount on the auction level.
    We highly recommend all MaxanetPay clients use this new feature moving forward.

  • Admin:Users - new layout including full physical addresses shown, timestamp of bidder registration shown, timestamp of bidder profile update shown.

  • Admin:Users - the 'Notes' has been added to the Actions menu and will now appear in a pop-up window allowing for easier recording and viewing of bidder notes.

  • Admin:Users - the admin is now able to update/change a Users email address

  • Admin:Auction:Invoices - Invoice Notes added by the admin are now printed on the invoices themselves

  • Admin:Auction:Invoices - Payment Type 'OTHER' notes are now fully printed on the bidder invoices

  • Admin:Auction:Invoices - fixed an ordering issue on printed invoices

  • Admin:Auctions:Partner Accounts - ordering of auctions for public display has been updated

  • Admin:Users:Add/Edit Consignor - an update to show the Company Name field

  • Admin: Images - the system now allows for uploading of HEIC format images

  • Admin:GoToAdmin:Company Users - the admin can now add a new company user that already exists as a previously registered bidder. Prior to this, the system would not allow the same email address be used with both a bidder & an admin/company user.

  • Admin:Auction: Bulk Image upload fixes - numerous updates include removing the _MacOS folder if zipping on a Mac, fixing an issue where if file names have spaces, QR bulk upload fixes.

  • Public: Bidders: Bidder/User Login - the user can now enter their username & password and hit the 'enter' key on their keyboard to login (rather than moving the mouse over the login button).

  • Public:Auction:Inventory - click on the primary photo will now take you into the Item level rather than open up the lightbox.

  • Numerous other fixes/updates

October 12, 2021 — System Update

  • Admin: Auction : Permissions. Added a new tab called 'Permissions' to the Dashboard of each auction. The admin can now choose which Users (employees) have access to specific auctions.

  • Admin: Auction :Invoices - new feature allows the admin to delete/remove a credit card payment that was applied to an invoice. Previously only cash/check/other payments were able to be deleted.

  • Admin: Auction: Invoices - fixed the order of invoices by bidder number, ascending order.

  • Admin: Auction: Invoices - a fix was made to export all invoices. Only 100 invoices were being exported previously

  • Admin: Auction: Invoices - remove the word 'FEE' from the line items of the invoice if there is no Fee.

  • Admin: Contacts - added a new 'Delete All' button to quickly and easily empty your email cart

  • Admin: Auctions: Settlements - added a new payment record method of 'Other'

  • Public: Auction pages - we now have a dedicated login URL that you can share with your bidders. The URL structure is: mydomainname.com/Public/auction/wplogin
    Simply add the /Public/auction/wplogin to the end of your Maxanet hosted URL which you can then share with your bidders.

  • Public: Auction: Auction Details page - added a new 'Catalog' button which is a printer friendly way to print out all inventory without photos.

  • Public: Auction: Bidding - fixed an issue where if the bidder was not logged in, and was viewing a single item, and then logged in, it would sometimes take the user to a different item.

  • Public: Auction: Inventory - an updated was made to fix the 'additional description'. The Additional Description only shows on the ITEM LEVEL.

  • Public: Auction: Auction Details - fixed an issue with the formatting of the address, and the display/styling of the address to the public

September 29, 2021 — System Update

  • Public pages - Keyword Search. Allows bidders to type in a keyword and the system will display a list of results matching or containing that word. On the results page are filters so bidders can find ended results as well.

  • Admin: Auctions: Invoices - Invoice Print Order. Fixed an issue with invoices printing out of order. Now the invoices will print in ascending order.

  • Admin: Auctions: Invoices: Group Actions: Download Detail Invoices - Fees Displayed. Fees are now properly displaying on the Detailed Invoices.

September 20, 2021 — System Update

  • Public pages: Bidder Profile: Watch List. A new and improved watchlist for bidders.

  • Admin:Auctions:Items: QR Bulk Upload - improvements to the upload speeds

  • Admin:Auctions:Cloning an Auction: Fixed an issue where the 'directions' and 'announcement' fields were not copying over to the new cloned auction properly

  • Admin:Auctions:Items: MS Excel upload. Fixed an issue with <a href> hyperlinks

  • Admin:Auctions:Items: Bulk Image upload. Fixed an issue with the primary photo

  • Admin:Auctions:items: Bulk Image upload. New feature where you can choose the naming of the images by the ITEM# or the SKU#

  • Admin:Auctions:Invoices. Fixed an issue with the bottom/footer margin of printed invoices

  • Admin:Config:Public Page Config: Added a new toggle switch to show or hide the item SKU# to the public

August 20, 2021 — System Update

  • The Maxanet mobile App for administrators added back into the App Stores for both Android & Apple

  • Numerous fixes/updates/enhancements for usability and efficiency of picture taking and loading

August 15, 2021 — System Update

  • Public Page: User Profile: Consignor Profile - system update to fix issues with Consignor adding their own inventory descriptions and uploading their own photos.

August 13, 2021 — System Update

  • Public Pages: Updated the public facing 'Bid History' display/format

  • Public Pages: Clicking on an item photo now takes you into the item page rather than opening the lightbox

  • Public Pages: Images adjusted on certain mobile devices where they were squeezed/distorted

  • Public Pages: Updated "login/register' hyperlink for clients using a black background color in the header


  • Admin:Auctions:Items: QR Code for image taking: updated the margins to fix printer alignment issues

  • Admin:Auctions:Items: Image Bulk Upload: Added image 'naming' instructions on the pop-up window so clients can rename their photos and bulk upload them

  • Admin:Auctions:Items: New feature added that auto hides any inventory item that does NOT have BOTH a Description AND an Item Name. If an item has a description, it shows to the public. If an item has an item name, it shows to the public. If an item has neither a description or item name, it is hidden from the public.

  • Admin:Auctions:Gallery - a new Gallery tab has been added to the Auction Dashboard page. We will be introducing numerous photo tools in the near future.

July 30, 2021 — System Update

Admin:Auctions:Invoices - fixed an issue with invoice email delivery

Admin:Auctions:Invoices - Allow the admin to partially charge a credit card on file (split payments)

Bidders: Bidder PW Change - fixed an issue some bidders were experiencing when updating their account passwords

July 22, 2021 — System Update

  • Public Page: New Auction level 'announcements' box which is controlled through the admin panel Add/Edit auction page. The admin can now display custom messages with important info to the public on the auction inventory pages.

  • Admin:Auctions:Items: On the Add/Edit ITEM page, the admin can now click the 'save' button to save the updates to that item without leaving the page.

  • Admin:Auctions:Invoicing: added ability for admin to edit an invoice after the status has been updated to partially or fully paid

  • Admin:Auctions:Invoicing: New Group Actions for bulk recording Cash and Other payment types

  • Admin:Auctions:Settlements: Settlements can now be generated/edited much easier. Now the admin can assign an item to a consignor even after the auction has been ended.

  • Admin:Auctions:Invoicing: Updated the Bulk Emailing of invoices process to limit performance issues

  • Admin:Auctions:Settlements: Added ability for admin to delete a payment associated to a Settlement report

  • Admin:Auctions:Settlements: The user#/consignor# is now displayed on the Settlement report PDF

  • Public: Bidder Password: fixed an issue with the hashtag (#) which is now allowed in the password

  • Admin:Auctions:Items: Select All: Group Actions: Delete - now deletes all items, not just items on the first page

  • Admin:Auctions:Items:Excel Download: Excel file edited to allow for AUTOSUM capabilities (getting column totals in excel)

  • Admin:Auctions:Items:Excel: Now allows for hyperlinks using <a href="xxxx">link text</a> HTML tags.

  • Public Page: Page Titles in web browser are now customizable

  • Public Page: Images: A new mouse-over magnifying glass to zoom in on pictures

  • Public Page: numerous updates/bug fixes and performance enhances for a better bidder experience.

June 14, 2021 — System Update

  • Public Auction Pages: Inventory thumbnail images set to 350px width and optimized for much faster page loading speeds

  • Public Auction Pages: Updated ‘Control Panel’ with Category selector, Open Items link, Sort By button, and Page Selectors on both the top and bottom of each auction page.

  • Public Auction Pages: Updated ‘Grid View’ item layout for ease of use and mobile responsiveness.

  • Public Auction Pages: Updated message displayed after item has ended to ‘final bid’.

  • Public Auction Pages: Added ability for the admin to hide final bid prices on an auction level.

  • Public Auction Pages: Updated the Search bar and filters for better performance/functionality.

  • Public Auction Pages: Removed the software ‘version #’ from the lower right corner of public pages.

  • Public Auction Pages: When a bidder is viewing an auction and logs in, they will now be redirected back to the page they were on before they logged in.

  • Admin:Configurations:Public Page Config: Fixed an issue with the ‘Page Size’ which determines the number of items shown per page to the bidders.

  • Admin:Auctions: Font changes for admin panel & group actions menu redesign.

  • Admin:Auctions: Added a new ‘Auction Preview’ function which allows the admin to preview their auction as the bidders would see it.

  • Admin:Auctions: Fixed an issue with Fees associated on the Auction level

  • Admin:Users: When a bidder’s bidding privileges are turned OFF by the admin, the bidder immediately is unable to place any more bids.

  • Admin:Auction:Items: New warning message if the admin tries to create an ITEM# that already exists (no duplicate ITEM#’s allowed)

  • Admin:Auction:Items: If you ADD or EDIT an item there is now a new navigation menu of “Previous | Next | Go To Item#’ which will allow for easier moving between lots when editing.

  • Admin:Users: Fixed an issue with tax-exempt bidders who were being charged Sales Tax on a taxable Buyers Premium.

  • Admin:Auction:Invoicing: Updated the performance for Approving, Charging, and Emailing invoices to a process that runs in the background instead of real time. This means for example when you email the invoices the system will work on the task in the background instead of making you wait for the job to be completed.

  • Admin:Auction:invoicing: New invoicing tools that allow the admin to edit/delete custom fees that were associated to an invoice.

  • Admin:Auction:Invoicing: Clicking on the arrow next to the invoice number (<) will open up an accordion menu and allow the admin to edit/delete previously recorded cash/check/other payment types.

  • Admin: Numerous other updates/fixes for performance, bidding experience, email templates language/formats, etc.

June 1, 2021 — System Update

  • Admin:Contacts: Updated Bulk Mailing capabilities. The admin can now import their registered bidders, or import auction specific participating bidders.

  • Admin:Auction:Invoices: Updated a partially paid invoice issue.

  • Admin:Auctions:Items: Added a new Bulk Image Upload option to the 'Lot Actions' button that allows the admin to rename their inventory photos to match the item# (1.jpg 2.jpg 3.jpg, etc) and then bulk upload those photos. These photos will auto assign to the matching item#'s.

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