Merchant Archive

Thanks for the acknowledgement /blush

Anything I can do to help as this really is a pleasure to use and a huge timesaver for merchants out there. No matter how serious or casual.

It is especially good now with the extra window popups from the metrics tabs. Very useful to see what's selling quickly and who to etc.

Not to mention the rating system quickly highlighting your loyal customers... and using a combination of the filter from the main page, you can finely target your mailshots if you use them!

I have found it stops processing after mails with a webaddress on the item and one other thing that I have mailed to you as a bug report.

Keep up the good work!

Feature requests:

• switchable time configuration: AM/PM or 24h format


• sum of total credits in all windows


• some form of weekday statistics, and hourly statistics to see if there are any trends as to when customer visits the shop


• eventually I would like to see: yearly, monthly, weekly, and dailygraphs be generated, and savableas pictures (but this is probably a long time into the future)

Oh, and another wish:

separate out the number of units of a resource in a separate column, and calculate the cpu price

First let me say you've got a great program here, I love using it to track my monthly sales, and it's a huge boon.

One thing I'd love to see is both sales and expenses totaled up, perhaps with a way to select/unselect certain expenses so you could isolate your business costs completely?

I'd just be happy with the totaling up too, if the other part of the request is too cumbersome.

So when this mail gets archived, the name of the file becomes customized through a set of options in the cofiguration. I could have the program name the file after the Vendor and the date code (decoded to look normal), which would be "PowerRangers Jan 16, 2006.mail". Or maybe the name of the item and the date, or even the Subject of the email ("Vendor Sale COmplete").

THis would make it a little easier to sort the mails and to find a specific mail to delete later on. How about the ability to delete the .mail file from inside the game? Open a context menu and choose "delete"?

I look forward to the next version!

Message Edited by RM706 on 04-07-2004 05:35 PM

Hi there, Nice looking program, but I can't get it to do much. I am running WinXP Pro and when I start the program I get and an error that says the date format is invalid, I am in Canada.

Once in the program, ( I can just continue) it shows all the email parsed on the first page, but none of the other reports show anything, except the customer ratings, bottom of the 2nd page.

If I put anything in the filters I get the error:

************** Exception Text **************
System.ArgumentException: The path is not of a legal form.
at System.IO.Path.nGetFullPathHelper(String path, Char[] invalidPathChars, Char[] whitespaceChars, Char directorySeparator, Char altDirectorySeparator, Char volumeSeparator, Boolean fullCheck, String& newPath)
at System.IO.Path.GetFullPathInternal(String path)
at System.IO.DirectoryInfo..ctor(String path)
at SWG_Merchant_Mail_Manager.clsPopMain.popRows(String dir)
at SWG_Merchant_Mail_Manager.Form1.button1_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mevent)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

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