SAK

Software Administration Kit Version History

Release Date:06.05.2002 Version 1.80

New Features and Changes:

• Added 2 new customer status flags: Refunded and Chargeback
• You can now search for customers by Order ID.
• The order ID is now visible in the customer list.
• The following macros for e-mail and postal mail templates have been added:
  <ROID> = Order ID
  <RMISC> = Miscellaneous info (optionally used for regkey generation)
  <RPPDATE> = "Promised To Pay" date
  <RTEL> Customer's phone number
  <RFAX> Customer's fax number
  
  

Bugfixes:

• Fixed a problem with the SWReg Import filter that caused the order date to be parsed incorrectly in some cases.
• Since version 1.75, SAK tended to lose registration info once in a while. While this problem should have been fixed in version 1.76 already, it was not. We are very confident that it has been fixed now though.
• Fixed a problem with the RegNow Import filter that caused the order date to be parsed incorrectly in some cases.

Release Date:09.01.2002 Version 1.76

New Features and Changes:

• When an order notification with a customer that is already in the database is imported, SAK does now check if the order occurred on a different day with a different order ID. If so, the customer's licenses from the new order and the old customer entry are merged. If not, the customer is not imported as usual.

Bugfixes:

• Since version 1.75, SAK tended to lose registration info once in a while. This problem should now be fixed.
• Some RegNow order notifications came with a date string could not be parsed automatically by SAK. This problem is now fixed.
• Fixed a bug in the statistics which made the error message "Invalid argument to date encode" come up under certain circumstances.
• Several minor bug fixes

Release Date:14.11.2001 Version 1.75

New Features and Changes:

• New registration key scheme added. As a registered customer, you should have received the new key already. if you have not, please send an e-mail to support@lobstersoft.com to request your new registration key.

Release Date:30.09.2001 Version 1.72

Bugfixes:

• Updated the Reg.Net Order notification paser to reflect the slight changes that they have performed on their order notification header.

New Features and Changes:

Release Date:05.09.2001 Version 1.7

New Features and Changes:

• You can now easily set a customer's status to "Registered" by right-clicking on his entry in the customer list and clicking on "Set Customer's Status to "Registered"". This is especially useful if you have many customers with the "Promised To Pay" status and are marking which of them have paid their order yet.

Release Date:21.06.2001 Version 1.68

New Features and Changes:

• Added support for the new formatting of ShareIt order notifications
• SAK does now support Esellerate order notifications
• Each customer's Order-ID is now exported when exporting the whole database

Release Date:16.01.2001 Version 1.66

Bugfixes:

• Fixed the SWReg import filter so that the new order notiification formatting from SWReg is supported

Release Date:07.12.2000 Version 1.63

New Features and Changes:

• Fixed a nasty but harmless bug that generated a non-critical access violation after the e-mail stationeries were sent.

Release Date:22.11.2000 Version 1.6

New Features and Changes:

• SAK does now support the ESMTP protocol for SMTP authentication. This is important as more and more Webhosts seem to allow ESMTP transmissions only.
• You can now filter the recipients of personalized e-mail newsletters by order date.
• Added Support for Order1.net Order notifications
  
• Added support for Clickbank order notifications

Bugfixes:

• When using registration key files, SAK was generating new files for all customers at startup, even if there had been previously generated files. This is now fixed.

Release Date:23/10/2000 Version 1.5

New Features and Changes:

• SAK does now fully support Euro as an alternative to US$. You can set the exchange rate between these currencies and choose a default currency for new customers and for the statistics. And Shareit and Yaskifo order notifications are now imported to the correct currencies.
• Sak does now store and import the following additional customer info: Order ID, Credit card type, Credit Card Nr, Credit card expiration

Bugfixes:

• Fixed a division by zero bug that occured under some circumstances when manually adding a new customer
• Fixed a bug in the statistics that caused SAK to count some orders that are on the 1st of a month twice.

Release Date:10/10/2000 Version 1.41

New Features and Changes:

• The trial time can now be lengthened upon request. If you need more time to evaluate SAK, please write an e-mail to support@lobstersoft.com

Bugfixes:

• Fixed a refreshing problem when switching between different statistics.

Release Date:1/10/2000 Version 1.4

New Features and Changes:

• Added support for Celexis registration replies

Bugfixes:

• Fixed a problem with the import of Qwerks registration replies

Release Date:20.09.2000 Version 1.3

New Features and Changes:

• When starting a second instance of SAK, the first instance is automatically maximized and the second instance quit.
• You can now set a default period for promised to pay dates
• SAK can now send all queued mail automatically when an a connection to the SMTP server is available
• The sorted column of the customer list is now saved at shutdown
• The statistics date fields are now saved at shutdown. Changing one of the fields affects the fields all 5 statistics.

Bugfixes:

• When loading a new keygen DLL, an access violation occured under special circumstances.
• The window list of unpaid licenses does can now be switched off so that it does not always show at startup anymore.
• Some minor fixes regarding the keygenerator function being callled too often

Release Date:8/4/2000 Version 1.26

New Features and Changes:

• Added credit card, Paypal, and purchase orders as payment methods

Release Date:7/27/2000 Version 1.25

New Features and Changes:

• SAK does now warn you if a mail transmission failed because the server requires SMTP after POP

Bugfixes:

• It is now possible to skip customers who have invalid e-mail addresses during the transmission of a message that has more than one recipient

Release Date:7/25/2000 Version 1.24

Bugfixes:

• Fixed problems with incorrect topic display when starting the help file
• Fixed several missing pictures in the help file

Release Date:7/19/2000 Version 1.23

Bugfixes:

• Letter templates are not altered anymore when printing letter directly from the customer list toolbar

Release Date:7/18/2000 Version 1.22

New Features and Changes:

• Added import filter for old-style RegSoft order notifications
• Performed some minor optimizations that should slightly reduce sak's GDI resource requirements
• Added a warning when manually adding a customers with the same name as customers who are already listed in the database.

Release Date:7/17/2000 Version 1.21

Bugfixes:

• Fixed a problem with uncomplete customer list refreshing after adding / drag-and drop importing a single customer

Release Date:7/13/2000 Version 1.2

New Features and Changes:

• Updated Delphi and Powerbuilder sample keygenerator dll projects

Bugfixes:

• Main window caption was altered when manually saving the database

Release Date:7/12/2000 Version 1.19

New Features and Changes:

• Added variable SMTP port setting

Bugfixes:

• The promised to pay form was not shown at startup anymore

Release Date:7/11/2000 Version 1.18

New Features and Changes:

• Added support for multiple file importing. This is very useful for Outlook Express users as it allows them to import thousands of customers within a few seconds, just like it was possible to do with Outlook, Netscape Communicator, Eudora, Calypso and many other e-mail clients before.
• Added import filter for GetSoftware order notifications

Bugfixes:

• Under certain conditions, the error window for failed drag and drop imports showed a list of unpaid orders by mistake.
• SAK prevented windows from shutting down until it was closed manually.
• On some systems, SAK complained about a missing "msls31.dll" and generated a non-fatal exception

Release Date:7/9/2000 Version 1.17

New Features and Changes:

• Added Import filter for SWReg order notifications
• Improved HTML formatting in the history text generator

Release Date:7/8/2000 Version 1.16

New Features and Changes:

• The undo button does now show which action may be undone.

Bugfixes:

• When printing an RTF document, the macros were replaced permanently
• Truncating the version history did not work correctly in some special cases.
• The Sales by registration method statistic contained an empty entry with a share of 50%
• Opening a database copy failed due to a missing "yes" button
• The customer groups of newly added stationeries were not always preserved correctly
• The distance between lines in the RTF document was was slightly different when printing than on the screen
• False warnings when sending an e-mail directly from the customer tabsheet
• Removed slight formatting bug in the HTML version history generator
• Some labels were not displayed correctly when running SAK with big system fonts
• Statistics parameters were reset after changing to any other tabsheet

Release Date:7/5/2000 Version 1.14

General Notes:

First version that I really regarded as final.
Since version 1.0 we had put 3 months of hard work into the program, implementing over 100 new features and fixing even more bugs (many thanks to all who reported/requested them!).

These are just the most important new features since version 1.0:


• Customer Database:
  * SAK can now import order notifications from RegNow, Digibuy, ShareIt, RegSoft, Kagi, RegNet, Qwerks, Netsales, NorthStar, UKShareReg, SoftwareLibrary, PSL and Yaskifo.
  * Added Drag-and-drop customer import (just drag the order notification from your mail client onto the customer list).
  * Added customer import from other databases (by using comma-delimited files)
  * When a customer's contact info is changed, it is now updated for all applications which the customer has purchased.
  * Added one-click form e-mail and letter sending
  
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  Form Emails (stationeries):
  * Added Message Queuing (write off-line, send when online)
  * Improved include/exclude customer filters
  * Added support for attachments (and automatically generated key files).
  * More convenient stationery editing
  * Completely re-implemented and 100% stable e-mail sending
  
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  Form Letters:
  * Added Print Preview
  * Added full OLE support
  
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  Version History:
  * Completely re-implemented and much more flexible version history generation with HTML support
  
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  Bug Database:
  * Added support for change requests
  * Added priority for all items
  
  
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  Sales Statistics:
  * Added 2 new Statistics: Regular Customers and sales by registration method
  * The Sales over time and Sales By Country statistics are now more flexible
  
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  Keygenerator DLLs:
  * Added support for key files and additional key generation parameters
  * Added example projects for Visual C++, Delphi and Powerbuilder
  
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  General Look & Feel Changes:
  * SAK does now work with a resolution of only 800*600 pixels
  * Much faster switching between applications
  * Added standard hotkeys and improved sort functions for all listview
  

Release Date:4/13/2000 Version 1.0

General Notes:

This was the first public beta release.