What's New on Release 21.1 - Epicor

• Online Feeds (Merchant Feeds). These are intended to drive customers to your iNet site.Online Feeds send products available for purchase in your iNet store to Google. As aresult, consumers shopping on the web can search/find the products they are lookingfor, and are taken to your iNet site to complete the purchase. Feeds are transmittedbased on Google’s recommended schedule. Currently, Product Listings transmit weekly.• Local Feeds. These are geared to drive customers to your physical store(s). Local Feedssend products available for purchase at your physical retail store(s) to Google.Consumers looking for products online can find the products and their availability status,and are given a map and directions to your store location to make a purchase. This canbe a very powerful tool to bring online shoppers, particularly those using mobile phonesor other mobile devices, into your store(s). Feeds are transmitted based on Google’srecommended schedule. Currently, Price/Quantity updates are transmitted daily, ProductListings are transmitted weekly, and Business Listings are updated monthly.• Improved Search Engine. iNet’s search engine has been improved to use the newproduct data cache. iNet keywords, iNet descriptions, Inventory Maintenance notes, andcoop descriptions are now searchable from the standard and advanced search. Twocharacterwords are no longer excluded from searches. The method used to search byitem code can now be controlled on the Advanced search page. This impacts searchingfor item code, UPC, or manufacturer part number. iNet searches for the terms entered inthe search box – it will do a “partial match,” allowing a user to enter a portion of theword. If a user enters multiple search terms, iNet requires both terms to be in the result.If the user uses the Advanced search page, it allows the user to search specific fields asbefore (UPC, MFG, Department, etc.) and requires that they match in addition to thesearch terms entered for description. Search results are sorted based on rank, and rankis based on the number of times a search term appears for an item, and is also weightedbased on where the term appears. Words in the title, or words specified as keywords,carry more weight than a word in the description. In addition, while iNet does a partialmatch, words that are an exact match to one of the search terms are also given a higherweight.• Employee Order Entry allows employees to place orders on behalf of customers.Employees can login to the administrative interface and then use an order entry/POSlikeinterface to create orders. This module, which is a purchase option, works on both adesktop web browser and an Android Tablet. The interface varies slightly, based on thedevice used.• You can now select the Balances page as a default home page for customer accounts.When editing a customer account, simply select the Account Balances page as thedefault page they see after they log in to iNet.• Web designers can now remove the HTML table that was used to create multiplecolumns when displaying sub-categories in the store.• Ability to display the department list on all pages instead of just “store pages.” The newsettings can be found in Store Administration -> Settings -> category_menubox.• iNet can now charge taxes based on the customer’s zip+4 code. When adding tax codesto the iNet tax map, you can now create an entry for a specific zip+4 range. When aWhat’s <strong>New</strong> on Release 21.1--Eagle for the Aftermarket Page 27