Posted: Jun 09, 2023
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!
Posted: Apr 14, 2023
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!
Posted: Apr 10, 2023
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.
Posted: Jan 31, 2023
We've released improvements to our Custom Order Header Fields feature that make it even more powerful to integrate the eCat
First, what are Custom Order Header fields? eCat and eCat Online include several default header fields, but it's often useful to have reps collect information key to order fulfillment, marketing automation, or other processes specific to your needs. For that we allow you to define custom fields that will be collected at order finalization time and made available in our Order Export process.
You can use it for any number of things:
Our recent release allows you to define up to 10 custom fields (up from 3).
Also, in addition to the multi-select option we already supported, we now allow you to collect text, numbers, and dates.
Finally, we allow you to require the user to enter a value in order to submit the order.
Posted: Dec 05, 2022
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.
Posted: Oct 19, 2021
This version of eCat is a hotfix release:
Posted: Oct 10, 2021
This version of eCat introduces improvements to ordering custom configurable items and an enhancement to eCat's group scanning feature.
Posted: Sep 13, 2021
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!
Posted: Sep 13, 2021
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.
Posted: Oct 10, 2021
This new version of eCat enables ordering from a list of multiple related items by scanning a single barcode and introduces other improvements.
Posted: Jun 04, 2021
This version of eCat introduces a sales rank sorting capability that delivers powerful insights when used in combination with other eCat features.
Posted: Jun 04, 2021
This new eCat release of eCat introduces 'group scanning' as a way to speed up ordering related items in showrooms.
Posted: Apr 20, 2021
This new version of eCat includes changes to clarify feature descriptions along with a few usability tweaks.
Posted: Apr 05, 2021
eCat version 2021.2 adds new functionality and important changes to the feature layout.
Posted: Oct 13, 2020
Your data files are importing 5-10 times faster!
Posted: Sep 16, 2020
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.
Posted: Jun 18, 2020
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.
Posted: Mar 16, 2020
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.
Posted: Mar 14, 2020
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:
Posted: Oct 07, 2019
Posted: Oct 03, 2019
(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
Posted: Oct 03, 2019
(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
Posted: Apr 06, 2018
SuperCat has upgraded your photo server. This affects your company in several ways.
Posted: Dec 19, 2016
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It's now possible to exit the Catalog Creator without clearing the work done on a catalog. Product selections, titles, sort sequence, page breaks, etc. are automatically saved until a new catalog is started. So users can now
Admins can now define an additional row in every catalog layout, for up to 5 rows total. This includes catalogs without the standard item#/price row.
It's now possible to export eCat data in CSV format for use in spreadsheets or data exchange. When users tap 'Create Catalog', CSV export formats they are authorized to use are listed with the other catalog formats. To create the CSV file, users select the format, select the items to include in the file, then tap 'Done'. A preview of the CSV file will display.
Admins define CSV export formats in the same place as other catalog formats as follows.
Posted: Mar 05, 2019
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
Posted: Jun 06, 2019
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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