Best Sellers October

Moving up from second place to take top spot for October was Liane Moriarty's "Apples Never Fall" with 2,779 sales (-644).

Sally Rooney's "Beautiful World, Where Are You" dropped one spot with 2,264 sales (-2043).

Third place and new to the list was "Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Shelf Love" with 1,854 sales.

See the complete Top 50

Kia ora new stores

A very warm welcome to all new (and seasoned) bookshop owners. 

Oscar & Friends
Sydney, NSW, AU

The Twizel Bookshop
Twizel, NZ

Quest Books
Figtree, NSW, AU

KPI's

Still down compared to last year but less than previous months likely due to easing of lockdowns. YTD New Zealand is still up 14% and Australia 9%. 

Sales compared to last year September / October

• Australia:  -17.51% /  -7.95%
• New Zealand: --27.08% / -2.32%

You can see the full year in Reports > Monthly Sales

Development in October

In October we really got into the R6 system upgrade but this is a big job and we have a long way to go. We continued work on the web POS which will provide a phone/tablet POS option. We started integrating the new gift card system into the POS and did more work on the group/association portal sites. 

Currently working on

• Circle Gift Card
• Rails 6 upgrade
• Group/Association central site
• Improved onboarding system for new customers

See all Improvements in October

Farewell Friday

Two of the team went back to Uruguay this month - we enjoyed another backyard BBQ to send them off. 

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