Best Sellers July

David Walliams’ new title, ‘The World’s Worst Parents’ takes the top spot this month with 1,867 sales.

This is followed closely by the hardback copy of ‘A Room Made of Leaves’ which sold 1,771 copies.

‘Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark’ dropped two places to third, selling 1,737 copies (-195).

See the complete Top 50 for July

KPI's

The sales KPIs show NZ and AU powering alone in July +24 and +18% compared to last year. It will be interesting to see what the lockdowns in Vic do this month, we certainly see website hits increase in lockdowns. 

Sales in June/July 2019 vs. June/July 2020:

• Australia: +13/+18%
• New Zealand: +25/+24%

System traffic

• 1.8 million page views in July vs 1.7 million in June, however Aug already has 2 million, likely driven by lockdowns in Vic.

Development in July

In July we did a lot more work on API's and infrastructure. We also delivered improvements in POS search, website, customer orders and deals.

In progress

• Item base web order fulfilment to make filling web orders faster and easier
• Streamlined web checkout
• Infrastructure and system upgrades
• Ezipay integration
• Purchase Order cart refactor (speed up)

See all Improvements in July here.

99th NZ Booksellers Conference & Circle user meeting August 22 & 23

The 99th NZ Booksellers Conference is on Saturday 22nd & Sunday 23rd August at the Hilton hotel in Auckland.

We will be there both at the trade desk day and running the annual Circle user meeting.

The Circle user meeting will run from 3pm to 5pm on Saturday 22nd August at the end of the trade show (in the same room). We will stream it using zoom or hangouts for those who are not attending the conference.

Tip: A new (contactless) way to say a personal hello to customers.

Bonjoro provides an easily way to send a personal video message to customers. Typically used when receiving or sending out an order. More effective and possibly faster than writing an email. 

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What kept me busy last week (other than work)

Restocking the brewery

Warwick Schaffer

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