ABA’s Friday Update: Contact Congress TODAY! (2 minutes!)

Dear Booksellers,

We know you’re busy so just the essentials today . . .

Advocacy

This may be one of the most important things you can do for your business right now and it takes 2 minutes:
Tell Congress to pass COVID-19 relief now before leaving Washington for the holidays. Booksellers can now advocate for their businesses using our new one-click tool. Simply add your personal story (optional) to a pre-written message for your senators and representatives urging them to use the bipartisan relief proposal as the foundation for an immediate stimulus package, enter your name and address, and hit send. Our ask (included in the pre-written message) includes tax deductibility for PPP loans. Take action here.
Remember, state and local small business relief may still be available in your area. Act quickly and continuously check your state and local government websites for funding opportunities. For example, Washington State is now accepting applications for up to $20,000 in emergency funds until December 11, 2020. Apply here.

IndieCommerce

Pick List: A pick list is a document that indicates which items should be taken from your inventory to fulfill open orders. This allows you to grab all the items you need for a group of orders and removes the need to go back-and-forth for each order. With IndieCommerce and IndieLite (IC & IL) stores receiving a large volume of online orders -- unlike what they’ve ever seen before -- the IC team has been working on options to help stores process online orders: speed up the process and handle different fulfillment options more easily. The “Pick List” is a new feature available to IC and IL sites. This downloadable list will include the following for each order:
- List of products, SKUs, titles, publisher information
- Availability status
- Quantity in stock and the location within the store (for stores that upload their Local Store Inventory)
IC stores can filter the list by order date, order status, and in stock status. IL stores can filter by order date and order status. Stores can use the Store Features page (Store > Configuration > Account Information and Preferences > Store Features) to have this feature enabled on their site.

Bulk Printing of Invoices: This IndieCommerce feature (coming soon for IndieLite) allows stores to print order invoices for multiple orders with one click. Orders can be filtered by date range, order status, and payment method. Stores can use the Store Features page (Store > Configuration > Account Information and Preferences > Store Features) to have this feature enabled on their site.
Emergencies: If your IndieCommerce or IndieLite website is experiencing an outage -- if customers can’t place orders or you can't process orders so it’s an emergency -- please take the following steps:
- Check the IndieCommerce Status Page. If you don’t see an incident reported on that page, then…
- Submit a critical outage report. We monitor for critical/emergency outage reports 24/7. As soon as you submit a critical outage report, it’s forwarded to IndieCommerce staff for review. Please include as much detail as possible and please only use this form for emergencies as described above. Note: You must have a BookWeb.org account to submit this form, so make sure your team has login credentials handy.
Non-Emergency Support: For non-emergency IndieCommerce issues, email [email protected] and include your store name, site URL, and as much detail as possible about your question or issue.