We built an automated process that regularly checks your live storefront against your inventory in Bookhead and flags discrepancies. When it finds something off, it reports back to us so we can fix it.

Squarespace "book lists" are built from product tags. Now, when a book goes out of stock, Bookhead removes the title from those lists so your curated lists (staff picks, new arrivals, etc.) only show what's actually on hand, then adds it back when you restock. (Technically, Bookhead removes the tag from the product -- taking it out of the book list on your website -- and sets the product as unlisted so it's not viewable in the storefront. It will still exist as a product in Squarespace and in the Bookhead book list).

FYI: any lists you've built directly in Squarespace aren't managed by Bookhead, so those we leave alone.

Related to this feature request.

When a book sells out, Bookhead can now hide it from your Squarespace store instead of leaving it up as "sold out." The product isn't deleted so when you restock, it comes back on its own. This is a per-store setting right now, so let us know if you'd like it turned on for your shop.

This is a temporary solution related to this feature request.

Bookhead can sync non-book items (like merch and sidelines -- any product without an ISBN) to Squarespace or Shopify.

This works with Booklog and IBID. It's untested with iMRCHNT.

We currently don't support image upload for non-book items, so you'll need to continue uploading the product images to the sales channel platform. If you are interested in a Bookhead-based image management interface, then let us know in this feature request: https://bookhead.canny.io/feature-requests/p/manage-non-book-product-images-in-bookhead-staff-interface

This feature includes some logic that links your existing products with these items, so please let us know if you encounter unlinked products!

We created a prototype using AI tools to interact with inventory. This was a neat feature to experiment with but we feel it's too incomplete and creates unintended issues as a prototype, so we need to develop this more to make it better. We're also not if this is something we want to invest time in making better.

We've had basic logging to see when a bookstore sends us a file over its SFTP connection, but now we have real observability every time we receive one. This sits alongside the robust logging we already have in the data pipeline, available in the staff UI. SFTP is the step before all of that, so better monitoring here gives us an audit log of every event from the moment a file arrives. This makes debugging far easier if anything ever goes wrong with the SFTP server.

When an order comes into Squarespace or Shopify, Bookhead receives the order and creates an export file that you can load into Booklog or iMRCHNT. This file can facilitate special orders as well, so you can sell out of stock books available at Ingram or Pubnet.

This doesn't include automatic order processing, which is coming soon!

We now support syncing books to Alibris.

Use bibliographic metadata in your Canva designs with an ISBN-based workflow. Learn more here: https://bookhead.net/products/canva/

A store can set the channel filter to not sync books that are out of stock (aka inventory of 0). This produced a bug: a book is synced to the channel because it has an inventory count > 0, but then it sells and goes to inventory = 0. That inventory change wasn't changed on the channel because of bad logic.