We are pleased to announce the release of ibAcus 3.3.5. The latest version of our inventory counting software incorporates a number of new features. The big news is support for iCountability Data Management, giving administrators the power to generate reports directly to an FTP site. Administrators will also benefit from the new mechanism for generating comments when editing a count. Comments will appear in the transaction log and will be of great help when reviewing counts days or weeks later, because sometimes human memories need refreshing too.

Another brand new feature is the ability to print the bar codes found in a codeset. This printing feature conforms to Avery(R) TEMPLATE 8160(TM) and also allows printing of scan-able location markers from a location group. To give more versatility to this feature, we've supported the display of a subset of codes by location (on the hand held) via our new "Quick Pick Locations Codes on Device" flag. This feature may be used when working with a small set of codes linked to a specific location in a codeset, where items in a site are, for the most part, not physically bar coded. It will be a great help for cycle counts and for establishing a file with bar codes over time. If cycle counts are done at a rate of 200 per day, a business with 10,000 skus could theoretically go from no bar codes to 100% bar coded in as little as 10 five-day weeks. Simultaneously, we have changed the user interface layout of the site information window to make it cleaner and easier to navigate.

Where devices are concerned, changes to iCounter CE include support for automatic SD/CF card detection and storage of live count data to card (a potential life-saver). Users can also display a short list of codes on the device when working in scenarios where multiple codes per location are permitted.