GarageSale 10 Beta 1 Released

[ilja]

Dear GarageSale Users,

The first public beta version of GarageSale 10 is available for download from this URL:

https://downloads.iwascoding.com/downloads/GarageSale_10.0b1.dmg

What’s new in GarageSale 10

• simplified timed listing starts with Scheduler Groups: add time ranges to any group in Listing mode to upload the listing it contains

• a new AI Listing Generator will generate listing descriptions and attributes, and pick categories from your item images (may require additional purchase of image tokens

• improved smart group update performance, resulting in fewer sporadic beach balling

• outline view groups show the count of all contained items, instead of only showing the count of items on the first level

• improved performance when control-clicking group with lots of children in outline view

• Updated icons and artwork throughout user interface

• listings in the outline view can be sorted by price, category and store category

• improved Reports section

• Order Mode: Added 4 new packing slip templates

• Product Safety Popover: “responsible persons” can be exported, imported, duplicated and sorted

• Diagnostic panel: added option to remove orphaned images files (please make sure to have a current backup of your GarageSale library before use this option)

Upgrade costs

• free for GarageSale Pro Subscribers
• upgrade for regular users stays at $19.99, but is not on sale yet
• beta version accepts GarageSale 9 licenses for now

System Requirements

• MacOS 12.0 or later (macOS 15 or newer recommended, earlier versions may work but are not supported)

Read before installing this beta version

Database Upgrade

Early beta of GarageSale will use the same database as GarageSale 9 to allow for switching back and forth between versions. At some point before the final release, we will switch GS 10 to work on it’s own copy of your database.

Notes for GS Pro Synching Users

GarageSale 10 contains new data fields, which the synching module in GS 9 does not know about. Therefore when using GarageSale 10 with synching enabled, your synching data will be upgraded to a new schema version, making it no longer accessible to GarageSale 9.

New Features

Scheduled Groups

Control-clicking any regular group in the Listings section lets you add a new upload schedule to it, or edit an existing schedule.
Each minute, GarageSale will try to upload unscheduled listings in your scheduled groups, if the scheduled group has a time window matching the current time

AI Listing Generator

Every image sent to the AI for analyzation will cost an image recognition token.

100 images tokens per month are included with the GarageSale Pro subscription. These tokens are non-accumulating and will expire at the end of your subscription period and will not roll-over to the next month.

Regular GarageSale license holders will receive 10 images tokens.

All users can purchase 1000 additional non-expiring images tokens for $/€10.

Thanks for using GarageSale,
Kristian, Paul, and Ilja

[fedege96]

sounds like a big change…. will try soon the AI generator.

What do you think about a few little features more? I am ready to pay at any time if you send me cost for these little features I really need:

• a way to enlarge item image in the order
• a way to create printable slips in the listings sections for groups of selected items, as it is already possible to do in the order section

Seriously @ilja , if you invoice me the cost for developing these features, I will pay.

[rlmartin]

Ilja. I downloaded GS 10 to my back up computer running 12.7.6 to try before trying on my main computer(sync off). I ran the orphan photos option first. It took 20 minutes on my library and said it found over 27,000 orphans and the final tally of 45,449 items down to 16,981 items so it actually got rid of ~30,000. SUCCESS! Old listings still beach ball that have up to 15 pictures of massive 5mb size each. My new listings I am using 900kb pictures. The new listings with the smaller photos got a tiny flash of a beachball on 1 listing out of 20 listing views. Seems the trick is to stop using the huge picture sizes

[kristian]

@fedege96

a way to enlarge item image in the order

@fedege96
We are currently trying to figure out what’s the best way to implement such an option.
We could add a slider (or a context menu option) that allows you define the image size, like this:

• Would you find that helpful?
• Is the image size shown here sufficient for you?

Please let us know what you’re looking for so we can better understand your needs.

[fedege96]

Hi @kristian ,

first of all, thank you very much for this update and the effort on this feature! Both ones (this one of the order image and the other one with printable list in listing section) are in my dreams for a long time and I am really really missing them….

Concerning your question, if the image size could be changed using such a slider would be SUPER. In my mind, I thought something like the image field in the listing section (a lens icon that enlarges the image when you move the mouse or click over it). But a slider maybe is a better and more functional idea, this is something like the cursor to change images size in the main window when you select more listings at once. One or the other solution are both excellent and such a size I think would be great.