Sotheran's MediaSync ApplicationApplication Overview and Project Justification Sotheran's generates approximately 100 product images each week—a figure that often increases during catalogue preparation, peak trading periods, or following large stock acquisitions. Once photographed, these images must be processed and distributed across multiple repositories: the website, BookManager, and the Media Server. The current workflow includes the [...]
What is ZeroTier? ZeroTier is like a magical, invisible network cable that connects your devices—no matter where they are in the world—just like they were plugged into the same office network. Why Use ZeroTier? Normally, if you want to access a work computer, server, or router from home, you’d need [...]
ZeroTier is considered secure for most use cases, but like any networking solution, its security depends on proper configuration and usage. Here’s a breakdown of its security aspects: ✅ End-to-End Encryption: Uses AES-256 encryption for all network traffic. Each node has a unique cryptographic identity using Curve25519 keys. ✅ No Centralized Decryption: ZeroTier's servers help establish connections but cannot see your traffic. [...]
DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance) is a tool used to protect email senders and receivers from spam, phishing, and email fraud. It helps make sure emails sent from your domain (like "sotherans.co.uk") are genuine and safe for recipients. Here’s how DMARC works in simple terms: Setting the Rules: DMARC allows you, [...]
DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) is a security tool used by email providers to help confirm that an email really comes from the person or company it claims to be from and hasn’t been altered along the way. Here’s a simple way to think about it: Imagine you receive a sealed letter in the [...]
What is SPF? SPF, or Sender Policy Framework, is a tool that helps protect email senders and receivers from spam and fraud. Imagine SPF as a kind of “guest list” for emails. When an email is sent, SPF allows the receiving email system to check if the email came from an approved “guest” [...]
Sotheran's listings are updated daily on ABE. Book are added to ABE when: Are in Stock Ticked sell on web Price is higher than £20 Older than 6 month in inventory If there is a title that must go on ABE even if it doesn’t meet the above criteria, add the keyword abeinclude to [...]
Printing Stock Cards (and other document types) using the Kyocera ECOSYS Printer At Sotheran's, a few document formats are produced on a day to day basis. Invoices and Stock Cards are examples of documents generated from Book Manager and printed on a daily basis. In this guide, we'll show you how to use, [...]
How to create and save print profiles Because of permissions in the Book Manager server, it is possible that Print Profiles are not visible to every account. In this section of the guide, we’ll show you how to create your own print profiles The guidance below concentrates on Stock Cards, but the same [...]