3/14/2012: Build 6165; Web Build 9414

This release contains the following:

(1) When viewing Pending Orders on the Find Order Screen, some orders would not show up. Fixed.
(2) Inside Power Flash, you could not add an additional Payment. Fixed.
(3) Added new PAGE MANAGEMENT screen to website admin module. This feature replaces the old one inside Internet Settings inside Power Flash. This routine gives you a WYSIWYG editor for editing content on the website. (We must setup your website to enable this feature)
(4) Website was not giving away free items with coupons. Fixed. (The customer must order the free item, and enter the coupon code)
(5) Changed system so that Call Back screen could be minimized and re-opened later.
(6) System was not properly calulating payment dates for restaurants paid monthly. Fixed.
(7) Gift Card template upload had bug. Fixed.
(8) On the driver checkout report, if an order with a zero grand total (from coupons, etc.) followed another order, that free order showed the previous orders's customer's name and payment info. This did not effect any data; it was just a report bug. Fixed.
(9) Print Invoice routine did not recognize customer credits used, and listed them as a payment. Fixed.
(10) The website was allowing orders to zones marked as unavailable. Fixed.
(11) Added 'Force WWW' feature in Internet Settings inside Power Flash. This will cause the system to redirect users who enter your site without typing the 'www' first. Example: if a customer goes to rdscontrol.com, the system wil automatically redirect them to www.rdscontrol.com.
(12) When receiving a payment on a corporate account, the 'Cards on File' link did not work. Fixed.

Scott

2/21/2012: Build 6161; Web Build 9368

This release has the following:

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FEATURE CHANGE
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When a customer now logs into the website, the system will use the zip code and zone information for the customer's default address when displaying restaurants. The user is free to change zip codes and areas, and still must verify the address when starting the order.


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BUG FIXES
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(1) Added ability for group invitees to pay their share by any payment method, not just credit cards.
(2) Cnanged system so that items ordered by group members that do not complete the checkout process are NOT deleted, but stay part of the order.
(3) Multiple payment methods can now be made on-line, both for regular orders and for group members in an order.
(4) Rewrote all email-sending routines in Power Flash. They now share the same sending code. (Occasionally, some emails would fail. There were about 7 different routines that sent emails out, and each was written at different times. Now, they all sahre the same codebase. This will eliminate any inconsistencies.)
(5) Added Cancel Order button to the bottom of each page on the Group Order setup screens.
(6) The system was not calculating the distance correctly on some Internet Orders. Fixed.
(7) Some order printouts had an extra blank page between the Restaurant and Driver sections. Fixed.
(8) If you start an order on the web, select an item, but cancel it, and then select another restaurant, the system would require you to meet the minimum for both the new restaurant and the original restaurant. Now, you can remove the original restaurant from the order.
(9) Web would not accept Gift Card as payment. Fixed.


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SERVER CONFIGURATION
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Microsoft Web Servers limit the amount of data that can be sent by a user to around 200k. This is fine for most uses, but will prevent you from loading some large logos and pictures from the new Admin section. If you are expericining 'Page cannot be displayed' or other error messages when trying to upload your logos, please call us so we can update your web server configuration.

Scott

2/15/2012: Build 6158; Web Build 9326: Image Management System

This build contains one new feature, one major change, and 16 minor changes.

NEW FEATURE: There is a new IMAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM inside the WEB ADMIN section. This is where you will upload images for your restaurant logos, menu item pictures (YES - YOU CAN UPLOAD PICTURES FOR YOUR MENU ITEMS NOW), amd Menu Guides. You can also create other categories and upload images to these categories. WE can customize yoru website to display these pictures on various screens, either a fixed picture or a ranmdom picture.

CHANGE: The website will now require customers to enter their full address when they start an order by clicking on an item. They can still view menus without entering their address. To can login if they want, but do not have to actually login until they checkout.

MINOR CHANGES:
(1) The FindCustomer routine had some internal issues and would not find some customers. Fixed.
(2) Group Order was asking for payment method even when company was paying for food. Fixed.
(3) Changed ASAP threshold to 75 minutes from one hour. When printing or faxing an order that is scheduled to be delivered within 75 minutes, the system will print 'Pickup ASAP' on the restaurant copy instead of an actual time.
(4) Inside Power Flash, when attempting to order from a restaurant that is closed, and you overide it, the time you enter was not sticking. Fixed.
(5) Data that used to be in the Class column on the dispatch screen has been moved to the Order Number column.
(6) Brand new cash drawers would not open. Fixed.
(7) When an order was placed in the queue to be faxed automatically, a pop-up box askign for confirmation would appear on the fax server, even if no CSR was logged in. The fax server would wait for a response and do nothing else while waiting. Changed the system so that it will not ask for a confirmation if no one is logged in at the fax server.
(8) Removed the text 'Please allow 10 days for delivery' from the Reward Redemption screen.
(9) On Takeout orders where the only option was for the customer to pay at the restaurant, the system would ask for a payment method but give the customer no option, thus trapping the customer in an endless loop. Fixed.
(10) When editing a takeout order inside Power Flash, the Delivery Menu would initially appear. Fixed.
(11) Added a link to copy the restaurants address to the billing address fields.
(12) Removed Image Name field inside restaurant setup as obsolete.
(13) When manually editing time slips, the system was not properly storing the date, causing problems with the Driver Employee Report. Fixed.
(14) Moved Image Rotation under Internet Settings to Web Admin.
(15) When editing order templates, the Takeout Box for one ofthe settings was out of place. Fixed.
(16) Order printouts had extra space at the top. Removed.


Scott

1/16/2012: Build 6147; Web Build 9280: 14 NEW Features

This release contains several major new features, and a few bug fixes.

NEW FEATURES
(1) Added ability to store customers' birthdays and anniversaries. You can now use the Customer List report to generate a list of customer's whose birthday or anniversary is in the month you specify.
(2) Added ability to sepcify a Sales Rep for each restaurant, and created a new Restaurant Sales by Rep report
(3) MASTER CATEGORIES. Some services do more than just deliver meals from restaurants. They deliver dry cleaning, movies, groceries, etc. You do this simpylby creating a 'restaurant' for each vendor. However, listing 'dry cleaner' under Cuisine seems a little silly. So now there is a Master Category. By default, there is one Master Category called 'Restaurants'. Every 'cuicine' is listed under a mster category. So, now you can create a new master category called 'Other Services' and list dry cleaners under that. If you have more than ONE master category, a drop-down box will appear above the Cuisine drop-down box allowing the customer to choose a Master Category if they want.
(4) Changed the wording on the restaurant screen when a restarant is not yet open. Instead of saying the 'The restaurant is currently closed. Delivery available at 11:30', it now says 'Restaurant opens atr 11:00. First delivery available at 11:30'
(5) ZIP CODE REQUESTS. If a customer enters a zip code for which you do not deliver, the system will now make a record of it, and you can view these requests in a new report. This can be used to guide you in determining demand for new areas.
(6) RESTAURANT ALERT FEATURE. The system can now send a separate email to a restaurant whenever an order is faxed or emailed to the restaurant. This second email message can be sent to a different email address. The email simply says 'Order #xxxx was faxed to your restarant at 11:30 on 1/21/2012'. This can be used to send a text message to the manager whenever an order is faxed to the restaurant. This feature can be setup on a restaurant-by-restaurant basis.
(7) RESTAURANT RATING SYSTEM. Customers can now enter a review for each restaurant after their order. They can enter one review per restaurant per order. They can enter a comment and a rating between 1 and 5. Teh system will display the restaurant's average rating on the Restaurant Screen, and users can click on a link to read each review. This feature can be turned on by going into Power Flash under Internet Settings, and checking 'Use Rating System'. When a customer enters a review, the restaurants rating average is adjusted immediately. But the text of the review will not be displayed until you approve it. To approve reviews, go to the new ADMIN section of your website. Under Management, there is a new routine called 'Review Management'.
(8) RESTAURANT SORTS. Added sort options on the Restaurant Screen. Customers can now sort by name, distance, price, or rating. (If ratings are enabled). Restaurants are still grouped together within their own 'levels' regardless of sort settings.
(9) FOOD PICTURES ON ITEMS. The system can now display food pictures for each menu item. Food pictures should be uploaded to your Images folder. You can enter the filename for each food picture under Menu Setup for each item inside Power Flash.
(10) ADVERTISING ON ORDERS. The system will now put a Banner Ad on each order if you want. Upload the Banner Ad to the Images folder on your website. It should be six inches wide by 1 inch tall. Go into Setup: Company Setup and enter the filename of the banner under the 'Printing and Faxing Section'. Then edit each template. This is a check box on the right side that determines whether or not the banner prints.
(11) DRIVING DIRECTIONS ON ORDERS. The system can now print driving directions on each order. Go into Template Setup. On the right side, there is a checkbox for 'Driving Directions'. If you check that box, the directions will print. For delivery orders, the directions go from the restaurant to the customner. For takeout orders, the directions go from the customer to the restaurant.
(12) RESTAURANT SCREEN MAP. Once a customer has chosen a zip code on the restaurant screen, there is a link called 'Show Map'. This will display a Google Map of the customer's area and all of the restaurants that are listed as available for his zip will be populated on the Google Map. (This is similar to a standard Store Locator feature that most major website now have.)
(13) AUTHORIZE.NET. Power Flash now integrates directly with Authorize.Net, in addition to the existing interfaces with Heartland Payment Systems, TransNational, and BluePay. ICVerify integration is also still available.
(14) PROMOTIONS. A new criteria ability has been added. You can now require that a customer order x number of times within x number of days to receive a coupon. Additional criteria can be entered under criteria. (For example, if you order from Black Eyed Pea 5 times in 30 days, you get a $10 coupon).

BUG FIXES
(15) When paying restaurants that you have set to 'Pay Sales Tax on Net Sales', system was paying tax based on retail price less commissions, instead of wholesale price less commissions. Fixed.
(16) System was not auto-faxing takeout orders paid with a credit card. Fixed.
(17) When using the new ADMIN screen to place orders, when loading a customer, the system would not limit results to 100. So if you typed in a search criteria that woudl return a large number (or left it blank which woudl include everybody), the system would appear to 'hang' for all users. This was because the server was busy genertating the reply. Fixed.
(18) Website was allowing Inactive coupons to be used. Fixed.
(19) When paying restaurants, sometimes a Restaurant Adjustment was not being reflected. This happened very rarely. This bug has been fixed, and any adjustments that were missed will me reflected on the next restaurant statement.

Scott

1/5/2012: Build 6143; Web Build 9181: Minor FIxes

This release has the following minor fixes:

(1) Web Orders paid with a Gift Card would cause an error on the Order Summary Screen. Fixed.
(2) System was not properly calculating the pay period for restaurants paid monthly. Fixed.
(3) Could not change Customer Source for some customers under the 'Demographics' link in Customer Management. Fixed.
(4) Combines Customer Source & User-Defined lists for call centers with multiple companies. All companies in one database now share the same lists.
(5) Adjustment Screen was forcing user to select a database. This was not necessary if you only have one database. Fixed.


Scott

1/2/2012: Build 6141; Web Build 9175

This release has the following:

(1) System was controlling capitalization for restaurant names. Stopped.
(2) Group Orders would not allow Admin to choose Corporate Account. Fixed.
(3) Internal Restaurant available routine rewritten to match website.
(4) 7 Week Sales Summary report cut off dates with 4-digits. Fixed.
(5) Nextel Two-Way scan was disabled, preventing communication with Nextel. Re-enabled. (But Nextel still no longers supports the two-way protocol.)
(6) Retail prices for item add-ons was printing, regardless of template settings. Fixed.
(7) Gift Card printing routine was not database-specific. Only effected call-center clients. Fixed.
(8) Restaurant XML export to portals was not including path to logo files. Fixed.
(9) Added Area dropdown box to Restaurant Screen if RDS has more than one active-area.
(10) Changed system to check for new release info after Login rather than at startup, and then only to those users who are authorized to install upgrades.
(11) When clicking on 'more' details on the Restaurant screen, long descriptions would overlap when using Chrome. Fixed.

Scott

12/12/2011: Build 6138; Web Build 9151: Small Fixes; nothing major

This is just a small, maintenance release to address a couple of issues.

(1) On-Line search feature on Restaurant screen was only searching items, not restaurant names as well. Fixed.
(2) Removed ability to change colors on dispatch screen. The novelty feature caused more confusion than benefits. With every user settings their own colors, training and support were very difficult. Now, the dispatch screen uses the same default colors for everyone. (These are the same default colors the system always had)
(3) System was controlling capitalization on Comments when taking an order inside Power Flash. Removed. Now, the comment will appear exactly as it is typed.
(4) Order printouts were still cutting off the tails of some letters. Fixed.

Scott

12/2/2011: Build 6135; Web Build 9141: Automatic Version Checking

This release has the following:

NEW FEATURE

The 'Support' section of the RDS Control Website has been redesigned with a new Release Info section. Power Flash now has direct access to this same information. Now, Power Flash will check for new releases whenever you start the system. If a new release is available, you can install it right from the first screen.

Also, under Help: Release Information inside Power Flash, you can access release information on all releases since January, 2011. There is no need to go to the RDS Control Site to view this information if you don't want to.


OTHER FIXES

(1) Gift Certitificate list was not properly formatted. Fixed.
(2) In Call Centers running multiple RDS's, sometimes when an order was emailed, the wrong template or no template was used. Fixed.
(3) Increased title high to allow more room for titles on order templates
(4) System was not properly storing the customer's phone and email on Internet orders. Fixed.
(5) When selecting an item, the system was using the current date/time to check for availablity rather than the intended delivery/pickup date/time. Fixed.
(6) Order Detail View functionality restored.
(7) System was not calculating first time correctly when starting internet orders, resulting in an erroneous 'Restaurant Closed' message, although it would let you order. Fixed.
(8) When completing an order on the Internet, the method (Delivery or Takeout) was not cleared, and subsequent restaurant searches would only return restaurants that offered whatever type of order was just placed, rather than all restaurants. Fixed.
(9) When adding or editing an address on the My Account screen, if you left off a requried field, an error message was displayes, but you had no way of correcting the error. Fixed.
(10) When generating a customer list, the 'Email Lists' functions were not working. Fixed.
(11) Changed systems to restrict Takeout Orders to actual restaurant's hours. (No longer allowing a pickup time to be after the closing time of the restaurant)


Scott

11/29/2011: Build 6126; Web Build 9133

This release contains the following:

(1) System was not recognizing the second vacation day if two back-to-back vacation days were scheduled for the RDS. Fixed.

(2) Added ability to change the Title and Blurb colors when setting up gift certificate templates on the Web Admin screen,

(3) Hotel Report was not allowing certain hotels added in the past year to be viewed individually. Fixed.

(4) Builds 6122 to 6125 were not properly updating the web-site. Fixed.

(5) Added ability for portals to send test orders to the RDS for testing the integration.

(6) Added routine to calculate restaurant cost at the time the order was placed. This will allow the new restaurant summary report to properly show the daily Profit. (Starting with orders placed with this build or higher). (The old Profit and Loss report that was deprecated a couple of months ago did not accurately reflect profit and loss since it calculated the restaurant's cost based on the commission rate of the restaurant at the time the report was printed.)

Scott

11/22/2011: Build 6124; Web Build 9129

This release contains the following:

(1) Added code to double-check Internet orders to make sure that restaurant is still available and the address is within delivery range when order is checked out. Each item is also checked to makde sure it is available.

(2) Added ability to edit date/time and address information during process. This goes hand in hand with #1 above.

(3) The Menu Page now displays all menu items at all times. If an order has been started, and an item is not available at that time, a small 'not available' icon appears next to the item, and the customer is prevented from ordering it.

(4) A 45 minute grace period is given at the end of each meal period to allow prep and delivery time. So if an item is available for lunch (11 to 2), the system will allow an order for delivery at 2:45.

(5) 'As soon as possible' orders were not taking into account restaurant's hours. Fixed.

(6) Added 'Web Version' to Portal Integration so that the web portals that you integrate with can be sure they are sending proper data for your version of Power Flash.

(7) Whgen faxing an order to a customer, the 'Restaurant' fax template was used instead of the 'Customer' Template. Fixed.

(8) On the View Previous Settlement Statements screen, in the part that lists previous settlement statements, the column labels were changed from 'Starting Period' and 'Ending Period' to 'Statement Date' and 'Period Ending'. (The data is the same; these columns were simply mislabeled yearsd ago.)

(9) On the 'My Account' page on the Internet, the Addresses On File section was rewritten to use pop-ups. It now uses the same code as the other address entry routines.

(10) Emailing routine was not pulling SMTP server information from correct database. This only effected customers using our Call Center, and caused no problems. But it is fixed now.

(11) Group Order summaries were not being sent out 20 minutes prior to order deadline, nor at order completion. Fixed.

(12) Corporate Invoices were not being generated properly if a coupon was applied to the order. Fixed.

(13) On Group Order Management screen, 'Cancel Group Order' button was not working. Fixed.

(14) On Group Order Management screen, 'Close and Lock Group Order' button also was not working. Fixed.

(15) On Group Order Management screen, you could nto change the limit. Fixed. (Right now, every person on a group order must have the same limit. In the near future, you will be able to edit individual member's limits)

(16) On Group Order Management screen, you could not unlock indiviudal member's orders once they checked out. Fixed. (Note: If you unlock the order, the member must log back in and checkout again)

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Note on Group Orders: There has been some confusion on the Group Order process. When member's place their own parts of the order, the system appears to them exactly the same as if they were placing an individual order. The process is the same.

Each Member must checkout when they are finished adding their items, even if they don't owe any money. If they do not checkout, their portion of the order will NOT become part of the group order, and the items they ordered will be deleted from the order.

11/3/2011: Build 6120; Web Build 9071

This release has the following:

(1) The Gift Cards were still not emailing correctly. (They were no longer getting a blank email; just no email at all.) Fixed.

(2) When using a Gift Certificate to pay on a corporate account, an error would occur. Fixed.

(3) Added pop-up box to Website to prompt for area (if the RDS has multiple areas)

(4) Rewrote vacation day routine to correct problem wih partial vacation days.

(5) The Search Restaurant feature had an error. Fixed.

(6) Added ability to change address from the Shopping Cart.

(7) Added ability to change the date/time from the Shopping Cart.

(8) The Shopping Cart now warns the customer if the order is not available to due to address or date/time issues. This warning is updated every time the shopping cart is updated.

(9) Un-Void order feature was not working. Fixed.

Scott

10/27/2011: Build 6119; Web Build 9032

This is a small maintenance release. It has the following:

(1) In the Group Order Wizard on the website, the Time box would say 'Select another day' until the user changed dates. Fixed.

(2) The TakeOut checkbox was not remaining checked when teh duspatch screen was closed. This was be design, but with takeout orders becoming a mainstream feature, code was added to make this selection stick.

(3) Gift Cards were not auto-emailing when purchased. Blank emails were sent instead. Fixed.

(4) Auto-Faxing of takeout orders was not working. Fixed.



Scott

10/24/2011: Build 6116; Web Build 8998

This release contains the following:

(1) House Account Report was not including newer accounts. Fixed.

(2) House Account Roster was not including newer accounts. Fixed.

(3) Redesign the Time dropdown box on the website. Now properly takes into account vacation days, dispatcher delays, RDS hours of operation, and Restaurant hours of operation.

(4) Could not add Second Restaurant to Group Order using Wizard. Fixed.

(5) When duplicating an order, the driver and restaurant instructions were not dulicated. Fixed.

(6) If an Internet order had house items, or multiple restaurants, the minimum per-restaurant was not properly enforced. (It was looking at the total food & house instead of by restaurant). Fixed.

(7) When the system was checking to ensure a coupon was not previously used, the system looked to see if a customer used ANY coupon, not just the coupon in question. Fixed.

10/14/2011: Build 6115; Web Build 8964

This build has one new feature, and a few bug fixes:

(1) CHANGE TO THE BACKUP SYSTEM. The Power Flash has always made a complete backup file every night of all of your data. It placed this file into the backup folder that was specified under Setup: Backup.

It was up to each RDS to copy that backup file to a safe location and then delete it.

Unfortunately, many RDS's have failed to remove the old backup files, causing their hard drives to fill up. When the hard drive gets so full that there is no more rooms for backups, no more backups can be made.

I have logged into RDS's systems many times and found that no backups have occured for a LONG time due to the drive being clogged with old backup files. Last month, I found a large RDS that had not done a backup in over a year!

SO, I HAVE CHANGED THE SYSTEM. Starting with this builds, the automatic backup files will no longer have unqiue names. There will be a maximum of seven, one for each day of the week. (PFBackup_YourRDSFile_Monday.BAK, etc.). Newer backup files will overwrite older ones automatically. So long as your hard drive has space for 7 backup files, your backups will occur automatically.

IT IS STILL UP TO YOU TO MAKE A COPY OF THAT BACKUP FILE SOMEWHERE. I recommend that you use www.carbonite.com .

If you manually click the BACKUP NOW button, the file will be saved with teh old unqiue filename. (I added a BAK extension to that name).

(2) In the Start Order pop-up box, delivery orders had the caption 'When would you like to pick up your order.' Fixed.

(3) I improved the floating shopping cart.

(4) I improved the pop-up box when ordering an item. It no longer scrolls the menu back to the top.

(5) Several RDS's have hired their own graphic designers to modifiy the website rather than allowing us to do it. In some cases, the changes made to the custom files have caused problems with the website.

Under Setup: Internet Settings, I have added check boxes that tell the website to ignore all customizations, and use only the core Power Flash engine. By ignoring the customizations, we can better find the source of problems. (And the customizations can be turned back on when the testing is complete.)



Scott

10/13/2011: Build 6114; Web Build 8962

This is the web component to the build from Monday.

There are several MAJOR new features on the website:

(1) LANDING PAGES. You can now specify landing pages for both restaurants and areas. When the customer types in your website, followed by a '/' and the landing page name, they will be taken to either the restaurants page (for areas) or the menu page for restaurants. Ex:

www.rds.com/dallas - shows all restaurans in Dallas

www.rds.com/chilis - shows the Chili's menu.

(2) Friendly URL names. The URL for that shows in the customer's browser line will now be a friendly URL if a landing page is specified. For example, in the old version, the link to Chili's would be:

www.rds.com/pf8_orderpage.asp?restaurantID=192

Now, it will appear as:

www.rds.com/chilis.htm

Not only is this much easier for the user, it will vastly help you with the Search Engines as well. Intead of having a bunch of links on your page going to PF8_Restaurants.asp, you now have diffrent links pointing to each restaurant. The search engines can now index every restaurant menu on your site!

Be sure to go to Restaurant Setup and enter a landing page for each restaurant.

(3) If you only have ONE area, it is no longer necessary for customers to enter their zip codes in order to view your restaurants. All the restaurants within your area are displayed by default. This is a dropdown box that will allow the customers to choose their zip if they want. If you have more than ONE area, the customer will have a dropdown box to choose the area. They must choose an area before seeing any restaurants.

If you have entered a landing page for each area, you can put a link on your home page for each area. Clicking on that link will automatically show all the restaurants in that area.

Putting separate links for each area on your Home Page will also allow the Search Engines to index each area and all of the restaurants (including menus) in your systm.

(4) Several boken page links that resulted in 'Page cannot be displayed' have been fixed.

(5) On the Pop-Up box that comes up when starting an order, if you have not entered your zip code, you will be prompted for it here for delivery orders. This solves the problems we were having when customers used a restaurant landing page to go directly to the menu without having to enter their address.

(6) Takeout orders no longer need a zip code to process.

(7) Takeout orders were being shown as delivery orders in some cases. Fixed.

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On the Power Flash side, there is only one change from Build 6113:

(1) On the Dispatch Log Report, if you chose the Excel export, it would not work if you also chose 'All Authorized Companies' instead of a specific company. Fixed.

10/11/2011: Build 6113: New Faxing Solutions

This release contains one major new feature, and several smaller enhancements. There is not a web release associated with this build.

(1) New Faxing Solution. In addition to the Internal Faxing system, Power Flash now supports direct integration with www.faxage.com. This Internet faxing service is one of the lowest-cost solutions I have found. ($7.95/month for 300 faxes up to $64.95/month for 5,000 faxes). Unlike other faxing services, which rely on email notifications, Faxage has a direct integration module that allows Power Flash to send the fax directly to the service, monitor its status, and update the results automatically. I have always felt that the need for control over the faxing process was so important that the utility of Internet faxing services was not worth the lack of the control. Now, that worry is gone. I have had three services running this service for the past 4 days, and every fax has gone through. Setting up the service is easy. Simply go to Setup: Company Setup. On the left side, near the middle, are two radio buttons: () Use Internal Faxing System or () Use Faxage System. Just choose Use Faxage System, and enter your Faxage User Name, Company ID, and Password. (You set these up when you setup your Faxage account)

(2) When giving away a Gift Card, you must choose a Discount Category. If you didn't, the system would hang on the 'Saving Gift Card' screen. Now, it warn's you first and takes you back to the Gift Card Screen.

(3) Added 'Driver At Restaurant', 'Driver Left Restaurant', and 'Driver at Customer' to Excel export feature on the Dispatch Order Log report.

(4) When faxing an order to a customer. it defaulted to the customer's phone number even if a customer had a fax number on file. Fixed.

(5) When emailing an order to a customer, and the order did not have an email address attached to it, the system will now offer the customer's email as a default.

Scott

P.S. I have been working on several major enhancements to the website part of Power Flash, and these will be release later this week.

9/28/2011: Build 6098; Web Build 8924

(1) Added Driver Name and Date Created to Excel export on Dispatch Log report.

(2) Added ability to merge Hotels uisng the Merge Customer routine

(3) On the Intenet Pop-Up window when starting an order, if the restaurant did not allow delivery, it properly only offered the delivery choice, but on the time selection section, asked 'When would you like to pick up your order'. This has been fixed.

(4) On the dispatch screen, the ETA and Complete columns have been merged together into a single column called Complete. If the order is not complete, the value will be 'ETA: 9:30'. If the order is complete, the column will simply say '9:30'

(5) On the dispatch screem, the Driver Statistics section was not working. Fixed.



Scott

9/26/2011: Build 6097; Web Build 8922

This is mostly a maintenance release, and contains the following:

(1) Adding extra members to a group order did not automatically send then an email invitation. Fixed.

(2) Intermittent error when printing orders taken with builds prior to 6000. Fixed.

(3) Added link to show list of zip codes to the pop-up box on the restaurant screen on the web.

(4) System was showing takeout as an option even if RDS did not offer takeout. (It would show no restaurants if no restaurants were setup, but the takeout button was still there. Now, it will not show that button if the Takeout Button setting in Internet Settings is un-checked.

(5) Same for the Group Order button. Group orders will not only be offered as an option if the Group Order box is set under Internet Settings.

(6) Dispatch Screen column preferences were not always being properly saved. Fixed. (You may need to set the columns up one last time on the new version) Column settings are unique to each login name.

(7) Dispach screen was not sorting by customer zone when that box was checked. Fixed.

(8)Added checkbox in Internet Settings to enforce Minimum Tip on Internet orders. When this box is checked, customers may not choose 'No Tip' or any tip less than the minimum-tip, unless you have no minimum tip.

(9) Added checbox in Internet Settings to not allow customers to change the tip at all on the Internet. When this box is checked, the ti is calculated automatically, and the customer may not change it at all.

(10) Added 'Cancel Order' link under the 'Checkout' button in the shopping cart on the Internet.

(11) Added auto-scroll bars to item description on pop-up window when adding or editing an item. Long descriptions were pusing the 'Add to Order' button out of the window.

(12) On the Dispatch Screen, customers that are new customers will have *NEW* in front of their names in the customer column. (Ex. *NEW* Scott McMurrain)

(13) Added nested-modifier support to Portal Integration.

(14) Shopping cart was not taking time-zone into account when displaying delivery time. Fixed. (The system had the correct time stored; it was just displayed wrong on the shopping cart)

(15) Re-arranged and increased the size of the modifer list on the Add/Edit pop-up window on the Internet. It now shows more modifiers before having to use the scroll bar.

(16) On the web, if you chose a modifier with a sub-modifier, and then chose a choice within the sub-modifer, and later un-chose the parent modier and chose another, the choice from the original sub-modifier would show up on the order. Fixed.

Scott

9/19/2011: Build 6088; Web Build 8889

This build contains four new features and some minor bug fixes.

(A) The Group Ordering system on the website has been re-designed to make it much easier and less confusing when starting a group order. Users are now led through the process step-by-step.

(B) There is a new 'Manage Group Order' screen that allows administrators to manage group orders. They can view a list of each invitee on the order, and see if they have logged into the order, completed their order, or not responded at all. If they have logged in but not yet completed their order, the admin can complete it for them. If they have already completed their order, the admin can unlock it. The admin can view each person's order. The admin can also close and lock the entire group order, or even cancel it if it is still open. The admin can adjust dollar limits for individual members.

(C) A new Group Order Summary system has been implemented. As soon as a Group Order is created, a Email Summary is sent to the Group Adminstrator. It lists general details on the Group Order as well a a list of each invite and their status: Not responded, logged in but not yet completed, and completed. This email is again sent 20 minutes prior to the time the order closes in order to allow the admin to round up any stragglers, and the summary is sent a final time when the order closes.

(D) A Floating Shopping cart added to website. The shopping cart now floats up and down as you scroll the screen.

(E) The time-line on the top of the order and restaurants screen was removed. It was confusing and reduntant. New Order Type buttons have been added in their place. The Address and Date/Time information has been moved to the Shopping Cart.

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This build also contains some minor bug fixes, as outlined below:

(1) Credit card authorizations would fail for large orders (>$1500) if using Heartland. Fixed.

(2) New credit cards on Group Order screen were not being saved properly. Fixed.

(3) When duplicating prior orders, the list of prior orders showed the server time rather than the local time. Fixed.

(4) Group order screen was not validating addresses. Fixed.

(5) Portal Integration was not synchronizing properly. Fixed.

(6) 7 Week Sales Summary Report was not working. Fixed.

(7) Changes made manually to the Pick Up screen would not stick if the order was later edited. Fixed.

(8) On the Power Flash console, fax jobs have been separated from email jobs.

(9) When entering an adjustment, if you failed to enter customer information and did NOT check the 'Do not record callback' box, and tried to record the adjustment, a run-time error was generated. Fixed.

(10) Adjustment screen was not recording the driver adjustment if the driver selected was the first one in the dropdown list. Fixed.

(11) Adjustment report was not including adjustments made on the last day in the date range specfied. Fixed.

(12) When paying restaurants, adjustments made on the last day of the pay period was not being included. (They were being delayed until the next pay period.) Fixed.

(13) Weird age figures listed in the dispatch screen for pending orders. Fixed.

(14) The time dropdown box on the web was sometimes not showing all available times. Fixed.

9/6/2011: Build 6080; Web Build 8822: MAJOR UPGRADE

After many months of development and testings, we are releasing the 6000 series of the Power Flash system. There are many new enhancements to the system, as well as bug fixes.

This version has been beta testing for many months, and has been live for seven different RDS's for the past month.

Please see our September 2011 newsletter for full details.

Because some changes need to be made to your website style sheets to accomodate the new version, we are scheduling the upgrades one at a time to ensure everything goes smoothly. Please contact me at (888) 578-9428 to scheduled your upgrade.

Scott

7/11/2011: Corporate History Report

The next release of Power Flash will have a new Corporate History Report. From the Business screen, you can click on the new 'History Report' link and generate a report of all orders for the entire business for the given date range, broken down by individual contact within the company. (Group orders credited to the administrator of the group, not to invididual members).

I have attached a sample of this new report.

(P.S. This same report can be used on a Pharm Rep to get an order history broken down my medical center)

7/8/2011: Groupon

We have added support for Groupons on the next release.

This feature will allow you to enter Groupon codes into Power Flash. These work similar to coupons, except each coupon is designed for one-time use by one customer.

Groupons can be added one at a time, or imported from a CSV-text file.

Groupons can be restricted to one or more restaurants, and their use can be limited to food only, or food & delivery fee. Groupons do not apply to sales taxes or driver gratuities.

Each groupon can be setup to share the cost with the restaurant. You can enter both a discount amount to give to the customer, and an amount to charge the restaurant for the order.

Here is a sample:


39938840
309849848
904849084
90490489,50.00,25.00
98583474,75.00,25.00
494748974,75.00
980489474,75.00
489784747

The first field is mandatory. It is the Groupon Code.
The second field is the Discount amount. If omitted, the system will use the default you enter before importing.
The third field is the Restaurant's Share. If moitted, the system will use the default you enter before importing.

Scott

7/6/2011: Update on New Release

Over the years, as new features have been added to Power Flash, the database structure has become rather bloated, which several fields that duplicate functionality, and indices which are no longer needed.

I have spent the past couple of weeks going through the major tables in the database, and cleaning them up. For example, the main Order table had three different fields to store the date and time of the order. (One stored the date only, one stored the time only, and one stored both.) All were indexed. While in the past, I needed to store the date and time separately, in today's system, this is no longer necessary. So the new version only uses the single Date/Time field. This alone allowed the removal of 2 indices. (While each index speeds up querying the database, it slows down inserting and updating records. The Order Table had over 25 fields that were indexed. Now it has less than 10. And that was just on one table.)

In the past, rather than storing the customer's name and address with each order, I just recorded the customer's ID number. This saved space. Storing a 5 digit ID number on each order used a lot less space than storing the customer's name and address. But this space saver also created a problem: If a customer's information changed, and you went back to reprint the order, you would see the new address rather than the original one. With storage space so cheap today, it seems wiser to store the entire address with each order. The new version does this. (And also goes back through all of the old orders and updates them as well)

What this means to you is that reports will be faster and adding or editing orders will be much faster. It also means that when viewing old orders, they will display exactly as they did when they were first entered. Since all of the data is stored with the order, reporting is also even faster since I don't have to go look at the customers' records every time.

These changes were done now for several reasons:

(1) Some customers had complained about reports being slow,

(2) When comparing reports from one year to another, there were some inconsistencies that are now eliminated.

(3) I plan on adding some new reports, such as a Business Report, and by cleaning the database now, I don't have to rewrite those reports again.

(4) With the new Web Version coming out that will require me to install, this is the perfect time to make database changes as well.

When the new version is ready, it will NOT be available for automatic upgrading. Since the upgrade may take an hour or more depending on the size of your database, I will schedule each upgrade indiviudally.

Right now, I have spent the day going through EVERY routine in Power Flash to make sure that they work properly, and are using the proper search criteria. I will plan on installing the new version on one or two beta test sites first (in addition to my own test site, which is running it now). Then, after all the ugs we find are squashed, I will start installing for anybody who wants it.



Scott

6/10/2011: New Website Theory of Operation 6/10/11

There has been some confusion and differences of opinion on how the new website should operator. Different Power Flash users seem to have differing opinions on how they would like the website to flow.

Here is how it will be designed to work:

Browse Restaurants Page: This page will list all restaurants available to a customer based on his zip code. If the system does now know his zip code, it will pop up a screen asking for the zip code. If the customer has already logged in, it will use his default zip code for showing a list of restaurants. At the top of the Restaurants screen is the zip code or address used, and the customer can change this by clicking the (edit) tag.

Each restaurant will be listed. If the restaurant is closed at the present time, that information will be listed. (If the customer has already chosen a different time, the restaurants availability for that time will be displayed). This display is for informational purposes only. Regardless of whether the restaurant is open or closed, the customer can click on 'View Menu' OR the Restaurant's name OR the Restaurant's Logo and be taken to the Restaurant's Menu Page.

Restaurant Menu Page: This page lists the entire menu for the restaurant. If an order has not been started, all items are listed regardless of availbilty. If an order has been started, only those items that are available will be listed. There will be a link to click to see a PDF of the menu. The PDF always contains the entire menu for that restaurant.

Starting an Order: An order is started two ways: (1) When the user clicks 'Start a Group Order', and (2) When the user clicks on an Item.

I will be adding a checkbox allowing the RDS to control how an order is started when the user clicks on an Item.

(A) Default Method. The system will assume that the order is for ASAP and will be delivered to the customer's default address, or at least to the zip code in case the customer has not logged in yet. This information is displayed at the top of the screen on both the Restaurants and Menu Page screens. If the item is not available right now, the customer will be asked if he wants it later at the available time. If the customer says Yes, then the order time will be adjusted. If the item is not available today at all, the customer will be informed. If the item is available (now or later should the customer agree), the Item Pop Up box will be display. THIS IS WHEN THE ORDER IS ACTUALLY STARTED.

(B) NEW METHOD: I will be adding a check box to Internet Settings asking if you want to Prompt the User for Date/Time/Address before starting an order. If you check this box, the system will still display the items as described above. But when the customer clicks on an item, they will see a new popup window. This new popup window will ask them to choose a date/time for delivery and also ask them to choose a delivery address. (If they have already logged in, they will see their default delivery address. If they have not, they will just be asked for the zip code). After they have chosen the date and time, the Item Screen will be displayed, and then the order will be started.

Checkout Screen: The Checkout Screen combines both the old Checkout Screen and the old Payment Screen. When the user clicks Checkout, they are taken to the Checkou Screen. But if they have not yet logged in, they first will be taken to the Registration/Login Screen. After they have registered or logged in, they will then be taken to the Check Out screen. On this screen, they can changethe driver tip, add instructions, coupons, and gift cards. They will select a payment method, and click on CHECKOUT NOW to finalize the order. They will then see a confirmation screen

External Restaurant Links: You can provide an external restaurant link for each restaurant (ex. www.yourservice.com/chilis) This link will go directly to the Menu Page and display the menu without asking any questions. If the customer starts an order at that point, they will be prompted for either the zip code only, or both the zip code and the date/time, depending on the method the RDS has selected.

IN SUMMARY:

The New website has THREE main ordering pages: Restaurant Page, Menu Page, and Checkout Page. On a normal process, each page will be loaded ONE time, and one time only. (When ordering items, AJAX technology is used to generate a single pop-up for each item, and the shoipping cart is updated without re-loading the Menu Page. This is a much simpler process than the old website.

The old website had pages: The Restaurant Page (loaded once), the Menu Page (loaded once and then again every time an item was orders, the Item Page (loaded once for every item ordered and again for every option on every item, the Payment Page (loaded once for every order, and the Checkout Page (loaded once for every order).

The idea for the new website is to reduce web traffic while creating a much faster and cleaner website experience for website users.

Scott

6/3/2011: Build 5545; Web Build 8562

This release contains the following:

(1) Previously, the system would automatically set the workstation's clock to the same date and time as the server. This is now an option under Setup: Company Setup. By default, this will NOT be done. (Over the past year or so, the routines inside Power Flash that need to know the current date and time and been changed to use the SQL Server's time directly, without needing to know the date and time the workstation is set to.) You do not need to take any action here -- this is just an FYI.

(2) Added checkbox in Company Setup to allow open orders from today to show up in Driver's check out screen. (Orders from previous days always show up, regardless if they have been checked out or not)

(3) Removed 'Do not Split Cuisines' option under Internet Settings as obsolete.

(4) Added option under Internet Settings to allow you to choose whether to use the new View Menu option (which genterates a PDF) or use the old way, which showed them a regular web screen with the menu. This applies only to the old web (2010).

(5) On the New Web, added code to make sure users did not type in data longer than expected on the registration screen.

(6) The 'Free Delivery Threshold' feature under Delivery Fee Setup has been restored.

(7) Added item detail descriptions on the On-Line Menu Guide setup.

(8) The On-Line Menu Guide Restaurant Selection screen on the new web version had a compatibility problem with IE6 and IE7. Fixed.

(9) On Group Orders, the Individual Totals section did not list the Administrator's share of the order (delivery fee, conv. fee, and tip). It only listed the individual participants food/tax/tip share. This has been fixed.

(10) Updated the initial Splash Screen to show system start progress. Although mostly a cosmetic change, this will help me track network connectivity issues when installing a new workstation or when there is a network error.

Scott

5/27/2011: Build 5544; Web Build 8561

This release was mostly to recompile everything to ensure that all current releases were synchronized. I did this after getting all our servers installed at the new office and ensuring they were all working together.

The only change was in a routine used to determine restaurant availability. It was not calculating lead times correctly, and was fixed.

There will be another release either Thursday or Friday this week with the bug fixes aI announced yesterday.

Scott

5/6/2011: Build 5542; Web Build 8559

This release contains the following:

(1) On the old website, the restaurants browse screen has been changed. The old Menu Guide link, which simply directed the user to the Custom Menu Guide page, has been changed. The new link, called 'View/Print Menu' will instead generate a PDF of the menu for that restaurant.

(2) In the Merge Customer routine, the 'Find Matches' button was not sorting the results alphabetically within each company. Fixed.

(3) If an administrator was editng an old order inside Power Flash that had already been checked out, and the edit changed the price at all, new payments methods would be added for each change. If the net changes resulted in a zero price changes, these extra payments methods (totalling 0) would remain. Fixed.

(4) On both versions of the Web, under My Account, I added the Google checking and split/zip checking when adding or editing an address.

(5) On the Corporate Aging report, with the Detail View hidden, an account with ONLY unapplied credits, and no open invoices, would be listed under the name from the previous account. Fixed.

(6) On the My Account screen on the web, pending orders was not showing local time. Fixed.

(7) When changing the date inside Power Flash for an order, the system was not checking to make sure the new date/time allowed for proper lead times. Fixed.

(8) Corporate Sales Report was listing residential sales as the top line in the report. Fixed.

Scott

4/25/2011: Build 5539; Web Build 8549

(1) Restored 'Do not show cuisines' checkbox under Internet Settings. This effects both the of the web versions.

(2) Added code to make New Version of the website compatible with the obsolete Internet Version 6. However, version 6 is NOT officially supported.

(3) On the dispatch screen, 'Restaurant Centric' and 'Customer Centric' options were reversed. Fixed.

(4) When customers redeemed rewards, and entered an address different from their main address, the system was mixing elements from both. Fixed.

(5) Added 'See Less' as an option after expanding the restaurant decription using 'See More'. This is on the new web version only.

(6) Optimized the SQL Query on driver checkout to improve speed.

(7) Changed 'View Menu' link on old web version to use the new PDF View Menu link. It will now load a PDF of that restaurant's menu only when this link is clicked.

(8) If two dispatchers had the checkout screen open on the same driver, and both dispatchers then checked the driver out, a double record would be created. Fixed.

(9) If a restaurant owes money on a statement, the QuickBooks integration was creating a negative check. Fixed.

(10) In the new web version, vacation dates were not enforced. Fixed.

(11) In the new web version, I moved the Date-checking routine from the restaurant page to the order page, where it will be enforced only when an item is ordered. This will allow customers to view the menu 24 hours a day.

(12) If an order only has house items on it, it could not be opened, edited, or viewed from the dispatched screen without manually typing in the order number. Fixed.

(13) System was allowing takeout orders from RDS's who had not licensed the Takeout Module. Fixed. (The Takeout system is still offically in beta testing)

(14) If using a Fuel Surcharge or a Packing Fee, the sytem would show the Fuel Surchage and Packing Fee along with a negative conveninec fee until something was added to the order. This did not effect the system, only the display of the order. Fixed.

Scott

4/4/2011: Build 5520; Web Build 8498

When you have dozens of different customers each wanting something different from the software, it becomes a challenge to introduce new features, make changes to existing features, or remove obsolete functions in a way that makes everybody happy.

When a new feature is added, most of the time, I make that feature an option in the system setup. But that is also a problem. Over time, setting up and maintaining the system becomes a nightmare with all of the different options and settings. So many times I make a new feature automatic, without any settings. I generally do this when a feature is such an improvement that I think it will be universally accepted. Sometimes I am wrong.

Last week was a perfect example. I had had several customers complains that the delivery date and time, located in small type on the right side of the order, was being missed, relsuting in advanced orders being prepared at the wrong date or time. I was asked to make the delivery date and time much more visible.

So I did. I moved it to the top center of the order, and greatly enlarged it. I made it say plainly, 'DELIVER Monday, April 4, 2011 at 11:30 AM'. I didn't think it could be more clear. The customers who requested this were very pleased.

But then I got several complaints from people who did not like it. Restaurants were confusing the time the order should be ready.

So, in today's build, there are some changes to the Order Format Template setup. You now have TWO check boxes: One for 'Delivery Date/Time on Top', and one for 'Delivery Date/Time on side'. You can check none, one, or both of these boxes to control where the delivery information will print.

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Here are some other things in today's build:

(1) The Delivery Date and Time would not print on the customer or driver copy if the restaurant copy was not printed. Fixed.

(2) The delivery date/time being printed at the top was not showing the local time. Fixed.

(3) Added Total to bottom of Credit Card Management report.

(4) Fixed 'Add Picture' feature in Internet Settings. It was not allowing new pictures to be added. Note: After adding a picture to the database, you MUST manually copy it to the IMAGES folder of your website.

(5) Changed dispatch screen to indicate the time that the order was emailed to the restaurant, for those restaurants that use email instead of faxing. This value willdisplay in the Fax Time field.

(6) Page driver routine was not functioning properly. Fixed.



Scott

3/31/2011: New Geft Card features

Power FLash now allows you to create custom Gift Cards that can be printed or emailed to your customers. We can create the cards for you, or you can create them for yourself.

The Gift Cards should be Graphic Images. You will need two images per card. The first image should be 400x200, and the second image should be 150x75. They should be exactly the same.

Starting with tomorrow's web release, you will be able to upload these cards to your system. First, login to the Admin feature of your website. (See other post on details for doing this). Then click on Setup: Gift Card Templates. Here is where you will manage the gift card templates. You can add or remove as many different templates as you want.

In Power Flash, whenever you sell a Gift Card, you will be asked to choose a template.

In the NEW version of the website, which is in final beta testing now, the customer will be shown all of the different types of cards, and can choose the one he wants.

Note that all of the Gift Cards operate identically. They just have different appearances.

Scott

3/29/2011: Build 5527

This morning's build had two bugs on it that I fixed, both relating to the new Date/Time message on the Order Template:

(1) If you printed the Driver Copy and/or the Cusotmer Copy WITHOUT printing a restaurant copy, the Date/Time would not print. Fixed.

(2) If your service spans multiple time-zones, the order format did not print the local time. Fixed.

There is no web build needed to fix this.



Scott

3/28/2011: Build 5526; Web Build 8494

This release contains the following:

(1) Changed Portal Integration to only include restaurants that are marked available on-line.

(2) Coupon Usage report was not showing customer names for residential customers. Fixed.

(3) System was not properly recognizing restaurant vacation days. Fixed.

(4) Sometimes, when generating an invoice, the letterhead would not display. Fixed.

(5) When duplicating an order, the system will now use the same address as on the original order by default. (You can change this, of course)

(6) NEW FORMAT FOR ORDER TEMPLATE. The Order Templates have been changed to make them easier to read:

(a) The Date and Time for the order has been moved from the right hand side to the top and center. It's size has been greatly increased. Sveral customers had complained that the previous placement and size of the delivery date made it too easy for restaurants to miss.

(b) The Order Number is now shown as a single number, with a dash before the last four digits. Previously, only the last four digits were show, although the entire order number was printed smaller below. When restaurants or customers woudl inquire abotu an old order, then would invariably only have the four digit code instead of the whole order number, making it hard to locate the right order. Example: Before, Order #123456 would print as 3456, with the full number below and smaller. Now, it will print as 12-3456.

(c) I cleaned up the right column, elminating some of the weird spacing issues and overwriting texts for customers with longer names.

(d) Orders originaed on the Internet now say 'Internet Order'.



Scott

3/10/2011: Build 5523; Web Build 8491

This release has:

(1) Added address information to the new Merge Customer screen. You can double-click on an address to cause it to be dropped during the merge process.

(2) Worked on Time Calculations. The system is now using a new calculation algorithymn which takes the restaurants hours, RDS's hours, prep times, drive times (borth zone based and distance based), lead times by restaurant, lead times by zip, resaurant vacation days, and RDS vacation days all into account.

(3) Add 'All Areas' checkbox to the Customer List routine. Checking this box will cause the system to include all the customers in your database that meet whatever criteria you specify, not just those in one area.

(4) Worked on Gift Card routine. Remove the multiple delivery method choices which did not do anything. Now, if you include an email address, the system will automatically email the customer a copy of the gift card.

(5) Added ability to choose a Gift Card template from the Gift Card screen when issuing a gift card.

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The BETA version of the new website is nearing completion. It is now running live for several different RDS's, and is setup as a separate beta site at several others. I have addressed most of the issues that have been brought to my attention.

Feel free to test the Beta version out at www.mealsonthemove.com.

Use TESTER as a name, and use 1100 Business Parkway, Richardson, TX 75081 as the address. This is a live database, so PLEASE do not actually complete the checkout process.

Scott

3/7/2011: Build 5517; Web Build 8471

This release conatins the following:

(1) If you edited an order, and clicked the edit payment link, and the order was charged to a house account, and you did not physcially select that house account again, (and just clicked OK), the account info would be lost, and the order would be charged to no house account. Fixed.

(2) If you selected Charge To House Account, but failed to choose a house account to charge to, the order would charge to no house account. Fixed.

(3) When adding new zip codes, 'Available On-Line' is now checked by default.

(4) On the Areas, Regions, Zones & Zips, there is a checkbox 'Do NOT automatically expand tree'. Checking this box will cause the system not to expand every zone on the list automatically. Some large services have hundreds of zip codes, and loading this window can take several seconds if the tree is expanded. This checkbox will retain whatever setting you choose, and can be different for each user. This checkbox only effects the display on this screen. It does NOT effect any data or any other screens.

(5) Group Invitations were still not working with the time zones. Fixed.

(6) Added ability to close a House Account. There is now a link under Businesses that will allow you to close a house account, so long as there has never been a charge to that house account. If the house account has been used, it cannot be closed. (You can, of course, check the box to prevent new charges).

(7) The system used the Minimum Order for the current time and date when determining if an order me the minimum, rather then using the minimum order for the specified date and time. This only effected services who had different minimum orders for different times of day. Fixed.

(8) Added RDS hours of operation to Portal Export routine.

(9) Specifying a tip on the Business resulted in an error if you used the Shortcut buttons. Fixed.

(10) Added ability on business setup to specify NO TIP on all orders, overrding the default system tip. Of course, customers on each order can still specify a tip manually.

(11) ON the Gift Card screen, whatever sort method you click will remain selected until you click a different methor, even after you log off and back on. This setting can be different for each user.

(12) Added a 'Delete Customer' link on the Customer Screen. If a customer has never ordered, you can delete him completely out of the system.

(13) For RDS's using Heartland or TransNational processors, the system was not displaying the yellow pop-up box when a card was declined. Fixed.

(14) On the Order Templates, there is a new checkbox called 'Print ASAP/Advanced' on orders. This box IS CHECKED BY DEFAULT. This will cause the pickup time to print as 'ASAP' if the order is to be delivered within the hour. If the order is NOT to be dleivered within the hour, the actual pickup time is printed, and 'ADVANCED ORDER' is printed on the top of the order. THIS IS A NEW FEATURE. Unlike the previous ASAP which was removed, this depends on when the order is PRINTED OR FAXED, NOT when the order was taken or scheduled for delivery. So if you take an order for tomorow, and print it now, it will say ADVANCED. When you print it tomorrow within an hour of the delivery time, it will no longer say ADVANCED, Unchecking this box turns this new feature off.

(15) Added indices on two tables to speed up the Merge fuction.

(16) Added link on Merge Custromer screen to edit the customer record.

(17) Added Gateway field on Transnational Setup to allow for difefrent gateways.

(18) Added checkbox on Customer Management to prevent the conv. fee form being charged to that customer. The checkbox is called 'No Conv. Fee'. The conv fee can be revented from either the Business Screen (for all customers in that business) or the customer screen for individual customers.

Scott

2/25/2011: Build 5512; Web Build 8455

This release has the following:

(1) Added checkbox under Personnell setup to tell the system NOT to prompt if the CSr should clock in or out. This is usefull to add to yourself or other people who you do not need to track their hours.

(2) Removed toolbar location setup from preferences. The toolbar only works right at the top, and the ability to have it at the left has never been utilized.

(3) Added the Email Address field to the Order screen. Previously, you could edit this value (and still can) by clicking Motel Info. The value in this field is taken from the customer's record when the order is created. But you can change it here if you want. This will NOT change the permenant email for the customer.

(4) Implemented a new Merge Customers screen to replace the Contact Management Screen.

(5) Added handing for multiple payments on an order when the order is sent to the driver.

(6) Group invitations were not specifying the date/time in Build 5511. Fixed.

Scott

2/15/2011: Build 5507; Web Build 8450

(1) The Order Summary screen on the website was not listing the Sales Tax on a separate line, even though the total was correct. Fixed.

(2) Added the ability to setup a coupon to be charged to the restaurant rather than to the RDS. If the restaurant is to be charged, a separate 'Adjustment' to the restaurant will be made on the settlement statement for the full amount of the coupon.

(3) Case-sensitivity has been removed from passwords on the web.

(4) System was allowing orders to be placed on-line until the restaurant's closing time. Fixed.

(5) Added integration with TransNational Card Processor. Power Flash now directly integrates with both Heartland and Transnational.

(6) Aging report was not showing orders delivered on the last day of the report. Fixed.

(7) When adding restaurants to group orders, sometimes extra cuisines would be listed next to the restaurant. Fixed.

(8) If, in the middle of placing one group order as an invitee, the member clicked on a different email invitation for a group order on the other day, the system would allow the member to use the restaurant on the first group order on the second group order. Fixed.

(9) If a new customer registered on-line with a new business that is not in the system, a extra blank customer record was created. Fixed.

(10) Added Driver Instructions field to Group Setup screen.

(11) You you edited a group order in progress, and added driver instructions, and then a member checked out, the Driver Intructions field would be cleared. Fixed.

(12) When browsing restaurants, any cuisines associated with a restaurant that was closed would appear on the following restaurant. Fixed.

(13) Members placing a group order would get the 'Minimum not reached' message if the entire group order did not meet the minimum. Fixed.

(14) Added the ability to change the Expiration Date on Gift Cards inside Power Flash.

(15) System was not properly displaying the assisted dispatch status on the Dispatch Screen. Now, it displays one of these symbols next to every driver's name:

(Q) - The driver has been assigned, but the message has not yet been sent to the driver
(W) - The driver has been assigned and the text message sent, but the driver has not yet responded.
(R) - The driver has received the text message and responded to it.
(-) - The driver is not setup to use this feature.

(16) Added driver Cell Phone information on the Assign Driver Screen
(17) Added optional checkbox under Company Setup to tell the system NOT to auto-email orders to customers when placed.
(18) When setting up a group order, the line 'Member Limit?' has been changed to 'Member Limit? (Includes sales tax)

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(19) Changed the way that order modifiers are stored in the system. The new way allows sub-modifiers to appear right under the modifier they are associated with.For example:

OLD WAY:

Soup or Salad?
--- Salad
How do you want your Steak?
--- Rare
Salad Dressing?
---- Ranch

NEW WAY:

Soup or Salad?
--- Salad
--- Salad Dressing?
------ Ranch
How do you want your steak?
--- Rare

You should upgrade ALL of your systems to Build 5500 or higher at the same time. If you do not, any order you view or edit with the new version will work fine.

However, if you view or print an order that was taken with the new version from the old version, you will see 'Placeholder' for an option title instead of the name of the option itself. Ex. Instead of 'How do you want your steak: Rare', you would see 'Placeholder; Rare'

If you edit an order that was taken with the new version from the old version, the system will nto recognize which choices were selected.

So please upgrade all of your stations at the same time.