June System Updates – at a Glance
New Features
- Enhanced General Ledger: Improved sales recording and alert messaging; Faster setup and more accurate, cleaner accounting data; Handling for expired loyalty values to prevent report errors
- Expanded Multiple Taxes functionality: Secure API actions to manage store-specific tax schemas; Support for deeply nested, flexible tax rule models
- Refactored Google Tag Manager integration to improve event tracking and follow industry best practices
Improvements
- Click & Collect Interface: Removed “Add to Cart” button to streamline the pickup process
- Single Product/Editing Page: Renamed “Change” column to “Changed From” for better clarity
- BackOffice – Product & Invoice Pages: Improved layout and messaging for GST-exempt settings to reduce user errors
New Features
- General Ledger
- Fixed a sales recording issue and improved alert messaging to ensure accurate reporting and focused workflows. (Jun 24)
#12753 #12741 - Reduced errors, sped up setup, and improved data accuracy in the accounting system. (Jun 17)
#12741 #12732 #12724 #12720 #12713 #12621 - Solved a problem where expired loyalty amounts caused errors by allowing them to be safely skipped. (Jun 4)
#12631
- Fixed a sales recording issue and improved alert messaging to ensure accurate reporting and focused workflows. (Jun 24)
- Multiple Taxes
- Google Tag Manager
- Refactored GTM code to follow best practices, ensuring all events are tracked correctly in both GTM and Google Analytics. (Jun 4)
#12637
- Refactored GTM code to follow best practices, ensuring all events are tracked correctly in both GTM and Google Analytics. (Jun 4)
Improvements
- Click & Collect Interface
- Removed the “Add to Cart” button to prevent confusion during store pickup selection. (Jun 24)
#12652
- Removed the “Add to Cart” button to prevent confusion during store pickup selection. (Jun 24)
- Single Product/Editing Page
- Renamed the “Change” column to “Changed From” in title history for clarity. (Jun 4)
#12633
- Renamed the “Change” column to “Changed From” in title history for clarity. (Jun 4)
- BackOffice – Edit Product & Invoice Page
- Improved the placement of GST-exempt checkboxes and added helpful messages to guide users in applying tax settings. (Jun 4)
#12651
- Improved the placement of GST-exempt checkboxes and added helpful messages to guide users in applying tax settings. (Jun 4)
Housekeeping
- Pipeline CI
- Updated CircleCI test rules to ignore non-essential style warnings, helping developers focus on significant issues. (Jun 10)
#12711
- Updated CircleCI test rules to ignore non-essential style warnings, helping developers focus on significant issues. (Jun 10)
- Site Optimisation
- Improved currency data fetching to reduce database queries, resulting in faster invoice and page loads. (Jun 4)
#12623
- Improved currency data fetching to reduce database queries, resulting in faster invoice and page loads. (Jun 4)
- Database
- Prevented system-wide login and anonymous browsing errors by increasing column size for la
See www.x.com/circlesupport for all changes including bug fixes.
Other Notices
Distribution Update – Pan Macmillan (Jun 25)
- ADS ceased taking orders on 24 June
- TDLC takes over on 27 June
- Orders will begin processing from 30 June
Please hold replenishment orders until Friday and email them to: orders@TDLC.com.au
Some of the things we are currently working on:
- Rails 8
- Vue 3 Upgrade
- Deals
- General Ledger
- Bug Fixes