System Updates 1 June to 1 July 2019

Since the Last Update

June has been dominated by effots to increase speed and to deal with load that turned out to be due to a flood of stock update requests from the POS.

Despite this we were still able to roll out a customer merge feature, an ex gst invoice option and added author and pub date to movers.

New Features

• Customer merge
  • Duplicated customer accounts can now be merged. Backoffice > Customers search up and tick the customers you want to merge and click ‘Merge’  Video

Improvements

• •  POS
    • Addes A filter to limit stock update requests hitting the database to once per minute per pos.
    • Added an interface that allows us to see which stores stock update request floods are coming form and limit them.
    • Allow single item lookups through the stock update rate limiter.
    • Adjust rate limiter to stop requests queuing up on the web server.
  • Customer search and setup
    • Improved interface for setting up new customers with the same name when doing customer orders. #166106320
  • Movers
    • Added author and pub date.
  • Servers
    • Expanded the Database server
    • Expanded available space on the database server hard drive.
  • Rails 4
    • Pushed Vii integration and other updates in the master branch the Rails4 server. (Now we need to fix incompatibilities.
  • Speed
    • Stopped robots.txt hitting the database.
    • Improved the Redis config, the system that does the background processing.
    • Avoid blank ISBNs when downloading images using resque jobs
    • Configure servers to use ELASTIC_SEARCH_URL to take load off the database server
  • Customer orders
    • ‘Ship’ has been returned to the drop option list.
  • Migration tool
    • Old payments will no longer be deleted when delete data is used.
  • Accounts
    • An ex gst invoice option has been added to accounts.
    • Changed the invoice sort back to oldest on Top
    • Add one more automated test case to invoices

• See www.twitter.com/circlesupport for all changes including bug fixes.

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Should be completed in the coming month:

• Customer order picking in inwards goods to beta
• Further speed improvements
• Infrastructure Upgrades

Things we are working on that are likely to take longer:

• Returns optimization