System Updates 1 Aug to 1 Sep 2019

Since the Last Update

August has seen a continuation of efforts to improve speed in slow parts of the system and upgrade infrastructure.

We also rolled out two big new features and a number of improvement

New Features

• Consignment billing from pos
  • Consignment billing is now also available through accounts payable. When you sell a consignment item at POS a draft accs pay invoice to for the supplier is automatically created. See Video
• New Customer Order picking system
  • A customer order picking system that allows you to pick Customer Orders in bulk in inwards goods Video

Improvements

• • • Speed Improvements
      • Moved load stock into it’s own resque queue to stop these jobs getting held up behind other jobs #167638796
      • Added pagination to the currently on order + page so that it will open when there are a large number of outstanding orders. #167442385
      • Removing cash site account update #167652319 (This was slow, done often and adding no value)
      • Added an index to supplier_statuses to speed up currently on order pages. #167970107
    • Agency
      • Give the agency and publisher field more space in PO search so it is easier to see who they are. 167884905
    •  Movers
      • Add author and category to the printable movers report and sort by category then author to make the report more useful for restocking. #164883097
    • Accounts Payable
      • Remove regular price, and put cost in place of net price. 167773961
    • Customer Orders
      • Customer order search can now find first AND last name together, before it was first OR last name. #167750179
    • New CO Pick Feature
      • Removed the alert on the ‘Reserve Stock’ tick field. This was annoying when there are no customer orders in the delivery #167583695
    • Feature flagging management.
      • Added a feature API to help manage which shops get which features as we roll new features out. #167695562
    • APIs
      • Added an API for site products #166436864
      • Change way to return roles of users #167478734 (used in the new customer order search for example)
      • Add documentation for /api/v1/site_products #167337673
      • Create API for sites. #167633932
      • Create Api::V1::ApplicationController and start using x-site-id/x-site-domain. #167478759
      • Create API for accounts #166436885
      • Add active to site API #167719641

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

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Should be completed in the coming month:

• Customer order bulk messaging system
• More speed improvements

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

• Rails 4
• Customer order pick up in the POS
• Returns optimisation