May 27, 2009

This release includes many internal and architectural changes, including increasing query performance, changing UI javascript library and introducing new cool features listed below. All these features are business driven and come back form your feedbacks. We are working very hard to delivery a high quality and easy to use Courier Software to help our users improve their processes and ultimately make all of us happy.

Th following are main highlights of this release:

1. Order Schedule

   1. Usually Order Schedule can be defined as a Contract between courier business owner and a client.
      Delivery of orders will happen in predefined times and scheduled order.
      This feature is useful when you need to generate orders periodically for a specific interval over a specific period of time.
      This feature is particularly useful in cases that you have a client in which you need to make daily, weekly, bi-weekly or
      monthly scheduled pickup and deliveries.
      
      Scheduled orders are accessable from "Order -> Order Schedule" from main menu:
      
   As an example, if you have a client which you need to make a regular scheduled pickup starting from January through the end of September, every Monday and Wednesday at 9:00 AM, and deliver the packages to a specific destination or "TBD" destination.
   
   You can also set your scheduled order to the "Run" or "Pause" status in cases you wish to periodically generate orders or freeze order
   generation for a specific period of time. You can also view your order history and enable or disable order schedules as well.
   2. Contract : In cases that your contact with your client specifies a set price and you don't wish to break that total price down.
      This feature would help you to just capture the total contract price as a whole.
   3. Fix: All orders will have a predefined fixed price. This feature prints and generates a fixed price for all the orders.
   4. Adjust: Every order is calculated individually. In cases where the estimated price is less than the base price,
      the base price will be used. With this feature you also have the opportunity to define and present your clients with discounts as well.
      

2. Login page:

   1. Login page is fully internationalized now and all messages and titles are using external translation file, which helps to make translation of a page much easier.
   2. Change buttons for signup, forget password, and customer survey from image to text style buttons;
      which helps our internationalization process and for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) reasons.
   3. Redesign "Forget Password" dialog box to improve the performance and fixed the one old bug.
      

3. Order:

   1. Print Order Page:  A new page which holds the order information and a new style best suited for printing purposes.
   2. Barcode Support: The Print Order page has two types of barcodes:
      
      • 1D Standard basic barcode for ordinary barcode systems
      • 2D advance barcoding format (QR Code)
        
   3. Order Search Refresh: Order refresh time will be saved when a new value is entered.
   4. Order Search, Micro Map: A new dialog box shows Pickup and/or Delivery location with a option of
      showing driving directions and traffic information. We added disable/enable check-box to show or hide driving direction
      and traffic information if needed.
      
   5. Driving Direction Fix errors/Traffic Information: In order page, when user clicks into the  "driving direction" button,
      we show the Google map with direction and traffic information.
   6. Order page loading performance.(Address Book/Add Package): Improved the load time of order pages with
      making "Address book" and "Add package" load on-demand. 
   7. Increase Address book history to 300: Now address book shows latest 300 most frequently used or most recently used addresses.

4. Setup

   1. Special Orders: With this release we can add Holidays like 4th July, Christmas or New Year with their associated rates.
   2. Birthday Calendar now shows years and months, which makes easy to navigate to years and months.

5. Accounting:

   1. Payment notes: When a noted is added while making payments, that note will show up in related invoices.

Bug fixes:

1. Driver's location on Dispatch Screen
2. Fixed security problem for users accessing contact information pages.
3. Fixed broken calendar link for contact page.
4. Signup page: no longer shows a null message while visitors try to signup.

What is next?

1. Add Google Latitude GPS enabled mobile phones to Dispatch screen.
2. Enhanced Dispatch screen to better handle orders, drivers and maps.