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Office - Release Notes

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excludeOffice - 02.13.17 - Releases

 

 

Enhancements 

Accounts Payable

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Interactive Reporting

 

CE Payment Settlements Report

 

  • Added an “Expand All” option to the CE Payments Settlements report.

 

Use Case: Previously,

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Interactive Reporting

Guest Room Housekeeping Report

  • New Guest Room Housekeeping Report has been added that details New Arrivals, Departures, Turnover, and Stay Overs for any given day.  

Use Case: Previously, the Reporting Dashboard did not include a detailed breakdown of the New Arrivals, Departures, Turnovers, and Stay Overs for Guest Rooms. Now, with the new Guest Room Housekeeping Report, Users can see when Members arrive, depart, or if there are changes in the length of their stay, for any given period of time.

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Outstanding Voucher Report

  • New Outstanding Vouchers Report has been added that shows all outstanding Vouchers as of a specific date.

Use Case: Previously, the functionality did not exist to see a report of all outstanding Vouchers. Now, the new Outstanding Vouchers Report shows all outstanding Vouchers as of a date chosen by the User. This report functions similarly to the Outstanding Credit Book Report and the Outstanding Gift Card Report. This report can be grouped by Member or by Voucher, as seen below.

Member:

When viewing Vouchers by Member, the Member will be listed and the line can be expanded to see all Vouchers associated with that Member.

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Voucher:

When viewing by Voucher, the line can be expanded to show each Member that has that specific Voucher

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Marketing - Templates

  • Enhanced features in the Marketing Template Editor allows for Users to add a Total Statement Snippet.

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users had to expand batches one at a time on the report to view all details within the report.  Now, users can easily select Expand All to see all details upon initial view.

 

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Monthly Sales Summary Report

 

  • Updated the Monthly Sales Summary report to make the Grand Total include/exclude taxes.

 

Use Case: Users can now run a  Monthly Sales Summary Report and choose to include or exclude Taxes, Service Charges, and other fees or modifiers.

 

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 Outstanding Vouchers Report

 

  • Added dollars Issued, dollars Redeemed, and dollars Remaining fields to the Outstanding Vouchers Report.

 

Use Case: Previously, the Outstanding Vouchers Report only showed Sold and Remaining columns. Now, this report includes dollar amount issued, redeemed, and remaining to facilitate g/l reconciliation.

 

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Membership

 

 Member Payment Wizard

 

  • Updated the logic system uses when automatically creating cash receipts in the Member Payments Wizard.

 

Use Case: Previously, Clubs that are Multi AR companies, would post a batch and the system would error, saying that it could not post this batch because there is an account tied to a department that isn’t linked. Now, when cash receipts are created, the system will acknowledge that the cash receipts created should only tie to linked accounts/departments.

 

 Manage Members

 

  • Added a “Last Financial Update Date” column to the Manage Members grid.

 

Use Case: The new Last financial Update Date column in the Manage Members grid shows the last time a Member’s financial/aging information was updated to ensure users understand the date the financial data/dates showing on the grid is reflecting.  To add this column, right click, select customize columns, and choose to display this field.

 

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Member Statement Wizard

 

  • Updated name, and changed how the Prior Statement Balance snippet is calculated.

 

Use Case: Previously, this snippet was called Total Statement Balance, from the Statement Generation Wizard. Now, renamed Prior Statement Balance, it calculates the Member’s balance as it was for the previous month.

 

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Mobile POS (Pilot Clubs Only)

 

Please Note: These changes only affect Clients piloting the Mobile POS program. 

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  • Enhanced Tee Sheet Integration; displaying the Reserver of the group, differentiating between Guests and Members by font color, and various other changes.

Please Note: This only affects clients piloting the Mobile POS Admin Tee Times Check In feature.

Use Case: Tee times made in the Clubessential Tee Sheet can now display in Mobile POS for Staff to Member charge or open a ticket from their tablet and email the Member a receipt if they choose, facilitating check in/charging from the 1st tee.

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Advanced Split

  • Enhanced Advance Split capabilities for Tickets in Mobile POS.

Use Case: Previously, when a ticket had no items, it would need to be deleted. Now, the system recognizes when a Ticket has no items (a zero balance), and will delete the Ticket automatically.

The first Ticket shown below, ticket #387, no longer has any items left after the split.

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When reviewing the Tickets to close or cash out, Ticket #387 no longer exists, it has been deleted due to a zero balance.

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Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue with Approving Payment Batches occurring when the transaction date was changed, the Vendor Invoice paid date remained the same.

  • Fixed an issue where statement data would not appear in PayCloud for clubs with a unique Statement Month Ending Day.

  • Fixed an issue where the quick Cash settlement button in Mobile POS would not respect area-level settings.

  • Fixed an issue when overpaying for a ticket with cash in Mobile POS and the settle chit was not properly showing the Change DueA full redesign of Mobile POS has been completed.

 

Use Case: Mobile POS Users will notice a distinct difference in the look and feel of Mobile POS. The User Design has been upgraded to be more visually pleasing and User friendly. Please refer to this guide for a more detailed look at specific changes.

 

  • Added support for Tee Times ticket template element.

 

Use Case: Previously, the Tee Times Ticket Template element was only available in Classic POS. Now, a Tee Times ticket template element can be added and will show on Mobile POS tickets as well. Editing template settings remains the same, from Manage Ticket Templates in Office under POS, as seen below.

 

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  • Added a Snippet for Course Name to the Tee Time Confirmation email template for Mobile POS.

 

Use Case: Previously, Users were only able to include snippets for Player Name and Start Time in confirmation emails. Now, when a User is checked in for a Tee Time through Mobile POS Users can set an email confirmation to go to the Member, including the Course name as well as Player Name and Start Time.

 

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  • Added an area-level setting to include the use of Seating, called “Use Seating in Mobile POS”.

 

Use Case: Previously, there was no setting available to toggle between being able to use Seating in Mobile POS and not. Now, Users can uncheck Use Seating in Mobile POS and will then not be prompted to select a seat for each item entered. Unchecking this setting would be ideal for a beverage cart or something similar where there are no ‘seats’. See setting location and Mobile POS popup menu below.

 

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Member Relationship Management Module (Beta Release)

 

  • Enhanced reporting, graphical score display for Members and dynamic group creation.

  • For more information on this program, please contact education@clubessential.com.

 

System Settings

 

Employee

 

  • Added additional security for clubs using the “Enforce Strong Passwords” option.

 

Use Case: Passwords must be at least 7 characters long, passwords must contain one numeric and one alphabetic character, Employees cannot re-use one of their last four passwords. Also, if an Employee enters the wrong password five times within two minutes, they are locked out of the system for thirty minutes.

 

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PayCloud

 

  • Updated the logic for handling how Office pushes AR statement breakout data to PayCloud.  

 

Use Case: Previously, the system would error when certain statement breakout data was pushed to PayCloud because it was not labeled as an AR account and the push would not succeed. Now, updates to the logic for this process remove repeated system errors and succeed in pushing the statement data.

 

Bug Fixes

 

  • Updated the Items Purchased by Members Report so that Hide Zero Balance Purchases setting applies more consistently.

  • Fixed an issue with Mobile Ordering ticket batching occurring on date order was initiated (which was sometimes days or weeks prior to actual order occurring) rather than when order was actually placed.

  • Fixed an issue with the End of Shift report in Mobile POS including not-yet-placed mobile orders.

  • Fixed an issue with the employee lookup in Mobile POS being case-sensitive.

  • Fixed an issue when adding a note to a batch and then immediately trying to post it.

  • Fixed an issue where POS tickets closed with credit card using ETS stayed in a PreApproved state when the area was set to just capture credit cards.

  • Fixed an issue when closing multiple Mobile POS tickets at once and some invoices not getting created correctly in CMA.

  • Fixed an issue when trying to do a Create Ticket in Mobile POS for a tee time reservation when there was no member on the tee time.

  • Added a file name extension to the attachment for Tee Time confirmation emails in Mobile POS to ensure ease of opening on the Member end.

  • Fixed an issue when doing a return for a tax inclusive item with a price schedule discount.

  • Fixed an issue in Classic POS when re-ordering an Ask for Quantity item with a quantity greater than one that has a price schedule discount.

  • Fixed an issue where users could not void a check if it contained a comment line item.

  • Fixed an issue when multiple areas are configured for Mobile Ordering and use the same terminal device and that device appears multiple times on the Mobile POS device selection page.

  • Fixed an issue where vouchers that had never been redeemed but were adjusted did not show up in the Member Voucher Transactions report.

  • Fixed an issue when expanding a Mobile POS charge batch’s details and only seeing settlement information for one ticket.

  • Fixed an issue where a vendor’s balance due did not match the aging balance when there was a charge exactly 30, 60, or 90 days previous.

  • Fixed an issue where Guest Room Confirmation Emails were getting sent to the wrong employee.

  • Fixed an issue when attempting to save an existing scheduled task.


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