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Office - Release Notes

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excludeOffice - 02.13.17 - Releases

 

Enhancements

Mobile Ordering

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- Design Enhancements

    • Enhanced User experience by redesigning Mobile Ordering

  • features
    • including updated fonts, colors, styling, and improved page transitions.

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CMA - System Settings

Inventory - Items

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Guest Rooms - Dashboard Summary

    • Add Restricted block types to the Dashboard Summary report.

Use Case: Previously,

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Guest Room - Folios

  • Added ability to customize the start and end time of reservations, which dictate when Folios are available for settlement in the Classic POS.

Use Case: Previously, guest room folios became ‘Active’ for settlement charging in the POS at 12:01 AM on the day of arrival and ‘Inactive’ at 11:59 PM Day of departure.  With this setting enabled, Clubs can now set times in alignment with their check-in and check-out times (rather than the default times) that they would like folios available for settlement.

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Items

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when running the Guest Rooms Dashboard Summary report, blocks categorized as Restricted were not highlighted on the report.

Now, when rooms are blocked with a Restricted status as shown here:

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Restricted Status displays on the Dashboard Summary report.

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Interactive Reporting - Data Genie - Multi-Company Clubs

  • Added the ability to have Master aggregate database for parent reporting, while maintaining reporting at the individual club level.

Use Case: A club with multiple companies/databases can now aggregate all of their data within one database for reporting purposes, however, can still limit reporting views at the company level for those who should not have access to view the aggregated data.

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Please Note: This configuration needs to be setup by your Clubessential Team. Please reach out for more information.


Items - Multi-Edit Addition

  • Enhanced User experience by adding Multi-Edit support for the Dues Type column within the Manage Items Grid.

Use Case: The Multi Edit function allows for easy editing of multiple records at one time. This feature has now been enabled for the Dues Type Item field.

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Membership

Member Charge Wizard

  • Enhanced User experience by being able to store User preference to Include Dependents include dependents within the Member Charge Wizard.

Use Case: Previously, if this setting was checked, it would not remain checked when running the Member Charge Wizard the next time.  Now, system remembers whether this was previously checked, and will auto-default to previous selection.

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Credit

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Book

  • Updated security restrictions for Credit Book Types to now use the Area Group on the Credit Book Type instead of the Credit/Debit department.

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Use Case: Previously, Clubs had to provide Balance Sheet department access to employees issuing credit book.  To enhance security around the balance sheet, an employee now only needs access to one of the areas in the area group

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set on the credit book type in order to choose it in the credit book wizard, rather than access to the

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credit/

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Reporting - Data Genie

 Multi-Company Clubs

  • Enhanced User experience by adding the ability to have Master database for parent reporting, while maintaining individual reporting options for individual clubs.

Use Case: Instead of having to parse through data for all clubs, a Multi Club Organization could now set up one master server to see all Company sales data and each Club server would only see its own data.

Please Note: This configuration needs to be setup by your Clubessential Team. Please reach out for more information. 

Statements

 Credit Book

  • Improved performance when calculating a Member’s Credit Book Balance to display on the Member Statement.

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debit ledger department.

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 Member Statements - Email Template

  • Added functionality to include Statement Name Field as an option when creating the email template for Member Statements.

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Use Case: The Statement Name snippet would be especially useful in email greetings on monthly statements.
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System - System Settings

 ReServe Cloud

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Member Statements - Performance Enhancement

  • Improved system performance when calculating a Member’s Credit Book Balance to display on the Member Statement.

Use Case: Previously, spooling process when generating member statements could be extremely lengthy.  Due to this improvement, statement generation process performance is improved.

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System Settings

Guest Room - Folios

  • Added ability to customize the start and end time of reservations, which dictate when Folios are available for settlement in the Classic POS.

Use Case: Previously, guest room folios became ‘Active’ for settlement charging in the POS at 12:01 AM on the day of arrival and ‘Inactive’ at 11:59 PM Day of departure.  With this setting enabled, Clubs can now set times in alignment with their check-in and check-out times (rather than the default times) that they would like folios available for settlement.

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Inventory - Items

  • Added a button to the Qty On Hand field that will allow Users to immediately recalculate the items on hand.

Use Case: Previously, users could refresh the Manage Items Grid where it would pull Item data from the database. Now, Users can select the new Qty on Hand button within the Item; the system will evaluate all transactions and immediately calculate the number of that Item on hand.

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 Banquets/ReServe Cloud

  • For Clubs using Banquets/Reserve - added additional warning message when attempting to save System Settings after having changed changes to the Club Display Name if the Club is using Banquets/ReServe Cloud product.

Use Case: Previously, if users would change changed the Club Display name in CMA without also updating the Club Display Name in Banquets/ReServe Cloud, Users changing the Club Display Name in CMA must also then change the Club Display Name within ReServe Cloud to avoid a malfunction of the Sync processthe interface between the products could malfunction.  This warning message provides a reminder to users that if they are changing the display name in CMA, they must also change it in Banquets/ReServe Cloud.

Please Note: This process only affects those Users on Banquets/ReServe Cloud.

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Use Case: Beginning with the next release, CMA/POS will automatically exit five minutes after displaying the “Update Available” message.  Previously, some users were unable to view the message and/or click to continue and therefore had to connect with support to receive the latest update.  This will take effect in the next update cycle (not the current one) as code has been deployed in this release that will then apply to the next release cycle.








Mobile POS (Pilot Clubs Only)

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

Device Selection

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  • Updated to display Club Name on the Mobile POS Device Selection page.

Use Case: Useful for multi-club operations, now easily view current Club name from the Mobile POS program.

Performance Upgrades

  • Improved performance in Mobile POS for ticket and item deletions.

Settle Support Menus - Tickets

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Settlement and Split Ticket Functions

  • Added menus to support full Settle page support to Mobile POS, along with Split Payments.

Use Case: Mobile POS now features a fly out menu that allows for any Settle option to be selected from the Information icon (the lowercase i). When selected this menu will allow Users to access any options from the Settle menu as well as Split ticket menu, as seen below.  As noted below, split by seat, course, member, amount, and quantity quick buttons are now available here.

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Additionally, the full Settlement screen (and options) can be accessed from the Settle link at the bottom of the POS screen.

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From here, Users can choose from multiple Settle types for the Ticket, as shown below. Users can select any Settle type or combination of different Settle types and adjustments to finalize the ticket, just like in Classic POS.

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Advanced Split Ticket

  • Added ability, when in the Information Menu, to offer advanced splitting options.

Use Case: Mirroring As currently available in Classic POS, Mobile POS now allows Users to Advance Split a Ticket. Once perform advanced ticket splitting functions.  Once selected, the Advance Advanced Split menu shows Users provides options to change the member, split and/or move individual items, and split tickets by dollar amount, seat, course or Member, as seen below.  

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Ticket Sync to CMA

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Please Note: When attempting to post an invoice batch, the system will ensure that all tickets that have been reopened, resettled, or deleted in Mobile POS are consistent with invoices in CMA.

Bug Fixes

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In conjunction with the improved sync, additional ticket viewing/maintenance can now be performed using the Mobile POS Ticket Reconciliation within CMA (found under the POS tab).  

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Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where users were able to pay for an item with credit book even though the credit book type was not configured to use that item’s category.

  • Fixed an issue where classic POS would sometimes ignore negative credit book issued to a member when calculating the eligible total.

  • Fixed an issue where in specific unique circumstances, members were occasionally charged twice for a ticket when paying with credit card (The issue occurred when a ticket was settled with a credit card, then re-opened, then an item was deleted/discounted, then the ticket was settled again (which issued a refund), then the ticket was reopened again, then the ticket was either deleted or selected to close with credit card and not use the existing tab, which would attempt to void the refund twice instead of voiding the refund and then the remaining balance on the ticket before capturing the funds for the new card).

  • Fixed an issue with clubs that use quarterly minimums and on the last day of the quarter, minimum amounts would display as all $0 on tickets.

  • Fixed an error that can appear occasionally appeared when loading the Check-In tab in classic POS.

  • Fixed an issue where Mobile POS was not charging tax on an item that had a tax code with multiple tax code items and only one tax code item is exemptible.

  • Fixed an issue with clubs using CE Payments that have multiple AR accounts and a member overpays their balance, when you run the CE Payments Settlements report, it would incorrectly display the settlement amount.

  • Fixed an issue preventing proper splitting of tickets between occupants when settling a classic POS ticket to folio with multiple occupants and when the system asks you if you want to split the ticket between the occupants, nothing happened.

  • Fixed an issue that occurred when unposting trying to repost an old edited Journal batch , editing it in the Journal Entry Wizard, deleting a row, then attempting to post it againwith a deleted row.

  • Fixed an issue when syncing guest rooms with Availability Online where rooms reserved in CMA would show up as available on the website.

  • Fixed an issue in the Journal Entry Wizard where rows could sometimes not be deleted.

  • Fixed an issue where the guest room Dashboard Summary report was not showing all reservations.

  • Fixed an issue with the Vendor Activity report not running properly when trying to use a saved layout.

  • Fixed an issue in the Installment Billing report when the installment billing months would wrap around to another year.

  • Fixed an issue where employees with the Manage Employee Schedules role were unable to create/edit/delete employee schedules.

  • Fixed an issue where the Sales Forecast report was including deleted guest rooms.Updates

Mobile POS Pilot Clients Only

  • Updated the Invoice Editor in CMA to no longer show the “Edit Ticket in POS” button for Mobile POS tickets if the invoice has been postedwas posted.

  • Fixed an issue where Mobile POS was improperly making an entire ticket tax exempt, when one of the items should have been taxable.

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