Connect 5.3

New

  1. Ability to reset admin user password for corporate accounts.
  2. Corporate accounts have connect permissions options that are inherited to the venues they login to.
  3. Push Notifications are added to switches in Vendor Roles list.
  4. “Process Transaction Before Signature” on employee role. The switch is set to “NO” by default.
  5. Accounts are sorted by account types. Now every type has its own tab in “Accounts” section.
  6. PIN requirement on opening Cash Drawer manually can be enabled in Permission Set for Employee Role.
  7. It is possible to set separate gateway settings for individual payment types with separate credentials (for using Beacon payments on Authorize.net and BridgePay set venues).
  8. Item update Push Notification sent when inventory item quantity in vendor is updated.

Changes

  1. “Sold out” logic updated:
    – Alow Sold Out Sales parameter is now available only in item details. Enabling this parameter allows selling an item when it’s inventory quantity falls to zero.
    – item is marked as “Sold Out” in Activate always when an item has Sold Out parameter set to Yes in item details (or modified through KDS app)
  2. Vendor Role popup is redesigned.
  3. Vendor Roles, Employee Roles, Permission Sets, Items, Accounts and Codes have responsive improvements.
  4. Card expiration is not required for tab opening (needed for encrypthed swiper).

Fixed

  1. “Menu Price” value is incorrect in “Cost of Goods” Report.
  2. Depletion Rate for an inventory itemis not included in Inventory Analysis Report.
  3. “Refund Report” bugs.
  4. No possibility to clock in on Activate.
  5. UI issues in Account list on iPad.
  6. Adding item with additional on KDS it sets “Custom vendors” to Yes by default.
  7. Totals for Apple Pay, Wristband, Beacon and Submit payment types are duplicated in Live Report.
  8. CC data is not downloaded for user logged in on Checkout (SDK).
  9. “Sold Out” parameter in item can’t be modified from KDS app.
  10. Password reset in the login page not working.

Connect 5.2.540

New:
1. Offline Declines Report. User can see list of transaction declined when Activate was in Offline Mode On state, their totals and estimated percentage of total revenue.
2. Live Report and Tender Type Report have new column added under “Credit Card Breakdown” sections – Transactions. User can see quantity of transactions submitted divided into specific Credit Card types and their totals.
3. Content of email receipt can be easily customized in Vendor settings.
4. New Push Notification to reset Activate menu items to their default order was added to Employee Role, Vendor and Accounts Actions panel.
5. Ability to mark Items and additional as “Sold Out” when their quantity in vendor inventory falls to 0 and sold out sales for the item is disabled.

Changes:

1. Employee Role popup is redesigned.
2. “Importing items” in Vendor popup is hidden.
3. Block possibility to add letters or special characters in Item Price. Only numeric values, “,” “.” can be entered by user.
4. User Name field in account is validated – special characters are not allowed.
5. Item import XLS files have every cell validated for content and all parameters have to be provided in such sheets.

Bug fixes:

1. Using new card on checkout is not overriding the old one.
2. Sections assigment for Vendors or Subvendors is not stored.
3. Cannot add sections in “Layout” by “Add Section” button.
4. Credit Card refund optimizations.
5. Item modifiers can not be deleted.
6. Finalize Day report isn’s shown correctly on iPad and iPod.
7. Connect Role assigned to Connect Account is shown on list of Accounts.
8. UI bugs (List of Voids is styled, Finalize Day Report view is improved on iPad and iPod).
9. Error when sending Push Notifications from “Vendors” section.
10. Missing data in “Dashboard” section.
11. “User Data” report is trimmed in report PDF version.
12. Alert is not shown when user creates new Employee Role without required information.
13. Missing tabs in Account modal blocks possibility to add new Account.
14. Average Order Size and Average Tip are incorrect on Corporate Dashboard.

Connect 5.1.536

New Features:

  1. “Carry Over” option when creating inventory reports that allows automatically Count In vendors with their current inventory items Quantity as Quantity In.
  2. Event Calendar list on corporate view for all venues in the corporate. User can add, edit and delete Events from within the Corporate view.
  3. Corporate Venue Groups. Every Event can be assigned to specific Venue Groups.
  4. You can assign a unique ID to Events in Corporate View which will help track specific data for tours with the new Tour view.
  5. Information about “Vendor Groups” are added to Reports.
  6. Improvement with the Corporate login – corporate user can easily go back to the overview.
  7. Tours for shows/teams that span across multiple venues in one corporate view. Run reports against a tour to see sales spanned certain days across multiple venues.
  8. You can add custom emails per vendor now. Upload your own graphic and text to each email that is sent.

Changes:

  1. “Track Inventory” switch is moved from Vendor Role to a separate tab in the inventory vendor.
  2. All vendor inventory settings editable in inventory view.
  3. “Add price override” setting for Mixers is disabled.

Bug Fixes:

  1. UI bugs (switch states not showing up property).
  2. Counting items in Inventory. Inventory value in Venue section block the sale, when “Allow sold out sales” is set to “No”.
  3. Checkout improvements.
  4. Live Report is not updated in Safari – the issue occurs on iPod and iPad.
  5. No possibility to edit Vendors.
  6. Vendor image is removed when form is saved.
  7. Bottle image for alcohol mixer is cleared when changed item’s price in the list.
  8. Editing email on order details.

Connect 5.0.528

New Features:

  1. Finalize Day View has been added. Finalize Day allows for storing bills/coins count for each employee at the end of the event from Activate. This can be found under the Event menu option.

Changed:

  1. Improved protection against CSRF attacks.
  2. Vendor seat selection UI improved.
  3. Expired sessions automatically redirect to login screen.
  4. Alert added when regular user tries to edit global Permission Set.
  5. “Add Subvendor” button label changed to “Add Sub”.
  6. Tooltips added on Connect Roles and Reports pages.

Fixed:

  1. UI bugs on mobile devices.
  2. Layout name changes color after editing.
  3. New settings for vendor/sub vendor not stored when editing in IE10.
  4. Report subscription not sending emails automatically.
  5. Vendor filtering in Reports shows deleted vendors.
  6. Confirmation alert not shown on deleting category group.
  7. New Event creation fixes.
  8. Custom vendor switches in item editing bugs.
  9. Editing item price in the list not working.
  10. “Promo applies to” button shown for all promo code types.