Monday 7th February 2022
We hope that you've all had a fantastic new year.
Welcome to our first release for 2022!
Over the last few months we've been hard at work on this release and we're excited to finally share the changes with you.
Miscellaneous Usability Improvements
We've been doing a lot of backend work to make Pest Register run faster and feel smoother.
Improvements include:
Our nice and bright login page!!
The notification panel now groups notification by date
In Settings > System Defaults > Calendar, you can now mark the start of your work week.
Colour Picker has been updated to be easier to use
Client Connect users can now see reports which they haven't paid for yet. They will not be able to download a copy of the report until they make a payment to a linked invoice
Sending off an invoice email to a client will now attach a linked report to the invoice once it has been fully paid
You can now hover over and interact with appointments which are 30 minutes long on the calendar
eCard Improvements
Added an eCard Backdrop option (Settings > Style & Branding) to help make your company eCard more personal
SMSes sent out to clients will now display a Reply-To phone number (specified on your eCard)
If you try sending an email to a client which is too big, we will provide the client with a link containing all the downloadable files. This link contains your eCard branding
Form Updates
From this release onward, we no longer automatically provide you with new updates to forms.
We have made this change to avoid confusion if you have edited any of the forms, and suddenly a new master copy has reverted the changes.
Instead, we will notify you that a form update is available, and it will be up to you to "Enable" these new revisions. By enabling a new revision, your edited copies will still remain available for use until you archive them yourself.
Advanced Form Editor
This update introduces our brand new form editor. You are now given much needed capabilities over customising the forms that we supply to you.
We've written some in depth articles to help you understand how the new form editor works.
We will periodically be updating many of our existing forms to make use of the new capabilities.
New functionality includes:
Reorder dropdown items
Specify a colour for dropdown items which will print on the generated PDF
Delete, reorder and add new sections / fields
Create and edit conditions which hide/show fields
Apply default signatures for each of your staff members
Add fields to a Summary section which takes your answers and puts them at the start of the report
Display a table of contents at the start of the generated PDF
Add images to display on the PDF
Add your company inventory to reports
Preview a form by filling it out and getting a glimpse of how it will look on the generated PDF
Staff Signatures
In Settings > Account Details, your staff members can now add their signature and it can then be prefilled onto any new reports which use one of their licences.
Inventory
We're attempting to make managing your inventory easier.
Amongst the changes:
Select inventory to add to your company when you sign up
When creating new inventory, select from prefills to make the process quick and easy
Inventory list is now grouped by Item Code
Removed a bunch of inventory options which weren't used
Added option to select a category for the inventory item
Optionally fill in additional details about this type of inventory item
For example: selecting category Insecticide will allow you to fill in additional insecticide details
Add your company inventory to forms to make filling in your forms quick and painless (only available on selected forms)
