Opportunity:
Flyntlok Administrators have requested the ability to send emails from Flyntlok using their company email, rather than having emails come from a Flyntlok address. Many recipients were confused when they got an email from Flyntlok rather than from their dealer.
Solution:
We have added a "Microsoft" setting to the "Integrations" page that will allow Administrators to connect a company’s Microsoft Office 365 account within Flyntlok. Once connected, your emails will come from that that address rather than from a Flyntlok address.
This feature is available when emailing:
The Office 365 email address will not be included in emails sent from the “Quick Hit” link on the Lead Dashboard. (This feature is limited to one Microsoft email account per tenant.)
Opportunity:
From the "Actions" drop-down menu of the "Lead Dashboard" page users are able to create new linked transactions, such as Sales Quotes, Rental Contacts, and Work Orders. Sales people have requested the "Sales Quote" option be replaced with a "Sales Order" because our workflow does not allow for orders to go straight to quote status.
Solution:
We have replaced the "Create Sales Quote" option with "Create Sales Order" on the 
buttons drop-down menu.
Opportunity:
Purchasing Managers have requested the ability to choose whether to include “Pending Stock” quantity (the order quantity of Items on the “To Be Ordered” board) with the "Flyntlok Recommended Quantity" when creating new Purchase Orders from the Draft PO page. They also would like the "Pending Stock" quantity from "To Be Ordered" and Stock from "Recommended Quantity" to be displayed on separate lines on the Purchase Order.
Solution:
We have added a new setting to the “Flyntlok Settings” page, allowing Administrators to apply alternate allocation strategies to the “Draft Purchase Order” page. Administrators will be able to choose from three options; “Do Not Allocate Pending Stock,” “Allocate All Pending Stock From Recommended QTY,” and “Add Pending QTY to Recommended QTY.”
This is the original behavior and will serve as the default Allocation Strategy. Flyntlok will only use the Recommended QTY.
Quantity of "Pending Stock" on the "To Be Ordered" board is fulfilled from the Flyntlok Recommended Quantity. Example-"To Be Ordered" shows a quantity of 3, "Flyntlok Recommended Quantity" is 5. You still only order 5, and the 3 others are pulled off of the "To-Be-Ordered" board.
Example-"To Be Ordered" shows a quantity of 3, Flyntlok "Recommended Quantity" is 5; Quantity of 8 is ordered.
Opportunity:
Purchasing managers have requested the ability to scan Item via a barcode scanner when receiving Items on a Receiving Voucher.
Solution:
We have added a "Scan Mode" to the "Item Receiving Voucher." When "Scan Mode" is activated Scanning items via a UPC, EAN, or Item Number will open the Voucher’s Receiving modal for that item. Flyntlok will display a "Duplicate Items Found" error message if an item is scanned more than once. Note- During scan mode other inputs are disabled except for the Receiving modal window.
Opportunity:
Purchasing Managers have requested the ability to use a barcode scanner to enter Machine Serial Numbers when receiving Machines on a Machine Purchase Order.
Solution:
We have added a "Scan Mode" to the Machine Receiving Voucher, which will allow users to quickly scan Machine Serial Numbers via a barcode scanner based on the Model. "Scan Mode" can be activated by selecting the 
icon.
Opportunity:
Machine Purchase Orders in a "Partially Received" status are eligible to be "spilt", which takes the received Machine(s) and moves them to a new PO. Flyntlok Purchasing Managers have requested we add a message to the original Purchase Order to indicate a "Split PO" action has been taken.
Solution:
We have added an informational message to the "Notes" section of the Machine Purchase Order to indicate the PO has been split. Flyntlok will display a "Split To" message on the original Purchase Order and a "Split From" message on the New PO. This message will provide a link to the referenced order.
Opportunity:
We recently added the "Upcoming Maintenance" report to the "Machines" Tab of the Left-Hand Navigation Menu. This report displays a list of upcoming scheduled Machine maintenance and provides information on the Machine and upcoming service. Service managers have requested we add additional categories to the report to track the Customer Name and Customer Unit Number.
Solution:
We have added columns to display "Customer Unit Number" and "Machine Owner", when available, to the "Upcoming Maintenance" report.
Opportunity:
The “My Work” tab of the Mobile View displays Work Orders assigned to individual Technicians from the Work Order. Service Technicians have requested we also include the Work Orders assigned via the Service Calendar to the “My Work” tab.
Solution:
We have incorporated Work Orders assigned to Service Technicians via the Service Calendar into the "My Work" tab of the Mobile View. The "My Work" tab will now be broken into two sections: "My Assigned Work" will display Work orders assigned to techs directly from the WO, and "My Scheduled Work" which will display WO assigned from the Service Calendar.
Opportunity:
Flyntlok currently provides users the option to create copies of Sales Orders by clicking the "Copy" button from the "Payment" tab. Salespeople have requested the ability to also copy invoices associated with Service Work Orders.
Solution:
We have added the "Copy" option to "Final" invoices generated for a Work Order.
Complaint:
Flyntlok users had experienced an issue where accounting information was prefilled on the "Item Creation" page before selecting the item's "Vendor".
Cause/Correction:
Fixed. The Accounting section of the Item Creation page will remain blank until a Vendor is selected. Flyntlok will then display the accounting information for the selected Vendor. If no accounting information is saved for the selected Vendor, Flyntlok will fall back to the "Vendor Default” settings set on the "Flyntlok Settings" page.
Complaint:
Purchasing Managers generating Labels from the Item Purchase Order had noticed a discrepancy between Item Labels printed in bulk and Labels printed for an individual Item, where bulk labels were generated with a bar code and individual labels with a QR code.
Cause/Correction:
Fixed. All Items Labels will have the same display, whether printed individually or in bulk, from the Purchase Order or from the items Dashboard.
Complaint:
Service Technicians had reported an issue where Work Order forms were not saving information when edits were made from the Mobile View. In this scenario, the Technicians could add and edit Work Order Forms associated with Service Jobs, but when attempting to save (by clicking the 
icon in the top right corner of the Form), the edits are not actually saved. (OK, that seems like an obvious thing. How did we miss that? Yeah, well pobody’s nerfect.)
Cause/Correction:
Fixed. Edits made to Work Order "Forms" associated to Service Jobs will persist when the Save button is selected.
November 8th, 2023 Release Notes
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We are excited to announce that Flyntlok, including our CEO and founder Sean McLaughlin, will be attending the Equipment Exposition October 17th-20th in Louisville, Kentucky (Booth Number 42024). The Equipment Exposition is an annual event dedicated to growing landscapers, manufacturers, and equipment dealers’ businesses. Please get in touch with Mike Wasserman (mwassy@flyntlok.com) or Garret Nelson (garret@flyntlok.com) if you would like to arrange a meeting while we are there.
Opportunity:
There are times when a Rental Unit goes down and needs to be replaced with a new Machine. Rental Managers have requested the ability to replace the currently existing Machine on an Active Rental Contract with an alternate Machine of the same Model and have the new Machine inherit the previously billed amounts of the old unit so that the billing continues to flow seamlessly.
Solution:
We have added a "Replace Machine" option to the Actions button drop-down menu of the Rental Contract, which will allow users to "swap" the Machine currently on the contract with an alternate Machine of the same Model. When the "Replace Machines" option is selected, Flyntlok will display a list of available Machines. Users can filter through to select a Machine to add in place of the removed Machine. After selecting a new Machine, you will need to log both the new and previous Machine's Miles, Hours, and consumables. Flyntlok will then "Check-Out” the new Machine and add it to the Rental Contract. For billing purposes, the Machine being replaced will remain on the contract in a "Checked-In" status, but offset from the Machines currently on rent. The new Machine will display a 
icon on the right side of the line item, above the Quantity field.
Opportunity:
Rental units can have either Miles or Hours tracked. Flyntlok Users have requested the ability to specify either or both metrics on the Check-In and Check-Out of the Machine from a Rental Contract and have that information logged in the Machines "Meter History" record.
Solution:
We have added fields to log both "Miles" and "Hours" of the associated Machine when checking the unit "IN" or "OUT" on a Rental Contact. While Flyntlok will only handle the billing of one of the two metrics, based on the machines "unit preference" set on the Machine's Dashboard, the values captured here will be stamped back onto the Machine's "Meter History" record.
Adding CC and Internal Emails to Rental Signature Requests-(Ticket #FD-1932, 44256)
Opportunity:
Rental Managers have requested the option to add additional "CC" and "Internal" recipient email addresses when sending a Signature Request from a Rental Contract. The CC and Internal recipients would receive a PDF copy of the Contract.
Solution:
We have added three new fields to the "Rental Contracts" Signature Request modal;
The "CC" field will allow users to add additional Customer email addresses to the Signature Request modal, where recipients will receive an "unsigned" PDF attachment of the Rental Contact. The "CC" field will allow Users to add any valid email addresses or to select from saved customer contact email addresses.
The "Internal" field will allow Users to add internal employee email addresses to the Rental Signature Request, where recipients will receive an "unsigned" PDF attachment of the Rental Contact. The "Internal" field will allow Users to add any valid email addresses or to select from a list of saved employee email addresses. The internal recipients are BCC’d on the email.
The "Message Field" will allow users to add custom text to the signature Request that will be added to the body of the email sent.
Opportunity:
Service Technicians have requested the ability, while working in the Mobile View, to add and edit Work Order "Forms" that are associated with Service Jobs.
Solution:
We have added a "Forms" section to the Work Order dashboard of the "Mobile View" to allow Service technicians the ability to add and edit available Service Forms to Work Orders jobs via their mobile device.
Opportunity:
Service managers have requested we add the associated "Tag Number" of a Work Order to the list views displayed within the Flyntlok Mobile View
Solution:
We have added the associated "Tag Number" to the Flyntlok Mobile Views (All Work Orders, My Work Orders, New WO, and My Recent WO). This field will only be displayed for a WO with an associated Tag Number.
Opportunity:
The Flyntlok team is currently in the process of a continuous update to our general Contact Management Capabilities. Recently, we launched a new "Customer Contacts" report that contains a list of all of a company’s individual customer contacts and allows users to filter and view individual contacts. Our next update is to streamline the process of customer correspondence within the Customer Contacts Report.
Solution:
We have added "quick hit" links to the Customer "phone number" and "email" fields of the Contact Dashboard page, which will allow Users to immediately start a new correspondence with the contact. Hovering over the "Phones" field will display a dropdown menu, where Users can choose to edit/delete saved numbers or immediately attempt to call the customer. If the "Call" option is selected, Flyntlok will first ask you to specify the application you would like to compete the call from, then populate the customers "primary" number into the application
Hovering over the "Email" field will display a dropdown menu, where Users can choose to edit/delete saved addresses or launch a new email. If the "Email" option is selected, Flyntlok will redirect you to your preferred email client, with a new draft email and the contact's "primary" address prepopulated.
Opportunity:
Flyntlok salespeople have requested we add "Repeat Customer" as an option to the "Source" field of a CRM Lead.
Solution:
We have added "Repeat Customer" option to the dropdown menu of the "Source" field of a CRM Lead.
Opportunity:
Purchasing managers have requested the option to set a default Company Email Address that will display on all Purchase Order PDFs. Flyntlok currently displays the Email Address of the User that generated the PO in the "Created By" field of the Item Purchase Order PDF and also in the "Reply-To" section of the sent PDF.
Solution:
We have added a new setting to the "Flyntlok Settings" page, which will allow administrators to set a default "Parts Department" email address. When set, Flyntlok will replace the User Email Address in the “Created By” field of the PDF and the return address of a sent PDF with the "Parts Department Email". Administrators can add a "Parts Department Email" by navigating to the "Flyntlok Settings" page. (Admin Editor Wrench 
-> Flyntlok-> Flyntlok Settings ->Company Section).
Opportunity:
Flyntlok Users have requested a warning be added to the Item Receiving Voucher system to alert Users when an automated SMS text message will be sent to a customer upon the receipt of a Special Ordered Item. Currently, users have to go to the customer dashboard to see if a customer is set up for automated text messages as well as if they have received an automated text message.
Solution:
We have added a "Sales Order contact will be notified of parts received" message to the Item Receiving Voucher modal that will display if the Item being received was Special Ordered, and the associated Customer has a least one contact with a phone number/ email saved and the enable SMS/email setting activated.
Opportunity:
Flyntlok Purchasing managers have requested we add a "Core List Price" field to the Item Receiving Voucher that will allow users to manually edit the "Core Items" List price when receiving the Item.
Solution:
On the Item Receiving Voucher page, when receiving an item that has a core, we have added a “Core Received List” field at the bottom of the receiving modal. This will display the Core Item’s current List Price by default, but can be modified/adjusted by Users to change the value of the Core Item upon receipt. Changing this value will also adjust the Core Item's master record to have the new List Price.
Opportunity:
Machine utilization is a simple measure of the productivity of the equipment. Currently, at the top of the Machine Dashboard, Flyntlok displays the Machines "Life time Utilization" (Total income generated by the Machine / Machine Acquisition Cost) and "Year Time Utilization" (Income generated in the last 365 days / Acquisition Cost). Rental managers have requested we add an additional field to also display "Time Utilization".
Solution:
We have updated the Machine Dashboard header by adding two additional utilization fields "Life time Utilization" (Number of days rented / Total number of days from when the Machine was received) and "Year Time Utilization" (Number of days rented in the last 365 days / Number of days passed since Machine was received OR 365 whichever is least). We also renamed the existing fields Life and Year Utilization to Financial Life and Financial Year.
Complaint:
Service managers were experiencing an issue where Work Order estimates were not retaining their correct billing style. If the User updated the billing style of a Service Job on a Work Order, by changing from "Estimate" to "Billable", previously generated estimates were also being updated to the most current billing setting. Estimates should not update after being generated.
Cause/Correction:
Fixed. Once a Work Order estimate is generated, you cannot change the Type and a new Estimate will need to be made if you want to change the billing style of the Work Order.
Complaint:
Rental managers were experiencing an issue when searching for a specific Machine ID or Serial Number among available Machines to add to a Rental Contract on the New Rental page. The results returned were all Machines of the same model as the searched Machine, but the exact match could be anywhere within the result set making it hard to find. The exact match should have filtered to the top of the list.
Cause/Correction:
If the search text exactly matches a machine's display ID or serial number, Flyntlok will sort that Machine to the top of any model search result.
Complaint:
The above release notes lack the usual subtle wit that has been present of late.
Cause/Correction:
It’s hard to inject humor about things like machines, inventory, and rental contracts every week. We’ll be funnier next time so we can keep you reading. (But hey, you made it this far…)
September 27th, 2023 Release Notes
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