You will now be able to accept a single payment to cover the cost of several different Sales Orders for a customer. This will help streamline the experience for collecting payments as well as saving your business transaction fees. To pay off outstanding Sales Orders you will want to navigate to the customer's dashboard. In the customer information section, you will see a new field titled, outstanding Sales Orders. This new field will display the number of orders still requiring full payment. You can then select the (pay icon) to review and select from a list of outstanding orders to pay off.
A list of outstanding Sales Orders will then display on your screen. From this list, you can review the date, status, and outstanding balance. You can then choose which order(s) to pay off. Once selected you will be able to customize the amount applied to each individual order and generate the new pay-off Sales Order by selecting the Create Invoice button.
From the pay-off Sales Order, you can now add a payment type and select the order button.
When adding a machine to a new Sales Order and selecting the (Add and New) option, the previously selected salesperson will now default into the field when adding additional machines.
We have added a new item type, titled (KIT). This new item type will give you the ability to sell a group of parts at a set list price.
To set up a kit, you will first need to create a new item. This new item will be the placeholder for the kit items. When creating the kit item you will also be able to associate different items from your inventory to the kit and set a list price on the kit item. When you add the new kit item to a transaction all associated parts will also populate on the transaction but Flyntlok will only set the list price on the kit.
We have added a new section to the machine receiving vouchers for associating a machine with a quoted model. If there is a quoted model on an open sale, you will see an Associate button in the Associate Invoice field. Once clicked a list of open sales orders, ordered from oldest to most recent, will display on your screen. Once an invoice is selected, the machine will be allocated to the sale.
You will now be able to export Machine Purchase Orders to an Excel spreadsheet so that they can be imported into OEM ordering systems.
We have made an update to the rental creation page. When searching for available machines to add to a rental, if the expand all option is selected, all new search results will be default expanded. Previously when you search for a machine all the info was defaulted to the collapse all view.
We have added an editor for updating the work order status change automated text message templates. This editor can be found on the Flyntlok Settings page under the Service SMS Templates section.
When creating a new machine to associate with a Work Order, you will now see the model's description populate in the drop-down menu of the model searcher.
When creating a new journal entry, Flyntlok will now notify you if there are mismatched account types and line types. CAP lines can only have asset accounts associated with them; COS lines can only have expense accounts. When types and accounts do not match on a given line, you will see an error icon to the right of the account name. Hovering over this icon will show a pop-up explaining why it is displayed/ what is mismatched.
You will also see a new message populate your screen if you are trying to submit a journal entry with mismatched lines.
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April 19th, 2023 Release Notes
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We have added a new setting to the work order to make the job approval processing quicker. From the Jobs Tab of the Work Order dashboard, you will see a new option in the Actions dropdown titled Process Jobs. When clicked, you will see a list of your jobs, allowing you to select and process the part orders associated with the jobs.
When the process button is selected, Flyntlok will move the internal parts orders tied to the selected job(s) forward from a Quote or Draft status into a Pending or Pickup status.
When a technician clocks out of a job, Flyntlok requires them to log a note. You will now be able to view this note from the corresponding labor punch. From the Labor Tab of the Work Order, you will now see a new Note Icon on the labor punches. When you hover over this new icon, Flyntlok will display the tech note added at that clock-out.
We have added additional Credit Card information to the Sales Order. When adding a customer credit card as a payment type, you will now see the card number, the name on the card, the date the payment was taken, and the approval number populate on the payment line of the Sales Order and the Sales Order PDF.
We will now tell you what fields will be changed on the model when updated from a machine.
We have added new settings to the Machine Receiving Voucher, you will now be able to generate a new journal entry to put the machine into a flooring account! When the QB flooring field is set on the receiving voucher, Flyntlok will now generate a journal entry for the machine instead of creating a bill. We recommend also setting the category (Floored) checked to indicate yes. This will allow Flyntlok to create new reports on the floored machine. Please reach out to the Flyntlok support team to review this workflow!
This information will immediately populate the machine's balance sheet, viewable from the machine's dashboard.
We have added the Machine Miles and Hours categories to the column chooser of the Machine Receiving Voucher.
We have updated the settings of the rental contract call-off. When a rental contract is called-off, invoicing uses the call-off date if it exists; (otherwise uses check-in date.) The Call-Off date will now populate on all relevant rental PDFs and lease agreements.
We have updated the Tax Rules pop-up on the customer's dashboard. This will make configuring a customer's tax rules easier.
You will now be able to send files such as PDFs, Photos, or Videos to new leads when communicating with them via SMS.
Last Release Notes
March 22nd, 2023 Release Notes
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We have added notifications to more actions on the Service Scheduler. The assignee of the appointment will now receive a notification when a new appointment is created, an appointment is edited , or if the assignee has changed.
You can now unlink a sales order from a work order if the sales order is in draft status.
We have added a new field for Engine Model to the machine section found in the Info Tab of the Work Order.
We also added this information to the work order PDF.
You can now select multiple jobs to be transferred to different work order. Previously you could only transfer a single job at a time.
Serialized part numbers will now display the serial number when the work order PDF is printed.
We added status filtering on the mobile view of the work order list.
We have added additional information to the list of estimates. You will now see the a timestamp and the total of the estimate.
Service history is now visible from the mobile view of a machine.
On the sales order PDF, we updated the summary table to better represent what customers need from a receipt. We now show your lines subtotal, discounts, shipping and roll that all up into a taxable subtotal.
You will now be able to add new vendors and models directly from the point of sale while accepting a trade in.
We have added a new "Created By" field to the Purchase Order PDF. This new field will be located, left of created date and display the creators name, email and phone number. This should help provide your vendors a good point of contact when the purchase order is emailed.
You will now be able to reverse a Purchase Order that is in Ordered status. This will set the Purchase Order back to New status and remove the date ordered.
Note: This does not affect any 3rd party systems for integrated ordering.
Flyntlok will now update the minimum order quantity when reporting a minimum quantity override exception. Previously this had to be done manually.
You will now be able to flag a machine to require an equipment condition report (ECR) form on rental check-out and check-in.
We added validation on the hours field when checking in a machine from a rental. We will require you to input the hours if the line is a machine, previously this was auto-filled with the check-out hours. We will also warn you when the check-in hours are less than the check-out hours.
On the QuickBooks Journal Entry page we have add an option to post the journal entry as a vendor credit.
Flyntlok has always asked for the source of the new customer when created from the New-> Customer form. You will now be able to document the source of the new customer from all customer creation locations.
We have updated the SMS section of the customer dashboard to show all SMS communications with the phone numbers registered under the customer profile. Previously, Flyntlok automated SMS messages would not populate into this field.
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February 15th, 2023 Release Notes
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CRM is a major focus for dealers and that makes it a major focus for us! Look forward to more updates to this system in the coming weeks.
You can now access your SMS conversations from the mobile view of Flyntlok.
You can view a list of your conversations and search for any existing conversations or contacts.
Interacting with a conversation by sending a message will automatically subscribe you to the conversation. You can unsubscribe by clicking the star icon.
Responses will show up live so you can continue to interact with your customer. All of this interaction is logged under the customer profile in Flyntlok.
You can now create a linked rental contract from the actions dropdown on a lead.
We have updated the settings around the "Text Us" website widget. Now if a potential customer is trying to input a non-US phone number they will receive a prompt from Flyntlok to instead submit an email address.
We have added back order column to the sales order PDF. Backorder is any quantities not yet picked or received via a special order.
For better visibility, we have updated the item transfer icon to be highlighted green if there are any linked transfers! This will help prevent accidentally executing duplicate transfers to fill a sale.
When a substitution is made on an item purchase order, you now have the option to retain the substituted part if you have not received any. If you have received quantities against the substituted part, we will only substitute the remaining quantity, and the PO will retain the original line for the amount already received.
Voiding a line, or deleting an entire purchase orders, will now go out and mark the associated machines as "Deleted". Previously, this had to be cleaned up manually.
You can now transfer a single labor punch to a new work order and job by clicking the transfer icon found on the labor tab.
You can now add/edit customer contacts while creating a work order.
Flyntlok will automatically clock you out of work orders when logging out. This applies only when you choose to log out. If you close your tab, exit your browser, etc. you will remain clocked in. This applies to both ERP and DMS Work Orders.
Flyntlok will show you a warning when you try to invoice a work order that has quoted parts. Quoted parts will not be added to the work order invoice.
We have added this field as an option in all places you can create a customer in Flyntlok. Previously, you could only record the reason for a new customer from New -> Customer.
You can now set a default work category by customer. This new field is found in the "Other" section while editing a customer. Customer Dashboard-> Actions-> Edit
We have added rental as a source option in the win/loss report with a link to the rental contract in the source link.
You can now configure a vendor to record purchases or sales by machine. When the option is set to yes, you will get a single journal entry for each machine involved in the transaction when posting to QuickBooks Online.
Users will now see a warning message when they are about to delete a machine model, if that model is tied to active machines. The user will then be prompted to choose the new model those machines should be moved to.
Last Release Notes
February 1st, 2023 Release Notes
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We now support the workflow for when you are shorted parts or are sent damaged parts. The shortage scenario is when a vendor doesn't send the total amount of requested parts but they still bill you for the total amount. They then send you a credit for the parts that weren't sent and require you to reorder the part or wait for a new one to be sent. The damaged scenario is when the vendor sends you a damaged item, which requires you to return that item, then wait to receive a new one, or create an order for a new one.
These two scenarios will need to be set up as PO exceptions. If your company runs into either of these situations, please reach out to Flyntlok, and we can help get you set up.
When you have the exceptions set up, this is what the exception report will look like:
Flyntlok can now restrict discounts down to the item division, item department, and vendor levels or any combination of these. This allows for specific groups of parts to be discount at a certain rate for a customer.
We also support margin as a discount basis. When this is selected, it will calculate using cost/(1-%) (% = being the percentage of margin for the sale).
To edit or add these discount structures, head to the admin editors in the upper right, then Point of Sale -> Discount Structures.
Next week we will be releasing the editor that allows you to assign multiple different discount structures to a customer!
We took another stab at how we are handling journal entries on the back end. This should correct issues where Flyntlok becomes unaware that a transaction has been deleted, and you get stuck in a dead-end.
When billing out a DMS work order, we now group the labor lines by the type of labor used and the job that it was billed on. Along with the technician names, we will show the job name the labor was clocked for.
Only the first page will show the header with your company name, logo, and work order information. The information can be found in the footer on all pages. This helps reduce paper waste and gives more space for the details of the work order. Save the trees!
In the transactions for an item, we now distinguish regular item transfers from quick item transfers.
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