April is a busy month for the Stream development team, delivering a host of new features, plus improvements to existing functionality.
Read on to learn about the ability to manage item consolidation in the improved Order Details screen, service level pricing and the option to opt-out of order & delivery tracking amongst others.
Service level pricing
We’re constantly looking at ways to improve the functionality we have around job pricing, costs (i.e. costs to you as a business) and charges (i.e. applied to your customer for delivery) in Stream.
With this release, we now have the ability to take into account charges associated with any service level assigned, for example an order requiring a two-person lift, and price that order accordingly.
Opt-in or out for order & delivery tracking
When placing an order with you, your customers may opt-out of receiving tracking information via email or text message.
We’ve now added an option in the ‘Location Details’ screen to tick opt-out of notifications against the mobile number and against the primary email.
In the API, you’ll now be able to pass two new flags against a contact. These will be:
- Opt-out of SMS notifications
- Opt-out of email
The default in Stream will be for the notification to be sent as normal so they will not be ticked on order creation (e.g. if an order is uploaded via a csv sheet or if the opt out flag is not sent in the API).
It is also possible to manually change the tick boxes when creating or updating a location in Stream.
Route optimisation & planning
- We’ve added the ability to view run capacity percentage in Advanced Planning
- Do not show unplanned orders when accessing ‘Advanced Planning’ from ‘Vehicle Monitor’ *
- New delivery run container type enhancements added for final mile container build
- Display map traffic for in progress runs update. *
Brightpearl integration
- Updated the way notes are imported into Stream through the Brightpearl integration to prevent the creation of duplicate text.
Veeqo integration *
- Stream now has the ability to pull in the cube value of a product from Veeqo, which is especially useful if you want to use cube as a basis for load planning.
Unleashed integration *
- Check for alternative statuses when bringing orders in from Unleashed.
Users and Settings
We’re adding new ways for our subscribers to manage their own accounts more easily and effectively. In April, we’ve added the options for authorised users to:
- Manage service codes
- Manage planned time slot window
- New setting to show counts on labels
- Enable depot barcode scanning.
Reporting & notifications
- Amendment to one of the picklist reports in Stream to not show items for collection on the picklist
- Email notifications per Check Type.
Order management & item consolidation*
Over the coming month’s we’ll be working with subscribers to migrate to our new ‘Order Details’ screen, which makes it easier for you to take advantage of consolidated items.
You can find more about item consolidation from a previous release here.
Driver compliance documents*
You can now ask your drivers to acknowledge that they have read and agree to compliance documents of your choice such as Health and Safety policies, Anti Discrimination and Anti Bullying etc.
Documentation you’d like drivers to comply with can be varied by depot / company depending on your requirements.
When a driver signs into the Stream mobile app, if there are any compliance documents that need to be read that have not already been acknowledged by the driver they will be shown the relevant document(s) needing acceptance.
The driver will need to tick a checkbox to acknowledge that they accept the content of the documents and an audit trail will be recorded.
Vehicle management
- Resolve issue with cancelling bookings when disposing of a vehicle
General updates & fixes
- Minimum 12 character password length introduced to comply with cyber security requirements
- Changes to Logistics-based tracking screen to handle Stream delivery groups
- Allow emailing of group based tracking link for Logistics based tracking screen *
- Changes to a label format to highlight the postcode
- Add optional new fields to label print
- Change how information popups are loaded to improve performance
- Show email formats in Message Preferences*
- Resolve walk around check type text overlapping on Check report export document
- Remove duplicate user type in ‘Custom Settings’ popup
- Performance improvements made to the ‘Order Search’ screen
- Resolve issue with certain dates in order upload
- Resolve issue with special character validation
- Resolve issue with partner access in Logistics based group tracking screen
- Set the completed date for collection orders in the order management module
- Removed unnecessary logging in vehicle management screen to improve performance
- Remove unnecessary message when saving a user that hasn’t been changed
- Resolved issue with handling large weights and rounding calculations in Advanced Planning *
- Change to customer specific pricing process.
* – Denotes update available in the 30th April release
For more information on any of the above please contact support@go2stream.com