Fenestratio What's New

May 14, 2012
Administration→Company New Quoting Settings:
  • Price Effective Days - to use in prices valid for ?? days message on quotes
  • Supply/Install Lead Time Days - to use in guesstimated install/ready date on quotes
Service Service details can now be mailed.
March 26, 2012
Calendar Added "week" and "day" views.
March 14, 2012
Maintenance→Branches Added price multiplier so prices can differ between headquarters and branch.
Quote Detail Added multiplier to default from branch.
February 28, 2012
Maintenance→Branches Added ability to upload banner image for branch quotes.
Reports→Installations Sorted/grouped by branch, included assigned installer.
January 25, 2012
Administration→Company Settings
  • Install Commission Percent and Supply Commission Percent - added to calculate commissions or for cost-of-selling estimation
  • Shop Hour Standard Cost - added for labor cost estimation
Maintenance→Families
  • Install Cost Formula - added to calculate installation cost
  • Opening Size Allowance Width/Height - now split for when offset varies for width and height
Maintenance→Types Shop Hours Formula - added for labor cost estimation
Maintenance→Options Brickmold Size Difference Width/Height - now split for when offset varies for width and height
November 15, 2011
Administration→Company Settings Manufacturing Size Difference Maximum - added as boundary check for difference between quoted and manufactured size.
July 8, 2011
Quote Line Detail Navigator arrows moved to top of page and emitted differently so that they do not move.
July 1, 2011
Quote Pictures Pictures can now be downloaded, updated with a new upload, or editted online.
Quote Line Detail Product image can be overrode and/or editted online.
Maintenance→Options New checkbox "Show with Install Charge" will cause option price to be added to install charge amount.
June 28, 2011
Updates to How-To Document
Maintenance→Products Added button to go to special product price update page.
June 27, 2011
Maintenance→Options Added button to go to special option price update page.
Company/Branch Calendar(s) Added button to appointment detail to mail a calendar event to the appointee.
June 11, 2011
Company/Branch Calendar(s) Added to home page, E-Mail summaries and alerts under consideration.
April 20, 2011
Quote Line Add, Quote Line Detail, Order Search... Added "Top 20" filter for product selection.
April 15, 2011
Administration→Company Allow upload of page banner to replace standard header on quote documents.
April 13, 2011
Quote Print & Quote Mail What-if modelling on quote prints.
March 30, 2010
Quote Line Detail For multi-panel products where a view layout is available, layout will be shown beside product image, and can be customized at quoting time to carry through to manufacturing.
March 25, 2010
PO Lines Added arrow buttons to set print sequence of line items.
PO Line Detail
  • added arrow buttons to navigate through line items in sequence
  • added ability to filter item select box
PO Add Sales Items Added order-level * controls to allow selection of all items on a given order.
PO Add Glass Added product-level controls to allow selection of all glass on a given sales order item.
March 5, 2010
Quote Lines→Add Option pre-load selection carried over for session
February 25, 2011
Quote Lines→Add
  • radio buttons to control how options are pre-loaded on new quote lines
  • moved picklist of locations to Administration→Strings and added link to modify
Maintenance→Families→Default Options Included read-only entries for features so that option pre-load sequencing can be better controlled.
Maintenance→Products→Default Options Included read-only entries for features so that option pre-load sequencing can be better controlled.
February 24, 2011
Maintenance→Panels→Detail Checkboxes for "Make Width Even Millimeters" and "Make Height Even Millimiters" for hung and slider windows in shops that do metric cut-sheets.
Quote Lines/Deduct/Dealer Quote Lines One-click switch between inches and millimeters.
Deduct Manufacturing sequence assignment delayed until panel settings step so that "do not show" items are excluded.
December 26, 2010
Quote Line Detail
  • added ability to choose a custom image to display and print instead of standard view drawing
  • added maximum outer projection to bow builder output
  • changes to option table are retained even with errors
December 25, 2010
All Pages Lock icon added at top right for administrators to set access rules for current page.
December 13, 2010
Home→Preferences Added "Quote Section Tabs" box to control how user navigates around quote sections.
December 10, 2010
Maintenance→Types Added "Inactive" box to control whether type shows up in product selector.
Quote Lines Added "Imperial/Metric" box to control units for product dimension display, input and printing.
August 15, 2010
Maintenance→Products→View Detail [Edit with Pixlr] button for online image editting.
August 9, 2010
Maintenance→Products→Unsold Items Added page with table of unsold items with delete buttons and links to item view detail.
Reports→Item Sales Report of multiple tables: n top items, all types, all families.
Maintenance→Panels
  • Added [Print] button for printout of panel bill of materials
  • Added Group value to create component groups from which one component can be chosen at deduction time
July 30, 2010
Maintenance→Products→Add View Enhanced Layout Builder to allow "copy from" existing views and auto-generated templates.
July 29, 2010
Customer Detail Added "Representative" value so that an internal seller can be designated as the customer's representative. This value is a prerequisite to create user profiles for self-serve quoting.
Maintenance→Customers Customers with representatives assigned will now show a button to create self-serve users.
Self-Serve/Dealer Quoting User profiles created under customers can now sign on to Fenestratio to work with quotes and view orders.
July 27, 2010
Quote Line Detail Added toggle anchor to show/hide unselected features, and highlight mandatory features with yellow background.
Maintenance→Units Added conversion button to unit list for conversion factors. Conversion tables include factors extrapolated from common targets of from and to units.
Maintenance→Features changed defaulting mechanism such that rather than specifying a feature should default to the first choice, user can now select any choice to serve as default
June 29, 2010
Quote Deductor
  • deduct-structural option
  • auto and static layout options added for transom and panel steps
  • panel-frame resolution, ie. manufacturing size of frame will be "tweaked" to match sum of panels and transoms in default layout
  • glass bundling - when multiple glass units in a product are same size with same configuration and same notes, quantity will be summed into one glass entry
Maintenance→Products→Views Added [Auto-Layout] button to calculate %X and %Y positions using left-to-right flow layout.
Maintenance→Panels Linked panel components to vendor items for non-glass, non-screen entries for future inventory control & costing.
Maintenance→Options Optional linking of options to vendor items for future inventory control & costing.
Maintenance→Products Added list filters for price formulas
Maintenance→Panels→Components New variable available, @sm, 1 or 0, indicates structural mulling.
Maintenance→Options New variable available, @sm, 1 or 0, indicates structural mulling.
June 2, 2010
Maintenance→Customers & Customer Detail Added links to new "Customer Replacement" page and quote list filtered for customer name.
Customer Replacement To clean up customer list - replaces current customer on all quotes with selected replacement customer, then deletes current customer.
Branch Reporting Branch selector added to Sales Matrix for HQ users, branch short code column added to some reports, automatic filtering by branch for non-HQ users added to most reports.
May 28, 2010
Quote Add Changed "add quote" steps:
  • a more interactive customer selector
  • a page requiring only the minimal values to create a quote
  • forward to adding first quote line
April 26, 2010
Bow Builder New quoting interface for products where the Shape selection on Maintenance→Products→Detail is "Bow".
April 22, 2010
Layout Builder From item view detail in add mode, new button [Build] can be used to build item view image from single panel view images.
April 14, 2010
Home→Remote Quotes New page added for download of remote quoting program.
Quote Line Detail Added previous [←] and next [→] buttons to walk through lines.
Mar 27, 2010
Maintenance→Types→Detail Install charge formula added for users that want to show installation charge as separate item.
Quote Lines and Quote Report Grill indicator images colonial and prarie added.
Quote Line Detail Added Seq boxes for features so that sequence of all options and choices can be controlled.
Quote Detail Service tax group added for installation charges and Delivery Fee.
Quote Add and Customer List Additional filter for "Phone contains" to help avoid duplicating customer records.
Administration→Company Several new settings:
  • Pricing Precision - how/whether item prices and option extensions should be rounded
  • Deduction View - whether deduction sheets should be inside view/outside view/as quoted
  • Service Tax Group - default Service tax group for quotes
  • Time Zone Offset - for users not in Eastern Time Zone
Mar 14, 2010
Formulae
  • Fenestratio Extensions - functions to make more concise, readable formulae
  • Family Feature Conditions - allow cross-feature rules between options
Feb 13, 2010
Sales Branches
  • Maintenance->Branches - new pages to set up branches.
  • Administration->Company - added "Branch Address on Quotes" checkbox and "Post to Branch Accounts" checkbox.
  • Quote List - users at branch 1 will see a filter for branches and can include branch as a column, other users only see quotes for their branch.
  • Quote Header - users at branch 1 will see branch name beside sales consultant's name.
  • Quote Posting - added branch name under customer
  • Print Quote, Openings, Packing Slip, Invoice - will print branch address in header if "Branch Address on Quotes" checkbox is selected in Administration Company.
Installation/Measurement
  • Administration->Company - added Installation Account
  • Maintenance->Branches - added Installation Account
  • Quote Header - added Installer selection box, Measured check box, Install Time box.
  • Quote Posting - added Installer section with Account, Amount and Paid boxes
Commissions
  • Administration->Company - added Commmission Account
  • Maintenance->Branches - added Commmission Account
  • Quote Posting - added commission section with account, amount and paid boxes
Maintenance->Panels
  • Added Width and Height minimum and maximum, maximum area - rules will be enforced on single-panel windows at quoting time, and at layout time during deductions.
  • Added [Copy] button that copies panel, components, and Energy Star links to a new panel.
Maintenance->Warehouse and Locations New pages for description of storage areas.
Jan 8, 2010
Sales By Consultant Added primary sort by year option.
July 3, 2009
Quote Lines/Line Detail/Deductions Show links to related purchase orders for both items and components.
Purchase Lines/Line Detail Show links to related sales orders.
July 2, 2009
Quote Deductions Fixed bug where going directly to [Summary] sometimes hung up system.
Purchase Line List Included dimensions as item code and sales order number for glass PO lines; also made sales order number a link to quote lines.
Energy Star Labels Added manufacturing sequence as prefix for profile text, sorted labels by manufacturing sequence.
June 30, 2009
All Pages Feedback button provided at top right of page so you can send feedback to Fenestratio maintainers easily.
Purchase Line List Add button to preview purchase order.
Purchase Line Detail Larger images accepted - will be scaled such that maximum dimension fits purchase order column width.
June 18, 2009
Maintenance->Colors Now allows InstallFactor and SupplyFactor for colors used on quotes.
Quote Header Selection of product color may now cause update to factor 2.
Most Quote Pages Images button links to images for quote.
Images and Album Work with/upload/search and create albums of images from home page.
June 16, 2009
Reports->Sales Matrix Now includes "Dual" mode.
Maintenance->Energy Star... Various options to support energy star labelling.