With the latest release of P1Wired, the development team has put a lot of focus on the Calendar and Appointment section. In addition to this, they have also added some modifications to the Workflow area of the application. They added a Workflow button on the main tool bar which gives you quick access to all workflow and you can easily see the status of all open workflow. Employee’s can now be assigned to workflow so you can send an email to the employee when they are assigned work, this ensures they will always be up to date on their assigned tasks.
P1Wired now supports date and phone number formatting, so no matter what format you like or need, P1Wired will format to your specifications. Simply enter whole numbers into the field and P1Wired will do the rest.
The calendar also has some new changes. You can now enter the name of the employee that is adding the appointment, you can mark the appointment confirmed and which employee confirmed it.
The daily, weekly and monthly calendar views have also been updated with a new look. These views will now display the appointment type, the client name, the start and end time of the appointment and the staff member that added the appointment to the schedule.
You can also view individual calendars or multiple calendars by the simple click of a button. Previously, all appointments were displayed on individual calendars and you could only view one calendar at a time. Now, in the daily view, you can view multiple calendars at one time. You can also choose to view all appointments for multiple calendars in a single view. This gives you a comprehensive look at a day, week or month.
We have also added new ways to find a client in P1Wired. Newly added are phone number, email, a client secondary name, reference number, and customer number to name a few. You can search for your clients using any of this information.
Amongst all of these new changes, a new Z reported has been added to provide you with peace of mind. Now your payment transactions can be printed on one report which gives you tight cash control. Credit card swiping of transactions is now supported, providing less room for error when entering information and making the credit card processing interface more seamless. The Contract now prints as a PDF, the Google Calendar interface has been enhanced, text descriptions have been added to the Add buttons and the comments in the appointment window have been increased in size.
All these enhancements will be available in your studio’s site by the end of the week August 21, 2010.
P1Wired just added a new feature to the Category and SubCategory drop-downs on the Add\Edit Customer window. P1Wired created this feature to simplify the set up associated with new customer data. Currently in P1Wired, when you want to add new customer codes, you go to the setup option, find the tab you are looking for and add your new codes. We realized this may be too many steps in a photographer’s workflow.
Simple and Easy — with this new feature, just click on the Category combobox, the first value will be [Add New]. Go ahead and select [Add New] and up pops the Add\Edit Category window. Just add the new code and press the save button, your code gets added and applied to the customer you are adding.
This new feature should be a big time saver and allow the photographer to add a new code on the fly. This was a great suggestion from one of our users and we will be adding this functionality to all the combo boxes in our next release — scheduled for July 2010.
With the most recent release, P1Wired developers focused on some major new features and a bunch of Nice-to-Haves to improve a photographer’s workflow. In our the last blog post we listed four new N-to-Hs — we will list the balance below:
1. P1Wired added auto capitalize to the software. The photographer will notice this feature in the Setup area and also in all aspects of customer/contact sections.
2. P1Wired has further refined the ability to add a customer “on the fly” as a result of adding a new appointment. Jump into the add/edit appointment form and select the Add Customer button. Key in the new customer information and select save — the customer is added to your customer file and also to the new appointment.
3. P1Wired has reworked the look and feel of the software application. We have continued to simplify the look and increase the size of the buttons. The goal is to make the software application as intuitive as possible and let the photographer get started immediately without a lot of setup.
The next release will be out in July. Check us out on July 20th at 2:00 pm EST at the PPA Studio Management Software Webinar for photographers. P1Wired will be providing the PPA community a first hand look at the software and the Simple and Easy approach to managing your photography business.
P1Wired in its most recent release included some new significant features to the software. P1Wired also included some new features which are Nice-to-Haves and improve a photographer’s workflow. Here is a listing of some of those new features.
1. In the Client Access feature a new button was added to the Customer form. The new button allows you see what your customer sees without logging in. Click the View Client Access button and the customer’s proposal is displayed allowing you to review and validate the proposal. This short cut is a great way to review the proposal before the customer does.
2. P1Wired increased the size of the user defined message on the invoice. The increased message capacity allows for a more detailed entry for those situations with a lot of information.
3. P1Wired has simplified the process of adding price breaks to products. A photographer can set up the price break for the product type and then add it to the specified product using the product calculator.
4. All outgoing emailing done in P1Wired supports email attachments both images and pdfs. Additionally, all email is time stamped so that there is a record.
P1Wired will finish up tomorrow with the balance of the Nice-to-Have features that continue to make it Simple and Easy to use. P1Wired is looking to deliver a new release in July — about 4 weeks away.
P1Wired released 15 new features in our studio management software on May 15th. This post describes two more of the features included in the new version of P1Wired.
P1Wired has multiple tabs on the customer form to allow you to store all the great data you receive from your customers. To provide a simple and easy way to review any new data in a tab, P1Wired has added highlight hinting. If there is information added in a tab, it will show up as a different color in the customer form. There isn’t the need to click through the tabs in the customer form because the color highlighting will let you know if there is new customer information — it will be a real time saver.
P1Wired also added some new validation features to the studio management software. The validation features will assist the photographer with the data entry in the software program and insure a better level of quality control. This will also be a big time saver for the photographer.