Release Notes: March 12, 2020

Here’s what’s new with DirectScale the week of March 12th, 2020.

Happy Holi! Our teammates in India were able to celebrate the beautiful arrival of springtime this week with the colorful festivities surrounding Holi. We are happy to celebrate with them with a light release week!

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🎁 New Features and 🌟 Enhancements for All!

🌟 Improved! SQL Manager Preview In Context [Corp Office] When we made the update to show the preview of a SQL query in the slide-out for the Custom Reports we didn’t realize it would make it even more inconvenient for the SQL Manager. Now the SQL Manager shows the query results in the same page (just below the query) and the Custom Reports show in the slide-out optimizing each of these experiences. 

🐞 Bugs That Have Been Squashed

🐞Fixed: Enrollments Failing When Cache Wasn’t Updating Payment Options [Corp Office] This was a very small use case that would only happen when payment methods were updated and clients had been switched over to our new caching service.  This has been fixed. 

📘 Help Documents and Training

📘New! Initial Customization Guide [Guide] This comprehensive guide includes checklists, steps, and videos that take anyone through the critical customizations that need to be set up and tested to start running commissions and setting up integrations.

📘New! How to Add Tax Providers [Article]

📘New! How to Add Money In/Money Out Payment Providers [Article]

📘New! How to Add the Test Merchant Payment Method [Article] 

📘New! How to Change an Order's Status to Paid [Article] 

📘New! How to Delete an Inventory Item [Article]

📘New! How to Change an Order's Status to Shipped [Article]

📘New! How to Customize the Web Office Report Center Data [Article]

📘New! How to Add Data to the Web Office Order History and Volume History Report [Articles]

📘New! How to Add Social Posts to the Web Office Quick Share Widget [Article]

📘New! How to Add a Social Link Tile to the Web Office Corporate Social Links Widget [Article]

📘New! How to Add a New Tab to the Web Office Team Dashboard [Article]

📘New! How to Add a Widget to the Web Office Team Dashboard [Article]

📘New! How to Add a Widget to the Web Office Homepage [Article] 

🌟 Improved! Setting Up a Shipping Table [Article]. Updated to explain the setting for degrading when the Ship Method has no data tables.

🔮 What Cool Things Are We Working On?

• Improving the user experience for when orders have volume that gets distributed over time.
• Better backup options for when tax providers go down. 
• Unifying the Admin experience across all our tools.
• Ongoing enhancements to improve Retail Admin’s ease of use and add new configurable settings.
• We are creating more user guides for specific parts of the system such as customization and the Retail Admin.
• We are creating videos for the most important parts of initial customization.
• We are documenting the testing needed for going Live with your platform.

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