As we move into February, our journey of enhancing Locate2u continues with fervor. We diligently roll out updates, on a weekly basis, to refine your experience and expand the system’s capabilities.
This month, we’re unveiling the latest improvements and features designed to streamline your operations and elevate your service.
Keep an eye on this space for detailed insights into the strides we’ve made to make Locate2u even better.
February 13, 2024 – Product Update
Release version: 2.4
Users can select the date range to filter the data that they want to export.
This update will assist users with extensive stops data in the Locate2U system and who only want to report on and export specific date ranges.
For instance, a delivery business managing numerous daily deliveries on a daily basis, or a field service company handling a large number of customer calls – they can now easily report and retrieve stops data for a specific date or range directly into an Excel file.
Enhancement to Run Schedule:
In this release, we’ve enhanced the Run Schedule functionality.
A run schedule is an essential feature on the Locate2u platform. It refers to a timetable for creating certain stops, shipments, or trips within the system.
These schedules recur based on your chosen settings, and can be set up to automatically create essential trips and stops/work orders, in preset time and frequency formats.
Locate2u’s run schedule feature allows companies to automatically create schedules for customers.
With this update, we have included the ability to:
- Add stops.
- Edit stops.
- Remove stops.
- Reorder stops.
Improvements to Process Charges functionality for shipments:
Updates to processing charges in a shipment record will now be taken into account when recalculating the charges.
Improvements to search functionality in Shipments:
Users can now search within a date range or/and customer while searching through Shipments and Shipment Stops on the Shipments page.
Additionally, we added a checkbox to the top search bar which can be ticked to show undated Shipments at top of the list.
Improvements to the tracking behavior of a Team Member/Driver:
Improvements have been made to tracking behavior, which was going to default after returning assets.
In Locate2u, a team member/driver can be assigned to an asset/vehicle, or they can choose one via the mobile app before starting the trip.
Previously, if a team member/driver picks up an asset/vehicle through the mobile app and returns it to the office after finishing their Trip/Journey, their ‘Tracking behavior’ would revert to the default setting.
Now with this update, it will revert to their team’s tracking behavior, instead of the default setting.
Improvements to the visibility of charges when associated with a stop:
Charges applicable to a stop will now be shown when adding and editing a stop.
We have previously discussed how charges are configured in Locate2u. If you would like to learn more, please feel free to contact us.
February 6, 2024 – Product Update: Release version 2.3
Improvements to the Export Stops function:
Users can select the date range to filter the data that they want to export.
This update will assist users with extensive stops data in the Locate2U system and who only want to report on and export specific date ranges.
For instance, a delivery business managing numerous daily deliveries on a daily basis, or a field service company handling a large number of customer calls – they can now easily report and retrieve stops data for a specific date or range directly into an Excel file.
Performance improvements to the Optimization engine:
Imagine a busy Monday morning in the office – you have a list of 10,000 stops to process and assign to your drivers, and you need to do it in a matter of seconds.
Locate2u has your back, and our engine can do that for you.
Users can now optimize thousands of stops within minutes without being stuck on the optimization screen as the system seamlessly handles all the trip creation in the background. These improvements amplify the power of the existing optimization features.
- – Minor user interface improvements for the Customer portal.
Feature and Enhancements to Driver and Customer invoicing:
We added a new feature on Invoicing to set up pre-defined Prefix and Suffix for invoice numbers.
Users can do this by going into Team Settings → Accounts → Invoices.
Here, users now have the ability to define team members, drivers, or customer-specific prefixes and suffixes for each invoice generated in the system.
This feature is really handy when you want to assign identifiers to customer and team-specific invoice numbers, enabling your accounts team to easily differentiate them for reporting or settling invoices.
