| 12/31/01 | Fixed a problem where the appointment book would have an extra column when switching back from Week View. This only affected salons with less than 7 employees. |
| 12/20/01 | Added the option to count retail only customers toward the customer count for the day on the Summary Daily Sheet (Reports -> List Daily Sheet -> Summary Daily Sheet). Call IBCS to turn on this option. |
| 12/14/01 | Updated the Customer Check Out. In the following situation the system would save incorrect save retail items to the customer history. This would only occur if Add Retail was selected and items were entered followed by the Cancel on that screen. |
| 12/14/01 | To print
W2's you will need to order NEBS W2 Twin Sets. Listed below are the
product numbers for each part and what your state requires. To order, call
NEBS toll free at 1-800-225-9550. 8 Parts Product #12430 6 Parts Product #9859 6 Parts Product #12432 Laser Only 4 Parts Product # 9850
*Certain cities within the state require an 8 part W-2 Form. |
| 12/14/01 | New
Federal Tax table. The Federal government has added a new tax table
level at the low end of taxable wages. A new 10% scale has been
added for lower income employees. The new rates are shown
below. The system will automatically update your tax table with your
first payroll in 2002.
New Tax Table - Single Annual Rates
New Tax Table - Married Annual Rates
|
| 12/12/01 | Updated the Customer Check Out to allow receptionist to receive credit for retail sales. |
| 12/12/01 | Made some changes to reduce problems with customer names showing up with strange symbols in the names. |
| 12/07/01 | Fixed a problem where the detailed time card report did not always show the person that clocked the employee in and out. This fix won't fix past information, but will take care of any future clock ins and outs. |
| 12/07/01 | Added the ability to have the customer's referral count show on the customer payment screen during checkout. Call IBCS to set up this option. |
| 12/07/01 | Added the option to have the system ask whether someone is a requested employee or not while booking an appointment. There was already a check box on the screen for this - turning this option on also pops up a box where you can click yes or no. Call IBCS to set up this option. |
| 12/06/01 | Added a choice to the Referral Count reports in the Mailing Reports section. You can now specify a minimum number of referrals to be included on the report. |
| 12/06/01 | Added an Email Report to the Mailing Reports section. The Email Report is at the end of the Report Type selection box. |
| 12/06/01 | Fixed the Close Day Separate when closing and reopening a register on the same day the system was not clearing all transactions. |
| 12/06/01 | Changed the bar code scanning so that after scanning an item from the Customer Payment screen, the system goes straight back to the Customer Payment screen again. |
| 12/05/01 | Fixed the scroll bar on the Search Daily Sheet screen under Reports. |
| 12/05/01 | Made a change to the appointment schedule to improve the performance of the report when including phone numbers. |
| 12/04/01 | Added the Retention breakdown by department to the Business Review. This shows the Retention for each employee based upon their classification. Each classification is subtotal to show how each department is retaining customers. |
| 12/04/01 | Added a department breakdown to the Salon and Employee Date Range reports when listing services in detail. |
| 12/04/01 | Updated the Employee/Business Review to include Retention Analysis showing the retention figures with the cost to the employee/business for those lost customers. The report also shows the Top Ten services ranked by quantity that resulted in a lost customer. |
| 11/30/01 | Added the ability to add the Social Security to the check stub. By default the system will not print the Social Security on the stub. To enable click Utility, File Utility, Salon Directory, Click File Name and type PYCSS0. Click create file. This will enable the Social # to be printed. |
| 11/30/01 | Changed the mailing reports so that names with initials (K.L. Crabtree for example), will show up with all of the initials capitalized, instead of just the first one. |
| 11/30/01 | Changed the Payroll Check stub when service charges are subtracted before commission the system was printing the total service dollars instead of the service dollars less the service charge. This made employee feel like they were getting paid the incorrect amount. |
| 11/29/01 | Increased the maximum number of weeks for standing appointments from every 15 weeks to every 24 weeks. |
| 11/29/01 | Required a password to be entered whenever an employee clocks in or out through the time card section. This way, even if someone forgets to log out of the program, the correct person will still be clocked in or out. |
| 11/29/01 | Added the ability to have the name of the employee and the comment print out on the gift certificates printed from the slip printer. Contact IBCS to turn either of these features on. |
| 11/28/01 | Added Productivity Report to the program. This is under Reports, then Manager Reports, and then Retention/Productivity. To set the productivity times, go to Maintenance, then Service, then Define Productivity Times. |
| 11/26/01 | Added new feature to the Utility to allow Booking Styles to be erased under File Maintenance. Either the regular booking styles and/or the combination booking styles can be removed.. |
| 11/26/01 | Added a new feature to Add an Employee to warn when an employee is being entered twice. |
| 11/26/01 | Added new feature to the Utility, File Maintenance to allow the Appointment Book file to be repaired. This option should only be used with an IBCS person on the phone, but will save considerable time if it is needed. |
| 11/26/01 | Fixed the Employee Pay Stub to show all of payroll deductions. Some of the deductions were not shown, but were calculated into the payroll check. |
| 11/26/01 | Fixed the Payroll Unemployment Report to properly subtract out 401K, CAFE and Sep-Ira when they are check marked. |
| 11/26/01 | Added First and Last Name fields to the Form Letters and Post Cards. You can now add one or the other, instead of having to add the entire customer name. |
| 11/26/01 | Fixed the Payroll Check Hourly Pay showing as zero on the check stub. The pay was calculated correctly, but the information was not shown on the check. |
| 11/26/01 | Added new report to show the profitability of the business and individual employees. The Employee/Business Review takes the information from the sales data subtracts the payroll information and applies the fixed costs to arrive at the net profit for the business or each employee. Changing the fixed costs or adding a service charge allows you to determine how each change affects profitability. |
| 11/20/01 | Made the Inventory Final Order report always print one line per product, regardless of the length of the inventory name, or whether the item had a supplier code or not. |
| 11/16/01 | Added new feature to the Commission Maintenance. Now Service Charges can be selected to be shown on the List Employee Sales Report and/or automatically subtracted before showing the service total. |
| 11/16/01 | Fixed the Payroll Manager maximum wages for Social Security were not being calculated correctly. If you have over $80,400 in wages the system did not stop withholding the Social Security Wages. |
| 11/16/01 | Changed the Printing order for checks to be alphabetically to match all of the reports. |
| 11/08/01 | Fixed a problem that could cause extra checks to print out for rooms during the payroll process. |
| 11/06/01 | Fixed the Appointment Working hours that would not save properly related to the Windows Regional Settings. |
| 11/05/01 | Fixed the Standing Appointments to ignore Windows Regional Settings. If the Windows Time format was changed, standing appointments would not add to the system correctly. The standings work for any regional settings. |
| 11/01/01 | Fixed the Customer Display showing the customer as new when it was not actually new. |
| 10/31/01 | Added new feature to support Thin-Client Computers to open a cash drawer and print receipts. This feature is for Windows 2000 Server systems that are using terminal services only. To utilize cash drawers or receipt printers on a thin-client the server system must be setup using Citrix ICA protocol for terminal services. Contact IBCS, if you have any questions regarding the setup of this feature. |
| 10/31/01 | Fixed a problem that could cause the Gross Pay totals not to save in the Date Range Gross Pay section. |
| 10/24/01 | Enhanced the Restore LogAppt function located under Utility. The system now searches the LogAppt and all backup files to find a valid appointment book information. |
| 10/24/01 | Fixed the Payroll 941 Report it was including one paycheck past the selected dates. |
| 10/24/01 | Fixed the Payroll Unemployment Report did not include employee's that were no longer employed. |
| 10/23/01 | Enhanced the Spa/Salon Manager to remove temporary report files automatically. |
| 10/23/01 | Enhanced the Schedule Maintenance. Schedule Maintenance can be used mark an employee as Sick. The employee's schedule shows in a sick green to show all receptionist that the employee should not be scheduled for that day. Schedule Maintenance can be used to return an employee to working status by marking them as Well. This will remove the SCHED,OFF's that are booked when the employee is marked off. In addition, the Well feature can be used to remove Salon,Closed and other reserved appointment words quickly. |
| 10/18/01 | Added the ability to change the color of the Customer Total line on the Check Out screen. To turn this option on, call IBCS at 937-832-3969. |
| 10/18/01 | Added a report that gives a breakdown of how much each employee sold in gift certificates to the date range section. To turn this report on, call IBCS at 937-832-3969. |
| 10/18/01 | Added the Retail/Service Percentage to the List Employee Sales report. |
| 10/18/01 | Added a page break to the Technical Cards report. |
| 10/17/01 | Changed the List Daily Sheet reports. When using information from a Previous Period, the employee list from the previous period is now used instead of the current employee list. |
| 10/17/01 | Fixed the Date Range Detailed Employee Service the report would not work if someone in the salon had zero service dollars sold. |
| 10/17/01 | Fixed a problem that could cause the Appointment Log Report to break appointments booked with rooms into 15 minute increments, instead of showing the appointment as one entry. Also, changed the way rooms are shown on the Appointment Log Report - they now always show as being booked by Salon,Card. |
| 10/11/01 | Fixed the Find Appointment printing when using a server setup with pass through printing turned off. |
| 10/11/01 | Added Retail Totals and Retail/Service percentage to the Detail Employee Date Range Report. This report can be used to show employees their progress. |
| 10/10/01 | Fixed a bug in the Search when preferred rooms were specified the system did not assign the proper room. |
| 10/09/01 | Fixed the YTD Gross on the Payroll Check when converting from The Salon Manager the system did not include any Bonus Pay. |
| 10/09/01 | Added new feature to the Correct/Void a payroll check. If an employee name was entered incorrectly the spelling can be changed through the Correct/Void. |
| 10/06/01 | Fixed the Booking Styles when the system had more than 100 services the Employee Does not Perform the Service button did not work correctly. This only affected customers with over 100 services. |
| 10/02/01 | Fixed the Close Day showing that the Daily0 file was locked requiring all terminals be logged out of the program before the Close Day could be performed. |
| 10/01/01 | Fixed a problem that could cause the Post Order button to ignore changes made in the Make Order section. |
| 10/01/01 | Added the ability to print Intercom message. |
| 09/28/01 | Fixed a problem when an Appointment was Cancelled the system could keep the comment from the cancelled appointment and move it to the next appointment that was booked. The system now clears the appointment comment after each cancelled appointment. |
| 09/27/01 | Changed the Salon Used to allow non-booking employee's to be tracked for their usage of products if they are provided by the salon. |
| 09/27/01 | Fixed the System Agent to not stop in the middle with a prompt on the screen. This will allow the System Agent to complete before the beginning of the next business day. |
| 09/27/01 | Fixed the Appointment Standings so that they will update before a day has gone by. |
| 09/27/01 | Fixed the copy booking style option - it was not working correctly. |
| 09/27/01 | Fixed a problem that could cause the Print button in the Find Appointment section not to work. |
| 09/27/01 | Added the option to not post daily deposits into Quicken or Microsoft Money, while still posting your payroll. Call IBCS to set this option up. |
| 09/26/01 | Fixed the Move Appointment to automatically show the appointment book clicking on the prompt to move to the correct date and time. |
| 09/26/01 | Fixed the Calendar in Search, it was showing behind another screen making it unusable. |
| 09/26/01 | Fixed the System Agent for customer's using Terminal Server. The system allowed the system agent to run on multiple terminals simultaneously. |
| 09/26/01 | Fixed the date on the Work Ticket it was one day off. |
| 09/26/01 | Changed the system to not allow screens to be moved. When using a touch screen it was very easy to move a screen unintentionally. |
| 09/26/01 | Changed the Work Ticket to automatically go to the printer. |
| 09/26/01 | Added the Employee Number to the work ticket. |
| 09/25/01 | Corrected the Page Up/Down and Arrow Keys to act the same as if you were clicking the button on the screen. This allows the arrow keys to be utilized instead of using the mouse or a touch screen. |
| 09/23/01 | Added new capability to Windows program to avoid locking problems with the daily sheet. This option must be set only for Windows only systems and only if a problem exist. |
| 09/20/01 | Fixed a problem when retrieving the previous period Employee Sales the system made all passwords quick working. |
| 09/14/01 | Added a feature where appointments booked online can be set up to display in grey on the appointment book. Please contact IBCS if you are interested in turning on this option. |
| 09/13/01 | Fixed a problem that could cause the Cash line on the Customer Payment screen to stop responding to the Enter, Tab, S, and R keys. |
| 09/10/01 | Fixed a problem that caused the days of the week to show incorrectly on the Appointment Confirmation screen after confirming with all email customers. |
| 09/06/01 | Fixed the Weekly Stored Information or Change to Previous Period for customers that have multiple computers and do not Close Period on the host computer. If you are missing previous period information, contact IBCS and we may be able to restore it. The system was saving the information on the computer that the Close Period was completed instead of the host computer. |
| 09/04/01 | Fixed the Payroll Deduction when subtracting a deduction as a percentage of gross the system would not calculate the total for high dollar amounts. |
| 08/31/01 | Fixed the standard inventory labels when printing a whole page only 76 labels were printed on the page with 4 labels going to the next page. Now all 80 labels are printed. |
| 08/31/01 | Added new feature when utilizing Hold Tickets the system will now automatically remove any hold ticket information if the customer was checked out of the system that day. This will avoid the error that a Hold Ticket was put onto the customer after they had already been checked out. Without this change the information from their last visit would be included with their next visit leading to confusion. |
| 08/31/01 | Added to the Payroll Calculation a button to display the vacation information for the employee. The vacation screen shows the maximum vacation pay, vacation used and vacation payment. The system defaults to the vacation payment, but any amount can be typed in for the payment providing it does not exceed the maximum vacation pay. |
| 08/30/01 | Fixed the posting to Quicken when utilizing Tips the total amount was incorrect until the adjust button was clicked in Quicken. |
| 08/30/01 | Added the Next Appointment Date to the List Standings Report. |
| 08/30/01 | Added the Appt. Date to the Work Ticket under the customer name. |
| 08/30/01 | Added in a feature to automatically send reminder emails to your customers. The default time frame is to send reminders to customers that have not been in to the salon in over 4 weeks. This can be changed on a customer by customer basis under Customer Display. Reminder emails will automatically be sent out when the system agent runs at night and requires that the computer be connected to the internet. |
| 08/29/01 | Updated the Payroll Manager. For customer's that are tracking tips the system now automatically fills in the tip amount when calculating payroll. |
| 08/27/01 | Changed the Reprint Last Order button so that it uses the same report as the Make Order button when using Post when Received. |
| 08/27/01 | Simplified the date selection for the Date Range Comparison. |
| 08/24/01 | Changed the Pre-Price screen to not show rooms, since the rooms do not affect the customers pricing. |
| 08/23/01 | Fixed a problem that caused only one employee or room name to show on the work tickets when the same service was booked with 2 different employee or rooms. |
| 08/23/01 | Enhanced the Appointment Log when a customer name entered the system searches the mailing list to make sure the spelling is correct. If the spelling is not correct the system will suggest the closest match. If the closest match is not the desired customer, select Cancel and the system will allow you to enter the customer name again. |
| 08/20/01 | Added a message to let you know when you're checking in a new customer. |
| 08/20/01 | Appointments can now have the amount of time they take shorten or lengthened by clicking on the Change Services/Timings button on the Edit Info screen (click on the Appointment and click Edit Info to get to this screen). |
| 08/17/01 | The OnLine Booking now supports email confirmation for your customers. Contact IBCS to enable this feature. |
| 08/17/01 | Special names such as No,Lunch, No,Appt, etc are now automatically confirmed when booked. |
| 08/16/01 | Added a feature to the program that automatically sends out confirmation emails when the System Agent runs each night. This feature will automatically start working if you have email configured in the SpaSalon Manager, and will confirm everything up to one day before your automatically confirmed appointments (ie if you automatically confirm 2 days in advance, this will confirm everything from today up to three days from now). |
| 08/16/01 | Changed the waiting list so that the Available Date shows the date entered for Specific Date instead of the date that you're looking at on the book, if a Specific Date was entered for the waiting list entry. |
| 08/16/01 | Fixed a problem that caused the cost and extended cost to show up incorrectly when changing the number of items to order in the Make and Post Order sections. |
| 08/15/01 | Added the customer name of the conflicting appointment and the employee name for the standing appointment to the warning message when a standing appointment can not be booked. |
| 08/13/01 | Added the Date and Time to the Deposit Slip printing. |
| 08/13/01 | Added new feature to allow you to specify the beginning and the ending date for all Date Range Comparison Reports. |
| 08/13/01 | Fixed the User Defined Comment on the Customer Check In screen to show the name specified in Company Maintenance. |
| 08/13/01 | Fixed the Week View to show the current day highlighted for each day of the week. The system only showed the Current Day on Monday before. |
| 08/07/01 | Fixed the Close Day Summary not showing the Sales Tax total. |
| 08/07/01 | Added new feature to remove customers from the mailing list, if they have not been in for a certain number of days. This feature will allow you to set a specific period when a old customer coming back should be treated as a new guest. |
| 08/03/01 | Updated the system to allow the waiting list and intercom to be accessed from the Appointment Week View. |
| 08/03/01 | Fixed the Confirm Email customer button. After confirming a single day, the incorrect day of week would be shown on the left side of the screen. |
| 07/31/01 | Created additional log files used to backup when performing the System Agent. |
| 07/31/01 | Fixed the Close Day Summary when showing five different transaction types the fifth name was shown incorrectly. |
| 07/31/01 | Updated the Close Day Summary to show the Deposits either grouped or listed separately. The grouping settings can be changed under Maintenance, Transactions. If you deposit your cash and checks together, but the credit cards separately you won't need to get out a calculator to separate the amounts. |
| 07/27/01 | Added the ability to not list certain services when booking online. Also added a space to add a short description of the services for online booking in service maintenance. Please call if you desire the service descriptions to show online. |
| 07/26/01 | Fixed the Close Day Separate to clear out the Pay In/Out transactions so they don't appear in the next persons close out in Verify Monies. This only affects salons that close separate cash drawers and close a single register more than once a day. |
| 07/26/01 | Fixed the Email Confirmation going to the incorrect person. This error would occur when the email server could not process the out going emails before the next email was sent. The information from the next person was written to the file. Now the system sends each email completely, before starting the next email. |
| 07/26/01 | Fixed This Quarter button during the month of July the system showed the current quarter as 4/1/01 to 6/30/01 instead of 7/01/01 to 9/30/01. |
| 07/25/01 | Fixed the Price Level Names when the # of services were expanded to 199 the system was not saving the Price Level Names correctly. |
| 07/23/01 | Changed the Print Work Tickets to not print work tickets for rooms. |
| 07/23/01 | Changed the Rebook appointment to show the customer's name that is being rebooked at the top of the screen with the date. |
| 07/23/01 | Changed to inventory ordering to automatically reorder items. Items that are on backorder are automatically ordered again. The Back Order information is used only to show that an item was not received, but it does not affect the ordering of items in the future. |
| 07/23/01 | Added new sorting method to List Daily Sheets when working with separate cash drawers the system will allow the sorting of transactions by the drawer in which the sale was rang through. |
| 07/22/01 | Fixed the Print button under Enhancement Training. |
| 07/20/01 | Fixed payroll retail calculation for commission when utilizing a sliding scale. The system showed zero for the percentage to be paid. If you paid a flat rate for commission, say 10% the system calculated correctly. |
| 07/18/01 | Fixed the Play Salon which was not accessible since April. |
| 07/17/01 | Updated Calendar from Main Menu. The Calendar can now be made to start from Sunday instead of Monday. To enable this feature, click Utility, File Utility, click Salon Directory. Type Calen0.SUN in the filename box and click create file. |
| 07/16/01 | Updated the Mailing One per Family to be able to process mailing lists up to 100,000 clients. |
| 07/16/01 | Changed the Internet Password to show as an asterisk to safeguard the information in the Maintenance Internet Settings. |
| 07/12/01 | Added a Appointment Report to show the number of Request and Non Request for each employee. This only accumulates correctly if you do a Close Day at the end of each night. Additionally, request and non-request must be turned on under Maintenance, Appointment. |
| 07/12/01 | Fixed the Change to Previous Period under the List Daily Sheets. Either the information was not present or the information was not sorted by date. |
| 07/12/01 | Updated the Maintenance section to not allow a ' apostrophe in the Company Name. When an apostrophe is entered in the company name the system will not print reports. |
| 07/12/01 | Added new feature to the Close Day Separate to allow the information to be printed. This will allow the employee to take the information to a quiet place to count the money. No transactions can be ran through the terminal while the money is being counted. |
| 07/02/01 | Added a confirmation screen to the Schedule Maintenance to verify the dates are correct that were entered. |
| 06/28/01 | Fixed the Search Daily Sheet to allow you to type in the name to be search. Before the system was finding the first matching and the only way to use the system was to click the arrow and scroll to the proper name. |
| 06/28/01 | Updated Payroll Program for new Federal Tax Table effective June 30, 2001. |
| 06/28/01 | Fixed the System Agent. On some systems, the System Agent would say Dynazip Error unable to create output file \salon\backthu and wait. After pressing Enter the system would continue the System Agent which would make the system not usable for the first 5 to 15 minutes. |
| 06/22/01 | Took out the warning when you book an appointment for the same services within one week of the same appointment for the 'reserved names' (No,Appt, Book,Me, etc) |
| 06/12/01 | Fixed a problem that could cause the internet settings in maintenance not to get saved. |
| 06/11/01 | Fixed a problem with Date Range Reports they were not posting any information for about 7 days. This only affected anyone getting an update between 6/01/01 and 6/10/01. |
| 06/04/01 | Changed the Check Out and Schedule Printing so that employees that are no longer on payroll do not show up. |
| 06/01/01 | Fixed the Cancel Whole Appointment when a customer had multiple appointments the system would not cancel the customer. This also affected the rooms if the customer was booked in a room for the service. |
| 06/01/01 | Fixed the Skin Technical Card, it was not able to be printed. |
| 06/01/01 | Fixed the Web Update. The system was not automatically updating additional terminals when an update had been downloaded. |
| 06/01/01 | Fixed the Utility Ms-Dos Prompt for both Salon and SpaSalon for Windows NT and Windows 2000. The Ms-Dos Prompt Salon name was changed to Ms-Dos Prompt Data. |
| 05/31/01 | Changed the Schedule Maintenance to be able to perform schedule changes that are past the latest booking date. This allows holidays and vacations to be booked out before the day becomes available for booking. |
| 05/31/01 | Added new feature. When the appointment book is showing on the screen, clicking on the date in the upper left hand corner of the main screen shows the next three months on the screen. You can now click on a date and the appointment book will be advanced to that date. Please note, the system will only allow you to advance to the furthest available booking date. |
| 05/29/01 | Fixed the Spell Checker in the Form Letters and Postcards in Reports. |
| 05/23/01 | Changed all standing appointments to be marked as requests. |
| 05/17/01 | Fixed an error in the File Maintenance section that could make a cancelled appointment appear after doing an Appointment File Maintenance. |
| 05/17/01 | Fixed a problem that caused IOU's added through correction to not show up on the daily sheet. |
| 05/16/01 | Fixed the Detailed Time Card report. When an employee forgot to Clock In or Out the system was assuming 12:00 AM and not reflecting the proper totals on the report. This error only affected the report and did not affect payroll processing. |
| 05/16/01 | Added a new feature to the Appointment Book. When a customer has been checked in by the employee the service is booked with, they will show up in orange instead of yellow, so that the front desk knows that the employee is already working with the customer. |
| 05/16/01 | Updated system to avoid lockups in Windows 2000 on the Customer Profile and many other screens. |
| 05/15/01 | Changed Correction so that it correctly updates the week, month, quarter, and year to date sales numbers when inventory items are added or removed from the sale. |
| 05/15/01 | Added choices to the Utility -> File Maintenance section to allow people to update the YTD and Life customer totals. |
| 05/14/01 | Changed the way the retention report is stored so that a bad date on one of the computers does not cause the computers to store the retention report over and over. |
| 05/14/01 | Fixed a problem that could cause the detailed salon and employee retention reports to give a database not verified error. |
| 05/14/01 | Put in a warning to stop people from opening up two copies of the Spa/Salon Manager program on the same computer. |
| 05/14/01 | Fixed a problem that could cause the Internet Settings to get erased after saving them. |
| 05/14/01 | Changed the color of IOU's to show in yellow at the Customer Check In screen to focus attention. |
| 05/14/01 |
Added new
feature that allows all customers on Maintenance to receive updates via
the Web. Web Update now shows at the top for all customers. If you
connect to the Internet BEFORE clicking the Web Update the system will
connect to IBCS Servers and determine if any updates are available. For
high speed Internet users the updates will require between 10 and 20
minutes to complete. Normal Internet customers will require 40 to 80
minutes to complete an update. The new Web Update requires no setup,
unlike the previous version that required extensive setup before
use.
Once an update has been downloaded, each additional terminal will automatically detect the update and prompt to perform the update. |
| 05/08/01 | Added new feature to the Modify Standing Appointment to allow the employee to be changed without deleting and adding the standing from scratch. |
| 05/08/01 | Fixed the Packages printing. The date shown under the Title was always the current date instead of the date when the packages were scheduled. |
| 04/26/01 | Corrected a problem with close days done with separate cash registers. If more than one shift was closed out, sales from the previous shift still showed up on the report. This has been fixed. |
| 04/26/01 | Fixed the Close Day Summary on some salons, the transaction name listed did not show correct name when showing the totals for each transaction type. |
| 04/24/01 | Fixed the Find Appointment Printing to automatically close the Reports after the appointment information is printed. |
| 04/24/01 | Added the Report Dates to the Date Range - Employee Gross Pay Report. |
| 04/23/01 | Fixed the Scan Forward/Back buttons on the Customer Name screen. When the employee numbers were turned off the scanning was not working properly. Turning on Show Employee Numbers in Employee Maintenance corrects the problem until the next update. |
| 04/19/01 | Added 'booking guides' to the system. You can now define a 'booking guide' for the salon as a whole, and for each individual employees. These guides will mark the times on your book that you would prefer to have the employee booked - for example, every 45 minutes, or every 60 minutes during the day. Also, the system can be set up to pop a warning if someone tries to book an appointment on a time other than those marked with booking guides. |
| 04/18/01 | Added the Training deduction information to the Date Range - Employee - Gross Pay Report. |
| 04/18/01 | Fixed the Tax Payment Due in the Payroll Manager. The system was over reporting the amount due for the sum of the Federal, Double Social and Double Medicare. |
| 04/17/01 | Added new feature to the appointment book to show the services booked when a customer is scheduled for more than a 15 minute appointment. The system now shows, instead of the ditto mark, the services scheduled in blue on the line underneath the customer's name. |
| 04/16/01 | Added a calculator to the program when at the Main Menu showing Appointment, Check In, Check Out etc. pressing F3 displays the windows calculator. |
| 04/06/01 | Made the Starting Date on List Accounts in Detail report default to 1/1/1980 so that when you don't select a date, you get all the information from the customer's history instead of none. |
| 04/05/01 | Fixed the Open Register to show the receptionist each time it is selected. |
| 04/02/01 | Fixed a problem that could cause the System Agent to give a file locked error when people came in to use the computer in the morning. |
| 03/30/01 | Added two new reports to the Payroll Manager. The system now prints W3's and 1099's. Forms can be ordered from IBCS or Nebs. |
| 03/30/01 | Fixed Windows 2000 systems not being able to view the Enhancement Training section of the program. |
| 03/27/01 | Updated the Payroll Manager W2 printing to handle Ohio Salons that must print the amount of School Tax withheld for each employee. |
| 03/27/01 | The system now allows access to Commission Maintenance without the payroll option to allow Service Charges to be tracked using the Employee Sales Report. |
| 03/26/01 | Added the ability to have gift certificates automatically expire. Call IBCS at 937-832-3969 if you are interested in setting up this option. |
| 03/26/01 | Added the Training Deduction amounts to the employee and the salon payroll reports. The information was being accumulated, but not displayed on the report. |
| 03/22/01 | Fixed a problem with the Send Intercom Message the system on long messages was dropping one letter every 70 characters typed. |
| 03/22/01 | Fixed a problem that could cause N.S.F. Check payments to not show up on the daily sheet. |
| 03/20/01 | Changed the way that the system archives the daily information each week. This should help fix the problems some people were having running out of memory during the Close Week process. |
| 03/16/01 | Added new feature to allow Retail Commission to be calculated based upon the Retail / Service percentage. This allows the Low and High to be entered as 0 and 10 to indicate that sales from 0 to 10 percent get a particular commission. The setup is under Advance Settings in Commission Maintenance. |
| 03/15/01 | Fixed the Piecewise Commission under Advanced Settings. The piecewise setting was not being saved. |
| 03/15/01 | Fixed the Cancel Whole Appointment when the customer was scheduled with multiple employees the system would not allow the appointment to be cancelled. This affected reserved names such as No,Appt or Salon Meeting making them difficult to remove from the appointment book. |
| 03/14/01 | Fixed a problem with the System Agent when the server was running Windows 2000. The System Agent was not creating backup of the files that were being updated. This has been corrected for all versions of Windows. |
| 03/13/01 | Added an option to Employee Payroll Maintenance which allows you to skip employees that should not be paid during the payroll process. By clicking 'Skip this Employee' in the Payroll Accounting Setup -> Employee Payroll Maintenance section, that employee will no longer show up in payroll, or on the payroll reports. |
| 03/12/01 | Made a change to the new tip tracking program. You can now choose to split the tip evenly between all of the employees listed, or to split the tip among those employees based on how much their service total was compared to the entire total for the employees receiving tips. Also, took Salon,Card out as a choice of who could receive tips, and made sure that the tips would work properly in conjunction with the Apply Change to Gift Certificate option. |
| 03/09/01 | Took tips out of the deductions that affect the total that posts to Quicken for payroll checks. |
| 03/09/01 | Fixed a problem that caused booking styles and time cards not to convert when switching employee order. |
| 03/07/01 | Fixed a problem that caused certain technical cards to not print out correctly. They would print out information from a different customer. |
| 02/28/01 | Fixed a problem that caused standing appointments to not confirm automatically all the time. |
| 02/28/01 | Fixed a problem with the appointment log that could cause standing appointments to show with 15 minutes less for the book out time than they should have. |
| 02/28/01 | Fixed a problem that could cause Cancel Whole appointment to not remove the appointment from the room. |
| 02/28/01 | Changed Cancel All and Cancel Rest so that they now remove rooms booked for the appointments automatically. |
| 02/19/01 | Fixed a problem with the payroll reports that caused the service and retail pay displayed to not reflect any modifications that were made to each employee. |
| 02/19/01 | Upgraded the Correct to allow Pay In/Outs and Gift Certificates to be corrected. |
| 02/19/01 | Upgraded the Key Pad accessed with the .. in the program to include a minus key to do negative amounts. |
| 02/19/01 | Added ability to track tips. Contact IBCS if you are interested in this option. |
| 02/16/01 | Fixed a problem that caused payroll checks exported to Quicken to show the Gross Pay instead of the Net Pay for the total amount until the splits were adjusted. |
| 02/16/01 | Fixed a problem that could cause incorrect future appointments to show on the appointment confirmation screen when confirming an appointment for a single customer. |
| 02/16/01 | Fixed problem that caused the customer count on the salon card to show as 0. |
| 02/15/01 | Added the ability to choose a custom start date to the Date Range Comparison report. |
| 02/14/01 | Added the ability to print work tickets for a customer while booking an appointment. There is now a check box directly above the save button at the end of the booking process that, if checked, will cause the system to automatically print out a work ticket for that appointment once it is booked. |
| 02/09/01 | Fixed a problem that made the Remove button not work when trying to cancel time slots off for an appointment in the Assistant column. |
| 02/09/01 | Created new Inventory Report to allow the system to create Shelf Labels for products. When utilizing bar coding Shelf Labels eliminate the need to price each retail item saving time and money. |
| 02/09/01 | Fixed a problem that could cause extra services to show up on series gift certificates. |
| 02/05/01 | Added the ability to filter by category, classification, and supplier to the Salon Use report. |
| 02/05/01 | Added a warning message to the booking process. If a customer is already booked for the same services you put in during the appointment booking process, the system will warn you and ask you if you are sure you want to book the appointment. |
| 02/01/01 | Corrected the List Employee Sales report which showed a message box for only customers that received updates on 1/31/01. |
| 02/01/01 | Correct the Customer Display to allow Future Appointments to be shown for new customers. |
| 02/01/01 | Added numbers to the Near Spelling when entering customer names. If a name shown is the correct name, typing the number in front of the name allows that name to be selected. Note: Do not erase the name you typed in, just type the number of the near spelling desired. |
| 02/01/01 | Changed the Appointment Confirm and Appointment Details screens so that the time shown for the appointment is now the time of the first appointment that day, regardless of which employee is shown. |
| 01/31/01 | Turned back on Minutes and Unlimited Minutes for Gift Certificates which were accidentally turned off. |
| 01/31/01 | Fixed the Appointment Book showing customer as checked in yellow. If you have a problem with customers not staying yellow contact IBCS and we can correct the problem. |
| 01/30/01 | Added new feature to selecting employees. Employees can now be selected by number from the keyboard. You can still use the mouse, but this option allows employees to be selected without the mouse. This option can be turned off under Maintenance, Employee. |
| 01/29/01 | Fixed some problems that could cause corrections of transactions paid for with a gift certificate to show up incorrectly on the daily sheet. |
| 01/29/01 | Fixed the Appointment Scheduling when the customer had an IOU the appointment would delay showing on the appointment schedule until the Today button was clicked. |
| 01/29/01 | Updated the Payroll Categories to accept a maximum of nine, instead of ten. |
| 01/26/01 | Added the ability to use Verify Monies when also closing out separate cash drawers in the system. |
| 01/26/01 | Added an "Add Item to Order" button to the Post Order section in Inventory. |
| 01/26/01 | Added a warning message when adding standing appointments from a terminal that the appointments will not show on the book until the main computer updates the standings. |
| 01/26/01 | Corrected W2 Printing - Warning do not send W2's without updating first. The employee address and social security number do not show on the form. |
| 01/25/01 | Added a Volume Retail Report. Like the Volume Cost Report, it shows the current quantities of stock on hand, but instead of showing the cost on those items, it shows the retail value. |
| 01/25/01 | Added the ability to filter by date, and by category/classification/supplier to the inventory change report. |
| 01/24/01 | Added new feature to the Service Selection to allow services to be selected by number from the keyboard. The Add Service and Add Retail can be selected from the Customer Payment screen with the keyboard by pressing either S or R. This feature can be turned off by removing the checkmark on the Service Maintenance screen saying Allow services to be selected by number. |
| 01/24/01 | Corrected the Ordering when using the Add Inventory the system was rounding off the extended price. Two items at 15.25 showed $30.00 instead of $30.50. |
| 01/24/01 | Added the price to the Supplier Code labels. |
| 01/23/01 | Cleaned up some spots on the List Employee Sales, Employee Daily Totals and Date Range Sales reports, where numbers and words were being cut off, or only the top half of them showed, and also some numbers that showed as dollar amounts that should have been percents. |
| 01/23/01 | Added the information for separate cash registers to the Sales Summary report. |
| 01/23/01 | Added the User Name and Computer Name to the Pay In/Out Correction screen. |
| 01/23/01 | Fixed a problem that caused the Close Day for separate cash drawers to show information in the Actual column that should not have been there. |
| 01/22/01 | Added access to the Series Details from both screens in the gift certificate sales process. |
| 01/22/01 | Fixed a problem that could cause the Series Details button on the Check In screen to show that a customer had a Non-Specific Service count when they did not. |
| 01/19/01 | Fixed the Referred By when Checking in a New customer the new customer's email address was changed to the person that referred them. |
| 01/19/01 | Fixed a problem that caused the Computer Info -> View Select option to not work correctly. Regardless of the information entered there, the program still showed all employees on the appointment book. |
| 01/17/01 | Fixed the Payroll Employee Summary report. When additional City or State was withheld the system showed the information in the deduction section under the wrong heading. The system now automatically combines the City and State for a combined total instead of showing under the deductions settings. |
| 01/17/01 | Fixed the Appointment Detail screen when choosing Confirm Appointment was not showing the home and work phone numbers which has been corrected. |
| 01/11/01 | Fixed the Find Appointment when an appointment was cancelled on the current day, the Find Appointment showed %%%%%% for the appointments that were cancelled followed by the booked appointments. |
| 01/11/01 | Updated the Gross Pay Calculation to save the information based upon the payroll ending date not the date Gross Payroll is performed. |
| 01/10/01 | Updated the payroll summary report showing totals for the employee Social Security and Medicare information total with the business matching funds. |
| 01/08/01 | Fixed a problem with Verify Monies that caused corrections to add to the verified total rather than subtracting from it. |
| 01/05/01 | Updated the Inventory screen to show the words completely. Quantity on Hand was being cut off. |
| 01/05/01 | Fixed the Search when booking a service that required a room the system was not booking the room. This problem was created when the Preferred Rooms were implemented in the program in December. |
| 01/03/01 | Updated Utility, File Maintenance, Appointment to automatically cancel the appointment screen to allow the file maintenance to work correctly. |
| 01/02/01 | Corrected the Medicare amount posted by the program for 2001. The amount should be 1.45 and the system entered it as zero. |
| 01/01/01 | Happy New Year! |