Enhancements 2003

Check this page regularly to keep up with all the new features and changes that are constantly being added to YOUR software program.

01/06/2004 Changed the lookup when clicking on Gift Certificate and entering a number the system would not always show the Gift Certificate amount at Customer Check Out. 
12/29/2003 Fixed a problem with the Date Range Detailed Retail Report.  The current cost column was not always correct.
12/23/2003 Added a new report called the Add-On Report to the Date Range Reports section.  This report shows how many customers and how much money were brought in as walk-ins, booked customers, and add-on services.
12/15/2003 Updated Federal Tax Table for increased FICA amount. Old amount was 87000.00 and the 2004 amount is now 87900.00. The tax tables were unchanged for 2004 from the June Tax Table 2003 update.
12/12/2003 Added the option to not show any of the fill-in information (Pre-Booking, Retail, Service add-ons, etc) on the work tickets.  To turn this option on, go into Utility, then File Utilities.  Under the Directory section, click Salon.  In the File Name box, type in NOFIL0.WT and click Create File.  If you need help creating this file, please call us at 937-832-3969.
12/12/2003 Added several options to the tips section.  You can now turn off the Split Evenly (file name TIPEV0.NO) and Split by Service Dollar (file name TIPAM0.NO) buttons on the tips screen.  In addition, you can set it up so that the tips screen does not show any tip amounts or employees when you first open it - it will require you to add in each employee that's receiving a tip (file name TIPBL0.NO).  To turn any of these options on, go into Utility, then File Utilities.  Under the Directory section, click Salon.  In the File Name box, type in the name of the file indicated above and click Create File.  Repeat the steps for each of the features you'd like to turn on. If you need help creating these files, please call us at 937-832-3969.
12/09/2003 Fixed a problem that caused appointments booked for the same customer name on the same date to show the same time that they were booked as well as the same confirmation information, even if the information was different.
12/09/2003 Added the option to extend the amount of time the appointment book will retain old appointments up to one year.  Currently the appointment book only keeps old appointments in the book for 30 days.  This option will allow you to set that number to anything between 1 day to 365 days by going to Maintenance -> Appointment -> Oldest Appointment Date.
12/05/2003 Fixed a problem that caused negative checks to get added to the actual total on the Close Day screen when using Verify Monies to get the total.
11/21/2003 Added a section to Backup Maintenance to turn on and set up offsite web backups.  If you would like more information or would like to sign up for this service, please call 937-832-3969.
11/19/2003 Added the option to print a Combined Schedule that has more than one employee on each page without purchasing a special printer.  To turn this option on, go into Utility, then File Utilities.  Under the Directory section, click Salon.  In the File Name box, type in COMSC0.APT and click Create File.  If you need help creating these files, please call us at 937-832-3969.
11/18/2003 Added support for European dates displayed in DD/MM/YY format throughout the program. The system also supports different currency symbols.  Both the dates and the currency symbols are automatically set based on your Windows Regional Settings.
10/14/2003 Added the option to only allow close day to be accessed after a certain time of day.  To turn this option on, call IBCS at 937-832-3969.
10/14/2003 Changed the password access for Edit Info on the Appointment Detail screen to be the same as Book Appointment.
10/13/2003 Fixed a problem with List Employee Sales (Employee Card) when printing for all employees.  The formatting of the report should be correct now regardless of whether you select most or all employees.
10/10/2003 Added a Taxable/Non-Taxable breakdown to the Date Range - Salon Information - Services in Detail report.
10/09/2003 Made a change to make sure that inventory orders placed by category work correctly for all category names.
10/08/2003 Changed the way emails are sent out through the program when there is only one recipient.  In cases where only one person is receiving the email, the salon will no longer receive a copy of the message.  This applies to reminder and confirmation emails as well as emails sent through the Customer Display screen.
10/08/2003 Made sure that all of the boxes on the Getting Started screen turn red.
10/08/2003 Enhanced the way that the series purchasing option works.  Now when using this feature you can set up Series as a transaction type too, and then use Series as the payment method when the customer checks out.  This allows you to credit the employee for the service even though there is no money on the gift certificate to redeem.  Using this feature will also double-check to make sure that the series on the gift certificate is available and that it is correctly debited.
10/07/2003 Added the pre-book line to the work tickets that print out from the Appointment Detail screen.  Also made the pre-book line bigger to allow the entry of more information on the line.
10/03/2003 Added a new feature to Gross Pay to allow for a Bonus based upon the day of week that the employee is working. The Bonus can be a percentage of the service sales for the day or a flat dollar amount. Bonus Days are setup under Maintenance, Commission.
10/03/2003 Made sure that when applying change to a gift certificate if someone cancels the customer name screen the credit for the gift certificate goes to the Purchaser.
10/03/2003 Added the option to remove the YTD and life totals from the Customer Profile screen.  To turn this option on, go into Utility, then File Utilities.  Under the Directory section, click Salon.  In the File Name box, type in PRTOT0.NO and click Create File.  If you need help creating these files, please call us at 937-832-3969.
10/03/2003 Changed the password access to Verify Monies when secure password checking is turned on.
10/02/2003 Added the ability in Gross Pay Calculation to pay someone commission on the amount over their hourly pay. This feature allows you to choose the factor, whether they have to double it or match it. The setting is under Service/Retail Commission under Advanced.
10/01/2003 Added the option to show Customer Profile information on the Top Customer by Service Sales List.  This option will make the report take significantly longer to run.  To use this option, go into Utility, then File Utilities.  Under the Directory section, click Salon.  In the File Name box, type in MAIL_0.HST and click Create File.  If you need help creating these files, please call us at 937-832-3969.
09/30/2003 Fixed a problem that could cause extra employees to show on the screen when clicking View Select if you have employee sorting turned on.
09/25/2003 Added an employee selection to the Normal Productivity Report.  This allows you to do productivity for certain employees/classifications only as well as for the entire salon.
09/25/2003 Added the option to have Delete Customer completely turned off.  To use this option, go into Utility, then File Utilities.  Under the Directory section, click Salon.  In the File Name box, type in NODEL0.CST and click Create File.  If you need help creating these files, please call us at 937-832-3969.
09/25/2003 Added the option to have the cash drawer only pop during normal customer checkouts if there is cash or change (not credit cards or checks for the exact amount).  To turn this feature on, go into Utility, then File Utilities.  Under the Directory section, click Salon.  In the File Name box, type in CASHD0.CSH and click Create File.  If you need help creating these files, please call us at 937-832-3969.
09/24/2003 Fixed the Correct screen when showing the Service and Retail Tax the labels were reversed.  Also, the Void now clears both the Service and Retail taxes automatically. 
09/23/2003 Expanded the length of the comment that could show on the employee schedules.  Now if you have entered a long comment on the appointment, the entire comment will show up on the schedule.
09/23/2003 Fixed a problem with Finish 2 time booking out when it was not available.
09/23/2003 Fixed a problem in the Appointment Schedule that occurred after booking the appointment the screen would shift and show different employees on the screen.
09/23/2003 Added the option to have the Purchase Date print on the Gift Certificates from the slip printer instead of the expiration date.  To turn this feature on, go into Utility, then File Utilities.  Under the Directory section, click Salon.  In the File Name box, type in PDATE0.YES and click Create File.  If you need help creating these files, please call us at 937-832-3969.
09/22/2003 Added to the Waiting List information the Expiration Date. If the customer specifies a Specific Date it is shown.
09/22/2003 Changed the start of the Appointment book to not show the Waiting List each time.

If you would like to go back to the old way of showing the Waiting List, go into Utility, then File Utilities.  Under the Directory section, click Salon.  In the File Name box, type in WAIT_0.YES and click Create File.  If you need help creating these files, please call us at 937-832-3969.

09/22/2003 Fixed the Fast Retail when scanning a retail item at the Customer Payment screen the system would require a cancel to be done to get back to the Customer Payment screen. The system now automatically returns to allow multiple items to be scanned easily. This error was introduced on 8/27/2003.
09/19/2003 Added the ability to do a product return or service return during a normal Check Out or Fast Sale. Any items that are negatively priced are considered a return.
09/18/2003 Added the option to the Appt Setup screen to Copy Working Hours.  This allows you to copy the working hours from one employee to any number of employees that have the same working hours.
09/17/2003 Fixed the Service Customer Count on the Date Range Report for our customers that send automatic email reminders.  Customers that received a reminder were being added into the count when they should not have been.
09/17/2003 Added a blank on the work ticket to write in the number of weeks and/or the date for the customer to be pre-booked.
09/12/2003 When fixing all time cards and selecting All for the employee, employees that were no longer employed were coming up.  This has been fixed.
09/09/2003 Changed the Percentage Booked report that comes up when answering No to including Special Names.  The report used to consider any reserved names as open time, meaning that it showed the employee as not being booked during that time.  Now, it will consider that time as not existing at all.  For example, if someone had a lunch booked for 30 minutes as the only appointment during an 8 hour day, it would have shown as 0 hours booked out of 8 hours before.  Now it would show as 0 hours booked out of 7 hours and 30 minutes since the lunch no longer counts toward the total time worked.

If you would like to go back to the old way of computing the total hours worked, go into Utility, then File Utilities.  Under the Directory section, click Salon.  In the File Name box, type in PERBK0.OLD and click Create File.  If you need help creating these files, please call us at 937-832-3969.
09/09/2003 Changed the Request Analysis so that it does not count reserved names (NO,APPT, NO,LUNCH, etc) in the report.
09/09/2003 Added the option to show package customers (customers seeing more than one employee that day) in grey.  This can not be used if you are already showing customers booked online in grey.  To turn this feature on, go into Utility, then File Utilities.  Under the Directory section, click Salon.  In the File Name box, type in OGREY0.PKG and click Create File.  If you need help creating these files, please call us at 937-832-3969.
09/09/2003 Added the option to have email confirmations not mark people as confirmed.  This way you could send an email confirmation several days before the appointment and still call to confirm the day before.  To turn this feature on, go into Utility, then File Utilities.  Under the Directory section, click Salon.  In the File Name box, type in NOCON0.EML and click Create File.  If you need help creating these files, please call us at 937-832-3969.
09/05/2003 Fixed a situation if the total service sale was zero and two different employees were checked out one being positive and the other negative the List Employee Card would not show the sale. The payroll was calculated correctly, but the List Employee Card showed zero for the employee. Now it shows the proper total.
09/05/2003 Changed the wording on the email reminders that the program automatically sends out.  If you would like to go back to the old wording, go into Utility, then File Utilities.  Under the Directory section, click Salon.  In the File Name box, type in OLDRM0.YES and click Create File.  If you need help creating these files, please call us at 937-832-3969.
09/03/2003 Added the ability to put appointment comments on Search and Group Bookings.
09/03/2003 Finished the work for thin client computers and terminal server to work with the number keypads correctly.
09/03/2003 Added an option to have all customers marked as confirmed automatically unless a box is checked during the booking to call the customer to confirm. This option affects regular booking as well as Search  (but not Group Booking). To turn this feature on, go into Utility, then File Utilities.  Under the Directory section, click Salon.  In the File Name box, type in ACONF0.YES and click Create File.  If you need help creating these files, please call us at 937-832-3969.
09/02/2003 Changed the Transaction  Register Report to show the total dollars paid in and out for the time period selected.
08/28/2003 Made the print smaller on the Verify Moneys screen to allow the change to fit on the screen in 800x600 screen mode.
08/28/2003 Added the disclaimer and copyright to the Follow-Up report.
08/27/2003 Made some changes to try and avoid certain screens popping up when they shouldn't be (the Day View screen for example).
08/27/2003 Made some changes to try and help thin client computers not lose control of their number keypads.
08/21/2003 Added the percent booked and the largest block for the entire salon to the Percent Booked report.
08/20/2003 Fixed some computation problems in the Percent Booked report that could make the numbers not add up on people that aren't working on certain days.
08/19/2003 Fixed a problem in intercoms that made the name of the sender change to the person who was currently logged in if you hit save while reading an intercom message.
08/12/2003 Fixed the Make it Fit selection, the system was giving Available time that was not needed.
08/12/2003 Fixed the Void Payroll Check, it was not removing the Tip amount from the Voided Check.
08/11/2003 Changed the Account Statements to align when folded for a window envelope.
08/08/2003 Added the special names box and the last customer booked information to the customer name screen under the Spa Booking button.
08/07/2003 Added the ability to enter the name of customers that are part of a group booking right after you check the group name out.  To turn this feature on, go into Utility, then File Utilities.  Under the Directory section, click Salon.  In the File Name box, type in GROUP0.CHK and click Create File.  If you need help creating these files, please call us at 937-832-3969.
07/31/2003 Fixed several problems in Employee Maintenance related to the view select default for each computer and preferred rooms.
07/30/2003 Fixed a problem in Employee Maintenance that caused the system to warn about duplicate passwords when the password entered was blank.
07/29/2003 Added the option to have the standard inventory labels print out in alphabetical order instead of code number order.  To turn this feature on, go into Utility, then File Utilities.  Under the Directory section, click Salon.  In the File Name box, type in INVST0 and click Create File.  If you need help creating these files, please call us at 937-832-3969.
07/28/2003 Made a change that should make the Day View not pop up after it's already been closed with the Done button.
07/25/2003 Reduced the amount of flickering in the appointment book, especially on the final screen of the appointment booking process.
07/25/2003 Fixed a problem in Edit Info while using Week View.  When changing the services while using Week View, the appointment would be moved to a different day.
07/25/2003 Fixed a problem in the appointment booking process while using Week View.  The appointment did not show on the screen correctly at the end of the booking process while using Week View.  The appointment was booked in the correct spot - it just didn't show correctly on the final screen before you hit Save.
07/24/2003 Fixed the Date Range Net Payroll report for Salon Net Payroll and Employee Net Payroll the Tips were not being subtracted from the Net Pay. All employee checks were printed correctly, this error only affects the Net Payroll Amount.
07/24/2003 Fixed the Payroll Correction. If an employee had a tip claimed the wrong net pay amount was shown on the screen. The information was saved correctly, but the tip was not subtracted from the Net Pay.
07/15/2003 Added the number of customers that had services done along with the percent of those customers who pre-booked to the pre-booking report when printing the report based on the service employee (answering No to the 'by user' question when printing the report).
07/15/2003 Changed the program so that customers that have been checked out during the current day show up as being pre-booked (in addition to customers with appointments on the current day).
07/14/2003 Added code to prevent the same password from being assigned to two different employees.
07/07/2003 Changed the Spa/Salon Manager to keep the NumLock (for the keypad)  turned on.  To turn this feature off, go into Utility, then File Utilities.  Under the Directory section, click Salon.  In the File Name box, type in NUMON0.NO and click Create File.  If you need help creating these files, please call us at 937-832-3969.
07/02/2003 Added two new columns to the Employee Gross Pay report to show the Service Total after deductions along with the actual commission rate.
07/02/2003 Fixed an error in the Payroll 941 Worksheet.  On line 6a and 6b, Tips were included in the total and they are accounted for on lines 6c and 6d and should have been subtracted form lines 6a and 6b.
06/26/2003 Added an option to the Appointment and Greeting Schedules to have only the customer's first name showing on the report.  This can be turned on under Maintenance -> Appt.
06/25/2003 Added a new report to the Owner Report -> Date Range Report section called Pre-Booking Report.  This report will allow you to see how many appointments employees are booking for themselves (versus how many the front desk is booking for them), and will also show you how many appointments are being pre-booked (meaning that the appointment was booked on the same day that the customer came in to the salon for another appointment).
06/24/2003 Changed the Day View so that if you're on the current day, and you have not clicked on any names on the screen, it will automatically scroll down to the current time.
06/24/2003 Added an option to the Percentage Booked report to not count Reserved Names (ex. NO,APPT) as time booked out.  Answering Yes to count the Reserved Names makes the report come up the same as before the change, while answering No will make the system leave the Reserved Names out of the total time booked.
06/24/2003 Changed the program so that services can be set as non-taxable without turning any special features on by going to Maintenance -> Service -> Modify Service.
06/19/2003 Added a new report to the Owner Reports -> Date Range Report section.  The new report, called the Customer Count Report, shows the total new, existing, and overall customer counts for each employee and for the salon during the selected date range.
06/19/2003 Added the option to have time card reports show in hours and minutes instead of as a decimal value.  To turn this feature on, go into Utility, then File Utilities.  Under the Directory section, click Salon.  In the File Name box, type in TCARD0.MIN and click Create File.  If you need help creating these files, please call us at 937-832-3969.
06/18/2003 Fixed a problem that caused negative gift certificate sales to not show up on the Transaction Register report.
06/18/2003 Added a new option to the Date Range Reports called Retail Reminder Report.  This report will show you all customers who purchased the selected retail products during the date range, but have not bought every single one of those items since the ending date.
06/05/2003 Fixed a problem with the productivity report.  It was leaving out the first date in the selected range of dates.
06/05/2003 Added a new button to the bottom of the appointment book called Day View.

Day View allows the computer to show a view of the appointment book that is similar to the Greeting Schedule report.  For all of the employees currently shown on the screen, it will show you what customers are coming in at what times.  It also shows you what employee they are seeing, what services they are having done, and shows an 'i' at the start of the line to show all customers that are checked in, and an 'o' at the start of the line to show all customers who have been checked out.  Any of these customer names can be clicked on just as you could click on an appointment in the appointment book, which will take you to the appointment detail screen.
06/05/2003 Fixed a problem that could cause Void Sale to throw off Gift Certificate balances for people selling gift certificates by the number only.
06/05/2003 Added the option to override extremely high Previous Customer Balances that were entered accidentally by answering No, that the Previous Customer Balance is not correct.  This question will only come up on balances of $1,000 or more.
06/05/2003 Fixed a problem that could cause the new employee sorting option to not work correctly.  If you've had problems with your employee sorting, go into Maintenance -> Employee -> Switch Employee Order, and click Remove Sorting and then Save.  Then go back in and resort your employees in the desired order.
06/02/2003 Fixed a problem with the Advanced Booking report not reflecting all of the appointments on the book and showing too low of a total.
06/02/2003 CD Backup now available. The system now supports writable CD drives for backups. The new software does not support all CD-Rom drives only the newer drives in the last year.  This feature can be enabled under Backup Maintenance.  When using CD's for backups I would recommend having a different CD for each day of the week.  *Note - Cedyne Drives are NOT compatible.
06/02/2003 Added an option to the program to allow Standing Appointments to roll onto the appointment book from any computer in the salon instead of from one designated computer only (usually the host).  To turn this feature on, go into Utility, then File Utilities.  Under the Directory section, click Salon.  In the File Name box, type in STALL0.YES and click Create File.  If you need help creating these files, please call us at 937-832-3969.
05/30/2003 Updated Federal Payroll Tax Table for new tax law.
 
        Single                                                         Married

        Over         Max         Base         %             Over         Max           Base          %

2,650 9,700.00 0 10 8000 22,300 0 10
9,700 30,800.00 705.00 15 22,300 64,750 1,430.00 15
30,800 68,500.00 3,870.00 25 64,750 118,050 7,797.50 25
68,500 148,700.00 13,295.00 28 118,050 185,550 21,122.50 28
148,700 321,200.00 35,751.00 33 185,550 326,100 40,022.50 33
321,200   92,676.00 35 326,100   86,404.00 35
05/28/2003 Fixed a problem with password access...people on a custom password were able to delete customers if they had access to the customer display screen, regardless of whether they were given access to Delete a Customer or not.
05/28/2003 Fixed a problem that caused some standing appointments that were entered after the 05/12/2003 update to have the wrong services listed.
05/22/2003 Added an option to have a line for the tip, total, and signature on all receipts.  To turn this feature on, go into Utility, then File Utilities.  Under the Directory section, click Salon.  In the File Name box, type in RECPT0.TIP and click Create File.  If you need help creating these files, please call us at 937-832-3969.
05/22/2003 Added the ability to do New Customer/Existing Customer Only lists while printing out the Future Appointment List in Mailing Reports.
05/13/2003 Fixed the Payroll Summary, it was not showing the Deductions section on the report. All the information was saved, but not shown.
05/13/2003 Fixed the Payroll Summary to reflect the correct Year to Date totals on that report. The system calculated W2's and all other reports correctly, just the Year to Date on the Payroll Summary may have been incorrect depending on your setup.
05/13/2003 Added an option to be able to enter and see credit card numbers during customer checkin/customer display, and see those numbers during customer checkout.  To turn this feature on, go into Utility, then File Utilities.  Under the Directory section, click Salon.  In the File Name box, type in CCARD0.YES and click Create File.  If you need help creating these files, please call us at 937-832-3969.
05/12/2003 Changed the modify standing appointment section to allow the services for the standing appointment to be changed without deleting the standing appointment.  This does not affect services that are already on the appointment book - it only affects services that roll onto the book after the change is made.
05/12/2003 Changed the gift certificate sales screen to only allow series counts between -99 and 999 to be entered.  Also changed the customer payment screen to only allow series counts between 0 and 999.  Since the program only has 3 digits available for each transaction's series count, numbers with more than 3 digits were not recognized correctly.
05/09/2003 Changed the Detailed Retail Date Range reports so that they sort the items by total sales dollars.
05/08/2003 Fixed a problem that could have caused off-payroll people or receptionists to show up on the appointment book.  The only place this was found to happen was with the new Go to Date feature added on 4/14/2003, but the fix will make sure that it doesn't happen anywhere.
05/08/2003 The date range net payroll reports cut off the very bottom of the letterhead (if the letterhead option was turned on).  This has been fixed.
05/06/2003 Improved the speed of the Account Summaries - List Accounts in Detail report, especially when searching for a specific customer.
05/02/2003 Fixed a problem with the intercoms that was introduced on 4/7/2003.  When doing several intercom sends in a row from the same computer, the messages would gradually accumulate extra recipients, and end up with people receiving messages that should not have been.  This no longer happens.
05/02/2003 Added an option to the Utility - File Maintenance screen called "Delete Old Gift Certificates".  This button will ask you how many days you want to go back, and will delete all customer gift certificate/IOU/NSF check  information for customers that both do not have a balance, and have not had any account activity in the number of days selected.
05/02/2003 Added new web server for Web Updates. This server's internet connection  is about 20% faster for downloads and is 10 times faster for web pages hosted by IBCS.  Two different servers now allow more customers to download updates from the web.
05/02/2003 Fixed a payroll error when an employee was skipped the system could write IOU information to the Daily sheet even though the employee had no payroll information.
05/02/2003 Fixed inventory to allow a Quantity on Hand of more than 999 items.
05/01/2003 Added a safeguard to the Quicken posting, the system automatically backs up the file to be posted with the name of Salon-HHMMSS where HHMMSS is the time that the file was attempted to be posted.  This could be used if Quicken, pops a screen up when starting to avoid typing the information in by browsing to the file and posting it manually.
05/01/2003 Fixed the Payroll Manager when an employee name is changed, it is now changed under the Quarterly Reports and the Unemployment report.
05/01/2003 Added an option to the Mailing Reports to set a Minimum Service Sales amount in order to be included with the report. The Total Service dollars per customer is shown on the List Master Mailing report and can be exported to Excel to allow sorting by the Service Dollars.
04/28/2003 Fixed a payroll error that showed the Payroll Liabilities under Liabilities as 0 or a very low amount. The Payroll Summary was correct on the Payroll Tax Payment Calculation.
04/25/2003 Added company letterhead to the top of all date range reports.  To turn company letterhead on for the date range reports and all other reports that use it, go into Utility, then File Utilities.  Under the Directory section, click Salon.  In the File Name box, type in CMPLT0 and click Create File.  If you need help creating these files, please call us at 937-832-3969.
04/25/2003 Added company letterhead to the top of the Time Card reports.  To turn company letterhead on for this report and all other reports that use it, go into Utility, then File Utilities.  Under the Directory section, click Salon.  In the File Name box, type in CMPLT0 and click Create File.  If you need help creating these files, please call us at 937-832-3969.
04/23/2003 Fixed some problems with the priorities and clear/clear all buttons not working as expected in the Spa Booking area.  When you would clear or switch a line, it did not go back to allowing all services/employees as it should have done.
04/23/2003 Took the Advertisement Category off of the customer screen that can be brought up during the appointment booking process.  Entering the information here could lead to people getting their referral information entered twice.
04/22/2003 Updating a new customer's birthday did not save during the appointment booking process (if you clicked the Customer Address button to change the birthday information).  This has been fixed.
04/22/2003 Changed the way that the before commission service charges are computed during payroll.  You no longer need to change the commissioned sales amount when changing the service charge - the value will automatically update after you change the service charge and hit Enter.
04/22/2003 Fixed a problem with the Categorize screen in the Maintenance section.  When putting in an Above Cost deduction on employees, the discounts got rounded to the nearest percent, and ignored the decimal portion of the discount.
04/21/2003 Changed the Customer Checkout screen so that the family checkout explanation does not show at the bottom of the screen if family checkouts is turned off.
04/14/2003 Added the ability to make the Go to Date button on the appointment book automatically select only the people working on that date.  If no employees are working that date, then it will show no employees on the appointment book.  To turn this feature on, go into Utility, then File Utilities.  Under the Directory section, click Salon.  In the File Name box, type in APWRK0.YES and click Create File.  If you need help creating these files, please call us at 937-832-3969.
04/14/2003 Added the ability to click on the Transaction Name (ie Cash, Check, Visa/Master, etc) at the Customer Payment screen, and have the entire customer total show up under the payment method that was clicked.
04/09/2003 Took the letter 'g' off of the gift certificate reports on gift certificates sold by number.
04/08/2003 Added new button to allow a link to the appointment book. This eliminates a step by automatically entering the customer name on the right side by the special reserved names. This allows you to look up a customer and book an appointment without asking the customer their name twice.
04/08/2003 Fixed a problem that could cause the wrong services to get cancelled when canceling an appointment for a customer booked with multiple services separately on the same employee.
04/08/2003 Fixed the way the W2's display 401k deductions.  They now come out of the total taxable for the state as well as the federal.
04/07/2003 Fixed a problem where the appointment book showed 15 minutes too much time for each employee's working hours while using week view.
04/07/2003 Fixed a problem with the intercoms that could cause a message to end up on people that should not have received the message if you hit Save instead of Cancel after reading the message.
03/28/2003 Made several changes to the Service Charge reports, as well as making sure that all service charges entered into the program are positive amounts, as negative service charges are not supported.
03/27/2003 Added new option for Terminal Service cash drawers to search for both methods used by Windows Terminal Services to map the cash drawer printer as COM1/DESK/Session3 instead of the old method of \\DESK\COM1.
03/27/2003 Fixed a problem that caused the miscellaneous and user defined technical card printouts to cut off part of the information.
03/27/2003 Added the option to the mailing reports screen to allow you to add '-Occupant' to all of the names on mailing labels (this is used to allow the post office to deliver to the home even if the original occupants have moved).
03/26/2003 Changed the List Outstanding Balances report so that names are included if ANY of the three totals (IOU, Gift Certificate, NSF Check) are non-zero...not just if the total of all three is non-zero.
03/26/2003 Changed the method the Spa/Salon Manager checks for the number lock. Number lock checking can be turned off by deleting NUMON0 in the Salon and SpaSalon directory.
03/26/2003 Added a "Repeat Customer Labels" to the mailing reports section.  This report lets you specify whatever mailing settings that you want as far as the employee/service/dates goes, and gives you mailing labels for everyone that had the selected minimum number of qualifying visits during the selected dates.
03/25/2003 Added a "Repeat Customer Report" to the mailing reports section.  This report lets you specify whatever mailing settings that you want as far as the employee/service/dates goes, and gives you a mailing list (customer name, address, phone number), along with their overall last visit date, and the number of times that they had a qualifying visit during the selected dates.  It also lets you choose a minimum number of visits to be shown on the list.
03/20/2003 Added the Last Sold date to the Inventory Shortage and Physical Count reports.
03/19/2003 Added a Department Retention breakdown option to the program.  This can be turned on under the new maintenance option "Retention Settings".  Once turned on, the retention for each department will be computed separately (in addition to the normal overall retention).  Each department can also be given a different number of months to allow customers to return (for example, your massage services could allow 2 months, hair services 3 months, and skin services 4 months).  Once these options are set in the Retention Settings area, each month the retention will be stored for every department, and future retention reports can be printed out for a specific department if desired.
03/17/2003 Fixed a problem with the Percent Booked report.  With the changes to the working hours at the beginning of the year, the system was not properly showing the working hours on this report.  Things should be back to normal now.
03/17/2003 Added a new feature to the Service Maintenance Screen called Service Pricing by Employee.  You can use this feature to put prices in for certain employees that don't fall within one of the normal eight price levels.  You only need to put in prices that are different from the normal price levels.
03/14/2003 Added the ability to search by first names for a customer.  To use this feature, simply type a question mark, and then a full or partial first name.  For example, typing ?ARN would bring up a list of all customers whose first names started with ARN.
03/14/2003 Made a change to the Gift Certificates that are sold by number...they will now show up with a 'g' in front of the number on reports, instead of a symbol.
03/12/2003 Added to the Appointment Log, if a partial appointment is cancelled using the Remove button the user who canceled the appointment is shown in the Appointment Log.
03/11/2003 Added a new option to the Subtract Sale from a Previous Day under correction.  You can now have any cash being returned to the customer automatically go into the cash line of the next sale.
03/11/2003 Added a new option to the Company Maintenance screen called 'Payroll Period Length'.  Filling in the correct number of days for your payroll period will make the system give you a reminder after the close day if it's time to close the period, and allow you to close the period immediately by clicking Yes on the message that pops up.
03/10/2003 Added a feature to the program to allow all series gift certificates to have a $0.00 balance after they are sold.  In order to use this feature, make sure that you have a Miscellaneous Transaction category called SERIES.  When selling the gift certificate, make sure to fill in the Series Count space on the screen (as well as picking your specific services for the series).  As long as these things are done, the gift certificates sold will have $0.00 for the balance, and the payment for the gift certificate sale will automatically show up as a separate transaction in the SERIES miscellaneous category.  To turn this feature on, go into Utility, then File Utilities.  Under the Directory section, click Salon.  In the File Name box, type in CLEAR0.SER and click Create File.  If you need help creating these files, please call us at 937-832-3969.
03/10/2003 Added a feature to the program to allow all tanning gift certificates to have a $0.00 balance after they are sold.  In order to use this feature, make sure that you have a Miscellaneous Transaction category called TANNING, and that any services that are to be considered as tanning have the word TANNING in the name of the service.  When selling the gift certificate, make sure to choose one of the tanning services under the specific service section.  As long as these things are done, the gift certificates sold will have $0.00 for the balance, and the payment for the gift certificate sale will automatically show up as a separate transaction in the TANNING miscellaneous category.  To turn this feature on, go into Utility, then File Utilities.  Under the Directory section, click Salon.  In the File Name box, type in CLEAR0.TAN and click Create File.  If you need help creating these files, please call us at 937-832-3969.
03/06/2003 Changed the Clear all Backorders button under Inventory Maintenance to also clear all On Orders.  This button is now available regardless of what ordering style you have, but should only be used at the request of technical support.
03/06/2003 Added the text from the boxes in the appointment book to the information that pops up when you hold your mouse pointer over an appointment.  Now, if you hold your mouse over the first spot in an appointment you will see the customer's name in the popup box, and if you hold your mouse over the second spot you will see the list of services.
03/05/2003 Corrected the Salon Information Date Range report so that the service/customer percent does not show the same number as the service/visit percent.
03/05/2003 Added a Retail to Total % to the Salon Information Date Range report.
03/05/2003 Optimized the non-detailed date range reports.  They should now run ALOT faster.
03/04/2003 Added the option to make it impossible for services that require rooms to be booked if the room was not available.  If this feature is not turned on, then the user is given the choice whether they want to book the service without the room or not.  To turn this feature on, go into Utility, then File Utilities.  Under the Directory section, click Salon.  In the File Name box, type in ROOM_0.NO and click Create File.  If you need help creating these files, please call us at 937-832-3969.
03/04/2003 Fixed a problem with the new working hours.  If you hadn't turned it on yet, and turned it on, it gave an error.  It can now be turned on without any problems.
02/26/2003 Changed the way Pay In/Out works when using the Open/Close Register feature.  You must now have the register open in order to make any changes in Pay In/Out.
02/26/2003 Added the option to have the program warn you while booking an appointment if a customer has passed bad checks in the past.  To turn this feature on, go into Utility, then File Utilities.  Under the Directory section, click Salon.  In the File Name box, type in CHECK0.BAD and click Create File.  A service must be created as Bad Check and the customer needs to be Checked Out with that service in their customer profile. If you need help creating these files or for more information on the cards to use with this feature, please call us at 937-832-3969.
02/24/2003 Added new feature to allow Service Charge by Service as a percentage of the service dollar.
02/24/2003 Changed the Inventory Shortage report so that unless the item name is extremely long, each item only takes up one line on the report (instead of having two lines, with the name on one line and the numbers on the line below).
02/24/2003 Fixed an error with large bulk emails giving an Out of Memory error.
02/20/2003 Changed the heading on the Date Range report to clarify the actual meaning Service Customer was changed to Service Visits.
02/20/2003 Change the Customer Count on the Date Range report to reflect the number of different dates each individual customer visits the business.
02/20/2003 Changed the Demographics Report in Mailing Reports.  Added additional information as well as a zip code breakdown.
02/13/2003 Added a report to the Maintenance Report section called List Employee Payroll Information.  This has all of the payroll information, including the employee's address, social security number, and deduction information.
02/12/2003 Fixed a problem with sending emails to a selected list of people.
02/11/2003 Added the gift certificate number to the customer receipts when a customer pays for a transaction with a gift certificate.
02/10/2003 Added phone numbers to the Greeting Schedule if they are set up to print on the Appointment Schedule.
02/10/2003 Added in the gift certificate comment to the Accounts in Detail report in the Account Summaries Reports section.
02/10/2003 Added the option to the Employee Detailed Daily report to not have page breaks between each employee's information.
02/10/2003 Added the ability to print the monthly appointment information for each employee.  This screen is accessed by clicking the desired employee name at the top of the appointment book.
02/06/2003 We have upgraded our camera software that allows you to take pictures within the program, which will hopefully allow a FAR greater variety of cameras to be used with our program.  The new version of the camera software is designed to connect to any video capture device that supplies a DirectShow (WDM) device driver. Most capture devices currently on the market (video capture cards, PC cameras, etc.) supply this type of driver.
02/04/2003 Added the ability to put Special Working Hours into the system.  These special working hours will allow you to change an employee's starting and ending hour for any specific date, set up alternating schedules where an employee is on one week/off another week, have someone show up with no working hours during a vacation, and many other things.  Turning this feature on will make the program take about one second extra per employee each time the program is opened (ie a 20 employee salon would take an extra 20 seconds to open the program), but will make many other areas of the program run a tiny bit faster.  To turn this feature on, go into Utility, then File Utilities.  Under the Directory section, click Salon.  In the File Name box, type in NEWWH0.YES and click Create File.  If you need help creating these files or for more information on the cards to use with this feature, please call us at 937-832-3969.  It is highly recommended that you call first before turning this feature on to discuss any possible issues with technical support.
01/30/2003 Fixed a problem with the Pennsylvania state tax table.
01/30/2003 Created a work around for a very rare problem that a few people encountered with Date Range totals.  The problem with the Date Range totals file needed to be restored after printing Salon Information reports should not occur anymore.
01/30/2003 Fixed a problem with the Date Range Employee report with Services in Detail.  If an employee had $0.00 in service sales, the report did not show all employees correctly.
01/30/2003 Fixed a problem that made comments not move with an appointment when doing a move or a rebook appointment.
01/30/2003 Added the ability to sort employees in the appointment book.  The order in which employees show up on the appointment book is now completely customizable.  You can set the employees in any desired order, or have the computer sort them by classification/price level/first name (the same way the View Select screen sorts them).  To change the employee order, go to Maintenance -> Employee -> Switch Employee Order.

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