In this newsletter:
Version 1.2 New Features
How To Download Version 1.2
Documentation Updated With Calendar Formats Screenshots & Info
Future Version Roadmap
Semi-Dedicated Developer Program – 50% off Hourly Rates
Special Offer: Free Pre-order of Advanced Order Editor with Pro Package
Rental Businesses Marketing – Learn How To Boost Your Search Engine Rankings
Version 1.2 New Features
- Unit Testing (Ecom Dev Unit) for the module over 50 tests to ensure bug-free module when adding new features
- Reservation shipping turnover times – allow setting the turnover (padding) time before and after a reservation according to the ship method selected. For example if you use UPS 2 day shipping, you could see before and after padding time to 2 days.
- Rent The Runway style homepage calendar widget and product details page calendar display configurable from admin panel
- Fixed dates option configurable from admin. Instead of calendar dates option for the product, customer could select like 4 days or 8 days from radio select inputs and their start date instead of allowing them to select start and end date.
- Speed Optimization using inventory table caching
- Shipments & Invoice grids now show rental start & end dates
- Change send and return columns from sent and returned truck icons to having the dates the order was sent and returned
- Remove send & return page and report, this is now combined to the sales > orders grid all data that existed on that report is now there.
- All parts of the rental system including the admin order creator now use the same calendar and attach to Magento events. Not much of a feature for customers, but makes it easier to do customization and less error prone.
- New setting for disabled days of week to not calculate rental fees for days you are disabled. For example if you are closed Sundays, and customer rents from Saturday – Monday, you could enable this setting and customer would not be charged for Sunday.
How To Download & Update To Version 1.2
Please reply to this email and let us know the email address you purchased our rental system with. We will check to make sure you are within the free updates & support period or you have subscribed to updates & support. Then we will reply with download instructions. The update process is the same as usual, the instructions are here.
Documentation Updated With Calendar Formats Screenshots & Info
Please checkout our documentation area here regarding Calendar Format Options
Future Version Roadmap
Our plans for future versions and upgrades can be seen on our Roadmap page. If you have any suggestions please let us know. The more times the same feature is requested, the more likely it is we will prioritize that feature.
Semi-Dedicated Developer Program – 50% off Hourly Rates
Do you have a rental business and are looking to have always available programming resources for your rental software? We now have a semi-dedicated developer program that will benefit you in the following ways:
- Significantly discounted hourly rates
- Add on all the features to the rental system that you have always wanted
- Have a developer that knows inside and out your rental system website and customizations
Learn more details about the semi-dedicated developer program here
Free Pre-order of Advanced Order Editor with Pro Package
Our Advanced order editor for Magento & Our rental system will soon be coming out. This will take care of editing orders that are already invoiced. Say you already invoiced an order, then decide you need to extend the rental dates, or remove some rental products from the order. This order editor will create automatically the needed adjustment invoice to charge or refund the difference in price for the order.
We plan on releasing this module March 15, 2014. Anyone who orders the pro package will get both the Request for Quote module and this Advanced Order Editor module when it releases. Anyone who ordered the Pro package in the past will also qualify automatically for the Advanced Order Editor module for free as a thanks to our loyal clients!
Rental Businesses Marketing – Learn How To Boost Your Search Engine Rankings
Many clients ask us what we suggest for SEO. We have made website dedicated to this subject. Rule #1: Learn all you can about SEO and do it yourself, don’t depend on SEO companies that will either 1) Overcharge you or 2) Charge cheaply but get you banned or penalized on Google.
Here are a few of the articles:
http://rentalmarketingseo.com/ homepage has the top 10 SEO tips
http://rentalmarketingseo.com/rental-business-seo-webtools/ recommended web tools & eBooks
http://rentalmarketingseo.com/yahoo-business-com-botw-directories-are-they-worth-it/ our opinion on Yahoo, & Other web directories
http://rentalmarketingseo.com/rental-business-seo-tip-of-the-day-keep-an-evernote-journal/ how Evernote will help you with SEO
http://rentalmarketingseo.com/rental-business-seo-tip-of-the-day-make-a-feedly-blog-aggregator/ how Feedly will help you with SEO & other marketing
