We’re pretty busy at the moment. It’s great to see plenty of new users coming on board, from startups to established businesses. Many users are using Pearl for their websites, too: www.menskincare.org.uk (Free template) and www.ecokitchensonline.com (Premium template) are a couple of recent additions if you fancy a look.
The main power of Pearl of course is in the back-office administration and business management – as a heads-up, here’s what we’re finishing off for the next release, due around the start of September:
Multi warehouse stock locations
Aisle, bay, shelf and bin with minimum stock levels and reorder volumes set per warehouse. This runs all the way through your picking and packing notes as well as the batch processing screens.
Aged debtors and creditors in the Report centre
Moving all our old reports into the Report Centre (where you can produce smart PDFs, export to Excel and filter) has been really well received. Once we’ve added a few more we’ll be doing a full tutorial and demo set. One of the benefits of the report centre is that you can export pretty much anything – which allows for example a full Excel sales list which you can drop into Sage, perhaps.
Pearl CMS phase 2
We’re rebuilding the way that the website outputs it’s code – for better HTML and CSS quality, as well as the ability to load pre-built themes and templates. All existing websites will be supported as phase 1 indefinitely. The new phase 2 sites will feature options such as 1-page checkout and a whole host of widget configurations.
Full language control will be over to you too, so you can phrase the text on your site however you wish. There are some real improvements to the way that selling tickets online is managed – did you know that you have an integrated public calendar at www.yourpearlwebsite.com/?p=calendar already?
The Contact Timeline is also proving a resounding success (read about it here), and we’re going to be adding more AJAX features to this, and of course the rest of the system.
Calendar integration is just around the corner, for full connectivity between your Pearl Activities/Events and your Outlook/iPhone/Mac
Following on from the announcement that we’re going to be discontinuing free support, we are working heavily on a documentation update, so that you can find out everything that you need from the online support area of our website.
We’ve been building fully customisable import/export tools – to allow you to get all sorts of crazy data into and out of Pearl with your own settings. Handy for our partners to help you with migrating your clients across to Pearl. Interested in becoming a partner? Click here.
… and that’s just a taster. We’re doing our best to make sure that any change doesn’t impact you more than it needs to, whilst also giving you a lot more power and visibility of your business information.
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