These product updates rolled out in May collectively strengthen Locate2u’s administrative efficiency, operational flexibility, and system reliability.
Locate2u Core 2.9.3 Release Notes
Locate2u Core 2.9.3 introduces significant enhancements to service area management, order processing workflows, and system performance optimization.
It focuses on improving dashboard functionality with advanced filtering capabilities, enhancing trip-level service line management, and streamlining bulk operations for better operational efficiency.
Summary & Features
The release includes major improvements to delivery window visibility, override day functionality, and charge UI integration for orders.
Enhanced performance optimizations for suburb-selected service areas ensure reliable handling of large datasets, while improved order status workflow logic provides more accurate tracking throughout the delivery lifecycle.
System reliability enhancements address trip list updates, eye icon behavior consistency, and validation improvements for bulk operations.
Enhanced Service Area Dashboard Management
Feature Details:
– Advanced filtering and searching capabilities for service area dashboards
– Trip-level service line integration with comprehensive management tools
– Delivery window visibility controls accessible by service area administrators
– Override day functionality with granular visibility settings
– Streamlined dashboard interface for efficient service area operations
Use Case:
Service area managers can now efficiently filter, search, and manage their operations through an enhanced dashboard interface, with trip-level service line visibility and delivery window controls that provide better oversight of regional delivery operations and scheduling flexibility.
Advanced Order Processing and Charge Management
Feature Details:
– Comprehensive charge UI integration on order details pages
– Enhanced order status workflow with improved logic separation for trip and stop status changes
– Rate group integration with detailed charge calculations and display
– Revert to default charges functionality for order management
Use Case:
Operations teams can now view detailed charge information directly on order pages, with clear visibility into rate group calculations and the ability to revert charges when needed, providing better financial transparency and order management capabilities.
Optimized Performance for Large-Scale Service Areas
Feature Details:
– Enhanced performance optimization for suburb-selected service areas with large datasets
– Sequential loading with individual progress indicators for service areas
– Improved handling of high-volume data scenarios without system lag
– Consistent behavior alignment with existing rate zone implementations
– Responsive UI maintenance during large data operations
Use Case:
Teams managing extensive service areas with thousands of suburbs can now work efficiently without performance degradation, with clear progress indicators and responsive interfaces that maintain functionality even when processing large volumes of geographic data.
Enhanced Bulk Operations and Validation
Feature Details:
– Comprehensive bulk unassign functionality for jobs filtering
– Advanced validation for reassigning run start/end locations and completed stops
– Improved error messaging and validation logic for bulk operations
– Enhanced workflow controls preventing inappropriate status changes
– Streamlined bulk operation interfaces with clear confirmation workflows
Use Case:
Dispatchers can efficiently manage large numbers of jobs through improved bulk operations, with robust validation preventing errors and clear messaging guiding appropriate actions, reducing operational mistakes and improving workflow efficiency.
Improved System Reliability and User Interface
Feature Details:
– Enhanced trip list automatic updates after optimization operations
– Corrected eye icon behavior and visibility controls for rate zones and service areas
– Improved run start stop ordering in trip displays
– Enhanced system responsiveness and real-time update capabilities
– Consistent UI behavior across different map and optimization interfaces
Use Case:
Users experience more reliable system behavior with automatic updates, consistent visual controls, and proper ordering of trip information, reducing the need for manual refreshes and providing a more seamless operational experience.
Enhancements and Improvements
– Order Status Workflow Logic: Enhanced ChangeOrderStatusActivity with separated logic for trip status changes and stop status changes, ensuring more accurate order tracking and preventing status conflicts between different delivery stages.
– Performance Optimization: Improved suburb-selected service areas loading performance through sequential processing with individual spinners, preventing system lag when handling large datasets and maintaining responsive user interfaces.
– Bulk Operation Validation: Enhanced validation logic for bulk operations including proper error messaging for reassigning run start/end locations and completed/cancelled/failed stops, preventing inappropriate status changes and improving operational accuracy.
– Trip List Updates: Corrected automatic trip list refresh functionality after Mapbox optimization operations, ensuring real-time updates without requiring manual page refreshes for better user experience.
– Visual Control Consistency: Enhanced eye icon behavior alignment across rate zones and service areas, ensuring consistent visibility controls and proper map display functionality with clear visual indicators.
– Run Display Ordering: Improved run start stop positioning in trip lists, ensuring proper chronological ordering and better visual organization of delivery sequences for dispatchers.
– System Responsiveness: Enhanced SignalR integration for real-time updates across optimization and trip management interfaces, providing immediate feedback on system operations and status changes.
Locate2u Core 2.9.2 Release Notes
Locate2u Core 2.9.2 introduces significant enhancements to administrative capabilities, bulk operations, and system optimization.
Our enhancements focus on empowering Support Admin users with comprehensive dashboard functionality, streamlining bulk operations for improved efficiency, and enhancing the rates engine with advanced calculation features.
Summary & Features
The release includes major improvements to Enterprise Agreement management, commission calculation flexibility, and working day adjustment logic.
Enhanced bulk actions for job management provide dispatchers with powerful tools for mass operations, while optimization engine improvements ensure reliable handling of large-scale load calculations.
API enhancements deliver better integration capabilities with new rate group endpoints, and SMS provider improvements ensure consistent phone number validation across all supported providers.
Bulk Stop and Shipment Date ManagementÂ
Feature Details:
(Available on the new jobs form, contact us at support@locate2u.com if you want to avail this feature)
- Comprehensive bulk date reassignment functionality for stops and shipments
- Mass update capabilities for delivery dates across multiple items
- Intelligent date validation and conflict resolution
- Streamlined workflow for large-scale schedule adjustments
- Enhanced user interface for efficient bulk operations
Use Case:
Operations teams can efficiently manage large-scale schedule changes by updating delivery dates for multiple stops and shipments simultaneously.
This singificantly reduces manual effort and improving response time to customer requests or operational changes.
Advanced Rate Group API Integration
Feature Details:
- New API endpoint to retrieve rate groups with associated service rates
- Enhanced integration capabilities for external systems
- Comprehensive rate information access through standardized endpoints
- Improved data structure for rate group management
- Support for complex pricing scenarios and calculations
Use Case:
Third-party integrations and custom applications can now access detailed rate group information, including service rates, enabling sophisticated pricing calculations and seamless integration with external billing and management systems.
Flexible Commission Calculation System (Enterprise customers only)
Feature Details:
- Toggle functionality for commission calculations on fuel and levy surcharges
- Granular control over commission application across different charge types
- Enhanced calculation transparency with detailed breakdowns
- Configurable commission rules based on charge categories
- Improved reporting accuracy for commission-based earnings
Use Case:
Organizations can now customize commission calculations to match their specific business models, choosing whether to include fuel and levy surcharges in commission calculations.
This provides greater flexibility in driver compensation structures.
Advanced Bulk Job Operations
Feature Details:
(Available on the new jobs form, contact us at support@locate2u.com if you want to avail this feature)
- Comprehensive bulk actions including delete, assign, change status, and add stop notes
- Multi-selection capabilities for efficient mass operations
- Confirmation workflows to prevent accidental changes
- Progress tracking for bulk operations
- Enhanced user interface with clear operation feedback
Use Case:
Dispatchers can efficiently manage large numbers of jobs through bulk operations, reducing time spent on repetitive tasks and enabling faster response to operational changes while maintaining accuracy through confirmation workflows.
Enhancements and Improvements
- Working Day Adjustment Logic: Enhanced invoice adjustment calculations to apply working day and working week adjustments only to started or completed trips, ensuring more accurate financial reporting and preventing adjustments for pending trips.
- POD PDF Image Display: Corrected issue where the last image was not displaying in POD PDFs when stops had an odd number of images, ensuring complete documentation is always available in delivery confirmations.
- Optimization Engine Reliability: Enhanced ODL optimization to properly handle stops with large load values (over 24 million units), preventing system errors and ensuring reliable trip optimization for high-volume operations.
- SMS Provider Phone Validation: Improved phone number validation lookup to continue using Twilio validation services for customers using the Atomic SMS provider, maintaining consistent validation capabilities across all SMS providers.
- Rates Engine Precision: Enhanced hourly rate calculations with improved rounding modes including round up, round down, and nearest value options, providing greater accuracy in time-based billing scenarios.
- Enterprise Agreement Management: Streamlined process for mapping unlinked Enterprise Agreements to teams through dedicated administrative interface, improving account setup efficiency and reducing manual coordination requirements.
- Administrative Interface Consistency: Enhanced Support Admin dashboard with consistent UI/UX patterns matching existing functionality while providing centralized access to critical team management features.
Locate2u Core 2.9.1 Release Notes
Locate2u Core 2.9.1 introduces several key enhancements focused on improving driver invoice management, time zone clarity, and mobile app synchronization.
This release includes a comprehensive driver minimum pay system, enhanced team member earnings tracking, and improved time zone handling for better cross-regional operations.
Summary & Features
The release addresses critical synchronization issues between the app portal and mobile applications, ensuring consistent stop ordering and real-time updates.
Enhanced API endpoints provide better integration capabilities, while improved run sheet generation and ETA handling deliver more reliable operational workflows.
These updates collectively enhance Locate2u’s functionality, providing more accurate financial tracking, better user experience across time zones, and improved reliability for dispatch and driver operations.
Driver Invoice Minimum Pay System
Feature Details:
- Added comprehensive minimum pay calculation system for team member invoices
- Minimum pay value configurable in team member profile under Accounts tab
- Automatic adjustment based on driver roster and unavailable days
- Intelligent calculation considering working days (Mon-Fri vs Mon-Sun based on roster settings)
- Driver minimum pay adjustment line item added to invoices when earnings fall below minimum
Use Case:
Organizations can now ensure drivers receive guaranteed minimum pay regardless of job volume, with automatic calculations that account for scheduled working days and unavailable periods.
This provides financial security for drivers while maintaining accurate payroll processing based on actual availability.
Enhanced Team Member Earnings Management
Feature Details:
- New team member earnings tab added to invoice forms
- Draft and Release tabs for better invoice workflow management
- Comprehensive filtering options including team regions, team members, status, and date ranges
- Invoice generation with draft/release toggle functionality
- PDF viewing, Excel download, and email sending capabilities for both draft and release invoices
Use Case:
Finance teams can now manage driver earnings more efficiently with a dedicated interface that supports draft invoice creation, approval workflows, and comprehensive reporting.
This streamlines the invoice approval process and provides better visibility into driver compensation before final release.
Timezone Clarity Enhancement
Feature Details:
- Hover tooltip functionality added to all date/time fields in stop details
- Automatic timezone detection based on stop location
- Display of timezone-specific times alongside local times
- Consistent timezone handling across ETA, history, assignment history, and notes
Use Case:
Customer service and dispatch teams working across multiple time zones can now clearly understand when events occurred in the stop’s local timezone.
This will prevent confusion and miscommunication about delivery schedules and completion times.
Enhanced API Integration
Feature Details:
- Added rate Group ID to Get/Orders/created endpoint
- Improved order data retrieval with additional rate group information
- Enhanced integration capabilities for external systems
Use Case:
Third-party integrations and custom applications can now access rate group information directly through the API, enabling better pricing calculations and order management in integrated systems.
Mobile App ETA Synchronization
Feature Details:
- Real-time ETA time window transmission to mobile apps via IoT Hub
- Consistent time window display between SMS notifications and mobile app
- Automatic updates when trips are started
- Support for both Android and iOS platforms
Use Case:
Drivers receive consistent time window information that matches what customers see in SMS notifications, ensuring accurate communication and better customer service delivery expectations.
Enhancements and Improvements
- Stop Status Management: Corrected issue where ArrivedDate and DepartureDate were not properly cleared when stop status was reset to Pending, ensuring accurate tracking of stop progression.
- Run Sheet Generation: Enhanced intermittent stop ordering in run sheets by implementing the “Routing in Progress” modal that prevents premature generation while ETA calculations are updating.
- Run Sheet Download: Improved download functionality for customers like Prestige Furniture, ensuring reliable access to trip documentation.
- Mobile App Synchronization: Enhanced stop reordering synchronization between app portal and mobile applications, improving real-time coordination between dispatch and drivers.
- Break-Enabled Account Updates: Improved mobile app update timing for accounts with break functionality enabled, ensuring timely reflection of stop order changes without manual refresh requirements.
- Fortnightly Roster Support: Enhanced roster cycle management with proper Monday-only date selection and accurate reflection across stop creation, shipment management, and optimization interfaces.
- Cross-Platform Consistency: Improved synchronization between app portal and mobile applications for stop reordering, assignment changes, and status updates across both Android and iOS platforms.
