01/18/2012
V.4.5.9.1 |
Cash Drawer Report -The report has been reorganized to present
the same information in an easier to read format. Some of the column names have
been changed but the functionality is identical to previous releases.
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01/16/2012
V4.5.9.0 |
Box Art Flag - A box art flag has been added to the rental product
copy record. What this is intended to be used for is an indicator when you have
a rental copy with missing box. When you store your movies behind the counter (closed
inventory) and have your boxes on the floor, there are times when these boxes come
up missing. Simply bring up this copy and uncheck the box art flag. This box art
indicator has also been added to the rental copy filter so you can run a report
on all rental copies with missing boxes.
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Customer Scan - The customer scan window appears when you enter
customer information at the transaction screen, and you have more than one customer
that matches the information. This is the list of possible customers. Now when you
drag your mouse pointer over the top of each row in the grid, additional information
is presented in a tool tip: customer photo, and customer address.
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Rental Product Copy List - This report has been changed to print
in landscape to give us room to add the copy grouping, and to increase the size
of a few key fields (id number, title).
Customer, Rental Product, and Merchandise Searches - When doing
a search that returns more than 2000 records, we have expanded the column widths
to be more in line with the actual field size. Searches that yield less than 2000
records, Alerion will auto-size the column to fit the maximum length the data in
each field. The reason we do not auto-size on results of 2000 or more is that it
slows down the display of results to the user.
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12/06/2011
V4.5.6.3 |
Required Fields - Added a required fields system to rental products
and merchandise. This is similar to the required fields for customers. |
11/08/2011
V4.5.6.0 |
Dash Board - A rental product copy group figures were added to
the store's dash board.
Pre Street Date Warning - When renting a copy who's street date
is in the future, the system will alert you and ask for confirmation.
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10/24/2011
V4.5.5.9 |
Interactive ADR - Included the rental copy shelf location and an
authroized renter indicator in the grid.
Customer Rented Inventory Report - Included a shelf location field
for listed copies on the report.
Master Card Partial Approvals - Batch check-ins will treat the
new Master Card parital approvals as a decline. |
10/14/2011
V4.5.5.8 |
Exchange Rental - This new feature will allow you easily exchange
a rental item for a customer. In the past, you had to return the movie, issue a
refund, then rent the new movie. With this feature, it does all that for you.
Note: This new feature is not available if you are using pay at check-in with a
Rentrak enabled system.
Employee Privileges - A new employee privilege has been added for
the newly created exchange rental system. For the rental product editor, there is
now two privileges. One for the titles and one for the copies.
Rental and Merchandise Searches - These will now save teh search
perference and search column values when you exit the search. We recommend setting
the rental product search to 'contains'.
Batch Check-in Grid - The grid has been modified to indicate if
an authorized rentaer checked out the rental item. Prior it only showed the main
account holder.
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10/04/2011
V4.5.5.5 |
End-of-Day Report - A cash drawer summary has been added to the
cash drawer section of this report. This will show you a cumulative total of all
the cash drawers. In addition, a short/over value was added to each cash drawer
summary.
Rented Inventory Reports - Both reports, in the customer and rental
product report sections, have been modified to include a landscape option. This
will print the report in landscape mode to allow us to increase the rental product
ID number that prints on the reports.
Rewards System - The transaction process was not re-pricing rentals
to the original matrix price when an associated reward redemption was removed from
the transaction.
When deleting a movie that had an associated reward redemption, the reward redemption
would remain on the transaction. Now when you delete a movie with a reward associated
with it, all reward redemptions on the transactions are removed. You will need to
reapply any reward redemptions on the transaction.
Employee Privileges - A new has been added - Delete Check-in ADR
Item. What this privilege does is allow or prevent a clerk from removing and ADR
(late) fee from the transaction invoice during a checking of an overdue item. This
privilege will be set to "No" by default.
Edit ADR Amount - This was incorrectly labeled and now reads "Edit AR Item Amount".
An AR Item can be a late fee (ADR item), an item that was placed on account, or
a deposit.
Delete ADR - This was incorrectly labeled and now reads "Delete Ar Item". An AR
Item can be a late fee (ADR item), an item that was placed on account, or a deposit.
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09/01/2011
V4.5.4.0 |
Video - See what's new in this
3 minute presentation.
Customer SSN - The customer SSN field is now masked and can only
be seen with the appriopriate privilege.
Authorized Renters - An ID field has been added to the each authorized
renter. The main card holder and authorized renters can now be retrieved at the
transaction screen using the ID Card field.
Transaction Customer Display - The customer rewards button will
blink when the customer has at least one reward available.
Batch Check-in Hotkey - A new button at the transaction window
will take you directly to the batch check-in feature.
Employee Password - The employee password is now visible in the
employee editor if you are logged in as Store Owner.
Employee Notes - The employee editor now has notes.
Employee Hourly Rate - An hourly rate field as been added to the
employee record.
Time Clock Report - The employee hourly rated as been added to
the time clock report along with a calculate of base pay - Hours times Hourly Rate. |
08/17/2011
V4.5.3.0 |
Multiple Rental Matrices - Add the ability to have multiple rental
matrices for type of customer you may have. You can now charge different prices
for regular members, employees, gold members, or any other type of customer you
want to create.
Customer Information Window - The information displayed about a
customer at the transaction window has been revamped. With larger text and icons
for easier reading. |
08/02/2011
V4.5.2.0 |
Rental Product Notes - Added a notes field for the rental product
copies so you can keep track of events, and information pertaining to a specific
copy.
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07/22/2011
V4.5.0.0 |
Waiting List - Added a waiting list for tracking customer rental
item requests. See
more information.
Pull Slips - Added pull slip printing for rental items pulled for
a pending waiting list request. Includes customer contact information, title, and
copy ID.
Text/Email Notification - Added the ability to text customer mobile
phone or email their account when a title has been pulled for their pending request
(waiting list). See
more information.
Bulletin Board - Added a bulletin board display system to keep
your staff members informed. See
more information.
Code Merge - Added a new system to merge codes in the rental product
file (category, rating, directory, studio, so on). See
more information. |
06/17/2011
V4.1.3.0 |
SMS Address Field - A new field was added to the customer record
to hold the customer's mobile telephone number. This field is used when texting
the customer (using XMT).
Email Queue - Added support for sending email through the XMT Email
service. Requires XMT. |
06/03/2011
V4.1.2.1 |
Customer Attachments - You can now attach files to each customer.
Included support for TWAIN image scanning.
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05/12/2011
V4.1.1.1 |
New Rental Product Fields - Added a group code field and replacement
cost field to the rental product table.
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04/29/2011
V4.1.0.1 |
Inventory Values - Added a historical tracking system for rental
product and merchandise inventory values.
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04/28/2011
V4.1.0.0 |
Interactive Late List - Added a new user interactive late list
system.
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04/25/2011
V4.1.0.0 |
Report Time Stamps - Added a time stamp to all of the report headings.
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04/12/2011
V4.0.2.2 |
Buy/Sell/Trade - A new interface for purchasing used games and
other products has been created. The system uses Amazon and EBay to get current
pricing.
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04/11/2011
V4.0.2.2 |
Employee Privileges - New privileges were added for Change Quantity,
Change Days Out, and Reprice at the transaction window.
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04/01/2011
V4.0.2.2 |
Expired ID Card - A new warning window will appear when you bring
up a customer if the customer's ID card is expired.
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03/29/2011
V4.0.2.2 |
Rental and Merchandise Search - These search windows were modified
to allw you to choose and order the columns that are displayed.
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03/11/2011
V4.0.1.1 |
Time Clock - A time clock system and report was added to Alerion.
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11/15/2011
V3.5.0.7 |
PAYWare Connect and PC Charge - Alerion now intergrates with PAYWare
Connect and PC Charge credit card processing software.
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11/02/2011
V3.5.0.7 |
eXpress Link Credit Card Interface - Improved communication with
the eXpresslink processor and analyzing the response string.
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09/23/2010
V3.5.0.5 |
Batch Checkin Log - A new log report for credit cards that were
processed during a batch checkin as been added to Alerion.
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09/02/2010
V3.5.0.4 |
Title Search - Provided the ability to search the rental database
by genre and format.
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08/16/2010
V3.5.0.3 |
Credit Card Validation - A new feature for the credit card system
will allow you to validate a credit card entered into the sytem. The validation
process creates a $1.00 authorization then voids the authorization; insuring that
the card is valid.
Customer Invoice History - Added a shortcut key in the customer
block (area) to view the customer's invoice history.
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08/11/2010
V3.5.0.2 |
Alerion Dashboard - a new category and format comparison graph
was added to the dashboard.
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08/06/2010
v3.5.0.0 |
Search - Created and new search all database function that will
search titles, customers, and merchandise.
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07/23/2010
V3.4.0.11 |
Fingerprint ID - Created an interface for the new DigitalPersona
fingerprint reader software.
SQL User Login - Created a simplified means to create the SQL User
for the database when using multiple terminals. |
05/25/2010
V3.4.0.1 |
Copy Listing - Created a new rental copy listing report which provides
more detail on each copy of a title.
Customer Images - Enhanced this feature by allowing you to drag
and drop existing images onto the customer image box. File formats supported are
BMP, PBG, JPG, and GIF.
Gift Cards - Created a new button on the transaction window that
will allow for faster balance checking on gift cards.
Rental Copy History - Created a quick way to view a rental copy's
in/out history from the Title/Copy editor.
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05/21/2010
V3.4.0.0 |
Credit Card Processing - X-Charge eXpressLink credit card processing
interface has been introduced into this version. This interface is PA-DSS compliant
which comes into play July 2010.
Use Credit Card On File - This features gives you the ability to
run the customer's credit card on file for a transaction or a late fee (batch check-in).
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05/11/2010
V3.3.0.0 |
Income Summary Report - Total lines were added in the hour-by-hour
section for the check-in and check-out columns.
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04/27/2010
V3.2.3.8 |
Rental Group Pricing - This feature gives you the ability to adjust
rental pricing and/or the number of rental days based on what type of rental items
appear on the transaction. This tool is essential when you want to:
- Give a free children's movie with each new release rented.
- Extend the rental days when the customer rents 3 or more items.
- Provide a discount on a game counsel when 3 or more games are rented at the same
time.
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04/19/2010
V3.2.3.7 |
Merchandise Search - This release incorporated the ability to
search
the merchandise database by department and vendor.
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04/07/2010
V3.2.3.5 |
Pay at Check-In Grace Periods - The grace periods that are entered
on the
check-in settings tab
will now be applyed to pay at check-in (pay on return) rental items. This provides
the means to print a due time for the rental items (say 6 PM), and have the system
begin charging for the next rental day at a later time (say 7 PM - 1 hour grace
period).
Where this comes into play is when you want to give the renter a break for returning
the movie just a little later than when it was due.
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03/27/2010
V3.2.3.4 |
Backup and Restore - The backup and restore feature of Alerion
has been reorganized to make these features easier to use.
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03/25/2010
V3.2.3.3 |
End of Day Department Report - A new report was added to the End
of Day function and the financial report EOD format. This report shows you the quantity
and revenue generated by each of your merchandise departments.
See
Department Report
Vendor Field - a vendor field has been introduced into the rental
title information. This new field is a drop down box that allows you to pick from
existing vendors in your data. You can also add a new vendor on the fly by typing
in the text box.
Pay at Check-in Minimum Fee - This new feature
gives you the ability
to charge a minimum fee for pay at check-in (pay on return) rental items. For example,
you may be charging $1.00 per day for your pay at check-in rentals, but want to
charge a $2.00 minimum.
Transaction Count - A new visual counter has been added to the
transaction window which will show you the number of merchandise items, check-in
items, and check-out items during a transaction. This visual aid will help
insure your clerk gets every item on the counter entered into the system.
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02/23/2010
V3.2.2.0 |
Tax Breakdown Report - This new report will show you the revenue
generated for each of the tax codes (1-9, and exempt).
This information is available in a daily and monthly summary format.
See the
Tax Breakdown
report.
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02/09/2010
V3.2.1.9 |
Multi-Volume Rentals - This new feature gives you the ability to
track items that accompany the rental product. You may have game instructions, accessories,
a 2-DVD set, or a TV series (with multiple DVDs) you want to track.
You build a component list for each rental and during the check-out and check-in,
you scan each ID number to insure that all items are present. This quick presentation
will show you how to setup multi-volume rentals in Alerion, how to check them out,
and how to check them back in.
See a demo for
multi-volume rentals.
Batch Check-In Log - This new viewer gives you the ability to see
past Batch Check-in sessions and see what transpired for each item checked-in. For
example, if you are doing pay at check-in, you will see if the customer's credit
card was approved for the transaction or if the fee was placed on account.
See Batch Check-in Log
Cash Drawer Balance History - This viewer gives you a look at the
past cash drawer information:
- Data and Time Opened
- Employee
- Opening Balance
- Closing Balance
- Calculated Balance (what Alerion computes should be in the drawer ~ less opening)
See
Cash Drawer Balance History
Deposit / Refund History Viewer - This features gives you one place
to quickly see a customer's deposits and refund (of deposits).
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11/13/2009
V2.5.0.1 |
Secure Credit Card Entry - This feature gives you the ability
to hide the customer's credit card information from your staff, while allowing them
to enter new credit card information for the customer.
With the privilege removed from your clerk, he/she will see that the information
is locked from view.
If the clerk needs to enter new credit card information from the customer, they
simply click the pencil icon to see the credit card data entry window.
Here your clerk can swipe the credit card and the information is inserted into the
customer's record. If the credit card information needs to be entered manually,
you can do that also.
Add Multiple Rental Copies - This feature gives you the ability to add multiple copies to a title. This function will replicate the copy information
for each new copy [except for the ID number].
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10/06/2009
V2.5.0.0 |
Previously Rented Title Alert – This feature will alert your clerk
when a customer has previously rented a title from your business (in Alerion).
Rental Product Revenue Status Bar - This featured added a status
bar on the title information window that shows you the life turns, and revenue on
a title.
Full Screen Sample
New data fields for rental titles - Several new fields have been
added to the title information for rental inventory.
- Studio
- Director
- Theater Year
- Street Date
Title Information Window
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09/16/2009
2.4.0.1 |
Checking for updates - A new feature enables Alerion to check for
the latest updates on our servers. This requires an Internet connection and you
need to turn the program setting on.
To turn on this feature:
- From the Alerion main menu
- Click Program Settings
- Click Check for program updates in the bottom left corner
View Program Settings - General Tab
When an update to Alerion is available, you will be prompted to download the latest
version when you first lanch Alerion.
Title information import - This feature has been modified to conform
to the new Amazon AWS lookup API. A new secret key has been added.
View Program Settings - General Tab
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08/28/2009
V2.4.0.0 |
Signature capture - This new feature allows you to capture customer
signatures during a transaction and utilizes a Topaz signature pad. At the end of
a transaction with a rental or when a credit card is used for the purchase, the
signature capture device will prompt the customer to sign.
Authorized renter birthdays - A birthdate field was added to the
customer's authorized renters in order to determine their ages during a rental.
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07/31/2009
2.3.0.0 |
Auto ID numbering - This feature will automatically assign an ID
number to a customer, merchandise item, or rental product.
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