Bizstim v3.0 update was completed Sunday January 5th, 2020.
Here is a list of features added:
- Sessions can have more than one practitioner (tutor, coach, teacher, consultant). Now you can assign any combination of practitioner and client to a session.
- One session add form. The software will determine if you are creating a single session or a group session based on the participants selected and act accordingly. This will decrease click errors from users.
- When adding a session the start and end times are pre-populated with 0:00. This cuts down on the number of clicks required to select a start and end time. Additional form validation was added to prevent user errors. The start and end times can no longer be identical and the start time must come before the end time.
- The session table listing has been updated to show all participants involved in a group session. To cut down on table clutter, one participant name is listed for a group session and a popover lists all participants in the session on mouse hover. A plus sign and the number of additional participants follows the name. For example, a session with 3 clients would appear as follows: John Smith +2.
- We have added an additional color scheme for the calendar. Instead of displaying session cells with the practitioner's calendar color, you can choose to display a customized open session color and a customized completed session color. By default this alternative calendar color scheme is light green for open sessions and light blue for completed sessions. However, you can select your own colors if you wish.
- The calendar session cells display the session status, start and end times, and session description. We added additional options for this display. You can choose to show any combination of the following session data: client name, practitioner name, service description, and location description. Therefore, if you or your users find yourselves clicking on the session cell to see this data in a popup, you can choose to show the information without having to click on the session cell. This should reduce clicking and increase the usability of the calendar.
- Clients can now see company closures on their calendars.
- Two extra permission levels were added to the session control permission setting for practitioners. You have more control over the level of access practitioners have with respect to viewing, saving, editing, adding and deleting sessions. Each of the levels listed here now has its own setting. This will give you more control over session security. If you want your practitioners to have the same level of access they already had no additional action is required. When we performed the update we mapped the new security levels to the old ones.
- Since you can have more than one practitioner in a session we added a practitioner permission that allows the practitioner to add other practitioners to the session. This permission setting is turned off by default. If you want your practitioners to add group sessions with more than one practitioner, you will need to give them permission to do so. If you do not want to enable this setting no additional action is required.
- Support was added for the display and use of Chinese characters.
If you would like help enabling any of these new features please contact us and we would be delighted to offer assistance.
If you have any questions, please contact support at mail@bizstim.com.
Sincerely,
The Bizstim Team
