🚀 New Features

🚗 Automated Offsite Unpaired Locator Reconciliation

Issue: Previously, we had a highly manual and infrequent solution for tracking and billing Unpaired Lost Locators. This presented challenges both in surges in billing as well as trouble tracking down these lost locators in a timely manner.

Solution: We implemented a weekly position request for unpaired locators. Based on the result of that position request, locators unpaired locators are now automatically marked as LOST (or FOUND, when appropriate). We also increased dealer visibility for this information (details below)

• • Weekly Position Updates from Unpaired Locators
  • • We now issue a weekly position request for Locators that are Unpaired
    • For the purposes of marking as Lost/Found only positions reported with an accuracy better than 200m will be used.
  • Automatically Mark Offsite Unpaired Locators as LOST
  • • Now that we are issuing a weekly position request for unpaired locators, we added a mechanism to automatically mark these devices as LOST when they report offsite.
    • After the first off-site position is reported the locator will be flagged as “Suspected Off-Site”
    • After the second off-site position is reported the locator will be marked as Lost and a Lost Record will be created and billed accordingly.
    • Locators that are on-site at a sister location within the same company are NOT marked as Lost
  • Automatically Mark Onsite Lost Locators as Found
  • • We also now mark these locators as FOUND when they report back Onsite. If a Unpaired Locator previously marked as LOST reports back Onsite (with an accurate position), it is marked FOUND (with status ‘Available’)

Close of Business Report Updates

🚗 Additional Lost Locator Information

To help you better handle and recover lost locators, we’ve updated the daily Close of Business email to include a section detailing recent Lost Locators.  

🚗 Off-Site Vehicles broken out by type

In addition to the above change, we’ve also broken out the off-site section by vehicle type to help you better understand if the off-site vehicle is problematic or not at a glance.

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Lost Locator Logic Improvements

Locators that are on-site at another location within the same company will no longer be marked as lost. Additionally when Reconciling a lost locator, if it is on-site at a sister location it will be marked as found and credited appropriately.

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Case insensitive KeyTag ID on PEN sales

Previously when entering Tag IDs on PEN Sales upper case letters would not be accepted.  This information is now case insensitive and will accept any combination of upper and lower case characters.

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🐛 Fixed

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• Close Of Business Daily Report was not showing proper values for Vehicles Added.  This has been fixed.

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🐛 Fixed

• Invoice link to show Sales should not filter Voided sales
• Color swatch does not automatically update Color Name when Bulk Editing Vehicles
• Filtering Sales on ProductTypes doesn’t work properly

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🚀 New Features

🚗 Ability to Enable/Disable Map Icon Aggregations

We have gotten a lot of feedback that the map icon aggregations are not always helpful.  With this release we will allow users to turn this feature on or off as desired.  

NOTE: When this feature is disabled the number of positions shown will be limited to the amount set on the pagination

We additionally will track how often users turn this feature on or off in order to better understand how useful this feature is for users.

🚗  Lost Locator History

Current State

This will update from Lost to Found when it is Found via Reconciliation, Pairing, or manually being marked as Found.

Reconciliation History

This will show the date and time that a Reconciliation is performed, as well as the result if the Locator is on-site vs off-site.

Billing State

This will show any record of Billing State changes, e.g. from Not Yet Billed to Never Billed when it is billed on an invoice.

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🚗 Automatic Position Retries

When a locator receives a position with accuracy worse than 100m we will retry the position update up to 3 times.
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With this change anytime a locator receives an inaccurate position (common with cell/wifi positions) it will retry up to 3 times in an attempt to get a better position.  This process takes place over several hours since the request must be sent from the back-end on the next heartbeat.

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🚗 Auto-transfer Zone Logic

Previously when multiple locations within the same company were located in close proximity and auto-transfer was enabled for these locations sometimes a locator would move back and forth between locations.  This would often happen when the accuracy circle for a given vehicle encompassed zones from multiple locations.  

This release updates the auto-transfer logic so that a locator will only transfer to a sister location when it is not onsite (within .1 miles of any zone) for the location to which it is assigned.  This helps in situations we have seen in the past where a locator jumps back and forth between locations when they are in close proximity.

These vehicles remain in their original location and will NOT transfer as the vehicle is still onsite (within < .1 miles from the nearest zone) at the original location.

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