환영합니다. With tonight’s update, we will have added support for Korea locale! Essay conference folks can now change their addresses to Korea and have their students’ phone numbers correctly recorded in appointments.
Please contact support if you want to change your time zone (in case you have compensated for time zone differences in your business hours or available times). Remember, Hong Kong time is 1 hour off, and Australian time is 1 to 2 hours off, depending on time of year.
By the way, we hope we got the greeting right as nobody at Lattiss reads Korean.
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Saturday, September 25, 2010
New features added to Premium Plan
If you are on the Premium Plan, you can now mark appointments confirmed, completed or no-show, all without having to bring up the edit window. Previously, you have to bring up the edit window, click the drop-down list, select a new status, and then save. Good exercise for hand-eye co-ordination, but not very convenient.
How does this new feature help manage my appointments you ask? We have added summary counts of the different appointment status to the bottom of the Appointment History Report. The payoff of is now you can get a weekly (or monthly) reading of how many people showed up (good clients), how many cancelled (at least they let you know ahead of time), and how many were no-shows (naughty clients).
Useful? Check it out and tell us.
Saturday, September 18, 2010
We have made improvements to the Mobile Edition based on your feedback. Not new, but definitely improved.
If you have registered just one business with one calendar, the Mobile Edition (m.lattiss.com) will now start in the appointments page. No more navigating from businesses to calendars to appointments. You save just two taps, but remarkably, it makes quite a difference. Of course, if you have more than one staff calendar, you will start in the calendars page (we’re having problems with the mind-reading module and is therefore unable to tell whose appointments you want to look at).
One of our clients wanted to be able to create unavailable time from the Mobile Edition. Sounds like a good idea. After much fiddling around under the hood, here it is. Say you’re having lunch and suddenly remembered you need to collect your dry cleaning that afternoon. Just get out your handy iPhone or Android phone and proceed like you’re making an appointment. Just select “Unavailable Time” as the service (first item in the drop-down). No need to go back to the office to use the computer.
An observant fellow pointed out that in the appointments list, we truncate long lines at word boundaries and this sometimes led to rather mysterious behaviour. The client’s name will sometimes appear and sometimes not. Indeed. So, we changed it to cut-off on a letter boundary and added an ellipsis (…) as a clue that the line was cut off. Or… you can try turning your phone sideways.
We also made some improvements in the regular, non-mobile, edition. A client told us he prints the “daily print view” every morning so he knows who’s coming in that day and can call them if they have forgotten. We send email reminders, but I suppose some people need more reminding. Well, the daily print view included cancelled appointments, but did not indicate the appointment was cancelled. Oops! In this update, cancelled appointments no longer shows up in the daily print view. Hmmm… we should probably include contact information as well, huh? Oh well, next time.
Some of you may be wondering what is the daily print view? Go to your calendar, and select the Day tab. A link will appear on the left, labelled “Printable Version”. Oh, that view is only available on business calendars.
We got a call a few days ago from a client with a problem. She uses Lattiss to schedule interviews, and found that increasing the “max concurrent clients” settings from 4 to 6 did not open up slots that already had 4 appointments. Hmmm… We looked into it, and found a flaw in our software. Awkward. Putting on corporate weasel hat, “only a small number of customers were affected.” Actually, it’s the first time somebody ran into this, but still… So, we fired up the Java pot, and a couple of days and several gallons later, it’s fixed. Yay!
Most of the improvements are the result of you telling us what you find awkward and how you want to use Lattiss. Please keep the feedback (ok, brickbats too if you must) coming. Now, if we can only get the mind-reading module to work…
If you have registered just one business with one calendar, the Mobile Edition (m.lattiss.com) will now start in the appointments page. No more navigating from businesses to calendars to appointments. You save just two taps, but remarkably, it makes quite a difference. Of course, if you have more than one staff calendar, you will start in the calendars page (we’re having problems with the mind-reading module and is therefore unable to tell whose appointments you want to look at).
One of our clients wanted to be able to create unavailable time from the Mobile Edition. Sounds like a good idea. After much fiddling around under the hood, here it is. Say you’re having lunch and suddenly remembered you need to collect your dry cleaning that afternoon. Just get out your handy iPhone or Android phone and proceed like you’re making an appointment. Just select “Unavailable Time” as the service (first item in the drop-down). No need to go back to the office to use the computer.
An observant fellow pointed out that in the appointments list, we truncate long lines at word boundaries and this sometimes led to rather mysterious behaviour. The client’s name will sometimes appear and sometimes not. Indeed. So, we changed it to cut-off on a letter boundary and added an ellipsis (…) as a clue that the line was cut off. Or… you can try turning your phone sideways.
We also made some improvements in the regular, non-mobile, edition. A client told us he prints the “daily print view” every morning so he knows who’s coming in that day and can call them if they have forgotten. We send email reminders, but I suppose some people need more reminding. Well, the daily print view included cancelled appointments, but did not indicate the appointment was cancelled. Oops! In this update, cancelled appointments no longer shows up in the daily print view. Hmmm… we should probably include contact information as well, huh? Oh well, next time.
Some of you may be wondering what is the daily print view? Go to your calendar, and select the Day tab. A link will appear on the left, labelled “Printable Version”. Oh, that view is only available on business calendars.
We got a call a few days ago from a client with a problem. She uses Lattiss to schedule interviews, and found that increasing the “max concurrent clients” settings from 4 to 6 did not open up slots that already had 4 appointments. Hmmm… We looked into it, and found a flaw in our software. Awkward. Putting on corporate weasel hat, “only a small number of customers were affected.” Actually, it’s the first time somebody ran into this, but still… So, we fired up the Java pot, and a couple of days and several gallons later, it’s fixed. Yay!
Most of the improvements are the result of you telling us what you find awkward and how you want to use Lattiss. Please keep the feedback (ok, brickbats too if you must) coming. Now, if we can only get the mind-reading module to work…
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Site will be offline this Friday morning for upgrades
The site will be offline for up to 30 minutes this Friday morning (10 September) starting at around 03:00 am Eastern Time. We are upgrading our hosting plan, which means more memory and other resources. This should translate to slightly better performance and more headroom for growth.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Lattiss Mobile Edition available on iPhone and Android phones
We are proud to announce the availability of Lattiss Mobile Edition on iPhone and Android phones (beta).
Simply point your mobile browser to m.lattiss.com. You can view, create and edit your appointments on the go!
Simply point your mobile browser to m.lattiss.com. You can view, create and edit your appointments on the go!
A few highlights about Lattiss Mobile Edition:
- Business providers can view, add, edit and cancel appointments for all staff members.
- Staff members can view, add, edit and cancel appointments in their own calendar.
- Consumers can view, reschedule and cancel their appointments (make new appointment for consumers is not available yet).
- All communications between the mobile device and our servers are encrypted and sent using https 128-bit encryption.
- Lattiss Mobile Edition is currently supported on iPhone 3.1.3, iOS 4.0, Android 2.1 and Android 2.2.
- Visitors to lattiss.com will be automatically redirected to Lattiss Mobile Edition when using a supported iPhone, iPod or Android device.
We are in beta and we are eager to hear from you! Please send us your feedback to support at lattiss dot com.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Lattiss Calendar Export and Subscription (Your appointments in Google Calendar, Outlook, iCal)
Many of you have asked us to provide a way to see your appointments from other calendar applications. We have adopted the iCalendar format, which is an industry standard for calendar events, to allow you to export your appointments to a file. You can subscribe to your appointments from Google Calendar, Outlook (2007 or later), iCal (on Mac), or save the snapshot as a backup. If you choose to subscribe to your appointments using an iCalendar compliant application (Google Calendar, Outlook 2007, iCal on Mac and many others), your export will be updated automatically every time a change occurs in your appointments (new, edits or cancellation/delete).
Subscribe to your Lattiss calendar from Outlook 2007 Calendar:
Subscribe to your Lattiss calendar from iCal on Mac:
To enable the calendar export functionality, go to Account & Settings -> Export or Share Calendars.
To get more information and detailed instructions on adding calendar subscription, go to Getting Started -> Exporting or sharing calendars.
This feature is available with PREMIUM plan.
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