The following post documents the latest Product Release and Updates to the Anthill software platform.
Microsoft Teams Integration – NEW
Creating appointments in Anthill can automatically push into your Office 365 and Teams Calendar with the meeting link already included.
The appointment will also appear in the Calendar for your customers – nice!
Microsoft Single-Sign-On Integration – NEW
Gain Enterprise Level Security for your business.
Connect your Office 365 domain to support single-sign-on for your user base.
Users are automatically signed into Anthill when authenticated in Microsoft according to your company policy including Multifactor authentication via the Authenticator app.
When users are deactivated in Office 365 their access is automatically removed in Anthill.
SSO is included in our Enterprise Plan and available as a paid addon on for Professional Plan customers. Please speak with your CSM to explore further.
Xero Integration – Updates
It’s now possible to create Xero Tracking Categories in Anthill.
Once setup, data is automatically tagged against each line in customer and supplier invoices. Data supported for tracking categories include Showroom, User and Customer data.
Your accounts team can then analyse key financial reports such as Profit & Loss in powerful new ways.
Users are now able to set custom references numbers when creating invoices.
Winner Flex Integration – Updates
Adding Supplier notes to items in your Flex design automatically flow through and appear on Purchase Orders created in Anthill.
Marking items as not requiring ordering in your Flex design are automatically excluded from Purchase Orders in Anthill.
Discounted line items with 4 decimal places are now rounded to 2 decimal places to support invoice creation in Xero.
End User System Administration – NEW
To help your business take care of minor system maintenance internally, we have launched a new admin area.
Within this area your power users can:
- Create Users and Manage Access
- Manage Licences
- Manage Data Lists – update dropdown box values etc
- Manage Appointment Types
- Manage Attachment Types
General
- Ability to add new items to an existing Purchase Order
- Revert delivered items back to in the warehouse
- New Lists concept
- Image viewer slideshow with bulk download
- Grouped images in history
- Show user only filter for history to only show user notes
- Dashboard currency setting for Euro, Dollar and Pound
- Appointment cancelled reason available in dashboards and filters
- Deactivate pattern replacing soft delete for ability to reactivate items (types, users etc)
- Migrate function extended to include nested activities (e.g issues)
- Workflow tab UI improved following workflow injection
- Assigned user added to segment UI for automation logic
- Deleting activity works even with open appointments
- New confirm operation style
- Table sorting by workflow progress indicator
- Address lookup added to all address types for customer record
- Suppliers ordered alphabetically in ordering tab
- Quote tab validation highlighter
- Contact type added to contact display
- On demand email templates pulls custom fields at account level
- Always edit permission added to mobile experience
- Restricted type feature extended to account level creation
- Edit catalogue items support image URLS
- iCal feed supports calendar filters
- Zapier PO object includes sell price at header and line level
- New parts feature to support different layouts and styles within one document
Keep your eyes peeled for further Product Releases and Updates over the coming months, we’re always looking to improve Anthill to enhance your experience.
- December 5th, 2024