In this latest release we have added a new date column to the documents grid called “Upload Date”. This will display the date and time the file was uploaded into agile. We are also providing you with the ability to group uploaded documents by the various column headings. For example you can now group documents so they are displayed according to who they were uploaded by.
We deployed a new version of Documents on Tuesday in an effort to increase performance; particularly around projects with hundreds of documents. The Documents tab will now load in a matter of seconds. As part of this increased performance Documents will now have paging at the bottom of the screen. The default number of items displayed is…
In this latest release we are introducing:
Have you ever wanted to view a company record in contact management and see all activity with that account? Or open a project container and quickly view all tasks that have been completed for a given project? The new “Activities” tab is here to help you better manage these daily agile tasks and events. In conjunction with the Activities tab we are also introducing agile Calendar, agile Tasks, and improvements to the Notes tab.
The NEW My Catalog on Acuity Distributor Center (ADC) has officially launched! My Catalog is an electronic catalog of products built specifically for the distributor based on an Agency standing quote. Distributors will now have a better user experience when they build their customer catalog, which includes better product categorization and more product images. Additional features include:
We have added several new features to the Stock Pricing Tool to make managing your customer price lists easier. These enhancements will help you with editing existing lists and creating new lists in anticipation of our upcoming Acuity Distributor Center – My Catalog release. The new Stock Price Tool features include:
A new quote preference has been created called “ABL Product Validation Exception”. This new feature is designed to help inform the user why an Acuity Brands product is not validating (a product that has UNK product approval). How does it work? With the preference turned on, simply key in your Acuity Brands Division, product, and…
Quickly pull up any account in agile and see all of the projects/Quotes/Orders that account has been associated with. A new tab called Account Overview has been added to most company types in Contact Management. With the addition of this new tab you can review a company’s most recent project/quote and order activity. Simply open…
Accessing important Corporate Account information has never been easier! Leverage national and local strengths by collaborating with the Corporate Accounts sales team, C&I Regional sales teams, and agencies using the new Corporate Accounts application. You are no more than a couple clicks away from finding out the account owner, specifying agent, all specification and purchasing…
Has there ever been a time when you needed to issue a quote but weren’t quite ready to disclose the Acuity Brands Divisions in the quote print document for fear of making it easier for competitors to cross the bill of material? We now have a new print option designed specifically for situations like this!…
Previously, if you had Hidden (HDN) lines on a quote, when you converted to a hold order those lines were automatically changed to Regular (REG) product lines. For those HDN lines that contained overage, if your agency did not edit or remove the lines or update the line categories to Overage (OVG) prior to final…
We have added some great integration features to agile Quotes including the ability to:
A new version of agile Quotes is now available with some new features!
We have more enhancements to agile quotes to tell you about!
Our March enhancements to agile Quotes are once again based on feedback we have received from our users. Keep the ideas coming. Here is what’s new:
Today we have deployed three new reports:
We continue to address your enhancement requests….keep them coming! A new Quote release is now available and contains the following enhancements:
A new version of agile Quotes is available this morning. It includes two nice enhancements:
We continue to focus on enhancements that provide efficiency within agile Quotes!
A new version of agile quotes is now available! Here are some of the highlights…
As October comes to a close we have another round of agile Quotes treats for you including…
We have made another round of agile Quote enhancements based on your feedback. You can now take advantage of the following new features:
The Commission Incentive Program has been expanded to include Healthcare Lighting®. This enhancement provides you more profit opportunities for your selling efforts, and makes the CIP process much easier for your agency.
CIP continues to pay an attractive 90/10 split. This change is now operational in agile.
We continue to dedicate time and effort into improving agile Quotes. You will be pleased to know we have made enhancements in the following areas:
Have you ever wanted to group a set of Quote lines together as an assembly? And then decide how to expose the products and pricing that make up that assembly? Well this functionality is now available in agile Quotes. Check out this quick 5 minute training video below to learn how to use the new…
We are pleased to provide a new release with some great enhancements requested by our power users. The enhancements fall into the following categories:
In addition to the Overage changes mentioned in yesterday’s blog, this week’s release of agile Quotes (1.14.6.0) includes:
With the latest release of agile Quote (1.14.6.0) several enhancements to have been made to applying Overage.
Attention all quoters….this is what you have been waiting for! A new version of agile Quotes (1.13.0.0) has been deployed to Production and includes features designed to accelerate the quote creation process along with speeding up the process of opening quotes! Accelerated Project Quote Creation: A new option “Project Quote (open Quote first)” has been…
A new version of agile Quotes (1.13.0.0) has been deployed to Production and includes the following features and updates for improving Quote Open and agile stability. Opening Quotes from within a Quote: In addition to opening a quote from the dashboard, you now have the ability to open quotes from within a quote. This method…
Do you ever find yourself needing to cleanup a Quote prior to conversion by updating the Product pricing to match the Factor pricing that the Quote was bid with? With the latest version of agile Quotes you now have the ability to easily move the difference between Factor and Product dollars to either Overage (both ABL and Non-ABL) or to the base Product price! …
A new version of agile Quote (1.10.15.0) has been deployed to production. This version includes the following enhancements:
Recently, you may have noticed that the Price History application was having issues returning data in a timely fashion. We analyzed the situation and made a few changes which resulted in a more stable application. First, we removed some unnecessary data in the Price History database. Quote lines that had been ordered were still showing…
Want to save time when you send a quote to multiple distributors and/or contractors? Would you prefer fewer clicks when you send a quote to multiple contacts? Multi-Send allows you to do just that. With Multi-Send, you can distribute a quote to multiple contacts using a single dialog. You can still modify the price and…
A new version of agile Quote (1.9.21.0) has been deployed to production. This release includes the following major items:
The agile Quote Quick Tips and Tricks video series is now available. The 5 videos in this series cover tips and tricks that can speed up and enhance your experience in the Quote application.
The entire series takes less than 12 minutes to watch (see lengths below).
We have heard your feedback and continue to make the enhancements you are requesting! Check out these new features recently made available in agile Quotes.
A new version of agile Quote (1.7.23.0) has been deployed to production. Major changes in this version include:
One of the most frequently requested enhancements for agile Quotes (version 1.7.10) is the AQS feature, “Ditto”. “Ditto” is now available in agile Quotes. But wait! There’s more…
Today’s release of agile Quote includes the ability to auto-copy lines when the same Fixture Type is added. This feature will allow you to quickly copy lines when it’s necessary to put the same Fixture Type on a quote multiple times (for example Floor 1 grouping, Floor 2 grouping, etc…). After entering the Fixture Type…
As we wind down the deployment of agile Quotes at the end of August, we are happy to announce that your agency will no longer be required to maintain a local agency database server! For over a decade, this server was used to host an IBM DB2 database (OLA) required by AQS, ACE 6.0 and…
As part of our goal to get all users onto one quotation system, we have implemented the necessary functionality to create and process quick quotes in agile Quote. With the introduction of Price History last week, the final piece is in place which will allow us to decommission the Quick Quote 1.0 application (introduced in…
Price History is now available! We are pleased to announce the availability of agile Price History for ABL and Non-ABL products entered in agile. Price History is available in agile Quotes and as a standalone application. With the addition of this powerful tool you now have the ability to view a two-year historical list of…
A new Documents tab has been added in the agile Quote application. You are now able to upload documents directly to the Quote through the new Documents tab!
A new version of agile Quotes (1.6.9.0) has been deployed to production! Highlights of this release include:
Some great new features have been added to agile Quotes to provide ease and flexibility in copying and pasting quote lines from one quote to another and copying quote lines to the clipboard!
Hopefully you have familiarized yourself with the new items in agile Quotes to accommodate overage for Non-ABL. Let’s look at how the overage information converts to the hold order and to the final Non-ABL order.
A new version of agile Quotes (1.5.13.0) has been deployed to Production. Highlights of this release include: Deducts (ability to enter in negative quantities) Cross-Quote Copy/Paste functionality “Clipboard” output customization Several additional enhancements and bug fixes WHAT’S NEW? Deducts: You now have the ability to enter negative quantities in agile Quotes. Please note that…
A new version of agile Quotes (1.5.13.0) has been deployed to Production. Highlights of this release include:
A new version of Agile Quotes (1.4.20.0) has been deployed to Production! This release includes the following changes:
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A new version of Agile Quotes (1.4.20.0) has been deployed to Production! This release includes the following changes:
A new version of agile Quotes (1.4.13.0) has been deployed to Production! Highlights of this release include: Integration of Standard Instructions into agile Quotes Ability to re-pull updated, Approved RFD information Cell Highlighting for 0/empty Quantities and Unit $ Several bug fixes dealing with lines and missing data WHAT’S NEW? END USER & SPECIFIER: The…
A new version of agile Quotes (1.4.13.0) has been deployed to Production! Highlights of this release include:
Today’s blog will address a question that you may be asking yourself. How are the Project Container and agile Quotes related? If you used Project Container prior to getting agile quotes, you know that it is the basis of agile. Project Container houses all of the information relative to a given project such as…
We are pleased to announce that the general release of agile Quotes is well underway and will be completed for all C&I ED and International agencies by January 2011. This new, robust tool will replace AQS as your quotations system for both ABL and Non-ABL. agile Quotes has many great features that will allow you…