Release 6.4.2 is here with exciting new features. Explore the release notes below to see how these updates can improve your organization's day-to-day operations.
Release 6.4.2 Features
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Admin
Configuring operating days of the week for each location
Quincus Platform > Locations > Create/Edit Facility
- Set up the operating days for each location and link them to your service types.
By factoring in your organization's recurring weekly operating schedule, this update enhances the accuracy of available drop-off time quotations and delivery estimates, thereby improving operational efficiency and customer satisfaction.
Custom milestone creation and configuration
Quincus Platform > Settings > Milestones
- Set up custom milestones linked to user and system events to update shipment progress for both internal and external stakeholders.
This update allows you to tailor milestone messages to your organization’s needs while maintaining system configurations, ensuring that shipments continue to receive milestone updates whenever key events are completed on the Quincus Platform.
Order Management
Line Haul Support (BETA)
Quincus Platform > Order Management > Create Single/Bulk Order
- Create orders with line haul service add-on, facilitating transportation of shipments from one facility to another.
This update streamlines the shipping process by enabling your organization to efficiently arrange pickups from one facility and deliveries to another, offering more flexible solutions to better meet customer needs.
Shipment reference ID support
Quincus Platform > Order Management > Create Single/Bulk Order
- Include shipment reference ID to associate shipments created within the Quincus Platform with external references.
This update helps facilitate better coordination between operations carried out within the Quincus Platform and your external systems, improving visibility and integration across your logistics operations.
Shipment
Custom user-defined milestones support
Quincus Platform > Shipment > Hub Operations > Operations Update > Shipment Milestone
- Custom milestones created in Quincus Admin can now be used to manually scan and update shipment progress.
This update gives you the flexibility to use milestones in ways that align with your organization's business requirements, such as keeping internal and external stakeholders informed about production status.
Bulk-edit shipment journey
Quincus Platform > Shipment > Edit journey
- You can now edit the journey segments of shipments in bulk on the Quincus Platform User Interface.
This update allows you to efficiently re-plan journey segments for all shipments affected by sudden cancellations or vendor changes - all in one action; saving time, ensuring consistency, and minimizing errors.
Customer Pricing
Multiple rate cards can be linked to a single pricing contract
Quincus Platform > Customer Pricing > Contracts
- You can now link multiple rate cards to the same pricing contract.
This update simplifies shipping charge management by allowing you to use a single set of rates for multiple contracts and accounts, reducing complexity and ensuring consistent pricing for similar pricing contracts.
Customer Portal
Line Haul Support (BETA)
Quincus Customer Portal > Login > Create > Single/Bulk Order
- Create orders with line haul service add-on, facilitating transportation of shipments from one facility to another.
This update streamlines the shipping process by enabling your organization to efficiently arrange pickups from one facility and deliveries to another, offering more flexible solutions to better meet customer needs.
Shipment reference ID support
Quincus Customer Portal > Login > Create > Single/Bulk Order
- Include shipment reference ID to associate shipments created within the Quincus Platform with external references.
This update helps facilitate better coordination between operations carried out within the Quincus Platform and your external systems, improving visibility and integration across your logistics operations.
Shipment App
View, download, and print shipping labels
Quincus Shipment App > View Shipment Details > Download Shipping Label
- Access, download, and print shipping labels directly from the Quincus Shipment App.
This update provides the convenience of accessing and printing shipping labels directly from your mobile device, enabling operations officers to efficiently manage and process shipments on the go, without being tied to a workstation.
Custom user-defined milestones support
Quincus Shipment App > Update shipment milestone
- Custom milestones created in Quincus Admin can now be used to manually scan and update shipment progress.
This update gives you the flexibility to use milestones in ways that align with your organization's business requirements, such as keeping internal and external stakeholders informed about production status.
Q-API
Container Ocean Tracking for Sea Shipments (BETA)
This feature operates outside of the Quincus Platform, through Quincus' API Gateway Service.
- Link your sea shipments to ocean tracking* with PortCast Integration, enabling automated shipment milestone updates upon the completion of key events, such as when the ship has departed from the Port of Origin.
This update enables you to continue updating and tracking the progress of shipments even after they have been handed over to a third-party handler, ensuring complete visibility and accurate status updates throughout the entire shipment journey.
*This feature is currently available only for order creation via API. Stay tuned as we expand this functionality to other capabilities within the Quincus Platform.
Enhancements
Enhancements are improvements made to existing features on the Quincus Platform.
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Order |
We have enhanced the security of records access on the Quincus Platform Order Capability for Manual ID.
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Order > Manual ID |
We have enhanced the security of records access on the Quincus Platform Order Capability for Import List.
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Customer Portal |
We have enhanced the security of order access on the Quincus Customer Portal
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Fixes
Fixes are corrections made to bugs and defects that were reported on the Quincus Platform between the previous release and the current release.
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Admin > Users |
Fixed the issue where users without the access to "customer account" are not able to access the "Add notification" feature. |
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Admin > Users |
Fixed the issue where users with the permissions to access all of customer account features are unable to create or edit customer accounts on the Quincus Platform. |
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Admin > Users |
Fixed the issue where disabling the 'Import Shipping Charge' permission unintentionally removed the entire 'Add New Shipping Charge' button in Customer Pricing > Shipping Charges, preventing users from creating shipping charges through the UI. |
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Admin > Settings |
Fixed the issue where the base currency cannot be changed on the Quincus Platform. |
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Admin > Settings |
Fixed the issue where the last updated timestamp is not updated even after successfully making changes to an existing custom fields record. |
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Order > Orders |
Fixed the issue where error messages for failed bulk order imports were mapped to the wrong rows. |
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Order > Orders |
Fixed the issue where orders cannot be successfully edited if there are changes made to order/shipment custom fields. |
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Order > Orders |
Fixed the issue where the search bar on the order details page used to search for shipments is not working. |
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Order > Orders |
Fixed the issue where Filters > Customer Type > Enterprise is not returning any results even though enterprise orders are present in the import log. |
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Order > Orders |
Fixed the issue where searching for a valid bulk order ID caused the import log list to load indefinitely without displaying results. |
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Shipment > Hub Operations |
Fixed the issue where any "Cancelled" milestones fail to get updated when manually scanned to a shipment. |
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Shipment > Hub Operations |
Fixed the issue where no error message is displayed even after attempting to update milestones with a consolidated shipment ID that is no longer active. |
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Shipment > Hub Operations |
Fixed the issue where selecting a manual ID for a consolidated shipment caused the 'Next: Scan Shipment' button to become unresponsive, preventing users from proceeding to the next page to scan shipments into the consolidation. |
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Shipment > Hub Operations |
Fixed the issue where the de-consolidation dialogue is not closed even after the consolidated shipment has been successfully de-consolidated. |
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Shipment > Shipments |
Fixed the issue where segment edits cannot be saved when the field "CY cut off" if filled. |
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Customer Pricing > Shipping Charges |
Fixed the issue where users could create shipping charges without filling in the 'state' field, resulting in a 'no shipping charge' error when creating an order. This occurred because the system could not map the order to the rate due to the missing 'state' field. |
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Customer Pricing > Shipping Charges |
Fixed the issue where the number of imported shipping charges did not match the actual number of shipping charges imported. |
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Customer Pricing > Shipping Charges |
Fixed the issue where excessively long shipping charge names would break the layout of the shipping charges listing table in the user interface. |
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Customer Pricing > Contracts |
Fixed the issue where excessively long contract names would break the layout of the pricing contract listing table in the user interface. |
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Customer Pricing > Contracts |
Fixed the issue where the error "Valid upto cannot be in the past" keeps appearing upon saving changes, despite validity dates not being edited. |
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Customer Pricing > Price Repository |
Fixed the issue where price records are not generated for newly booked orders even though it has been attached to a valid and active pricing contract. |
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Customer Pricing > Price Repository |
Fixed the issue where opening an Excel file exported from the price repository triggered an error alert. |
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Customer Pricing > Price Repository |
Fixed the issue where the 'Booked On' filter in the price repository was not correctly filtering price records to be included in the export file. |
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Customer Pricing > Settings |
Fixed the issue where clicking the sort icon in the 'Group Content' column did not sort the records. |
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Customer Pricing > Settings |
Fixed the issue where inactive weight configurations are applied to newly booked orders. |
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Customer Pricing > Settings |
Fixed the issue where inactive financial status configurations are still getting applied to shipments, overriding the default financial status configuration. |
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Shipment App > Consolidate shipments |
Fixed the issue where the shipment ID input field did not clear the entered ID after successfully scanning the shipment into the consolidation. |