Sentry releases

Release 48 – 22 April 2022 #

1. Min pick as percentage of parlevel #

Product min pick may now be set to be a percentage of parlevel:

2. New field ‘services since last product change’ #

A new field was added to the machine/market lists ‘SSLPC’, which stands for ‘Services since last product change’.

The field may be useful to see when a product change was last performed at a machine or market:

3. Export to excel added to the stock movement log #

The ability to export the stock movement log to excel was added:

4. Location product restrictions #

The ability to restrict what products may be added to planograms at locations was added.

To use this functionality:

1. Tag products (with tags such as ‘Nuts’ or ‘Energy Drinks’).
2. Add the relevant tag to a location as a ‘restricted product’:

The effect will be that adding relevantly tagged products to the machines/markets at the location will be blocked in the Sentry web app and mobile app.

5. Initial filters added to the stock movement log #

By default, when the stock movement log loads, it is now pre-filtered to show stock movements only for today.

6. Pick order added to the mobile app in picklists #

The ability to show pick list pick orders was added to the mobile app.

This may be toggled on in picklist settings.

7. Filters added to history lists #

A variety of filters were added to the history tab for machines and markets:

8. Machine selector added to the mobile app ticket creator #

A machine selector was added to the mobile app ticket creator.

9. Moving restocked or picked dockets disabled #

Services that have been picked or restocked can no longer be moved from one service run to another.

10. Tenant setting for calculation of future picklists added #

A new setting was added which, when toggled on, will recalculate all picklists for future services of a machine/market when that machine/market is restocked.

Generally, the setting will reset future picklists for a machine/market that is in multiple service runs when it is serviced in the earlier of the service runs.

The setting is available in company settings under the service runs tab:

11. Previous location & last location move date fields added #

Two new fields were added to machines:

1. Last location
2. Last move date

These may be useful to conveniently see the last location and move date of a vending machine:

12. ‘Set all prices to default prices’ added to template planograms #

The ability to set all prices to default prices which was previously available for machines/markets is now also available on template planograms.

When used, all prices on the current template planogram will adopt default prices set for the products currently in the planogram.

The option is available in the planogram options dropdown:

13. Alert trigger ‘Scanned product is not in markets planogram’ added #

A new alert trigger was added for when a product is scanned at a market, but the barcode is not in the market’s planogram:

14. Source and destination stock balances added to the stock movement log #

Stock balances for source and destination were added to the stock movement log:

15. New setting to disable adding products to planograms #

A new Boolean field for products was added which, when toggled, doesn’t let the user add it to planograms (i.e. it disables them in the product selector).

The setting may be useful to use when a product has been discontinued, is out-of-stock, or similar.

The setting is available in the advanced product settings tab:

16. Release log added #

This release log was added to the app to track all future releases.