UI 660 will be released today as part of the Stable Release process, if you are subscribed to the Stable Release Process your system will automatically update to version 660.

Fixed: Team Calendar would show tasks from outside your team.

Fixed: App would occasionally crash when clearing a multi-select dropdown. 

Fixed: Latitude and Longitude would not save or display correctly in Displays Admin.

Fixed: 'Edit Land Contract' menu item would display in master contract support panel, even when there was no land contract. 

Fixed: 'ClickHome System' would display in contract support panel roles.

Fixed: Maintenance screens would show the incorrect number of notes linked to issues. 

Fixed: Updating a Customer's address with "Use auto-generated home address" would not save the new address.

UI 650 will be released today as part of the Stable Release process, if you are subscribed to the Stable Release Process your system will automatically update to version 650.

Improvement: Added Customer Interactions view, accessible from the Contract breadcrumb.

Improvement: Added pages to create and edit basic land contracts.

Improvement: Added more columns to Land Contract search.

Fixed: Some fields in admin screens could not be cleared. 

Fixed: Various admin issues.

ClickHome 3.16.14 is now released, this is a minor release mainly focused on some desktop performance improvements and mobile leads UI improvements.

We have also squashed a few bugs. Please visit the full release notes to read all technical notes and bug fixes.

Have you tried out Microsoft's Copilot feature in Windows 11 yet? This handy AI assistant can help streamline tasks and boost productivity right from your desktop. With the latest Windows update, Copilot is now available to all users - and better yet, it works with ClickHome!

Copilot acts like an AI copilot for your PC, providing suggestions and shortcuts as you work. For example, when writing emails or adding notes in ClickHome, Copilot can autocomplete sentences or even generate whole paragraphs based on the context.

The best part is that Copilot learns your preferences and writing style over time. The more you use it, the more tailored and helpful its suggestions become.

Before you begin, you probably want to make sure you’re running the latest version of Windows 11: Copilot is part of the September 2023 Windows update. 

Open Settings and then pick Windows Update.

To launch Copilot, which shows up in a panel on the right of your screen, click the Copilot button on the taskbar, or press Win + C on the keyboard.

To make it work with ClickHome there is currently one very important setting you need to toggle and you can find it by clicking on the three dots at the top of the panel and choosing Settings. It’s Let Copilot in Windows use Microsoft Edge content, and it essentially lets Copilot “see” what you’re looking at in Edge.

Once this is toggled you can ask Copilot to interact with ClickHome in your Edge browser!

While Copilot is still in preview mode and can give inaccurate results, please see some interesting prompts for you to try:

From the notes page:
"Please summarise the notes on this page, exclude all emails"
"based on all email communication on this page, is the customer happy?"

From Requistions:
"What is the most expensive approved item on the page?"

UI 643 will be released today as part of the Stable Release process, if you are subscribed to the Stable Release Process your system will automatically update to version 643.

Improvement: You can now select a favourite page in Tenders Sales Edit and Estimator Review.

Improvement: The last-edited row is shown and highlighted after saving a tender in Sales Edit and Estimator Review.

Fixed: Cannot delete the role in Display Center Openings once it has been saved. 

Fixed: Line breaks not displayed in Issue Screen.

Fixed: General admin improvements.

ClickHome 3.16.12 is now released, this is a minor release mainly focused on some Mobile Leads performance enhancements and fixes.

Please visit the full release notes to read all technical notes.

UI 631 will be released today as part of the Stable Release process, if you are subscribed to the Stable Release Process your system will automatically update to version 631.

Improvement: Added a warning when disabling callups for supervisors in User Admin

Improvement: You can now update your profile photo from your personal settings

Improvement: Contract Status added to the Common Tasks list

Improvement: Added a confirmation pop up when copying a Tender 

Fixed: Override Cost/Sell Price fields were incorrectly disabled when adding Custom Options to a variation

Fixed: Removing the last display center allocation from any day would not save properly

Fixed: Support panel widgets were sometimes not refreshing when swapping between jobs

Fixed: When scheduling a task, the lead time showed incorrectly as 0 days 

Fixed: Various admin screens

Builders across Australia are facing increasing margin pressures.
Fixed price contracts, set material and labour rates, and long lead times between pricing and build all contribute to slimmer and slimmer margins. Margin analysis is now more important than it ever was in order to stay profitable.

A key challenge is that costs continue to rise between the time you provide a fixed bid to a customer and when you actually have to order the materials and labour. Timber, bricks, appliances - construction material costs keep going up, if you underestimate those future costs in your original offer, your margins take a massive hit.

On top of estimating future costs, there are often errors in original pricing and unexpected changes that happen during construction. For homebuilders dependent on narrow margins, even relatively small cost overruns can quickly eliminate profits. Identifying those issues quickly is imperative to stay financially viable.

This is where ClickHome software can help immensely. "With ClickHome tenders, you not only generate quotes and contracts effortlessly, you also gain real-time insight into all your projects with automated margin tracking and analysis" says Aaron Savory, Director of ClickHome. 

ClickHome also enables detailed tracking and reporting of changes and errors. Aaron Savory explains "This level of visibility is invaluable for residential builders working on fixed price contracts."

In today's environment of ever-increasing costs and slim margins, the deep insights and margin management capabilities of ClickHome are essential to stay competitive.

For more information visit: https://www.clickhome.com.au/

UI 624 will be released today as part of the Stable Release process, if you are subscribed to the Stable Release Process your system will automatically update to version 624.

Improvement: Added new filters to Supplier Search page.

Fixed: In Messages search, transmission details text would overlap into other columns.

Fixed: Trying to add Flex Field documents would warn that changes would be lost, when they wouldn't be. 

Fixed: 'Category' filter in Tender Sales Edit would not show any selections. 

Fixed: Unable to remove precedent links in Project Planner. 

Fixed: Various Admin items.

We are happy to announce that the new Trade Allocation Screen is ready and available for Beta Testing in UI V614!

Please try it out today!
As this is currently in beta mode, please forward any feedback to betatesting@clickhome.com.au.