Eric
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The latest version of the beta has a number of small fixes and cleanups. I am getting ready to do the final push and turn this into the main site UI over the coming week. Meanwhile, the bulk of the new functionality in this latest release is specifically targeted to make CellarTracker more relevant and useful for restaurants. In particular, the largest cellar on the site is for The Pluckemin Inn, a New Jersy based restaurant that is opening up in a few weeks. I visited them for a couple of days and with their help a number of requirements surfaced. This release has the first wave of changes and feature additions for them.
- I added a second type of barcode format that is less granular and easier to use in a restaurant and retail scenario. Up until now, CellarTracker has generated barcode labels that are unique to the specific bottle in your cellar. If you have sourced the same wine from multiple locations, this allows you to independently label and track those bottles. The new barcode format has a code that is the same for all bottles of the same size of the same wine. This might actually be appealing to consumers, so this is exposed as a general option.
NOTE: in order for this to work for you, please download http://www.cellartracker.com/wineid.lwt and place it in "c:\Program Files\cellartracker\" on your Windows machine. Also note that only the label printing page in the NEWUI tree has support for generating these.
- For restaurant accounts, I have added new facilities that allow you to easily generate menu pricing without having to set a price for every wine in the cellar. (For example, the Pluckemin has close to 1,000 selections on their list.) Now, the sommelier will be able to create simple threshold based rules that allows him/her to specify the markup and rounding behavior at various price points. Per wine override are still supported. So for example:
Wines between $0.00 and $20.00; markup by 225.00%; round to the nearest $1.00
Wines between $20.01 and $30.00; markup by 200.00%; round to the nearest $1.00
Wines between $30.01 and $60.00; markup by 180.00%; round to the nearest $5.00
Wines between $60.01 and $100.00; markup by 175.00%; round to the nearest $5.00
Wines between $100.01 and $100,000.00; markup by 150.00%; round to the nearest $10.00
NOTE: There is no editing UI for these values yet. Please send mail to eric@cellartracker.com to adjust menu pricing threshold.
NOTE: Right now a number of these changes only appear for accounts that have a "restaurant" flag set on their account which for the moment is just Pluckemin Inn. If you are tracking a restaurant list using the site and wish to beta-test these features, please let me know and I can expose them to you. Please also note that when formally unveiled, the use of the site by commerical ventures (restaurants and retailers) will not be shareware.
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-Eric LeVine
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