Managing Property Transfers
October 2011. People moving to new homes happens a lot. In PestaRoo, properties where we apply treatments are called Locations. Each Location has one Customer who owns (or is responsible for it). Each Customer, on the other hand, may have more than one Location. So, what do you do when [...]
Action Buttons
October 2011. Navigating through software can be real challenge. But not with PestaRoo! We have spent a tremendous amount of time carefully watching users to determine what they typically do AFTER using each specific layout. Then, we have added single click ‘Action Buttons’ to the bottom of each layout to [...]
Dynamic Labels (Button, Tabs, and Portals)
September 2011. One critical key to making software easy to use is providing visual feedback to the user without their having to click anywhere. PestaRoo uses Dynamic Labels on every layout. Dynamic Labels show what is ‘inside’ a Tab, Portal, Button, or related data Portal, BEFORE you click on it. [...]
Expanded Change Logs
August 2011. Change Logs are amazing. They allow you to monitor changes to the data for a record. For example, in Customers, you could see when their address, phone number, Status, or whatever was changed. And not just what was changed. Change logs include what was changed, who made the [...]
Preferred Contact Numbers
August 2011. PestaRoo allows you to have any number of contact numbers, each with its own description or ‘type’, for each Customer in your system. In this age of cell phones, FAX machines, emails, pagers, instant messages, Facebook pages, Twitter feeds, and other ways of contacting people, it is critical that [...]
Legacy Value Support via ‘Status’ Fields
August 2011. The ability to customize your software extensively is one of those reasons that PestaRoo is so well loved. Much of this customization is accomplished with Value Lists. An important feature here is that you can set the ‘status’ of a value list item to be ‘No Longer in [...]
Quick Help
July 2011. ‘Quick Help’ is context sensitive support available by clicking on the small blue question marks on the various screens. This have proven to be very helpful. Three new ‘Quick Helps’ have been added or completely rewritten to help you quickly learn the subtle ‘ins and outs’ of PestaRoo.
New Demos Posted
July 2011. Finally! New versions of the Demo or Free Trial have been put up on our site! Hooray! We have historically focused most of our attention on supporting our existing customers and building feature for the future. This means that building Demo copies for the web have often taken [...]
New ‘Getting Started Guide’ Added
July 2011. An overview for new users has been added. This give new users (or new employees) one place to go to learn about the key features of PestaRoo. The ‘Getting Started Guide’ is available from both Home Page and the Help menu. We will be enhancing this over the next [...]
More Credit Functions
July 2011. More credit functions, including Manager’s editing have been added. This is quickly becoming a popular feature.