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2025 Release Notes History

v5.8.0, Released March 11, 2025

Events

  • Updated the quick transfer feature to allow a user to immediately mark items used when quick transferred in the context of an event. 

Inventory

  • Added the ability to manually increment/decrement inventory when using Scan UDI feature to import new inventory.
  • Added a feature to allow users to view inventory held at "quick transfer" locations they are associated with on the All Inventory page. 
  • Added a new setting for "default unit of measure" for weights. Allows admin to define grams, kilograms, ounces, or pounds.
  • Added a new field to the Catalog item detail to capture shipping weight of the device. This allows for faster calculation when using our Shippo integration. 
  • Updated the auto-mapping feature to be more accurate and reliable.

Movements

  • Opened the Quick Transfer feature to allow transfers to comes from any user, not just "custodian only."
  • Added the ability for an admin to quick transfer on behalf of a rep or distributor. 

Directory

AI

  • Improved the Create Event and Mark Used from uploaded bill sheets to handle documents with significant background "visual noise."
  • Updated the version of the Gemini model being used for all AI queries

Users

  • Added a new "Facility Manager" role to give customers the option to add hospital and ASC staff as users managing inventory and events at their assigned facilities. 

Integrations

  • Updated the UI and workflows for our integration framework. 

UI/UX

  • Implemented a new PDF framework, allowing us to simplify and streamline many of the PDF templates across the platform, beginning with Sales Orders and Invoices.
  • Improvements to various emails (notifications, requests, due-back extension, events, etc.) to improve clarity and usability ,
  • Removed case-sensitivity on catalog items. Now all catalogs will ignore case sensitivity to prevent inadvertent duplicates. 
  • Made improvements to sorting and paging performance.

Mobile

  • Deprecated the ability to install Beacon Mobile on devices other than iPhone, iPad, or Android phones and tablets. 
  • Updated push notifications for iOS

Bug Fixes

 

    • Fixed a bug that prevented preference cards from being sorted by assigned procedure. 
    • Fixed a bug that prevented a manufacturer from being assigned to a user when items are quick transferred to a recipient not already assigned to that manufacturer. 
    • Fixed a bug that prevented the facility price from being captured when a item is marked from its detail page and not the event itself. 
    • Fixed a bug that prevented some users from being able to download facility price .csv documents for some facilities. 

v5.7.0, Released January 21, 2025

Code Refactoring

  • Optimized backend logic and improved performance for various modules and workflows, including:
    • Transfer workflow
    • All Inventory list 
    • Inventory Request
    • Directory page loads
    • Locations
    • inventory Due Back date
    • Inventory total sales calculations in event
    • Facilities
  • Upgraded several infrastructure components
  • Removed deprecated features and related code
  • Added additional API security controls

Events

  • Added an additional value for "Total Billed Amount" at the bottom of the events list page to now show "Total value" and "Total billed"
    • This is most useful for organizations with stocking order sales that are tracked at the time of sale and then again at the time of use. 

Requests

UI/UX

  • Several improvements to UI/UX across the platform, including:
    • Added labels to make it clear when the Org is being selected as the user assigned to an event or workflow
    • Applied alpha sort to all dropdown lists
    • Improved the visual indication for active and inactive fields
    • Improved the sort on Audits, sorting by catalog #
    • Several visual improvements to Audits
    • Added a "quick action" for auto reconcile on Audits
    • Improved messaging and alerts on various pages
    • Improved Container Reservation flow
    • Added "Log movement/Get help" to the inventory detail page on desktop
    • Improvements to the Board, Calendar, and List views on the Events page
    • Improved sort order of Event Status filter
    • Changed "Anonymous Patient ID" label to "MRN/Case ID"
    • Improved layout of case creation wizard
    • Added persistent state to the checkbox for including/not including replenishment address on emailed sales order
    • Added a new option to stay on event detail page when submitting replenishment request on submission of event
    • Added feature to auto-populate location name if user enters Google-verified address first
    • Fixed scrolling issue that prevented items below the fold on preference card from being viewed
    • Added reverse sort order to preference card modal when adding new items
    • Improved Inventory Import refresh rate
    • Updated text in facility pricing modal to account for facilities that use alternate catalog #s
    • Added column for alternate catalog # in csv download
    • Improved facility pricing modal for editing prices
    • Added a reload button to allow force reload of Beacon Mobile pages
    • Added a prompt and link to update to the newest version of Beacon Mobile
    • Added icons for dark mode to Beacon Mobile
    • Automatically adding "$0" to price field when creating a new item in the event workflow by scanning a UDI 
      • This features requires the user to be allowed to add new inventory to the system and can be turned on in the settings by an organization admin 

Movements

  • Added a new integration with Shippo to allow for printing labels for major carriers inside the transfer workflow
    • Must be turned on by ConnectSx and requires an additional monthly subscription fee

Inventory

  • Added a new Hold Status for "Nonconformance"
  • Added a visual indicator to show when an inactive containers has been assigned to an Audit 
  • Added support for additional special characters to import
    • Latin lowercase o with slash: ø
    • Masculine ordinal indicator: º
  • Added support for ANSII encoding for imported csv files 

Reports

  • Updated the layout and organization of the Reports page
  • Updates to various existing reports and report menus

Bug Fixes 

  • Fixed a bug that prevented the password reset page from displaying on a phone if Beacon Mobile is installed
  • Fixed an issue that prevented some containers in the Org Custody from showing devices in the container on the audit detail page
  • Fixed a chip that caused some status "chips" to be empty with filters applied to events pages
  • Fixed an issue that caused some scanned UDIs to display an expiration date  day earlier than expected
  • Fixed an issue that prevented the Catalog # from displaying properly on some catalog detail pages
  • users from selecting more than the default # of displayed items from the preference card catalog dropdown 
  • Fixed an issue that prevented Location to be created new during some imports
  • Fixed an issue that prevented facility pricing to be pulled for devices used IF Manufacturer was not associated with event in the event details
  • Fixed an issue that prevented some users from including partial or not shipped items on exported packing slip