Beacon Current and Upcoming Version Information and Release Notes

Current Beacon Release

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

• Made Product Line optional when selecting loose devices

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