2.2 release notes

FEATURES
- Ambur Anywhere – access your point of sale from outside the business, wherever you are, whenever you want. We don’t need to store your data on a server, you truly own your data, and we mean that. We don’t store your data and claim you own it. This opens up an infinitude of use cases, from delivery people using it to remotely look up orders and addresses, and take credit card payments, to large setups being able to use separate Wi-Fi networks to connect to a main hub, reporting from home, bust a long line by taking orders remotely
- overhaul of text entry, no popups are necessary for editing text. you can also use a Bluetooth keyboard to easily tab through and edit items
- custom keyboards for date editing, time editing, date and time editing, whole number editing, decimal editing, emails, phone numbers, and more. You’ll always have what buttons you need, right at your fingertips
- look up directions and estimated travel times to an address from the Customer screen – tap the compass icon next to the address
- post to Facebook/Twitter accounts set up on your device, select “Post Message” from global actions. Let your customers know your daily specials and news, right from your point of sale.
- customer search has been significantly upgraded – essentially, it filters any non-number characters from the phone numbers stored in the database, as well as the search entry, and searches to see if the filtered search text is contained in the filtered phone number
- new order action icons and tab bar icons, with heavier weight and ready for Retina HD screens
- when keyboards come up, scrollable screens such as lists and grids move up to compensate, so there’s never anything stuck underneath the keyboard
- use iOS 8 adaptive UI. Ambur is the only iOS POS app to do so, and that enables us to support current and future iOS devices and features without any additional programming. Our competitors have months of work to do before they get to that point, if ever
- iPhone 6 and 6 Plus support. On your iPhone 6+ in landscape orientation, the device will look identical to the iPad interface
- the global action button has been moved to the right side, ensuring that there’s no spurious taps when you’re trying to the tap the back button
- number pad redesigned to be more color neutral
- new syncing transmission format that packs data 6x faster, 10x smaller (so it transmits 10x faster), and unpacks it 5x faster
- Employee Reports have been renamed to Shift Reports to reflect their usage, and they automatically are run for the currently logged in users shift if they are clocked in. If they aren’t, you can pick dates for the report
- shifts that are currently active are highlighted in orange on the shifts list
- confirmation step added when canceling items while taking an Order
- clocked out alert shows the time clocked out at as well as shift duration
- you can print a shift report upon clocking out
- add debug logs for payment/orders being deleted – the debug logs automatically attach themselves to crash reports, and can be emailed/messaged from the status screen
- new tip vs. change algorithm. if there’s an overpay: if it’s a credit payment, assume it’s tip, if it’s not credit, if accept tips is enabled in Settings, ask the user if the overpayment is change or tip, if accept tips isn’t enabled, assume it’s change.
- change send/cancel bar background to orange so it’s obvious when there’s unsent items
- Ambur now compresses your database into a ZIP file before backing it up to Dropbox, which saves approximately 60-80% of space, and thus uploads much faster as well
- you can defragment your database from the status screen - this will compress the database so there’s no unused space within it
- editing option names and prices are now performed in-line, saving you time of pushing a new screen and tapping back
- adding items to relationships on an iPad now saves time by showing a popover instead of pushing a new screen
- you can take orders in review mode
- custom keyboard mode for IP addresses
- currency entry is more fun – you can enter “1 9 5” instead of “1 . 9 5” to get $1.95 now




ADJUSTMENTS
- if we’re in any form of a compact size class (i.e. anything except the right size on an iPad), then only display one row of the category picker at a time
- items with open name/price will automatically bring the keyboard up for entry when the option picker is displayed
- show 3 lines at the top and bottom of kitchen reprints stating that the receipt is a reprint, and it doesn’t indicate the items were sent
- don’t clear search text whenever the text field is tapped into
- the database automatically saves every time a change is made, instead of requiring the saves to be programmed in
- change name of ‘Other Orders’ in table layout to ‘All Orders’
- move add order button in table layout to bottom left so it’s further away from the ‘All Orders’ button
- add a confirmation alert for creating a new order from a swipe
- the default number for a new customer, (555) 555-5555, is no longer shown when viewing the customer list
- don’t show search results for matching the default customer phone number
- drastically improve search performance by not showing sections for customers
- deleting old closed orders has been modernized for iOS 8
- revamped appearance for many alerts throughout the system
- many more error alerts just slide down from the top instead of interrupting usage
- make line breaking act less awkwardly in grid cells – no more Budweiser displaying on two separate lines
- flashes of the screen when logging out, logging in with table layout enabled and when lists/grids are being reloaded have been eliminated, now they’re smoother than butter
- remove last 6 hours/last 12 hours header from reports
- change default name of new printer group to “New Printer Group”
- show a Dropbox login screen if the user tries using Dropbox functionality from the status screen but they aren’t currently logged in
- show an error if a hub can’t be started due to an iOS/hardware issue
- turn off autocorrect in activation login text boxes
- enable table layout by default in the sample database
- intentionally crash if printing a CC receipt for a CC payment without an order or order owner is attempted
- change title of “More” to “Management”
- load initial settings all simultaneously instead of waiting for each to complete before request the next step
- reduce weak connection alerts dramatically by resetting the timer for displaying time every time we receive or send data chunks, even if said data has not finished receiving or sending
- an alert is now shown with a reason if a connection to the hub fails
- list pickers no longer use the full screen while being shown
- rework how entity actions are presented, most tangible result to you will be that the actions now fit in with the rest of the app because they’re orange, not blue
- new chef’s hat icon for printing kitchen receipts


BUG FIXES
- status messages longer than 5 lines being truncated for display
- make sure kitchen name contains more than just spaces before using it for printing
- issue where if the add button was tapped repeatedly very quickly, the wrong object would be shown as selected on the left
- issue where the interface could be disappearing and rotating simultaneously, somehow causing a crash deep in the bowels of UIKit
- accessing list items beyond the number of items in the list
- fix customer search field not appearing at first upon login
- when deleting tens of thousands of closed orders, we avoid a crash due to running out of memory
- “Sending…” screen occasionally displaying in portrait when the device is in landscape
- menu item descriptions buttons not appearing in some databases
- item cells not properly adjusting their height for the amount of notes/modifiers they have
- item cell prices not properly adjusting their width for very long prices
- fix issue with search field not appearing for instances list displayed modally in iOS 8, such as the printer picker
- fix crash when picking a user group to replace permissions with
- fix issue with search bar visibly “snapping” into place