Continuing their rapid year-on-year growth, the Re-flow team is proud to announce their biggest field management software update yet – Re-flow 1.7
Re-flow is an award-winning field management software provider for construction, infrastructure and landscaping, working with hundreds of businesses of all sizes across the UK and Ireland.
The ethos behind the software’s development has always been “users first”. New additions to Re-flow are often driven by the needs of their clients, as well as trends, challenges and requirements that affect the industry as a whole.
Re-flow’s CTO, Lee Wade, said: “As part of this year’s upcoming 1.7 release, we’ve got a lot of client-requested features, and it’s probably the largest update we’ve ever done. It’ll be covering all sorts of things. Features like soft deleting records, which has been highly requested, now allows users to restore deleted records for up to 60 days, so it provides a lot of safety around the data, making sure that things are restorable. We’ve had visual updates to the system – in this release we’re improving the look and feel of Re-flow, making it more pleasing on the eye.”
What field management software updates can we expect to see with Re-flow 1.7?
Quality of life additions
The dashboard now boasts a slightly tweaked appearance, with several new features that aim to improve ease of use. The side menu can now be collapsed, providing users more space on-screen to interact with the dashboard.
Additionally, custom pages can now be set as “Favourites” and added to the side menu -a small new customisability feature that allows users to further expedite navigation of the software.
For improved data security, Re-flow now supports soft-deleting and archiving of data. Users can now delete and archive jobs, events, quotes, records and more, with the ability to recover them within 90 days of deletion – preventing accidental deletes and preserving data. For further security, deletion and archiving permissions can be set per user.
AI-powered reporting
The system can now take full advantage of the power of AI to transform field data into graphs and charts. With the click of a button, users can generate customisable dashboards that visualise their data, enabling them to draw and share insights with more ease than ever before.
By default, Re-flow also now comes packaged with a brand new training matrix report, which is available free of charge, enabling users to pull operatives, their qualifications and filter them in mere seconds.
Plant & equipment hire
Re-flow 1.7 brings a long-awaited feature to the system. With comprehensive hiring capabilities, users can now gain full oversight of loaning equipment to operatives, subcontractors and other third parties through the dashboard.
Users have full control over their hire processes, with the ability to set rules, discounts, uplifts, early returns and more. On hire and off hire can also be planned and controlled, with the ability to track asset statuses using forms.
Additionally, hire assets can also now be tracked through the recently expanded scheduler. With new support for vehicle location tracking, users have complete oversight on hired plant and equipment through instant form data.
Expanded bill of quantities
Re-flow 1.7 brings a new and redesigned BoQ, which is automatically created against jobs as they’re put together. Rates are now pulled from a master list and can be adjusted individually based on attached contract and client. Items in the BoQ can also now be assigned custom names to fit client and contract requirements.
Refactored integrations
Though Re-flow has long actively supported connecting to third-party software packages, handling processes such as accounting and CRM, the 1.7 update has brought major refactoring to many core connectors, enabling far more throughput and customisation. Now, users can achieve more when integrating ERP systems such as NetSuite, or accounting systems such as Xero.
“We’ve got some really great features, like our partnership with Polymer, which adds data visualisations, and that’s something that any business can benefit from. It’s sort of a one-click solution to instantly see some good results from your data. There’s been a huge amount of work on Re-flow’s connectors, as with enterprise, we’re connecting to ERP systems like NetSuite, and along with our other connectors to software such as Xero, Sage Business Cloud Accounting and HubSpot, that’s had a lot of refactoring to improve. With these changes, connectors will now allow even more throughput and customisation.”
In addition to improving existing connectors, the update also brings several new ones. Users can now log-in to Re-flow using Okta, providing yet another avenue for increased data security. 1.7 also lays the groundwork with an initial Samsara connector, whose capabilities are planned to grow as the year progresses.
These major features are only part of Re-flow’s colossal 1.7 update, which also boasts numerous new minor features and sweeping architectural changes that aim to make the software even more adaptable, customisable and futureproof for its rapidly growing community of clients, both big and small.
To demo and qualify for a free trial of Re-flow’s award-winning field management software, visit www.re-flow.co.uk or call 01392 574002 today.
Ashley Wing
Head of Sales & Marketing
Re-flow Field Management
Tel: +44 01392 547002
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