#86 - Week ending September 23^rd, 2022

Welcome to this weeks 'Take 5', your 5 minute weekly Optinet roundup. If you need clarification on any points or have questions drop an email to support@optinetuk.com or raise a ticket in the portal.

FLEX v1.5.7 Release

We are pleased to say that the testing cycle is complete on the next release, we are preparing the update and are on target to deliver it to the Early Access Group in the first week of October (date to be confirmed next week) and a general release in November.

The release notes have been posted in the online portal, linked below.

Please ensure all staff members have access to the release notes.

View v1.5.7 Release Notes

FLEX FRAME CATALOGUE SYSTEM LAUNCHES

The next release of FLEX will see the launch of our new frame catalogue system (FCS).

FCS is an online frame stock database comprising over 10,000 records and growing! FCS can be interrogated from within the FLEX stock screen and stock records can be downloaded directly into FLEX saving entry time and ensuring the data is consistent & correct.

The following supplier catalogues are currently in FCS:

Charmant UK CO Ltd
Continental Eyewear
Eyespace
International Eyewear Ltd
Luxottica (UK) Ltd
Marchon
Stepper UK
White Optics

We are working on adding more suppliers all the time, if there is a particular supplier you would like to see in FCS then please contact your frame rep and encourage them to contact us - they can email any questions to support@optinetuk.com

Scheduled Reports - Diary Backup

Did you know that you can automatically email reports to individual staff members?

An 'Email Schedule' can be setup that specifies which reports are to be sent and on which days, you can also set the date range the report should include (daily / weekly / monthly / year to date).

We recommend setting up at least one email schedule that sends the 'Daily Appointment List ' (weekly) to the practice manager - in the unlikely event that FLEX is unavailable you will still have access to your clinic information.

How to setup Email Reports

Quick Lens Pricing

The 'Quick Prices' screen lets you set all of your pricing criteria in one go and then apply all of those changes to your chosen lenses.

Criteria that can be set:

Sales Group
Cost Price
Retail Price
Eyeplan Prices

You can also choose which lenses to update by dragging them from the top window to the bottom window.

Find the 'Quick Prices' screen in Setup -> Order -> Lens Catalogues -> Quick Prices

Appointment slots can be displayed with variable height, based on the appointment duration.

The minimum slot height equals 20 minutes, anything less that 20 minutes will use the minimum - slots longer than 20 minutes will expand proportionally.

This feature is optional and can be enabled in setup.

Vision Now - September '22

The latest digital edition of FLEX is available now, packed full of the latest industry news and features.

The digital version can be accessed using the link below.

Read Now

support@optinetuk.com to open a ticket automatically

training@optinetuk.com to book staff training

sales@optinetuk.com to book a FLEX demonstration

Latest Patches

HPP indicates high priority patches that are downloaded and installed automatically
MTS indicates patches that have been deployed to the 'Hosted FLEX' servers
REQ indicates a patch that will be loaded on request or when an issue is highlighted

*** If you would like any other patches applied, please raise a support ticket ***

No Patches this week

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