In this article you will find information about both application hotfixes and feature deployments from all of EliteCRM Releases. This document will be under constant revision and updates will be published monthly, or ad-hoc depending on the type of deployment required.
Release 4.2
Issue Date: 25/10/2024 (Build 4.1.0.1)
HF-0017 | Activities | A link to the Booking record has been added to the Activity table. This will give you the ability to include related activities in a Booking Confirmation for example. |
FT-0087 | Housekeeping | PDI Date of Delivery Acceptance has been added to the Unit record & Housekeeping Activity record. This will allow you to utilize the Housekeeping Activities to manage you PDI records. |
FT-0088 | Maintenance Jobs | We have added Warranty Start Date & Expiration Date to the Deal & Maintenance job Table. This will give you the ability to correctly set a maintenance job with or without manufacturer’s warranty |
FT-0089 | Contact | Date of birth is now added to the sync between EliteParks and EliteCRM allowing you to use this in your outgoing communications. |
FT-0090 | General | We have further enhanced the sync between EliteParks & EliteCRM. This will add even more stability and will ultimately allow for records to continue syncing and move a blocked record to a separate table for further investigation. |
FT-0091 | General | Enhancement to List View features. Users can view and act on data more efficiently with new grid features in EliteCRM. The features allow you to group and aggregate data, reorder columns, set column width, and complete other tasks with ease. The grid control has numerous functional and stylistic improvements that improve the out-of-the-box experience for users. |
Release 4.1
Issue Date: 15/04/2024 (Build 4.1.0.0)
HF-0014 | Mobile App | Dynamics 365 App for Phones is now deprecated. This will be replaced with PowerApps App. |
FT-0083 | Copilot | Copilot now available within the EliteCRM apps and helps users get insights and helps them navigate through the app through conversation in natural language. Copilot sidecar is available on all pages of EliteCRM, ready to answer any questions about the data in the app, that a user can access according to their permissions and security role. |
FT-0084 | General | When using main forms in EliteCRM on the web with New Look enabled, users can review field suggestions generated by AI based on their frequently used data. These suggestions are optional, and users can accept them or ignore and reject them. |
FT-0085 | Activities | Users will be able to associate an activity record with additional related records such as EliteLead, & Contact. This means a user can perform actions like associating an email or appointment to additional related records, such as an email or appointment related to additional Deals & Bookings. |
HF-0015 | Memberships | Fixed issue where Members related to the main Member table were not able to sync due to a key lock |
HF-0016 | Phone Calls (EliteCRM Diamond) | Fixed issue with follow up phone call workflow not triggering. Re created within Power Automate |
FT-0086 | EliteInsights | Added additional tables and fields to support the new solution - EliteInsights |
Release 4.0
Issue Date: 15/11/2023 (Build 4.0.0.7)
FT-0082 | General | Enhanced Web Lead Integration for EliteParks & EliteCRM The Web Lead Integration to EliteCRM empowers you to capture web leads for almost any source. Previously customers on EliteCRM Gold were only able to utilise the Owner API for lead generation into EliteParks. With this new enhancement both EliteCRM Gold & Diamond customers can bring new Leads in from any source, including Facebook Lead Ads, using tools such as Zapier and the standard Dynamics 365 Web API. All standard lead fields can be captured, including initial Lead comments, with the ability to bolt on automation for automatic setting of Park Code, Salespeople and Lead Source Codes. |
Issue Date: 15/02/2023 (Build 4.0.0.6)
FT-0074 | General | Updated User Interface: The new look and feel for EliteCRM include new controls, layouts, fonts, colours, and more. The updated user interface includes changes to the list views with more defined structure with the ribbon on all tables split from the main form. This enhancement to the list and header will enable the user to navigate around much more easily. The main form to each table will be more defined into sections with the drop shadow released in 2022.1 release. The Business Process Flow will change from an orange colour to a blue colour. |
FT-0075 | General | Improved sharing capabilities: Value: Record owners can now share a record more easily with fewer clicks using the Share Email link option by modifying the link settings to select Specific people. When you share the link to the record with someone, the recipient is given read-only access to the record. |
FT-0076 | Phone Calls (EliteCRM Diamond) | We have added functionality to be able to set each phone call with a ‘Speak’ or ‘No Speak’. This will allow greater reporting capabilities for measuring true funnel results from Speak to Deal. We have also removed the ability to close an Appointment from the Timeline which restricts sales teams from only setting the correct outputs such as ‘Show Buy’ & ‘No Show’ |
FT-0077 | General | Contact Preferences To coincide with the update to Contact Preferences released in 2022.1 to allow updating in both EliteParks & EliteCRM, we have now added the ability to amend Contact Preferences directly from the EliteLead. |
FT-0078 | EliteCustomerCare | EliteCustomer Care Resolution Box. We have added in additional functionality to the EliteCustomer Care main form. Users will be able to set closed date and completion information when pressing the complete button. |
FT-0079 | General Microsoft | Microsoft Teams Integration Value: View status of other users and have the ability to start multiple Teams chats with anyone else who is working on the same record. |
FT-0080 | Customer Voice | Customer Voice File Upload Multiple scenarios warrant the use of the file upload question type by the survey owner to get the right set of information from their target audience. Previously this option was only available to internal users. This release now makes it possible to add File Upload option for your Customers. |
FT-0081 | Customer Voice | Customer Voice Projects Management Should an employee leave the organisation, we have provided the tenant administrator with the capability to transfer projects and assign them to other members of the team. |
Release 3.0
Issue Date: 01/04/2022 (Build 3.0.0.0)
FT-0067 | General (EliteCRM Diamond) | Additional API Functionality for EliteCRM Diamond Customers to utilise the EliteParks OwnerAPI to push leads directly in EliteCRM |
FT-0068 | General | Added ability to manage Contact Preferences in EliteParks or EliteCRM |
FT-0069 | General | Added ability to sync Company Contacts as part of the Contact sync |
FT-0070 | General | Added ability to sync Contact Preferences to Dataverse Contact |
FT-0071 | General | Modern Advanced Find - create, modify and share views directly from the Dataverse search. |
FT-0072 | Appointment (EliteCRM Diamond) | Create & Join Teams meetings from an Appointment |
FT-0073 | General | Standard Dashboards and Charts have been enhanced to show more relevant business areas. Added activities dashboard for all users, additional charts on the Booking & Deals Dashboard and added multiple charts to new areas such as POS receipt lines, Safety Tests and more. |
Release 2.0
Issue Date: 31/10/2021 (Build 2.0.0.1)
FT-0054 | General | Complete re-write if EliteCRM |
FT-0055 | General | Additional operations tables including Housekeeping, Linen & Site Fees added to the sync from EliteParks. |
FT-0056 | POS Receipt Lines | POS Receipt Lines added to the sync from EliteParks: This allows a more detailed journey to the customer which can include when payments are received against the Booking, Maintenance Job & Deal. |
FT-0057 | Appointment (EliteCRM Diamond) | Flow from Lead to Deal has been improved with actions for the salesperson to close appointment and set the status at a click of a button |
FT-0058 | General | Dataverse search added to the database |
FT-0059 | General | Improve List Views allow you to select anywhere in the list, like excel, you can now copy cells and rows. Charts can be positioned on the left or the right-hand side of the page. Also added is the ability to add more columns to your view directly from the page and save them as a personal view. |
FT-0060 | Leads (EliteCRM Diamond) | Salesperson field linked to the record owner: Enabling better interaction with EliteParks, more control over permissions, and more reporting capabilities. |
FT-0061 | Leads (EliteCRM Diamond) | Business Process Flow add to Leads: Designed to interact with salespeople and flow through the process from Lead, Appointment, and finally creating the Deal in EliteParks. |
FT-0062 | Activities (EliteCRM Diamond) | Automated Follow Up Tasks: Call back tasks can now be automatically created based on the desired output of an appointment. |
FT-0063 | General | Dashboards Improved Standard Booking & Deals dashboard to cover balances, analysis by park and month |
FT-0064 | Leads (EliteCRM Diamond) | Improved Contact / Lead Functionality: When creating a new lead in EliteCRM we now have a 3-step contact deduplication process in place, starting with the user then EliteCRM and finally a check by EliteParks before the system will create a new contact record. |
FT-0065 | Safety Test Entries | Safety Test Entries: With the importance of Safety tests on all parks, we now push the entire Safety Tests Entries table to EliteCRM. This allows for full reporting functionality and automated triggers to customers based on the information stored on their account. |
FT-0066 | Contact | Contact Profile Page: With the Contact record in CRM being the core record for the customer, we have improved the profile page to display the customer analysis from how many bookings and the value, number of leads, complaints, and number of jobs with invoiced value in charts. |
Release 1.5
Issue Date: 01/07/2021 (Build 1.5.0.1)
HF-0009 | Deals | Unit Type has now been switched to a lookup field instead of a multiple choice. |
HF-0010 | Activities (EliteCRM Diamond) | When adding a ‘Phone Call’ a mobile number and home number now auto populate. |
HF-0011 | Activities (EliteCRM Diamond) | Moved the ‘Phone Call’ due date onto the main form instead of being in the header to make it easier to complete. |
HF-0012 | Contact | Added a pop out card allowing direct access with EP to update contact preferences. |
HF-0013 | Leads | To allow EliteParks lead comments to be visible in EliteCRM, comments and phone calls are now pushed into CRM Activities. |
FT-0032 | Activities (EliteCRM Diamond) | Yes/No field has been added to the ‘Appointment’ card to allow them confirm the appointment. Added button and functionality to set Appointment Status to ‘Show Buy’ and Close Appointment. |
FT-0033 | Leads (EliteCRM Diamond) | Original & Trigger sources have been mapped to the Lead Type. |
FT-0034 | Leads (EliteCRM Diamond) | Upon a contact being selected on the Lead, JavaScript has been added to populate information from the contact record into the Lead record. |
FT-0035 | Contacts | Contact profile now looks at the Contact instead of the Parent Contact. |
FT-0036 | Activities (EliteCRM Diamond) | Moved the ‘Phone Call’ due date onto the main form instead of being in the header to make it easier to complete. |
FT-0037 | Contacts | Added a pop out card allowing direct access with EP to update contact preferences |
FT-0038 | Contacts | Yes/No field has been added to the ‘Appointment’ card to allow them confirm the appointment |
FT-0038 | Activities (EliteCRM Diamond) | Added button and functionality to set Appointment Status to ‘Show Buy’ and Close Appointment. |
FT-0039 | Leads (EliteCRM Diamond) | Topic field character limit has now been extended. |
FT-0040 | Leads (EliteCRM Diamond) | An option set field has been added to show Sales Categories. |
FT-0041 | Leads (EliteCRM Diamond) | Call Staff Code & Salesperson Code are defaulted from user’s login details. |
FT-0042 | Leads (EliteCRM Diamond) | Lead contact details are automatically capitalized upon entry. |
FT-0043 | Leads (EliteCRM Diamond) | A read only field has been added to show ‘Lead Status’. |
FT-0044 | Leads (EliteCRM Diamond) | Overdue call report has been added. |
FT-0045 | Leads (EliteCRM Diamond) | Business rule has been applied upon a customer not having an email address. A tick box needs to be completed where the contact can still be created. |
FT-0046 | Units | A system view has been added to show any Units that have been reserved and deposit taken. |
FT-0047 | Leads (EliteCRM Diamond) | Call staff codes have been added to Lead, Appointment & Phone Call records. |
FT-0048 | General (EliteCRM Diamond) | 2 Dashboards added to show any Sales Activities, Phone Calls, Leads, Appointments & Deals. 1 based upon Call Staff Code & 1 based upon Salesperson Code. |
FT-0049 | General | Setting have been added to the Change Area functionality. |
FT-0050 | General (EliteCRM Diamond) | Direct access to create deal added into the ‘Appointment’ record with the use of a button. |
FT-0051 | General (EliteCRM Diamond) | Standard connections roles have been added giving you the ability to connect 2 records with no related data, Mother & Daughter etc. |
FT-0052 | General (EliteCRM Diamond) | Toggles buttons have been added into the ‘Appointment’ record called Appointment Actions. This gives the ability to control the behaviors of the appointments and automate next actions. |
FT-0053 | Leads (EliteCRM Diamond | Unit interest sub section has been added to the Lead table. |
Release 1.4
Issue Date: 02/06/2021 (Build 1.4.0.0)
HF-0004 | General | Removed all flip switches from pages and replaced with toggles (Microsoft deprecating in Oct 2021) |
HF-0005 | Bookings | Check In & Check Out time fixed to pass correct date and time |
HF-0006 | Leads | Parent contact for lead was not mapped on Lead form, changed to Contact |
HF-0007 | Bookings | Amount field on Booking now re-mapped |
HF-0008 | Bookings | Balance Due date on Booking now re-mapped |
FT-0014 | General | Added icons for lookup fields |
FT-0015 | Bookings | ‘Bloat’ Booking fields moved to additional tab to show important fields on front screen |
FT-0016 | General | Added new tables: Maintenance Jobs, Maintenance Job Comments, Units, Deal Status, Salesperson, Lead Status, Lead Source, Lead Source Type, Bookings Agents, Bookings Grades, Marketing Product Code, Contact Communication Type, Contact Preference Reason Code & Contact Preferences |
FT-0017 | General | Additional fields added to Booking & Deal entities. All additional fields mapped for all entities in supplementary EliteCRM Schema document |
FT-0018 | Bookings | Booking Extras added as a sub grid to Booking form |
FT-0019 | Deals | Deal Extras added as a sub grid to Deal form |
FT-0020 | Bookings | Enabled Booking entity as an email entity to allow to use the email address from a Booking within a Customer Journey |
FT-0021 | Bookings | Added timeline to Booking form |
FT-0022 | Bookings | New workflow added for arrival date change |
FT-0023 | General | Added functionality in EliteParks to choose application user or standard username & password |
FT-0024 | General | Added 2 new Dashboards - Bookings Dashboard & Deals Dashboard |
FT-0025 | General | EliteParks Pop up button added to core tables and EliteCRM App |
FT-0026 | General | Booking Availability & Matrix Buttons added to Booking apps |
FT-0027 | General | Lead processor mode can be selected per table (Sales, Bookings, Events & Memberships) in EliteParks - This functionality allows the process of Leads in EliteCRM for one table and EliteParks for the other. |
FT-0028 | General (EliteCRM Diamond) | Contact will now be created in EliteParks when a Lead is created in |
FT-0029 | General (EliteCRM Diamond) | Lookup fields can be selected in EliteCRM and synced with EliteParks |
FT-0030 | Leads (EliteCRM Diamond) | When a Lead is created in EliteCRM it will get its Lead No from EliteParks within the sync time |
FT-0031 | General (EliteCRM Diamond) | Added workflows: Close Deal as Won when EP Status is ‘Active’ Close Lead as Qualified when a Booking is made Close Lead as Qualified when a Deal is made |
Release 1.3
Issue Date: 01/10/2020 (Build 1.3.0.0)
HF-0001 | Bookings | Unit No removed from Booking entity and re-added as text field |
HF-0002 | General | Removed original Park lookup fields from all entities |
HF-0003 | General | Removed License button from ribbon |
FT-0008 | Bookings | Booking form re-designed |
FT-0009 | Deals | Deal form re-designed and split fields into additional tabs |
FT-0010 | Leads | Lead form re-designed |
FT-0011 | Parks | Park form re-designed |
FT-0012 | Parks | Park table added to integration |
FT-0013 | Parks | ParkID lookup field added to all entities |
Release 1.2
Issue Date: 01/03/2020 (Build 1.2.0.0)
FT-0001 | Bookings | Initial Release of Bookings in EliteCRM. |
FT-0002 | Booking Extras | Initial Release of Booking Extras in EliteCRM. |
FT-0003 | Deals | Initial Release of Deals in EliteCRM. |
FT-0004 | Deal Extras | Initial Release of Deal Extras in EliteCRM. |
FT-0005 | Leads | Initial Release of Leads in EliteCRM. |
FT-0006 | Appointments | Initial Release of Appointments in EliteCRM. |
FT-0007 | Contacts | Initial Release of Contacts in EliteCRM. |