• We’ve added the ‘Order at least X Pantry days ahead of Pickup’ and ‘Allow Order up to X days in advance’ fields from the flexible schedule to appear on the other schedule types as well.

Order at least X Pantry days ahead of Pickup  Forces a member to place their order ‘x’ days in advance otherwise their order will be placed for the next available pick-up date.

Ex. I have a monthly schedule with a pickup set to the 20^th of the month. I also have the ‘Order at least X Pantry days ahead of Pickup’ set to 3. This means the member must’ve placed their order by the 17^th of the current month or the pick-up date of their order will be set to the 20^th of the next month.

Allow Order up to X days in advance  Gives a range that the member must place their order.

Ex. I have a monthly schedule with a pickup set to the 20th of the month. I also have the ‘Allow Order up to X days in advance’ of the schedule set to 5. This means the member will be able to place their order anytime between the 15^th and the 20^th of the month.

• A "Member Name" column has been added to the "Fill Orders" grid.

• When adding or copying a new menu while the "All" site is selected, a user will be prompted with a dialog to choose the site they want to add/copy the menu too.

• By default, when food items are added to a menu the member sees the food items in alphabetical order. For ‘Manual Menu’s’ (menu’s where the ‘Automate Menu’ checkbox isn’t checked), we’ve introduced arrow buttons in the top corners of the food items that will allow a user to change the order food items will appear within the menu.

Clicking either right or left arrow button will shift the food item one spot to the right or left respective of the button clicked.

• When opening an existing menu, the ‘Family Size’ sections of the categories will be collapsed to make it easier to navigate through the menu without needing to collapse each individual category on the menu. When creating a menu, the ‘Family Size’ will still be expanded.

• Orders that haven't been marked as completed from the "Fill Orders" grid, can be marked completed from the "Pantry Visitors" page to allow for check out.

• Within Site Maintenance, users have the ability to change the check-in mode for a particular site if multiple sites need to use a different check-in mode.

• A warning was added when a user is placing an order for members who have been marked inactive on the member's intake form.

The warning will not prevent the user from placing the order but alert and confirm that the order is being placed for an inactive member.

• The option to re-print orders from the print page has been added. This can be done by switching the "Mode" to "Manual" (by default it will be set to continuous) and then using the data entry fields under "Reprint Order" to filter down to the orders you'd like re-printed.

• We’ve introduced the concept of ‘Dietary Choice’ to the food items. This will give pantry members the ability to filter food options when they are placing an order. For more information, please see the article we have on Dietary Choice.

• Warehouse Locations is another new concept being introduced with this update that will allow pantries the ability to further segment their inventory. Please see our article on Warehouse Locations for more information.

We've added the ability for a pantry to restrict individual members or all members under a specific site to use up to a set amount of points within a period (day, week, month etc.) Please see our Pantry Point Period article for more information.

When a food item is scanned on the Food Item maintenance page, the item will be searched against a copy of the USDA's database (https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/search/list). If the item is found in the database, the system will automatically add the item to the pantry food item database. For more information on this feature, see our Food Item Database Look-up article.