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Changelog - what we shipped

EVERY RELEASE MADE THE DAY QUIETER.

We ship most weeks. Here are the changes studios actually felt - no version-number noise, just what got better.

Last release · version v0.49.1

  1. v0.49.1

    Charts you can read

    Changed
    • The charts on the dashboard are taller, sized to your screen, so a month's shape is readable on a laptop and on a large monitor.
    Fixed
    • The money chart on the dashboard shows pounds on its axis. It showed the amounts in pence, so £250 read as 25000.
  2. v0.49.0

    Screens that stay live

    Changed
    • Your dashboard, the money screen and every list keep themselves up to date, all the time. The pause button and the "updated" time are gone, because there is nothing to refresh.
    • The charts on the dashboard and the money screen are drawn more clearly, and the exact figures are still one click away as a table.
  3. v0.48.0

    Everything tested, and what that found

    Changed
    • The plan screen marks the middle plan as Suggested. It used to say Most popular, which nothing measured.
    • Messages you send from Feedback now reach a screen our team works from, as well as an email, so a message is not lost when nobody is reading mail.
    Fixed
    • A team member given access to bookings, clients, stock or money can now open those pages. Since v0.47.0 the menu showed them the link and the page turned them away.
    • A reminder for a booking deleted while the reminder was going out is no longer sent a second time.
    • Deleting an artist who has bookings no longer removes their portfolio photos.
    • Clearing a service's price now removes it, instead of keeping the old price while saying it was saved.
    • A data export no longer fails because one booking used a service with no price.
    • A stock count with a value that is not a number no longer empties the shelf.
    • Required fields are marked on every form that requires them.
    • Cancelling a file before it finished uploading no longer closes the page.
    • Logging in with a field missing from the form now says the details are wrong, instead of showing an error page.
  4. v0.47.1

    A refused save tells you so

    Fixed
    • When a form will not save, it now says so where you are looking, lists what needs fixing, and takes you to the first one. On a phone the reason was rendered at the top of the form, so from the Save button it looked as though nothing had happened at all.
    • Pressing Save with no connection now tells you that nothing was sent, instead of looking like a button that does not work.
    • An error on a studio's opening time was not shown anywhere.
    • Choosing a client on an enquiry told screen readers nothing when the field was the reason a save was refused.
  5. v0.47.0

    Talking to clients, and who is allowed to

    Added
    • Each client can say how they would rather be reached: email, text, WhatsApp or a phone call. If they have asked you not to text them, that answer wins over the preference, and the screen says so.
    • Clients can be put into groups, so a set of people can be handled together instead of one at a time.
    • You can write a message to one client or to a group, from inside Runavel. Every recipient gets a line in the record, including the ones that were skipped and why, so a send that went to nine out of twelve says which three and for what reason.
    • WhatsApp can be switched on as a channel alongside text messages. Outside the 24 hours after a client writes to you, WhatsApp only allows approved templates, and the screen tells you that before you write rather than after.
    • An enquiry now records what the artist actually works from: a size that is a number and a unit rather than the word "small", which side of the body, whether it is a cover-up or a rework, and whether it is their first tattoo.
    • An enquiry can hold a PDF or a scan, not only a picture, and a photo taken on an iPhone is converted so you can open it instead of being refused.
    • Files can be attached while you are writing an enquiry down, not only after you have saved it and come back - which was the one moment nobody has the pictures to hand.
    • What a file is now depends on where you attached it: something the client sent, a photo of the area, or your own sketch, stencil or scan. They used to all be "reference images".
    Changed
    • An account admin can now be given only the parts of the job they do. Making somebody an admin used to hand over the money screen and the client export along with everything else.
    • The age check on an enquiry records how you established it, not just that you did: a document you looked at, or a judgement about appearance. What protects an artist under UK law is a basis somebody is named on.
    • A photo of a body area cannot be attached to an enquiry until the age check is recorded. Storing a photograph of somebody who turns out to be under 18 is a criminal matter, not a data one.
    • Attachments say what they accept and how big a file may be before you choose one, announce progress as it uploads, and let you take a refused file back off the list.
    Fixed
    • Controls on every screen are the right height and spacing again, after the design system fell seven versions behind.
    • A click that landed in the moment between a page appearing and it becoming live is no longer swallowed.
  6. v0.46.0

    Settings you can find, and forms that tell you what happened

    Added
    • A day can be marked "by appointment" now, instead of only open or closed. Your diary still takes bookings on it, and nothing tells a client you are shut on a day you are working.
    • Opening hours can be copied from the day above, one row at a time, as well as across the whole week. A week where only Saturday differs no longer means typing six rows again.
    • Your studio's settings live in one place with tabs: the studio, your team, your services, what Runavel is connected to, and your data export.
    • A new Integrations tab shows what your Runavel is plugged into, and says in plain words what is not happening while something is switched off. Text reminders being off is the one that has caught people out.
    Changed
    • Every form marks which fields it needs before you press save, taken from the same rule that would refuse the save.
    • The menu separates the work you do every day from the things you set up once.
    • The enquiry form no longer asks for a date of birth. It was being collected and used for nothing: what protects you under UK law is the record that you checked ID, not the date itself.
    Fixed
    • Saving a studio, booking, service, enquiry or client now says that it saved. The confirmation was being thrown away the moment the screen moved on, so every one of those forms went quiet.
    • Sections with nothing in them explain what would be there. Pending invitations used to render a title over an empty box, with nothing to read and nothing to do.
  7. v0.44.1

    The menu stays open, and we can see our own traffic again

    Fixed
    • On a tablet or a phone, opening the menu and then watching it shut itself a second later - before you could press anything in it. Any screen that refreshes itself was closing it.
    • Website analytics had never actually been switched on for the live site, so none of your traffic was being counted. It is on now.
  8. v0.44.0

    More of your clients' data encrypted at rest

    Changed
    • The notes you write about a client or a booking, what a client wrote when they enquired, dates of birth and a guardian's details are now encrypted in the database, alongside the consent answers and signatures that already were. Anyone holding a copy of the database cannot read them.
    • Searching for a client by name, email or phone is untouched - those stay readable on purpose, because encrypting them would stop partial searches working.
  9. v0.43.4

    Erasing a client sits on their own record

    Changed
    • Erasing a client's data has moved from the client list to the client's own page, so you can see whose record you are erasing rather than clicking a red word on a row.
    • The page now says what erasing keeps as well as what it removes: their payments and signed consent forms stay, because you are required to hold those.
  10. v0.43.3

    Less empty space above every list

    Fixed
    • Every list screen had a band of empty space between its title and the search box. The space was reserved for a status message that is usually not there, and the search bar was adding a second gap of its own.