July 2008 Archives

With our experience deploying enterprise security systems, VISA auditing, and PCI compliance, security has been a focus of ours from day one.  

Today we're adding three third-party application security audit certifications, as you'll now see at the bottom of the public tavestudio.com homepage:

These third-parties regularly audit us to verify we're secure and encrypting traffic.

We'll be adding additional independent certificates soon.

Update (8/2/08):

We've added an Extended Validation certificate to our application, which means you'll now see the "green bar" of a trusted site in Internet Explorer 7 or Firefox 3:





Accordingly, we've also updated the login panel, including the latest information:

Did you know that you can have the system automatically add tasks and work to a job when a client accepts a quote?   Use this under-utilized default work system to track more of your work while spending less time setting up the job.

When you edit a product, look for the "Work to create when ordered" module at the bottom left, as seen in this screenshot from the "Sample Album" product included in the sample data when you create your studio:



Use the "Add Work or Task" link to create the items.   However they look when you edit them here, is how they'll look when you sell the products.

When you set a Job Phase for the item, the task won't be due until the job reaches that phase.  As always, once a job is booked (when a client accepts a quote), you can set the phase of the job just by clicking the progress bar at the top of the Job Editor:

I'm sure it will come up in our next newsletter, but I wanted to share this tip sooner rather than later...

Among the many new features we've added recently, we added a few HUDs (Heads Up Displays) to the system.   We'll be adding more HUDs as we go (if you have specific places you'd like to see more pop-up info like this, let us know!).

Two useful HUDs:

On the availability overview, move your mouse over a day with events and you'll get a quick summary of each one: