Rheaply Release Notes
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December 6, 2023
What’s new:
For all users using the Visibility inventory management software, you’ll notice new options for Conditions. Now when you search for items, you’ll have the option to filter by “New”, “Like new or open box”, and even “Unspecified“. These conditions are aligned with the options in our Circulate marketplace software.
You’ll notice that “Excellent” is no longer a Condition. Instead, users can indicate if an item is “New” or “Like new or open box”. This provides distinction between new and used items, while also providing a stronger description for used items of the highest quality.
While these changes are small, they are another example of ensuring consistency across the entire Rheaply platform.
November 9, 2023
What’s new:
We’ve pushed sweeping enhancements to Rheaply’s search experience. From new filters to a massive overhaul of our list of Categories, we’re working hard to ensure you can quickly find exactly what you’re looking for. Follow along as our Product Manager, Alex T., shows these enhancements in action:
October 31, 2023
What’s new:
We know it’s a team effort to bring any project across the finish line. Our newest feature, aptly named Projects, allows for on-platform collaboration to coordinate listings, offers, people, and timelines.
Whether browsing items to consider for an upcoming office refresh or claiming the chairs needed at next week’s seminar, you and your team can work simultaneously on multiple projects and contribute to a shared goal. With reuse built in from the jump, your high-impact project will have a low impact on the environment.
You may see our old navigation in this video. No worries though, Projects still looks and functions the same!
October 27, 2023
What’s new:
Today we released a number of new features to enhance how users can collaborate on a listing and share ownership of an exchange.
Right away you’ll see that we renamed the “owner” field to “listing manager.”
You can add multiple listing managers to a single listing. Just use the dropdown to select which users to add.
All listing managers have the ability to manage offers and orders for the listing, and will see them in their Selling tab.
With multiple listing managers, Messages now support group chat! All listing managers can participate in the conversation to ensure the interested buyer has whatever information they need to support the transaction.
September 26, 2023
What’s new:
PDF export for Visibility is here! Admins now have the ability to export the results of a filtered report to a PDF file. Now, when non-user stakeholders at your organization inquire about Rheaply’s inventory management tool, you can send them a PDF report that includes a title page with information about the filters applied, item count breakdowns by status and condition, an image of the product, and all of the product information stored in Visibility.
Take a look!
While not a groundbreaking feature update, we know this new capability will come in handy for organizations using Rheaply for their decommission. As often happens, decommissions are highly specific — all except one floor of a building could be part of a decommission. By filtering the Products report for the correct floors and the included categories of products, Rheaply users can export the precise list of everything that’s to be decommissioned and share the PDF directly with any partners supporting the effort. We look forward to watching this in action.
September 20, 2023
What’s new:
You know that bar at the top of every website with the icons and words that when clicked take you to different sections of the site? Well, we just updated ours — and moved it to the side!
After accumulating feedback from clients and users, we’ve implemented a new structure to our platform navigation. Check out what’s new. ⤵️
Side nav:
- You’ll immediately notice that the navigation is primarily on the left side. Now you can more easily toggle between the sections you interact with the most, like Cart and Messages.
- Buying and Selling are directly accessed from the left side too.
- Browse all takes you right into your marketplace so you can see everything that’s available to you.
Top right corner:
- Your Profile and Notifications didn’t move, but from here you can access a range of options including Help Chat and your organization’s About page.
July 25, 2023
What’s new:
When it comes to acquiring things from the internet, we know communication can facilitate a smoother exchange. Which is precisely why we’ve pushed a bunch of improvements to Messaging on Circulate. These new capabilities include:
- Filtering messages by user, listing, or status
- A better preview card for the Listing, Offer or Order associated with a conversation
- Automated event notifications within your conversations
- New automated default first message
- Attaching the listing to a message when messaging the seller (even before you make an Offer)
By improving the communication experience between our users, we hope to support smoother (and faster!) resource exchange. Check it out, then try it out!
July 24, 2023
What’s new:
We’ve got two updates for Visibility folks!
The first is that users can now adjust the image size for products and items directly within the platform. On any page or view, you can change the image size to be small, medium, or large depending on your preference. It’s a simple enhancement but we’ve heard from users just how helpful this will be as they navigate Visibility.
Secondly, we’ve made it possible to export a .csv for Saved searches. Filter by whatever you’re looking for and save that search. When exported, that list now includes all of the item level details like the asset tag, a link to the item itself, its status, condition and, most importantly, location. This capability allows you to quickly pull accurate data so you can know what you have and where it’s at.
July 10, 2023
What’s new:
We’re making data easier to find and export on Visibility. Users can now filter their Inventory, Products report, or Saved searches by Condition and Location. We’ve also added more details to the Products Report when it’s downloaded as a .csv. These improvements will allow Rheaply to more easily integrate into our customers’ existing technology & business process ecosystems.
July 7, 2023
What’s new:
We’re starting Q3 with a bang (anyone else still blasting Katy Perry’s “Firework”?) with two exciting product releases to share today.
The first is an overhaul to the preview display for listings on Rheaply. Previously, previews only showed boilerplate language about Rheaply and didn’t include relevant information about the product itself. Here’s what it used to look like when a Rheaply listing was shared over Slack:
But now, the preview features the image of the item as well as detailed information about it. It is our intention that this improvement will entice more folks to click and engage with your listings when you share them off Rheaply, to help facilitate resource exchange even faster.
We currently support enhanced sharing on the following platforms: LinkedIn, Twitter, Discord, Slack, iMessage. Please note that you will see different metadata depending on the platform to which the Rheaply listing URL is shared. For example, Slack will show the description in the preview, whereas LinkedIn will not.
Our second release affects all Visibility users: Visibility now provides full in-app audit transparency on both Products and Items! The Activity Log tracks changes to item-level data giving Visibility users full transparency into who is updating Products and/or Items in their Inventory. This allows teams using Rheaply to see who has made changes to an Item’s status or condition, enhancing collaboration across buildings and offices.
June 12, 2023
What’s new:
To all of our inventory management users patiently waiting, Suggestions powered by AI is now at your service! Just as it does for our Circulate users, Suggestions for Visibility makes it so easy to fill out product listings. Simply include the item’s title, manufacturer, and category and Rheaply’s AI butlers will fill in suggestions for description, weight, length, width, height, volume, materials, finishes, and fabrics. This added level of detail not only helps collaborators and team members better understand your organization’s listed items, but accounting for weight and market value leads to more accurate reporting so you can better measure the value they are getting from Rheaply.
June 9, 2023
What’s new:
Check out the improved experience for supply-side Public Reuse Marketplace users! Organizations can now choose to have full access to Rheaply’s Public Reuse Marketplace (both buying and selling) or to keep it simple and list their available items to it. For organizations who only want to list their surplus items for Public Reuse, they can do so and their browsing experience will only feature the items available to them through internal reuse at their organization. This level of access control makes it possible for more organizations to enjoy the benefits of Public Reuse.
Public Reuse with Rheaply is a marketplace of current Rheaply clients and users who want to tap into a larger network for their asset exchange. Public Reuse is totally optional and is perfect for any organization seeking to increase the visibility of their available assets so they can be sold and moved even faster. If you’re interested in learning more, please contact your customer success manager.
Additionally, the homepage now includes a “New in your area” feed so that users can quickly see which items are available near them. We hope this encourages more exchange at the local level. Give it a go!
May 17, 2023
What’s new:
Don’t mind us, just using AI magic to make your life easier. Introducing Suggestions ✨
Powered by AI, Suggestions helps Circulate users create listings faster by automatically populating an item’s description, weight, and market value solely based on the title.
We heard from users (and have experienced ourselves) just how time consuming and tedious it is to fill out the item description details for marketplace listings. But after simply entering the title of your item, Suggestions will recommend all the relevant details which can be revised as desired. This new capability helps users get their supply onto Rheaply with speed. It also ensures that weight and market value are included for every listing so that users can have more accurate reporting on the value they are getting from Rheaply.
May 15, 2023
What’s new:
Hot diggity, more updates to Visibility! We’ve made improvements that add predictability to the user experience and better performance. We’re returning search results more accurately with tags, applying filters/sort holistically, and updated the following:
– Faster and more stable reindexing
– Added back the review check mark for product sets
– Fixed error in product codes
Check it out!
May 9, 2023
What’s new:
A smattering of Circulate UI changes for your eyes to feast on including updated icons, new app loading screen, new offline fallback page, and page titles. We’ve also implemented some privacy enhancements and removed individual names, company names, and attachments from the public listings view. And the Circulate & Visibility integration continues on, ensuring engineering best practices and efficiencies.
May 4, 2023
What’s new:
Our two products – Circulate & Visibility – had their first integration experience! It feels like our family dog just met our newborn baby for the first time ?. While the full integration is still underway, this connection makes it possible for items moved for reuse through Circulate to be updated accordingly in the users’ Visibility inventory management system.
Now, supply and demand-side users within the same organization can see what’s happening with their items in real time, making circularity at their organization even more accessible.
April 24, 2023
What’s new:
Updates to Visibility, influenced by feedback from our users. We heard three clear pieces of feedback that informed this release:
1) the ability to perform bulk actions to all items of a product;
2) removing case sensitivity from keyword searches in order to return greater results;
and 3) deleting saved searches that are no longer needed.
While these updates may sound small, they bring more trust and credibility to our inventory management platform.
April 12, 2023
What’s new:
Rheaply’s Sr. Director of Product said it best, “We’ve released a potpourri of fixes and enhancements ???.” So let’s give ‘em a sniff!
Rheaply Circulate users can now upload HEIC photos! Gone are the days of frustrating photo file conversion that prevented iPhone users from quickly uploading photos of their items on the platform. Geolocation is now improved so users can trust the accuracy of filtering by location. Other enhancements include the ability to sort listings awaiting approval so that posters and admins can better manage the status of their listings.
Smell ya next time!
April 7, 2023
What’s new:
Major UX improvements to Rheaply’s inventory management platform, Visibility, to remove friction from everyday processes. Now, users can add more customization to their inventory view and distinguish between items and products when creating records. Accidentally delete a bunch of items at once? No sweat, friends. Deleted items can be restored, so our users can use Visibility with ease. These improvements help to ensure that Rheaply becomes an integral and natural part of how our users manage their inventory.
