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News and information from Dive Centre HQ

Email Notifications for Event Participants

Posted on May 07

Email Notifications Mail

Based on your feedback, Dive Centre HQ now delivers customers a reminder email the day before an event begins. This change is the start of a number of enhancements being made to help you improve customer retention and reduce event no-shows.

Depending on whether the customer has paid or not, they will be informed in the reminder email. Alongside the standard content, you also have the ability...


Online Event Booking & Payments

Posted on May 01

Online event booking within the scuba diving industry is starting to gain traction, but with so many generic options out there, it's hard to decide on a solution. There are a number of online event booking systems that provide your customers with the ability to book a course 24/7, however they provide a generic bookin solution, work autonomously and require double-data entry. That's where the...


Product Entry with a Barcode Scanner

Posted on Apr 10

One of the most often feature requests we get for Dive Centre HQ is the ability to use a barcode scanner to add products to a sale. Starting today you’ll be able to do just that. On the new/edit product page, there is now an input field for 'Barcode'. Simply scan in the product barcode and the text value associated will be recorded.

Barcode Input

When you view a product's details, the Barcode will now...


New Live-Search Available

Posted on Mar 29

Live Search

One of the most requested features we’ve been asked to implement is an accurate search feature. This was available in DCHQ version 1 and we've now introduced an improved live-search feature to version 2.

Starting today, you'll see a search bar on the dashboard, people and events pages.  Based on the area of DCHQ you're in, as soon as you start typing, you'll be shown results in...

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New Feature: Accounting Exports in Qif

Posted on Feb 26

Qif Export Screen

One of the new features that went live this week was the introduction of new financial data exports. The technology we are using for these exports is .Qif. Qif has been around for a very long while, and is supported by all major accounting packages including Xero, MYOB, Quickbooks, Wave Accounting, Quicken and more.

While we have rolled out support for .Qif, we're not stopping there. In the...


Hot On The Heels of v2.0, We Bring You v2.1!

Posted on Feb 23

Following on from the successful launch of Dive Centre HQ v2.0, we are proud to introduce yet another significant upgrade! This time round, we bring you:

  • Full accounting exports for MYOB, Quickbooks, Xero and Wave Accounting
  • A brand new embeddable public events calendar
  • Major upgrade to our data import wizard (with auto-complete functionality)
  • New printer options including thermal receipt...

Pricing Plan Update

Posted on Feb 13

Last week we announced the launch of Dive Centre HQ v2.0. With this milestone release, we are also updating our pricing structure.

From the 1st March, 2012, we will be removing the Coral plan from our pricing structure. All customers on the Coral plan will continue to pay the same rate of $29/month until the end of 2012, and will be upgraded to the Turtle plan for no additional charge. Only at...

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Announcing Dive Centre HQ v2.0

Posted on Feb 02

We are proud to announce the launch of Dive Centre HQ v2.0! This is the first release in a line of updates we'll be making over the coming months.

As mentioned in our Christmas newsletter, there are several milestones we're striving for this year. In keeping with our rapid development ethos, we can already tick off several goals on our roadmap. These include:

  • Improved business intelligence and...

v2.0 Launch: Feb 2nd, 9am GMT (4am EST)

Posted on Feb 01

As you're well aware, we are preparing for the launch of Dive Centre HQ v2.0.

By 9am GMT on February 2nd, we expect to have all accounts migrated and live! When you login to v2.0 for the first time, you will be required to reset your password . This is due to further strengthening our data encryption and security settings.

Version 1.0 will still be accessible until the end of February to...


New Feature: Multi-Shop Access

Posted on Nov 19

We've been working on multi-shop support for quite a while and are finally able to release it to the world. This feature is perfect for any dive business spread across multiple physical locations, enabling you to share data between shops. Go to the Settings area in your account and find the "Edit Dive Shops" link in the right hand column.

Events

All events are now linked to a specific shop...