Well, I guess that was an August. Another month of staying at home, staying indoors, watching Netflix and waiting for the world to get back to normal. But hey! We’ve definitely caught up on our backlog of YouTube videos we wanted to watch, so there’s that.

On that note, we’re pleased to say we’ve just put up a new how-to video to help folks get the most out of Quail, this time diving into the ancient and mysterious world of gift certificates. As always, let us know what you think and if these are helpful, and definitely let us know if there’s something you’re confused about that you think would make a good how-to video.


Using Gift Certificates in Quail

In terms of new features it’s been kind of a slow month – we’ve got a bunch of really nifty things we’re working on, but none of them are quite ready for the light of day yet. But in the meantime we were doing a pass over email receipts and discovered – tragically! – that basically no one knows that you can use Quail to email receipts to your customers. It’s a little bit hidden right now, we’ll admit, but if you click the Receipts button on the new transaction screen, you can see a little list of your recent sales:


The most recent one is right there at the top, and if you click the little envelope icon next to it Quail will ask you for the customer’s email address and send them their receipt:


In the background Quail is quietly saving all these email addresses for you; in our next update we’re looking to add a way for you to download a list of all your customers that you can use to do a little marketing. We’re pretty terrible at marketing ourselves, but we hear it’s a thing that some of you…might…be quite good at.

(Also, while we’re here: if you ever need to print a gift receipt, click the little green gift icon next to a sale.)

Keep cool (and avoid those campaign ads),

-- Trevor & Chris