This week opened Kaniva up to the other tools a shop uses, and made the register and checkout steadier.
New this week
Run work orders from the shop floor
Shop-floor tablets and other production software can now connect to Kaniva to pick up and run work orders. You give them a key with the Manufacturing permission under Settings → API.
- Each work order has a Work Center, like plasma-1, so each machine sees only its own jobs
- Start, pause, resume and finish jobs, and record good parts and scrap
- Labour time counts only the minutes actually worked, not the pauses
- Finishing a job uses up its parts, adds the finished product to stock and moves any build-to-order item along
Bookings and calendar, from anywhere
Your calendar and online booking can now be driven from another website or booking widget, and Kaniva can tell your other systems the moment a booking is made, confirmed or cancelled.
- Public developer docs at kaniva.io/developers explain every connection Kaniva offers, with examples
Change a key's permissions without breaking anything
Edit an existing key's name, permissions, limits and expiry under Settings → API without changing the key itself, so the tools using it keep working.
Smaller things that add up
- Point of sale: walk-in sales without an email go through, and sales take stock off the shelf like online orders
- Checkout for digital-only carts is more reliable
- On stores with their own web address, profile, password, blog category and tag pages all work
- Every delete and cancel button asks first, and forms can't be sent twice by a double click, so no more duplicate orders
- Knowledge base suggestions skip non-support calls and merge near-duplicates
Security and reliability
A routine security review found and fixed several issues; there is no sign any were ever used.
What's next
More for the shop floor.