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title: "August 2025"
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Here’s what’s new this month to make your experience smoother and more flexible.

**Highlights**

- Build and reuse your own question sets directly within planograms for a flexible and scalable setup.
- Simplify visit tracking with clear statuses and visit types for every entry.
- Set a custom max distance for each branch to override the company-wide default.

**And more below!**

## **The All New Planogram Builder - Your Questions. Your Rules.**

We’ve upgraded the planogram experience! You can now **build and customize your own question sets **directly within each planogram and tailor them exactly to your needs. Whether it’s for one store or a hundred, reuse your saved questions across different planograms to save time and stay consistent. It’s flexible, scalable, and builds your planograms exactly the way you need them.

![New Planogram Module.png](media://d6b2c717-1894-40e6-a8fa-f795db755d3b)

## **Simpler Visit Management**

We’re updating the branch visit system to make it more intuitive. Soon, all visits will have clear **statuses** (Done, Missed, Pending, Skipped, Cancelled) and must be linked to a **visit type**. Existing visits will automatically be labeled as **Regular (Planned)** or **Extra Mission (Unplanned)**, and on the** mobile app**, selecting a visit type will be required when adding a visit to the schedule.

**What do these terms mean?**

- **Planned visits** → Added at the start of the cycle and follow a predefined schedule.
- **Unplanned visits** → Added later, often for emergencies or extra tasks not part of the original plan.
- **Scheduled visits** → Created by admins through the portal (can be planned or unplanned).
- **Adhoc visits** → Created by field reps from the mobile app (always unplanned).

![Screen Shot 2025-08-29 at 16.50.03-20250829-135005.png](media://fc0363f2-d6ae-4d15-91eb-141b8c918add)

## **Custom Max Distance per Branch**

You can now set a **custom max distance at the branch level**. The new **Max Distance (m) **field is available in the **branch info form **and** import templates.**

If a value is set for a branch, it overrides the company-wide max distance; if left empty, the company setting applies.

![Screen Shot 2025-08-29 at 16.29.13-20250829-133029.png](media://30b3053b-5e1c-40ae-b7b0-db3a7fe8d23a)

## **Extended Background Task Progress**

We’ve extended the Background Tasks feature to cover more bulk uploads. In addition to SKUs and Warehouses, you can now also track progress when uploading **Journey Plans** and **Stores/Branches**. This ensures you always see the real-time status of your imports and can quickly identify any failures.

## **Column Layout in More Reports**

The **Column Layout** feature (show/hide columns) is now available in **Expiry Reports, VAR, Summary, and Data Bank reports**. This gives you the flexibility to view only the data that matters most, just like in other reports where column layout is already supported.

![Screen Shot 2025-08-29 at 16.38.29-20250829-133922.png](media://1cc24805-2358-47a3-9ec4-6aff11cef198)

## **Price Collection: Complete All Fields**

We’ve added a new option to ensure all price fields are completed before a visit can be submitted. This update ensures complete and reliable data in your Price Collection reports. It can be enabled through the security tag **“Fill all data in Price Collection module”.**

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> Build and reuse custom planogram question sets, simplify visit tracking with clear statuses and visit types, and set branch-level max distance controls for more accurate check-ins.