Cilio’s 2024 Holiday Gift: What We’ve Launched to Help Your Business Grow

As we approach the festive season, we at Cilio want to spread some holiday cheer with a special holiday treat highlighting the top launches and feature enhancements we've rolled out in 2024! From smoother installations to data-driven insights, these innovations are all about making your business more efficient and successful in the year ahead.

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Major Launches

1. Cilio Mobile App: Enhance the CiO Experience

Key Features:

- Mobile access for Field Crews with daily schedules, job details, navigation, and more
- Very user-friendly and free from Apple/Android App Stores

Benefits:

- Now easier to use for less-technical team members
- Enhances team efficiency
Read More & Video Clip: https://www.cilio.io/mobile-app/

2. Mobile Measure: Door & Window Measurements in Under 2 Minutes

Key Features:

- More consistent measures across your team
- Office review option can be set by user, with clean “edit & send” option for them
- Will integrate well with Lowes upcoming Digital Detail platform

Benefits:

- Eliminates errors with pre-populated fields and dropdown menus
- Saves time: Storm door measures can be completed in less than 10 clicks!
Read More & Video Clip: https://www.cilio.io/mobile-measure

3. Cilio Data Analytics Platform: Comprehensive Insights for Your Business

Key Features:

- Much improved visual way to view your business
- Advanced reporting tools with customizable data views

Benefits:

- Provides actionable insights into business operations
- Helps you make data driven decisions

4. Q&A Improvements: Streamlined Calculations & Hot Button Pop-Ups

Key Features:

- Our current “Question & Answer” feature now supports calculations too
- Have a question “pop up” automatically when a hot button is clicked

Benefits:

- Easier than ever to collect needed info from your office or field team
- Reduces manual work & ensures accurate data capture
- Simplifies communication and job tracking

5. PDF Signature Improvements: Simplified On-Site Signature Collection

Key Features:

- Collect signatures with a just a few clicks while in the field

Benefits:

- Increases efficiency by eliminating the need for physical paperwork
- Ensures that all job-related documents are signed in a timely manner

6. Rotation Assignments: Refined User & Task Management

Key Features:

- Manage responsible user rotations in a single dedicated panel.

Benefits:

- Saves time when managing user assignments, vacations, and bulk user removals.

7. Sales Items in Preview Pop-Up: Instant Visibility into Sales Orders

Key Features:

- Quickly view sales older items by hovering over the blue computer icon in a job view list

Benefits:

- Provides instant access to sales order information to multiple jobs
- Reduces the need to go into each individual job page

8. Route Editing: Maximize Installer Efficiency

Key Features:

- Easily edit individual routes on the map to optimize mileage and time

Benefits:

- Reduces travel time for installers
- Leads to cost savings and more efficient daily operations

9. Keeping Up with Lowe’s: Meeting New Requirements

Key Features:

- Submit new support requests directly from the Cilio job page
- Send the correct Team Member ID and Renovator when scheduling jobs
- Send the new property occupation status when scheduling Lead Safe jobs

Benefits:

- Ensures full compliance with Lowe’s evolving requirements
- Streamlines your process and reduces errors

10. New List View Fields: Simplified Job Overview

Key Features:

- Ability to view PO and Crew Pay totals in list views

Benefits:

- Allows for easy access to job cost and crew compensation
- Easier to track budgets and payouts

11. Additional Crew Pay Flexibility: Streamlined Payroll Management

Key Features:

- Calculate Crew Pay based on responsible user assignments, even before the appointment is scheduled
- Option to calculate Crew Pay for both users when applicable

Benefits:

- Gives you greater flexibility in managing payroll
- Ensures your team is compensated correctly for their work

12. Blinds.com Integration: Simplify Work Scheduling for Home Depot

Key Features:

- Full API services for receiving and scheduling work via Blinds.com, specifically for Home Depot-related jobs

Benefits:

- Optimize your process for managing Blinds.com jobs
- Allows you to schedule work more efficiently

13. IME Integration Enhancements: Improved Data Syncing

Key Features:

- Sign COC (Certificate of Completion) link integration
- Execute status changes based on IME data

Benefits:

- Enables seamless syncing with IME
- Improves data accuracy and reduces manual input errors

14. Easy Job Creation: Quick Start for New Projects

Key Features:

- Easily create new jobs from your home page with the updated Public Forms feature

Benefits:

- Saves time and simplifies job creation
- Allows you to get projects off the ground faster

A Merry Wrap-Up to 2024: A Year of Transformation and What's to Come!

2024 has been a year of marvelous achievements at Cilio, and we're thrilled to have contributed to the streamlining of your installation business with new and innovative features. From our mobile app to data analytics, we've been focused on giving you the tools to boost efficiency and enhance your operations. But this is just the beginning—2025 is shaping up to be another year packed with exciting announcements, new launches, and even more ways to simplify your workflow. Stay tuned for all the amazing updates we have in store to make your business easier and more profitable than ever!