12/22/2025 v2025.16/2025.17

Due to the squeeze of the holidays, we have decided to combine the 2025.16 and 2025.17 releases. The new release dates for on prem are 12/15 and for AWS are 12/22. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope you have a happy holiday season!

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.NET Core 10.0 Requirements for the Elite v2026.01 Release:
In keeping aligned with current Windows software, the update for Elite v2026.01 will require .NET Core 10.0. The newest version of Windows .NET is available through this link: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/10.0.  The required bundle is the 'Hosting Bundle' from the ASP>NET Core Runtime section, under the Windows subsection.  Elite v2026.01 release is tentatively scheduled for Jan, 7, 2026 and Elite Cloud for Jan, 14 2026.  Only users hosting their own servers will need to follow up with this.  If you are on a POR cloud hosted server, this update will be handled for you.

Elite Cloud File Storage:  As we move Elite Cloud forward to a more modern platform, the storage of files that would otherwise happen on the server drive (for things like attachments, instructions, pictures, etc) will be moved to cloud storage.  Users will be able to access these records from a left menu option called ‘File Management’ that has its own security controls.  Over the next several months we will be migrating users in groups.  An email will go out the day before you are migrated informing you.  For more information please reference the uLearn article: File Storage in Elite.

Converted Currency Column on PO Dashboard:
Working with multiple currencies? The PO dashboard now dynamically adds a Currency FX Amount column when any purchase order uses a non-default currency. It displays the currency symbol and the converted total so you can match foreign-currency invoices to the right PO at a glance. When everything is in your home currency, the column politely hides itself.

Weight-Based Allocation of Extra Charges in Purchase Orders:
When a new setting on the Accounting tab of parameters is enabled, freight on a purchase order is distributed across line items based on each item’s weight, while tax and miscellaneous amounts continue to follow price-based allocation. Items without valid weights are excluded from weight-based splits, and if none of the items have weights, the system automatically falls back to price-based allocation. The result is inventory costs that line up with how the real world ships stuff.

Data Access Tool for AWS:  For AWS users, there is now a tool available to pull specific data sets from your database.  The tool itself is easy to download and install from porhelp.com under the Utilities section.  The data views are pulled to a local terminal via an ODBC connection and can then be linked to Power BI, Excel, etc and the data manipulated or used to create reporting.  Your system does have to be enabled to allow access to your database, so please reach out to support when ready.

Customize Product Order on Your Unified Storefront:
Rental Stores can now set the default order of product listings using predefined fields such as Item Name and Web Group, with control over the ascending or descending order. This is enabled per store and includes guardrails to handle missing or unsupported data gracefully. There are no customer-facing sorting controls and no changes to your category menu order. Behind the scenes, we’ve laid the groundwork for future enhancements, including custom sort and price-based sorting, so you can fine-tune merchandising over time.

Delivery and Pickup Details Collected Upon Checkout via Unified Storefront:
Customers can request delivery during checkout and provide addresses and instructions for drop-off and pickup, giving your team the context needed to plan logistics without the back-and-forth. For now, pricing, distance calculations, and real-time delivery costs are handled outside the checkout flow, keeping things simple while matching legacy behavior and paving the way for future automation.

Mobile Product Pages: Rates First and a Handy Sticky Button:
On phones and tablets, product pages now present information in a consistent, conversion-friendly order, Title, Gallery, Rental Rates, Options, Add-ons, then Description and Specs, matching desktop so customers find pricing and attachments faster. The Add to Cart button stays at the bottom of the screen on mobile as you scroll, then politely unsticks when you reach its section (and never sticks on desktop). Accessibility and core interactions, such as photo zoom, variant selection, and add-on pricing, continue to work as expected.

Quick Links That Survive Quote-to-Reservation Changes:
Payment links sent to customers continue to work even after a quote is converted to a reservation. Behind the scenes, we now automatically update the link to point to the current contract, so customers land on the right payment page without error messages or calls to the store. Fewer dead ends, faster payments, and more time for the fun stuff, like celebrating paid contracts.

Consumer Portal: Equipment Tracking with HAPN Live View (Phase I/Beta):
The Consumer Portal adds a My Tracking page with a Google Maps view that plots GPS and non-GPS items by delivery address, clusters nearby pins, and shows item names on click. A Live GPS Tracking button redirects to HAPN’s live view in a new tab and highlights live gps tracking and status. Access respects your login and HAPN user groups, and Elite scrubs device details when items are returned. Heads up: This is a closed beta, so if interested, please contact ecomm@pointofrental.com to gain access to this functionality. 

Consumer Portal & Unified Storefront: Store-Aligned Time Zones

Contract creation, pickup, and return times now display in each store’s local time zone across both the Consumer Portal and Unified Storefront. This ensures clearer planning, especially for companies operating in multiple time zones, and avoids confusion from browser or UTC defaults.
Tip: Confirm each store’s time zone setting to ensure accurate displays.

Unified Storefront: Google Analytics Settings and Business Hours:
In external mode, you can edit business hours on Company Details and have them display in the storefront footer, plus add an hours description for customers. You can also enter your Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, and Hotjar IDs in Company Frontend Configuration to track site activity, and your settings persist after save.

Transfers and the Reorder Report:  This report will now display the quantities on open transfers and adjust the suggested order qty considering this transfer qty.

Sales Rep Notifications for Consumer Portal Payments:
When a contract payment is made via Consumer Portal, the sales rep assigned as the transaction sales rep on the transaction now receives the same receipt sent to the customer by email or SMS based on their notification preference. If no sales rep is assigned or their notification preference is set to None, no notification is sent. 

Drawer Count Available at Any Time:
The ability to count the drawer outside of End of Day is now available.   It can be accessed through the ‘Count Drawer’ option from the deposit slip. This is useful for being able to count your drawer multiple times throughout the day or more importantly, allows the drawer to be counted in the evening and an auto close task set up so that no one has to wait around for end of day to finish before heading home.  Any over/under variances throughout the day will be accounted for in the final figure reported on in the Totals Summary.

Purchase Orders: Apply Button Now Includes "Apply and Set Pricing" Option:
The Apply button now includes a dropdown with "Apply and Set Pricing," giving you a fast way to apply changes and proceed to pricing updates without opening each item.
When you choose "Apply and Set Pricing," the Price Change Review screen opens and defaults to showing all items on the PO, not just those with purchase price changes. This helps you update sell prices for every item in one pass.

Preserve Pickup Dates During Auto Continuation Billing for Long-Term Monthly Contracts:
Auto Continuation Billing now preserves a set pickup date in the final month of long-term contracts written for a 1-month (672-hour) period. The system creates the next contract segment to align due date and hours to the pickup date, helping you avoid missed pickups.

Unattended Auto Continuation Templates Support Cloud Printers:
You can now select cloud printers when creating or editing Unattended Auto Continuation templates and print unattended continued contracts to either cloud or local printers. This helps teams using cloud print instead of VPN remain unblocked. 

Choose One-Way or Round-Trip When Creating Future Transfers:
Transfer logic has always caused some confusion among our users.  When you create a transfer from Item Availability, a contract, or a PO, the system now prompts you to choose one-way or round-trip and sets the transfer accordingly for accurate availability. If no Xfer-Store (ex. A customer with a key of Xfer-1) customer is available, the prompt is skipped and the transfer is treated as one-way. Simply add this transfer customer to see this prompt.  This update makes it very clear to the end user what kind of transfer they are writing.

Rate Adjustment Tool: Smarter Handling of Special Rates:
Adjusting future rates with the Rate Adjustment tool has been tweaked to make managing these store special rates easier.  Setting a new future rate now updates existing open-ended store special rate records by setting their end date to the day before the new rate starts, instead of deleting them. Contract writing also now supports an open-ended and a closed-ended special rate working together, helping you manage promotions without gaps or incorrect pricing.

Dispatch Center: Internal Repairs Removed from Service Tab:
Internal Repair Out (IRO) and Internal Maintenance Out (IMO) contracts no longer appear on the Service tab in Dispatch Center, restoring prior behavior. You will still see external work orders on Service, and internal repairs on the All, Delivery, and Pickup tabs as expected.

Manual Continuation Billing Prompts for Hour Meter Readings Again:
When you continuation bill from the Close menu on contracts with hour-meter items, the hour meter screen now opens with GPS or last recorded hours prefilled.  These can then be overridden as needed. 

External Tax on Credit Card Fees for Account Payments:
If you use credit card fees and a connected tax service, we now calculate tax on those fees during account payments and log the fee transactions with your tax provider. Enjoy cleaner tax reporting, better audit trails, and fewer calculator acrobatics.

Retail/Undiscounted Footer Contract Format and External Tax: The Retail/Undisc footers will now show External sales tax.  This allows a user to send customers the full price version of a contract with the externally calculated tax breakout.

Memory Lane Monday: This is a fun corner where we republish release notes from previous sprints you may have forgotten about.

There are lots of ‘hidden’ features within Elite that can be used to draw attention to specific areas on a record or that prompt specific behavior.  Our Odds and Ends article below outlines the various tricks and how they can impact the efficiency of your business.

https://por.my.site.com/uLearn/s/article/ODDS-and-ENDS-920805078?language=en_US