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Central-Ops > A Refreshed Look

Central-Ops has had a visual refresh to match Triple D Software's updated website branding. This is a cosmetic change only, so nothing about how the app works has changed, just how it looks.

The new palette of navy, cyan, and watermelon now runs across the app, including:

• A navy navigation sidebar with cyan highlights for the page you're on
• Cyan primary buttons, links, and filter pills
• Refreshed tile section headers, dashboards, and the calendar picker
• Redesigned status pills on the Operations job list, with a coloured dot and a lighter, easier-to-read style
• Softer colours on the Allocations Gantt and Workshop schedule cards

Current style

New style

Dashboards > Trend Charts

The Sales, People, and Accounting dashboards now show trend charts above their existing summary tiles, giving you an at-a-glance view of how things are tracking over time. Each page has a time-range selector to switch the charts between periods, and the charts respect the depot filter already on the page.

Key capabilities

• Sales: a Revenue Pipeline chart comparing booked revenue against quoted (not-yet-won) revenue by month, and a Quote Conversion Rate chart.
• People: an Active Staff monthly trend, and a Leave Days by Category chart that uses each category's configured colour.
• Accounting: a Booked Revenue by month chart and an Invoices Created per month chart.

Revenue charts attribute each trip to the month it actually runs, so a booking with trips in different months is split across those months rather than counted all at once.

Note: The Accounting charts appear only when Accounts Receivable integration is enabled. Without it, the page looks exactly as it does today.

New trend charts on the People page

Fleet Tablet > Route Directions

Drivers running a route service job can now get on-screen directions on the fleet tablet. Once the route and departure time are selected, the tablet shows a live map with the route line to drive, every stop on the trip, and the bus's current position — so drivers can follow the route with confidence, even when taking over a route partway through.

Key capabilities

• Map and stop list: The route line to drive, a marker at every stop, and the bus's live GPS position, alongside a stop list showing each upcoming stop and its scheduled time.
• Driving notes where they matter: Where operations have added notes for a section (for example "Left onto Station St, use the bus gate"), the note appears between the two stops it applies to. Elsewhere, drivers simply follow the line on the map.
• Automatic progress: As the bus reaches each stop, GPS advances the trip to the next stop automatically — no input needed. Drivers can also step forward or back, or jump to a specific stop, when starting mid-route or after a GPS dropout.

See the full guide: Route directions

Sales > Route Planner — Quoting with Google Maps

Sales staff can now build a quote's trip visually on a Google map. The new Route Planner lays out where a trip starts, the customer stops along the way, and where it ends, showing the pins and driving directions along with the distance and travel time for each leg — and it makes empty (deadhead) running easy to spot, helping you plan itineraries and gauge distances and travel times. The figures are a planning aid and aren't written into kilometre-based pricing options automatically. See the full guide: Route Planner — quoting with Google Maps.

Operations > Live Vehicle Tracking

Operations staff can now see where fleet vehicles are right now on a Google map. Live Vehicle Tracking (under Operations) shows each vehicle at its last known GPS position with its direction of travel, speed and driver, colour-codes show how fresh each position is, and refreshes automatically (or near real-time with Live (5s)). You can filter by asset, depot, driver or job, and jump straight to a vehicle from the Jobs list via Show on Map. Positions are reported by the in-vehicle tablet while a driver is logged in. See the full guide: Live Vehicle Tracking.

Workshop Kiosk > Portrait Mode on Tablets