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Adilas.biz Developer's Notebook Report - All to All - (31)
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Adi 1532 GUI - Campgrounds 9/1/2019  

1/10/24 Marisa emailed the following evaluation of needs for Adilas:

To be honest, no, we would not be ready to move over. Adilas has quite a ways to go to be ready for the hospitality industry, especially for campgrounds/parks of our size. I would say if you wanted to look at your biggest competitor it would be RezExpert. That is the only software that we seriously thought about switching to but ultimately decided to stick with what we have due to price. Our only cost at this time using Campground Master is $100/year for any upgrades and customer service. 


There is a lot that is needed to make Adilas ready for the hospitality industry including:
  • Full grid display of sites vs. booked reservations vs. available dates (think like an excel spreadsheet style layout with column and rows and customizable color grids for display of current bookings vs. availability)
  • Ability to upload campground site map and secure bookings based on specific site numbers
  • Waitlist options for people who didn't get their requested dates or specific requests on sites or locations
  • Split/move reservations where the customer is booked in one site for X amount of days and then moving to a different site for remaining X amount of days and have those two reservations be linked in some way
  • Multiple reservations syncing where one customer is booking for multiple parties but only paying the deposit for each site, then at check-in the remaining balance is due by each respective party
  • Ability to "block" or "lock up" sites that are currently under maintenance or being held for various reasons
  • Reports: On Site report to list who is currently staying, Arrival report to list who will be checking in on a certain day, and Departure report to list who will be checking out on a certain day.
  • Front end customer booking UI would need to be much more robust and user friendly 
  • In general, Adilas would need to be more user friendly for people of the older generation to work with. Right now, as it stands, it isn't the most user friendly software on the market. A lot of clicks to navigate to certain areas, POS is complicated with too many clicks to get to checkout/payment, and financial system isn't as intuitive or integrative like Quickbooks is (we have the ability to link our bank account(s) directly into Quickbooks and it pulls our monthly bank statement for easy bookkeeping and balancing, as well as setting up rules for automatically categorizing each transaction with a specific Chart of Accounts so all we have to do, is scroll through the import and make sure it looks right and select Verify. It's so simple, it's life changing).
  • Servers would need to be reliable. Right before I stopped working there, the servers were going down quite a bit and with a campground that fully operates based on payments at the time of booking and checking in, it would be necessary. 
  • The cost would need to be lower. As a private RV park whose operations are part-time for each year, our profit margins are already so small that even a monthly charge of $287/mo would be too high for us. That's almost $3,500/year whereas your competitors are much lower. I understand that Adilas is an all-in-one solution but campgrounds only need 4 things to operate...scheduling, client management, POS and financials. They don't want to pay for all the additional "packages" when they aren't using them. 
I hope that this doesn't come off as rude or negative, it's just facts based on what is needed in this industry and for us as a campground to personally make the switch. Especially now that I have been put in charge of managing an RV park of this size and know the pain points of the softwares that are currently out there. The competition is REALLY high with programs like RezExpert, Campspot, Cloudbeds, and Campground Master. Some of these current competitors have been in this specific industry for more than 20 years building and expanding on their products. It's a tough industry to get into when the software isn't designed specifically for it. As I stated, Charles and I did a ton of work to draw up exactly what would be needed to even get a foothold within the industry. It would take hours of work and thousands of dollars but, in my opinion, it will be the only way to bust into that market. 

I hope this helps and I will be glad to continue to provide feedback and answer any questions you guys might have throughout the process. 

Graphical User Interface for Campground owners.  

Link to xd share https://xd.adobe.com/view/5c903c5b-0451-4fca-5613-5ed795812d1e-2aa1/ 

We have had a number of meetings on this project, here are some other resources and meeting notes. Many of the different notes have screenshots to show the development of the project and where it is at and/or going. See below for more details.

Meeting on 10/10/19 - click to see meeting notes and screenshots - research and ideas

Meeting on 10/15/19 - click for notes and screenshots - concept art and mock-ups

Meeting on 10/29/19 - click for notes and screenshots - more mock-ups

Meeting on 10/31/19 - click for notes and screenshots - mock-ups of the revenue and expenses sections

Meeting on 11/7/19 - click for notes and screenshots - first full mock-up - multiple pages and topics

Meeting on 11/12/19 - click for notes and screenshots - full mock-up plus some mobile screenshots

Meeting on 11/19/19 - click for notes and screenshots - mock-ups for mobile

Meeting on 11/21/19 - click for notes and screenshots - more mock-ups for mobile

Meeting on 11/26/19 - click for notes and screenshots and a video of the meeting (virtual tour of the app to date) - full mock-ups and mobile mock-ups

Meeting on 12/3/19 - click for a couple of screenshots - moving from graphic concept into first round of coding.

Meeting on 12/5/19 - click for notes and screenshots - mock-ups from graphics to code

Meeting on 12/10/19 - click for notes and screenshots - more mock-ups from graphics to code

Meeting on 12/12/19 - click for notes and screenshots - code mock-ups - playing with different backgrounds

Meeting on 12/17/19 - click for notes and screenshots - code mock-ups

Meeting on 12/19/19 - click for notes and screenshots - code mock-ups and browser testing

Meeting on 1/23/20 - click for notes and screenshots - starting into the customer side - new website mock-up for WanderWays

Demo video 1/28/20 - click to view demo (youtube) - 3 minute video to showcase the product to date - marketing efforts

Meeting on 2/12/20 - click for notes and screenshots - new website almost done and interactions between designer and backend code writers

Meeting on 2/19/20 - click for notes and screenshots - new color pickers and settings for look and feel

Promo video provided by Marisa on 2/26/20 - youtube video - 3 minute promo

Meeting on 2/26/20 - click for notes and screenshots - working through settings and starting into project management

Meeting on 3/21/20 - click for notes and screenshots - Working on settings, color pickers, site admin, roles & permissions

There was a small break in the project and we had to set it by the side, dealing with funding, and availability. There were a few small meetings and progress, but nothing major to report.

Meeting on 7/22/20 - click for notes - Meeting to get the project back on track and moving forward.

Meeting on 9/2/20 - click for notes and screenshots and a new mock-up - Reporting on the customer frontend pages and application.

 
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Shop 5446 General 1/23/2020  

Meeting with an outside developer who is setting up a custom VPS with some data for a company to run his own analytics. This developer was hired by the company to run some other reports and such through his own environment. Our job is to supply the VPS with a copy of the live data so that the developer has a working model and environment that he can play with. Awesome idea and concept.

Anyways, we went over some database stuff, mappings, key fields, data relationships, and how things tie in together. We did some drawings and other tech talk stuff. As a fun side note, it would be really cool if we have some of this same stuff (what makes it tick) really documented out so that other developers (ours and outside developers) could tap in and play. That would be super cool. Future project. As an idea, maybe a tech mode (similar to the education mode or data mode or permission mode) for the fracture stuff. In tech mode, we could get into the nitty gritty details of how things flow, connections, data relationships, decision trees, conditions and conditional logic, switches, validation, keys, etc. Super techy stuff. The tech mode would talk to the developers, programmers, and/or the curious persons who want to see the backend logic and design.

Recording notes and adding documentation to the different entries and elements of time. Lots of fun screenshots in the past couple of days. Here are some fun entries:

https://data0.adilas.biz/top_secret/time_web_gallery.cfm?corp=22&id=1532 - WanderWays - camp adilas project

https://data0.adilas.biz/top_secret/time_web_gallery.cfm?corp=748&id=5530 - WanderWays website prototype project

https://data0.adilas.biz/top_secret/time_web_gallery.cfm?corp=748&id=5864 - internal adilas mock-ups - fracture project

 
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Shop 5873 General 1/28/2020  

Emails, recording notes, uploading videos and content, and reviewing some marketing stuff for the Wanderways - camp adilas project. See this element of time for current progress.

 
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Shop 5863 Meeting with Chuck 1/29/2020  

We had a few of the guys on the meeting to start with. We had Alan, Steve, Dustin, Chuck, and myself on the meeting. Chuck and I started out going over some topics from the new promo videos for WanderWays. This is a new video that Marisa created for introducing the product and then pitching it to campgrounds. Fun stuff. Chuck has it under control and will get with Marisa to work on tweaking a few small pieces. Great start.

We then switched gears and talked about some of the bootstrap layouts for the existing adilas site. See the screenshots for more details. Lots of new pages and pushing them towards the current snow owl theme (bootstrap layouts). Currently there are about 5-6 pages that we are reworking.

We then went over some of the other WanderWays stuff. We looked at some new code and layout on the tool side as well as new code on the promotional or marketing side of things. Great progress. Towards the end of the meeting, Alan and I were talking with Chuck about some project management stuff and also getting another developer involved to help with some of the new code changes and wire jobs that are needed. Plans keep unfolding and we are trying to keep moving forward. That is fun.

 
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Shop 5868 Meeting with Jonathan 1/30/2020  

We invited a couple of the guys to meet with Jonathan today. The main topic was the shopping cart or internal cart. So many things go on inside of the cart. It really is a heart or very viable piece of the equation. On the meeting today we had Chuck, Alan, Steve, Jonathan, and myself. Chuck started out by showing a few shopping carts and point of sale (POS) options from his WanderWays - camp adilas project.

Jonathan then showed us around some of the things that he is prototyping, including the custom navigation options, settings, and custom configuration pieces. We also went over things like the education mode, simplified searches (hide search form fields until needed and/or wanted), and combined searches. Lots of stacking, tabs, and just in time access menus.

After that, I did a small demo on how the cart works and how things get configured and used inside of the internal shopping cart. We switched carts, we did discounts, assigned customers, restored quotes to cart, added notes, payments, and all kinds of options. See attached for a small video recording of the walk through.

The last part of the meeting was dealing with some critiques and ideas from the different guys on the meeting. Good stuff and making progress.

Updated - as of 2/3/20, two new video links were added (see attached) for concepts of the invoice mode (mock-up for fake data) and also a proposal for the education mode and how adilas fracture interface could inter connect with the adilas café project. See the attached videos for some overviews.

 
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Shop 5897 Meeting with Chuck 2/5/2020  

Meeting with Chuck and a new developer named John Peterson from the Logan, UT area. We had a fun meeting and went through some introductions, had a small Q and A session, and went over some project details. All of us were using webcams for this meeting. We don't often do that. Planning for the future, we are planning on having Chuck, Russell, and John work together as a small team of developers, designers, and project managers. Exciting times.

I will get the non-compete and non-disclosure documents over to John and Chuck and Russell will help get him going. We also briefly talked about other future options that may play out, depending on how this little arrangement works out. On a different note, we at adilas are really grateful for these guys/gals who are willing to help us out and play the game with us. Lots of moving pieces.

After John left, Chuck and I went over a few things dealing with WanderWays - camp adilas and some design decisions. Chuck is going to be organizing resources and assets to help standardize the process. Basically a style guide of sorts. We are using the WanderWays project as somewhat of a guinea pig project to help figure out some of these things. We also went over a few new layout options, some new code enhancements and even some fun pricing stuff. Chuck is adding in some flavor (light jokes and play on words) into the pricing matrix. Fun stuff.

 
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Shop 5966 Meeting with Chuck 2/12/2020  

Meeting with Chuck and getting a report on where things and different projects are at. Chuck and I spent the first half an hour on the meeting by ourselves. After that, we had Alan join us. Some of the topics today were progress on the standards and style guide, the code changes and layout for the WanderWays (camp adilas) toolset, tons of new development on the WanderWays customer facing marketing site. Looking good.

The whole last half of the meeting was Alan and Chuck asking questions about the WanderWays backend tool and going from rough layout and code into tech requirements for wire-up and development. Alan had a full page of questions and we went through each one and made notes and decisions. Fun process.

See attached for some screenshots.

 
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Shop 5991 General 2/12/2020  

General clean-up for the day and recording notes. Pushed up a bunch of new screenshots from a meeting with Chuck and Alan.

https://data0.adilas.biz/top_secret/time_web_gallery.cfm?corp=748&id=5966 - screenshots for WanderWays website and the camp adilas project

 
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Shop 5990 Meeting with Chuck 2/19/2020  

Met with Chuck and Alan for a weekly check-up meeting. We talked about project management and I sent Chuck a copy of a document that we've been reading and reviewing. After that we talked about the adilas shopping cart and how to help that project out. Chuck is going to organize a meeting with some of our designers and developers to talk about the cart and how to do a full re-write. We got a bid from a developer, and it is looking like it would be around $20,000 (ish).

After our meeting on the cart, we jumped into a small review of the WanderWays tool - camp adilas project. Chuck has been working on the look and feel settings page. See attached for a couple of screenshots. By way of an update, the settings were getting to be so many that Chuck had to redesign and reuse the space better. Lots of work is going into that. Also, as he is going over all of the needed settings, it is helping to refine what is actually needed and how best to set things up and organize those values. For example: all the colors in one spot, all of the font types, and all of the possible background options. Everything needs its own spot.

The last topic of the day was planning for the future. We talked about setting up some of these current projects with an outlook (plan) and setup for future projects.

 
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Shop 5910 General 2/25/2020  

We were going to do some developer training but decided not to this week. Instead, we ended up just taking care of odds and ends. Bryan joined the meeting and we went over a small project that he has for promotion codes outside in ecommerce. His project is going to be really simple and will store and hold things in a simple JSON object. We talked about how, at some point, he will need to beef this project up and help build it out a little bit more. The first round will be really quick and small and then we'll circle back around and add more functionality as needed.

Towards the end of the call, Chuck joined and ran some screens past me. They are in the WanderWays tool - camp adilas project and adding in new inventory items. We went over what he has and also what we have in the main system. Good meeting.

 
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Shop 6051 Meeting with Chuck 3/4/2020  

Both Alan and Chuck were on the meeting. We covered a number of topics today. Just as a reminder, here is what I had in my notes: Talked about getting some funding through grants, direction on the internal shopping cart, color pickers, project management and specs for WanderWays (Chuck and Alan doing documentation), item/product management page, discount settings, meter read items, keeping running tabs or running totals on invoices (long stay invoices and options), things on account and/or multiple payments, online bill pay, multi invoice statements, icon pickers, site builder pages, sites and sub locations, bulk edit tools, handling work orders, dealing with cash drawers, hardware/software requirements, and permissions for things like refunds. Busy meeting but some great topics. Wonderful report.

See attached for a number of screenshots.

 
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Shop 6054 Meeting with Chuck 3/18/2020  

Chuck and I were on a check in meeting. He was reporting on WanderWays (camp adilas toolset) and where things are at there. He is working through the code and making great progress. Last week, we ended up talking about other things and I didn't give him time to report on where he was at. See attached for some screenshots. Most of his current work has been focused on color pickers, wiring those color pickers up, add/edit sites page, bulk edit, some UI (user interface) decisions, and work orders. He has also been doing a little bit of research on other verticals and industry specific needs.

 
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Shop 6310 Meeting with Chuck 5/20/2020  

Chuck and I had a good meeting. We went over some existing projects and progress reports on each of those. Chuck has been working with Marisa on email campaigns, ecommerce training, and prep for a meeting to show the camping stuff (wanderways website and campground tool).

We went over some font awesome stuff and then rolled into a project that he is working on for Steve. The new project is a custom dashboard for employees and special HR type functions. We did some training on black box stuff and pulling in images and photos to the new custom page.

 
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Shop 6313 Meeting with Chuck 5/27/2020  

Going over projects and touching base with Chuck. He is working on the new corp-wide settings pages, a thing called "dev docs" - new section that deals with code snippets, style guides, naming convention, and other standard type stuff. We chatted for awhile and talked about WanderWays (camp adilas project) and other current and upcoming projects.

 
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Shop 6416 Wanderways Assessment meeting: Steve, Brandon, Chuck, Marisa, Danny, Cory 6/2/2020  
Meeting with the WanderWays team (camp adilas project) and going over what it will take to get this platform developed and out to market. See attached for some general notes. We had six people on the meeting representing different areas. Good stuff.

After the meeting, Steve and I talked about some options. We want to keep pushing things forward. One little phase that Marisa used at the beginning kept coming up... "I can sell this" - meaning the tool had potential and solved people's needs and wants.
 
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Shop 6503 Meeting with Chuck 6/10/2020  

Chuck joined the meeting to report on some of his projects. He and Russell are working on a number of cool pages and what not. He also showed me what he is working on the adilas docs - section to show SOP's (standard operating procedures) for adilas, style guides, code sign-off, and other info that everybody on our team needs. It is looking good.

I also got a report on his corp-wide settings page and light report on the WanderWays project (camp adilas).

After that, I used the rest of the time to record notes and more general stuff.

 
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Shop 6502 Meeting with Chuck 6/17/2020  

This meeting had two main parts or pieces. The first section was with just Chuck and I going over current projects. He is working on some sign-off documents and helper files for other adilas developers. He is really trying to help standardize things and make things happen on that side of the fence. He also showed me some stuff on his and Russell's Jira boards and where they (their little team) are headed. We talked a little bit about Jira (code specific projects) vs Trello boards (more of a general project management tool). Currently Chuck and Russell are leaning more towards the Jira side of things.

We went over some standards on the naming conventions and what the goals are there. Lots of different flavors out there. We are trying to help create our own style within our small development family. Even that can be challenging at times. Lots of cooks in the kitchen.

About half way through, we switched over to WanderWays and Marisa joined us on the GoToMeeting session. Marisa had created a small customer facing reservation tick list document and we went over that (see attached). We talked about reservation alerts and notices, date selection and number of day calculations, searching, selecting, confirming, and doing money stuff (checkout and putting down deposits). We also talked about hidden timers for active carts and other show/hide settings.

Lot of talk about mobile friendly layout and web page flow processes. Both Chuck and Marisa make a great team. I'm there as a sounding board and to add some ideas, but it is mostly them and their ideas and skills. Good stuff.

 
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Adi 1809 Wanderways Vertical Settings 6/19/2020  

6/19/2020: See attached quote for details.

 
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Adi 1810 Wanderways side bar include 6/19/2020  

6/19/2020: See attached quote for details

 
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Adi 1811 Wanderways Customer Interface 6/19/2020  

6/19/2020: See attached quote for details

 
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Shop 6445 WanderWays update meeting 7/21/2020  

Marisa, Chuck, Cory, Steve, Sean, and myself were all on a meeting to get back into the WanderWays project. The primary focus was dealing with online scheduling of campsites, trailer/RV sites, cabins and what not. We already have a bunch of work done on the backend WanderWays tool (camp adilas project). We also have a ton of the frontend advertising website done. This next phase is dealing with an ecommerce or customer facing frontend tool. It will combine company websites, online reservations and bookings, ecommerce, and other frontend or front facing web stuff.

Chuck and Marisa were leading out on this project. That is great. Sean was new to this topic, so we did some introductions. Here are some random notes that I took:

- Using iFrames to embed the native sites into outside company web sites

- Chuck has a vision of what he is trying to build and make. We support that vision. Marisa is the inside person who has the knowledge in that area.

- Lots of talk about frontend set-up and customer type settings. We want to make a general tool that could be skinned and/or configured for certain industries. We just mentioned a few... think about auto shops, maintenance things, campgrounds, RV/trailer sites, cabin rentals, ski schools, rafting companies, adventure trips, sport lessons, etc.

- Going back to camping and campgrounds, being able to pick a site vs assigning sites on the fly - different companies like to do it differently - also some like to limit what the customer frontend or front facing app does vs the backend tools. That sounds like settings.

- Lots of talk about being able to shuffle things around. Including invoices, elements of time, locations, payments, and other relationships. Once we have all of the data, we need to be able to shift or shuffle things around.

- Marisa and Chuck are going to make up a number of scenarios and then go through the different options together.

- Dealing with the waiting lists and/or virtual queue type functionality. We need to detail out the waiting list functionality in a deeper way.

- We linked to some of the older notes - click here for details - dealing with rough numbers and budgets.

- Talking about funding sources and making a good and solid product. There was also some talk about making an MVP (minimal viable product) and/or an MVP+ (plus or slightly above a minimal)

- Treating the development and developers and founders as family - setting up good communications and scheduling bi-weekly meetings and demos. Steve talked a lot about breaking things up into smaller pieces to get some smaller chunks and good deliverables.

- The pace (running rate) is going to be increasing on this project. We want to keep it going forward.

- Making the plan and reporting to who is paying the bills (internal, adilas, or outside investors/contributors) - basically, return and report type concept. Let's see where it goes.

 
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Shop 6505 Meeting with Chuck 7/22/2020  

Chuck and I met and went over a bunch of things. I authorized him to go back to a 40 hour max week. We also set some priorities as:
1. Helping out Russell with some of the Snow Owl projects (timeline - this Summer)
2. Working on the WanderWays site - (timeline is ongoing)
3. New adilas SOP (standard operating procedures) and internal docs
4. Working on the presentation gallery outline and visual webpage to be used as a sales tool.

After going over some of that stuff, we flipped and he showed me some of the progress on the new user/employee homepage look and feel.

 
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Shop 6504 Meeting with Chuck 8/5/2020  

Chuck and I met to go over his current projects. We talked about the customer facing website for WanderWays (camp adilas project), colors and settings, being able to book generic sites for a category vs booking individual actual sites, and other customer reservation screens and processes. Chuck is making great progress. Next week, I'll grab some screenshots. I forgot until we got most of the way through his report.

Lots of talk about data driven toggles and other settings. Some of his new development is in what are called CSS/HTML cards and they will play right into toggle on/off settings. Kinda cool because the design is going to be prebuilt to match the settings. That will make it easier to code.

Chuck was also showing me some mock-ups that were in plain vanilla vs a skinned or mocked up version (tons of colors, logos, and deep look and feel). Seeing both the vanilla and the skinned versions help you see what was important vs just the visual look and feel.

We also spent some time looking over his internal docs and SOP's project (standard operating procedures). Things are looking good and this project will help us standardize things, including billing, checks, payments, code sign-off, style guides, and other internal docs and such.

 
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Shop 6655 Meeting with Chuck 8/19/2020  

Meeting with Chuck over a GoToMeeting session. We touched base and he reported on a few projects that he is working on. One of the projects is a new payee/user profile page and add/edit payee info page. The new page will also have roles, permissions, tabs, and sleek new interface. It is looking good. He and Russell are working on the new pages.

We then switched over the adilas docs project. Chuck is currently working on some of the code snippets, examples, and style guides. As part of the coding conventions, he is proposing that we use some special characters in our comments to mean certain things. For example: An at sign "@" means a section heading or top level indicator. The double pounds "##" indicate a sub section or sub topic. An exclamation point "!" means caution and/or possible problem. The keywords "TODO" indicate a to do list item. Before we launch things, we need to resolve all exclamations and to do list items. I thought it was a good idea.

Chuck would really like to help us stabilize and standardize our coding, including whitespaces and indenting. Each developer has their own style. The more we can come together, the better it will be later on as each of us will end up working on each others projects.

As our last topic, we went over some our our current priorities and where Chuck is focusing. We have helping Russell with some of the new snow owl layout changes, WanderWays, the adilas docs project, and the presentation gallery and sales tools. Those are Chuck's current priorities.

 
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Shop 6620 Adilas Time 8/25/2020  

When I got on the call, Steve and Sean were already talking about sales. Sean said that as he was calling some our clients, they wanted an easy way to add multiple things at once to a PO. Basically an add bulk option. For example: Say you were adding in bowling balls and you entered the main bowling ball product name. It may show you the 6 pound balls, the 8 pound balls, and the 10 pound balls. Currently, you have to click on one and say - I got 3 of these. You then have to do the search again and click on the next ball and add those. They would like to be able to add multiple values at once.

As a side note, there has been mentioned earlier, options for PO's to be like a reverse shopping cart for PO's. Currently, the shopping cart allows for a simple search and multiple items may be added to the cart at once. We would love to make something similar for PO's. Just another request for such a feature.

The guys were talking about internal funding options and even selling some of the code and development for certain business verticals. Say for instance WanderWays (camp adilas). We have already put in $60K+ on that project. If we wanted to, we could virtually sell all of that prep work and R&D and then let someone else run with it. Basically, a way of pioneering ideas and concepts and then finding good owners for those pieces. All part of an adilas core platform and virtual ecosystem that rides on top of the business platform. Fun ideas and exploring.

As a side note, we keep talking about "fracture" as an upcoming project for adilas. In a way, it is already happening. Maybe we just need to keep letting it happen and help it along the way with some loving guidance with little tweaks here and there to make sure it fractures like we want it to. Just for fun, I have a post-it note on my desk with a date of 6/22/17 with a statement from Steve about fracture. He said that it might be a fun business name. Over three years later... it is already starting to happen. I'm also excited about the other ideas that we've been gathering up over the past months and years that go along with that. Good stuff.

Later on in the conversation, we started talking about checks and balances. We drew out a model with the US government and the three branches (legislative, judiciary, and executive) and talked about how they help to run checks and balances on each other. We, at adilas, would love to have some pieces in place that did similar things. They could run independently of each other but could also provide some checks and balances to each other. That would be really cool. Just for fun, see attached for a quick screenshot. We are still figuring out the adilas side of things, but we liked the concept.

We also talked about core pieces, outside 3rd party solutions, and inside 3rd party solutions (hybrids). Lots of options. Eventually everything that we have has to interact with the core or main platform. That's where we need to focus and put the correct checks and balances in place.

Dealing with sales, Steve and Sean were talking about Danny wanting to get CPA's (certified public accountants) on board and pitching our services. If a company gets help from their CPA, gets tax help, tax prep, and other consulting, it makes our product more sticky (in a good way). Fun discussion and conversation.

Going back to the adilas checks and balances, we offer a ton of different services. In a way, all of those services could fit under the adilas marketplace. That's not a for sure, but we wanted to record the idea.

The last concept we were talking about was the system core and platform and how we could virtually design what verticals go on that platform. As they get developed and designed out, we could find people (other businesses) that wanted to run those business verticals. If anything went wrong or whatever, we could always buy them back and run them from our internal teams. Lots of options. In a way, we help people and companies to build and run their own white labels. We have developers, a huge dynamic platform, and tons of other services. We also allow others to build their dreams and run it on our platform. Lots of options to mix and blend.

 
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Shop 6657 Meeting with Chuck 8/26/2020  

Chuck and I had to meet a little bit later today. He was having Internet problems. We started out and he showed me some of the stuff that he and Russell are working on. They are revamping the whole user/payee/employee profile section. This includes a new layout, changes for permissions, and the addition of roles and templates for users and permission. It is looking good.

We also talked a little bit about the WanderWays project and how we approached it. We did some mock-ups, did some coding on the frontend, did a customer facing website, and then some other pieces. We basically ran out of money before we could really get it all wired up. It is still going, but we had to slow down on it. Anyways, we talked about that approach - the older way being what we already did, and we also talked about some new options and approach strategies. Good ideas and conversation. One of the key pieces was spending more time on the frontend to really show the product in a virtual working mock-up type prototype in order to get better buy in for the whole project. Basically, build out the full concept to see if you get more takers (meaning people wanting to own and/or fund the project further). We are constantly exploring our realm... just like pioneers.

At the end, Chuck and I went over some our priorities and projects that are in front of us. We also spent some time and just chatted about life and being well rounded, in general.

 
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Shop 6654 Meeting with Chuck 9/2/2020  

Chuck and I met and chatted for about an hour. We covered a bunch of different topics. No special order, but here were a few of the topics:

- Decisions of a leader to get out of the way to let things happen in a better manner. Sometimes that is hard.

- Report on WanderWays (camp adilas) project - see the screenshots and this link for more info: https://xd.adobe.com/view/466071a2-5a71-49b8-9c80-b54d175dc78d-1333/

- Report on the adilas docs (internal how to manuals and style guides for developers and designers). See these links for more info: http://adilasdocs.swanhaven.co/adilas-docs-home.html and http://adilasdocs.swanhaven.co/core-components.html

- Full stack developers vs small teams and virtual departments to get the job done.

- We also talked about cannabis vs other business verticals. There are many of us who would like to explore other options and business verticals. WanderWays is a venture into one of those realms.

 
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Shop 6656 Meeting with Chuck 9/9/2020  

GoToMeeting session with Chuck. We went over some of his existing projects and I got updates on each one. He is still working on the adilas style guide - backend document for adilas developers and designers. He is still chipping away at the WanderWays (camp adilas) project. We also talked a bit about the presentation gallery or sales tool that we started a few months ago. We also talked briefly about bills and invoices. Good little report.

 
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Shop 6985 id 1824 & 1825 with Danny 10/20/2020  

Danny and I scripted a database update page. This was Danny's first database update script. We then did some light prep for what will be needed on the ecommerce settings page for his new settings.

As a fun side note, Danny and I talked about being willing to help push and code the WanderWays (camp adilas) project along. Lots of good and great potential there. Worth pushing forward on. That is awesome.

 
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Shop 7380 Projects 2/2/2021  

Meeting with Craig and Steve to go over finances, bills, ideas, and direction. The meeting started out with just Craig and I. We went over a bunch of things and then Steve joined us later on. Craig brought a fun flavor to the meeting. Steve and I have hashed over some of these things so many times, we kinda get jaded or set in our ways. It was nice to have a fresh view and someone who would pose hard or uncomfortable questions. I really enjoyed the meeting.

All of the meeting notes are on Brandon's computer. Here is a small portion of them.

- We need to find the balance point - not running faster than we are able but still pushing it

- We have been spending some monies on certain projects - we really need to get a return. For example: Research on AWS (amazon), R&D for fracture, WanderWays, SEO

- Funding options -  The main 3 are: sales, borrow, investments

- Steve was saying, we have two main choices - steer towards deployment and fully funded projects - sell stuff or pull back and just do what we can - head back into smaller waters - slim down and tighter budgets. As a side note, we even talked about cause and effect if we were to actually gain from a small dip... lose some weight.

- Failure to launch - this is a problem if you never get off the launch pad.

- Picking our battles

- There is need for what we do

- Dealing with charging for our services - $65-100/hour

- Trying to sell a new car but it keeps having issues - makes it hard to sell - people are willing to pay more for certain products if they are reliable

- Fixing the servers - question: do we need more money or what to help make it better. On the positive side, people really use our products and they hit it hard, we really push the servers that we have. It's not like nobody uses it, the opposite is true - people throw everything that they have at them... we still need more.

- Maybe stop development - we need to sell things - harder done than said... - try to switch gears - cross training - maybe change the word or phase sales into networking... connecting the dots - get some more hunters out in the field - swap people around - focus on the deployment and setup process - focus on funded projects - on the dev side

- Being able to say "STOP"

- Learning when to put our foot down - limits and levels

- Selling the current 2021 model

- Switch who we are targeting - trailer dealers, bowling pro shops, etc. - sell what we have to offer

- It's just a $100/hour - managing expectations - sometime people want a perfect number or a nicely wrapped quote or project cost. It's just $100/hour. Otherwise, we lose our shorts.

- We get pulled off on tons of outside distractions - external distractions, custom projects, and outside 3rd party solutions

- The code is splitting - new school, old school, high tech, low tech, etc. scripts, tags, functions, includes, different styles

- Having a real game plan - we really need this - a full plan and then let everybody know about it

- Fracture is a real word - a life style - part of where we live and breath - keep heading in that direction. As far as we can see, things will keep fracturing. Plan on it and build accordingly.

- Like race car driving - we need a good driver, but maybe not the best driver, especially with an attitude, they may need to go

- You can always fill a spot... (even in management) - like a bucket of water, if you put your hand in, then pull it out, it will fill back in - finding that range that fits

- There are multiple battles - in front of us

- Using a talent scout, like my dad - maybe look around at the college (talent just getting out of school) or for people who have the skills - draft

- Find and gather up the low hanging fruit

 
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Shop 8973 Adilas Time 5/19/2022  

On the morning meeting with Steve. We touched base on the discount engine that John is working on. I was with John yesterday for over an hour and half looking at the code. There is a lot going on there. Good stuff and making progress.

Steve wanted a demo of where I was at with the bike shuttle company and some of the custom scheduling and booking tools. I showed him the progress, including the bulk add limited flex grid tools. I showed him where I was at on the bulk edit flex grid tie-ins tool and how cool that will be. We also jumped out in ecommerce and talked about the client facing scheduling options that we want to add in. I've got a few more internal tools to work on and finish and then I'll roll outside in ecommerce and work on the client facing scheduling options. Marisa joined us and expressed that when we get to the planning and design portion of that project that she and Chuck would really like to be involved. As a fun side note, this will end up being a precursor to the WanderWays project (campground, cabins, and other scheduling options).

Part of my role is to help share the vision of where we are heading and how to get there. I've got some of the other guys and gals building it out, I just need to keep helping them see where we are heading. As a fun bonus, they catch the vision and then add more to it. That makes it really fun.

Steve and Marisa were going over some Metrc syncing and Metrc training. There are tons of options built-in to the adilas platform. Pretty cool. After that, they got into a training session on how to deal with samples and how to bring them in, sell them, and account for them. Steve was showing Marisa how to treat them similar to normal inventory items. Next, they got into a small internal training session on using update PO's to help with inventory updates and adjustments. That lead to a conversation about how important dates and date sensitivity is when dealing with inventory tracking. There is value in being in a real time inventory management environment.

The last major topic of the morning was dealing with the value and need for education. We have all kinds of tools and some that are light years ahead of the competition. However, if we don't teach our users how to use them and if they don't know about them, then they can use them. There is a real need to train our internal staff as well as getting our clients trained up and using the correct tools. That is a challenge but also an opportunity. There is real value in a power user, someone who knows adilas backwards and forwards. They are needed and in demand. There is real value there.