On Monday morning DJ Event Planner officially released Version 5.5 of the software. For this release 35 new features, updates, and tweaks were added.

(NEW) Stored Documents - save documents for later recall

(NEW) POP3 Inbox - access your POP3 email account directly from DJEP

(NEW) Import Data - upload CSV/XLS files of Clients, Equipment, Venues, and Contacts.

Booking Helper - increased number of booking helpers to 50, new Next Action date settings, send email to specific email address, and assignment of planning forms.

Custom Reports - configure date filters based on current date (useful for weekly reports), user-friendly display names for field selector, and interface updated.

Trip Tracker - many updates including the ability to tie a trip to a specific event.

Other Changes:

• employee availability popup interface updated
• scheduled email settings based on employee role
• music database importer now more flexible
• next action rollover if not completed
• related files
• client type now fully integrated
• new payments received column for financial reports
• printer and email icons added to event information page

To see a list of all of the changes, visit the support forum.

This week we ran across a great deal on music over at Amazon. It looks like you can download 99 songs for less than $3.00. These songs are all full-length and would be a great addition to a music library, especially if you provide sound for Wedding Ceremonies. We previewed a few of the songs and they sound like quality recordings. No idea how long this deal will last, so buy them now if you're interested.

Link to Wedding Songs at Amazon.com

In order to enhance the level of application performance for DJ Event Planner for some users, we just finished deploying our fourth web server. This new server will not affect stand-alone domain accounts on Server #2 and Server #3. Stand-alone accounts on Server #1 will be migrated to this server in the weeks to come. We will be sending out emails to those affected.

For anyone interested in the technical specs, the server has a quad-core Xeon processor, PERC H700 Raid Card, 73GB 15,000 RPM SAS drives set up in RAID 1 with a hot spare, and is running Windows Server 2003. Once again we selected Colo4, one of the world's leading data centers to host this server.

DJ Event Planner is still looking for some users that are willing to become part of the official beta testing team. These beta testers will have their account moved to a new domain, which will be shared by other DJEP beta testers.

Requirements

1. You must be an active DJEP subscriber
2. Your account must be on the djfinder.com domain. Stand-alone domain subscribers are NOT eligible.
3. You must log on to your account at least once a week

For more information visit this link

To sign up for the beta tester program visit this link