Forte Change log
Forte by ForteSG, Inc
Summer 2026.04
Released July 29, 2026
- New Report Operations \ Checklists - This report will show the activity on recurring checklists over time to identify trends, missed activity or out of range values
- When adding or editing a shift on a schedule, the time entry search is now “starts with” instead of “contains” to make time selection easier and faster
- When posting sales activity, open checks that have balanced activity will now be posted
- Numerous small enhancements to COGS reports and operational tools
- Enhancements to the QuickBooks Online API integration linking process
- Additional data entry validation across several pages
- Bug fix - Report bookmarks were not always being respected when running report batches
- Bug fix - When copying a shift on a published schedule, the new shifts will now show as draft shifts until re-published
Summer 2026.03
Released July 22, 2026
- A new beta version of the Scheduling Approvals page is now available
- Corrected a refresh token issue related to a security package update (patch released 7/20/2026)
- Improved Intacct API journal push error handling
- The Compliance Pay report’s Type filter is now a multi-select
- The Sales Forecast page has an additional column for weekly totals by daypart
- Web app generated emails now all use a standard template to create more consistency
- Date range validation and layout standardization for accounting locks, accruals, and announcements
- Gusto payroll export adjustment to use the location name instead of the location code
- Missing clock outs in Paycom timeclocks will now inject an auto-clock out at the end of day based on POS configuration
- Bug fix - Repolling from the payroll page will now select the end of the pay period or yesterday, whichever is earlier
Summer 2026.02
Released July 15, 2026
- Our single date selector has been optimized to minimize clicks when changing to a specific date. This impacts the manager log, cash tracking, and a few reports.
- Accounting \ Export - A new preview alert has been added if a Location + Date combination has unmatched debits and credits to help isolate days that need further inspection.
- Reports \ Accounting Ops Statement – The report now will ignore inventory adjustments to Accounts outside of COGS category (e.g. supplies in an op ex account)
- Inventory Counts – added alerts for missing costs and missing accounts
- Account Name standardization across the accounting module and reports when class code and/or class name are in use
- Expanded the rollout of the report cancelation feature so a user can stop long running reports
- When adding a post, changing the Post Category will now clear out the list of users to notify before loading the users for the new category
- Various mobile app layout improvements
- Updates to several underlying web libraries and components to resolve issues and improve performance within those packages
- Config \ Users – Sorting by Default Location Group is now fixed
- Config \ Users – Fixed a workflow issue with the new layout when adding a new user
- Config \ Employee Detail – Deactivate and Restore functionality was not working correctly
- Employee Portal – The current day shift could disappear before completed under certain week and time zone conditions
- Operations \ Post Category – After a recent change, adding a new post category was always disabled due to a logic issue
Summer 2026.01
Released July 8, 2026
- User Management improvements - table/detail view, additional filtering and sorting options
- Employee Management improvements - table/detail view
- Operations \ Recurring improvements - Location Group added to the columns, additional filtering options
- Checklist dialog improvements - layout updates, ability to edit existing checklist items
- Imported Invoice Summary Journals deep link back to source system invoices
- Site-wide cleanup of button positioning, style, and layout
- Enhanced feedback when pushing sales to Intacct via the API
- Account Class Code and Class Name now shown at the invoice summary level
- COGS Management page adds a search field when viewing unmapped sale items
- An Hours column has been added to the Labor Compliance report for certain compliance types
- An inventory item can now be created while setting up the inventory layout without navigating away from the page
- In labor scheduling, employee visibility is based fully on location and job assignments and not recent work
- Bug fix - Private bookmarks can now be used by the report batch system
- Bug fix - Deactivated report batches can now be restored
Summer 2026
Released July 1, 2026
Forte Summer 2026 Release Brings Inventory, Recipes & COGS to Restaurant Teams
- Forte COGS module released including Inventory, Recipe and COGS Invoice pages
- Reports \ Operations Recap now includes an optional weekly metrics section
- Layout changes and fine tuning of the schedule builder page
- The Compliance Pay report has been added as a tab to the payroll validation workflow. This allows a manager to view compliance pay details without leaving the payroll validation page.
- Reset password email improvements
- Bug fix – Deactivated employees showing when linking users to employee accounts
- Bug fix – Deactivated employees showing under certain conditions when selecting an employee for a shift
- Bug fix – Cannot restore a deactivated schedule