Cultivate’s Blog – Thoughts on employee development

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Yesterday Cultivate added a long awaited feature for our users – queues.  This will allow users to check out multiple titles at a time, and have them sent in sequence.  No more logging on every time you want a title.  It’s been a long requested feature – there must be a lot of Netflix users out there!

Here are the details of how we’ve implemented it so far.  Keep in mind this is version 1.0…we will be rolling out some enhancements to it shortly.

- Users will be allowed to have 5 titles in their queue at a time.

-We’ll ship the titles in sequence, unless we have an inventory problem….then we’ll send the next title on your list.

-Users will receive a shipping confirmation email letting them know a title is on the way

-Users can check the status of their queue by logging on and clicking on the Manage Account link in the nav bar.

This release is the first of many to come.  We’re almost finished with a complete rewrite of our entire codebase into a more flexible and scalable architecture.   In simpler terms it means that very soon we are going to be able to add new features much more quickly!

Thanks to all of our users for your patience, and enjoy the queues!