This version requires database changes and will force you to log all terminals out during upgrade

• Overhaul workshop discounting, tax and profit tracking
• Workshop spares: track cost price for profit reporting. Defaults to current price for existing items on upgrade. (i.e. no profit on workshop items).
• Discounting Spares : differentiate between group discounts and line item discounts.  Parts discounted when sold to workshop job are treated as line item discounts.  Parts not yet discounted will be discounted by discount % set on the workshop job; i.e. group discount. This not only provides line item discounting in workshop, it solves a problem in prior version where you could accidently double discount a part.
• Modify spares pricing; modifying spares pricing adjusts line item discount to indicate spares discount has been awarded.  If price is set above current retail price, then retail price presented on invoice is raised.
• Spares : More accurate tracking of cost price for profit reporting.
• Default discount: do not set default discount on workshop job if account uses cost or margin based discounting.  These notions exist in spares only.  To apply them, you need to sell parts from spares to workshop setting appropriate discount
• Workshop item pricing : allow user to modify pricing to set either ex GST price or inc GST price; at users discretion. e.g. in prior version c9 would usually only track one price; i.e. ex GST for labour.  If you wanted to charge $90 in GST, c9 now internally tracks the line item as $90 inc GST, instead of internally tracking it as $81.82 ex GST and recalculating to GST; which can create some rounding problems.  e.g. $12.70 INC = 11.55 Ex. But converting from 11.55 ex back to inc the result is 12.71.
• Workshop spares: track whether retail price is inc or ex GST, as per above described behaviour. Note the above behaviour changes do not apply to default staff rates.  Labour line items will track modified pricing, but default staff rates is always ex GST.
• Business : in activity is an option to 'lock' c9.  Transactions inserts or modifications that occur prior to the current lock date are disallowed.  i.e you cannot delete transaction records or insert new transaction records or make certain changes for items that occur in a prior GST reporting period.
• Bugfix with database connectivity.  C9 is designed to invisibly reconnect to database on network error. But it should not do this while in the middle of a database transaction; because this violates database integrity. Modified c9 to not do this.  Very rare condition because typically transactions only exist for a fraction of a second and if there are network breaks prior to transaction start the process of establishing a new transaction corrects the disconnect. Yet I know of at least once instance where this has probably happened.
• Catalog fixes
• Web based catalogs would not save the last two units. You had to run import 2 more times to get these. Now fixed
• Recent change broke catalogs that use tif encoded images (i.e. Honda/Yamaha/Suzuki). Imported images would be tiny white images with nothing in them.  Now fixed.