RSS Feed c9 logo Australia's best motorcycle shop retail software
Release 4.279 April 14, 2012 barney

This version includes database changes. You will be forced to log all terminals out during upgrade

  • Units + Web
    • Redesigned UI on multiple unit screens (i.e. view/modify unit, add purchase unit) so web publishing details/images are more easily accessed and managed.
    • Added ability to configure web details (text + pictures) at point of purchase/add unit
    • Added check to publish to aussiebikefinder.com.au
    • Added ability to publish to bikesales.com.au (backoffice support not yet written. Still work in progress)
  • Spares Point of sale : GST component was being rounded on a unit cost price basis. This could cause inaccuracies for selling cheap high volume items. Fixed by calculating GST on line item basis and using higher level of decimal accuracy during GST calculation
  • Web order email notification. Now possible to configure custom email footers via business -> website -> settings.
  • Import Toro price files.   Toro part numbers are sensitive to position of dashes!  e.g. the following part numbers describe two completely different parts: 325-11 and 3251-1!  Modified price file import to cope with this, but at same time preserve c9 behaviour of being able to keyin part number without spaces or dashes remain intact.  On a per franchise basis is a new checkbox 'Parts from this supplier are sensitive to dash location'. If set then new logic on price file import applies. At the moment this switch can only be toggled if franchise name contains 'toro' in its name. If you key in a toro part number that is duplicated, it will return part already on file prior to this upgrade.  To access duplicated part, press f2, you can see both parts in the list.  For anyone that installs a toro franchise after this fix, then keying in a duplicate part number should yield 'part not found'. You will have to press F2 and select the appropriate part. For Toro parts, approx 2% of parts are duplicated.
  • Point of sale. Optimized database operations that handle stripping leading 'P' infront of Polaris parts.
  • Online backup/Sync
    • if database link was down, c9 messenger would eat 100% of CPU trying to constantly reconnect to the database.  Now fixed by switching into 'pause' mode and checking DB every 5 seconds or so
    • Under some circumstances, web orders would not sync from web server to c9 correctly. Now fixed.
    • Tuned online backup so it should backup images in bulk alot faster with much less bandwidth  (i.e. on import catalog).
    • Do not auto-start messenger on login if database is not c9 database. Prior behaviour could potentially cause problems for dealers that periodically restore old databases who use online shopping. Web orders could inadvertently sync to the archived database.