Includes DB changes. You need to log all terminals out during upgrade.
Managing banks
There have been some rough edges with this for some time. A system starts off with a bank 1-1200 and this is assumed to be main trading account. But if you configure additional banks these drop as sub codes, making 1-1200 a control code now. There are some consequences around this which are messy . This version of c9 introduces a heap of improvements:
- Define a default bank on a sub code : 1-1299 migrate all postings to 1-1200 to this new code
- Include this default bank in select bank screen. : Hide it though if custom banks are defined or if the default bank gl has a non zero balance
- Streamline bank rec for default bank ; always select an explicit bank now
- Setup screen : remove 'x' buttons as they are now redundant with bank select screen now being able to explicitly select default bank in select bank screen
- Make appropriate adjustments to bank rec, make sure balance sheet includes newly minted default trade bank code.
Remote Support
This version of c9 swaps out AnyDesk for RemotePC when you click on remote support.
Bugfixes and Quality of Life Tweaks
- 100% line discount on spares was not saving correctly, on pickup stage of reserve would rewrite as 99.99% : now fixed
- Finance Settlement with a AP flagged finance company : was broken and would show wrong figures on screen. Normal convention of using AR worked fine, just AP only a problem. Now fixed for both.
- Spares Point of sale : make Loc column longer
- All lists : provide a visual indicator if column content is clipped. e.g:
- BAS Guardrail Refinements
- Initial computation of 4 (copy of W2) broken. It is supposed to copy w2, but it's behaviour was quite damaged and difficult to predict what it would store. Now fixed. Broken with recent introduction of guardrails, previously was fine.
- Memorise payroll limit setting on each bas. Previously would default to last month of bas period always
- Orange highlights on Payroll figures (W1,W2,4) : do not highlight when underlying payroll figures are zero : assume payroll is managed elsewhere
- Aged Balance /Historical Aged : make sure negative sign is shown on aging % for relevant columns
- Availability / Leave : Do not allow records where no day/time/DOW is set : allowing it blows up scheduler and it has happened enough times now it deserves a strict guardrail
- General Ledger Control Code Posting : c9 being loose in design allows posting to control codes. Almost always though this is unwanted, this version of c9 includes locks to guard against this. The lock is configurable in same place bas/gl locks are configured. By default with this version you cannot post to a control code whose balance is zero: this default setting should discourage practice and for dealers who use it, they will not be immediately impacted by this tightening of rules
- Point of Sale Import - allow PDF importing of invoices we support for suppliers. Could be useful in some situations. Main thing this can be handy for is importing from generic excel files with following format:
- Add customer with duplicates - on select screen highlight whether or not a potential match is archived. Score archived matches much lower than active matches. When selecting an acrchived customer automatically un-archive them.
- Label printing - added some guards against null pointer exception walls of text : one consistent way to trigger this is configuring labels with 0 size but suspect other things at play too like font caching in java etc.
- Payroll pay run screen - multiplier column would only show 2 decimal points, not full 4. So results like leave loading of 0.0175 would display as 0.18. All the math was fine, and payslips print correct too but on screen it looked incorrect because of visual rounding of result to fit 2dp on the manage payrun screen. Now fixed.
- Miner - allow query of workshop order number field
- TillPay tokens for payments - expand their use
- deposit handling
- workshop job payments
- AR/AP/Cust Deposit Txn processing
- QLD Form Updates
- F5245 - LOA Individual
- F5244 - LOA Company
- Profit Summary - would misreport profit change totals in cases where in current period there is nothing to report but past comparison period there was activity. The comparison data would effectively be ignored and not make it into the report. Now fixed
- High DPI Screen sizing tweaks
- Changed the algorithm slightly so resizing is consistent across all screens. Previously it could vary slightly depending on the open window.
- Left hand menu screen didn't do sizing very well; effectively double dipping screen size configuration making the side menu look massive. Now fixed
- Tillpay Weborder Fixes : cope with some exotic scenarios where preauth isn't voided when it should. c9 tries to avoid calling void unless it is confident it is needed. C9 miscalculates when it is needed by failing to distinguish between a capture and a debit. It sees debits >= original preauth and assumes the preauth is already done. Generally not an issue for most setups, but impactful for small % of dealers who do not do on website capture, customer authorises recurring payments and the txn funded is greater than original capture.
Notes about remote access
- Note things included in this c9 do not automatically show up when using c9 remotely. We need to build a new version of remote access for those to kick in. This will be in a week or so. Specifically
- screen sizing improvements
- list column clipping indicators
Other
- TxnEngine update : allow rearrange lines on a journal post. Needed for reorganising workshop line items in 5.3. Non functional impacts on v5.2
- Event Logging : added ability to permanently record and centralise debug/performance activity with critical systems. Initially implemented on tillpay for online + instore terminals. Intent is to allow us to assess performance and reliability of critical dependencies without having to request logs off individual terminals.
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