Includes database changes. You need to log all terminals out during upgrade

• Profit summary report changes
  • Provide a count column. Meaning varies per section. For spares, it corresponds to each invoice line, for units each unit, for workshop, each service job.
  • Split unit reporting into new/used
  • Provide a simplified 'overview' report. Showing a handful of key metrics:
    • Accessories gross + profit
    • OEM gross + profit
    • Workshop labour gross
    • Units sales gross + profit
• Unit deals : provide two tabs, to separate out active deals and quotes
• Other fixes and tweaks
  • Low level NullPointer fix I thought I fixed 4 years ago still broken. Would cause screens with expandable trees in them like orderbook to render strangely which 'tears' the display. Should now work more reliably
  • Workshop scheduler. If you access clocking from here it would change the displayed job in modify task to job last touched in clocking screen. Now fixed.
  • Point of Sale supply early / already handled orderbook interaction : do not do this for UOM stuff as it is unable to apply UOM adjusted qtys to already handled in orderbook
  • Unit contract particulars, allow definition of standard / global notes printed on all particulars. (accessed via setup screen ,units tab)

Fix regression introduced in last version. In modify labour could not click on recalculate button.  Now fixed (you could Alt+r to trigger recalc or tab to it but couldn't mouse to it).

Other : import E-Ref into point of sale.  Import would try and merge in dealer info into your c9 and part of this it would rewrite selected contact as being both supplier/customer and on account. Makes sense to do this in context of sending an order to another c9 dealer, but not in the context or importing an order another c9 dealer has sent you. Tweaked so it doesn't do this anymore.

Suzuki EPC. This release includes ability to import A subset of Suzuki EPC diagrams. The diagram information is provided by Suz Aus and is curated by c9. The curation process is very complex and error prone, so likely there are errors in the resulting dataset. Also it is incomplete. Provided on basis that something that potentially contains inaccuracies is better than nothing.

You can view the curated results here first: https://c8software.com.au/bikeshop/dev/partFinder/fiche/curated-suzuki-epc#next

Other tweaks

• Print labels on receive. Make print order part number order
• Payroll : added 2020/2021 tax brackets.
• Modify spare part on workshop job. Show location incase operator wants to restock the part
• VicRoads : updated authority to transfer form to latest ver

 

 

• Tweaks and Fixes
  • Workshop labour : you can now key in labour as a fraction into hours.  i.e. key in 1.5 will convert to 1 hour 30 minutes. Useful for managing warranty work
  • View web order from spares point of sale complete. Would not show web order for F12 pickup part of weborder. i.e. if order is originally parked onto a reserve/pickup.
  • Deal substitute. Substitute with blank unit now blanks out engine number and long form VIN.

Tweaks and fixes

• Harley Davidson Magician check: now working again
• View webs order from point of sale complete. Have a report from dealer it was blank. Not entirely sure how this happened, but made some code changes here that hopefully will improve things.
• Increase screen size of date/time fields in post new journal. Previously was not fully visible on screen

Tweaks and fixes

• Fiche : "print Parts we stock" that fit a certain bike. Print both the superceded part and original diagram part if relevant (previously would only print diagram part). Example:
  
• Install price file. Process stock file in part number order so resulting install report parts are ordered instead of being random-ish
• AusPOST integration. On international shipments, when there are more than 20 parts on the order, coalesce data sent to AusPOST to be one line per franchise as AusPOST have a limitation of only 20 lines per package. i.e.:
  

Regression Bugfix : annual leave type as a selectable payroll item was accidently dropped when garnished wages option was added in. Fixed.  LEave computations etc are all good, just meant you were unable to manually fiddle this (typically only done when transitioning to c9 for payroll)

The PayPal Rest API release

C9 now supports Rest based API.

Switching to Rest  you will gain and you will lose.

Gain: More reliable and faster txn processing.

Lose: During checkout stage, customers can no longer be able pick freight option in paypal itself as the Rest API doesn't provide any facility for c9 to let Paypal know what freight options are. So freight in paypal will lock in and default to first freight option in c9 if you go for express checkout.  Once user navigates to freight page, if they change their freight option  the website will advise them they'll need to redo paypal to capture new shipping option.  If this turns out to be a negative user experience one option is to drop the express checkout option for paypal on first checkout page, instead force user to key in all their particulars and then pick paypal on payments page.

How to switch to Rest API.

In c9 : setup -> main setup screen -> paypal tab. Are two new fields, Client and Secret. You need to fill these in. Make sure you leave existing settings alone : as these are still needed to finalise any existing orders feeding through. For brand new sites, skip over these.

So need client and secret. How to get this.

Firstly you need to login to a developer paypal website. This is not your normal paypal website! Address:

https://developer.paypal.com/

Click on 'Log into Dashboard'

Then click on 'My Apps and Credentials'

Set your app name to be C9 Website and click on create app. Next screen you'll see client and secret. Copy these into c9.

Once done, wait a few seconds and then jump on your c9 website and do a test order

Note: if you are enabling Paypal for the first time, contact barney. Paypal integration requires another step to be performed on the webserver to make it all happen.

Other:

• Removed delete units not imported in advanced fiche import options. This option is way too dangerous given little/no guarantees EPC datasets are easily accessible.

 

 

 

Tweaks

• More paypal changes. C9 would incorrectly include 'completed' order and 'fee reversal' txns in its attempt to compute how much paypal reports is captured so far (since paypal doesn't provide this directly). Would result in incorrect computation, particularly with very old backorder finalisation an inattentive operator could inadvertently refund the entire sale when clicking through defaults.
• Added new income GL code for government subsidies / payments
• Bugfix with clearing surcharge lines  on unit deals. A surcharge line (persisted by rolling back a  straight sale into a deal which had a surcharge) would crash c9 and not allow you to refinalise the deal until the surcharge line is manually deleted. Now fixed.

Payroll changes

• Added a new Payroll item type + supporting GL codes: garnished wages for capturing child support
• Bank rec add other : new txn type to bounce garnished wages clearing liability
• Edit payroll records. Added alerts to steer users away from common input errors : -ve / +ve values for various payroll types and using advanced pay items without double checking.

Other

• KTM / Husky part image import. Skip over parts with placeholder image. mostly just straight up spares like screws etc and just clutter up the fitment web pages
• add/edit Website menu. Add new option to configure sorting of items in menu by list price or part number. Only works for v3 websites.
• Bugfix with recent multi image import support added for Fox. Was broken when reimporting fresh images : when reimporting would only grab the last image in the set (whereas a fresh import would work fine). Now fixed.