Includes database changes, you will need to log out during upgrade

• Customers can now SMS back on miner SMS sendouts things other than 'STOP', c9 will record them and you can view/action them.  Also possible to setup c9 so non miner SMS messages can be replied to.  More on how to enable this shortly.

• Freeform parts: ability to configure freeform items to default to $0 cost (new option in setup)
• Scan customer barcode in point of sale, visually indicate scan worked by popping up a small window alerting this, window automatically disappears after a second
• Stock history report, option to report only on items that have moved since a given date
• Workshop bugfix, parts manually repriced on order (or on estimate then order) mess up discounting required when part arrives applying discount twice. Now fixed.

Bugfix : point of sale credit note for what was originally an invoice sale to a customer that has subsequently been converted from account to cash. System would not provide credit to the account customer causing GL error making the credit txn fail.  System will force invoice refund onto customer even though they are flagged as a cash customer at time of refund.

Spares receive order print. For each customer section, print a single line if invoice/customer has parts elsewhere (i.e. received previously) waiting and show summary of figures. Idea here is when last come comes in, there is no visual indicator that there are other parts for the customer as well.  A one line indicator will show that there are also items held in shop for the customer.

Print linkable barcode, option to print tall barcodes.

Version 4.570 contained an annoying technical diagnostic popup message that popped during spares complete sale, which I forgot to remove before baking/shipping 4.570.  Now removed.

Print customer email on job card, so you can double check email for customer is correct.

Includes database changes, you need to log all terminals out during upgrade

• Bug fix with Unit of measure where system would misbehave and not verify available qty correctly after transitioning from say 1.0005 to 0.9995.
• New Sale/Cash reconciliation report.  Summaries all GL postings based on GL codes involved in the posting for postings involving payment methods and/or sales.
• Some significant reworking of barcode scanning to allow some very powerful features.
  • Creation of special global 'c9' barcodes. When you scan these barcodes c9 knows what sort of barcode it is and jumps to right part of c9 after scanning.
  • e.g. scanning barcode on job cards will jump straight to browse jobs and highlight the job, irrespective of where you currently are in c9
  • 'c9' barcodes are printed on spares receive sheets for quick customer order pickup and quick referencing of jobs parts are on
  • Can print barcodes for customers to put on loyalty cards. If you scan such a card in point of sale, point of sale is automatically primed with that customer. Scan anywhere else and c9 jumps to customer -> View customer highlighting the scanned customer
  • Can pre-print / bulk print customer loyalty card barcodes and then link/associate those barcodes to actual customers at a later date (Setup -> Other -> linkable barcodes)

Notes on barcode feature:

• Note that these barcode features only work if your barcode is configured to transmit STX as part of barcode scan.  Most barcodes out of the packaging do not do this. You need to check with your barcode scanner documentation.  Some doco on c9 website here:
  • http://c8software.com.au/wp/2015/03/programming-ls-2208-barcode-scanner-for-c9/
  • http://c8software.com.au/wp/2014/08/point-of-sale-barcode-integration/
• barcode scanning no longer supports STX + <barcode> + ETX + CR.  C9 will treat such configs as sending an extraneous CR after barcode is scanned. Doubt anyone has their barcode scanners configured this way. C9 will work fine with either STX + <barcode> + ETX  or STX + <barcode> + CR, or plain old <barcode> + CR (but new features will not work without STX)
• barcode scanning will be intermittent on slow/crappy computers. Any delay in barcode characters for more than half a second, c9 assumes it isn't a barcode and just normal user input.

Bugfix with db upgrade from very old versions of c9. (ie. from 4.369, 200 versions before). Would not upgrade. Now fixed.

Bugfix : could not alter unit type for modify unit of measure. Now fixed.

Bugfix : recent addition of PDF invoice importing broke C9 E-Reference importing for receive spares. Now fixed.

Print qtyonhand on following reports : Spares profit & Spares History

User friendly improvements for Units of Measure.

• Allow all details on existing unit of measure to be modified
• On view/change part, show and allow user to modify unit retail price

User friendly improvements for upgrading c9. From now on (not this version but the next), c9 will give users 24 hour grace for applying updates on all terminals. So if you are in the middle of work and open a new terminal and someone else in the shop has checked for updates, your system will not be forced to upgrade. You will have option to delay the application of the upgrade. The option to delay is only given for 24 hours. The following day c9 will unconditionally update.

Bugfix with Invoice PDF importing, would not decode quotes (") in PDF files correctly messing up ability to decode entire PDF. Now Fixed. Also included support for Husky Power equipment invoice importing.

Bug fixes relating to ongoing regression defects with refunding spares caused by UOM and consolidating invoice/refund

• Allow -ve freight on point of sale complete for freight refunding
• Point of Sale tender display : make it visually obvious when displaying result of a refund
• Point of sale: provide visual clues on what to do in order to refund an item (i.e. -ve qty)
• Point of sale: when a qty is to be refunded always default restock to qty refunded. User must override all changes here if not being restocked

Other things in play:

• Added some infrastructure to support upcoming new feature: ability to key in unit details on a web enabled mobile device. (i.e. copy vin details etc from the bike using a tablet or mobile phone). Nothing functional yet. Hopefully in a few weeks.

Bug fixes

• Total on workshop jobs with parts on order with a discount was incorrect ,was double discounting.  System would resolve itself normally when parts arrive so rarely an issue at invoicing time. Now calculates correct price on discounted ordered parts
• Credit spares back to stock. Was not creating stock record for unstocked items. Partly a regression bug caused by introduction of unit of measure. An exchange invoice could not restock such items either, now fixed.

Includes new PDF parser library to increase support for importing supplier invoices. At time of writing can import GP Wholesale, Cykel, Yamaha/Ficeda and Whites. Send through more PDFs for us to add.

This version includes ability to import electronic invoices into c9 spares receive.

At time of writing only Yamaha, Ficeda & Whites Powersports are working.

Email invoices to barney if you want c9 to be able to import them.  All going well, adding a new invoice will only take an hour or so and should not require any further updates to c9.

Bug fix: offline backup not backing up unit of measure sequences correctly. Minimal impact to offline backups.

4.562 fixes relating to PDF import

• 4.561 pdf import was a memory hog and would cause c9 to crash on low spec machines. Now fixed to use minimal memory
• Added support for parsing landscape oriented PDF files.