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.

Includes Database changes you will need to log all terminals out during upgrade.

This release contains a major new feature, units of measure on spare parts. This permits selling items in units that differ from how the supplier provides them.  Examples:

• Selling individual items from a packet of 12, links from rolls of chain etc.
• Selling oil from a drum (allows fractional items, so you can sell 1.5L)
• Selling lengths, i.e. 6 pieces of 1.5m tubing

In view/change part is a Unit of Measure. You can assign UOM onto parts.  There are at present some limitations on UOM selling, all connected to ordering/reserving.

• You cannot order units.  Parts must still be ordered in full as provided by supplier. You cannot do customer order for 1.5L of oil, but you can order for them an entire drum
• You cannot reserve or layby units of measure. They can be quoted although

One major consequence of this new feature is removal of spares credit note screen in c9. It has now been merged in with point of sale screen; a credit note is imported with -ve quantities on parts.  Functionality is still there, but now works quite differently.

Other changes and bugfixes

• Bug with clocking would result in clerkkey records getting messed up and deleted.  (Caused by software bug + network connectivity issues when c9 is reseted in the post clerk key enter clockon/clockoff screen)
• Dealership details, option to key in shipping address for shop as different from premises.  Printed on customer shipping labels.
• A1 Accessory Magician query support added
• Mercury Fiche import : fixed bug where about half models would not import (incorrectly implemented filter that tries to focus on AUS models only)
• Point of Sale complete.  Extract phone number from order number was overzealous. C9 would extract 0422 206 974 from this "GSXR600 K4 JS2B2206974100143", now fixed to consider characters like JS as breaking the contiguity(?) of the number.

• Tweaks
  • Print dealer licence # on spares invoices, to cope with requirement from NSW to print this on everything

• Bug fixes
  • Import c9 repo price files, system would not allow you to select last option in the list. Now fixed
  • some GL journal postings relating to tweaks to floorplan GST may be incorrectly data. Update will redate such journals.
  • Unit proft report.  Reset on sub total and grand total for rebates and write backs was busted. Now fixed

• Bugs with recording activity and journal postings for paid out floorplans. Under some fairly common circumstances, the payout would not be recorded.  This fix fixes the problem and correctly adds/posts necessary journals/activity record
• Email individual account statement via print preview, would use customer default email address, not their account email address (if configured)
• View unit : rename encumbrances to 'other line items'
• Manual offline backup: reports error with leaseaccount_primarykey_seq. Now fixed. Was not a critical issue, offline backups still good inspite of this error message.
• GST tweaks : add nag screens to point of sale and workshop to warn punter if invoice contains parts with either 0 GST (i.e. medical devices) or GST which looks invalid (i.e. something other than 0 or 10% due to improperly installed price file).
• Browse fiche : select franchise should now perform faster on systems where there is a slight delay (caused by inefficient database access)