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)

Bugfix : recent changes to improve terminal locking on web orders stuffed up processing of web orders that had more than one part on them.  System would not allow you to complete such orders. Now fixed.

Includes database changes, you'll need to log all c9 terminals out during upgrade

• Spares invoice notes
  • Print notes on a4 invoice
  • Show icon in reprint and select invoice visually indicating that a note (or private note) is attached to the invoice
• Accessory suppliers : ability to add an account number that prints on order sheet
• Import mercury outboard fiche diagrams
• Weborder processing : under some rare circumstances locking of web orders would stuff up and it becomes possible to process a web order twice on different terminals.  Tightened up lock testing to prevent this from happening
• Units reports
  • Open floorplan, allow generation of report for open floorplans as of a given date
  • Improved performance of a few of the reports : stock/stocklist/retail reports.
• Lease management tweaks to improve SMS billing for dealers that have changed the name of their shop. (currently issues two invoices. Tweaked to consolidate into one)

• Order export
  • Include new export method generic. Outputs a CSV file. Possibly may be used by A1 accessories and can feasibly be used by any supplier really.
  • Include experimental support for sending orders directly to KTM/Husqvarana.  Still under integration testing, not ready for prime time yet (don't go looking for this feature)
• Customer tweaks
  • Cash customer with non zero depositor balance be converted into account customer
  • Add transaction : permit debtor transactions on cash customer if customers debtor balance is non zero
• Spares
  • New config option  in setup to define whether or not you want to print part numbers on spares quotes. Options: Always, Never, Rarely (Ask), Usually (Ask). Default is (Rarely) Ask.
  • Receive order: show location when modifying part in receive screen
  • F12 pickup. If you delete all parts waiting to be picked up but there are other parts on point of sale screen, flip point of sale to a normal sale, instead of keeping it as a customer receive. Opening more options for user (like quote, etc)
• Bug fixes
  • Modify customer.  Rename phone types was busted. Should now be fixed. i.e. ability to change 'Mobile Phone:' to 'Barney's Mobile:'
  • Workshop modify job : disallow modification of a job which is picked up. Can happen when one terminal picks up a job and another goes to modify it.  Second terminal doesn't recheck the database and assumes job status is good to go.
  • System was recording deposit on parts sold to units,  was is incorrect and messes up deposits held report. Now fixed.
  • Modify customer : recently added option to print address/shipping label from this screen was not setup correctly and would not work. Now fixed.