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

• Added created date to customer records. On upgrade system preset/estimate created date for existing customers by looking at first transactions/activity records/units owned etc.
• Workshop jobs : increase maximum size of job description to order number to 80 characters
• Bugfix with job notes and locations. Add/modify job note did not permit setting of location, meaning created notes would be invisible on terminals locked to a given location.
• Added new field to stocked items : when item was last stock taken. Intent is to help with managing inventory by being able to report on items not stocktaken for a while, to help hose out crap inventory data that has been present for years.
  • Under setup is a configuration option the automatically sets stock take date on stocked items whenever parts are received from suppliers to be stocked. This option (defaults to set) assumes restocker will verify and correct qty on hand from restocking sheets generated by c9 on receive/restock.
• New stock take methodology, freeform stock take.  See details below.

In c9 is a new stock take option which allows you to freeform stock take. The screen design is visually similar to point of sale but is geared towards stock taking.  System is designed for optimised use with barcode scanners, allowing you to either scan each item, incrementing the stock take, or scan once and manually key in new quantity.  System allows you to stock take stuff c9 doesn't think is currently in stock.

Spare Parts -> Free form spare parts.  Behavior should be reasonably intuitive/obvious.  For optimum use, configure your barcode reader to emit STX/ETX. See this post for more info.

http://c8software.com.au/wp/2014/08/point-of-sale-barcode-integration/

Bugfixes

• Manual Backup : Prior version 4.496 introduced a bug that caused manual backup to fail with an error message.   Now fixed.

Java 8 bugfixes

Java 8 has broken a couple of things in c9.

• Xero integration now fixed (generating security certificate in java 8 did not work, now fixed to support 8 and pre 8)
• Import fiche diagrams for Honda and Yamaha. Should now be working again. (also works natively in Linux and Mac now as well)

Inexplicably, infuriatingly, Java 8 removed a key piece of functionality (ODBC) used to talk to databases on windows platforms. Should never of happened but stuck with it. This has an ongoing issue with breaking integration with MYOB, at this time we are probably never going to fix this.  Oracle will argue that MYOB should provide a JDBC alternative, but MYOB will never do any such thing, Oracle should never of removed it. Long term plan is simply migrate to later versions of MYOB. If you need to run MYOB v19, you must stay with java 7.

Requires database changes, you'll need to log all terminals out of c9 before upgrading.

• Bugfix: Disallow selection of 'Spares' option when refunding via add transaction. use spares -> credit note instead if you want to refund parts
• view customer notifications, allow message info to be viewed from here
• Bugix: CSV export of times from miner tool broken. i.e. export of labour hours on job cards

This version includes a new feature when viewing customers you can quickly filter your customer list down by typing in pretty much anything connected to the customer, names, email address, prior invoice numbers, notes, comments, info from job cards etc. Example you search for 'andrew tappet'  and it will return all customers whose name is andrew who have word 'tappet' on their job card. Or, 'dickhead ktm vic', for all your customers who are dickheads that have KTMs and live in Victoria.  Searching for $ figures, like 19.95 will mostly work too, though the system is quite 'lose' about what it matches and may return a few more customers than you expect.  The performance should be instantaneous in shops whose database server is a reasonably modern computer with a decent amount of memory.

Fixed a complex subtle bug related to pickup received parts on order.  Recent changes to c9 allowed for situation where you can supply parts on order before receiving them into c9.  A certain combination of events could stuff this up.  The combination is as follows :  you F12 to receive part X,  part X although on order also has sufficient qty in stock to fulfill demand, you press F6 on part X to view its details.  Now if those events happen and you proceed to pickup the parts, c9 will preferentially supply parts from stock instead of received parts on order.  This is a rare situation except in the case of layby/reserve pickup later fulfillment. For such things it can actually happen quite often.  Modified to fix this bug and enforce following behaviour:

1. Always preferentially supply from received spares
2. If quantity on hand is sufficient to supply remainder after 1) then use these, but only if supply is sufficient
3. Flag unreceived parts as prematurely received if 1+2 above does not cover supplied qty
4. Use any available in stock to fulfill supplied qty not yet fulfilled by 1+2+3 above

Recent changes to partsmart broke partsmart integration. Now fixed

Bugfix for long standing bug with workshop. If you rollback a workshop invoice system would erroneously also rollback manual deposit withdrawals associated with that job.

Tweaked layout of print parts on order for detailed order sheets slightly. Was not formatting very well.

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

• Unit bugfixes
  • Recent attempt to fix GST issues surrounding discounting of spares on unit sale made things worse by stuffing up GST on non discounted items.  Confident now both non discount and discount scenario are correct
  • Discount spares on parts on unit sale via a deal was not calculating correctly, now fixed. Discount applied was 10% more, again GST related defect
  • Changes to unit purchase to better clarify behavior with after invoice items. Specifically:
    • Show both payout to seller and cost to dealer, these are actually separate figures
    • After some consideration I've decided to remove ability to do after cost items paid by customer. Instead, only after invoice paid by dealer are included.  What customer pays is really none of the dealerships concern, it is purely for customer to deal with.  Allowing either or was quite confusing.  This change lock steps payout to full price, but will keep them separate for now anyway.
• Import price file : a very rare bug with import price file could cause price file merge and supercession check to fail.  Now fixed, the fix also results in even faster supercession correction.  import master file might be a touch quicker too maybe.
• Bug fix with multi store location setup.  A bug in c9 could result in workshop view jobs reporting errors after upgrade to this feature under rare circumstances (simultaneous terminals trying both to run backup)

• Calculation errors with discounting spares added onto unit sales, system was confusing  gst inc retail and gst ex discount when calculating transfer of discount onto unit resulting in odd discount figures which were obvious for heavily discounted items.

• Bugfix with adding parts onto workshop estimate, was not retaining line discount

• Tweak how estimate converted to workshop job handles discounting.  Previously it would import part with retail price being discounted price, this could confuse operator into thinking discount was not applied so they would rekey it.  Fixed so on convert estimate the import explicitly brings in retail (at time of order) and line discount.

• Long standing bugfix with after invoice/on road costs and units purchased.  When indicate cost to be paid by customer, system was incorrectly increasing amount to payout to customer by these costs, not decreasing the payout. (Increasing is correct when selling, but not when purchasing. C9 was not factoring in the type of transaction when doing this calculation).
• Unit generic costs where not being journalled in c9's new general ledger, added an expense item for generic costs and system now journals these.

• Integrated Cykel into F12 magician lookup
• Bugfix with merging parts to order on existing invoice. Should only merge if discount schemes same. i.e. do not merge parts for cost discounted order onto a retail discounted order, (not merge if discount % vary)

• General Ledger fix : system would not permit sale with tradein where tradein $ > purchase $.   (System was posting payment instrument for changeover twice, causing post to fail)
• Finish layby, system was not picking up prior provided line discounts for layby sales (but was working for reserve/pickup ones)

Minor minor bugfixes to orderbook search as a result of order priority addition. Collapse orderbook then find would not expand orderbook correctly, nor would findnext work.

Fixed ducati fiche import so it is able to handle recent structural changes to Ducati fiche data source.