Bugfix tweak with paypal integration. Was not detecting parts still on order correctly for closing out paypal based sales with parts on order.

Added new system monitor/reminders for workshop

• When jobs in progress are still inprogress after their promise date
• When jobs scheduled to be received have not yet been received
• For jobs with parts on order where parts are on order for longer than X # of days

4.476 : a bugfix tweak with importing parts images where part image filename contained spaces.

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

• Receive stock : check invoice number as soon as it is typed in for duplicates. Not when user presses F10 continue
• Internal tweaks to how price file items are mapped onto websites (no functional change)
• Magican backorder availability : remember if a magician category is cancelled and stop nagging user everytime try to lookup a part of that same franchise
• Browse active orders : show order item created date, not created order date. Also optimised things so it runs really quickly, even when scanning historical data.
• Work on price files
  • Track/Use pack qty data
  • Track attributes
  • Greatly Improved fast search options. See a bit more below
  • Tracking attributes on price files, things like size/colour etc. Importable from generic price files.
• Web image/meta data import
  • import from KTM Dealer Net. Also import Dealer Net's web order descriptions too
  • Import attributes from Monza/Cassons/Mcleods
• Mapping parts onto website - provide tools to quickly map a structure and parts onto a website based on part attributes
  • Create structure based on part attributes. i.e. automatically create menu tree for type, brand for say, Monza
  • Map parts onto that structure.

Improved text search.

In previous versions of c9, if you searched for '300/275/21' , usually would return nothing.  Text search indexing is now optimised to better handle descriptions we get in price file so rapid searches like this are now possible:

Bonus: the order you type it in doesn't matter. '300/275/21' is the same as '21/300/275' is the same as '300 275 21'.

Only list Fox Stuff from Monza

Working on some interesting changes in c9 : price file attributes. On price file items you can add arbitrary price file attributes, things like size, type, colour etc. These can be imported via generic. I am also going to importing this data from dealer extranet systtems provided by Monza etc too.

You can search on these attributes, see screen shot below:

These attributes will be used to better help organise items into websites for dealers that run websites. To allow for quick wins in terms of getting parts onto a website.  Down the track we will look at using attributes for shopping selection.

Other changes in play include importing pack quantity information from supplier price files and configuring pack qty behaviour on a per part basis.

• Import generic. Cope with fact that BRP excel files label supercession column with misspelt name: Subtitude_Part
• Find part : list would do weird things and render in loops and jump around a bit.  This was caused substantially by recent changes to increase maximum # of franchises beyond 255, though I also fixed a few other little bugs here too which might be contributing.
• Find part : ability to view/modify part while in find part
• Subtle bug with the following scenario.  You do split payment (i.e. cash + credit card) where one payment method tenders change and the other incurs a surcharge.  The system would miscalculate the amount to tender by the value of the surcharge, resulting in incorrect tendering and in the case of spare parts sales, weird invoices claiming the surcharge was put on account.  Now fixed.
• Workshop pickup : option to print two copies. Made two copies and print hours options checkboxes on the print screen.
• View job : show discount and proper totals like most other workshop screens (modify/complete/pickup etc)
• Print job in progress: print discount line items and print discount text properly
• Modify Deal : change add/remove deposit display so it is more obvious how deposit management behaviour is.  Previously was unintuitive as it was not clear that deposit changes are uncommitted until you press OK button. Hopefully you display which shows current and uncommitted deposit value will make more sense.
• Spare parts : put commonly used barcode and reprint invoice option under the 'spare parts' menu.  Is also still in reports. Under spares should make it easier to get to.

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

• Completely redesigned Profit Summary report
  • Show columns for price, discount, cogs and retail as a table. So easier to read
  • Realise profit on spare parts at point that parts leave the building, i.e. bolted on a workshop job or a unit as part of pre-delivery. Not when parts leave the spares department
  • Realise profit on workshop pre-delivery when the unit is sold, not when job is finished
  • Report unrealised profit in various forms such as:
    • Predelivery charges not billed on the final unit sale invoice
    • internal/dealership workjob jobs department consumption of spares
• Add new customer : if there is a clash or codes/names upon highlighting code field in add customer, jump to the bottom of the list highlighting record to allow user to proceed with creating a new customer

Previous release ran a database update step.  On systems with a decade or more of workshop data this step can take ages to run.  I've made some changes so if you step v4.470, the modified upgrade approach hopefully will run a bit quicker.

Bugfix with Workshop estimates. Changes to estimates would not be saved. Line item changes were okay, but other changes to the estimate were not recorded.

Bugfix with recording of deposit on refunded parts from a prior invoice in some circumstances.  If you remove discount on refund system would not record discount on line items correctly, interfering with profit reporting (would understate profit because would assume discount was refunded, not refunding deposit increases profit).

• Miner : ability to query on relationships between spares invoices and quotes (and related invoices, such as order/invoiced orders)
• Bugfix with recent changes to clocking. System would not record job item labour under some rare configurations (if never merge option was selected, which most users of c9 do not enable)
• Added ability to more easily tweak pricing on workshop jobs.  A button on modify/complete job now allows you  to do things like:
  • Set spares to supplier RRP (fixed or discount to)
  • Set spares to cost (fixed or discount to)
  • Reset discounts
  • Reset spares to dealer retail price
• New workshop discount option : Capped $.  It is exactly the same as Fixed $ except on the printed invoice, line totals and discounts are not printed.

Improved miner bulk message opt out capabilities in c9.

Firstly, SMS based opt out will now synchronize opt out replies from users back into c9 by unsetting the marketing flag in c9.

Previously, c9's servers alone would track this and enforce opt out behaviour without syncing opt out selections by your users.  So although anti-spam obligations as satisified by the previous solution there was no way - within c9 itself to know who has opted out because the information was kept on c9's central systems only. Now this data is automatically copied into your c9 and available for querying/reporting and resetting if a user ever requests to opt back in.

Secondly, it is now possible to do automated, web based opt outs in email based miner operations. For example, a screenshot from gmail of a possible email:

Clicking on the link yields a page that reports something like this:

Unsubscribe from Dev Motorcycles Successful

The link is preset in miner whenever you create a new miner query. e.g.: