• Import fiche diagrams for Husqvarna
• Workshop clocking : new setup option allows you to disable automatic recording of clocked time onto a job as labour to be invoiced.
• Orders : on key screens provide an option to view supplier details.  ( Select order, view order, order book, browse received orders, and view received order all have this option).

Synchronize to accounting platform : tweaked c9 so it is possible to simultaneously sync to multiple platforms, to help with transiting from MYOB to Xero for example.  This feature can only be enabled by Barney.  Not exposed via a configuration option.

Import Kawasaki Fiche Diagrams : Was crashing when trying to import latest 2014 models. Now fixed

Workshop booking reminders. A new feature allows c9 to send booking reminders via SMS to customers.  You can configure:

• how far ahead to send a booking (i.e. notify today bookings for tomorrow, or notify today for bookings in 3 days time).
• Time of day when bookings are sent (defaults to between 10am and 6 pm)
• Whether or not to factor in Saturdays/Sundays into booking notification.

Feature is configured via Serup - notifications.  For reminders to be sent messenger service needs to remain running during the time when notifications are scheduled to be sent.

Resulting SMS will be something like this:

Hi ANDREW.  A reminder your workshop booking at Test Motorcycles is for Monday

Tweak to email sent to customers on receive parts.  Changed wording from

The following parts you ordered are now available for pickup

To:

The following parts you ordered are now ready for pickup/despatch (as previously arranged)

Down the track, a proper despatch method system is planned for spare parts which will allow you to customize SMS/Email messages sent in response to parts availability.

Another change relating to how c9 encrypts passwords and credit cards in the database.  Prior encryption which has been in place for over 10 years uses a non-standard cryptographic mechanism.  Replaced with a more standardized and stronger cipher.  Another motivation behind this change is to allow c9 database run off a mac.  Old ciphertexts would not store correctly in postgres on Mac because of character set encoding built into the mac version of postgres, hopefully this is now fixed with new ciphers.

• F12 check stock availability : recent changes to Kawasaki website broke Kawasaki stock check. Now fixed
• Spares : merge parts onto an existing order with additional deposit.  The deposit payment method was not being recorded throwing out cash till report.
• Spares return : select invoice by customer only allows you to select an account customer. Now allows you to select either cash or account customer.
• Print receive order
• Useful details for organising received orders are now printed more prominently.
• You can now configure c9 to print related parts on receive sheet, parts related to the original customer order or to the customer themselves but parts not necessarily  associated with the parts just received. In main setup screen under orders are options:
  

• Bugfix with statement.  New transaction type "Refunded payment" would appear in wrong column on the report.  Now fixed
• Tweak to spares point of sale needed because of recent changes to accounts.  When you pickup parts on account where original invoice took a deposit c9 adds a transaction onto the account to move deposit from invoice to the account.  Previously it would add it as a 'deposit' transaction.  But it is more appropriate to add it as a payment. Changed c9 behaviour to this.  Previously didn't really matter but now c9 strictly separates depositor from debtor balances it is more important to ensure most appropriate txn type are employed.

Includes database changes. You'll need to log all terminals out to during update

• bugfix: Recent changes to ordering to allow ordering of parts from alternative suppliers broke behaviour of generate all. Now fixed
• Standard Estimates : screen was running too slow.  Added some database indexes to speed things up
• Import spares quote : if original quote was GST exempt the quote would not import correctly. Now fixed

• Some tweaks to view order that should hopefully suppress reget failed error messages one dealer is getting when deleting parts off an order
• Point of Sale Complete profit summary : did not work correctly for quotes which involve parts that would normally need to be ordered. Now fixed to cope with this scenario
• Franchise markups : permit -ve markups
• Added support for MOTO transactions to PC-EFTPOS
• Web orders will automatically preset card details into MOTO option in PC-EFTPOS
• MinQty Re-order : check franchise order configuration: if franchise only permits stock orders then make sure minqty reorder goes onto the stock order

Fixes and tweaks

• Honda inventory check stopped working because of changes Honda made to their website. Now working again.
• A number of changes to internal logic for handling PC-EFTPOS operations to make the interaction with PC-EFTPOS more resilient.  It appears that sometimes PC-EFTPOS closes the link C9 establishes to it for no apparent reason.  Changes are concerned with ensuring that c9 is better able to cope with these situations
• On one dealer for some reason line margin was calculating line margin on formula costs (stamp duty) when it never should do any such thing. Added changes to c9 to explicitly prevent this from happening.

• New setup option that can suppress opening order details window when adding a part to order onto point of sale.  The order details screen can instead be accessed by selecting the part and pressing F11 to allow you to manage the exceptions to default ordering rules.  The setup change allows you to revert to much older c9 point of sale behaviour in which is good for keyboard power users as it reduces key strokes on ordered parts.
• Spelling typo in newly designed payments screen
• Orderbook : was not rendered backorder flag correctly. Now fixed.

This release does not include any actual functional changes or fixes but it does fix a bug in the database upgrade scripts for upgrading to or past version 4.402 which would prevent the upgrade from completing and would mean c9 could not run.

If you are already running version 4.402 or later then this upgrade will do nothing for you.  If you have not yet upgraded v4.402 this update may affect you.  4.402 was a very complex update, probably the most complex to date where it reorganises customer account records to better separate debtor and depositor trial balances.    If there is any erroneous transaction records in the database which are dated before 1800 then the upgrade fails. This version of c9 deals with this possible situation.  Generally there should not be bad dates in c9 database like this and I am not aware of any way such data can get into latest version of c9 as c9 will not let yet input a date before 1800, though I have now seen it a couple of times now where there are dates in the database prior to 1800. To investigate further.  Possibly, most likely, database migration error from initial upgrade from c8 to c9 or when migrating data from non c9 systems for dealers switching to c9.

Based on analysis of online backup files (which most c9 users now subscribe to) I expect that this bug has and will only affect one c9 customer who we have helped fixed manually already.  This version has been created anyway for completeness and just in case, although unlikely, there is another c9 dealer out there who does not subscribe to online backup service who also may have bad dates in their transaction records.