• Usability Tweaks to recently added find part function.
• Export dead stock, consider parts not sold since a given date to be dead. Same as the report itself
• View account - show summary information on parts on order; retail value of parts, less anticipated discount to be awarded; deposits on invoice held etc.

This version requires database updates and will force you to log all terminals out as part of upgrade

• Point of sale : F2 part lookup completely redesigned to be more powerful and flexible.
• Stock parts : make ability to organise parts into 'additional groups' more prominent on F6 modify part.  Above F2 changes permit filtering based on these additional groups
• Visual tweak to displaying of dates in modify workshop job; so date can completely fit in the visible space in the field

• Fix layout of items on pickup job. Some graphics controls were overlapping others
• Under some rare circumstances, receive order would misprint number of parts required for a given invoice
• modify workshop spares item. Allow user to override spares line item price. Recent changes to make adjusting qty automatically update line item price inadvertently damaged this facility
• Print customer code on units and spares invoice (already printed on workshop invoice)
• Print received barcodes, flush any existing items on barcode list first

• Web and Email
• Fixed anti-aliasing method used for rescaled images in HTML emails and web content. Look much nicer now.
• Improved ability to import HTML source from other HTML generators for HTML bulk email
• Bulk Email : include ability to attach files
• Bug fixes
• Adjust qty of spares items on workshop job. Does not update price of the line item. Now fixed.
• Pass workshop costs onto unit sale;  should not work for deleted jobs.
• Workshop dashboard would allow you to 'modify' a job even if no job was selected. Fixed
• Auto restart of messenger can crash C9 (rare situation, only affects Bolton's because they run 3 separate copies of c9 simultaneously).
• Tweaks
• Select part from master file franchise. Display stock description over price file descrption. Also optimised performance of the list.

• Messenger network connect is now more resilient in the face of intermittent network connectivity
• Printing large notes such as workshop description on workshop invoice. If the length of the notes exceeded a single page, then c9 would previously only print first page of notes.  New version i more intelligent and is able to break up notes across multiple pages. The change also permits printing of notes where there is substantial space on a page, but not quite enough to print the entire notes. It will also break notes into multiple chunks in such cases
• Miner : memorize list widths and use adjusted widths when printing miner reports
• HTML mail merge:  size limit was too small. Increase capacity for HTML emails by x8
• Javaw.exe is still running errors : recent update of java for windows would mean c9 would 'hang' during windows shutdown on some computers.  Added a workaround.

• Spares point of sale : include option to allow users to merge parts on order onto an existing invoice.  This helps keep parts to pickup list sensible and allows you to deal with situation where customer orders parts multiple occasions but you want to limit number of subsequent 'pickup' invoices that are issued.
• Pickup workshop job : make screen flow like create new job.  Forces users to inspect costs and tallys with the intention of minimizing human error during workshop pickup
• Bug on pickup receive order. If you add additional parts to the invoice the system will actually remove those parts from stock twice.  Bug has been in place since 4.84
• Bug on Print Estimate. Under some circumstances the list of items on the estimate would not print completely. Now fixed
• Add new customer. Default to cash customer
• Merge web order. On add new customer, default to cash customer. Also default limits etc appropriately
• MYOB sync : use received order date, not today's date for syncing spares invoices

MYOB Integration tweaks

• Detect if MYOB supplier that c9 maps to has been deleted; if so then request user to remap any c9 suppliers during sync
• Configuration option to skip syncing a certain c9 suppliers. Setting is memorized only for the duration of the sync operation. Next sync user has to map the supplier and skip it again.  Note that skipped invoices are not flagged as synced, so if you run sync again, c9 will try to resync prior skipped invoices.
• Configure mapping, include option to refresh list of MYOB suppliers and account lists.  Useful when you go to map a supplier and find that card is missing in MYOB. You can switch to MYOB, add the card, switch back to c9 click refresh and see the newly added card
• Bugfix : under some circumstances during configuration of MYOB, c9 would crash. (Caused by incorrect database access)

• Business activity report; cash/accrual filter on report was incorrect for invoiced sales/invoiced payments
• Publish website. Include ability to add consignment units
• Browse part : show retail price in browse
• Browse received orders. Display supplier if known. This was happening previously. It was displaying 'accessories - <supplier>' but window design you could only see 'accessories' you had to expand the column to see supplier. Fixed by shortening accessories - to 'Acc -'
• Sell parts to a job. Permit creation of a new job at this point.
• Complete job : warn user if job contains items with zero line item value. Some dealers will initiate line item value to 0.00 because cost of item is unknown at time item is added. But forget to check it on completion. Warning is to remind such users.
• Receive order. On receive print output, display SMS notification setting for customer orders

• Added ability to generate HTML based email mailouts.  This allows you to mess with fonts, colors, insert images, links and tables into miner generated emails. (Previously only plain emails were supported)
• Minor tweaks and usability annoyances
• cash till report : included a simplified version of detail report. (Prior was a print of biz activity report which is potentially too complicated for cash till analysis)
• Browse dealer units, could not keyin VIN number to search until click mouse in list of units. Now fixed
• Clockoff on different day. Disallow time travel (user specifying clockoff date/time that occurs before clockon)
• Spares deposit. If spares invoice is of invoice type then open account deposit taking window
• Create/convert account. Default balance limit to $0.01
• Built-in spell checker works properly on mail merge edits (bulk printer or new HTML/email system)
• Pickup workshop job : include big colorful banner at top of the window that indicates if pickup is cash/account/dealer/etc
• Cash till : till taking for initial workshop deposit would incorrectly record on job start date, not date job is entered into system
• Pickup Reserve order.  Default invoice type to either receipt or invoice depending on type of customer

Note 4.230 addition of HTML contained some bugs which were only obvious to me when testing under Windows. 4.231 fixes these.

This version will modify the database; it will force you to log all terminals out during upgrade

• Unit quotes. Generate quotes and convert quotes into invoices
• Browse/Select unit.  Various browse unit screens now contain a filter option that allows you to only display units that match the filter. i.e.  all Generators, or all bikes whose model contains '250'
• Purchase unit.  Add option for purchase similar unit : it will add another unit to the list of units being purchased by cloning the selected unit.  Useful for processing a purchase order of a bunch of brush cutters of the same model type for example
• Accounts - ability to define type of phone. i.e. instead of 'Alt Phone' you can write 'Bobs Phone', or 'Bills Mobile'
• When browsing lists where search mechanism allows you to search by a date or an invoice number etc, automatically position the list at the bottom of the list. i.e. 99.9% of the time user is interested in last invoices, not first invoice ever raised in the system
• Stocktake sheets. Print barcode
• Stocktake entry.  Redesign so list reflects exact same as printed output. Also tune interface to make data entry quicker
• Receive orders : new column : line total.
• Cash Till Report. Option to print detailed report on all transactions involved in the reporting period.
• Redesign of point of sale screens so sale finalization works more efficiently.
• Tender amount occurs after select payment method
• Tender is only asked if instrument is tenderable (only first Cash is tenderable, configurable via setup) and invoice amount is greater than
• Tender display only occurs if tendered amount is neither 0 or invoice value. i.e. there is change to tender.
• This change has implications.  Specifically you can no longer book an account payment on invoice sale during point of sale. You now have to goto accounts separately and book payment. Arguably this implication yields better software too, as the way system used to work was a frequent cause of human error.
• Ability to open till on all sales; even if print docket is not selected
• Franchises - ability to 'archive' franchises. i.e. parts in franchise can no longer be accessed via POS but old profit reports etc still work
• Receive order : print invoice and order line item notes if any
• Bugfix - if you try to add certain items to the database (i.e. staff or jobitem), and trigger an error like 'Duplicate Clerk Key'; fixing the duplicate and clicking on OK again does not have expected result. Saved data is incorrect.  Now fixed.
• Bugfix : buy sell report would not report received order items that were free-form added/modified onto a receive order at point of receive. Would only report received items which were formally ordered on either daily or stock order (regression caused by introduction of reserve/picklist)
• Bugfix: miner join of unit chains was not working correctly