This version will upgrade the database and will force you to log all terminals out first

• Introduction of sophisticated restocking analysis tools. A separate post will be written shortly that explains how to use this new feature
• Fixed menu text when double clicking on item in workshop
• Allow selling of parts to booked workshop job
• Unit profit report. In date order
• Change how add new unit behaves when long references (i.e. full VINs) are used
• Tweaks/Fixes to Deloitte Honda data export
• Spares Quote : could not handle freeform items. Now fixed.

This version will upgrade the database and will force you to log all terminals out first

• Removed deferred payments and added new system for reserving spares
• Compare terminal/server date & time. Under some circumstances the system will incorrectly assume that system date and time are incorrect. Fixed
• Spares point of sale. Removed confusing 'Amount left by customer field'. Replaced it with a button next to deposit which is used to help calculate how much deposit to claim in order to arrive at a given tendered amount.
• Terminal update: make it clear to user that clicking through terminal update screen will cause all their existing c9 sessions to shutdown
• Database scanner - recent changes for text searching on stock/master file meant that scanner no longer worked on these tables. Now fixed.
• Workshop add new unit. Modified unit add so it better copes with units with same/similar reference number. it will list details on all units that match and allow user to select if unit already in system. Otherwise it will automatically generate a unique reference # for a new unit.
• Print spares quote.  Ask user if they wish to suppress part numbers printed on a spares quote.
• Print unit invoice, under some conditions where there are alot of invoice line items the after invoice costs such as stamp duty would print on the second page. A customer would look at first page of the invoice and assume that the figure 'tax invoice total' is the figure to pay. Modified c9 so that tax invoice tally and after invoice costs will flow over onto a second page so that customer actively looks for a second invoice page.

• Receive back ordered parts.  When receiving accessory parts also query user for supplier
• Synchronize MYOB/Quickbooks, do not attempt sync accessory received invoices where supplier is not know
• Configure labels, redesigned configure label screen so it is easier to configure for either A4 or dedicated labelling printers.

Bugfix.  When receiving orders, c9 is supposed to look at all active orders in the system and preferentially 'receive' parts for customer orders instead of restocking orders; without regard for numbering of original orders sent to supplier; i.e. a customer orders late, but a stock order is received with those parts : reassign those parts to the customer instead of stock.  Normally this works, but there is one rare situation where this reallocation would not occur and parts would go into stock instead of being allocated to the customer (customer parts would eventually be processed when those parts come in on later receive orders). This version fixes this rare situation.

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• View/Change part : add ability to move part to another franchise
• Naming convention change - 'master file' becomes 'price file'
• Naming convention change - 'odo' 'odometer' becomes 'odo/hour'
  • Note that most of code already did this but there were some key places in c9 that still referred to 'odometer'
• Minor visual/screen/naming tweaks
  • Hide status on select job
  • Rename max/min check to max check
  • Workshop other : remove images and access to 'other'. (Other is accessible via setup)
  • Workshop : hide items instead of disabling them where units package is installed
  • Account statements : rename couple of check boxes to remove some confusion about how this screen works

• Remote network access changes
  • Ability to have 'local' configuration; such as local printers stored on the remote computer. The key setting we are interested in is cash till number.  So you are at a trade show, you configure the laptop at the show to have till number '90' then cash till report separates takings at the show and takings back at the shop.
    • Previously, remote network would use the 'local settings' on the terminal running messenger.  Now local settings are saved and managed on the remote client itself.
  • Text area fields (i.e. workshop job notes) would not properly refresh under some circumstances when accessing remotely. Now fixed.

Import Note about remote access: these changes mean that older versions of the software will no longer work via website access c9 remotely function. You need to upgrade to version 4.219 on c9 in the shop first.  Also for people who downloaded the client.jar file, this file needs to be re-downloaded.

• Shelf Labels. Align price on the left of the label. Dave reckons this way looks nicer.
• Enquiry Report - redesigned to be more useful
  • Sort items from most enquired to least
  • Show all parts, not just parts for a given franchise
  • Remove leading zero formatting
  • Show tally of total enquiries for past 12 months
• Sales history report - remove leading zero formatting.
• Dead stock report. Include option to show all parts. Also consider sales history incase min/max are incorrect.
• Historical inventory report. Add option: all. When all is selected a per franchise summary is printed (instead of printing every individual part)
• Parts on order report. Display spares invoice numbers and account codes
• Return spares. Do not put freeform items into stock!
• Prior version incorrectly removed ability to add freight to a factory unit purchase. Re-added in this version.
• Customer order query - accessible via F12.
• Customer order query - allow filter based on item status (active item/processed item). Default to active items only - i.e. to deal with more frequent customer query : "where are my parts?".
• Spares Reports - removed buy/sell report. Report is accessible from F6 view/change part and it makes more sense to access it from this location.
• Naming convention change: accounts to customers.
• Import price file.  If price file has an error in it (i.e. corrupt zip file), c9 previously could enter into an infinite loop.  Now fixed so c9 will report error with the file.

This version will modify the database. You will be forced to log all terminals out as part of upgrade

• Select part (stock or master). Includes full text filter/search option.
• Generate VIN from framenumber if VIN is blank.  Last version did not do a good job of this. Fixed.
• Naming convention changes for units.
  • VIN is replaced with "Reference"
  • Frame Number is replaced with "VIN/HIN/Serial"
• Print Bar Codes: re-introduced ability to add parts by single franchise only. By default displays all parts irrespective of franchise, but there is a tab option to only deal with parts from a specific franchise.

This version will modify the database. You will be forced to log all terminals out as part of upgrade

• Workshop/Units - record on workshop whether dealership job is internal or presales.  If  presales then workshop line items are copied onto the units invoice at unit sale and passed onto customer as a cost.  Note that in sales, user can remove/modify these copied line items.
• Spares orders. Added ability to report on value of stock received on order but not yet picked up or put into stock at close of a day. To be used for inventory reporting come EOFY.  Does not work retrospectively.
• Receive Spares orders. Display a window which allows user to modify notification settings for individual invoices prior to performing actual notification
• Spares orders: advanced option which allows user to redo notification (i.e. similar to ability to reprint the receive report)
• Spares credit note. For a credit note with no parent invoice, default account/cash payout based on type of account selected. (Previously always defaulted to cash payout).
• Unit purchase tweaks
  • On detection of unit VIN which is already on file, auto-generated a unique recommended VIN by adding 'A'.. 'Z' to end of VIN
  • On entry of unit to purchase, detect at point of time VIN is keyed in whether or not there is already a unit on the invoice with the same VIN number (system currently only does this test after progressing past entry of purchase units)
  • If VIN is blank and Frame number is entered, default VIN to last 6 characters of the frame.
  • Factory purchase: disallow ability to set invoice/onroad costs. These can only be set on purcahses from a given account. Previously, c9 would simply ignore items such as this added onto a sale.
• Unit sale: select similar unit should not list units already on the invoice. i.e. for someone buying a whole bunch of similar type of units on a single invoice.
• Unit browser: under some circumstances c9 would incorrectly claim that no filter conditions had been selected and disallow execution  of the query.
• View Account Current units. Provide a 'add new unit' button
• Bug fix: if you set rounding in setup to zero, all rounded prices would come out as '0.00' no matter what. Added special handling so that a rounding value of zero means no rounding (functionally equivalent of setting rounding to 0.01)
• Monthly lease entry.  If you have two terminals open requesting monthly lease, you key successfully lease into one, and then on the other cancel entry of the lease, the successful entry of lease information is overwritten as though it was never keyed in. Fixed.
• Login : check and report differences between terminal date/time and date/time on database server.

• MYOB sync.  Under some circumstances the chart of accounts from MYOB would not render correctly in C9, meaning that the correct account could not be selected.  Fixed now.
• Spares credit note.  When you raise a credit on an invoice, normally the system uses retail price on the original invoice, not current retail price. But if you F6 view/change part it would change credit to current retail price. For normal POS this is correct behaviour, but for refunds it is not. Modification:  pressing F6 on credit note/refund has no effect on the retail price of the credited item. (You can still manually modify the retail price on a credit item by pressing Enter key on it).