• Modifications to printer sub system so it can cope with unusual printers, such as Zebra barcoder.  Pre remote version of c9 did work, but functionality was broken with changes where c9 forced printer to use print setup attributes such as A4 paper etc.  C9 now checks details of printer and only sets print job attributes if it is not going to cause print job to fail with an error.
• Account discount tab - also allow setting of discount % rate on this tab
• View accounts - include a tab for displaying account customers only
• Unit Sale/Profit report. Print clerk key.
• Add workshop part. Default quantity to 1
• Workshop - added ability to include cost of job on notify customer of completed job (email and SMS)
• Bugfix with paying out a unit. Payout would not create a business activity record
• Bugfix with taking floorplan payments of any kind.  Under some circumstances these payments would reflect on cash till report when they never should do any such thing.
• Modifications to online backup client.  Some algorithm/bugfix tweaks: performance and state changes. Integrity of backups not an issue.  e.g. backup would transmit incremental changes twice, because of a bug in windowing algorithm: doubling bandwidth required for online backups.  Now only transmits once.

• Spares discounting - add ability to control what cost price to use. Options:
  • Actual cost price : either lastincost or dailybuy depending on the situation
  • Daily buy only
  • Stock buy only
• Charts - added charts for reporting customer rentention and statistics relating to repeat customers
• Online backup - backup was not synchronizing correctly if there were many online backups running at the same time conflicting and overwriting one another. Backup was supposed to deal with this situation, but bug in software meant it was not working properly. Also design problems. Redesigned with server and client changes to ensure only one active stream of replication data is running at any given time.

Bugfix : version 4.188 introduced a change that could cause Point of Sale to lockup under some circumstances.  This version fixes this.

C8/C9 for years has offered a notion of a discount which is a percentage discount from the retail price.  Latest version of c9 now gives you options for 2 other discounting strategies, 3 in total. You can configure each account with a different strategy and select strategy at point of sale.

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This version includes database changes and will force you to log everyone out of c9 as part of upgrade.

• Spares discount. Added notion of type of discount.
  • Discount retail price (as system has always worked)
  • New : discount  on profit margin
  • New: markup cost price
• Track preferred spares discount method against each customer
• Point of Sale changes:
  • F7 Set at cost price algorithm changed to use last in cost/daily buy price (depending on whether part was sold from stock or not)
  • F8 would cumulate rounding error depending on qty of items. Fixed so rounding is always within a few cents
  • Changes to deposit collect & reclaim algorithms.  Slightly faster and able to cope with notion of differing discount types
• Miner changes:
  • Miner QBE fields can have templates - to make it easy to set date ranges etc
  • New miner load option - search Internet for standard miner reports. Include following initial reports
    • Units sold between x and y but never brought in for a service
    • QLD registration details for units sold period x to y
    • SMS/Email merge to customers who own a certain type of unit
• Modify part - force clerk key change if lastincost is modified and security settings are to restrict inventory changes
• Quote changes.
  • Import customer order number
  • Display different quote print menu at quote finalization. Include option to save as .PDF
  • Database optimisation so that f7 import quote redraws the list alot faster

• Added notion of spares quotes. When you F10 in point of sale you now have option to generate a quote.  No tax invoice is created, no parts are taken out of stock and no parts are placed on daily order. Quotes can be imported back into point of sale via F7 Import
• Point of Sale F7. When you press F7 a menu now pops up asking you what to import.
• POS Complete: if you press 'Enter' key while radio button for sms is highlight system would take focus back to top on select invoice type. This is a UI bug
• Messenger : modified way messenger detects if it is not running and automatic restart. System is now more aggressive. It will test every time c9 logs in at every terminal. Test is done by temporarily connecting to actual server and checking if shop is not already logged in.

• Point of sale. Pickup order. If you modify quantity to pickup to be less than what was actually received, then point of sale operation will fail reporting errors with duplicate keys on orditem.
• Point of sale.  Also pay related unpaid invoices. The list would incorrectly include invoices that were indeed paid under some circumstances. Bug now fixed.
• Check for updates : moved experimental updates away from check for updates. It was visually confusing
• Global settings ( such as payment methods), system was checking database every time instead of caching results. Application should now be slightly faster.

EXPERIMENTAL

• Point of Sale : Import part list from Parts Manager Pro (Suzuki)
• Aged trial balance (current and Historical). Now has more report filter options.
• Account Transaction summary. Faster and includes more filter options
• Account Transaction List. Faster and includes more filter options (including ability to go back more than one month)
• Bugfix with importing point of sale price lists. Files were not being deleted afterwards.
• Bugfix with save PDF/email invoice. For customers who do not have a bitmap logo trying to generate a PDF would crash c9
• Bugfix with list column heights. On POS screen list of parts could appear squashed up (depending on screen resolution etc)
• Bugfix with keyboard input control.  In receive orders on modify part, if you press enter key on buy price or retail price without changing content then value would be invisibly reset to zero.  Was okay if use TAB key instead, or use mouse to navigate. On Enter key was a problem.
• Remote c9 fixes
  • Previously only default printer of a remote client could be used to print reports. Now any printer can be selected
  • Could not save PDF files in print preview locally

EXPERIMENTAL

• Bugfix with Spin controls. Clicking on spin buttons would not visually update spin value
• Bugfix with miner sms/email merge. 'Send one' button was always greyed out
• Bugfix with convert account. Could not convert zero balance account customer to cash customer
• Tweaks to keyboard focus changing logic.
  • Example: Adding parts in Point of sale. After adding part sometimes focus would goto list of parts, not to 'part number 'entry box where it should.  Prior version fixed this too (hack fix), but this change fixes root cause problem in GUI
  • Error and crash was triggered sometimes. Crash relates to this part of software behaviour.

EXPERIMENTAL

• Print preview. Make 'print' button first button.  So pressing enter prints the document.
• Point of Sale.  Adding parts, sometimes keyboard focus which switch to list of parts instead of 'part number' text box after adding a part. Especially on slower windows computers. Temporary fix only. More permanent fix in progress.