Recent mail library updates were failing to deliver emails with attachments. Now fixed ( change of library name, wasn't anchored to java system classloader).

v5.1.2 only changes (pending)

• Migration refinement : tweak post migration to migrate cust AP/AR/debtor transactions ids
• Add support for cash basis BAS reporting

PAYG payment summary report bug fixes

• recently added emp super calculation is wrong when doing printout for multiple staff. Now fixes
• would not print gross figures for 6 figure salaries. Now working.

v5.1 changes

• Online backup with new v5 tables wasn't working. Now fixed. (bavkup code made incorrect assumptions about field ordering on database tables. Now fixed)

This version will be the first release candidate for Version 5.1 c9.  5.1 will be the first of approx 4 or 5 major upgrades as part of v5 rollout.

v5.1 delivers the following:

• Reworked general ledger where GL line items encode significantly more information, including tax coding. All depend systems, such as compliance reporting updated to use the new GL
• More flexibility in modifying postings, such as ability to change tax coding and GL codings after initial posting
• Centralized consistency in following concerns:
  • Payments : tendering, rounding, surcharging and change now works consistently across all txns.
• Missing  /removed functionality
  • Cash basis BAS reporting currently not present. Will be added shortly
  • Sync with MYOB/Xero/QB permanently removed.  (These were largely no longer working anyway for various reasons connected to individual vendors)
  • Unit split/merge permanently removed. (There are an alternative methodology that can be applied)

Future planned major upgrades will progressively move v4 style data-structures to v5 . Specifically

• v5.2 : AR/AP/Deposit handling: minimal functional gains
• v5.3 : spare parts.  FIFO inventory pricing, ability to easily edit orders/invoices. Better/more intuitive order handling. Better discount handling.
• v5.4 : workshop. Better discount handling.
• v5.5 : units. Better discount handling / price handling, unit asset management etc

Upgrade to V5.1 is by invitation only at this time with a couple of dealers only on the list. General access to v5.1 is likely to be opened up in August.

Changes:

• Single Touch Payroll. Sanitize other allowance description removing disallowed characters.
• Warranty : minor typo fix.
• Email integration, updated dependency on javax.mail to latest version. Looks like later version of java (v8 292) + older java.mail libraries are problematic with some mail relay points and will not connect.

• Select customer order screen. View customer button on this screen was broken. Now working again
• Accounting P&L report : filter units under consignment
• Order book, show date part was added to active order, not invoice date.
• PAYG Summary report : also show employer super contribution
• Unit deals : adding a part with default parts discount in play instead of line discount, the part correctly discounts but on resulting invoice it doesn't show that a discount % was applied. Now fixed.
• Magician check / backorder tweaks
  • Merging of results from other c9 dealers was visually busted and would create confusing results with mixed up part numbers. Now fixed
  • Sort part numbers alphabetically
  • Tweaks / fine tuning to status % count at bottom. Would misbehave under some scenarios
• Units profit summary.  Secondary subtotals based on clerk only was broken. Now fixed.
• Import Honda EPC, some changes to EPC software broke import. Now working again.

Bugfix : viewing locked payruns where payday is in July would crash c9. Recent addition of a warning screen that warns about variations between actual/nominate paydays in a financial year : this code broke view payrun screen when looking at locked runs. Now fixed

This version of c9 also includes alot of non-functional groundwork for V5 migration code. Not yet 100% ready. Next ver of c9 likely will include tooling to permit upgrading to V5.

Bugfix with importing price files + Toro where Toro franchise is configured to cope with dashes (-) being significant.  Recent price file import changes broke Toro dash stuff and import price file would not succeed. Now working again.

Fixes and tweaks

• Honda Order Export API : Make shipping config separate from shipping setting for OPEA based export. Because of reliability issues with DealerNet API dealers occasionally need to switch to OPEA method. Shipping setting here is different to setting for Export API. Making their storage separate will make process of switching export method a bit smoother.
• Bugfix with import PDF files for receive spares where some spares have packqty set.   The system recomputes qtys for packed items but it incorrectly can use pack settings from unrelated parts to influence other parts on the receival under some complex circumstances, causing their qtys to stuff up.  Now fixed in this version.

Includes DB changes, you need to log all terminals out during upgrade

• Tweaks and fixes
  • Online Backup
    • include post restore instructions to automatically rebuild phonebook + customer search
    • included metadata used by backup server to make sure correct backup trigger regime in put in play for restored master files (hard to explain what this means without writing a novel. Impact to c9 without this is under some circumstances, installing new price files might not backup newly added parts correctly after having to rebuild a c9 system from online backups. Easily fixable problem once detected, detected via backup verify, but now fixed more properly with this update.)
  • WA forms : expose previously removed file, because apparently it is still actually needed
  • payroll 2021 updates
    • 10% super guarantee
    • Tables : PAYG etc
    • Provide visual alert for July payruns if nominal # of runs does not match actual # of runs in financial year. e.g. 2021-2022 there are 53 Thursdays in the year, not 52, meaning earnings are higher so tax on each payrun is computed a little higher too
  • General Ledger caching mechanism updated to allow smooth transition to v5. (Cache system precalculates gl open/close figures so system doesn't have to tally up everything everytime a GL code balance is needed making GL stuff much faster)
  • Bugfix with import price file : if you abort price file partway via close c9 or click on a different section the price file will partially install in a way where it is not possible to install another price file. Now fixed.
  • Shopify : update version id ahead of scheduled July 1 deprecation

• Tweaks and fixes
  • Replaced TeamViewer with AnyDesk as our primary remote support tool.
  • Install pricefiles, improved an efficiency issue with massive price files which are not loaded via c9 repo such as John Deere and BMW.  [ Defer using primary key with on conflict () update so we are not burning pk ids. Generally not a huge issue but with suppliers with millions of parts, the upper limit of about 2 billion parts will be reached fairly quickly with such wastage ]
  • Suzuki Magician check - working again
  • Select customer via phone book. Include an add button here
  • Spares menu : assign a hotkey to despatching screen
  • Disable cybersec warning : was not affecting workshop invoices.
  • View Invoice : showing wrong count for cancelled parts. Now fixed

Bug fixes

• Some classes of errors would cause future unrelated txns in c9 to fail too. Now fix (technical description: autoinc key management was fragile. Now flushes keys to autoinc always).
• Add part via orderbook would under some circumstances not work (if last part in orderbook happened to be finalized). 10 year old bug that was papered over mostly, except with recent changes in last ver of c9 with supers at orders. The supers changes are fine, but they pulled back the covers on this very old bug.

Tweaks

• F6 unstocked part. Show part/description and a couple of other bits of info. So can see exactly what part you are looking at and quickly right click and copy parts info from this screen
• WA registration form updated