Bug fixes relating to ongoing regression defects with refunding spares caused by UOM and consolidating invoice/refund

• Allow -ve freight on point of sale complete for freight refunding
• Point of Sale tender display : make it visually obvious when displaying result of a refund
• Point of sale: provide visual clues on what to do in order to refund an item (i.e. -ve qty)
• Point of sale: when a qty is to be refunded always default restock to qty refunded. User must override all changes here if not being restocked

Other things in play:

• Added some infrastructure to support upcoming new feature: ability to key in unit details on a web enabled mobile device. (i.e. copy vin details etc from the bike using a tablet or mobile phone). Nothing functional yet. Hopefully in a few weeks.

Bug fixes

• Total on workshop jobs with parts on order with a discount was incorrect ,was double discounting.  System would resolve itself normally when parts arrive so rarely an issue at invoicing time. Now calculates correct price on discounted ordered parts
• Credit spares back to stock. Was not creating stock record for unstocked items. Partly a regression bug caused by introduction of unit of measure. An exchange invoice could not restock such items either, now fixed.

Includes new PDF parser library to increase support for importing supplier invoices. At time of writing can import GP Wholesale, Cykel, Yamaha/Ficeda and Whites. Send through more PDFs for us to add.

This version includes ability to import electronic invoices into c9 spares receive.

At time of writing only Yamaha, Ficeda & Whites Powersports are working.

Email invoices to barney if you want c9 to be able to import them.  All going well, adding a new invoice will only take an hour or so and should not require any further updates to c9.

Bug fix: offline backup not backing up unit of measure sequences correctly. Minimal impact to offline backups.

4.562 fixes relating to PDF import

• 4.561 pdf import was a memory hog and would cause c9 to crash on low spec machines. Now fixed to use minimal memory
• Added support for parsing landscape oriented PDF files.

Includes Database changes you will need to log all terminals out during upgrade.

This release contains a major new feature, units of measure on spare parts. This permits selling items in units that differ from how the supplier provides them.  Examples:

• Selling individual items from a packet of 12, links from rolls of chain etc.
• Selling oil from a drum (allows fractional items, so you can sell 1.5L)
• Selling lengths, i.e. 6 pieces of 1.5m tubing

In view/change part is a Unit of Measure. You can assign UOM onto parts.  There are at present some limitations on UOM selling, all connected to ordering/reserving.

• You cannot order units.  Parts must still be ordered in full as provided by supplier. You cannot do customer order for 1.5L of oil, but you can order for them an entire drum
• You cannot reserve or layby units of measure. They can be quoted although

One major consequence of this new feature is removal of spares credit note screen in c9. It has now been merged in with point of sale screen; a credit note is imported with -ve quantities on parts.  Functionality is still there, but now works quite differently.

Other changes and bugfixes

• Bug with clocking would result in clerkkey records getting messed up and deleted.  (Caused by software bug + network connectivity issues when c9 is reseted in the post clerk key enter clockon/clockoff screen)
• Dealership details, option to key in shipping address for shop as different from premises.  Printed on customer shipping labels.
• A1 Accessory Magician query support added
• Mercury Fiche import : fixed bug where about half models would not import (incorrectly implemented filter that tries to focus on AUS models only)
• Point of Sale complete.  Extract phone number from order number was overzealous. C9 would extract 0422 206 974 from this "GSXR600 K4 JS2B2206974100143", now fixed to consider characters like JS as breaking the contiguity(?) of the number.

Expected to be finished next week,  ability to

• Sell units of measure. i.e. Litres / length of chain, links etc.
• Ability to sell fractions of UOMs.

This will provide alot of new possibilities, including solving long standing issue of tracking workshop drum oil

• Tweaks
  • Print dealer licence # on spares invoices, to cope with requirement from NSW to print this on everything

• Bug fixes
  • Import c9 repo price files, system would not allow you to select last option in the list. Now fixed
  • some GL journal postings relating to tweaks to floorplan GST may be incorrectly data. Update will redate such journals.
  • Unit proft report.  Reset on sub total and grand total for rebates and write backs was busted. Now fixed

Monza

Monza price files now distributed by c9 directly. Note that c9 distributed price files for Monza will have all items set with GST, including knee braces. If you wish to sell knee braces tax exempt, you will need to import price files from Monza directly.  On advise from our own accountants, we will not distribute such items as tax exempt.

To import c9 distributed monza price file, goto Spares -> Utilities -> Import price file. Select your Monza franchise. Select option 'C9 Central Repository price files' and select Monza.

Yamaha

Yamaha have a major price change that comes into effect from 29th of August (this coming Saturday). C9 will nag you on Saturday morning to fetch latest price file.  Over 95% of parts have been repriced as far as I can tell. If you are not receiving Yamaha price files from c9 repo yet, here is a page that explains all.

http://c8software.com.au/wp/2015/02/for-yamaha-dealers-c9-provided-price-files/

• Bugs with recording activity and journal postings for paid out floorplans. Under some fairly common circumstances, the payout would not be recorded.  This fix fixes the problem and correctly adds/posts necessary journals/activity record
• Email individual account statement via print preview, would use customer default email address, not their account email address (if configured)
• View unit : rename encumbrances to 'other line items'
• Manual offline backup: reports error with leaseaccount_primarykey_seq. Now fixed. Was not a critical issue, offline backups still good inspite of this error message.
• GST tweaks : add nag screens to point of sale and workshop to warn punter if invoice contains parts with either 0 GST (i.e. medical devices) or GST which looks invalid (i.e. something other than 0 or 10% due to improperly installed price file).
• Browse fiche : select franchise should now perform faster on systems where there is a slight delay (caused by inefficient database access)

Bugfix : recent changes to improve terminal locking on web orders stuffed up processing of web orders that had more than one part on them.  System would not allow you to complete such orders. Now fixed.

Includes database changes, you'll need to log all c9 terminals out during upgrade

• Spares invoice notes
  • Print notes on a4 invoice
  • Show icon in reprint and select invoice visually indicating that a note (or private note) is attached to the invoice
• Accessory suppliers : ability to add an account number that prints on order sheet
• Import mercury outboard fiche diagrams
• Weborder processing : under some rare circumstances locking of web orders would stuff up and it becomes possible to process a web order twice on different terminals.  Tightened up lock testing to prevent this from happening
• Units reports
  • Open floorplan, allow generation of report for open floorplans as of a given date
  • Improved performance of a few of the reports : stock/stocklist/retail reports.
• Lease management tweaks to improve SMS billing for dealers that have changed the name of their shop. (currently issues two invoices. Tweaked to consolidate into one)