More bug fixes

• -ve on spares point of sale,  discount to refund would not round correctly under some circumstances
• Costprice on received orders / reserved parts : if you pressed F6 to view part to be picked up, system would revert buy price to record as daily buy price, not actual cost price recorded on original receive, but only if you press F6. Now fixed so it always saves actual order receive price irrespective of what is on price/stock file.

• Tweaks/Bugfixes with spares
  • -ve qty on invoice, would not allow you to key in a lower figure for restocking.
  • credit note involving discount : would not calculate discount correctly under some circumstances resulting in GL journal item error disallowing the credit note
  • Discount per line calculation, under some circumstances would be a little bit out, typically by 0.0001 ~ 0.0009 cents depending on # of parts on invoice
• Website config : got min/max value on freight options back to front. Now fixed
• Include support for importing hard parts data/images for Husqvarna

Email/Messenger

• Added email throttle setting for emailing via dealerships mail server, to cope with mail servers that disallow sending email too quickly.
• Access email/messenger config from within c9

Parts Magician: Reworked parts magician integration to try and find more matches.

• Parts magician reply configuration is now done via edit franchise.  In here is an option to enable reply on existing configured magician category for a franchise, option is default to on.
• Send all queries to all c9 dealers

For the past week c9's web servers have been on a blacklist maintained by Microsoft meaning it is not possible to send email to @hotmail.com, @live.com, @outlook.com etc and the dickheads at Microsoft are unable to provide me a  process that actually works to have this blacklist reviewed and lifted. As much as it would be nice to write off anyone with a hotmail address as not worth bothering communicating with,  given it makes up over 20% of emails tracked within most c9 databases, so something needs to be done.

We can solve this problem easily by moving outbound email traffic and a different server, but it is painful and costly for us to do it, so we will only do it with some reasonable level of confidence that this is unlikely to happen again.

To this we are implementing a policy of not relaying emails from c9 generated via miner queries.  Transactional email such as emailed statements/invoices etc will work fine, but we will no longer accept or deliver email from miner on behalf of the dealerships.

To deliver such email from now on, you need to configure your c9 to connect to your own mail server. Instructions on how to do this are here:  Configure c9 to use your mail server.  Be mindful that if you send stacks of spammy marketing stuff, your ISP may get a bit upset with you when *they* get blacklisted by microsoft and others. Remember: SPAM responsibly.

This version of c9 includes changes necessary to implement this policy. Note that older versions of c9 will no longer deliver *any* email. C9's servers will refuse to deliver email from out of date versions of c9. You must upgrade in order to get any email sent via c9 to work.  Only non-miner email will work after the upgrade.

Other changes:

• Workshop: option to do a simultaneous invoice print/invoice email
• Spares: show customer phone on complete screen

Mail server configuration is accessed via messenger service for c9 which is a system tray service.

It will run on one computer in the shop only. Locate the computer, find the c9 icon in bottom right, press right mouse button on the icon and select Restore.

Then click on settings in messenger to access email settings.  As to what to key in, your email provider will be able to supply this information.

Bug fixes with 4.509 :  calibrate label printer had a couple of bugs:

• Label list would show wrong printer selection
• Could not access print test page, would show error message about wrong label offsets.

Includes database changes. You'll need to log all terminals out during upgrade

• Bugfixes with recent changes to cash till report. Department tally was not resetting, changing dates did not refresh screen. Both issues now fixed
• Overhaul label printing to make it easier quicker
  • Introduce notion of having multiple printer targets. So you can have two or more label printers, or mix report/label printing to avery paper without having to reconfigure stuff
  • Configuration should now be hopefully simpler
  • Disable preview screen and just print the labels (save keystrokes)
  • Ability to print a detailed shipping label (shows shop name + phone  + email of customer)
• Workshop jobs now track estimate job is based on. Reports to come shortly.
• Manage website : include tools to manage image menu thingo

• Redesigned workshop dashboard list works when highlighting items to deal with performance and selection reliability issues with using remote access
• Fixed control order for browse dealer units so newly added new/used filter does not receive focus when window is initially opened
• Bugfix with counting sale history for reserved/layby items. Was double counting sale in 12 month figures (full history though works correctly).
• Bugfix with adding parts onto workshop estimate/job : was adding parts as GST exempt if F9 was pressed in point of sale screen : should never do this
• Reports that require date range :redesigned data inputting of these screens so date entry is integrated with other report filters to make reports easier to use. Affects:
  • Workshop: profit, warranty, promise, staff
  • Unit: profit
  • Spares: variance, received orders
  • Other: cash till
• Workshop profit report: option to group report based on mechanic
• Website freight options : ability to enable/disable based on initial spend. i.e. Free freight only available for spend >$50

• Units
  • Dealer units : show and style new/used units. Also permit filtering of new/used
  • Sale : show deposit and changeover on confirmation screen
  • Setup option to disable duty on spares/workshop line items added onto a sale (works globally)
  • Allow deifnition of liability line items in unit costs
• Spares
  • Restore ability to delete account records for spares sales
  • Receive spares : redesigned printout so it is blindingly obvious which items are for spares or workshop or units/sales
• Workshop
  • Hot key on (S)pares in add parts/labour

Encountered enough of these to make it worth while adding a page on them. Also the manual is 400 pages long, which is a bit excessive to work through for simple, common task of adding STX, so here is a cheat sheet:

Adding STX/ETX

Step 1 - set Barcode Structure as Prefix + Data + Suffix

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