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Price File Attributes November 26, 2014 barney

Working on some interesting changes in c9 : price file attributes. On price file items you can add arbitrary price file attributes, things like size, type, colour etc. These can be imported via generic. I am also going to importing this data from dealer extranet systtems provided by Monza etc too.

You can search on these attributes, see screen shot below:

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These attributes will be used to better help organise items into websites for dealers that run websites. To allow for quick wins in terms of getting parts onto a website.  Down the track we will look at using attributes for shopping selection.

Other changes in play include importing pack quantity information from supplier price files and configuring pack qty behaviour on a per part basis.

Release 4.474 November 21, 2014 barney

Tweaks to fiche importing to help with managing importing of diagrams where part numbers are shared across makes (i.e. KTM, Husaberg, Husky).

Release 4.473 November 20, 2014 barney
  • Import generic. Cope with fact that BRP excel files label supercession column with misspelt name: Subtitude_Part
  • Find part : list would do weird things and render in loops and jump around a bit.  This was caused substantially by recent changes to increase maximum # of franchises beyond 255, though I also fixed a few other little bugs here too which might be contributing.
  • Find part : ability to view/modify part while in find part
  • Subtle bug with the following scenario.  You do split payment (i.e. cash + credit card) where one payment method tenders change and the other incurs a surcharge.  The system would miscalculate the amount to tender by the value of the surcharge, resulting in incorrect tendering and in the case of spare parts sales, weird invoices claiming the surcharge was put on account.  Now fixed.
  • Workshop pickup : option to print two copies. Made two copies and print hours options checkboxes on the print screen.
  • View job : show discount and proper totals like most other workshop screens (modify/complete/pickup etc)
  • Print job in progress: print discount line items and print discount text properly
  • Modify Deal : change add/remove deposit display so it is more obvious how deposit management behaviour is.  Previously was unintuitive as it was not clear that deposit changes are uncommitted until you press OK button. Hopefully you display which shows current and uncommitted deposit value will make more sense.
  • Spare parts : put commonly used barcode and reprint invoice option under the 'spare parts' menu.  Is also still in reports. Under spares should make it easier to get to.
Release 4.472 November 14, 2014 barney

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

  • Completely redesigned Profit Summary report
    • Show columns for price, discount, cogs and retail as a table. So easier to read
    • Realise profit on spare parts at point that parts leave the building, i.e. bolted on a workshop job or a unit as part of pre-delivery. Not when parts leave the spares department
    • Realise profit on workshop pre-delivery when the unit is sold, not when job is finished
    • Report unrealised profit in various forms such as:
      • Predelivery charges not billed on the final unit sale invoice
      • internal/dealership workjob jobs department consumption of spares
  • Add new customer : if there is a clash or codes/names upon highlighting code field in add customer, jump to the bottom of the list highlighting record to allow user to proceed with creating a new customer
Release 4.471 November 12, 2014 barney

Previous release ran a database update step.  On systems with a decade or more of workshop data this step can take ages to run.  I've made some changes so if you step v4.470, the modified upgrade approach hopefully will run a bit quicker.

Release 4.470 November 11, 2014 barney

Bugfix with Workshop estimates. Changes to estimates would not be saved. Line item changes were okay, but other changes to the estimate were not recorded.

Bugfix with recording of deposit on refunded parts from a prior invoice in some circumstances.  If you remove discount on refund system would not record discount on line items correctly, interfering with profit reporting (would understate profit because would assume discount was refunded, not refunding deposit increases profit).

Release 4.469 November 7, 2014 barney
  • Miner : ability to query on relationships between spares invoices and quotes (and related invoices, such as order/invoiced orders)
  • Bugfix with recent changes to clocking. System would not record job item labour under some rare configurations (if never merge option was selected, which most users of c9 do not enable)
  • Added ability to more easily tweak pricing on workshop jobs.  A button on modify/complete job now allows you  to do things like:
    • Set spares to supplier RRP (fixed or discount to)
    • Set spares to cost (fixed or discount to)
    • Reset discounts
    • Reset spares to dealer retail price
  • New workshop discount option : Capped $.  It is exactly the same as Fixed $ except on the printed invoice, line totals and discounts are not printed.
Release 4.468 November 6, 2014 barney

Improved miner bulk message opt out capabilities in c9.

Firstly, SMS based opt out will now synchronize opt out replies from users back into c9 by unsetting the marketing flag in c9.

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Previously, c9's servers alone would track this and enforce opt out behaviour without syncing opt out selections by your users.  So although anti-spam obligations as satisified by the previous solution there was no way - within c9 itself to know who has opted out because the information was kept on c9's central systems only. Now this data is automatically copied into your c9 and available for querying/reporting and resetting if a user ever requests to opt back in.

Secondly, it is now possible to do automated, web based opt outs in email based miner operations. For example, a screenshot from gmail of a possible email:

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Clicking on the link yields a page that reports something like this:

Unsubscribe from Dev Motorcycles Successful

The link is preset in miner whenever you create a new miner query. e.g.:

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Release 4.467 November 5, 2014 barney

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

  • Paypal integration fixes
    • Point of Sale complete would not calculate deposit to hold correctly if paypal customer has a trade discount for parts that needed to be ordered.  Deposit taken would not factor in this deposit so paypal would capture too much deposit (which would be refunded later anyway)
    • Auto invoice on receive parts : would not send a capture finalisation to paypal.
    • F12 pickup when no further capture is required.  Would not send a capture finalisation to paypal.
  • Workshop progress report : rounding error on reported labour in some circumstances. Now fixed
  • Workshop clocking : heavily over hauled.  Interface now I hope is alot simpler.  The interface also allows you to customise non job clocking tasks. Defaults include 'idle' and 'break' but you can either add your own or disable them to disable non job clocking altogether.  To access this goto workshop -> Utilities -> Clocking Reasons
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