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Release 4.674 May 23, 2017 barney
  • Payroll
    • Additional MLS / HELP withholding.
      • Include predicted rate that was used as part of computing additional withholding
      • Do not include severance pay in tax prediction computation for terminating payslip as this can dramatically artificially inflate estimate of taxable income
    • Tool allowance not being pro-ratad. Now fixed
    • Staff termination : would still generate empty payslips after the fact. Now doesn't generate anything at all
    • Bugfix with added items on prior payruns could cause DB errors on subsequent payruns. Now fixed.
    • Bug fix with moving leave types and pay runs around.  Following scenario was previously possible but now fixed
      • 1) Add a leave type to a payrun. 2) View payrun. 3) Move leave type date forward so it is outside of payrun. 4) Finalise payrun
      • The leave type would not apply to the finalised run but it would also be locked so it could not apply for future runs.
    • Multiple simultaneous paycycles
      • not working. Now fixed. e.g. paying techs weekly but counter staff monthly. (Probably no one does this but c9, by design is capable of doing it)
      • When staff member changes paycycles make sure computed payrun factors in any overrun
      • When staff member changes paycycles make sure unlinked backdated leave adjustments are correctly linked
    • backdated leave adjustments
      • Bugfix: Was not subtracting previously paid wages corrresponding to leave time correctly
      • Add onto payslip as a separate line for overpaid wages linked to backdated leave so it is more obvious on slip what is happening
      • Bugfix: System is incorrectly accruing leave for backdated leave days. Pro-rata computation + backdate processing was broken
      • Bugfix: Backdated leave without pay not impacting pro-rata computation for accrued leave.
  •  Tweaks & bugfixes
    • Husky/KTM fiche import: was not working for one particular user login.  Should now be okay.
    • Bugfix with electronic import for spares receive. Could mess up qty to receive in some circumstances.  Specifically receiving into a screen where part in question isn't on the screen already but part is known to be on order. The part will be added into the list with the quantity known on order PLUS the qty from electronic source.  This is incorrect, needs to be qty on electronic source only without regard for what is currently on the orderbook.  In real usage this scenario rarely happens since generally operator will setup receive screen such that part is on screen already and electronic import is merely tweaking parts already listed.
    • Staff report : provide tally/summary of clock reasons at bottom of report
    • Workshop completion / progress & booked reports :
      • layout tweaks & use the paper real estate better. Alot of wasted space on the printed report
      • Show total as goal total for inprogress jobs that use capped /fixed pricing
      • include a total figure tally at bottom of the report
    • Workshop promise report
      • include a tally
      • Show total as goal total for inprogress jobs that use capped /fixed pricing
Release 4.673 May 15, 2017 barney
  • Clock on/clock off screen would not draw correctly when using c9 via remote access client. Now fixed
  • Point of sale : alternate order source behaviour
    • Alternate order would default order source for parts added to invoice to be same as last part if part source was ever changed during the process of constructing the invoice. Some tweaks to this logic in this version to hopefully better track operator intention:
      • Reset behaviour if all parts deleted off screen
      • Only enable this behaviour if Edit Order  screen actually alters the selected order source. Merely clicking OK does not lock behaviour
      • Parts added take on last part order source for same franchise. i.e. if you flip a MCS part to be ordered from another dealer, a further added Suzuki part will not inherit behaviour from this MCS part, instead that part will inherit behaviour of last suzuki part (if any).
  • Payroll tweaks
    • PAYG calculation was not withholding PAYG on tool allowance. Now fixed
    • Employer Super contributions, show % as a rate figure on payslip
    • Leave accrual,  always round up instead of rounding to nearest.
    • Super contribution. Do not calculate super on tool allowance.
    • Print pay slips, print slips in order of staff code
    • Pay run screen: add scroll bars
    • Tweaked bracket creep amortisation logic.  Payroll system contains a mechanism where based on predicted income it may pay additional HELP and MLS tax to try and offset significant bracket creep impacts that can occur with these tax systems. The first step on HELP is 4% so stepping into this bracket say because of a pay rise awarded late in the financial year can cause employee to be out of pocket by a significant amount, upto $2200, with their tax return. C9 tries to predict and smooth out this sort of damage across remaining pay runs with additional withholding.  The system needs to be able to make a prediction on past unknown income for starting employees or employees that quit and return within the same period by assuming past pay that is known about is representative of past unknown pay.  Prior algorithms for doing this were faulty (e.g. changing the pay cycle rate from weekly to monthly would break the prior algorithm).  Includes a new improved algorithm for predicting this that copes with such concerns. Extrapolates based on first pay and current paycycle type, and also extrapolates based on missing pay cycle days.
    • Bracket Creep amortisation for MLS and HELP. Include option on staff to disable this feature. In staff payroll settings are new radio buttons "Auto (no additional)" which auto computes MLS & HELP but does not apply any additional amortization to try smooth out bracket creep impacts
  • Other tweaks
    • Browse Invoiced units : reprint invoice button was hidden under another button. Now fixed
    • print estimate. Print line items in same order as they appear/ are managed on estimate (previously would roughly print in order they were originally added to the estimate, printing labour items first without any regard for any subsequent reordering on estimate edit screen)
    • VicRoads Forms : added form for online rego transfer
    • Image gallery text filtering not working. Now fixed
    • SMTP routed email : removed client side setting of message ID. Testing a theory maybe a small minority of SMTP servers are making things difficult by recognising the Msg ID as being generated by javamail.
Release 4.672 May 9, 2017 barney
  • Kawasaki parts inquiry & Fiche Import: now working again.  Kawasaki have rolled in some tech on their website that makes these things unreliable so uncertain about our capacity to keep this thing working.
  • More tweaks to c9 monthly invoice generation.
  • Email sending tweaks.
    • Email sending code rewritten to more elegantly/reliably cope with slow SMTP servers. Some possibly bad software race conditions if SMTP spooling took longer than 3 seconds
    • bail on email sending if spooling takes longer than 60 seconds. Previously system would wait indefinitely on a non responsive mail server, causing messenger to lock up.
    • Added support for SSL/TLS to compliment existing STARTTLS (previously called TLS in c9).
  • Added ability to manually create general ledger postings
  • View finished job bugfix.  Displayed discount $ would keep increasing every time you relook at a job. Would reset back to sane figures after opening a new c9. Now fixed.
  • Export order electronically.  If the order export fails, do not move order into 'sent' status.  Previously would do this. Applicable for Honda/Whites & other C9 Dealer export targets.
  • Workshop staff report : reruns of the report show report total keeps increasing up and up under some circumstances.  Was not resetting total count on reruns. Now fixed.
  • Parts Order - Customer Order Pickup
    • Get rid of 'auto invoice at customer discount' setting.  Redundant and has been for years as c9 memorizes discount setup on a per invoice basis when the order was originally setup
    • If original ordcr was an invoiced order but customer has since been changed to cash customer, force the subsequent pickup to be a receipt sales.
  • Payroll
    • Integrated payrun finalisation into activity and the GL
Release 4.671 May 8, 2017 barney

Regression bug in previous version.  Workshop main screen, location and general filtering broken.  Would permanently pop an error screen reporting this.  Now fixed.

Release 4.670 May 3, 2017 barney
  • Workshop pickup journal errors.  Under some circumstances a pickup would fail with a journal error relating to sub contract work.  Fixed pickup so it is now more robust.
  • Stock take sheets.  Provide a visual display of qty on reserve to help dealers who do not pull parts out of stock and placing them on reserve/layby. e.g. report may show 3 (+5),   which means 3 in stock for any walk in customer, 5 on rerserve, total stock on hand of avail+reserve should be 8.
  • Main workshop screen : show job total ( for completed jobs only)
  • Move parts: delete button now just deletes part off list of parts to move. Previously would permanently delete part off stock file
  • Unit deals
    • a unit on a sale deal would not retain any changes to trust receipt made to the floor stock item.  Now fixed.
    • When receive a unit to order for sale on a deal, if that unit had trust receipt details, details would be lost once unit once deal was finalised. (similar to issue above). Now fixed too
  • C9 lease tweaks
    • Added a facility to make it easier to install new systems.
    • Remove monthly passwords from invoices c9 sends out. Monthly passwords are no longer in use. Old versions of c9 no longer supported.
Release 4.669 May 1, 2017 barney
  • Point of sale complete: show a tally of all freight invoiced so far on parent/related invoices. (doesn't yet factor in merged invoices, TODO).
  • KTM EPC fiche import : more tweaks to deal with broken diagrams and images
  • Import Suzuki Snap-ON EPC  part lists : cope with extraneous '-000' on end of part numbers better
  • Fix Vic Roads bike details import
  • This version of c9 removes need to enter in monthly passwords.  Lease management in c9 is now entirely automatic.  Invoices we issue from June onwards will no longer have old monthly passwords printed on them so all c9 dealers will need to update to this version of c9 from June onwards.