Shopkeeper V Update Notes

Transcription

1 Shopkeeper V Update Notes April 2014

2 Shopkeeper V Update Notes Information in this document is subject to change without notice. Companies, names and data used in examples herein are fictitious unless otherwise noted. No part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, for any purpose, without the express written permission of Markinson Technologies Pty Ltd Markinson Technologies Pty Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Shopkeeper is a registered trademark of Markinson Technologies Pty Ltd. CONTACT MARKINSON BUSINESS SOLUTIONS Telephone: support.shopkeeper@markinson.com.au Internet:

3 Contents Update Version Prerequisites Documentation Conventions Enhancements Accounts Receivable... 6 SK-4979 Interest and Account keeping fees Inventory... 8 SK-5041 Price Levels use lowest price Point of Sale... 9 SK-5031 Tender Manager Pin Polling Service SK-4809 Polling Service UI Updates Web Shop SK-4738 Product Feature / Specification Updates Items Resolved Accounts Receivable SK-5069 Store Address on Statement Banking SK-4841 Actual detailed entry for Cheques Customer Orders SK-4806 Completing Orders via the web service SK-5047 Completing Orders via the web service SK-4983 Customer Order Maintenance: Source Location SK-5087 Completing Orders via the web service General Ledger SK-5120 Periodic Journal Maintenance error SK-5088 GL Entries for stores with trickle Inventory SK-4996 Non diminishing items and Customer Order quantities SK-4887 Web Active items and web categories Sales Analysis SK-4193 Stock Code Analysis report error Sales Orders SK-4992 Sales Order Reverse and payment allocations SK-5072 Sales Order Invoice Details Stocktake SK-4560 Stocktake validation numeric overflow error Shopkeeper Update Version

4 1.4.9 System SK-4859 PDF file creation SK-4822 Post Codes with leading zeros Help Updates Schema Changes in New Tables Updated Tables Custmast PriceLevel Tender New Parameters ACCT (14) Default Interest % ACCT (15) Default Fee $ Shopkeeper Update Version

5 Update Version Welcome to the Update Notes for Shopkeeper V8. These notes provide details of enhancements and issue resolutions implemented in this release of the product. 1.1 Prerequisites In order to install and operate Shopkeeper V8, please ensure that the following mandatory prerequisites are met: Review Product Licence and Licence Agreement Ensure that you have a valid product licence for your installation and you are familiar with the Shopkeeper Licence Agreement. Licence details and the Shopkeeper Licence Agreement may be updated periodically and must be reviewed following installation of each patch update. The licence details and a current copy of the Licence Agreement are recorded in Shopkeeper. To view the licence agreement, launch your Shopkeeper Application, click on the Help menu and select the About option to display the About Shopkeeper screen. The Licence Agreement may be viewed via the View the End-User Licence Agreement link on this screen. Shopkeeper Update Version

6 1.2 Documentation Conventions The following conventions are used in this documentation: FEATURE Module or Function Title Screen or Window Title Buttons, Drop-down Lists, Radio Buttons, Fields and Keyboard Keys CONVENTION All indicated within the content of this document using BOLD CAPITALISED text. Example: Maintaining Settings in the SUPPLIER MAINTENANCE module. All indicated within the content of this document using Bold Italic text. Example: Select the supplier from the Supplier type screen. All indicated within the content of this document using Bold text. Example: Press Ctrl+P on your keyboard then click on the OK button. Shopkeeper Update Version

7 1.3 Enhancements Accounts Receivable SK-4979 Interest and Account keeping fees. Changes for Account Customers have been made to implement interest and/or account fees. The Accounts Receivable module has been updated to implement the following: Account Maintenance contains new options: Apply Interest, Apply Account Fee. New parameters have been added: Default Interest % and Default Account Fee $. A new Operational function has been created to apply any interest or fee. rogram Changes: Account Customer Maintenance: The options tab of the Account customer maintenance screen has been updated to include the new options: All accounts will have these options checked by default, however, they will only be used when the new Account Charges function is used. When a user changes the Allow interest or Allow Account Fee options a system diary entry will be generated to record the change. Account Charges: A new operational function has been created in accounts receivable to perform the task of generating Interest and Account fee transactions: Shopkeeper Update Version

8 The period ending date is used to control when the interest is calculated from. It is also used to set the transaction date for an interest and account fee transactions. If a default interest percentage is defined then the Charge interest check box will be checked. If a default account fee is defined then the Charge Account Fee check box will be checked. Interest is calculated using the outstanding balance for each account that has the Allow Interest flag set. Account fee is a flat fee that affects all accounts with the Allow Account Fee flag set. Clicking on ok will then start the Account Charges process: A check is made for the period defined to ensure interest or fees are not calculated more than once for the same period. Calculate account balances and apply any interest / account fees. Account transactions will be generated as at the period ending date. For interest the notes of the transaction will include the following text: Interest charged on outstanding balance of xxxxx.xx at xx.xx% The account fee transaction amounts are treated as tax / GST inclusive. The Accounts Receivable Default Tax code parameter will be used for this. Interest transactions however do not attract GST. The following GL entry will be generated: Control Account Debit Credit Accounts Receivable xxxxxx.xx Tax on Sales (for account fee only) Misc. Income xxxx.xx xxxxxx.xx Shopkeeper Update Version

9 1.3.2 Inventory SK-5041 Price Levels use lowest price Changes have been implemented to extend the price level system so that the lowest price of the nominated price levels is used in point of sale. Program Changes: Price Level Maintenance: The Price Level Maintenance screen has been updated for a new column: Point of Sale: The pricing calculation will evaluate all price levels that are flagged as Use Lowest Price and where the prices are non-zero, pos will use the cheapest price. Shopkeeper Update Version

10 1.3.3 Point of Sale SK-5031 Tender Manager Pin Changes have been made to enforce manager pin by tender. Schema Change: A Manager flag has been added to the tender table. Tender Maintenance: The Tender Maintenance screen has been updated for the new column: Point of Sale: In point of sale when a tender is selected by a command string or on the tender screen and the Manager Pin Required flag is checked, the system will then enforce entry of a manager pin before continuing. Manager Override Analysis: The manager override data and analysis report has been updated to include tender based overrides. Shopkeeper Update Version

11 1.3.4 Polling Service SK-4809 Polling Service UI Updates The polling service user interface has been changed so that you can visually see which stores are currently connected or disconnected. Stores are grouped by state, and each location displays their object statistics. A new performance tab displays polling statistics visually in a graph format: Two new tables were implemented in in preparation for the polling service updates: PollConnect: This table tracks the connected state of stores communicating via the polling service. PollCache: Stores temporary cached objects. Shopkeeper Update Version

12 1.3.5 Web Shop SK-4738 Product Feature / Specification Updates The following changes have been implemented in web shop: The product list page has been updated so that the sell price and add to cart buttons are very obvious to the user: The product details page has been expanded to include these changes: Shopkeeper Update Version

13 New tabs have also been implemented: Features: Specifications: Attachements: Reviews: Shopkeeper Update Version

14 1.4 Items Resolved Accounts Receivable SK-5069 Store Address on Statement The issue was reported in Version 8.0 affecting customers using the Accounts Receivable module and was first reported on 24/03/2014. When the Print branch address parameter is on the statement header the remittance portion of the statement now prints the stores address Banking SK-4841 Actual detailed entry for Cheques The issue was reported in Version 8.0 affecting customers using the Banking module and was first reported on 18/12/2013. The optional wording has been removed from the Cheque detailed entry screen Customer Orders SK-4806 Completing Orders via the web service The issue was reported in Version 8.0 affecting customers using the Customer Orders module and was first reported on 09/12/2013. The web service now creates pos transactions with register number 97 for customer orders the service completes. SK-5047 Completing Orders via the web service The issue was reported in Version 8.0 affecting customers using the Customer Orders module and was first reported on 19/03/2014. The web service no longer raises an exception when a non diminishing item is being completed. SK-4983 Customer Order Maintenance: Source Location The issue was reported in Version 8.0 affecting customers using the Customer Orders module and was first reported on 17/02/2014. The source location has been added to the customer order screens. SK-5087 Completing Orders via the web service The issue was reported in Version 8.0 affecting customers using the Customer Orders module and was first reported on 19/03/2014. When an item with a warranty is completed via the web service the matching warranty item is also completed. Shopkeeper Update Version

15 1.4.4 General Ledger SK-5120 Periodic Journal Maintenance error The issue was reported in Version 8.0 affecting customers using the General Ledger module and was first reported on 15/12/2013. The periodic journal maintenance screen allowed the user to click on disabled buttons. Clicking on the disabled save button generated an SQL message The ROLLBACK TRANSACTION request has no corresponding BEGIN TRANSACTION. SK-5088 GL Entries for stores with trickle The issue was reported in Version 8.0 affecting customers using the General Ledger module and was first reported on 15/12/2013. The GL batch entries generated for stores where trickle is turned on then off again generated a.f. as part of the reference Inventory SK-4996 Non diminishing items and Customer Order quantities The issue was reported in Version 8.0 affecting customers using the Inventory module and was first reported on 09/12/2013. Non diminish items on customer orders were affecting the available stock on hand calculation. SK-4887 Web Active items and web categories The issue was reported in Version 8.0 affecting customers using the Inventory module and was first reported on 09/12/2013. The inventory maintenance screen has been altered so that an item flagged as web active can not be saved without web categories and vice versa Sales Analysis SK-4193 Stock Code Analysis report error The issue was reported in Version 8.0 affecting customers using the Sales Analysis module and was first reported on 08/06/2013. The following error would occur when running this report: Alias TEMPDBF is not found. Shopkeeper Update Version

16 1.4.7 Sales Orders SK-4992 Sales Order Reverse and payment allocations The issue was reported in Version 8.0 affecting customers using the Sales Orders module and was first reported on 20/02/2014. The sales order reversal did not reverse payment allocations when a sales order invoice was allocated to a sales order credit. SK-5072 Sales Order Invoice Details The issue was reported in Version 8.0 affecting customers using the Sales Orders module and was first reported on 24/03/2014. The invoice details screen now always positions the cursor to the invoice date text box, in some cases the cursor was starting on another text box Stocktake SK-4560 Stocktake validation numeric overflow error The issue was reported in Version 8.0 affecting customers using the Stocktake module and was first reported on 01/10/2013. Validating the PD file as part of the store stock take process was crashing with a numeric overflow error when invalid data was in the file. This has been corrected so the system logs and reports the issue correctly System SK-4859 PDF file creation The issue was reported in Version 8.0 affecting customers using the system and was first reported on 20/12/2013. The pdf creation fails if either the pdf folder does not exist or the user has insufficient rights to create a file in that location a message is displayed. SK-4822 Post Codes with leading zeros The issue was reported in Version 8.0 affecting customers using the system and was first reported on 12/12/2013. Post Codes with leading zeros were imported with the leading zero removed. The missing leading zero has been corrected and further imports will import the post code correctly. Shopkeeper Update Version

17 1.5 Help Updates The following help files were amended with this update: Shopkeeper Update Version

18 Schema Changes in The Schema Changes in Shopkeeper are described in this section in the following topics: New Tables Updated Tables New Parameters 1.6 New Tables No new tables in this release. Shopkeeper Schema Changes in

19 1.7 Updated Tables The following tables were updated: Custmast FIELD NAME TYPE LENGTH COMMENTS AllowInt Bit Allow Interest: Default will be set to true during the schema update AllowFee Bit Allow Account Fee: Default will be set to true during the schema update PriceLevel FIELD NAME TYPE LENGTH COMMENTS UseLowest Bit Tender FIELD NAME TYPE LENGTH COMMENTS Manager Bit Schema Changes: Shopkeeper Schema Changes in

20 1.8 New Parameters The following parameters have been added to the system: ACCT (14) Default Interest % Default interest for Account Charges function ACCT (15) Default Fee $ Default fee for Account Charges function Shopkeeper Schema Changes in