SAM Version 6.028 Release Notes


TABLE OF CONTENTS



Hero Features 

Feature

DR#

Detail

Jobs

SD-8027

New Minimum Job Margins functionality has been added that will allow users to define minimum margin settings for Labour, Orders, Parts, POS Materials as percentages and GP Margin as a dollar value. Warnings will display when attempting to sell below the defined margins. <<Read the KB Article Here!!>>

Invoice
SD-8156

You can now archive 7+ year old invoices by going to System Setup > Job > Archive Invoices. The invoice archiving will be logged in Enquiry > Archived Invoice History. <<Read the KB Article Here!!>>



Enhancements 

Module

DR#

Detail

Invoice

SD-8286

Added the ability to add and view supporting documents in the creditor’s history postings

Invoice

SD-8337

To avoid unapproved changes to account customer contact details, unless a customer is set up as a CASH customer, the invoice email address field, on the Invoice Enquiry screen is now greyed out. If the customer is a CASH customer, the invoice e-mail address field can be modified.

Invoice

SD-8347

On the Credit Invoice > Modify Credit Posting screen, the text has been changed from "New Qty" to "Credit Qty" to more accurately describe the change that will be applied.

Jobs

SD-8027

New Minimum Job Margins functionality has been added that will allow users to define minimum margin settings for Labour, Orders, Parts, POS Materials as percentages and GP Margin as a dollar value. Warnings will display when attempting to sell below the defined margins.

Jobs

SD-8125

The tab order when creating a job, has been changed when the job number is 0 to go from customer to vehicle only

Jobs

SD-8193

Assembly jobs now share the same Job Statuses as regular jobs

Jobs

SD-8194

Added the ability to change the contact details in the job while retaining original customer contact details

Jobs

SD-8313

Added job start date and job start time label references to Job Label Printing

Orders

SD-8121

We have removed the automatic Create Credit Invoice popup when creating a return as this is typically too early, and you are not yet ready to do the creditor invoice at this stage. 

Orders

SD-8122

Added the ability to return procured items to stock directly with a "new stock" option when returning or deleting parts ordered

Payments

SD-8314

Added the ability to make future payments (only for SAM X).

Quotes

SD-7932

A warning message now displays when converting a quote to an existing job for customers

Quotes

SD-8165

Added a 1, 3 and 7 year filter beside the search options on the Job and Invoice Enquiry screen.

Quotes

SD-8309

Users can now adjust total cost on quotes by 1 cent with a +/- adjustment button

SmartCheck

SD-8187

Added Disclaimer URL to footer of Smartcheck checksheet page

SmartCheck

SD-8189

When a user makes changes to Label, Authorisation or Expiry date for a WOF checksheet, it is now recorded in the control log

SmartCheck

SD-8216

When the Smartcheck add-on is enabled, the WOF check sheets checkbox in Maintenance> General> Helpdesk will automatically become checked

SmartCheck

SD-8297

When "I perform WOFs" in Smartcheck is enabled, the old WOF report in workshop report listing is now disabled and does not appear in the list as it is obsolete.

SmartCheck

SD-8303

Added the ability to print/email checksheets from within a job.

SmartCheck

SD-8318

Added the ability to only update WIP vehicles, this is important for sites with over ten thousand vehicles as the API would normally time out when trying to upload all, resulting in not all jobs appearing in Smartcheck

SmartCheck

SD-8386

With NZTA approval, the signature field has been removed from the WOF Checksheet when using Smartcheck eWOF. The signatures are no longer required in the paperless eWOF workflow, NZTA will be updating the VIRM documentation accordingly.

System

SD-8174

Driver’s license expiry date will now display on Loan item form

System

SD-8185

NZTA pricing displayed within the application updated in line with current (website) pricing.

System

SD-8357

Added the ability to resize the main SAM window

System

SD-8385

An entry will now be added to the Control Log when performing archive invoices function

Time Clock

SD-8262

Increased the character limit for comments, when clocking out of time clocking.

Vehicle

SD-6934

The position of the 'sold (no marketing)' flag on the Maintain Vehicle screen has been moved higher up in the maintain vehicle screen

Xero

SD-8036

Added the functionality when a POS invoice has no batch number assigned to it, the user can right click the invoice and post it to Xero

Xero

SD-8210

Added Warning message and ability to select date when purging Xero batches.


Bug Fixes

Module

DR#

Detail

Cashbook

SD-8135

Resolved an issue where when running a reconciliation, the balance in cashbook would not be correct

Creditors

SD-8371

Resolved an issue where suppliers who had any notes present could not be found by the search anywhere function

Emailing

SD-8169

Resolved an issue where a previously used customer keycode would be used and displayed in the e-mail log when e-mailing subsequent reports

Invoice

SD-8222

Resolved an issue where emailing outstanding invoices in a prior period would not work correctly due to the e-mail address not being found

Invoice

SD-8299

The mobile field has been moved upwards and baseline header down marginally to fit all text on invoice

Job Kits

SD-8356

Resolved an issue where adding both parts and orders to a kit would cause the orders to duplicate the code used for the part

Jobs

SD-8141

Resolved an issue where when receiving a PO on a job, adding another labour or part line to the job would incorrectly be inserted underneath this PO instead of the highlighted line

Jobs

SD-8211

Resolved an issue where the previous job card email address was intermittently carrying across to the current job card.

Jobs

SD-8230

Resolved an issue where margins were not visible for assemblies

Jobs

SD-8240

Resolved an issue where an error message would display when adding a customer to a job, searching for a customer that doesn’t exist then clicking close.

Jobs

SD-8245

Resolved an issue with retrieving correct customers details in maintain a job when changing customer.

Jobs

SD-8248

Resolved an issue where the Confirm Booking/Job Finish and Job Details buttons were missing from the SMS option on the Job Maintenance screen.

Jobs

SD-8260

Resolved an issue where if a customer's email field was left empty, after entering the vehicle REGO and pressing TAB, it would move to an incorrect field

Jobs

SD-8352

Resolved an issue where charge amount for labour was not displaying correctly in the split invoice allocation window

Orders

SD-8170

Resolved an issue where a PO would be incorrectly flagged as "credit matched" even though all lines were not credit matched.

Orders

SD-8192

Resolved an issue where the reference entered into the creditors invoice date window would not correctly go into the comment field of the finalized PO

Orders

SD-8231

Resolved an issue where a communication error would occur when trying to add requests to Parts Trader

Parts

SD-8244

Resolved an issue where when viewing parked invoices within Point Of Sale, the insert, change and delete buttons were missing in the window.

Parts

SD-8274

Resolved an issue where the GST figure doubled up on the PO when printed on Watermark PO.

Parts

SD-8315

Resolved an issue where the job retains the old PO number instead of the new Backorder number.

Parts

SD-8368

Resolved an issue where invoices could not be opened from the stock transaction browsing window

POS

SD-8321

Resolved an issue where part numbers were not printing on an invoice using POS printer option

Quotes

SD-8166

Resolved an issue where in quotes, changing the source of an order from order to stock and converting the quote to a job would incorrectly display the posted line as an order

Quotes

SD-8298

Resolved an issue where the variable to hold numerical values was too small, resulting in an incorrectly displayed value

Quotes

SD-8369

Increased character limit to 20,000 for the message body for quotes when emailing to customers

Reports

SD-8252

Resolved an issue where the "No GST" report displayed “Income” instead of “Expense.”

Reports

SD-8342

The technician performance report has been updated to be more legible and easier to read and understand.

Setup

SD-8176

Resolved an issue where the parts user-defined field did not align with the information field box.

Setup

SD-8359

Resolved an issue where user defined fields 2 and 3 were copying the value from user defined 1 in customer maintenance 

SmartCheck

SD-8267

Resolved an issue where changing the customer in SAM was not updating he customer/vehicle in Smartcheck

SMS

SD-8251

A change has been made to display an error message on the Show SMS Usage screen if no SMS messages have been sent for the current month.

System

SD-8294

Resolved an issue where if the system was not rolled over, jobs and invoices were showing the incorrect dates

Utilities

SD-8150

Updated Workshop.dll new procedure ResetSAMIni called from all home pages to reset the ini file

Utilities

SD-8345

Resolved an issue where running a data export and then performing any action afterward would cause the system to crash

Vehicle

SD-8201

Resolved an issue where the Job’s User Defined 3 field did not accept the date format

WorkShop

SD-8205

Resolved an issue where the wof checksheet log was not available in the enquiry dropdown list for non-Smartcheck users

WorkShop

SD-8209

Resolved an issue where the email address was not added to the job when using registration search to add the customer and vehicle to the job.

WorkShop

SD-8335

Resolved an issue where column headers were not displaying correctly.
Each search tab on the WIP listing can now have its own defined view.
 Note: prior saved views will need to be re-created.

WorkShop

SD-8355

Resolved an issue where on some Pro Forma Invoices the text was being cut off by the border, text has been moved slightly to prevent this.





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