New Features in Version 11.2 (August 2011)

DataView was enhanced so that:

•Billing Rates for employees were added to the DataView Employee Listing .

•The "Include on Bonding" checkbox from the Job file was added to all appropriate DataView Job Costing reports.

•The State Unemployment Wages quarter and year-to-date fields were added to the DataView State Tax reports.

Overview was enhanced so that:

•There is direct access to the Field Reports Entry window from the Project Manager Overview.

Payroll was enhanced so that:

•When printing the PR Commissions report, there is now the option to select either Open, Pending, and/or Paid commissions.

•The Federal End of Quarter Report now has a Fiscal Period Limit. This enhancement came from a suggestion at a recent User Conference.

•The Quarter End reports may now be sorted by Employee Name, Employee ID, or Social Security Number.

•Printing the Social Security Number on the paycheck may now be set on an employee-specific basis.

•As an alternative to printing the whole Social Security Added on a paycheck, a new option allows the printing of only the last 4 digits of the number.

•The Timesheet Proof Listing may now be set to include a list of Active Employees that are NOT included in that timesheet batch.

•There are new options for paycheck messages, including a specific message for a specific employee and a message for all tagged employees. This enhancement came from a suggestion at a recent User Conference.

•The system will now display a warning if someone attempts to enter an employee timesheet when a timesheet for that employee already exists in a separate batch. This enhancement came from a suggestion at a recent User Conference.

Job Costing was enhanced so that:

•The Job Cost Detail Report now shows the Contract Amount at the bottom, along with the job totals. This enhancement came from a suggestion at a recent User Conference.

•A new button appears on the Job Setup browse window: Inactivate Tagged Jobs. This enhancement came from a suggestion at a recent User Conference.

•A new limit was added to all Job Costing reports, allowing the filtering to just jobs of a specific billing type. This enhancement came from a suggestion at a recent User Conference.

•Job Cost Analysis reports now have a new limit that allows Committed Costs to be included in figures in the cost-to-date column figures.

•The "Job Closing Date" was added to the Job Date limits in Job Cost report limit screens.

•The Subcontract form printed from Job Setup does now has a much larger data text field.

•All Job Cost reports may now be color coded, with Job Number and Name information for Inactive jobs in Green and for Closed jobs in Red.

•The "Automatically Download Internet Updates" checkbox is now also on the Manage Internet Updates screen as well as the Setup > Preferences screen.

Accounts Payable was enhanced so that:

•Invoices may be grouped by posting in the AP Invoice Void window.

•The AP Account Reconciliation File was moved from the Import/Export add-on and is available generally.

•When viewing AP Invoice Overview window on the Payments tab, a new column shows the full Check Amount.

•A new option allows the sorting by Vendor Name in the Lien Waiver printing.

•The PO Description is now carried through to the AP Invoice during reconciliation. This enhancement came from a suggestion at a recent User Conference.

•The AP Invoice Overview window now prints the Total Amount of the check for invoice payments. This enhancement came from a suggestion at a recent User Conference.

•When selecting AP Invoices for Payment, the user can click on one invoice then shift-click on another invoice. All the invoices listed between the two are then automatically selected for payment.

•The user can now enter a Default AP Sales Tax percent in AP Setup as well as in each Vendor Record so that it can automatically pop up in AP Invoice entry.

•The AP Invoice Payment Selection has a new Date Range limit. This enhancement came from a suggestion at a recent User Conference.

Accounts Receivable was enhanced so that:

•The Unreconcile Receipts area now includes the ability to tag a Receipt and break all its links to Invoices, the same way Invoices may be tagged and break its links to Receipts.

•The AR Invoice Number field was increased to 15 characters.

•Saved Text information (for AR Text line items, etc.) now has a Description field for quick identification. This enhancement came from a suggestion at a recent User Conference.

Inventory was enhanced so that:

•The Bill of Materials report now breaks out individual items that make up Assemblies as well as Bundles.

•Added the ability to click on an image in Maintain Item Price File and open the image in a separate window, so it may be zoomed in and seen in greater detail.

•The same vendor may now be entered more than once in the Vendor Pricing tab in Item Entry (e.g. once for the "Each" price and once for the "Box" price).

•A Vendor limit was added to the Item Listing, so a list of items available from a specific vendor are displayed.

Purchase Order was enhanced so that:

•A new checkbox was added to Purchase Order Listing limit screen to omit the printing of PO Line Items.

•A "Report Format" section was added to the PO Listing limit screen, allowing the user to print a Summary Version of the report.

•On the PO List that includes all of the reconciled line items, a Reconciled Total prints at the bottom.

General Ledger was enhanced so that:

•A new fiscal period may now be inserted between two existing periods. This is provided specifically for inserting a Year-End period that was accidentally left out of the list.

•When printing financial statements, there is a new option to enter a Range of fiscal periods for the "Compare to Prior Period" feature.

•The GLTransaction description field was increased to 60 characters. This enhancement came from a suggestion at a recent User Conference.

General Enhancements:

•All print buttons throughout the system can now be used to either create the usual Print Preview or to send the report directly to the printer, bypassing the Preview. Simply right-click on the Print button and the new option is resented.

•A new Data Upload program allows data files to be transferred to A-Systems Support while running JobView.

•When emailing reports, a new option allows a user-specific signature block that was previously saved. This enhancement came from a suggestion at a recent User Conference.