SuccessWare 21®

Version 1.5.3.x

Concept Guides and
Additional Documentation

What’s New 1.5.3

Fixes 1.5.3

What’s New / Fixes 1.5.2

What’s New in version 1.5.300.05 (Click here to review changes)

What’s New in version 1.5.300.04 (Click here to review changes)

What’s New in version 1.5.300.03 (Click here to review changes)

What’s New in version 1.5.300.02 (Click here to review changes)

·    New report – Statement of Cash Flows

-    To run this new report, go to the Financial Reports section of the Report Gallery.

What’s New in version 1.5.300.01 (Click here to review changes)

·    Payroll Overtime Calculation Changes **IMPORTANT**—the options for calculating overtime rates have been expanded in Payroll Setup.

-    A new setup option allows the employee’s normal rate for the job being performed during the overtime period to be used for the base portion of the overtime rate and then adding one-half of the regular rate for the period.  Previous to this version (unless the employee’s standard setup rate was being used) the rate for all overtime was calculated by multiplying 1.5 times the employee’s regular rate for the period, where regular rate is the average rate for the period taking into account all regular (IsRegOT) wages.  This new option gives you an extra option for determining overtime rates if your employees either earn different rates for different types of work or earn commissions that are marked IsRegOT.  If you would like additional information about these changes, click here.

-    The option for paying overtime at the employee’s standard hourly rate has been modified.  The standard hourly rate can now be used for the premium addition only, or for both the premium addition (the extra one-half) and the premium base rate.  See the “4 NTC’s and Premiums” tab in Payroll Setup.

Fixes made in 1.5.3.x

DATE

MODULE / FORM

DESCRIPTION

RELEASE 1.5.300.05 10/08/04 – Beta Release

10/8/2004

Payroll Setup

Some of the descriptions of items on the '2 G/L' and '4 NTC's & Premiums' tabs were truncated.

10/7/2004

General

(SQL Server/MSDE only) The version update process would sometimes fail with the message "Couldn't perform the edit because another user changed the record".  This would occur under rare circumstances when a boolean column was being added to the database.

10/6/2004

Job Notes

It was possible to lose job note when entering a new job if you leave the notes form by clicking outside the notes form instead of closing it normally.

10/6/2004

Job

The display of the last tech and date was not always correct, particularly for those using the Vettro mobile application.

10/5/2004

Job

When entering a new job, if the department was not set up to default based upon the job type entered, then saving the new job would require that Save be selected twice in order to successfully save the new job.

9/29/2004

Payroll, Export

Added new export method: Standard Text Export.

9/29/2004

A/R Invoice

When using Apply Pmts to apply a deposit to the invoice, the down arrow key was not working to display the list of customer deposits from which to select.

9/28/2004

Inventory

Modified transaction posting so that it would fail in the situation where duplicate tags are detected during tag updating.  In the rare situation where duplicate tags had been created, subsequent updates to the tag would cause additional duplication.

9/27/2004

Payroll Setup

(MSDE/SQL Server only) Under certain circumstances trying to add pay items would fail with the error 'Error saving record.  Check for duplicate codes.'.

9/24/2004

Payroll Deferred Wages Report

The Addl Prem column under Original Figures was not showing the correct value when the employee's standard setup rate had been used as the Premium Base in the period the wage was earned.

RELEASE 1.5.300.04 9/22/04 – Beta Release

9/21/2004

Inventory Adjustments

If a negative Unit Cost had been entered, posting would fail with 'Debits <> credits' message.  Now the transaction is checked for negative costs.  Posting is not allowed until the cost is corrected.

9/21/2004

Payroll Deferred Wages Report

The report was not showing the correct rates involved in the calculation of the adjustment rate when overtime was being paid using the standard rate from employee setup as the base for the premium addition calculation.

9/17/2004

Payroll

For piece rate employees Regular Hours was not being calculated correctly resulting in a higher Regular (average) rate.  Period preparation will now calculate Regular Hours as all hours flagged IsRegOT for the period.  This is consistent with how Regular Hours is being calculated for hourly employees.  Previously for piece rate employees it was calculating Regular Hours based upon the number of hours worked less than or equal to 40 hours (assuming payroll is set up for overtime after 40 hours in a week).

9/17/2004

Miscellaneous Wage manager (Commissions for Job)

Since version 1.5.200.22 (1.6.100.11), The employee code was not being properly validated when entering commissions.

9/16/2004

Vendor List Report

Added FAX number, phone2, and email address to the report (when Expanded Detail is selected).

9/16/2004

Agreement Billings Due, Pending Renewlas, and Renewals Due Reports

The billing name and address was not showing on the reports.

9/16/2004

Payroll Setup

Modified the caption for the last option under "Rate to use for Base Rate" to indicate that the setup rate will only be used if higher than the regular rate.

RELEASE 1.5.300.03 9/16/04 – Beta Release

9/16/2004

Warranty Expiration Report

Added group and final totals for warranty reserve balance.

9/16/2004

Call Taking

The department field was not being validated.  It was possible to type in an invalid department and create a job with the invalid department.

9/16/2004

Payroll

Modified the deferred wages feature to work properly when the employee's standard setup rate was used for calculating the premium addition in the period in which the deferred wage (RegOT only) was earned.  An adjustment will only now be made if the adjusted regular rate for the earned period is greater than the employee's standard setup rate.  Plus the system will not deduct wages when the adjusted regular rate is less than the employee's setup rate in the earned period.

9/15/2004

Payroll Deferred Wages Report

Added a Premium Base field that shows rate used for the premium addition in the earned period, and the adjusted rate used in determining the wage adjustments made in the current period.

9/15/2004

Payroll

Since 1.5.300 build 2, preparation of individual employees would fail with the error 'The specified field "EmployeeCode" could refer to more than one table...'.  Period preparation was still working however.

9/14/2004

Work Order Summary Report

Added date/time, page number, and description of filters used in the report heading.

9/14/2004

Job Summary

Added Job Instructions to the Job Summary form for review/edit without having to use F11 for the notepad.

RELEASE 1.5.300.02 9/13/04 – Beta Release

9/11/2004

Statement of Cash Flows

New report added to the Financial Reports group of the Report Gallery.

9/11/2004

Printed Work Orders

Added the Job Instructions field to the Job History section of the report.

9/9/2004

Agreement

It was possible to create an agreement with an end date prior to the start date.  This is no longer allowed.

9/9/2004

Call Progress, Timecard

Some failures when attempting to update the timecard, primarily from Call Progress, would attempt to display an error message on the screen which would cause the error 'A database transaction failed to complete...' to display and then the program would shut down.  Instead of trying to display the message, it will now be logged to the event log in order to avoid the shutdown.

RELEASE 1.5.300.01 9/03/04 – Beta Release

9/3/2004

Payroll

Overtime rates are now calculated by taking the employee’s normal rate for the job being performed during the overtime period and adding one-half of the employee’s regular (average) rate for the period.

9/3/2004

Payroll Setup

On the “4 NTC’s and Premiums” tab, the option for paying overtime at the employee’s standard hourly rate has been modified.  The standard hourly rate can now be used for the premium addition (the extra one-half) only, or for both the premium addition and the base rate for the premium.

 

What’s New 1.5.3

Fixes 1.5.3

What’s New / Fixes 1.5.2