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Changes in v6.1606.7

 

Invoicing
Signature capture on “chip” credit card sales is now supported by Vantiv payment processing.

 

Voiding an invoice that had a coupon, and then creating a new invoice from the voided one, resulted in the coupon amount being changed, and this has been fixed.

 

Accounts Payable

AP Summary has been revised to clearly show amount to be paid.

 

You may now post either full or partial AP payments.

 

Inventory
Vendor Inventory List would go “blank” if you clicked on a program outside of POSitive and then clicked back, and this has been fixed.

 
 

Changes in v6.1605.12

 

Report Center
A discrepancy between the item sold count shown in the Inventory Center and the Quantity Sold report has been fixed.

 

Accounting
AP Processing was not recognizing Line Discounts on PO’s and has been fixed.

 

Adding a discount to a PO and then receiving the PO was causing a GL out of balance transaction, and this has been fixed.

 

Inventory Center
When viewing Item Activity, Sales History, View Invoice, the invoice in question was not automatically highlighted and this has been fixed.

 

Multi-site stock transfers may now use the same units a measure an item is sold by. Previously only the purchase units of measure were allowed.

 

Multi-site Transfer Manager has been revised to make quantities to be transferred more visible.

 

Multi-site stock counts are now being updated quicker after completing a transfer.

 

A screen refresh issue where item images were “shifting” and the Property Grid “blanked out” has been fixed.

 

Invoicing
A screen refresh issue was leaving a negative amount showing on the tender screen after converting and prepaid order to an invoice, and this has been fixed.

 

When using Landed Cost tracking with Multi-site, inventory transfers now include shipping in the total item cost for goods transferred from the Master site to a Remote site.

 

Templates were not being removed from partially converted orders, so the remaining balance appeared to be too high, and this has been fixed.

 

Daily Balance
The coin counter was playing a (-) rather than (+) if physical count was higher than the system count. This was a screen display issue that did not affect the actual count and has been fixed.

 

Check detail was not being displayed and has been fixed.

 

Consignments

You may now select a Department and Category consignment items are assigned to by default.

 

 

Changes in v6.1604.20

 

Inventory Center
Inventory Center in version 6 was displaying fewer items at a time than version 5, and this has been changed.

 

Report Center

Inventory Price Lists may now be set to show Matrix Headers only.

Changes in v6.1603.23

 

Daily Balance Routine
A few customers who process a large number of transactions each day reported that the Daily Balance Worksheet was very slow to update, and this has been fixed.

 

Service Orders
A calendar used when scheduling service orders was responding slowly, and this has been fixed.

 

Gift Cards
Prefix and suffix control characters were not being filtered on magnetic stripe gift cards, and this has been fixed.

 

Accounting
AR payments made by credit card were not entered into the correct GL accounts, and this has been fixed.

 

When taking AR payments, “Auto apply credits” was not working correctly, and this has been fixed.

 

E-Commerce
Inventory Upload was not working for legacy POSitive 1.0 customers, and this has been fixed.

 

 

Changes in v6.1603.14

 

Quotes

When creating a Quote the Sub-total of Item Cost is now displaying and calculating correctly.

 

Orders
The option to refund an Order deposit as a customer credit has been restored.

 

Vendor List
Vendor List was being reset if user clicked on any application outside of POSitive and then clicked back, and this has been fixed.

 

Inventory Center Property Grid
Employees were able to make an item as “Active” or “Inactive” on the Property Grid regardless of their security settings, and this has been fixed.

 

 

Changes in v6.1603.7

 

Credit Card Processing
Retention of customer credit card information via tokens is now supported when using Vantiv payment processing.

 

 

Changes in v6.1603.5

 

Invoicing
Gift Card tender was missing from Invoice History is earlier version 6 releases, and this has been fixed.

 

Reports
Card Not Present (manual entry) tender was not showing in the Tender History Summary report, and this has been fixed.

 

 

Changes in v6.1602.9

 

Credit Card Processing

Credit card information may now be stored and recalled via “tokens” when used with Vantiv (formerly Mercury) payment processing.

 

Tendering
The updated “classic” tender screen was defaulting to “Cash” when entering amounts into other tenders and this has been fixed.

 

Orders

When viewing Pending Sales Orders the InfoBar button was not displaying the correct items for the highlighted order and this has been fixed.

 

Invoicing
A bug in the previous version 6 release prevented a new invoice from being created from a voided invoice and this has been fixed.

 

Accounting

AP Processing screen is now updating totals correctly when filtering by Vendor.

 

Vendors now stay selected in AP Processing when switching between Unposted, Posted and History.

 

Program now ignores discounts on credits when processing Accounts Payables.

 

Customers
Customer Invoice History now displays the selling price for “hidden template” items.

 

 

Changes in POSitive v6.1601.26

 

Tendering

In the “new” tender screen (used for EMV payment processing) you may now assign alternate tenders, such as PayPal, to a pull-down window under the “Check” category.

 

Accounting

In some cases the GL Report was doubling amounts when used in conjunction with Multi-site, and this has been fixed.

 

The Daily Sales Summary was incorrectly showing Gift Certificates as Refunds and this has been fixed.

 

 

Changes in POSitive v6.1601.18

 

Marketing Tools
SMS – Text Marketing now a feature of version 6.

 

Tendering
The “classic” tender screen layout has been updated in version 6.

 

Customer Center
Customer Notes are now organized by categories in version 6: Manually Entered, Invoices, Payments and Text Messages.

 

Inventory Center
The Property Grid may now be turned off in the Inventory Center (except in Five Star).

 

Tendering Payment
The Gift Card tender button on the new version 6 touch screen tender screen was not linked to its F7 keyboard hotkey and this has been fixed.

 

The Charge Card Type pull down in the new version 6 touch screen tender screen was highlighting the last entry by default and it now highlights the first entry.

 

Accounting
POs in Accounts Payable, Unposted AP were not showing line notes and this has been fixed.

 

 

Changes in POSitive v6.1601.18

 

End of Day
A bug has been fixed that was causing Discounts to appear as Refunds in the Daily Balance, Tender History report.

 

 

Changes in POSitive v.6.1601.3

 

Consignments

Consignor amount was being improperly calculated and has been fixed.

 

Accounting
The Comparative Budget report was generating an error message and this has been fixed.

 

A change was made to improve GL reporting when adjusting stock counts.

 

Invoicing – Pending Transactions

A screen refresh problem that caused lines to be overwritten when adding or deleting items on certain Pending transactions and Returns has been fixed.

 

The Pending Quotes and Service Order lists were updating too slowly and this has been fixed.

 

A bug was fixed that under some circumstances caused Pending Service Orders to open and respond slowly.

 

A bug that prevented Presold Serial Numbers from being linked to a PO has been fixed.

 

The Electronic Journal now uses a format that included the customer name.

Tender Screen

The “classic” Tender Screen has been restored if you are not using Vantiv (Mercury) EMV payment processing.

 

 

Changes in POSitive v.6.1511.8

 

Credit Cards (v.6 only)

EMV payment processing through Mercury is now supported.

 

Inventory Center (v.6 only with the exception of Five Star v.5)

The inventory center now includes a Property Grid where important item information is displayed all the time. Note: Five Star uses a different Property Grid than other POSitive products.

 

Accounting

There is a new AP Processing Center that has been reorganized to better display data. There is also a new AR Payment Center that makes it easier to handle batch payments.

 

Report Writer
A bug that was causing a time discrepancy on custom reports has been fixed.

Report Writer has also been updated to a current version.

 

Report Center

The Report Center can now accommodate an unlimited number of custom reports.

 

Pending Center
On some previous versions if you selected Pending Orders or Pending Service Orders and selected Details, only a reference number would be displayed. This has been fixed.

 

A screen refresh problem that prevented new Orders and Quotes from being visible immediately under Pending has been fixed.

 

Transactions

On some previous versions Subtotals were not being displayed on the screen when creating an Invoice, Order or Quote, but they did show on a printout. This has been fixed.

 

Accounting
Category GL settings were not being associated correctly with Division GL accounts. This has been fixed.