• Point of Sale now allows you to automatically display Inventory item and preset notes when adding them to an invoice. This feature can be activated and deactivated with a new prompt in Point of Sale program 50, System Defaults.
  
  
• Point of Sale will now display the profit percent for the line item being added/edited on the invoice. This feature responds to the Display Profit Pct prompt in Point of Sale program 50, System Defaults. Note that as with other profit percent displays in Point of Sale, the profit calculated is based on the current cost of the item, not the average or FIFO/LIFO cost.
  
  
• The Last Price Paid window available in Point of Sale program 4, Full Invoicing, now includes a column for the profit percentage realized on each sale. This will not be shown if you have selected to not display costs in Point of Sale.
  
  
• Order Entry now allows you to automatically display Inventory item notes when adding or editing them on an order. This feature can be activated and deactivated with a new prompt in Order Entry program 50, System Defaults and is available in both programs 1, Prepare Orders and 6, View Orders.
  
  
• Order Entry will now display the profit percent for the line item being added/edited on the order. This feature responds to the Display Order Profit Pct prompt in Order Entry program 50, System Defaults. Note that as with other profit percent displays in Order Entry, the profit calculated is based on the current cost of the item, not the average or FIFO/LIFO cost.
  
  
• The Last Price Paid window available in Order Entry program 1, Prepare Orders, now includes a column for the profit percentage realized on each sale. This will not be shown if you have selected to not display costs in Order Entry.
  
  
• The Last Price Paid window available in Billing program 4, Prepare Invoices, now includes a column for the profit percentage realized on each sale. This will not be shown if you have selected to not display costs in Billing.
  
  
• The Pre-Tax deduction entry screen in Payroll program 50, System Defaults, gave you no way to delete a deduction line once it was entered - you had to delete the entire list and start over. Now if you type a 'D' at the Deduction Number prompt on a line, the line will be deleted and subsequent lines will be moved up.
  

• The Cards option of Accounts Receivable program 1 could not be set for individual security in System Administrator program 4.
  
  
• Inventory program 56, Quantity Reconciliation, reported differences in quantities even if they were very tiny (less than 0.0000009 difference). This wasn't particularly productive so differences will no longer be reported if they are too tiny to have any important effect.
  
  
• In Point of Sale program 4, Full Invoicing, the system allowed layaways to be converted into invoices when not fully paid if the customer was set to status of 2 (company check). Now converting will be disallowed until the layaway has been fully paid.
  
  
• In Point of Sale program 4, Full Invoicing, if costs were displayed the display did not respond to your cost decimal settings - it always displayed two decimal costs.
  
  
• In Point of Sale program 4, Full Invoicing, certain data was not correctly clearing from the screen after deleting a line item.
  
  
• In Point of Sale programs 4 and 5, Full and Quick Invoicing, if you entered an Inventory item that had an invalid product category, or the product category was valid but referred to a nonexistent AR department, the program would either fill these prompts with junk or give unhelpful error messages. It will now deal more gracefully with these situations.
  
  
• Many states are now requiring that credit card numbers on invoices have all but the last four digits obscured. Although our X-Charge credit card slips already have this functionality, the regular invoices printed by many invoicing programs did not. We have added a new field for the obscured credit card number into the print layouts for each of these programs:
  

Point of Sale program 4, Full Invoicing, section 3

Point of Sale program 5, Quick Invoicing

Point of Sale program 13, Reprint Invoices

Billing program 4, Prepare Invoices

Billing program 10, Print Invoices, sections 7 and 12

Order Entry program 1, Prepare Orders

Order Entry program 2, Print Orders, sections 1 and 12

Quick Sale program 14, Sale Processing, section 13

• Quick Sale program 14, Sale Processing, has up to three output devices active at any given time (printer, cash drawer and display pole). On Windows XP, which insists on buffering device output no matter how you fiddle with the Control Panel settings, this caused devices to either lag behind or even to eventually stop operating entirely. The program has had its device output routines rewritten to force output through the buffering so that all devices should now respond immediately to the user's actions. In addition, printer control codes will no longer be sent to non-printer devices (the pole display and cash drawer). Note that none of these changes affects the way Quick Sale prints invoices continuously as the sale is being processed - because of this functionality, intended for continuous feed printers, it is inappropriate to use laser printers and other 'page' printing devices that buffer output with Quick Sale program 14.
  
  
• Pole displays used with Quick Sale program 14, Sale Processing, will now show as much of your item numbers and descriptions as will fit on the display, not the maximum of 10 characters previous set. Also, the pole display idle message will now be activated when you leave the program. Also removed display of drops on the pole display. Also changed display of payment types to the custom names set up in System Defaults instead of the standard hard-coded ones. Also fixed a few inconsistencies about the timing and content of other various display items.
  
  
• In X-Charge Credit card processing, the wrong error was displaying if the credit card subsystem did not respond to a transaction request within five minutes.
  
  
• Look-up windows did not roll correctly in some circumstances for record number based keys. Also, for link based keys, the search functionality within the look-up window would select the key after the one being searched for.
  
  
• Import Data program 4, Convert Delimited Files, did not properly handle empty fields. When using a single delimiter this happened if the last field in a record was empty; with meta characters, it would be a problem if the empty field was within the meta characters.

• District of Columbia
• Kentucky
• Maryland added a new rate for St. Mary's county
• Massachusetts
• Missouri
• Oklahoma: state simplified the calculation; now only needs two tables
• Rhode Island
• Utah
• Vermont

A: On the deduction list screen in the employee master you will find at least six lines for your three union deductions; two lines for each deduction. As with all deductions, you should have one line with a blank cost center and one for the cost center in which the employee works (if the employee works in multiple cost centers you'll have a line for each one). You would have manually set up the one with the blank cost center, and the Payroll system automatically adds new lines with the employee's cost center(s) as you run your payrolls. On both lines, the line without the cost center and the one that holds the dollar amounts for the deductions, check the union number that's listed there. Many people mistakenly believe that the union listed there should be the dues union for all deductions associated with the union. Actually it needs to be the union for this particular deduction, not the dues union for this union group. For example, if the Union Master (Payroll program 5) has a dues union number 1 tied to deduction 19 and in the same union group (or local) you have a vacation fund numbered 2 that's tied to deduction 20, the employee master needs to reflect that union-deduction pairing. So for deduction number 20, the union listed should be 2, not 1. If there's a 1 listed there, you've found the problem. Change it to 2 and your union report will show you what you expected to see.

In the new sample company AA data files included with patch 24, you can see this situation demonstrated on employee 1002.