Release 5532 (April 2023)
Learn how to make the most of the April 2023 Release 5532 and the new features it brings.
Written by Ian Oldrey
Updated at April 6th, 2023
Table of Contents
System improvements for release build 5532
Model version: 1.1.5532.5532
How do I find out what version my system is on?
There are two places to see the version your system is currently on:
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Login screen
When logging in the version number is shown under the username and password fields -
Version info
Click on the user icon in the top right corner of Merchanter and click ‘Version Info’
New Features
| Area | Feature |
|---|---|
| Customers | Ability to have global delivery addresses used by multiple customers |
| Invoices & Credits | Credit notes now show restocking charge on screen and on documents |
| Reporting & Analysis | Allocated orders excluded from Sales KPI |
| Sales Orders | Prices to hold discounts when changing customer on header |
| Sales Orders | Update cost price of dispatched order with mill lines |
| Sales Orders | Ability to add fixed process value to line value |
| Sales Orders | Show stock Availability when adding product to order line |
| Sales Orders | Validation added to Mill Process editing |
| Sales Orders | Adjusting internal sales - either by crediting or editing lines |
| Stock Control | Unique products stock handling |
| Stock Counting | Ability to export rejected products from a stocktake |
| Stock Counting | Stock Count v2 - Export to Excel Stock Counts |
| System Admin | Review use of expired object locks |
| System Admin | Specified pack type added to product bulk edit |
| System Admin | Product import description character limit raised |
| Views | Supply Date filter added to Sales Overview |
| Views | Status filter in live products Prices & Costs view adjusted |
| Views | PO reference added to views |
Improved Usability
| Area | Feature |
|---|---|
| Documents | Document setup to Send supplier returns paperwork |
| Invoices & Credits | Restrict manual completion of issued invoices to prevent conflict with financials |
| Purchasing | Now able to return more than line quantity on goods return |
| Sales Orders | Cash delivered back-order payments now showing on EOD report |
| Sales Orders | Hyperlinks to quotes on Purchase orders removed |
| Sales Orders | Stock source selection on quotes removed |
| Stock Control | Stock locations manager - ability to clear a location of all products |
| Stock Control | Stock Locations - add filter or text search |
| Stock Counting | Stock count - Adding location to count including all child items |
| Stock Counting | Stock count - adding expected stock to products with locations |
| System Admin | Now able to remove printer in UT400 |
| Views | Hide specials from product view tables by default |
Performance Improvements
| Area | Feature |
|---|---|
| Stock Counting | Assigning large numbers of products to count speed improvement |
Evolutionary Improvements (Bug Fixes)
| Area | Feature |
|---|---|
| Documents | Notes now appear on Mill order (Take to Mill) document |
| Documents | p tags no longer showing in text lines |
| Documents | Document Importer error when uploading pdf documents - FIXED |
| Documents | Emailed purchase orders show order number as filename |
| Invoices & Credits | Create credit note no longer stuck if missing tender type |
| Invoices & Credits | Invoice run to ignore locked orders |
| Mill Orders | Mill order used to only show ACP, now able to select other cost price to show |
| Mill Orders | Error adding mill process metre rate for volume products - FIXED |
| Prices & Costs | New product groups now appearing in customer price band views |
| Prices & Costs | SCP set by base price reduction not updating - FIXED |
| Prices & Costs | Not all prices being imported with supplier price list - FIXED |
| Purchasing | Additional text on sales order copy over to PO when copying order |
| Purchasing | Now able to view quantity detail or edit received Purchase Order |
| Purchasing | Call 85418 - Received PO showing as In-Transit, but is received - FIXED |
| Quotes | Expired quotes now expire linked draft purchase orders |
| Reporting & Analysis | Sage figures do not match ledger balance KPI - FIXED |
| Sales Orders | Back ordering on a line with 3, moves them all to the backorder - FIXED |
| Sales Orders | Substituting product on mill line during despatch doesn’t update product on order line but movements show for the substituted product. - FIXED |
| Sales Orders | Deposit orders now show on sales orders list when applying deposit filter |
| Sales Orders | Text lines and order lines now maintain sequence on backorders |
| Sales Orders | Mill Order returned spec not coming into stock - FIXED |
| Sales Orders | Copying and repricing order updates cost price. |
| Sales Orders | Cash Sale Fuly Paid with no payment shows if payment made on financials |
| Sales Orders | Cancelling line on sales order cancels all lines on B2B PO - FIXED |
| Sales Orders | No longer able to create order with negative value |
| Sales Orders | Cost value of mill line on sales order incorrect - FIXED |
| Sales Orders | Number of pieces on order line is wrong - FIXED |
| Sales Orders | Mill line spec now copies over when converting quote to allocated order |
| Sales Orders | Warning entering multipack quantity entry for sales orders when multipack is of sheets |
| Stock Control | Allocating stock to depot controlled product no longer brings stock into archived lot |
| Stock Control | Depot Controlled Product won't shake off a Lot - FIXED |
| Stock Control | Net future stock showing negative value - FIXED |
| Stock Control | Returning product now shows spec on movements and loose stock table. |
| Stock Control | Now able to remove product from locations tree in stock locations and codes |
| Stock Control | Allocated stock on products not updating - FIXED |
| Stock Control | Depot ACP out of kilter on catalogue products - FIXED |
| Stock Counting | Stock Count - Selecting items to count now gives option to exclude, Cataloge, Specials, Non Stock Conrolled Products. |
| Stock Counting | Ability to delete historic stock counts |
| Stock Counting | Loose stock specification table incorrect on multiple products after stock count - FIXED |
| Stock Counting | Product stock in negative after stock count - FIXED |
| Stock Counting | Stock counts now picking up stock adjustments |
| Stock Counting | Stock Count Report Summary - counted stock issue - FIXED |
| System Admin | Super user can set now product to sell online |
| System Admin | Customer import from staging overwriting default price band - FIXED |
| System Admin | User Settings security features now working for Credits and Invoices for Prime Users |
| System Admin | Bulk edit on suppliers to update payment terms |
| System Admin | Error when doing stock import - FIXED |
| System Admin | Super user now able to add customer price bands by product category, group and sub-group |
| Views | New filter added within Sales Order Lines and Physical Stock Movements |