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New Compact Software Ltd branding

• Added the new Compact Software Ltd logo to the Herald programs and the main menu.

V-Rex

• When defining a new report, occasionally gave a 'Cannot create spool directory' error when running it from the editor.
• Printer settings were being reset if they happened to be the defaults.

WinAccs

Aged balances

• Created a new filtering system so that only accounts with a user selected balance are included in the report. However, if an account passes the filter, all transactions are included in the report.

Applications / Certificates

• Added a range check to all values and the final total, so that value MUST be between £-99,999,999.99 and £99,999,999.99. These are the maximum values that an XACT journal posting file can handle.
• After entering the subcontractor code, don't select the first of any existing jobs listed, leave blank until the user selects something.

Cash posting

• When filtering accounts while running a schedule, accounts are only included if the account balance if greater than 0 for sales or less than 0 for purchase and subcontractors.
• Added support for Danske Bank electronic banking.

Company details

• When creating a new company, default and mandatory nominals accounts are now all set to purge type 'Never' rather than 'Monthly'.

Contract analysis codes

• New feature to allow the entry of variable mark up percentages against each contract analysis code. This percentage is used in Enquiry / display and Contracts work in progress report.

Contracts work in progress

• Calculate the contract mark up using the new variable mark up percentages.

Database utilities

• New feature to list when subcontractors are due for re-verification.

Enquiry / display

• Corrected an issue where all cash payment records on contracts (jobs) were treated as receipts.
• Calculate the contract mark up using the new variable mark up percentages.
• Created a new calculation system when viewing cost and sales analysis and 'View WIP' which uses the XACT records rather than the data in the job analysis records.
• Addressed an issue which omitted the retention release date when viewing invoice details.

Invoices

• Addressed a focus issue when changing from a non-costed to a costed nominal.
• Corrected the default 'No' selection when entering a balance sheet nominal. Now defaults to 'Yes'.

Journals

• Addressed an issue when a maximized form (maintain recurring journals) overlaid other form elements.

Maintenance programs

• Final accounts, bank, group codes, contract analysis codes, accounts, management information, representatives and territories. Made the VCR controls, shortcut keypresses and focus work as the rest of the system.

Management information

• When using the auto-populate button on maintain key accounts, it now clears any existing records first.

Nominal ledger maintenance

• When nominal accounts have a priority greater than the user, allow the user to exit the program.

Period end

• Created a system which is launched prior to the period end. Allows the user to do a preliminary check on all the "Delete at purge" flags, to make sure the accounts are in good order, to run the period end reporting extract and finally to run the normal purge routine.

System reports

• Who entered unauthorised invoices. Added a total to show the total value of unauthorised invoices.
• Nominal ledger trial balance. New trail balance report in VRex which you can export to a CSV file.
• Nominal transactions. A new, simple report which lists detailed transactions on the nominal ledger.
• Sales detailed app/cert listing by job & Sales detailed app/cert listing by client. Added a field which shows whether the line is an application or certificate.
• Outstanding retention invoices. Three new reports, one for each ledger, which shows any outstanding retention invoices. Accessed via Reports index.

System utilities

• Account file verification. New test element to ensure that any contracts analysis codes used are validated and summarised.
• Test data files. Updated to categorise issues into warnings and errors.

WinStock

Stock group maintenance

• Fixed an issue when entering a new stock group and using the 'Like' button, the field accepted lower case characters, which caused a later error.

WinPay

Company details

• A new system has been created to that users can customise the link to accounts text. Although this MUST NOT be used if accounts data is consolidated with other companies.

Employee maintenance

• Added stronger validation when filing a new starter online. The NI number, if not blank, must be validated against the latest set of NI prefixes. The total pay to date and total tax to date are now validated to be greater than or equal to zero.

End of year

• The P35 checklists and declarations are now validated to be non-negative values and you must now use the OK or cancel buttons, you can no longer simply close the window. This is to fix a problem with P35 Q1 and P14 "are due" / "are not due" transmission to HMRC.

Link to accounts

• Use the new custom string for the transaction description entered in Company details.

P11 maintenance

• Does a lot more validation on the entry of the NIable values (1a-1c 2009, 1a-1d 2010). Extra validation now includes: No value can be outside of the range of £0.00 to £999,999.99, only the last value in the sequence can have pence values (or decimal places), you cannot have a zero value above a non-zero value.

Process payments

• Added support for Danske Bank electronic banking.

Statutory tables

• Added new National Minimum Wage values for 01 Oct 2009.

This Service Pack is required by all users