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• Ensure the BIN and DATA paths in Compact.ini are valid. This ensures that manually amended paths do not cause a problem.
• Compact Support now have the ability to send HotFix files to customers.
• Made some of the system messages a little more friendly and descriptive.
• Corrected the 'Compact.log' lock problem.

Service pack installation

• Significantly increased the speed of the verification system for installing service pack files.

V-Rex

• Addressed an issue when V-Rex was called to displayed BRG files in custom locations.
• Remember the last used path when saving PDF files and CSV files. Ensure that the entered path exists in both the PDF and CSV save dialogs.
• A progress form is now shown when spooling Repgen1 and simple reports.
• Cure error when exporting more than 32,767 lines to a CSV file.
• Created a new caching system for all spooled reports. Substantially speeds up the spooling system.

Locking system

• Created a brand new locking system for all programs to use. Migration to the new system will be a gradual process.

WinAccs

Account maintenance

• When changing an account's banking settings, retain the sort code and account number.

Aged balances

• Allow transactions to be filtered by date. A new button to automatically fill these dates with 30, 60 and 90 day settings.

Applications and certificates

• Fixed an error that occurred when entering a retention only certificate. When entering a sales certificate, if you leave the sales account blank, if you enter a job with a valid related sales account, this is used on the startup form.

Contracts work in progress report

• Updates to allow filter by sales account and new report style for custom heading.
• Expanded the detailed report for the new custom headings.

Enquiry / display

• New features to view more contracts (jobs) data. You can now see a summary screen of WIP data for contracts (jobs) as well as the detailed breakdown.
• Written off sales invoices now default to a contract analysis code of 99/99.
• If the program drops through to the original enquiry program, show a message stating why.
• Correctly pass the super-user flag to V-Rex so you no longer need to explicitly set permissions for viewing audit trails and other central reports.

Invoicing

• Added a new field 'Our reference' onto the header for sales invoices. Added the new field to all system sales invoices.
• When entering purchase invoices, if any invoices are marked as unauthorised, you now have a chance to edit the batch BEFORE the unauthorised ones are written out to a temporary and discarded from the batch.
• Strengthened the warning about discounts and VAT liability when using Invoices to pay subcontractors. Now also shows when using retentions on subcontractor invoices.

Journals

• Strengthened the validation when entering repeating or reversing journals.

Nominal ledger maintenance

• Added 'User category' and 'Group code' into the list of fields that can be searched on while selecting a nominal code. Affects anywhere there is an @ button for selecting a nominal code.

Transaction posting

• All programs that post to WinAccs now use the new locking system to ensure that only one user can post to WinAccs. This does not affect data entry, only when the user actually clicks the Post button.

System reports

• Daybook reports. Created entries on the reports menu (More 2) to make the daybook reports easier to access. Expanded some of the columns in the daybook reports as dates were being truncated. Show purchase and subcontractor values as positive. Added 3 new versions of the day book reports which total by account.
• Sales and subcontractor certificates are now classed as Central reports and are spooled automatically.

WinPay

Advance

• Show overall progress through the advance procedure.
• Corrected an issue when the payroll archive file was not updated if the company data failed either the P11-P32 integrity check or the HMRC validation.
• The exception list now shows those employees who are past pensionable age who use any other NI code except C.

Employee maintenance

• Corrected a problem when creating or amending an employee record and changing the taxation type from PAYE to Subcontractor.
• Added a help label to the P45 Part 3 submission form. Pay and tax in previous employment must be entered 'before' filing the new starter online.

WinStock

Stock count

• Repositioned text on the screen so that it no longer displays off the edge of the screen.

This Service Pack is required by all users