COSTAR Enhancement Notes

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• Appointment Scheduler
  • When a document is marked as Arrived, the whole field is highlighted, not just the tick box.
    
    
  • When a repair order or invoice is requiring stock to be ordered, the document is flagged as Parts Required.
    
    
    This functionality is enabled by default, but can be disabled by un-ticking the Show parts required Appointment properties setting.
    

Version 5.6.125.0 (Released 10th April 2025)

• Order Entry
  • New option to suppress the printing of service reminders on job cards. Please contact the Microhouse support desk to enable this functionality.
  • The document PO can now displayed in the document search results.
    
    
    To enable go to Settings => Order Entry Options => Microhouse Integrations => Searches and untick the PO from Document Searches setting.
    

• Sales Reporting
  • New Document Buying Group selection and sorting options for the Generic Sales Report.

• Customers
  • The customer terms are now displayed in the Customer Maintenance search results.
    
    

• Database Views
  • The Customers database view now outputs the Rebill Note field. 

• Web Order
  • The List Price can now be suppressed from displaying in the Web Order product search results. 
    
  • After clicking Get Cost, to display the cost, clicking the cost will re-hide the cost.
    

• Web Appointments
  • Vehicles without a year are now able to be selected when choosing a vehicle.

   

• Order Entry
  • New option to suppress the printing of service reminders on job cards.

• General
  • When logging into an alternate database via the Login button, the database will be opened in the employee's branch in the alternate database. 

• The adding of a vehicle using the Vehicle Selector button in Vehicle details is no longer allowed when opened from an Order Entry document.
• The Vehicle Selector button in Vehicle Maintenance is no longer available..

Version 5.6.106.0 (Released 14th November 2024)

• Order Entry
  • Written By and Comment selections have been added to the Customer document search.
  • New printable invoice fields that display the unpaid value of an invoice and the value paid on an invoice. To get these added to your printouts please contact the Microhouse support desk.
    
  • The Document History searches have been enhanced.
    
    

• Customers
  • The Price Level setting in Customer Maintenance now applies to cash customers.
    
    

• Android Barcode Warehouse Scanner
  • Enhanced Inquiry (F5)searching.

• Settings
  • The SQL database backup completed when refreshing the test company, now uses the COPY_ONLY option so as to not corrupt any differential backup restore sequences.

• Customer Maintenance City field no longer shows pink once the field has been populated.
• The Last Price functionality and/or Customer Price Matrix will no longer generate incorrect financials, when the price is greater than the price in a predefined package.
• Enhanced SMS messages that have had spelling corrected, will now include the spelling correction in the sent message.
• Item descriptions on Purchase Orders are no longer editable.
• Forces the spelling of "Tires" to be changed to "Tyres" for all web browsers.
• Web Appointments with no addresses are now creating web appointments correctly.
• Cost updates from Costar2Costar connections are again asking to be confirmed.

Version 5.6.97.0 (Released 27th August 2024)

• Order Entry
  • The Wholesale Order work in progress screen has been switched to only show an order once in the search results. The details of the individual invoices and their pick statuses are now suppressed by default. These can be reinstated by going to Settings => Order Entry Options => Microhouse Integration => Settings => Searches and un-ticking the Invoice details in W/sale Orders option.
    

• Sales Analysis Screen
  • Budgets are now displayed for services.
    
    

• Settings

  • Service Reminders: The latest time an automatic service reminder will be sent can now be set to a choice of 5:00, 6:00, 7:00 or 8:00 PM.
    
    

• Database Views: Added the Vehicle Licence field to the Sales Documents Database View.
  

• Costar Views: New Locations and LocationQtys COSTAR views.

• Event Log: Every import completed via the Import Wizard is now logged.
  
  
• Import Wizard: Product pictures can now be imported. Deleting a picture must be done via Item Maintenance.

• Reports
  • The following reports can now be Prepared and Exported.
    • Supplier Aged List
    • Supplier Detailed Aged List
    • Supplier Open Item List
    • Supplier Closed Item List

• When Volume Pricing is enabled, an item with no relevant volume pricing will no longer have it's price changed back to the default price when the quantity is changed.
• Adding an item via the Quick Item Add screen, now populates the RIM and WIDTH of the item.
• The RIM and WIDTH is now populated correctly when doing an Inventory Item import.
• Automatic SMS messages are no longer sent by COSTAR test companies.
• The "Special Order Product" label is now spelt correctly in the Call To Order web order page.
• Invoice print outs will now include the customer's terms.

Version 5.6.93.0 (Released 31st July 2024)

• Order Entry
  • Password and Events - Viewing the the cost of an item via the Details button can be password protetected...
    
    
    ...by configuring the new Password and Event.
    
    
    
  • New option that enables the Salespeople tab on an order entry document that shows the salespeople related to the selected customer. Go to Settings => Order Entry Options => OE Option => Microhouse Integrations => Customers and enabling the Show Salespeople Tab in Order Entry option...
    
    
    ... will enable the Salespeople tab in Order Entry documents.
    
    
    
  • The total volume of the quantities on a document can now be printed on invoices, delivery dockets, supplier returns, purchase orders, and transfers.

• Customers
  • New option that increases the number of salespeople allowed for a customer from two to four. Go to Settings => Order Entry Options => OE Option => Microhouse Integrations => Customers and enabling the Assign 4 x Salespeople for Customers option...
    
    
    ... will allow four salespeople to be set for each customer.
    
    
    
  • New option that allows the entry of the latitude and longitude for each customer. Go to Settings => Order Entry Options => OE Option => Microhouse Integrations => Customers and enabling the Show Latitude & Longitude for Shipping Info option...
    
    
    ... will enable the Latitude and Longitude fields in Customer Maintenance.
    
    
    
  • New Personal Properties Security Register (PPSR) field available for all customers. The PPSR# field also displays in Collections screen, the Aged List report and the Detailed Aged List Report.
    
    
    
  • New option that allows the entry of three miscellaneous free text data fields for each customer. Go to Settings => Order Entry Options => OE Option => Microhouse Integrations => Customers and enabling the Use Additional Data Fields in Customer Grouping option...
    
    
    ... will enable the ability to use three extra grouping options.
    
    

• Inventory
  • A product's volume is now displayed in Item Maintenance based on the Item, length and height entered into COSTAR.
    
    
    
  • In Pick Plans the height of the Dock and Picker drop downs have been increased.
  • The Inventory By Location can now be sorted by branch.
  • The Inventory By LocationPrepare and Export output now includes the branch.

• Employees
  • New Employee Description field available for all employees.
    

• Database Views
  • Salesperson3, Salesperson4, Latitude, Longitude, are PPSRNumber are available in the Customers database view.
  • New Enviro List database view.

• Import Wizard
  • Salesperson3, Salesperson4, Latitude, Longitude, PPSRNumber, DataField1, DataField2 and Datafield3 are available for import using the Customer Names/Addresses import option.

• Costar Views
  • Salesperson3, Salesperson4, Latitude, Longitude, PPSRNumber, DataField1, DataField2 and Datafield3 are available in the Customers Costar view.

• Settings
  • Service Reminders- The Reminders (description, note,date) message tag has been removed and is no longer available to be used in both text and email messages.

• Long URLS no longer cause the Send button to disappear when sending internal and SMS messages.
• Web Order images are now displaying correctly in the Stock Check screen.
• Multiple automatic service reminders are no longer being added to a document if the same codes are used across multiple branches.
• The Enhanced SMS Send button is no longer pushed out of frame when long URLs are used in the message.
• The Pieces column is now displaying correctly in the Pick Plan screen.
• The White List Black List is no longer generating incorrect Volume Prices.

Version 5.6.54.0 (Released 6th February 2024)

• Getting an error when logging into a database, before changing to another database no longer causes errors.

Version 5.6.52.0 (Released 18th January 2024)

• Suppliers
  • The Supplier Pay Status has been optimised for a quicker display.

• Import Wizard
  • New ability to import non-quantity product locations with the following options.
    1. Append to existing data: adds the records in the import file to the existing locations.
    2. Replace ALL Inventory Location (NON QBL)!: Will replace the existing locations for only the branches stipulated in the import file.
       

• Customer Specifics are again being added to repair orders and invoices correctly.
• Online Web Appointment banners are better managed on smaller screens. The right hand images will wrap and appear below the left hand side images on smaller screens.
• The Appointment time is now displayed correctly when a customer is choosing to cancel or reschedule an appointment.

Version 5.6.50.0 (Released 10th January 2024)

• Settings
  • The Reason field is now available as a selection in the Event Log search.
    
    

• MPS Settings
  • Stock Receipt documents are now able to be sent via MPS.

• Converting documents with Special Items which have specifics attached, no longer generates an error.
• Credit Card details are now being masked correctly when an EFTPOS integration is enabled.
• Ship and Invoice dates are now correct for documents where future service reminders are created.

• When using Employee PINS with more than 4 characters, the punch clock override screen will retain the entered PIN.

  The correct Time In is now used when sending Appointment confirmation messages.

Version 5.6.48.0 (Released 29th November 2023)

Order Entry
• The Customer Price in Stock Check now prices correctly when the selected customer has a default rebill to account.

• Sales Reports

  • Salesperson (doc) and Salesperson 1 (AR) and Salesperson 2 (AR) selection and sort options have been added to the Yearly Sales Report.

• Enhanced SMS
  • New Branch City tag for SMS messages.

• Costar Views
  • New LocationMovements Costar View.
  • The AccountsPayableItem Costar view now includes the SupplierTerms code.

• Web Order
  • New setting that allows the rotating banner interval to be manually set.
    
    
    
  • The number of products displayed in the Search Tyres web page can be manually set with the minimum being 50 products.
    
    

• The Employee Group name now populates correctly in Employee Permissions.
• When an order is placed via Costar2Costar by a COSTAR system on version 5.5 or earlier , the receiving COSTAR system now gets the correct ship to details.+
• Service Reminder descriptions set up in a kit are now correclty copied to Order Entry documents.
• Enhance Income Statement now reports correctly when the Suppress Zeros option is used.
• Automated Enhanced SMS messages are now flowing as expected.
• Transfer discount percentage is now set correctly when a Transfer is completed.
• The Buyer on purchase orders is now being populated correctly when the purchase order is created via Check Stock or the Auto Generate PO report.

Version 5.6.39.0 (released 5th October, 2023)

• Internal Chat
  • Internal Chat now works when a primary tech is configured on a document
    
    
    or a default technician is configured for the relevant bay in Appointment Properties.
    

• The Vehicle Selector button in the Customer Vehicle maintenance window now opens the Fitment Guide.
• COSTAR Mobile now behaves correctly on Apple phones with the orientation lock is enabled.

Version 5.6.38.0 (released 2nd October, 2023)

• Automated Service Reminders
  • Service Reminders can now be scheduled and sent automatically via both SMS and/or email.
  • A prompt for outstanding reminders will be displayed at time of sale.
  • Service Reminders can now be selected from a search screen.

Setup

• The functionality can be enabled by going to Settings => Service Reminders => Settings.
  1. The settings are per branch.
  2. Enable Automated Service Reminders: Enables the functionality.
  3. Prompt and show Service Reminders at sale time: Enables the prompt for outstanding reminders at time of sale.
  4. All service reminders are sent based upon implied consent... : TIcking this setting bypasses the Customer Follow-up profiles. Not recommended to be enabled.
  5. Graphics can be added to the sent messages by populating these fields with the URL of the relevant graphic.

• Editing the Messages
  • The message format can be maintained via the Configure text/Email Service Reminder Messages button.

• Service Reminder maintenance
  • Clicking on Service Reminders allows the reminders to be created, edited or deleted.
  • Service reminders can be set up with a reminder period of weeks or months.

• Fitment Guide
  • Fitment guide data now supplied via Vehicle Logic.
  • New improved interface that allows users to select the precise make, year, model and engine for the vehicle in question.

Registration Search

Vehicle Details Search

Search by Fitment

• Web Appointments
  • Can now search for a customer's vehicle by registration.
  • Calendar caption is now "Available!" and the submit caption is now "Book Appointment!"
  • The customer look up now includes account customers.

• General
  • When the Mandatory 10-digit Mobile Phone option is enabled, phone searches can now be performed without having to enter all 10 numbers.
  • The following searches will only search for the last 90 days if no selection criteria entered.

    • Product/Service History

    • Document Specifics

    • Cheque History

    • Cheque Reversal

    • Import History

    • JE History
    • PO History

    • Event Log

• Order Entry
  • Requiring a reason for overriding a Minimum Sell price can now be made mandatory.
    
    
  • When Service Reminders print out, they will now display "Reminder:", reminder short description, reminder date and the reminder long description.

   

• Appointments
  • The earliest entry in the Appointment Grid is now reflected in the Time In field.
  • Appointments can now be extended across multiple days.
    
    

• Customers
  • The changing of a customer's credit limit can be passworded in Password and Events.
    
    

• Suppliers
  • The supplier's EFT details in Supplier Maintenance can now be password protected.
    
    
    
    

• Costar Views
  • New Location Pick Plan Costar View.
  • New Location Pick Plan Details Costar View.
  • New Punch Clock Transaction Costar View.
  • New Punch Clock Labour Item Group Costar View.
  • New Punch Clock Technician Detail Costar View.
  • The vehicle information has been added to the SalesDocument Costar View.

• Editing a Customer Note using the ellipsis no longer generates an error.
• The Appointment Followup date selector now includes documents from the date selected.
• Clicking Confirmed in an Order Entry document is now being saved.
• The Customer Pricing Matrix filters now clear correctly.
• The Web Order report can now be sorted without generating an error.
• Marking an invoice or repair order as Completed after closing History, now correctly prompts to send an SMS.
• Web Order now displays the Australian Language based on the Country setting in COSTAR.
• After minimising the Appointment Scheduler, the Message windows behaves correctly.
• In COSTAR Mobile, dots and dashes are no longer allowed to be entered in to the odometer field.

Version 5.5.55.0 (released 28th March, 2023)

• Blocked Appointment Times are no longer losing their descriptions.
• Branch stamped cash customers are no longer causing the Web Appointments to freeze.

Version 5.5.50.0 (released 24th January, 2023)

• Order Entry
  • Packages and Kits can no longer be refused if they include a serviced code that is being clocked.

• Changing the Pay Code of a document in the AP Cheque Preparation Pay Status no longer generates an error.
• Dragging an appointment in the Appointment Scheduler grid no longer moves all associated appointments to the one day.
• The branch code is again being auto-populated in customer searches.

Version 5.5.47.0 (released 5th January, 2023)

• Order Entry
  • When the Quick Sell functionality is enabled, the Accept Invoices screen can now only be opened by one person at a time.

• Customers
  • PDF attachments are now allowed for AR Inquiry notes.
    

• Enhanced SMS
  • URL shorteners are no longer supported in SMS messages.

• The vehicle details for an Appointment converted to a repair order/invoice are again visible in the Work In Progress screen.
• The item sort has been removed from the Inventory Valuation Report as the report automatically sorts on the item number.
• The AR Inquiry and AP Inquiry screens are now opening in the correct location.
• Mobile phone numbers can be added to Order Entry documents without generating an error.
• The Appointment Date Only SMS tag, is no longer including the time.
• All inspection forms are again visible when the Return Inspection to Document option is not ticked.
• Renumbering a supplier, now renumbers suppliers correctly in Microhouse Integration settings.

Version 5.5.42.0 (released 24th November, 2022)

• Costar Views
  • New EmployeeGroups Costar View that shows the Employee Groups of the employees if assigned.

• The Cashier Screen now opens in the correct position.
• Web Order product links are now handling secure web sites correctly.
• Appointments, created, converted and sold all at once are now being saved in the Appointment Grid.
• Assigning an Inspection form no longer brings back unrelated memos.

Version 5.5.38.0 (released 24th October, 2022)

• General
  • Resizing or moving the main COSTAR menu form, also resizes and/or moves any COSTAR forms opened from with the main menu.

• SMS
  • The document Contact Name can now be added to the Quick Message SMS messages. If the document contact is blank, the customer's first name (from the customer record not the document) will be used instead.
    
    

• Customers
  • Transfer Orders are now included in the Customer Back Order report.
  • The filters in the Customer Pricing Matrix filters have been changed to "smart filters".
  • The Customer Group selection has been added to the Detailed Aged List Report.

• Purchase Orders
  • When adding items to a purchase orders for a Costar2Costar supplier, invalid item numbers are now allowed to be added to a PO.
    • If a product code is used, that does not exist in the suppliers Costar2Costar, then the following message will be displayed.
      
      The item can be added to the order, but it can NOT be ordered via the Costar2Costar connection. It must be ordered over the phone or via email.
      
      
    • If the item is valid, but not available, then the following message will be displayed.
      
      The item cannot be placed on the purchase order. It must be ordered over the phone or via email.
      
      
    • If the item is flagged as "Call To Order", then the following message will be displayed.
      
      The item cannot be placed on the same purchase order as items that are not flagged as Call To Order. The item must be ordered over the phone.
      
  • A maximum purchase order amount can now be set for each supplier. Purchase orders above the maximum value will require authorisation before they can be sent to the supplier.
    • The maximum value that can be ordered on a single purchase is stipulated in Supplier Maintenance.
      
      
      
    • The authorisation for this functionality is set up in the Password and Events form.
      
      
      
    • Home-office Authorization requires an authorisation key generated by a "Head Office" user.
    • Local Authorization requires the normal entry of a password, employee details and/or a PIN.
      

• Employee
  • All Punch Clock Reports now include the option to include work in progress (WIP) documents.

• Order Entry Options
  • The Microhouse Integrations menu is now available directly from the Order Entry Options menu.
    
    

• With Pricing Rules disabled, Costar2Costar items are now added to documents with the correct cost.
• When using COSTAR Quick email, entering a second email recipient no longer disables the Send button.
• Inspection comments are now returned to the document irrespective of whether the "Enable checkboxes and reason dropdown" is enabled for the Inspection Item.
• The stock availability colour indicator in the Order Entry document details is now indicating open purchase orders correctly.
• The appointment times in Appointment Followup are now displayed correctly.
• Selecting a document in the appointment list now highlights the selected document in the WIP document list.
• Changing the default technician in the Appointment Scheduler no longer generates an error.

Version 5.5.18.0 (released 29th September, 2022)

• Order Entry
  • New ability to flash a notification in the Repair Order screen of the configured branch, that there are new web orders that need attention. Simply tick the Settings => Order Entry Options = > OE Option => Entry2 => Notify Retail Branch of new Wholesale Web Orders and select the branch that will receive the notifications.
    
    
    When a web order eixsts where the written by = "WEB", the New Wholesale Web Orders button will flash. Clicking on the notification button, will display a list of the new web orders, from where each order can be opened by double clicking on the relevant order.
    
    
    
    
  • A new setting that if enabled, will print "Waiting" on a job card if the document is flagged as "Customer Waiting". To enable this functionality, tick the Print 'Waiting' when customer waiting flag is ON setting.
    
    
    When the Cust Waiting option is ticked on a document, "Waiting" will be printed on a job card instead of the promised time.
    
  • Memos and reminders are now allowed on authorised fleet documents and will no longer de-authorise a document.
  • A new setting to automatically enable the printing of internal memos for Job Cards.
    
    

• Email
  • The Quick Email screen can now be set to pop up or full screen in size. The setting can be found in Settings => Order Entry Options => Printing/eMail.

    
    

• SMS
  • If the sending of the SMS fails, a "The destination number is unable to receive the message" will be displayed in the message conversation.

    

  • The customer's First Name is now available as a tag when creating a SMS Quick Message template.
  • The vehicle Registration is now available as a tag when creating a SMS Quick Message template.
    
    

• Appointments
  • Appointments can now be marked as "Customer Waiting".
    
    

• Web Appointments
  • New vehicle selection based on customer name and phone number.
  • New ability to select the service needed.
  • Appointments are automatically added to the Appointment Scheduler for the drop off time.

• Customers
  • A customer's vehicles can be filtered as needed for any of the displayed columns in Customer Maintenance.

    

• Purchasing
  • Purchase Orders can now be manually marked as Sent.
    
    

• Inventory
  • The Warehouse Management Processor can now run as a Windows Service. Please contact the Microhouse Support desk to request this service to be enabled.

• Financials
  • GL Maintenance now allows the ability to look back at seven years of history.

    

   

• When the Balance Sheet is run and the last year is suppressed, there is a new Activity value that shows the activity for the specified date range.
  
  • For those clients in Australia using a Simplified BAS, the 1A and 1B totals have been added to the relevant GST reports.
    
    
  • For those clients in New Zealand, the Input Tax Credit totals are now displayed as debit values reflecting how they are to be entered when submitting the reports.
    

• Error is no longer being experienced when using the AP Cheque Preparation Pay Status.
• When receiving a payment in the Bank Reconciliation, the description can now be longer than 45 characters.
• Performing a recalculation of Landed Cost in Supplier Maintenance now updates the landed cost factor and item price on relevant purchase orders.
• Inventory items allocated to an inventory item will no longer allowed be automatically added to a documents in a wholesale branch.
• A customer changed from a rebill customer to a normal customer, will no longer be affected by national account settings.
• Deleting a serial number from an item in a purchase order no longer crashes COSTAR.
• Entering a description longer than 45 characters for a Payment in the Bank Reconciliation no longer generates an error.
• When an open repair order is approved via the Messages interface, the repair order is now updated correctly.
• Changing the rebill customer on a document, now changes the terms correctly.
• When adding items to a purchase order for a Costar2Costar supplier, the current branch's supplier item is now being used.
• The ability to copy and paste a scheduled appointment is now working correctly.
• When Quantities by Location is enabled, receipting stock to a non-default location no longer generates an error.

Version 5.3.0.180 (released 24th January, 2022)

• General

  • The customer purchase order (PO) number is now displayed in the Apply Payment or Credit form.

    

• COSTAR Mobile

  The Promised Time and Customer Waiting flag is now displayed in the Work In Progress and Document windows.

  • If the Promised Time is populated the time is displayed in the Work In Progress and Document windows.
    
  • If the Customer Waiting flag is ticked, "Customer Waiting" is displayed in the Work In Progress and Document windows.
    

• Costar2Costar
  • When an item is on sale from the supplier, the sale icon is displayed.
    

• Sales Reporting
  • Searching Document History using a phone number, will now find the relevant phone numbers with or without spaces.

• Purchasing
  • New ability to sort the Generate Automatic PO report by size. This will also sort the items by size when they get added to the purchase order.

• Inventory
  • In Product Type Maintenance, a default specification category can now be added to each product type.

    

     

    If the relevant item level specification category is not populated, then the specification category of an item will be set using the following logic;

    1. If a model is specified and the model has a specification, then the model's specification will be used,
    2. If the item does not have a model specified or the model does not have a specification, the product type specification will be used,
    3. If the item does not have a model specified or the model does not have a specification, and the product type does not have a specification, then default specification category will be used. The default specification varies depending on how the item is created and are as follows;
       • Quick Item Add and Item Maintenance - Other
       • Import Wizard - Passenger / LT
       • Setup Inventory Items
       • Item Maintenance Import - Passenger / LT
       • Catalogue Import - Passenger / LT

• Costar Views
  • Accounts Payable Item- Now includes both outstanding and paid Accounts Payable information.
  • PurchaseOrderDetail - Now includes the Expected Date.

• Supplier Maintenance now allows for long Costar2Costar passwords.
• When Quick Selling an invoice and the Warehouse Management System is disabled, invoices are again displayed in the Accept Pending Invoices form.
• Reduced the occurrence of out of memory errors.

• The document terms for a cash customer are now changed when a rebill customer is added to the rebill customer's terms.
• The Settlement printer layout tag is again displaying the correct value for COD documents.
• Check Stock now correctly calculates the order quantity for items that have been receipted.

• Clicking the CC button in Quick Emailing no longer generates a line of extra characters in the email body.
• The Warehouse Management System (WMS) Processor will now no longer fail when the WMS has lost the Windows printers.
• The COSTAR Mobile Inspection summary is again showing the graphical status indicators.

Version 5.3.0.80 (released 16th September, 2021)

• Error no longer displayed when Overriding a Punch Clock document.

Version 5.3.0.50 (released 2nd September, 2021)

• Order Entry and Purchase Orders
  • Costar2Costar suppliers can now be configured to prompt for a confirmation before updating the cost of an item and it's selling prices, when adding an item to a repair order, invoice or purchase order from a Costar2Costar supplier.

• Order Entry Options
  • The Cheque payment method can now be removed as a payment method.

• When adding a new item from the REPCO Navigator integration, the supplier item is again being populated correctly.
• Enhanced SMS messages are now showing correctly in IOS 14.6.

Version 5.2.0.350 (released 26th July,2021)

• Order Entry
  • New ability to commit stock on an Appointment.
    • To enable the functionality, tick the Commit Quantities when Appointment is Confirmed setting in Order Entry Options.

      

       

    • To commit stock on a an appointment, tick the Confirmed option on the relevant appointment.

      

       

    • Once confirmed, the products on the confirmed appointment will have their committed quantities affected by the quantities on the appointment.

      

• New ability to include the supplier item number when adding a new product via the Quick Add form.

  

• Appointments
  • When a technician is assigned to an appointment column, and a job is placed in an appointment column, the technician will now receive all messages for the relevant document without needing to be assigned to the service code items on the document.
  • The printed Appointment List now includes quantities for products and special items.
  • The Appointment Scheduler document list columns have been adjusted to better display the document information and now shows the document Comment.

• Inventory
•  Enhance Serialized Item functionality that allows a customer, products, services and special items to be attached to a serialized item.
  • Clicking the S/N browse button will open the

    

     

  • Click the relevant drop down will allow a customer, product, service and/or special item to be associated with the serial number.

    

     

  • When the serial number is added to a document, any items associated to the serial number will also be added.

    

     

  • Serial numbers associated with a customer can be seen by clicking the Serialized Items button in Customer Maintenance.

    

     

  • Any serial number associated with a customer, will not be available to other customers.
• Inventory, services, special items can now all be added directly to an item without the need to create a kit.

  

• Inventory can no longer be manually adjusted into stock with a cost of zero dollars.
• Can now include a local database in the Shared Inventory product look ups.
• An item must now have no quantity on hand before it can be marked as no longer serialised.

• Purchasing
  • New ability to password the ability to change anything on a transfer generated Purchase Order except the receipt quantity.

    

  • A products Expected Date can now be imported into the details of a Purchase Order.

• Financials
  • New Previous and Next buttons in the General Ledger Maintenance form that allow easy scrolling through general ledger accounts (sorted by the account number).

• Costar Views
  • New Punch Clock transactions view.
  • The "IsWebAppointment" field has been added to the Sales Documents and Appointment_CRM views.
  • New Supplier Return and Supplier Return detail views.

• COSTAR Mobile
  • With Punch Clock enabled, COSTAR Mobile can be configured to allow technicians to assign themselves to a service code.

    • New ability to authorise a job with a customer's signature.

      To enable the functionality go to Order Entry Options => Mobile Settings => Signature Capture and tick the relevant branch.

      

    • To mark a document as needing to be signed click, on the sign button in the toolbar and select the relevant option.

      

      1. Sign Document Now: If selected, will allow the user to sign the document using a configured signature pad at time of selecting the otion.
      2. Sign Document Later: If selected will, mark the document as needing to be signed at a later time, but prior to selling.

     

    • To sign a document using COSTAR Mobile,
      1. log into COSTAR Mobile using an employee who is flagged as a salesperson.
      2. Click on Awaiting Signature and then the relevant document.

         

      3. Click on the Sign button and sign the document using the devices input device.

         
    • New ability to allow technicians to switch between branches in Mobile.

     

  • Billable hours can now be set to be display in the document summary.

• Enhanced SMS
  • A reminder for an upcoming appointment can now be sent with just the date as opposed to both date and time.
  • The relevant branch's Web Appointment URL can now be tagged to the end of all messages.
  • Job cards can now be sent via a message.
  • Can now add the relevant written by's first name (Service Adviser) to the message.

• COSTAR Web Order
  • Web order results can now be sorted by a preferred manufacturer.

    

  • Products visible in Web Order can now be flagged to as to "Call to Order" which indicates that the product is only be available by calling the supplier directly. Contact the Microhouse Support desk if you would like to enable

• The Item code can no longer be deleted from the Package Maintenance from when adding a package to a document.
• Items in a package can no longer be deleted by Stock Check.
• The customer's Order Priority, Route and Stop is now populating correctly on Wholesale Orders when placed via Web Order.

Version 5.2.0.190 (released 22nd February,2021)

• Branch transfers are again being displayed in the Accept Invoices form.
• Order Entry options now opens without error.

Version 5.2.0.170 (Released 20th January, 2021)

• Order Entry
  • New ability to copy a contact's phone number to the mobile number on the document.

    

  • New ability to edit and complete a branch transfer being sent from another branch. This option allows the receiving branch to edit an existing transfer from another branch and depending on configuration, finalise the transfer.

    

     

    Once the Allow access to other branches transfer documentssetting has been ticked, a Branches button will appear in the Order Entry => Branch Transfer menu. Clicking on the Branches button will then display the list of transfers waiting to be sent to the current branch.

     

    

  • New "6 week" option for Reminders.

    

  • New ability to check live stock availability at YHI and Pirelli warehouses using the new YHI and Pirelli supplier integrations. To enable either of the YHI or Pirelli supplier integration, please contact the Microhouse support desk.

• Costar Views
  • The Last Modified date and Last Modified By information is now included in the Consignment Document, Purchase Order, Quotation Document, Sales Document and Transfer Document Costar Views.
  • The Batch Details CostarView now displays the correct purchase order number for each product receipted.

• Purchasing
  • New columns "Back order" and "Total Unpicked" columns in the Customer Back Order screen.

    

  • New Stock Receipt Report - Supplier orders stock receipts by Supplier and then Product Type.
  • New ability to send purchase orders directly to YHI and Pirelli using the new YHI and Pirelli supplier integrations. To enable either of the YHI or Pirelli supplier integration, please contact the Microhouse support desk.

• Financials
  • New ANZ Transactive ABA format available when paying suppliers via AP Cheque Preparation.

• Order Entry - Packages that prompt for products in a particular Product Type, now display the correct product type by default in the product search.
• Document History - Cheque details are now correctly displaying in the Cashier Details form.
• Bank Reconciliation - Receive Payments now appear on the Bank Reconciliation with the date of the document not today's date.
• Web Order - The red sale indicator now shows correctly in Web Order on the final day of a sale.
• Import Wizard - When importing customers, the default value for Charging Interest is now set the same as when a customer is created manually.
• Import Wizard - When importing suppliers, the default value for "Adjust First Payment" and "Auto Order" is now the same as when a supplier is created manually.

Version 5.1.0.230 (released 29th July, 2020)

• COSTAR Mobile
  • Inspections now support multiple photos.
  • Can now view Internal Chat messages for the selected document from within the document, instead of having to close the document before viewing.

   

• Web Order
  • The Rim Width is now displayed to two decimal places.
  • The Suggested Price is not displayed if there is no price level set as a Suggested Price.

• Order Entry
  • Changing the cost of an item on an Order Entry document no longer automatically changes the supplier cost of the item.

• Sales Reporting
  • Generic Sales Report - Outside Salesperson (AR) selection and sort has been renamed to Outside Salesperson 1 (AR).
  • Generic Sales Report - There is a new sort option for Outside Salesperson 2 (AR).

• Customers
  • Customer Price Matrix - Cash customers can now be selected.
  • Customer Price Matrix - Head Office entries are now longer displayed by default, allowing users with large numbers of customer price matrix entries to edit their local customer price matrix.
  • A/R Inquiry - The PO number is now included in the document description.
  • Aged List Report - has the option to print a "simplified" version of the Aged List report which only includes the customer name and balances.

• Inventory
  • Pick Plans - New option to allow the printing of customer invoices when shipping a Quantities by Locations load.

• Database Views
  • Sales Documents - Home Phone, Mobile Phone, Business Phone, Document Terms and Contact Methods are now available for export.
  • Inventory Valuation Report now has a default sort order by Product Type and then Item number.

• Costar Views
  • New Sales Group Costar View.
  • New Transfer and Transfer detail Costar views.
  • New Consignment Document and Consignment Document detail Costar views.
  • New Consignment Return Document and Consignment Return Document detail Costar views.
  • The Document Type and Document fields have been added to the Sales Specifics Costar View.

• Order Entry - The document terms now revert to the sell-to customer terms, after a rebill customer is removed.
• Order Entry - Credit notes no longer require the Completed option ticked for service codes.
• Order Entry - Watermarks now print correctly on documents two or more pages long.
• Order Entry - The contact method can now be entered without error.
• Order Entry - Typing a package code and pressing TAB or ENTER quickly no longer generates an error.
• Order Entry - Automatically created new documents are now being created correctly with no terms.
• Quick Item Add - Adding a product via Quick Item Add now correctly sets the Auto-price option for the new product.
• Quick Item Add - using Ctrl-P to paste an item number into the Quick Item Add form no longer generates an error.
• Quick Item Add - Using Quick Item Add no longer allows items to be created with special characters.
• Quick Item Add - Using Quick Item Add no longer allows a product to be created with the same code as a service or special item.
• Document History - Payment method details are now displaying correctly in Document History.
• Customer Sales Reports - The Customer Sales Month/Year report now reports correct Previous Year figures.
• Day End no longer generates an error when the only document in the day's batch is a supplier return.
• Quantities by Locations - Transfers now print as a transfers instead of invoices when included in the shipping of a Quantity by Locations load.
• Quantities By Locations - the Move Items bottom section now correctly filters when the Only show product at highlighted location is selected.
• Quantities By Locations - The Time displayed in the Pick Plans screen is now displaying correctly.
• Stock Counts - clicking Set QTY counted to stock count QOH no longer generates an error.

Version 5.0.0.490 (Released 8th January, 2020)

• Order Entry
  • A fix for the delay in adding an item to a purchase order with a large number of items on the document.
  • Registration details are no be longer cleared when using vehicle integrations.

   

• Inventory

  • Pick Plans - New ability to password protect the viewing of Order Entry documents from the Pick Plan screens.

    To add a password, go to Settings --> Inventory Setup --> Locations and enter the required password into the View Document password column.

    

     

    Once a password is set, users will not be able to view a document from the Pick Plan screen unless they enter the correct password.

  • Inventory Valuation Report now has a default sort order by Product Type and then Item number.

• Web Order - when viewing the order, the message detailing whether the prices include tax is now displaying (or not) correctly.
• Appointment Scheduler - the drop down options for the Time In and Promised times have been removed as they did not do anything.

Version 5.0.0.470 (Released 29th November, 2019)

• Order Entry
  • Using the Registration Search for a New Vehicle now returns the registration, colour and VIN to the COSTAR document.

• Adding Kits to a document is no longer delayed.
• Order Entry Registration checks are now opening without error.
• Customer specifics with no pre-formatting are now displaying correctly in Order Entry documents.
• Packages with empty reminder periods no longer generate an error when included on an Order Entry Document that is in the process of being sold.

Version 5.0.0.380 (Released 11th November, 2019)

• The COSTAR menu bar has been cleaned up to more clearly display the branch name.

• General
• Signature Pads - The signature of the recipient is now printed on the original printed invoice. Please contact the Microhouse Support Desk for help on setting this functionality up.

•  Order Entry
  • New setting that allows the bolding of Order Entry document sub-totals.

    

  • Costar2Costar orders are now populating the Ship Via and Shipping Instructions correctly.
  • When changing the cost off an item on a document, the user is prompted as to whether the supplier cost and retail prices should also be updated.
  • Deposits are no longer allowed inside Dynamic Packages.
  • The number of characters allowed in a memo has been increased from 400 to 1200.

• Appointment Scheduler
  • The Written By is now displayed in the document grid at the top of the Appointment Scheduler.

    

• Import Wizard
  • New mandatory columns required when Importing Customers via the Import Wizard.

    • Terms

    • CashCustomer (0/N/No = Account, 1/Y/Yes = Cash))

    • GLAccount

     

  • New Validation behaviour when importing customers. 

    • If the Customer field is null or blank, the Customer field will be automatically populated with the next system generated cash customer number. This will apply for both cash and account customers.

    • If the Customer field is not null or blank, then the field must contain NO invalid characters otherwise it will be rejected.

    • If the Name field is null or empty, then the record will be rejected.

    • If the CashCustomer field is null or empty, then the imported customer will be set to be a cash customer.

    • If the imported customer is an account customer (i.e. CashCustomer = 0) and the Terms field is null or empty, then the terms of the customer being imported will be set to the Customer Credit Terms. If this setting is not set, then the customer will be rejected.

    • If the imported customer is a CASH customer and the Terms field is null or empty, then the terms for the customer is set to Cash.

    • If the Terms of the imported record are not valie the record is rejected.

    • If the GLAccount of an imported CASH customer is null or empty, then the GLAccount is left empty.

    • If the GLAccount of an ACCOUNT customer is null or empty, then the Terms are set to the default AR Control Account. #17715

    • For ACCOUNT customers, the GLAccount must be valid AR GL account otherwise the record is rejected.

• COSTAR Mobile
  • The Settings >> Settings 2 menu item is now called Mobile Settings.
  • The Customer Contact and Ship To details can now be viewed via the document Summary. Simply click on Summary and then on the customer's contact details to expand the customer's address.

    

   

  • The Vehicle Inspection Date has been added to the Vehicle Details.
  • New setting to control which employees can log directly into COSTAR Mobile. The setting is found in the Employee Maintenance >> Company Information form. Without this option ticked, an employee will only be able to be selected as the active technician using the "Switch User" screen within Mobile. When ticked, the employee will be able to log directly into COSTAR Mobile.

    

     

  • New setting to only allow VIN numbers of 17 characters.

    

     

  • New settings to force the entry of a VIN, license number and odometer before an Inspection can be opened.

    

     

  • New setting to allow the display of all three Odometer values.

    

  • The allowed number of characters in a technician's comment, has been increased from 350 to 1150 characters.

Inventory Reports
• When Inventory by Locations is enabled, and product is moved from location to another, the user that moves the stock is now recorded.
• The date received of the relevant location is now included on the Inventory By Location report.
• Stock Count sheets now display a red star when the relevant item has a committed quantity.

  

• Customers
  • When 1Link is enabled, a 1Link fee can be charged by customer in the National/Rebill Accounts menu.

• Database Views
  • New Location Movement History database view.

• Settings
  • Using the Import Wizard, The importing of products can now be configured to allow for special characters in the product number.

• Web Order
  • New option to set the Pick date in Pick Plans to the Receive Shipment Date selected by the customer.

    

     

  • Can now direct customers straight to the Search Wheels page.

    

• Single Specifics are no longer highlighted which more clearly indicates whether a specific needs to be entered.

• Marking a document as Complete in COSTAR Mobile, now triggers the prompt to send an SMS from within COSTAR correctly.
• Using the Import Wizard to renumber products, now calculates the correct Available figure.
• Deleting an item of an Order Entry document that has related specifics, now also deletes the specific data.
• Special characters are now allowed in Purchase Order numbers.
• Reminder descriptions are now wrapping correctly when printing Order Entry documents.
• Deleting multiple kit items, no longer deletes the entire kit.
• Monthly Report batches are now displaying the correct dates and data.

• Deleting a service code no longer incorrectly sets the document to completed.
• Temporary documents are no longer committing stock.
• Deleting the Net price on an invoice or repair order no longer bypasses the minimum price password restriction.
• The Ship To delivery information entered on a Web Order is now populating the correct Ship Via and Ship Instructions fields.
• When placing a Web Order, and the customer updates the phone number, this change is reflected in the Ship To Business phone number.
• Changing the Bank Reconciliation opening balance and then clicking a button on the toolbar is now password protected.
• Marking a document as "Complete" when Punch Clock is enabled again prompts to send an SMS via eCommerce.
• Importing Ship To customers via the Import Wizard is again available.
• Importing Products with special characters in their product code is again available.

Version 4.8.2.220 (Released 21st March, 2019)

• General
  • Special characters (e.g. comma, quote, double quote, asterix, @ etc.) are no longer allowed to be used in when creating new customer, supplier or product numbers.

• New Registration Check integration
  • New COSTAR Registration check and vehicle details update service!!

• Web Order
  • New "Get Cost" option that will allow the displaying of the customer's buy price in Web Order. Clicking on Get Cost will display the customer's buy price.

    

• Order Entry
  • There is now an option to print the original quotation or appointment number on tax invoices and delivery dockets.

• COSTAR Mobile
  • New auto-save functionality.
  • Completed documents now remain on the WIP screen and are marked as "Complete".

• Sales Reports
  • New Customer Sales Report calledCustomer Sales Month/Year.

• Order Receipting Reports
  • The Outstanding POs report now includes the employee who is flagged as the Buyer.

• Inventory Reports
  • New option in the Slow Moving Items report to only include items that have been in stock for a particular number of months or longer.

• The camera button should no longer disappear in COSTAR Mobile.
• Double clicking the Receipt button when receipting a PO will no longer generate an error.
• The Supplier Order# no longer gets removed when a PO is receipted for the first time.
• Statement fees/interest are now included in the Payment Application screen.
• Stock Counts Item selection now shows all active items.

Version 4.8.0.520 (Released 17th October, 2018)

• Once reopened, an Order Entry Payment can once again be sold.

• The Expected and Required Dates in Product Details are now populating correctly.
• Using the "E" tax code on an Order Entry Document, will no longer duplicate the related GST records when the customer has "E" as the default tax code.
• Copy button is again working when finding a customers history via Document Search.
• The "Branch is not configured" message is no longer displayed when sending and SMS from a completed document.
• The "p_DataTable cannot be null" error message should no longer be displayed when opening and closing Order Entry documents too quickly.
• Enhanced handling of "Out of memory" errors.

Version 4.8.0.450 (Released 27th August, 2018)

• Order Entry document memos are again printing correctly.
• When completing a document, the SMS prompt is again being displayed without the need to have a service code on the document.
• The Catalogue Details report no longer duplicates items in a multi-branch database.
• Reduced the time it takes to open an Order Entry Document.

Version 4.8.0.430 (Released 8th August, 2018)

• Closing COSTAR with a document open, no longer locks the document. This means that the next time the document is opened, it does not need to be overridden.

• Clicking "Clear All" on an Inspection Form now clears all technician comments as well.
• Item costs on Purchase Orders and Branch Transfers are now being calculated correctly with Volume Pricing enabled.

Version 4.8.0.400

• Internal Chat
  • Brand NEW functionality that allows internal messages to be sent for each invoice and/or repair order. For more information please contact the Microhouse Support desk.

Version 4.8.0.390

• Order Entry
  • New Shop Info button which opens access to Vehicle Details, Photos, Inspections, Internal Chat and the Punch Clock.
  • Can no longer refuse an item when a technician is clocked onto that item.

• Appointment Scheduler
  • Date of selected day in the Appointment Scheduler is now easier to see.

• Inspections
  • New setting that allows Technicians to assign inspections. This is turned on by default.

• Selecting items via a search screen and then auto-applying a kit no longer marks the document as complete.
• Having an EFTPOS surcharge turned on, and an EFTPOS integration enabled no longer sets the default tender value to $0 for account sales.
• Repair Orders converted from Appointments are no longer marked as completed when a second service code is added.

Version 4.8.0.350 (Released 18th June, 2018)

• Customers
  • AR Statements now have the COSTAR Emailing signatures applicable.

Version 4.8.0.330

• General
  • When using COSTAR Quick Emailing, all attached documents are now in the one PDF attached file.

• Inventory
  • New option in Item Pricing >> Update Inventory from Catalogue to zero out pricing information if the corresponding catalogue information is zero.

Version 4.8.0.290 (Released 15th May, 2018)

• Order Entry
  • When emailing a document via COSTAR emailing, Photos and Inspections can now be attached.
  • New Order Entry Option to suppress the ability to create a PO directly from an appointment and quotation.

• Appointments
  • Web Appointments that still need to be acted on are highlighted purple.

• The correct tax code now gets copied when copying refused history items to a work in progress document.

Version 4.8.0.260 (Released 4th May, 2018)

• Order Entry
  • Saving and closing off large Order Entry documents has been quickened up.

• Appointments
  • When Web Appointments are being used, there is a new button called "New Web Appointments!" that will indicate if there are new web appointments that need to be actioned.

• Purchase Orders
  • When using COSTAR emailing, when choosing an email address, COSTAR now allows you to choose from the supplier email and any contact emails addresses linked to the same supplier.

• FInancials
  • Both the GST Credit and GST Payable reports can now be stored by Date, Document Type, and/or Document.
  • For COSTAR users in New Zealand, the GST Reports now refer to the GST Free items as "Zero Rated".

• Setting the default tender method to blank or EFTPOS no longer overrides the "OnAccount" default tender method for account invoices.
• Detailed Period Unit Sales no longer errors when using a Selection other than Branch.
• Removing an Employee Group from an Employee is now saving the change.

Version 4.8.0.190 (Released 28th March , 2018)

• Purchasing
  • New Order/Receipting Report called Detailed Period Unit Sales that details the last 12 months sales (summarised by month) , quanity on hand, quanity on order and quantity committed.

• Inventory
  • Consignments and Consignment Returns can now be seen in the History >> Adjustments/Transfers area in Item Maintenance.

• General
  • When using COSTAR Emailing, a different reply email address can be set for AR Statements, Web Orders and Order entry documents.

• Quotations - Vehicle details are again appearing in the Quotation search results.

Version 4.8.0.160 (Released 16th March, 2018)

• Order Entry
  • Can no longer delete a document that has an approved EFTPOS integration payment.

• Customers
  • In AR Inquiry, the search functionality now searches the entire family of documents. (e.g. users can now search for credit notes and payments applied to invoices).
  • In the Payment Application screen, the search functionality now searches the entire family of documents. (e.g. users can now search for credit notes and payments applied to invoices).

• Order Entry document tender values are again defaulting to the document total when the Tyro integration is enabled.
• The ability to set the default tender method to EFTPOS, is only available when an EFTPOS integration is enabled.

Version 4.8.0.130 (Released 6th March, 2018)

• Order Entry
  • When an EFTPOS integration is enabled, the EFTPOS can now be set as the default tender method for Order Entry documents. Go to Settings >> Order Entry Options >> Payment Methods and tick the EftPos is the default Payment Method.
  • New option in Employee Maintenance to stop an employee from appearing in the Cashier list on the Tender screen.

• Web Appointments
  • New updated look that is now compatible with mobile devices.

• A/P Invoice Entry and Accrued Payable batches
  • The supplier's name and terms have been added to the description of each document when viewing the details of a batch.

• In Bay Service - current user no longer excluded from the list of users available to log in.
• Order Entry Price selections no longer get blanked out when setting.
• Recurring batches - changing a document in a recurring batch now correctly changes the Actual Total of the relevant batch.

Version 4.8.0.70 (Released 6th February, 2018)

• Settings
  • Two new options to purge saved PDF copies of invoices and statements.

• Blocked Appointment times can no longer be moved by copying and pasting.
• Historical Inspections are now read only.
• Inspections can now be printed from the View screen.
• When the changing of a tax code is logged, the log entry is again being created.

Version 4.7.2.330 (Released 26th January, 2018)

• Order Entry
  • New setting in Order Entry Options (Auto-Fill Written-by on new documents) that if ticked, will populate the Written-By with the person who logged into COSTAR.

• Appointment Scheduler
  • The Appointment Scheduler grid automatically refreshes by simply clicking in the grid.

• Customers
  • The Unit# field is now displayed in the Customers >> Customer Maintenance >> Vehicles screen.
  • New Volume-based Customer Pricing functionality available. The functionality can be enabled by clicking the Settings >> Inventory Setup >> Pricing >> Enable Volume-based Customer Pricing option. For more information please contact the Microhouse Support desk.

• Inventory

  • New button in Special Item Maintenance that can be used to update the price on all work in progress documents.

• Order Entry Options
  • New Memo maintenance screen in Settings >> Order Entry Options >> Memos and Messages.

• General
  • New setting that enables a re-index of COSTAR databases during month end.

• The Punch Clock Master functionality is no longer available.
• Double clicking on an appointment in the Appointment Scheduler grid again opens the relevant document.
• Clicking Check Stock not longer generates a message when the REPCO integration is in place.

Version 4.7.2.150 (Released 15th December, 2017)

• Order Entry
  • Once a customer has been entered on an Order Entry document, the customer code can no longer be deleted. The customer can then only be changed by typing a correct customer code or selecting a customer for the Customer search screen.

• A warning is now displayed when COSTAR tries to save a document but is unable due to a lack of computer resources.
• The customer code on Order Entry documents is now always saved as upper case.
• Documents emailed via COSTAR Quick Emails are again displaying "Proforma".

• The Invoice Margin Review Report no longer times out and fails for larger databases.

• Tyro Adapter no longer stops Inspection forms from printing.

Version 4.7.2.20

• Order Entry
  • Branch transfers can now be created directly from an invoice/repair order into the sending branches branch transfer list.

• Order Entry Payment Screen: clicking the "X" no longer allows invalid Cashier details to be used when selling an invoice.
• The "flicker" in Order Entry documents has been greatly reduced.

Version 4.7.1.610 (Released 14th June, 2017)

• Order Entry Options
  • In the Payment Methods menu there is a new setting Called "Enable Negative Tender Amounts" that allows the use of negative tender methods. This by default is turned on.

• Inspection Forms
  • Section headers can now be added to Inspection forms.

• Technician/Service Code report now prepares without error.
• Vehicle Inspection Maintenance: the ability to suppress/enable check boxes, reasons and comments is again working.

Version 4.7.1.600 (Released 8th June, 2017)

• Order Entry
  • New documents that have been open for 24 hours and not been saved, are automatically canceled.

• Order Entry
  • Inspection Forms can now be printed in the new format.
  • User now prompted to change their Regional Settings when their regional settings are formatting the AM/PM symbol as "a.m./p.m." respectively.

• Employees
  • New prompt to enter a branch for the employee that is using COSTAR if the employee does not have a valid branch assigned. This ensures that Punch Clock and Inspection Forms work correctly.

Version 4.7.1.570 (Released 16th May, 2017)

• Order Entry
  • Negative tenders are now allowed when selling an Order Entry document.

• Web Appointments
  • Users of Web Appointments can now choose whether they are a business or an individual.

• Mobility
  • Technicians can now be flagged to either see only their jobs or all jobs.
  • New Inspections sub-menu under Photos.

• Customer Vehicle notes are now added to Appointments correctly.
• Customer Consignments now handle serialised items correctly.
• Vehicle information is no longer lost off the invoice when the document has a mobile number entered.

Version 4.7.1.520 (Released 10th May, 2017)

• COSTAR Remote Log In
  • Using the Log In button now creates an Event Log entry in the remotely accessed database.

• Employee Maintenance
  • Changing an employee password now creates and Event log entry.

• Customer Reports

  • Product Specifications are now included in the spreadsheet created when the Individual Customer Price List is Prepared and Exported.

• Web Order - Empty Load Index fields are now correctly displayed as blank , as opposed to "0".
• Order Entry Invoices/Repair Orders - the credit status of the rebill customer is now correctly applied.
• Importing customers into a branch via the Import Wizard that has an alphanumeric branch code no longer generates an error.

Version 4.7.1.410

• When a WholesaleOrder is created via a Web Order or COSTAR2COSTAR the Ship-To code is now populated correctly.
• Fixed the disappearing vehicle details on new invoices/repair orders.

Version 4.7.1.400

• Web Order
  • New option to make Shipping Methods mandatory.

• Emailing
  • Enhanced emailing direct from COSTAR is now available that allows editing of emails before sending and the ability to configure a different email signature per branch. For help with setting this up please contact the Microhouse Support Desk on 1800 819 984.

• Order Entry
  • The Close Date (date document was completed) is now displayed when viewing the GL Entries of a document.

• Sales Reports
  • OW batch has been added to the Generic Sales Report as selection and sort options.

Version 4.7.1.320

• General
  • Opening multiple databases from within a single database has been enhanced and can now be done via the Login button in the COSTAR tool bar at the top of the screen. This replaces the Settings >> Costar Remote Access menu .

• Financials
  • When an enhanced Income Statement is run with the Report % of Sales option ticked, the percentage column now displays to two decimal places.

Version 4.7.1.260

• Employees
  • Technician Productivity report can now be run at a document (detailed) level.

• Purchasing
  • In the Purchase Reconciliation menu, document columns have been widened to allow easier reconciliations.

Version 4.7.1.210

• Web Order
  • When viewing an order, a "Prices do not include tax" message is displayed below the items.

• Suppliers
  • AP Cheque Preparation no longer displays irrelevant payee suppliers when viewing Pay Status.
  • Cheque Remittance now includes the document date for all documents being paid.

• Order Entry
  • Invoices/Repair Orders documents no longer populate the Salesperson with the employee who opened COSTAR.
  • Invoices/Repair Orders - New option that if on will suppress the printing of Billable Hours on job cards. The new setting can be found in Settings >> Order Entry Options >> Printing/eMail and is called Suppress printing of billable labor hours on mechanic copy.
  • Invoices/Repair Orders - Changing the terms on an account sale can now be password protected. To set a password go to Settings >> Password and Events >> Order Entry and edit the Change AR Terms on Documents setting.
  • Supplier Returns - The supplier's terms are now displayed in the bottom left hand corner of the screen with the rest of the credit note details.

  • Dynamic Packages- New option that limits users so they can only change the pricing and discount on detail lines within a Dynamic Package.

    • The List, Discount and Net fields on the package header are not available (greened-out).
    • When a detail line is changed, the effect of the change will adjust the package header but no prorating will take place.
    • If the total price of the dynamic package needs changing, then one or more of the detail lines needs to be changed accordingly.
    • The new setting is found in Settings >> Order Entry Options >> Packages and is called "Do not Pro-rate Dynamic Packages".
  • New option when searching for stock to Show Items with negative Qtys as well as Show In-stock only.
  • Appointment and Quotation document conversions can now be managed at the branch level. These settings can be changed in Settings >> Order Entry >> Convert Documents Setup.
  • Closing an Order Entry document before it has fully loaded no longer generates an error.
  • Overriding a document now displays an updated message.
  • Punch Clock- If the person that logs into COSTAR is a technician, the TECH in the punch clock will default to the person logged into COSTAR.
  • Inspection forms can now be assigned to a Technician.
  • Can now set a Primary Technician on a Repair Order. Setting a primary technician will automatically populate the technician for all service items without a technician already set.

• Sales Reporting
  • Customer Follow-up: List of selected customers now defaults to all customers with the relevant follow-up method.
  • Service Reminders date can now be included on a Service Reminder or Follow-up letter.

   

• Day End
  • Cash variance warning displayed when printing the Cash Reconciliation now displays the variance amount.

• Appointments
  • Vehicle details are now visible as well as the customer name in the Appointment Scheduler grid.
  • A Technician can now be allocated for every bay. When an Appointment is created via the Appointment scheduler grid, the relevant technician will be allocated to the Appointment.
  • Clicking the "F5" key on the keyboard will refresh the Appointment Scheduler screen

• Customers
  • Auto Set Credit Status Reportnow resets a customer's status back to green if the account is fully paid.
  • The customer name has been added to the results of the Vehicle Document History search. This will also indicate whether the included document was canceled or not.

• Purchasing
  • Purchase Orders - Changing the receipting of a purchase order from Invoice to delivery docket can now be password protected. To set a password go to Settings >> Password and Events >> Purchasing and edit the Allow unchecking of invoice entry option at PO Receipt Time setting.
  • Purchase Orders - receipting a $0 purchase order will now generate the appropriate financial records.

   

• Inventory
  • Inventory By Locations Report - New Sort by Item/Locations option that will sort the report based on item number.
  • Kit and Package Maintenance - Now have the ability to set a pre-determined service codes and reminder periods for reminders in Kits and Packages.
  • Kits can now be attached to a Special Item.
  • Inventory >> Inventory Reports >> Operating Reports >> Set Inactive Inventory Items Report - new options that allow the report to be previewed and exclude any item that also exists in the catalogues.
  • Stock Counts - A warning is now displayed when a stock count is about to be posted and there are items in the count file with non-zero quantity on hand where no count has been entered
  • New selection in the Non-QBL Inventory Location report that allows the selection of items without a location.

• Employees
  • Employee passwords for COSTAR Mobility are now required to have "strong" passwords.
  • Technician Productivity report now has an option to include work in progress activity.
  • All three Punch Clock reports now include flat rate service codes.

• Settings
  • Import Wizard - the latest Microsoft Excel files can now be used when importing into COSTAR.

  • MAP Inspections have been renamed to Vehicle Inspections

• The Cheque Date on the Cheque Remittance no longer overwrites the bank account details.
• The price in the Document Details history search now correctly displays the unit price.
• Invoices/Repair Orders - No longer get the prompt to save a customer's details when nothing has been changed
• Batches are no longer listed multiple times after canceling the post confirmation window.
• Changing the order of Kits is now saved correctly.
• CDX Not Enabled message is no longer displayed when setting an email for the Web Order Received customer delivery method.
• Payments created via the Bank Reconciliation now show the correct date.
• GLs which end in a letter are no longer being un-assigned in the Financial reports.
• In the Set Inactive Inventory Items report, the Exclude Items that exist in a Catalogue and Preview options are now ticked by default.
• "Effective until" sales price memo is now only added to a document once the sales period starts.

• Signature capture is now centered on the signature confirmation screen.

• The red text in the Cheque Reversal form is now displayed correctly.
• The line printed below a signature has been shortened.
• Supplier Maintenance can now be opened without generating an error.
• Appointments automatically canceled by COSTAR are now flagged as canceled in Document History
• Document Specifics that are not related to the vehicle fields are no longer coloured green.
• Vehicle type specifics are now displayed correctly when the vehicle type of the vehicle on the related document is changed.
• Memos added to a Invoice/Repair Order before a customer account is assigned to a document are no longer deleted.
• When typing "=P" and the size of the tyre to complete a stock search, the size is again being saved correctly to the search screen.
• When the branch code is a letter, the Appointment Properties can now be changed without error.
• The Discount Allowed value in the Supplier AP Cheque Prep Pay Status is now displayed including GST.
• Bank Reconciliation Payments are now validating the customer number.
• GL MPS Messages now insert without error.
• Renumbering a customer now includes customers assigned to consignment documents.
• A newly created Dynamic Package can now be added to Order Entry documents without having to reopen COSTAR.

Version 4.6.3.190 (Released 30th September, 2016)

• The price of the item is now displayed in the Document Details Search that can be opened from within an Invoice/Repair Order.

• Invoices/Repair Orders no longer losing data after converting from a Quotation or Appointment.
• Opening Hours are now highlighted correctly in the Appointment Scheduler when moving from one day to another.

Version 4.6.3.150 (Released 24th August, 2016)

• Adding catalogue items to Purchase Orders, Repair Orders and Invoices no longer causes an error.
• Repair Orders generated by the Rebilling process are now labelled correctly as Tax Invoices as opposed to just Invoice.

Version 4.6.3.140 (Released 19th August, 2016)

• When the Customer Price Matrixhas a Start Date of "today", it now works correctly.
• CreditNotes generated by the RebillingProcess now have the correct due dates.
• Lost Customers report now prepares without error.

Version 4.6.3.130 (Released 1st August, 2016)

• Users of Quantities by Location (QBL) now have the option to pick using the first in first out (FIFO) methodology based on the age of their Locations.

• Inactive corporately controlled items now generate the "Inactive item" message.
• Customer payments completed via the Bank Reconciliation screen can now be viewed via the Customer >> A/R Cheque History menu.
• The 12MTH column in Stock Check and Item Maintenance now sorts without error.
• The Sale Price in Item Maintenance is now being displayed correctly.

Version 4.6.3.120 (Released 20th July, 2016)

• In Customer Maintenance, hyperlinks can now be saved and used in Rebill Notes.

• Order Entry - Rebill accounts no longer default to the rebill account of the previously sold document.
• Rebill Notes are now displayed correctly in Customer Maintenance.
• Customer Specifics now handle the predefined formats correctly.
• The History button is again available when viewing Order Entry history documents.
• Generate Automatic PO report now prepares without error. Existing report definitions will require the user to view the properties before preparing.
• Stock Status report now prepares without error.
• With White List/Black List functionality turned on, converting a document to an Invoice or Repair orderno longer generates an error.
• With White List/Black List functionality turned on, stock searches are again sorting by manufacturer.

Version 4.6.3.50 (Released 29th June, 2016)

• Order Entry
  • Override warning message now details when an override should take place and that doing so in any other circumstance could cause data loss.
  • Fleet Stock Check search has been customised for Australia and NZ.
  • Stock Check: Can now choose to include one of the Product Categories in the search results. The results can also be sorted based on the Category field.
  • The total quantity and weight of the items on a Wholesale order or an Invoice is now available by clicking on the Qty/Weight button on the top of the screen.
  • Quotations can now be marked as a "Booking Quotation". This allows items on booking quotations to be included in the committed quantities on the Generate Automatic PO and Auto Replenishment Order reports. To turn this functionality on go to Settings >> Order Entry Options >> Entry 2 and tick the Enable Booking Quotations option.

• Sales Reports
  • Generic Sales Report without Margins: additional selections and sorts to match the Generic Sales Report.

• Customer Reports
  • No Sales Customers: Add the mobile and business numbers to the export. The onscreen display will display the mobile number first, then business if no mobile and then phone if no business number.

• Inventory
  • Catalogue Check: added the Specification Category and Brand SKU to the selections and columns.
  • Fleet Inventory Maintenance search has been customised for Australia and NZ.
  • Fleet Service Code Maintenance search has been customised for Australia and NZ.
  • Fleet Special Item Maintenance search has been customised for Australia and NZ.
  • Fleet Catalogue Check search has been customised for Australia and NZ.
  • Inventory By Location report: added the Bin and Cage to the Prepare and Export output.

• Web Order
  • The On Hand figure can now be set to include just the customer's branch, all branches or a specified shared location.

• Settings
  • Event Log search now displays the date and time in the Date and Time column.

• Stock Check now displays the sale price for catalogue items.
• The Outstanding POs report no longer causes COSTAR to close.
• Service Sales report no longer generates an error when the quantity sold is 0.
• Supplier Maintenance: Payable Balance column is again to the left of the Accrued Balance column.
• Customer Specifics Extract: Sorting by Specific Type no longer causes COSTAR to freeze.
• Further fixes to stop COSTAR freezing when viewing the item details of a product from Stock Check or Item Maintenance.
• The Fleet Customer Authorisation Number now prints correctly on invoices.
• Signature Capture confirmation screen is now centered
• Signatures now print correctly on Job Cards and Invoices.

• Appointment Properties: Once the # of Captions to display settings is set, deleting a column header no longer generates an error.
• Vehicles: Vehicle details are again available by clicking on the Vehicle Options menu once a vehicle is open.
• No longer have to reopen COSTAR to be able to add a newly createdpackage.
• With the White List/Black List functionality turned on, searching for a product in a supplier return no longer generates an error.

Version 4.6.2.220 (Released 12th May, 2016)

• Order Entry
  • Due to popular demand RepairOrder print outs are now referred to as Job Cards when printing from an invoice or repair order.

   

• Customers
  • Vehicles - Mobile and Business numbers are now included when using the Phone search..

• Employees
  • Employee Maintenance - Login, Salesperson, Technician and Employee Group can now all be used to find employees.

   

• The Our Customer Number field is again being displayed on the supplier Cheque Register.
• Clicking the Stock Check >> Branches >> Details button no longer causes Costar to freeze for some products.
• Customer Maintenance no longer freezes when imported vehicles exist.
• The Service Sales Report now includes negative sales items.
• The Stock Receipt Report can now be Prepared and Exported.

Version 4.6.2.200 (Released 3rd May, 2016)

• Web Order
  • New colour coding available for on hand status. To change the status settings go to Settings >> Web Setup >> Web Order >> Web Order Setup and change the OnHand Coloring setting.

   

• In Order Entry documents, cancelling the Print Screen no longer generates an error.
• The POS Memo is again being displayed when opening a work in progress Invoice or Repair Order.

Version 4.6.2.130 (Released 18th April, 2016)

• Sales Reporting
  • Unit Sales report now includes the Current Month in the Prepare and Export.

• Date selections for the Unit Sales report have been removed as they are no longer needed.

Version 4.6.2.120 (Released 15th April, 2016)

• Customers
  • Statements can be configured to allow for a different logo for each branch.

   

• Financials
  • Enhanced Financial reports (Income Statement and Balance Sheet) can be emailed directly from COSTAR once they have been prepared.

   

• Batch Posting - unselected batches are no longer posted.
• Fixes occasional loss of data when converting Appointments and Quotations to Invoice and Repair Order forms.
• Cashier field contents are now highlighted making them easier to change.
• Customers >> A/R Cheque History - When a payment is opened, the correct information is displayed.

Version 4.6.2.20 (Released 17th March, 2016)

• General
  • Warehouse Processors - The Warehouse processor can be configured to restart on a daily basis. To get this configured please call the Microhouse support desk.
  • Web Order Processor - Can now be run as a Windows service. To get this configured please call the Microhouse support desk.

• Reports
  • Report Definitions can now be copied by clicking the report to be copied and then the Copy button in the menu bar.

• Order Entry
  • Signature Capture - COSTAR can now integrate with Topaz Systems Signature Pads for the capture of a customer’s signature.
    • The customer signature is captured and stored on the Repair Order document, in PDF format.
    • Signatures will typically be captured during the authorisation of work process or as the final invoice is tendered.
    • Signed PDF copies of the Repair Order are stored in the database and can be retrieved or reprinted at any time.
    • Paper copies of final invoices no longer have to be filed and stored, as the signed documents can now be easily recalled through COSTAR document history.
    • Customers signatures are only stored as part of the Repair Order/Invoice document and cannot be used separately.
    • To enable this functionality, please call the Microhouse support desk.
  • Copying refused items - If the Prompt for Appointment at Sale Time option is ticked, then the copying of the refused items to the new appointment is now optional.
  • Refused Item notification - What prints on an invoice when an item is refused is now optional. In Settings >> Order Entry >> Printing/eMail the Printed Term for refused items can be set to Declined, Deferred, Refused, Rejected, Recommended, Suggested or Proposed.
  • Promised Time Prompt - If the Promised Time on a repair order is blank, COSTAR will optionally display a warning that a Promised time needs to be entered. This can be turned on by ticking the Settings >> Order Entry >> Entry >> Show warning if Promised Time is blank on Repair Orders option.
  • History - New Show all customer history button that removes the vehicle filter for the available history documents.
  • Package Search - Package Totals and Comments are now displayed in Package searches.
  • Stock Check - The Sale Price (if not suppressed) has been moved to the left of the Customer Price

• Sales Reporting
  • Yearly Sales Report - This report will compare up to 12 months of sales to the prior year sales for the same period in order to better analyse the businesses sales volume.
  • Generic Sales Report without Margins - New report based on the Generic Sales Report that outputs only quantities and sales dollars. No margins/costs are reported.
  • Document History - Can now copy items from history documents to Quotations and Appointments

• Appointments
  • Online Appointments - This new optional feature will allow customers to book appointments online via a special “Book Appointment” link that will be inserted into your existing website.
    • Configuration options within COSTAR allow control over how many appointments will be available for booking and setup the list of services that will be displayed when the customer is completing the online booking.
    • Online appointments are inserted directly into your COSTAR appointment scheduler saving valuable time.
    • To find out what is required to setup and configure this new functionality please contact the Microhouse support desk. Web Appointments will appear in a column called "Unassigned" at the drop off time.
  • Appointment Search - now includes Web Appointments

• Customers
  • Average Days to Pay - In Customer Maintenance, the system will calculate a customer’s Average Days to Pay based on a user specified setting (default 12 months). This allows the Average Days to Pay to be considered when extending credit.
  • Duplicate Customers / Vehicles - New ability to link a customer to a duplicate cash customer. This process will inactive the duplicate customer and link their history documents to the selected customer and allow them to be viewed from History in Order Entry.
  • A/R Statements - Branches can now have different statement logos for each branch. Please contact the Microhouse support desk for the intitial setup.
  • Customer Payment History - This new Accounts Receivable report displays your customer’s payments and how they have been applied to their A/R account.

• Suppliers
  • Supplier Maintenance - The Payment Supplier feature now allows a single payment to one supplier, that pays for multiple suppliers.
    • The individual suppliers can still be reconciled separately.
    • This feature is an option that can replace the existing COSTAR Invoicing Supplier function. When using the invoicing supplier all purchases are recorded under the single supplier. When using a payment supplier, the purchases are recorded under the actual supplier and it allows reconciliation of each supplier separately.
    • The system will create one payment for the payment supplier.
    • The new options for each supplier (Can be payee for multiple suppliers and A/P Cheque Prep will pay this supplier) can be set in Supplier Maintenance.

  • Cheque Reversal- This new user interface allows any outstanding cheques (Cheques which have not cleared the bank reconciliation) to be easily reversed.

  • Emailed remittance advice - The format of the email that is sent to suppliers as a remittance advice can be customised by going to Settings >> Accounting Setup >> Accounts Payable and clicking on Supplier EFT Payment Email Body.

• Purchasing
  • PO Work in Progress search - new Order Qty, Order $, Unfilled and Unfilled $ columns.
  • 4 decimal costs - Costs can now be entered with four(4) decimal places.
  • Supplier Terms - The supplier terms for an invoice can be changed directly on a Purchase Order (after entering a password).

• Inventory
  • Item Maintenance search - The Sale Price (if not suppressed) has been moved to the left of the Customer Price
  • Catalogue Check - The Sale Price (if not suppressed) has been moved to the left of the Customer Price
  • White List/Black List Rules- COSTAR now has the ability to allow (white list) and disallow (black list) items system-wide or configured for individual customers. Rules can apply to products, services, special items and packages.
  • Shared Inventory - If the SKU is empty, the SKU for each item is automatically populated with the item number when Day End is completed.

• Financials
  • New Receive Payment button that defaults to customer payment settings.
  • The Advanced search criteriais now hidden by default.
  • Bank Reconciliation - New setting called Date Increment Type that allows the Closing statement date to increment by either a Month or a Day.

• Enhanced Financials- The Income Statement and Balance Sheet financial reports can now report for multiple months within the same financial year.
  • Reports can be summarised, detailed by G/L Account or detailed by Branch.
  • The Activity variance percentage can be stated as a percentage of G/L type or as a percentage of Total Sales/Assets (i.e. vertical analysis).
  • The old versions of the Income Statements and Balance Sheet are still available and are called Legacy Income Statement, Legacy Balance Sheet and Legacy Income Statement/Budget.
  • New setting to turn off legacy reports id needed.
  • G/L Departments Maintenance - New menu that allows the maintenance for G/L departments.
  • G/L Divisions Maintenance - New menu that allows the maintenance for G/L divisions.

• Settings
  • Company / Branch Setup - New maintenance window for branch details. Allows for the maintenance of branch logos and hours.
  • Branch selections in reports can be set to report for ALL branches by default. The new setting is found in Settings >> Order Entry Options >> Integration2 >> Settings >. Reports.

• Database Views
  • All Documents - QOH, Committed, Available and On Order are now available as output fields
  • Customers - Increased number of selections available.

• Order Entry >> Invoices - Picking an invoice from another branch using Warehouse Locations now sends the invoice to be picked.
• Order Entry >> Customer Specifics - Entering an apostrophe into a specific value no longer causes an error.
• Customer Specifics and Deposits - Processing a deposit on an invoice with customer specifics no longer duplicates the specifics.
• Sales Reporting >> Sales Reports >> Sales Report >> Generic Sales Report - Removed the empty columns when Prepare and Export is used
• Sales Reporting >> Document History - All relevant vehicle details are now copied to each document when sold ensuring that the correct vehicle details are displayed in a history document.
• Appointments >> Appointment Scheduler - Promised field is now editable when a document is opened from the Appointment grid.
• Customers >> Customer Reports >> Web Order Report - no longer errors when using the Customer Group sort.
• Kits - re-ordering of the kits in Item Maintenance, Product Type Maintenance, Service Code Maintenance and Package Maintenance is now saved correctly.
• Inventory >> Inventory Reports >> WIP Details report - Wholesale Orders now display correct Quantities and Estimated Cost
• Inventory >> Inventory Reports >> WIP Summary report - Wholesale Orders now display correct Quantities and Estimated Cost
• Inventory >> Inventory Reports >> Price Lists >> Customer Price List - Price is now displaying correctly based on the relevant entries in the Customer Price Matrix
• Database Views >> Database Views >> Stock Counts Posted and Stock Counts - Unposted - Now correctly output the relevant data.

Version 4.5.16.10 (9th November 2015)

• Purchasing
• Fixes

Version 4.5.16 (27th October 2015)

• Sales Reporting
• Suppliers
• Fixes

Version 4.5.15.200 (10th September 2015)

• Sales Reports
• Suppliers
• Purchasing - Planned Orders
• Fixes

Version 4.5.15.170 (1st September 2015)

• Fixes

Version 4.5.15.130 (24th August 2015)

• Fixes

Version 4.5.15.90 (11th August 2015)

• Fixes

Version 4.5.15. (11th August 2015)

• Improced performance when opening documents
• Order Entry
• Sales Reporting
• Appointments
• Customers
  • New ability to set dedicated delivery methods (priced or un-priced) for when the selected customer is rebilled.
• Suppliers
• Purchasing
  • Option to confirm receipts can be switched on in Settings >> Inventory Setup >> General >> Purchase Orders and ticking the Confirm PO Receipts option.
• Inventory
  • Month End now automatically prepares an Inventory Valuation Summary Report
• New Pricing and Cost Rules
• Employees
• Financials
• Settings
• Database Views
• Fixes

Version 4.4.57 (January 12th 2015)

• Sales Reporting
• Customers
• Inventory
• Web Order

Version 4.4.56 (December 3rd 2014)

• Sales Reporting

• Customers

• Inventory

• Database Views

Version 4.4.53 (November 17th 2014)

• Order Entry

•  Inventory
• Financials
• Database Views

Version 4.4.51 (October 9th 2014)

• General
• Day End
• Appointments
• Customers
• Suppliers
• Inventory

Version 4.4.44 (September 16th 2014)

• Order Entry

Version 4.4.043 (September 10th 2014)

• Order Entry
• Appointments
• Customers

Version 4.4.037 (August 15th 2014)

• General

• Order Entry
  • There is a new Password and Event which allows the printing of Pro-forma invoices to be controlled by a password (or pin)
  • The Document Delivery Methods of the sell to customer are now used as well as the delivery methods of the Rebill customer.

• Sales Reporting
  • The Costar Sales Analysis Tool (previously found on the desktop) has now been incorporated into Costar and is opened by clicking on the Sales Analysis - Screen menu.

• Appointments

• Customers

• Customer Maintenance

• Purchasing

• Inventory

• Financials

• Database Views

Version 4.3.057 (June 24th 2014)

• Order Entry
  • Supplier Returns - The same credit note number can now no longer be entered for the same supplier more than once
• Inventory

Version 4.3.053 (May 14th 2014)

• Order Entry
• Inventory
• Settings
  • New setting that allows the logging and setting of a password for the selling of credit notes.

Version 4.2.111 (April 11th 2014)

• General
  • A New Look!
  • Dates are now using the Australasian format (dd/mm/yy)
  • Improved Network Management
• Order Entry
• Sales Reporting
• Appointments
  • Increase ability to customise the Appointment Scheduler
• Customers
• Suppliers
• Purchasing
• Inventory
• Employees
• Settings
  • Can now choose different colours for the Costar menu based on branch
• Database Views