Version 10.3 includes numerous improvements to Inventory Assemblies, multiple Alternate Product IDs, a new Apply Credits function for Sales Invoices, and a unified installer for international QuickBooks editions. You can learn more about the improvements in Version 10.3 by watching a recording of our What’s New in 10.3 webinar.
There were over 125 improvements, but just a few highlights:
- Create Inventory Assemblies based on Inventory requirements in Business Alerts
- Create Inventory Assemblies from Sales Orders via Sales Order or Order Manager windows
- Improved support for multiple lot numbers for assembly components
- Multiple Alternate Product IDs for each product to better support multiple sales channels / web stores
- Apply Credits function to apply existing credit(s) to a new Sales Invoice in Acctivate
- Include Level 2/3 data for Credit Card processing with Authorize.net and QuickBooks Merchant Service (QBMS)
- Process EDI now supports FTP to transfer files to/from an EDI Service Provider
- Latest Crystal Reports run-time engine with new, improved Report Preview window
- Single installer for all QuickBooks international editions
Version 10.3 (Build 4843) was generally available on November 28, 2017. Please read our update instructions or visit the Downloads page.
The full release notes are listed below:
| Component | Summary |
|---|---|
| Business Activity | Ability to search (“Look For”) and re-sort Business Activities on Activities Tab of numerous windows |
| Business Activity | Business Activity columns are sized incorrectly after maximizing the Acctivate window. |
| Configuration | Configuration Management needs to be selected twice to open if other windows open |
| Configuration | Fix crash when minimizing/maximizing config mgr with warehouse location panel visible. |
| Configuration | When assigning printers in Report Config, assignment may go to the wrong report. |
| Create Company | “Object variable or With block variable not set” when Copying invoices from QuickBooks with no lines |
| Create Company | Out of Memory error may occur during Copying Invoices stage of Create Company |
| Create Company | Vendor Bills and Journal Entries from QuickBooks are unnecessarily included in Create Company sync |
| Create Company | Company creation may fail during “Copying invoices” with “Unexpected error. Check the “qbsdklog.txt” file for possible additional information.” |
| Customer | User permission for Customer Ship-to information |
| Customer | Some Canadian addresses may be changed to match a “California” address |
| Customer | No response when clicking “View Location” on the customer ship to notes tab |
| Database Maintenance | “Conversion from type ‘DBNULL’ to type ‘Date’ is not valid.” error returned when restoring a backup from a newer version of SQL |
| Database Maintenance | Backup/Restore gets the file path from the “ACCTIVATE” database when another server hosts company database(s) |
| Database Maintenance | Database Info and Database Sources windows do not match Acctivate theme |
| Database Maintenance | “Error updating index statistics: Timeout expired” may occur at end of database update |
| Demo Company | Reload Demo data may silently exit without loading the demo data |
| EDI | Sales order displays incorrect 850 Import Date on EDI tab of sales order |
| EDI | Warning when EDI Customer Purchase Order appears to have already been imported |
| EDI | Include Carrier Service in the Shipment row of the Advanced Shipping Notice (856) export |
| EDI | Support for sending and receiving EDI transactions using FTP versus local folders |
| EDI | “Cannot change scheduled qty on top-level line of assortment” may be received when importing in from EDI |
| EDI | Sales Order default Ship Via not set for EDI orders when the ShipVia value doesn’t match a valid Acctivate ShipVia |
| EDI | Add configuration option to enable warnings if product on EDI order is inactive. |
| EDI | Exp Date set to 1/1/1900 for imported 945 warehouse shipment on lot without expiration date |
| General | International one-line addresses may be parsed incorrectly |
| General | Maximum licensed users keeps Acctivate process running |
| General | “Object variable or With block variable not set” error in OpenWindows when logging into Acctivate |
| General | Prevent opening new window when GDI resources are running low |
| General | Column sorting in some grids (Lookup and Customer Products) does not sort all rows if partial word matches exist |
| Help | Pressing F1 to display help in Inventory Adjustments displays wrong article |
| Import | Product Component may delete components when cancelling import |
| Import | Unexpected error from external database driver (1). importing from Excel |
| Import | “System.OutOfMemoryException” or “System.IO.FileLoadException: Could not load file or assembly …” may be received during Sales Order Import of 10,000 orders |
| Import | Cannot import multiple vendor prices for a singular product ID. |
| Import | Product Import in US (Non-VAT) version of Acctivate includes “Purchase Tax Code” field. |
| Installation | Single QuickBooks edition of Acctivate that connects to US, Canada, UK and Australia (Reckon) |
| Installation | Installer may not be able to validate login when behind a web proxy that requires authentication |
| Installation | Downgrade to USP10.DLL located in ClientFiles folder if it exists for Crystal Reports font issues |
| Installation | Hide legacy “previous installation has not completed yet” warning during install |
| Inventory | Lot number field on the assembly window only allows for 25 characters but other windows allow 40 characters |
| Inventory | FIFO Layers created from negative receipts may include more than two decimal places for the amount |
| Inventory | Automatically generate inventory assemblies based on inventory requirements |
| Inventory | Prompt to split Inventory Assembly component line when more than one lot is required |
| Inventory | Option to Require Warehouse Bin/Locations when posting inventory transactions |
| Inventory | Notes added to a saved Track and Trace session are not saved. |
| Inventory | Act Qty is 0 on a split assembly transaction for a custom assembly with components marked as variable. |
| Inventory | Add assembly product column to Inventory Assemblies transaction drop-down |
| Inventory | Inventory Track and Trace may not show the “To Warehouse” part of a transfer |
| Inventory | When using the Split Transaction button, the new session created should be for the Completed Quantity, not the Work in Process Quantity. |
| Inventory | Refresh button does not refresh the Trace for Track and Trace |
| Inventory | Edit > Undo on an existing Inventory Transfer deletes the session from the database. |
| Inventory | “Invalid Column name ‘Exchange Rate'” error returned when trying to void transactions in Cyma Version of Acctivate |
| Inventory | Invoicing Should Not Update Last Cost |
| Landed Cost | Landed Cost Should Not Update Last Cost |
| License | “Conversion from type ‘DBNull’ to type ‘String’ is not valid” may occur when starting Acctivate for the first time |
| Login | Acctivate closes after selecting “No” when asked whether the user really wants to exit Acctivate |
| Lookup | “Loading …” never completes in lookup windows, and “Cannot find … “dbo.fnContainsScore10″” is logged |
| Lookup | Customer Lookup window filter text may not apply to results when opened too quickly |
| Lookup | “Ambiguous column name ‘GUIDInvoice’.” received when using the Product ID or Product Description options on the Customer Invoice window. |
| Lookup | Display Choose Product window when duplicate Alternate Product IDs exist for more than one product |
| Mobile | Support for scanning Quantity using Application Identifier 30 |
| Mobile | Option for Mobile PO Receipts to use either the stocking unit or purchasing unit |
| Mobile | Add support to Mobile Picking for scanning barcodes containing net weight for lot or serial numbers (Application Identifiers 310 and 320) |
| Mobile | Duplicate serial numbers may be picked when using Mobile Picking |
| Mobile | Use Report Description for Mobile Receipts “Print Put-Away List” option |
| Mobile | Acctivate mobile installer may fail with “Could not open Url: https://…/AcctHandheld/Client/CabList.txt Error Number: 12045” |
| Notes | Track and Trace Note Tab missing ‘New, Delete, Edit’ buttons |
| Notes | User is prompted to save unsaved data on new notes when choosing to delete the note |
| Product | Multiple Alternate Product IDs with conversions for sales and purchase orders |
| Product | Empty row cannot be inserted. Row must have at least one column value set entering supplier name |
| Product | Hide Variable checkbox from product component tab when not applicable for BOM |
| Purchasing | Using enter key on detail lines causes cursor to move to a higher row of lengthy PO’s. |
| Purchasing | Purchase Order Line Numbers may be duplicated after adding an item to an existing PO then scrolling up |
| Purchasing | Multiple inventory receipts and vendor bills for a PO line are now sorted by date for matching to update Unit Cost |
| Purchasing | “Row handle referred to a deleted row or a row marked for deletion.” exception received selecting ‘Undo’ on Purchase Order |
| Purchasing | PO Invoice does not update unit cost on transfers posted between receipt and invoice for serialized/lot controlled items |
| Purchasing | Prior Period Adjustments may be calculated incorrectly for lot or serial-numbered items using actual cost method |
| Purchasing | “Cannot delete PO Line with unposted receipt session” may appear after attempting to remove a product from PO after voiding inventory receipt session |
| Purchasing | Typing Vendor Product ID on PO Sets Quantity to 1 |
| Registration | Acctivate window theme may be lost after opening Register Acctivate window |
| Reports | Include spaces between words from database field names for Report Selection Prompts |
| Reports | Product Summary by Period report doesn’t include Landed Cost in the Adjustments Amount formula |
| Reports | Update Crystal Reports to latest version |
| Reports | File names exported from Crystal Reports are always lower case |
| Reports | Orders.SoldToAddress may include a space for International Addresses |
| Reports | Assembly Work Order Report formatting incorrect for non Assembly (Process) items. |
| Reports | Use Paper Size from Crystal Report (RPT) file instead of printer settings |
| Reports | SalesOrderSummaryChart.rpt has an incorrect record selection formula. |
| Sales Order | Sales Order Detail lines are removed after receiving “[fOrder].[gOrderDetails_RowLoaded]:is missing a GUIDOrderDetail on line 3, subline 0 on order ”.” |
| Sales Order | Sales Orders from EDI cannot be invoiced if Sales/COGS accounts are selected by Sales Category |
| Sales Order | “Sheridan.Data.Widgets Product is not installed properly …” may appear when adding lines to a sales order |
| Sales Order | Clicking off of and back onto the Sales Order window will reset the grid to line 1 |
| Sales Order | Prompt to apply existing customer payments and/or credits (from QuickBooks) when creating a new customer invoice in Acctivate |
| Sales Order | Function to automatically generate inventory assemblies from the Sales Order and Order Manager windows |
| Sales Order | International Address parses incorrectly |
| Sales Order | Add PO and On Hand Qty to Kit components window |
| Sales Order | Allow alternate units of measure to be selected on a sales order for Labor, Shipping and Other Charges |
| Sales Order | Option to clear Credit Approval on a Sales Order, putting it back on hold |
| Sales Order | Provide sales order/invoice level 2 and 3 data to Authorize.net or QuickBooks Merchant Service (QBMS) |
| Sales Order | Invalid Product ID message may prevent opening Choose Product window |
| Sales Order | “Multiple-step operation…” occurs when invoicing an order after upgrading to 10.2 |
| Sales Order | Cannot find Product or Warehouse, Order (order number), Line Number 1 when attempting to invoice order. |
| Sales Order | Add GUIDRelatedOrder and RelatedOrderNumber to the Orders data view for Credit Memos linked to Orders |
| Sales Order | Sales Order entry grid may not validate input after using the Choose Product window for a non-standard line |
| Sales Order | Various errors from Sales Order entry grid before Line Type is selected |
| Sales Order | Add lot and serial numbers from special order PO receipts to linked sales order lines |
| Sales Order | Product ID on Special Order PO can be changed. |
| Sales Order | Unable to enter Ship To Comment longer than 50 characters on Customer and Order windows |
| Sales Order | Allow user to change and remember the size of grid for components window. |
| Sales Order | Sales Order grid copies PrQty/Weight from original order when order is copied with Lot/Weight |
| Sales Order Import | “Either BOF or EOF is True…” received on Sales Order Import when importing Non-Standard Drop Ship line on order. |
| Sales Order Import | Import lot/serial numbers (new column) via Sales Order Import from Excel/CSV |
| Synchronization | Before recreating payment records in QuickBooks, verify the record doesn’t already exist in QuickBooks with a different internal Txn ID |
| User Interface | Right-click menu in File Open dialog has no text |
| User Interface | Unable to scroll using scroll bars in report preview window. |
| User Interface | Update Codejock user interface components to Version 18.0.1 and Skin Framework 16.3.1 |
| User Interface | Include sales order custom fields in Order Manager column chooser |
| Web Store | Magento default mapping maps both discount at header and detail level |
| Web Store | WooCommerce may return “Information from server: woocommerce_rest_cannot_view: Sorry, you cannot list resources” |
| Web Store | Update Magento order status to “Processing” after downloading into Acctivate and “Complete”when invoiced |
| Web Store | Preview xml output on web store configuration screens |
| Web Store | Speed up sync by refreshing log every ten lines after a thousand lines |
| Web Store | ASPdotNetStoreFront webstore error “XML declaration must be the first node in the document” |