Multi-Currency Purchase Orders are not on everyone’s Christmas list. But for those select few whose list it is on, Christmas has come early. MultiTAS v6.2 has been released this week after 7 months of work and the odd sweary word. This blog post has a wee rundown of features and improvements that it contains. Inevitably there is probably also a bug or 2, if you find any please report to Support.
Multi-Currency Purchase Orders (Entry/Receiving/Invoicing)
You can now create a multi-currency purchase order (P/O) in any of the currencies that TASBooks supports (which is most of them). You can then receive the goods from this P/O and invoice the P/O – all in the currency of the Suppliers Invoice, and these amounts together with the base currency values are what are posted to the Suppliers Account.
This ‘closes’ the multi-currency (multi-currency sales orders and multi-currency purchase orders) adventure Infoplex has been on for a number of years. Initially we added these features to Sales Orders and now they have been added to Purchase Orders. As a reminder, we added support for Supplier Pricelists and Multiple Stock Locations to Purchase Orders in v6 and v6.1 so those adventures have green ticks against them too.
Other Improvements
- 95% of customers use Outlook for emailing documents from MultiTAS. But there are the hardcore 5% who for whatever reason do not. We’ve made improvements for these customers by changing the component used to MailKit which appears to handle the security requirements of modern email systems better than the component built into Windows that we were using.
- For this same subset of customers, when emailing the cc and bcc fields now handle multiple addresses separated by a semi-colon.
- When entering Sales Orders, if you remove a product from Back Order MultiTAS will check to see if the Cost Price of the product has changed. If so you’ll be asked what you want to do (keep existing/update).
- When producing Sales Order documents, if there are no lines to be shipped then MultiTAS will not produce a document.
- The Location Stock Report now has a ‘Negative Stock Only’ option.
- When receiving a P/O and GMVs are not used, the database transactions involved are wrapped into a single one. This means if one part of the process (e.g. invoicing) fails then the receiving part will not be committed to the system.
- A new system has been introduced that allows MTADIF.dat Journal Import files to contain foreign currency values that MultiTAS converts to base currency values when importing. For this to work your journal import file must be called MTADIF-E.dat. MultiTAS will look for that file first, if not found and a MTADIF.dat file is found that will be imported instead. If neither is found then Error Town here we come.
Notable Bug Fixes (not all!)
- Fixed issue when emailing multiple P/O’s to the same supplier.
- Fixed various issues with VAT when entering Purchase Orders and producing P/O documents.
- Fixed issues with discounts on Purchase Order lines (who even gets a discount from suppliers?)
- When entering a Purchase Order, the Suppliers outstanding orders value was not updated – it is now
- Fixed an issue when posting Credit Notes where the ‘Update Stock’ flag was ignored
So, there you have it. MultiTAS 6.2 is available for download now.
If updating from v5 (or – gulp – earlier) you will need to remove the existing version of MultiTAS you have before updating to v6. If you already have v6 then you can skip this step and install over the top of your version. Please remember you will need to have a valid support contract to update to this version that adds Multi-Currency Purchase Orders. If you do not currently have one please get in touch as we may have a Christmas offer available to help you out.