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Major Changes
1. Interface level changes:
Voucher Type-wise different colors.
Font size increased for data entry and reports.
Inventory voucher data entry, Items tax summery will be shown in
the bottom of screen.
POS data entry screen, irrelevant grid columns will not be shown.
POS data entry, provision made to show Item Alias & MRP on grid
(configurable).
Provision made to show additional information of Masters at the
bottom of drop down list during data entry. Can be configured through
Masters Configuration.
2.

Configurable Party Dashboard Introduced.

Party Dashboard is a single screen presentation of a Party related data.
This dashboard is fully configurable with option to show Masters static
details, pending bills, transactions and summary. Multiple formats can be
created to show information in different formats. This Dashboard can be
invoked at the time of data entry when a master is selected. Different
formats can be tagged with different users and voucher types.
Configuration available through Features/Options Accounts
section.
3. Enquiry / Support Management modules provided. ( In Enterprise
Edition )
Complete tracking of Enquiry/Support calls including Call Receipt to Call
Allocation and then Call Report. For support calls, customers
Warranty/AMC can also be tracked. Can be enabled through
Features/Options Enquiry/Support Mgmt. section.
4. Schemes Management
Provided as required in FMCG & Retail segment. User can define different
schemes on the basis of Item qty. or voucher amount and specify various
benefits like discounted price and free quantity. Schemes once defined
will be applied automatically during voucher entry. Can be enabled
through Features/Options Inventory Section.
5. Indent Management ( In Enterprise Edition )
Material Requisition provided. Can be enabled from Feature/Options
Enterprise Features Tab. Indent can be raised from Material Centre

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and will be cleared when the required goods are received by Material
Centre.
6. Excise
Provision made to maintain both excise types (Manufacturing &
Trading) in a single company.
7. Brokerage calculation
Provision made to calculate brokerage on Payment/Receipt also. Till now
brokerage could be calculated on Sales/Purchase only.
8. Interest/Brokerage/Royalty
Provision made to post Interest/Brokerage/Royalty automatically in
accounts from report using F4 key.
9. Creation/Modification of multiple Accounts/Items/Contacts from
a single Creation/Modification of multiple Accounts/Items/Contacts from
a single screen. Available through AdministrationUtilities.
10. Registration of BUSY Serial No. with BIPL made compulsory.
If a Serial No. is not registered with us, a message will be prompted after
checking the dongle security and user will be asked to register himself
with BIPL.

Minor Changes
1. Provision made to specify Item price for both Main & Alt. unit separately.
Till now price could be specified for a single unit only.
2. Settlement details in vouchers, provision made to specify settlement
account during voucher saving instead of freezing them in configuration.
3. Provision made for Voucher/Master rejection (part of approval system).
4. Provision made to specify Party-wise interest rates. To be enabled
through Features/OptionsAccounts tab and then we can specify
interest rates in Party master.
5. Item critical levels could be defined for all MC only. Now provision made
to specify MC-wise also.

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6. Provision made to specify item parameter-wise critical levels and the
related reports. Can be defined as AdministrationUtilitiesItem
Parameter-wise critical levels.
7. Provision made to copy voucher from one voucher type to another (like
Sales to Purchase) at the time of voucher saving. Required in multi
branch scenario where Sale of one branch is Purchase for other branch.
Can be configured in voucher series configuration.
8. Copying of multiple vouchers from one voucher type to another (above
scenario) also provided through AdministrationBulk Updation.
9. Provision made to search Party details using full / partial name or Mobile
no or email address. Party will be searched in masters as well as in
vouchers separate Billing Details. Available through Query System as
well as through Billing Details window during data entry.
10. Separate Billing Details in voucher; while specifying Billing Details,
Party Name was specified first and then Address, Mobile No. & Email was
specified. Now provision made (in voucher series configuration) whether
to specify Party Name or Mobile No. or Email as first field and on the
basis of first field, the existing billing details will be searched and picked
automatically, if found in existing data. Useful in retail segment where
existing Party details are mostly searched through Mobile No.
11. Provision made to hide values of Items at transaction level also. Till
now it was available for reports only. Available through User
Management.
12. Back date entry restriction, it was always being checked from last
voucher date. Now provision made to check either from last voucher
date or from system date.
13. Provision made to tag Branch in opening Bill references of Party and
filter reports accordingly.

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14. Provision made to switch user without closing the company using
<CTRL+ALT+U> key.
15.

Changes related to Branch-wise Balance Sheet:

a. Provision made to specify stock value manually while generating

Balance Sheet for a Branch.
b. Branch-wise stock value and P&L value will be carried over to next
year.
c. While generating Balance Sheet for a Branch, stock was always being
updated from current stock status. Now it will be optional.
16.
Auto creation of Bill Ref. Group on the basis of Item Group/Material
Centre, provision made to specify default credit days with Item
Group/Material Centre. Till now credit days were always being picked
from
Party
master.
17.
Till now PDC having PDC date for next F.Y. could not be adjusted in
current F.Y. references. Now can be adjusted.
18. While modifying any Master/Voucher, its check list & approval details
are shown in the bottom of data entry form. Now on clicking on those
details, a report will pop up showing the complete history of current
Master/Voucher including check list details and approval details.
19.
Provision for printing of Copy Title (Original, Duplicate etc.) in
Receipt/Payment Advice/Dr Note & Cr Note also. Till now this option was
available inventory vouchers only.
20. Target management, provision made to specify incentive % also along
with targets and incentives will be calculated automatically while
generating target achieved report.
21.
Screen reports can summarized up to two levels now. Till now only
one level of summary was available. Also provision made to save
summary parameters and apply it next time when report is generated.

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22.
F.Y. splitting, till now only initial year could be split. Now option
provided either to split first year or last year.
23.

POS data entry screen provided for Orders/Quotation vouchers also.

24.
Warning Alarms, Dont Allow will be treated as Allow with warning
for Super User.
25. Provision made to capture Sale/Purchase related data in VAT related
accounting vouchers (Cr Note & Dr Note) so that the same can be
reflected in VAT reports.
26.

Provision for narration in Batch-wise details of items (configurable).

27.
Batch-wise stock, provision made at Item level whether to maintain
Expiry & Mfg. date or not. Till now if enabled in company configuration,
Expiry & Mfg. Date was being asked in all Items.
28. Master drop down list search improved. Now master can be searched
using multiple word hints. For example item Samsung TV LCD 52 Inch
can searched using LCD SAM or 52 LCD or LCD SAM or any other
combination.
29.
Voucher replication utility where vouchers are created automatically
with random amounts; provision made to round off voucher amounts.
30. Profitability reports, provision made to skip Stock Transfer
Sale/Purchase types.
31.
User management, option to allow price change extended. Till now if
price change was disallowed for a user, it was being applied in all
vouchers. Now we can specify voucher types for which price change is
not allowed.

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32.
While changing parent group of a master, option provided to change
the group in other financial years also.
33.
While changing Master Series Group for any Account/Item Group,
option provided to apply new Master Series Group to all child of current
group.
34.
While creating invoice from challan or importing inventory vouchers,
check for negative stock was not there even if same was being set to
Not allowed in warning configuration. Now this check will be applied.
35.
Bill reference feeding and creating a New Ref., till now if Ref. No.
already existed then it was not being accepted. Now a message will be
shown asking user whether to Append it to the existing Ref No.
36.
Changing F.Y., masters whose balances were being carried over were
being shown as modified in New Year which was creating confusion. Now
changing of F.Y. will not be shown as modification in next year.
37.
Caption of TDS made configurable as in some countries requirement
for TDS is same with different name like With Holding Tax (WHT).
38.
Exporting any report in text format, numeric figures were being
exported with currency separators. Now it will be exported without
currency separators. Also the data fields were being enclosed in double
quotes. Now it has been made optional (whether to enclose data in
double quotes or not).
39. Bill-wise Statement, provision made to show No. of Day for which a
bill is pending.
40. Broker-wise outstanding reports enhanced and same options
provided as in Bills Receivable report.

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41.
Physical stock voucher with sub details like Batch/MRP/Parameter, it
was not allowed to specify stock more than the book stock. Now it is
allowed.
42. Document printing, provision made to print barcode of any field using
tag #BC.
43. Backup configuration, option provided to force backup at the time of
closing company.
44. Separate Billing Details, provision made to specify party drug license
no. also.
45.
Item details printing in reports configuration, provision made to print
either Item Name/Alias/Print Name.
46.
Auto voucher numbering enabled, if any voucher is fed in back date
then a message will pop up telling user that it might disturb your
voucher numbering.
47.
Data restoration, while overwriting existing company Super-user
credentials were being asked. Now provision made in user rights to allow
company overwrite during restore.
48. Bank Reconciliation, provision made to clear multiple vouchers with a
single command.
49.

Provision for Item Description in Auto Generation of Item Print Name.

50.
Regenerate Dual Voucher utility, provision made to specify date
range also for the vouchers to be regenerated.
51. Invoice configuration, <LIST_PRICE_TOTAL> field was not available in
Items body c/o and b/d sections. Now made available.

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Statutory Changes
1. Excise Form-IV provided.
2. Service Tax eReturn provided.
3. Minor changes in Service Tax Summary report.
4. Provision made to consider Sale/Purchase Return in Forms Receivable /
Issuable reports.
5. UP Entry Tax Form-C eReturn provided.
6. Rajasthan e-Requisition (Form-H & VAT-15) provided.
7. Dadra & Nagar Haveli VAT eReturn provided.
8. Minor changes in West Bengal Annexure-E.