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Design Release Notes

This release includes both new features and improvements.

• New Feature! Default Purchasing Tax Code added to Tax types
• New Feature! Database switching reflected across applications
• New Report! Profitability Report – Profit based on Profit Centres
• Improvements to the DynaSCAPE Manage/QuickBooks linkage
• Improvements to Supplier Invoice management
• Improvements to Customer Invoicing

New Feature!  Default Purchasing Tax Code added to Tax types
A new option has been added to the Tax types – Default Purchasing Tax Code.  This Default Purchasing Tax Code can be assigned as the default tax that was paid when the item was bought, as opposed to the standard tax which is what is being charged to the customer.

This item can be viewed on the Price List item (Inventory tab). It can also be changed for several items using the Price List Batch Update wizard.

New Feature! Database switching reflected across DynaSCAPE Quote/Manage and DynaSCAPE Design

When switching between databases on DynaSCAPE Quote/Manage or DynaSCAPE Design the currently active database will be synchronized between the applications (Quote/Manage and Design).  This resolves the potential issue of labelling a drawing in Design and importing it into Quote/Manage under a different database.

New Report!  Profitability Report

This report is available from the Reports → DynaSCAPE Reporting menu option. It can be found under the Contract Summary – Construction section. This report can be broken down by Division or Profit Center and displays estimated and actual Costs, Revenue, Profit and Margin.

Improvements to the DynaSCAPE Manage/QuickBooks linkage

Improvements have been made to the QuickBooks module:

• Customer information is passed through to QuickBooks when Supplier Invoices are synchronized
• Posting Timesheets to QuickBooks when QuickBooks is used for payroll.

Improved error handling provides more detailed error information that may occur during synchronization (a log file is written to the installation directory in the Accounting folder).

General Improvements

Supplier Invoice improvements:

• When new Supplier Invoices are created, Manage will check if the invoice number is already being used for a particular Supplier.  This can prevent individual suppliers from having invoices with duplicate numbers.
• The status of New Supplier Invoices default to ‘Outstanding’ instead of ‘Inactive’ allowing for more efficient tracking of these invoices.

Customer Invoice improvements:

• Determination of the taxes for Customer Invoices:
• Single Line Invoices
• If all taxes on the Contract are the same then that tax will be used.
• If there are multiple taxes on the Contract then the Customer default tax will be used.
• Summary Invoices
• If all taxes on the Contract are the same then that tax will be used.

If there are multiple taxes on the Contract then the Customer default tax will be used.