What's New
Consignment Units
Blackpurl now supports consignment units, giving dealerships the ability to manage customer-owned units through the sales process with proper accounting treatment.
Flag Customer Owned Units as Consignment and set a selling price and agreed payout amount
Include Consignment Units in Unit Inventory Reports
Sell Consignment Units on Customer Order unit deals
For dealerships with accounting integration, a credit memo is automatically posted to the consignment customer's account for the agreed payout amount
For full details, see Consignment Units: Adding and Selling.
Invoice Detail Report Update
The Invoice Detail Report has been updated with two improvements.
The Include in Profitability setting on fee codes is now applied correctly when generating the report
A new Summary by Invoice filter option is now available
For full details, see Reporting - Invoice Detail Report (no longer available).
ARI PartSmart 10
The Import from PartSmart functionality now supports picklists generated by PartSmart version 10.
For full details, see Import a Picklist into Blackpurl.
Supersession
The automatic view related modal window now auto-selects the most current supersession when the selected part has been superseded.
For full details, see Parts Supersessions and Alternate Parts.
What's Improved
This release includes the following corrections and improvements.
Improvement — The Price File list in the Automated Price Files tool is now sorted alphabetically
Correction — Customer Order Picklist now correctly handles line items that have been partially received
Correction — Customer Invoice Reporting now correctly handles profitability calculations relating to trade-ins
Improvement — Help text on the Customer Deposit GL has been updated to be more informative
Resolved — Line item pricing was not being recalculated correctly when the Service Job type is changed
Correction — The mileage field was not being populated correctly on data feeds (updated at the request of the FTP company)
Resolved — Invoice totals were incorrect when the invoice included a non-inventory part item
Resolved — Discrepancies between Vendor Invoice line item amounts and amounts posted to the accounting package, caused by two different calculations being applied to Vendor Invoice lines
Correction — An additional issue with duplicate parts on data feeds (affecting one dealership only)
Released — Custom Forms that have been mapped and made available to dealerships
Improvement — Scripting has been developed to match existing Blackpurl customers and vendors to Xero customers and vendors, to assist with new activations
Correction — Unit inventory reports were not applying the status filter selected by the user
Correction — User-selected filters for the Invoice Detail Report were not being saved when creating a custom report