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What's New in Blackpurl — Release 2.47

A summary of new features, improvements, and bug fixes introduced in Blackpurl release 2.47, including reporting, integrations, and settings updates.

What's New

Unreceived Vendor Order (VO) Items Report

Blackpurl has introduced a new report to help dealerships manage individual items on unreceived Vendor Orders (VOs). The report lists all parts that have not yet been received, who they were needed by, when they were ordered, and when they are expected.

  • Track outstanding parts and identify what is on backorder

  • Chase up vendors on overdue orders

  • Get a clear view of ordering status across the dealership

For further information, see Reporting - Unreceived VO Items (no longer available).
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BRP Integration — Integrated Parts Master

For dealerships that are BRP dealers with BRP Integration set up, Blackpurl now supports fully automated part number and pricing updates from BRP.

  • The system checks for updates nightly and applies them automatically

  • Tags are automatically applied to part records based on the BRP Product Line Code (for example: ATV, snowmobile) — parts can receive multiple tags based on BRP data

  • Optional mapping of BRP categories to Blackpurl categories is now available — BRP uses three categories: parts, accessories, and clothing

For further information, see BRP Integration (no longer available).
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Accounting Integration Changes

Several changes have been made to how Blackpurl sends data to your accounting application.
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Vendor Receiving journal entries
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Journal entries for vendor receiving are now summarized by General Ledger (GL) account. This significantly reduces the number of line items posted to your accounting application.
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Vendor Invoice entries
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Line items on vendor invoices sent to your accounting application are now also summarized by GL account, reducing the volume of line items included with each vendor invoice.
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General Ledger account restrictions

  • Blackpurl now enforces GL account restrictions that match those imposed by QuickBooks and Xero, preventing users from accidentally mapping to a GL account that Blackpurl is not permitted to post entries to.

  • For Xero: any GL account selected for Customer Deposits must have the "Enable Payments" flag turned on in Xero. If this flag is not enabled, that GL account cannot be selected for Customer Deposits in Blackpurl.

SOM Integration

Two improvements have been made to the SOM integration.

  • Third-party claims are now transmitted to SOM when the claim is submitted. Previously, claim information was not sent until the third-party job was invoiced.

  • Committed quantities are now included in the daily part inventory information sent to SOM.

Settings & Control — Auto-Select Orders in Part Receiving

A new Settings & Control option lets dealerships choose whether Vendor Orders are automatically selected in the Part Receiving screen. By default, this setting is disabled, meaning VOs will not be automatically selected and users must manually choose which VOs to receive against.
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To enable auto-selection of VOs in the Part Receiving screen, navigate to System Settings > Settings & Control > Shop Settings > Auto-select orders in Part Receiving and enable the setting.
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Shows the Settings & Controls page with various setting categories listed on the left side including APP SETTINGS, TAX S


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Part Record — Active Vendor Orders Section

The Active Vendor Orders listing on Part Records now shows who each part is being ordered for. This change helps eliminate confusion between the quantity on order shown for the part and the actual list of vendor orders related to it.
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What's Improved

Release 2.47.0

  • Resolved — extra page breaks appearing in the Service Worksheet document

  • Resolved — issues selecting some time blocks when scheduling a technician onto an appointment

  • Correction — packaged parts not being handled properly when calculating the line item total in vendor invoicing

  • Correction — printed and exported versions of the Invoice Detail report not obeying the "Summary by invoice" filter setting

  • Correction — SOM inventory file sometimes containing an additional duplicate list including headers

  • Correction — sync failures caused by the recalculate pricing option improperly setting the tax amount on some fee line items

  • Change — User Interface (UI) adjustments to the unit entity card formatting

  • Change — minor UI adjustments for tag management, user permissions page header, email approval window, unit adjustment scrolling, unit price and cost tracking, and alignment on the deposit document

  • Resolved — parts reports not always populating the "Replaced By" column correctly

  • Correction — GL accounts not always appearing in the add/edit category screen

  • Release — forms released for specific dealerships

Release 2.47.1

  • Resolved — Part Type not always saving the user-selected value when adding a new part

  • Resolved — third-party jobs for inventory units not properly calculating sales tax on claims

  • Improvement — notification email now sent to the Blackpurl development team when FTP errors are encountered

  • Resolved — default mileage type not being applied when creating customer-owned units

  • Resolved — units with a large number of price and cost adjustment entries could not be added to a deal

  • Resolved — customer address on customer invoices wrapping to a new line due to length

  • Correction — scheduler issue for the BRP GetPartsMaster API scheduling

  • Release — next batch of forms released for specific dealerships

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