What's New
Part Cost Control
Part Cost Control is a new feature that gives you greater control over how part costs are recorded and flagged during receiving and invoicing. The following capabilities have been added:
Control when the last cost on a part gets updated, so the part record retains the normal purchase cost from the vendor.
A warning system that alerts you when the cost you enter differs significantly from the current cost on the part, helping you catch potential data entry mistakes.
Ability to enter discounted costs in Vendor Receiving (VR), the same way you can in Vendor Invoicing (VI), making it easier to reconcile your VR against an actual vendor invoice.
Ability to go directly from Vendor Receiving to Vendor Invoicing when receiving from an actual invoice. See Completing the Vendor Receiving and Vendor Invoicing together (no longer available) for details.
For full details on this feature, see Part Cost Control Explained.
DP360
Units shown in DP360 will now be automatically updated to inactive when the unit has been invoiced out on a Customer Order Unit Deal in Blackpurl. If you would like sold units removed from your DP360, please contact us directly.
Fulfilling Special Order Requirements from Vendor Receiving
When a Customer Order Special Order requirement is fulfilled directly from a Vendor Receiving, an internal comment is now automatically generated in the Customer Order Internal Comments section. The comment records the details of the fulfillment so you have a clear audit trail on the Customer Order.
Updated Tax Detail Report
The Tax Detail Report has been significantly updated to better support dealerships with a large number of defined tax rates. The changes include:
When you open the Tax Detail Report, it now automatically displays the parameter and filter section first, prompting you to define the date range and report criteria before results load.
All transactions that include taxes are now covered by this report, including Unit Invoices, Vendor Returns, and Unit Cost Adjustments for both vendor-specific and customer-specific scenarios.
You can now select which Tax Type to include on the report: Selling, Purchasing, or All.
Within Selling or Purchasing, you can select which specific tax rates to include. The report only lists tax rates that were actually used within the selected date range, so you would only need to adjust this filter if you want to focus on one or a few specific rates.
Non-taxable transactions and non-taxable line items on transactions are now included in the report results.
The date filter still defaults to the last fully completed month, but you can now select a date range of up to three months to support quarterly reporting.
The report has been reformatted so that taxes appear as line items rather than columns. If a transaction has three different taxes applied, those taxes appear as three separate line items. Only tax rates used within the selected date range are listed.
The sidebar now shows totals only for the tax rates that appear in the report results. This means that even if your system has a large number of defined tax rates, the sidebar stays focused on the rates relevant to the reporting period, giving you quick access to taxable and tax amounts for each rate used.
When you export or preview the report as a CSV or PDF, the records are automatically grouped by tax rate.
For further information on this report, see Reporting - Tax Detail (no longer available).
Tax Invoices for Service Jobs
The Plate# field from the Unit Record is now included on Tax Invoices for Service Jobs.
New User Permissions
New User Permissions have been added based on dealership feedback. The new permissions allow you to:
Restrict the ability to view the Customer Order Profitability tool.
Restrict the ability to view or modify commissions on Customer Order Unit Deals.
Restrict the ability to adjust store credits on customer records.
Restrict the ability to set a Customer Order Unit Deal to approved.
Apply more granular controls to System Settings sections, defining who can see which settings.
The permissions listing has also been reorganized to better align with permission groupings. For further information, see User Permissions in Blackpurl Reference.
Deal Unit Tax Control Option
Previously, only parts, labor, and sublet deal unit options were taxed based on the Applicable Tax indicated on the Unit Deal. A new optional toggle now lets you specify that all deal unit options — including fees that previously controlled their own tax rates — should be taxed based on the Applicable Tax selected for the unit.
For further information, see Unit Deal Tax Options on a Customer Order.
Preferred Payments
The timeout modal window for Preferred Payments has been updated with clearer messaging. When a payment times out, the modal now explicitly states that Blackpurl will not record the payment and that you must cancel the transaction on the terminal.
What's Improved
Improved the user interface on the Job Clocking and Payroll Clocking screens, addressing dropdown selection issues, alignment and overlapping issues, a loading issue, and a global search UI glitch.
Updated the BRP Integration: resolved a service history API issue and fixed a UI issue with expanding and collapsing articles.
Resolved an issue when adding users from the front end.
Resolved an issue where a Customer Order failed to load after selecting a customer with a large number of Customer Owned Units (COU).
Resolved excessive SOQL errors occurring when a Vendor Receiving (VR) had more than one hundred line items.
Completed a script to update DP360 units to inactive for existing sold units.
Resolved an error — "List has no rows for assignment to SObjects" — on commit receiving when the related vendor had no default Purchase Order (PO) type.
Resolved an issue where the Apply button was not working in reports.
Resolved a formatting issue where phone numbers on customer invoices were not displaying according to the customer's country.
Resolved an issue where payments could be accepted twice when the customer view screen was open in two different browser tabs simultaneously.
Resolved an issue where the Accounts Receivable (AR) payment list was incorrectly shown on the customer deposit window.
Corrected the accounting entries posted for cost adjustments to align with the actual adjustment made to the part.
Resolved a Dymo print issue where label template XML files were not available.
Resolved an issue where users could not view all locations in location management when a very large number of locations were defined.
Resolved a missing Add Financing action on newly created deals with temporary units.
Resolved an issue on the Special Order Summary report where transactions of the "Service" sale type were not being included.
Resolved a date selection issue in reports that occurred after a date range had already been selected.
Resolved a delay in displaying unit information on a deal.
Resolved an Automated Price File Import error when the Shopify integration is enabled.
Removed the reference to MYOB AccountRight in the Accounting Integration setup screen.
Resolved an issue with deal option status when adding a fee to a deal after invoicing a deal service.
Resolved an issue where customers deactivated in Blackpurl were not being made inactive and archived in Xero.
Resolved an issue that allowed a new count session to add a part that was already included in an active count session.
Resolved an alignment issue for the printed and emailed Bill of Sale.
Resolved an issue when working with factory options for a deal temporary unit where users could not see all values on a line item without excessive horizontal scrolling.
Released mapped forms for specific dealerships. Relevant dealerships have been notified directly.