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Blackpurl Release Notes — Financed Deals, Trade Plate Transfer, and More

This release adds new features for financed unit deals, trade plate transfers, insurance fields, and reporting improvements, plus a wide range of bug fixes.

What's New

Customer Orders > Unit Deals — Financed Deals

Several significant changes have been made to financed unit deals in Customer Orders. Full details are covered in the linked article: Add Deal Financing to a Unit Deal. These changes were requested by a number of dealerships. Review the linked article carefully, and contact your Blackpurl Support team if you have questions.
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Deal Trade Plate Transfer

Blackpurl now lets you transfer the plate or registration number from a trade-in unit to the newly purchased unit. A new section appears in the Trade In area of a Unit Deal. This option is not available on trade-in-only customer orders.
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This shows a trade-in section form with several fields. In the top left is 'Trade-in 1' with a 'Remove trade-in' link. B


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Insurance Information on Unit Deals

You can now record a customer's vehicle insurance information directly on a unit deal. The insurance fields accept free text up to 40 characters each. Any details entered in these fields will appear on the Bill of Sale and Offer to Purchase documents. Leave the fields blank if you do not need to record insurance information.
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Deal Financing Company Details on Deal Documents

For financed unit deals (Customer Orders > Unit Deals — Finance), the finance company's account number and phone number now appear on the Bill of Sale and Offer to Purchase documents. These details are pulled from the Vendor Record for the finance company.
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Dealer Number for Forms

A new Dealer Number field is now available under System Settings > Settings & Controls > App Settings. Your dealership can store its dealer number in this field for use on dealer forms as required.
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Updated Tax Detail Report

The Tax Detail Report now excludes internal invoices by default. To include internal invoices in the report, remove the tick from the relevant checkbox in the report options.
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Updated DP360 Sync

The DP360 sync has been updated to include the option of syncing consignment stocked units.
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New Vendor Order Export — Honda (USA)

A new Vendor Order (VO) export file format is now available for Honda (USA). For instructions on exporting a vendor order, see Vendor Order Export Formats: Assign and Create Custom Formats.
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Changes to Stock Unit Valuation Report

The Stock Unit Valuation report can now be back-dated to a specific day. The report will return unit valuations for all units that were in stock on that date. For more information, see Reporting - Stock Unit Valuation (no longer available).
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What's Improved

  • Improved the timezone dropdown in App Settings under Settings & Controls.

  • Improved how the customer order section expand/collapse behaves.

  • Changed the vendor order export format for BossWeb to remove decimal places from quantities.

  • Corrected FX/LCA handling to support other negative charges on vendor invoices. Also corrected the modal window to show the correct inventory cost calculation.

  • Resolved an issue in the Active Unit Deals report where it incorrectly displayed "multiple units" when only one unit was being sold.

  • Resolved an issue in the Part Count tool where the location supplied by the import file was not always shown in the issues-to-resolve list.

  • Resolved an issue where the Technician Hours report would not load for a specific technician.

  • Resolved an issue where a user could resolve an oversold in multiple browser tabs simultaneously, causing duplicate actions.

  • Resolved an issue where the vendor report did not provide zip/postal code as an optional column.

  • Resolved issues in unit receiving caused by allowing users to enter a stock number in Blackpurl's stock number format. Users are now restricted from doing this.

  • Updated the status filters in the Workshop dashboard to include all new service order status values. Also corrected a small UI issue.

  • Resolved a number of issues related to kits, including UI problems and incorrect pricing depending on the transaction type. Also fixed an issue with modifying a kit item on a fixed-price kit.

  • Resolved an issue encountered when bulk re-syncing invoice payments.

  • Updated the handling of deal trade-in accounting to align with the correct use of the deal trade clearing account.

  • Resolved an issue causing duplication of journal entries (JEs) when changing unit categories.

  • Resolved an issue causing duplicate payroll clocking entries for the same time period and date.

  • Added the option to set a custom report as a favourite.

  • Fixed bucket cost to be calculated to up to two decimal places when a commit receiving action is performed, to correct variance JE entries.

  • Resolved an error — "Required parameter Line is missing in the request" — occurring when sending variance JEs from vendor receiving to vendor invoices.

  • Corrected the Bill of Sale (BOS) and Offer to Purchase (OTP) printouts to show the correct salesperson name.

  • Resolved an issue where the package cost of a part was not showing correctly on a vendor order.

  • Changed Chart of Accounts (COA) syncing with Xero so it can be enabled without enabling transaction sync.

  • Removed inactive options from the custom search list.

  • Resolved an issue in the new global search where results were not always showing items that matched the typed string first.

  • Updated the finance feature so users can still edit values in the financing section even when the deal status is Funded.

  • Resolved an iPad issue where the new global search was overlapping other header items.

  • Resolved an issue where the MSRP was not populating correctly on a customer order invoice.

  • Resolved an issue where an internal comment was not being added to a closed customer order after emailing from the invoice history section.

  • Resolved an issue where a part's price differed depending on whether it was inside or outside a kit.

  • Completed the QuickBooks security review.

  • Resolved a "Too many SOQL queries: 201 error" occurring when importing customer orders from Shopify to Blackpurl with a large number of line items.

  • Resolved a "Too many SOQL errors" occurring when printing a part picklist.

  • Resolved an error that prevented printing and emailing invoices when a large number of service kits were present.

  • Resolved an issue where an extra deposit journal entry was being sent to accounting when a financing deal deposit was unused at checkout.

  • Resolved an issue where the Special Order status for parts on customer orders was not always set to the correct value.

  • Resolved issues encountered when syncing customers or vendors between QuickBooks and Blackpurl in either direction.

  • Resolved an issue where the BossWeb export was not working on Windows with Chinese characters.

  • Resolved a sync issue for customer order invoices where a unit had more than 200 unit price and cost records.

  • Resolved an issue where the salesperson name was incorrect on reports and deals when a user was logged in as another user.

  • Updated the totals on the deposit receipt to include the amount paid by the customer.

  • Fixed an issue to retrieve all invoices for the Power of Attorney (POA) by sending multiple paginated requests to QuickBooks.

  • Resolved an error — "Payment amount should not be greater than unused deposit" — occurring when adding a remaining payment using unused deposits.

  • Fixed a calculation issue on the deposit receipt so that the "Due from customer" value displays correctly.

  • Resolved an error that was incorrectly prompting users to refresh the page when receiving a payment on account.

  • Resolved an issue so that the base unit cost is shown as the first line item on BOS/OTP printouts.

  • Resolved an issue that prevented Unit Inventory reports from running when a unit contained a large number of price and cost entries.

  • Resolved an issue that prevented customer order deal documents from being generated, caused by financing products not having a cost method selected.

  • Updated DP360 sync to fetch only open leads.

  • Resolved an issue that prevented removing a part from a kit.

  • Released mapped forms for specific dealerships — affected dealerships will be notified directly.

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