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Blackpurl Release Notes — Service Job Statuses, Payment Surcharges, and More

A summary of new features and improvements in this Blackpurl release, including service job status customization, payment method surcharges, and vendor order updates.

What's New

Service Job Statuses

Service job statuses now support dealership-level customization. You can rename most statuses to match your workflow and set the color used for each status icon. An additional optional status has also been added, bringing the total number of statuses that can be renamed and enabled or disabled to ten.

For full setup details, see Service Job Statuses - Selecting / Editing / Enabling which Service Job Statuses to use in your Blackpurl (no longer available).

Payment Method Surcharges

Blackpurl now allows dealerships to automatically charge customers a percentage surcharge based on the payment method used. For example, when a customer pays by Visa, Mastercard, Amex, Discover, or Preferred Payments (if applicable), a configurable surcharge is automatically calculated and applied.

Once set up, the surcharge appears in Checkout, Deposit, and Accounts Receivable (AR) Payments. A new user permission is also available to control which users can override the calculated surcharge.

For full setup details, see Payment Method Surcharge.

Receive from Vendor Order Action

A new action is available on submitted Vendor Orders (VOs). From the VO screen, you can now select the receive action to automatically create a Vendor Receiving containing all unreceived items from that Vendor Order — without navigating away from the VO.

Shows a Vendor Order screen (ORDER #: VO-00000003) with status 'On Order' highlighted in a red box. In the top toolbar,


Bulk Unit Receiving Update

When processing a Bulk Unit Receiving, users now have the option to manually enter their own stock numbers. If no stock numbers are entered manually, Blackpurl will still automatically assign them.

Job Clocking Update

Job clocking now displays additional unit information for all jobs listed, including the VIN. This additional detail is visible across all jobs shown in the job clocking screen.

Unit Ordering — Factory Options

Factory Options on order units can now be individually set as taxable or non-taxable. Each Factory Option defaults to the system tax setting, but users can toggle the taxable option on or off per Factory Option as needed.

AR Payment — Direct Deposit Payment Method

Direct Deposit has been added as a payment method option for AR Payments made from the Customer Record screen. For more information, see Payment of Account.

VO/VR Update — MFG Part #

The MFG Part # from the part record is now visible for each line item on Vendor Orders (VOs) and Vendor Receivings (VRs), both on screen and on printed documents.

Shows a part record screen for 'OIL SEAL 1500KG SINGLE LIP' (part 688109) from vendor Spartan. The part details show MSR


VO Update — Notes Editable Until Fully Received

Previously, the notes field on a Vendor Order (VO) was locked once the order was submitted. Notes are now editable until the VO status reaches Received, at which point the field locks with the last saved note. For more information, see Vendor Order Notes Section.

What's Improved

The following issues and changes were included in this release:

  • Resolved — a UI issue in the BRP part availability screen. Discontinued parts now show a quantity available of 0 instead of 9999.

  • Resolved — an issue where users were unable to complete cash reconciliation in scenarios where an AR payment had been made for the day.

  • Changed — when a user clicks Disconnect auth method, a toast error message now displays: "Please raise a support ticket to disconnect the auth method for the user." Only users in the Admin user group and Blackpurl support can disconnect auth methods for other users.

  • Changed — vendor control price functionality was ignoring locked part pricing and updating prices anyway. Vendor control prices will no longer update part prices that are locked.

  • Resolved — an issue where sublets were not shown under the part pick list section on a customer order.

  • Resolved — an issue where data was not displayed correctly for one column field when printing or previewing the service job report.

  • Resolved — an error message that appeared when finalizing a vendor receiving.

  • Resolved — an issue where the Bill of Sale was printing across three pages instead of two.

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