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Blackpurl Release Notes — New Features and Improvements

A summary of what's new and what's been improved in this Blackpurl release, including new UI features, alternate parts enhancements, and bug fixes.

What's New

Admin Workspace — Store Summary

The Store Summary is back in the Admin workspace. This widget displays key financial metrics for your store and lets you filter the data by time period: today, yesterday, this month, last month, last 7 days, last 30 days, this year-to-date, or last year-to-date. Click any metric in the summary to generate a report for that data.
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Shows a Store Summary widget displaying financial metrics with a dropdown set to 'Today'. The widget shows rows for Invo


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Blackpurl Header — ADD Button

A new ADD button is now available in the Blackpurl navigation header. With a single click, you can create any of the following:

  • New Customer

  • New Vendor

  • New Part

  • New Labor Code

  • New Kit

  • New Fee

Tools Menu — Job Schedule

The Tools menu has been updated to include Job Schedule as a new option.
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Classic Homepage Tiles

Your Home page now offers two tile display options: Classic Tiles or Pick your Own tiles. You can choose whichever layout suits your workflow from the Your Home page.
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Enhanced Alternate Part Functionality

Alternate part functionality has been expanded with several improvements:

  • The alternate parts listing on a part record now shows additional information for each alternate part, including the cost at last purchase and the date it was last purchased.

  • Alternate vendors can be defined without linking to an actual part record — you can record the part number the alternate vendor uses for reference.

  • Searching for an alternate part number now returns all part records that reference that number, even if only a vendor alternate is defined with no associated part record.

  • When ordering a part from a different vendor, the system can automatically create an alternate part record referencing that vendor. If no associated part record exists for that vendor, you can specify the part number the vendor uses and the system will retain it for future use.

  • Part search results now also include MFG# and SKU# columns.

Alternate parts appearing in Vendor Order (VO) required-for lists is controlled by a system setting. Go to System Settings > Settings and Controls > Shop Settings and enable Include needs based on Alternates in VOs to include alternate parts in the Required For lists on a Vendor Order. This setting is disabled by default — dealerships who want to always see those parts can enable it at any time.
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For full details, see Parts Supersessions and Alternate Parts.
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What's Improved

The following issues have been resolved or changed in this release:

  • Resolved issues with Vendor Orders not opening and displaying line item details, and with duplicate line items being added.

  • Resolved a Price File Import error and introduced a new custom setting, Turn14RetailMapping. Dealerships that want to map the retail price using a MAP column can configure the value MAP in this custom setting.

  • Fixed an issue where users were unable to set the base price for an ordered unit.

  • Fixed an issue where unit detail information was not copied when a unit was converted from a Trade-In unit to a Stock unit in cases where the Generic unit type had been renamed.

  • Corrected the Tax Detail Report to display all default columns.

  • Fixed an issue where accounting variances occurred due to incorrect pre-sold adjustment amounts when multiple Vendor Receive (VR) records existed for the same part.

  • Resolved a bulk delete issue that occurred when a customer order contained a temporary unit.

  • Updated the Yamaha Australia Vendor Order export (.txt) file to reflect required changes made by Yamaha Australia.

  • Resolved an issue where custom unit data fields were missing from the Units on Order report.

  • Resolved an issue in the Part Inventory Valuation Report where searching by vendor name was not functioning correctly.

  • Fixed an issue in generated FTP files where a blank row appeared after every 200 rows.

  • Resolved an issue where users were unable to save a contact and shipping address because a valid email address was incorrectly marked as invalid.

  • Resolved an issue where users were unable to change a part's status back to Committed — which had been disabled, preventing invoicing of the part when a fee had already been invoiced under the same customer order.

  • Updated the checkout modal window to ensure users can reverse payments without encountering issues.

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