What's new?



Feature Releases 


You have probably already noticed when you log into your Blackpurl, if there has been a feature release or a Blackpurl update, you will be notified with a pop up


This will allow all licenced users to receive the release information and if they need further information, they can click on the relevant links supplied


We have also introduced a quicker way of us releasing features.  Instead of it taking us a couple of days to get the release out to everyone, it now only take a couple of hours



Unit Tax Invoices for Australian and New Zealand 


For our Australian and New Zealand dealerships (dealerships who use tax included pricing), we have provided you a way of overriding the total when receiving and invoicing the unit/s


This will make it easier to match off to the Vendor Unit Invoice 



BRP Integration  


We have developed a new BRP API implemented which will submits dealer and DMS information automatically  to BRP



Introduction of New User Permissions - Homepage dashboard / Reports / Workshop dashboard


We have introduced three new User Permissions:


  • Homepage dashboard

When this User Permission is enabled, users will be able to see the Homepage dashboard

When this User Permission is disabled, users will be unable to see the Homepage dashboard.  They will instead see the Dealership logo

For further information, please review our article - User Permission - Homepage Dashboard


  • Reports 

When this User Permission is enabled, users will be able to access Reporting

When this User Permission is disabled, users will be unable to access Reporting as it will be greyed out

For further information, please review our article - User Permission - Reports


  • Workshop dashboard

When this User Permission is enabled, users will be able to access the Workshop dashboard

When this User Permission is disabled, users will be unable to access the Workshop dashboard as it will be greyed out

For further information, please review our article -User Permission - Workshop Dashboard

What's Improved? 



  • Resolved - an issue encountered on the Product Location screen when the org contains a very large number of locations

  • Resolved - a User Interface issue for the job clocking application when used on mobile devices where the user was not able to action the play/stop button

  • Resolved - a scrolling issue when viewing a newly created service job

  • Resolved - a minor display issue on the product locations screen

  • Resolved - a minor capitalization issue in the payroll time clocking screen

  • Resolved - a persistent FTP issue for specific Dealership

  • Resolved - an issue where Sunday appointments were not appearing in the week view of the scheduler

  • Resolved - an issue which caused only some unit invoices to be synced to QB/Xero when there was a large number of units received in bulk receiving

  • Resolved - an issue which caused financing products to not appear on the invoice for a unit deal

  • Resolved - a “Xero is not responding” error when generating the Fusion Benchmarking

  • Released - mapped forms for specific Dealerships.  The specific Dealerships have been notified

  • Resolved - an issue encountered when importing a picklist to a VO which contained more than 100 records 

  • Resolved - an issue where the first two generic unit data fields were not listed in the column selector for the Stock Unit report

  • Resolved - an issue which prevented units from being received when tax included pricing is enabled

  • Resolved - an issue which with clocking entry posting to accounting where it would occasionally cause the org to become disconnected from QuickBooks

  • Changed - In the accounting integration setup categories for the QuickBooks integration, the General Ledger Account numbers will be shown instead of the QuickBooks unique ID for the General Ledger Account

If there is not a General Ledger account number assigned, we’ll instead show the unique id number prefixed by “ID” ie: ID123

  • Resolved - an issue encountered when reporting payments from a CO where the customer had been changed after payments had already been added to the CO
  • Resolved - an User Interface issue in the print part label modal where it would not display more than 1 digit of the qty of labels to print
  • Changed -  when the user manually created a job clocking entry while there was already an active job clocking entry for that technician. Now the user will be prevented from manually adding an entry on the same day of an active clocking entry for the technician
  • Implemented - additional restrictions on CO checkout to prevent the user from finalizing checkout when the total of the charge on account payments is greater than the invoice total
  • Resolved - an issue which prevent the user from removing an unassigned appointment from the scheduler
  • Removed - the restriction on the Gift Card undeposited funds GL so that the same GL can be assigned to a category
  • Resolved - User Interface issue encountered creating tax rates when using an iMac running Monterey, Safari
  • Resolved - an issue with the BRP inventory submission for new customers since none of their inventory data had record of sales activity
  • Resolved - an issue with stock count importing when the import file contained blank part numbers
  • Resolved - an issue with the Search to Add in VR.  Now if the user pauses when entering their search text and then continues typing, the previous search will be cancel so that old results are not displayed
  • Resolved - an issue when creating technicians where the technicians default work hours were set to Mon-Fri instead of the days of as defined in Shop hours