What's new?
Service Job Statuses
As requested by quite a few of our Dealerships, we have made some changes to the Service Job statuses:
- We have now given the Dealership the ability to rename most of the service job statuses and set the color used for the status icon
- We have also added an additional optional status so there are now 10 that can be renamed and / or enabled/disabled
For further information, please review our article - Service Job Statuses - Selecting / Editing / Enabling which Service Job Statuses to use in your Blackpurl
Payment Method Surcharges - for example credit card fees
We are now allowing Dealerships to be able to automatically charge a Customer a surcharge based on the Payment Method used
For example - when a customer pays by the Payment Method of Visa / Mastercard / Amex / Discover / Preferred Payments (if applicable) then the customer will also be automatically charged a % surcharge for using this method
There are a few setup items, the Dealership will need to look after but once set up, this surcharge will be calculated and exposed in Checkout / Deposit and AR Payments
We have also provided a new User Permission that if enabled will allow control over which users will be able to override the calculated surcharge
For further information, please review the following articles - Payment Method Surcharge - Setup / Where it is available in Blackpurl
Receive from Vendor Order action
There is a new action on a submitted Vendor Order (VO) that the user can select to receive straight from the VO screen
This will automatically create a Vendor Receiving and it will contain all unreceived items from that Vendor Order
Bulk unit receiving update
When processing a Bulk Unit Receiving, Users now have the option of manually entering their own stock numbers
Keeping in mind that if no stock numbers are manually entered then Blackpurl will still automatically assign stock numbers
Job Clocking update
As requested by a few of our Dealerships, we now have additional unit information exposed (including VIN) for all jobs listed in job clocking
Unit Ordering - Factory Options
Factory Options on Order Units now have the option of being taxable or not
This will allow control by the user, in having the option on each Factory Option to say if it is taxable or not
It will automatically follow the default but the user will have the option of moving the taxable toggle ON/OFF (as required) for each Factory Options
AR Payment - Adding an additional Payment Method of Direct Deposit
We have been asked by quite a few of our Dealerships to add the Payment Method - Direct Deposit as part of the Payment Method list for AR Payments from the Customer Record screen
For further information, please review our article - Invoices that have been closed as Payment Method: Charge on Account - Receiving Payment of Account in Blackpurl (Accounting Integration)
VO/VR update - MFG Part#
For vendor order and vendor receive, we have exposed the MFG Part # from the part record for each line item, both on the screen and on the printed documents
Example below of a Part Record that has the MFG Part# indicated and how it will show up on a VO and VR
VO Update - Notes to be editable until the VO is fully received
We were locking the notes field on vendor orders once the order has been submitted
It is now editable until the status of the VO becomes "Received" at which time it will lock down with the last note that is in that field
For further information, please review our article - Notes section on a Vendor Order (VO)
What's Improved?
Resolved - a UI issue in the BRP part availability screen
Changed - the quantity available from the manufacturer when the part is discontinued, we will now show 0 instead of 9999
Resolved - an issue where the user was not able to cash reconciliation in a specific scenario where the user has made payment against A/R payment for the day
Changed - A toast error message "Please raise a support ticket to disconnect the auth method for the user." will now display when the user clicks on "Disconnect auth method". Only users that are in the User Group "Admin" and BP support will be able to disconnect the auth methods for the other users
Changed - Implemented changes where vendor control price functionality was ignoring lock on part pricing and price was changed. Now, Vendor control prices will not update part prices if those prices are locked
Resolved - an issue where sublets were not shown under the part pick list section on customer order
Resolved - an issue where data was not shown correctly for one column field while printing and previewing the service job report
Resolved - an error message on finalize vendor receiving
Resolved - an issue where the Bill of sale was printed on three pages instead of two pages