SwanFRS Release notes for 1203

Originally written by Jack Thompson, last updated Sept 01, 2023, on the Swan Retail knowledge base (FRS).

Release Date: 24th January 2022

With the release of 1203 the unique and accessory labels have been retried and replaced with a flexible approach to labels.

The video may assist when migrating from version 1202 to 1203.

- Fixes

FRS-675 - Swap Stock

Sales Order issue fixed with related (linked) products not updating when the parent stock line has been swapped using the swap stock function.

Support #: FRSSUP-3532

FRS-673 - Set Up Product Web Features

The feature name has been added to the drop down lists alongside the description to differentiate web features with identical descriptions but differing names.

Support #: FRSSUP-3577

FRS-672 - Direct (Home) Delivery Purchase Orders

Added controls to prevent the receiving branch on direct delivery purchase orders being modified to a non-direct delivery location and vice versa. In Set Up Locations, when direct delivery is checked for a location, it will prevent the checking of some options.

Support #: FRSSUP-3358

FRS-668 - Tax Exclusive Discounting

A rounding issue when line discounting has been fixed. This occurred only in tax exclusive mode when tax was calculating in FRS and not using an external tax calculator.

Support #: FRSSUP-3523

FRS-661 - Product Pricing

The ability to set the Show Prices on Web flag for many products using the Quick Updates has been added.

Support #: FRSSUP-3414

FRS-654 - Sales Order Discount

Fixed an issue with rounding on the calculated discount percentage. Most visible when discounting identical products on the same sales order.

Support #: FRSSUP-3082

FRS-653 - Product Set Cost Prices

Fixed an issue with re-costing product sets, the cost being used from refresh prices was incorrect and the cost was set to zero.

Support #: FRSSUP-3245

FRS-637 - Set Up Product Pricing

When adding new option choices, the sequence number was automatically assigned. This can be turned off with the new parameter PRODUCT_PRICING_OPTIONS_SEQNO. Description will then be used primarily to order option choices.

Support #: FRSSUP-3126

FRS-636 - Purchase Invoice / Credit Note Matching

Fixed to stop the cancellation of invoices or credit notes that have goods or add-ons attached.

Support #: FRSSUP-3107

FRS-632 - Find Sales Orders

Controls not being reverted by the “Reset” button have been added.

Support #: FRSSUP-360

FRS-628 - Credit Note Matching

Fixed an issue when adding a return to supplier note to a credit note where it had an inflated matched and received quantity.

Support #: FRSSUP-3039

FRS-626 - Customer Summary

The deposits held figure on the customer summary and customer ledger pages has been split to show Finance held and Deposits held separately. This is particularly to give a clearer view of the customer’s account when finance and non-finance payments have been taken.

Support #: FRSSUP-2995

FRS-624 - Purchase Order Send Method

Purchase Order - When sending an individual purchase order, the Email send method will not be available if the supplier/vendor does not have an email address.

Support #: FRSSUP-3018

FRS-614 - Web API Changes - Out of stock

The GetStockItemsMarkedForWeb methods in the FRS web shop API will now return all stock marked for web regardless of whether they are on hand or available to sell and will instead return on hand and available to sell flags so that the web can remove them for sale.

Support #: FRSSUP-2800

FRS-359 - Confirm Deliveries

When confirming deliveries, returns or quick collecting, the A/N option will now select all deliveries on all pages if their are multiple pages awaiting confirmation.

Support #: FRSSUP-30

- Added

FRS-629 - Web API Changes - Get Customers

A new method GetCustomersModifiedSinceDate added to the FRS web shop API to only pull customers that have been created or amended since the requested date. The get customer methods will record and return a Web amended date alongside the amended date so that where the two are the same, third parties can ignore the changes that they sent originally.

FRS-623 - Vendor/Supplier Notes

Notes can now be entered against a vendor/supplier on either the search screen or in the vendor/supplier detail.

- Changed

FRS-665 - Set Up Locations

A new flag “Double Sided SO Print” has been added to Set Up Locations to add control to the sales order acknowledgement prints. Development of the SOA print will follow this release.

FRS-619 - en-IE resources/literals

A new resource pack for en-IE (Ireland) added. Postcode fields will display as Eircode.

FRS-603 - Customer Service

When processing a 'note' in any part of SwanFRS other than within the service arena, if the event subject is linked to a chained event 'workflow' this will be ignored. i.e. you cannot create a series of actions off the back of a sales order note or stock note. Chained events are used solely within the service response system.

Service analysis codes can now be entered for items added to the service via addition or replacement.

The middle section of the service screen showing the items linked to the service will now show the 'original subject' lines with a grey background to help the viewer differentiate between the items originally reported as the reason for the service and other lines added as replacement items, for example.

It is now possible to delete analysis codes from the item.

FRS-592 - Customer Ordering App

The option selection page in the customer ordering application has been modified to make the visibility of stock levels clearer and to offer the “Available Stock” button allowing users to take from stock instead of back ordering.

FRS-572 - Customer Ordering App - Buying From Stock

The customer ordering application has been improved with new pages mirroring the way the main FRS application sells stocked/inventory items. The catalogue search will now find items by stock/inventory ID in both the advanced search and the quick search. Available inventory will now show for all locations, not just local stock and a new “available stock” button will allow users to sell stock/inventory from the summary list and clicking “available stock” from the summary will then offer the detailed list of all stock/inventory for selection.

FRS-569 - Labelling flexibility

The ‘Print Accessory’, ‘Print Unique’ option on the side panel has been overhauled.

It is now possible to set one or more ‘favourite’ label / tags to be available for use on the side - thus becoming the ‘normal’ print designs, the name of the item is controlled via the Set Up Report Links program.

Existing Print accessory and unique remain, however they will now show the label name.

SwanFRS is no-longer restricted to 2 label formats - simply set the label print design up in Set Up Report Links marking them as a label and, subject to operator access a ‘Print Labels’ option appears on the side panel, when selected (having pre-identified the stock items to be printed) SwanFRS will list all the labels available for selection.

Support #: FRSSUP-287

FRS-561 - Web API Changes - Promotion prices

The FRS web shop API will now send promotion prices without the requirement to “refresh prices” in FRS to improve the web sync.

- Other

FRS-660 - System Performance

Improvements to indexing and database objects for performance gains.