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04/15/2024 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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04/01/2024 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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03/15/2024 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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03/01/2024 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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02/15/2024 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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02/01/2024 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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01/15/2024 | BS&A ONLINE | - | You can now hide a business from BSA Online using the "Hide from public records search" checkbox located under the mailing address area on the Business Information screen. |
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01/01/2024 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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12/15/2023 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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12/01/2023 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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11/15/2023 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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11/01/2023 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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10/15/2023 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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10/01/2023 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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09/15/2023 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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09/01/2023 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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08/15/2023 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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08/01/2023 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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07/15/2023 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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07/01/2023 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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06/15/2023 | Reporting | - | The 6/15 update caused an issue with calculated fields in custom reports. We have pushed a new update out, dated 7/1, that corrects this. Please install this latest update for all .NET applications, following your municipality's protocol. |
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06/15/2023 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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06/01/2023 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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05/15/2023 | BS&A ONLINE | - | We will no longer attempt to send the license paid email to the BSAO user who paid, instead we will only attempt to send emails to the business contact 1 and contact 2 emails, provided the setting to do so is enabled in BL's general settings. |
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05/01/2023 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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04/15/2023 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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04/01/2023 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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03/15/2023 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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03/01/2023 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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02/15/2023 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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02/01/2023 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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01/15/2023 | General | - | Corrected issue with emailing invoices as part of mass renewals. Invoices will no longer be batched in this process and each license will receive an email. |
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01/01/2023 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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12/15/2022 | General | - | Added "E-Verify Number" as a business field. |
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12/01/2022 | General | - | Fixed issue with overpayments not showing as journalized in BL when payment is journalized in Cash Receipting. |
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11/15/2022 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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11/01/2022 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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10/15/2022 | General | - | Fixed issue with pooled cash setups not being used for BLC entries. | - | No longer will units be taken from license fees whose invoices have been voided when grabbing the total units for a specific fee type from the previous license. |
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10/01/2022 | Reporting | - | GL Journal Report will now correctly save filters when filtering over specific codes. |
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09/15/2022 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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09/01/2022 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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08/15/2022 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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08/01/2022 | General | - | Addressed reporting issue for calculated fields |
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08/01/2022 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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07/15/2022 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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07/01/2022 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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06/15/2022 | BS&A ONLINE | - | Added "Contact 2" and "Business Description" to editable fields when requesting to update business fields online. | Reporting | - | Corrected issue where a date userfield would not print correctly on license issuance report. | - | Added GL number fields to receipt reports. |
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06/01/2022 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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05/15/2022 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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05/01/2022 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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04/15/2022 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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04/01/2022 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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03/15/2022 | New Features | - | There is now an option under tasks to Email Licenses. This works the same way as the Email Businesses option, but it emails based off of a filtered view or marked records from the license table, not the business table. This will allow you to mark licenses from the license table, and then send an email to the businesses of those licenses. |
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03/01/2022 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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02/15/2022 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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02/02/2022 | Reporting | - | Fixed report issue when generating PDF files |
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02/01/2022 | General | - | Fixed issue with some mass renewals timing out. |
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01/15/2022 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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01/01/2022 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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12/15/2021 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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12/01/2021 | Reporting | - | Made improvements to business reports running over large amount of records. |
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11/15/2021 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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11/01/2021 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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10/15/2021 | General | - | Fixed issue with emails not sending during mass renewals because the license had no amount due. |
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10/01/2021 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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09/15/2021 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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09/01/2021 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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08/15/2021 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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08/01/2021 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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07/15/2021 | General | - | Corrected issue where payments sent from multiple Cash Receipting databases incorrecly updated post dates on older payments. |
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07/01/2021 | BS&A ONLINE | - | Fixed issue with submitting business information update requests online. | - | Fixed issue with submitting attachments with a new business license application online. |
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06/15/2021 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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06/01/2021 | Program Security | - | There is now a security setting to allow the post date to be modified when applying penalties or late charges. | Reporting | - | Table filters will now flow through to reports when picking a report from the "print" drop down from table views. |
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05/15/2021 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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05/01/2021 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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04/15/2021 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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04/01/2021 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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03/15/2021 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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03/01/2021 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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02/15/2021 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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02/01/2021 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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01/15/2021 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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01/01/2021 | General | - | Fixed Social Security Numbers to be limited to 11 digits. |
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12/15/2020 | Reporting | - | Made license fee setup fields available from License based reports. |
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12/01/2020 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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11/15/2020 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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11/01/2020 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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10/15/2020 | Reporting | - | Print License Short-Cut now shows License Issuance Reports rather than License Reports. |
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10/01/2020 | General | - | Increased character limit for cancel license reason. | Reporting | - | Implemented fix so that street numbers of 0 would not print in employee reports. |
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09/15/2020 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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09/01/2020 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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08/15/2020 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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08/01/2020 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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07/15/2020 | General | - | Added NAICS code 326100 " Plastics Product Manufacturing". |
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07/01/2020 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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06/15/2020 | Reporting | - | Fixed group filtering for some license reports. |
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06/01/2020 | BS&A ONLINE | - | Fixed issue with denying online applications. | General | - | Increased License User Fields 1 & 2 Character Limit. | - | Increased License User Defined Fields Character Limit. |
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05/15/2020 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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05/01/2020 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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04/15/2020 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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04/01/2020 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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03/15/2020 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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03/01/2020 | BS&A ONLINE | - | Fixed link/landing page that gets sent in email when a license application is processed from online. |
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02/15/2020 | Reporting | - | License comment fields have been added to invoice reports to allow for 5 comments. |
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02/01/2020 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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01/15/2020 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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01/01/2020 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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12/15/2019 | General | - | Journal entries created by performing a refund to AP now auto-post to GL. |
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12/01/2019 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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11/15/2019 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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11/01/2019 | General | - | Now sorting by dateCreated when viewing attachments. | - | Invoices with an amount due of zero (it has already been paid) it can no longer be edited. |
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10/15/2019 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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10/01/2019 | New Features | - | Added new process "Approve License Approvals Enmasse" under Tasks. This process will only give approvals the current user has permission to approve as potential ones to select. If the logged in user does not have permission to approve any approval levels, the process will cancel. This process only runs over pending licenses, as approvals can't be marked as approved normally when licenses are anything but pending. |
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09/15/2019 | General | - | The gender field on an employee record can not be set to empty if desired. | - | Added ability to specify a business report when using the email business process. | - | Fixed issue where the parcel number on a business could not get set. | Reporting | - | Table views now have print options for reporting. | - | Approval levels with a status of "hold" or "pending" will now print on the License Approvals Required report. |
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09/01/2019 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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08/15/2019 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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08/01/2019 | General | - | An exempt business will now display as yellow on the business list view. | - | Input and Output rounding options have been added to fee setup. | - | Added checks to help situations where voided invoices are not showing as voided. |
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07/15/2019 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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07/01/2019 | General | - | Added a new "Hold" status option for approval levels. This new status option of HOLD will perform the same way the status option of PENDING does. |
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06/15/2019 | Reporting | - | License comment detail band added to reports. |
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06/01/2019 | Reporting | - | Employee report category has been created. |
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05/15/2019 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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05/01/2019 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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04/15/2019 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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04/01/2019 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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03/15/2019 | Reporting | - | Fixed issue were NAICS field would not print in license when printed from Cash Receipting. |
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03/01/2019 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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02/15/2019 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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02/01/2019 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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01/15/2019 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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01/01/2019 | General | - | The "Cancel If Not Paid By" and "Renewal" Dates have been hidden from the program by default.
These dates are leftover from earlier version of the software, but aren't used by a majority of users. For this reason, with a goal of reducing clutter and confusion in the program, they have been removed.
These field can be re-enabled if desired; this is found under Program Setup>2. Program Settings>General Settings>3. License Settings>see the options to "Hide Renewal date from License view/wizard" and "Hide Cancel if Not Paid by date from License view/wizard." | Reporting | - | Additional filters for "Approval Dates" have been added to the License Reports>License Approval Status Report. | - | Additional fields have been added to the Renewal process Status Report. This report now also includes info about: Business Name, Amount Billed from previous license, Amount Paid from previous license, Penalties billed from previous license, and Penalties paid from previous license. |
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12/15/2018 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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12/01/2018 | General | - | Fixed issue where approval levels would duplicate under rare circumstances. |
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11/15/2018 | General | - | Fixed issue where fee item columns were not wide enough to show all text. | - | Improved handling of multiple source payments from Cash Receipting. | - | Fixed an issue with licenses not being issued when paid through Cash Receipting. | Program Security | - | Improved Approval level security settings. | Reporting | - | Improvements made to Aged Account Receivable report. |
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11/01/2018 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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10/15/2018 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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10/01/2018 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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09/15/2018 | General | - | License types that are inactive will no longer be included in the renewal process. | New Features | - | There is a new checkbox for each license type in the setup under the "Approvals/Inspections" tab for auto-issue license when approvals are met. | Reporting | - | A 'GL Details Report' and 'GL Summary Report' have been added to the default report library. These can be found under Reports>Journal Reports. |
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09/01/2018 | New Features | - | Advanced Filters have been added to each Table, allowing for more specific conditions to be set. |
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08/15/2018 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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08/01/2018 | BS&A ONLINE | - | The linked online user email is now copied and saved into the first available business email field. This happens unless these fields are full or already contain the Online email. | General | - | -Added postDate to LicenseFee. This will be initialized to the invoice item post date. Whenever a new license fee is created this is also initialized to the invoice post date.
-Added ability to change this post date if the invoice/license fee has yet to be journalized.
-Updated Apply Penalities/Late charges process to now ALWAYS require a post date. This is because now even if you only have chosen to add line items and not new invoices, those fees will still need a post date. The post date now defaults to the current date instead of being blank.
-Fixed a bug in the apply penalities/late charge process where a journalized license fee would have its corresponding journal entry created but the flags on the license fee were not being set to indicate this. | - | Fixed issue where newly voided receipts would not be linked correctly to the Journal Entry it created. | - | Fixed issue that would prevent emails from sending during the mass renewal process. |
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07/15/2018 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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07/01/2018 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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06/15/2018 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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06/01/2018 | BS&A ONLINE | - | Links to jump to a business have been added to the web requests view. | General | - | A license that is suspended will now show as "Suspended" in the license view instead of showing as "Issued".
| Reporting | - | Fixed billing address report field issue. |
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05/15/2018 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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05/01/2018 | BS&A ONLINE | - | Fixed an issue with adding attachments on new business applications. | New Features | - | There have been many requests that it is too easy to accidentally change business information. This has led to a new "Edit" button being added to the top toolbar of the Business Information view. This button must be clicked to open up the business fields for editing. This new feature is NOT enabled by default, but can be turned on under Program Setup -> General Settings. | Reporting | - | Added the License_LicenseEmployeesView relation to license reports. |
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04/15/2018 | General | - | Renewing licenses will no longer renew with a fee that is inactive. | - | A prompt to perform a database backup now shows up prior to running a live run of the mass renewal process. | Program Setup | - | There is a new option under General Settings to hide the take payment button. |
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04/01/2018 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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03/15/2018 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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03/01/2018 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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02/15/2018 | General | - | When running the renew license process, if you are set to auto journalize generated invoices and an invoice has estimated fees, the process will warn you this invoice will not journalize. | - | Fixed issue where emails entered in all CAPS would not be recognized as valid emails. |
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02/01/2018 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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01/15/2018 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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01/01/2018 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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12/15/2017 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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12/01/2017 | Reporting | - | "amount billed_0" through "amount billed_24" are now present in the memory fields table for license reports. |
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11/15/2017 | Reporting | - | All license reports have had a common filter added for License Type. |
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11/01/2017 | General | - | Fixed a crash error when trying to renew a license with an unjournlaized invoice while not linked to GL |
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10/15/2017 | General | - | When BL is linked to BD and the property app is set to use BD, the message will now appear saying you are linked to BD. The parcel number fields will also be greyed out. | - | Updated the tab order for business contact 1 fields. |
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10/01/2017 | New Features | - | When performing mass renewals, there is now an option to have an invoice report emailed to the Business Contact. | Program Setup | - | New NAICS codes have been added based on the latest 2017 version created by the Census Bureau. In some cases, codes have been changed or retired. If these codes were in use on any business in the BL.NET program, they have been replaced/updated with the newer version. |
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09/15/2017 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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09/01/2017 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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08/15/2017 | General | - | Fixed a crash error when attempting to adjust a receipt that has already been voided. You will now be present with a message stating "This receipt is already voided and cannot be adjusted." | Reporting | - | Added a new prompt to print invoices when applying penalties. |
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08/01/2017 | New Features | - | Added option to copy comments when renewing licenses of the same type under Program Setup -> License Type Setup ->Copy Comments to Renewal Licenses. |
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07/15/2017 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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07/01/2017 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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06/15/2017 | General | - | Cancelled licenses no longer show in the "Active License" filter. | - | Fixed issue where employee social security information was not saving properly. |
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06/01/2017 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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05/15/2017 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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05/01/2017 | General | - | Added a new license fee report for use for results when applying penalties/ late charges. |
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04/15/2017 | New Features | - | A new Employee List table view has been added. |
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04/01/2017 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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03/15/2017 | General | - | Fixed issue in deleting a renewed licenses when there was no invoice associated on the license. |
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03/01/2017 | General | - | The stipulations field on a business no longer has a character limit. | Other | - | Corrected issue with Amount Due filter not working properly in Invoice List Table. |
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02/15/2017 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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02/01/2017 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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01/15/2017 | General | - | Corrected issue where license, invoice, and receipt reports would not print from the print button on the record. | Other | - | Fixed issue where generating letters en masse only pulled in data from the first business. |
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01/01/2017 | General | - | Added the ability to send emails on individual approval levels. | - | Corrected issue that would cause an error when copying address that contained '1/2'. | - | Fixed issue where licenses status was not saving as revoked when terminating a business. | - | Fixed display issue on business proration options. | New Features | - | There is a new fee setting that allows a fee to be excluded from exempt businesses. Marking a fee with this setting means that you can add the fee to an exempt business, but the fee will default to $0. | Other | - | Approving all approvals on a license will now prompt to enter approval date. | Reporting | - | Invoice reports now show the correct fee unit quantity if the quantity gets adjusted. |
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12/15/2016 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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12/01/2016 | Access My Gov | - | If the Issued Date or Approval Date is entered on a license, the program will now attempt to approve or issue the license. | General | - | Added ability to send email to individual businesses. This can be found by going to Tools-> Email Business. | - | Added Approved By and Approval Date columns to Approval tab. | - | Added Issued by and Approved by field to licenses. | New Features | - | Mobile phone numbers can now be tracked for Contact Name 1 and Contact Name 2 on a business. | - | SEIN and FEIN are now searchable fields when using the search option. | Program Setup | - | Added ability to clone fees, license types, and business types in program setup. | Reporting | - | Corrected issue with Standard Receipt report pulling in current date instead of post date. |
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11/15/2016 | Reporting | - | Added ability to sort invoice reports by business name. |
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11/01/2016 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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10/15/2016 | General | - | Added new filtering option to filter out inactive license types durning mass renewals. | Reporting | - | Corrected issue with barcode not printing properly on Business Statement Report. |
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10/01/2016 | General | - | Fixed issue where a return address longer than 40 characters could cause license reports to crash. | - | Correct issue where program would crash when entering a longer entry to Notes/Comments on a business. | - | Added ability to re-label the business units field. This can be done in the business type setup. | - | Corrected display issue that was cutting off the proration options and default percentage fields. | - | Corrected issue causing program to crash when searching by any record number and no results were returned. | New Features | - | Added new Date Last Updated fields for the business units and number of employee fields. |
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09/15/2016 | New Features | - | You can now select who gets reminded when an enforcement is closed. | Reporting | - | Added new License Fee List report (found by going to Reports-> License Fee Reports) that has the ability to easily filter for specific fee. |
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09/01/2016 | General | - | Made enhancements to have record type fields searchable in advanced queries. | - | Corrected issue causing program to crash when adjusment comment was too long. | - | Added ability to edit invoice units field on unjournalized invoices. | - | Fixed issue with progarm freezing when trying to void/ revoke records. | - | Corrected issue with receiving a blank error message when trying to void/ adjust/ reinstate invoices or transactions. | New Features | - | Fixed issue where users not setup to approval an approval level could approve them. |
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08/15/2016 | General | - | Fixed issue that would cause the program to crash if invoice adjusment comment exceeded character limit. |
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08/01/2016 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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07/15/2016 | General | - | Fixed error when attempting to use the test button in fee setup. |
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07/01/2016 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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06/15/2016 | General | - | Fixed issue where certain business letters would not generate. |
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06/01/2016 | New Features | - | Added Numbering Format Objects to licenses. This allows different numbering formats to be setup which multiple licenses can then point to. This will share the same format and numbering pool across several license types at once. |
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05/15/2016 | General | - | Fixed issue when trying to Approve/ Issue licenses enmasse. | New Features | - | The Parcel and Business Name sections were swiched in the Add New Business wizard since the Name can populate from the linked parcel name. | - | Added option to completely disallow overpyaments from being processed in BL (or CR for BL). This is found under Program Setup>2. Program Settings>General Settings>1. Payment Settings>Allow Overpayments. |
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05/01/2016 | General | - | Fixed issue where marking a business as Exempt acted as if the Business was actually terminated. | New Features | - | Added License specific security rights. This setup option allows specific users to be allowed/disallowed to do specific actions on specific license types. These actions include the ability to issue a license, renew a license, or edit inspections. This is setup under the "Restrict Users" tab on Program Setup>License Types. | Reporting | - | Add the data field "Inspection Comments" as an available option for Inspection letter templates. |
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04/15/2016 | General | - | The FEIN and SEIN Business data fields have been added to letters. | - | Corrected issue when trying to process an overypayment. | New Features | - | Added the ability to delete a license, as long as there is no invoice/receipts included on it. | - | Letters can now be generated from Inspections. | - | The way letters/letter templates are stored in the program has been updated.
Previously, the different letter template types (IE-business letters, licenses letters, etc.) were all stored at the Business level. This has been changed and templates are now stored on their respective parent record types (IE-Business based templates are added/stored at the business, Licenses based templates are added/stored at the license, etc.).
Based on the content of the letter templates, this change may have moved where these templates are located. For instance, if a letter used mostly License data fields, the template will no longer appear on the business, but on licenses.
| Other | - | The "Ctrl+F" Any Record by Record Number search has been added as a shortcut to the Application Views Quick Search list. |
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04/01/2016 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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03/15/2016 | General | - | Updated the Notes/Comments view on Businesses. | New Features | - | There is a new tools option when in the license view on a business that can be used to move the licenses from one business to another in mass. |
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03/01/2016 | General | - | Fixed issue with linking employees to licenses. | New Features | - | Added the ability to change the default payment method. This is found under General Settings>Payment Settings. | - | Added a new option to print the license issuance report when that license is issued in one step. Found under General Settings>General Options>Prompt to print License after Issuance |
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02/15/2016 | General | - | Fixed an issue were some printer settings would not stick for users. | Reporting | - | Added a new accounting report called "Filter Receipt Details by Fee Type". |
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02/01/2016 | New Features | - | There is a new utility called "Email Businesses" located under the Tasks menu. This utility can be used to mass email up to two external documents to businesses in the BL.NET program. |
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01/15/2016 | General | - | Added 4 new userfields for Businesses under the "Additional Info" tab. | New Features | - | When you terminate a business, a prompt will appear that allows you to revoke any issued license and cancel any pending license on that business. It also will void any unpaid invoices. | - | Added receipt and invoice number searching, their hotkeys are f10 and f11.
Also added any record number search with hotkey ctrl+f | Reporting | - | "Licenses Not Renewed" is now a report that can be edited. |
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01/01/2016 | New Features | - | Additional filters options added to the Mass Renewal wizard. | - | Business User Fields can now be pulled into Letters. | Other | - | Expanded character limit on various Business fields |
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12/15/2015 | General | - | Fixed issue where invoice settings being incorrect would cause renewals to not be created when performing mass renewals. There is now a better error message describing the issue. |
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12/01/2015 | General | - | You can now enter an overpayment in Cash Receipting for an invoice in BL that does not have a balance due. | New Features | - | Added new toast window to allow for mass renewing expiring licenses. | - | New filtering options available in License List, Business List, Receipt List, and Invoice List tables. | - | When marking a fee as inactive the fee will be remove from license type setup, unless it is set as the renewal fee. If it is set as a renewal fee the fee cannot be inactivated until removed. |
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11/15/2015 | General | - | The Business Type is now listed next to the Type ID in the Bus. Type filed on the General tab. | - | "Approved" Licenses are now renewable when "allow pending renewals" is checked. | - | Fixed issue with fees not appearing on license renewals. | - | Fixed issue where using the "Select All" option in the License Approval Status report would give an error message. | New Features | - | You can now generate letters for inspection records. |
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11/01/2015 | New Features | - | You can now set a proration table on a fee item setup and distinguish the proration percentage based on the month. The month relates to the month the license is applied for. |
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10/15/2015 | New Features | - | The Business UNIT/APPT data fields now display on the Business List table | - | A new fee Renewal Option has been added called "Use Fees from previous Business License with default fee settings." This should be used by any municipality that uses Business Units or Number of Employees to calculate their fees
| Reporting | - | Fixed an issue where the License Issuance report would not generate through CR.NET consistently. |
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10/01/2015 | General | - | When a receipt gets voided, it will now fill in with the username of the user that performs the void. | - | Fixed issue where approving/issuing licenses enmasse was not working. | New Features | - | You can now take an overpayment in Cash Receipting .NET for an invoice in Business License .NET. |
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09/15/2015 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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09/01/2015 | General | - | Fixed issue where certain penalties/late fees would not be added due to the date calculating incorrectly. | - | Fixed an issue where renewing a license that contained fees with old GL numbers would use those same GL numbers on the new license. The GL number is now pulled from the fee setup instead of the accounts associated with the old fees. | Reporting | - | Added "Receivables By Item" report to the Invoice Reports section. | - | Added "Aged Accounts Receivable Report" to the Business Reports section. |
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08/15/2015 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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08/01/2015 | New Features | - | You can now mark individual fees as being renewable. If the fee is not marked as such, when the license renews, that fee will not be created on the resulting license. |
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07/15/2015 | General | - | A license can now be renewed again if necessary. If the Use New Year numbering option is used, a brand new license number will be created instead. | - | Fixed an issue when trying to create a brand new license type in the Program Setup. | New Features | - | This is a new option that will automatically open the license when added to the program (found under Program Setup>2. Program Settings>General Settings>General Options>Open License window after adding new License Record). | - | Individual fees can be marked to not renew with the license. This is useful for "one time" fees that should not be re-added year after year (this can be set on each fee under Program Setup>1. Database Setup>Fee Schedules>Exclude Fee from License Renewal). | - | Approval Levels can now be approved en masse with the new "Approve All My Approvals" option on the "4. Approvals" section on a license. |
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07/01/2015 | General | - | Fixed issue where approving all approvals on a license would not set the approval date. |
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06/01/2014 | General | - | Fixed issue with penalties not calculating correctly. | - | Added new options for Annual licenses. You can now choose for them to expire for the current year or for the next year. | - | Added checkbox on Employee record to mark the employee as inactive. There is also a new icon present when viewing all employees for a business. When the icon is grey, that means the employee is marked as inactive. | - | Made the Business Type field required. | - | Fixed issue where default inspections where not showing up in the license wizard when adding a license. | Program Security | - | Fixed issue that allowed Read-Only users to delete or add approval levels and renew a license. | Reporting | - | Enhanced "destination" and "copies" options so that they are remembered and match your last used settings. Example: If you set the destination of a report to Printer and number of copies to 2, the next time you go to use that report, those same settings will be there. |
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05/15/2014 | General | - | Fixed issue with penalties not calculating correctly. |
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05/01/2014 | General | - | Fixed issue with penalties not calculating correctly. | Reporting | - | Fixed an issue with the "Next License Number" that would print on proof runs of the renewal process. |
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04/15/2014 | General | - | Fixed issue with penalties not calculating correctly. | - | Fixed issue where a default fee on a license type could not be deleted from the setup. | - | Updated error messages when attempting to create duplicate setup records. | - | Fixed issue where changing invoice amount prior to journalizing would revert the invoice amount back to the original amount. | - | Fixed issue where settings in Mass Renewal Task would prohibit an individual license from being manually renewed. | New Features | - | There is a new setting in "General Settings" where you can enable the ability to have a License auto-issue and post payment in one step when being paid. | - | Receipt Item codes in CR.NET can now be defaulted to look-up by Business ID, License, or Invoice. You can also now have more than one receipt item code for BL.NET. | Reporting | - | Fixed issue where printing en masse would not provide the correct reporting category. | - | Added a Print button to the toolbar when selecting the Licenses section under Application Views. |
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04/01/2014 | General | - | Fixed issue with penalties not calculating correctly. | Reporting | - | Fixed issue where printing en masse would not provide the correct reporting category. |
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03/15/2014 | General | - | Fixed issue with penalties not calculating correctly. | - | Column widths can be resized from the Table views. | - | Fixed issue with fee calculation when fees were modifited during the license creation process. | - | Fixed issue where mass generating letters would not attach letter to record, but to Business instead. | - | When paying an invoice in CR.NET, the Received Of name will now fill out with the Business Name. | Program Setup | - | There is a new setup option to always journalize. This option is located under General Settings, then the GL Settings Tab. | Reporting | - | Fixed issue with filters not displaying at the end of reports. |
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03/01/2014 | General | - | Fixed issue with penalties not calculating correctly. | - | Added ability to search for Business ID or License Number when taking payment in Cash Receipting. | - | A "blank" invoice can no longer be added to a License. | - | Check number field has been expanded to allow for 19 digits. | New Features | - | The ability to generate letters in mass has been added. Go to Tasks then down to Generate Letters. | Reporting | - | Fixed grouping issue for license reports. |
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02/15/2014 | General | - | Fixed issue with penalties not calculating correctly. | - | Added ability to search for Business ID or License Number when taking payment in Cash Receipting. | Other | - | Fixed issue with 'paid by' field coming in from Cash Receipting being too long for the field it mapped to in Business Licensing. | Reporting | - | Added 'Grand Total' to Accounts Payable report. |
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02/01/2014 | General | - | Fixed issue with penalties not calculating correctly. | - | Fixed issue with attachment buttons located near name data fields. | - | Fixed issue where MR invoices were not appearing in BL.Net. | - | Renewal Date on Licenses now gets filled out based on the Expiration Date when renewing a License. | - | Re-worded an error message when attempting to add a Business with a Business ID that is already in use. | - | Fixed issue with sort ordering of licenses. | - | Fixed issue with data fields not coming over on receipts when payment was taken in Cash Receipting. | - | Fixed focus when clicking on the Business ID so that when you click it, you can instantly begin typing the Business ID you'd like to navigate to. | - | Added ability to search for Business ID or License Number when taking payment in Cash Receipting. | - | Fixed issue where canceling out of an invoice adjustment, caused the adjustment screen to pop up more than once. | New Features | - | When changing a Business's name, a prompt will appear asking if you would like to update the Business name on all Licenses already on that Business. | Other | - | Fixed some typing errors on certain screens. | - | Fixed issue regarding jumping from parcel in GIS view to the Business associated with that parcel. | Program Security | - | Updated security for viewing SSN's. | - | Added new warning message when Issuing Licenses on a Terminated Business. | Reporting | - | New Report - AP Check Request Report located under the "Other Reports" category. This report shows all refunds sent to AP. | - | Fixed how "Current Record" was being chosen when running reports. | - | When printing invoices, you can now choose any report from the Invoices reports to print for the current invoice. | - | Added the ability to set each License Type with its own License Issuance Report. |
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01/15/2014 | General | - | Fixed issue with penalties not calculating correctly. | - | Fixed issue where the Cancel Licenses Task would not correctly fill in the canceled date for the license. | - | Fixed issue where adding user defined items on Step 5 of adding a license would not appear on the newly created license. | - | Fixed incorrect calculation when customizing fees using MR invoicing. | - | Fixed issue where attempting to change a license's application date would autofill the date with today's date instead. | - | Fixed issue where adding an inspection during the Add License Wizard would not allow for the addition of an inspection. | New Features | - | When mass renewing licenses, there are new options that allow for a license report to be emailed to a desired party if the resulting license has an amount due. | - | Receipts and Invoices will now prompt you if you would like to Journalize them when they are created. There is also now a checkbox when adding a license that asks if you would like to automatically Journalize the invoices added to the license during the "Add License" wizard. | Reporting | - | Created an editable report based off of the Business Mailing Labels report. | - | Added a new field for license reports and invoice reports called 'lastReceiptCRReceiptNum' which will populate with the last receipt's receipt number from Cash Receipting.
| - | Added more fields to the License Status Report. New fields are License Number, Expiration Date, Renewal Date, Total Due.
| - | Fixed issue where SSN of employees would not print correctly on license reports. |
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01/01/2014 | General | - | Fixed issue with penalties not calculating correctly. | - | Improved audit tracking for licenses. | - | Fixed issue when attempting to edit an Approval Level on a License. | - | When moving a license to a new business, a new prompt will appear asking if you would like to jump to the new business. | - | Fixed issue when changing a Business name where it would not update on the license or license table correctly. | - | If you have a failed inspection on a license / business, the application will
look for a passed inspection of the same inspection type and happening on a date
AFTER the failed inspection. If it is able to find one matching these
requirements, the failed inspection is considered 'passed' and the application
will not throw an error. | - | Fixed issue that caused blocking to not work correctly on the receipt list. | Program Security | - | When linked to AP.NET, if a receipt is adjusted you now have the option to automatically refund by requesting an AP check request. | - | Added a new security option called "Edit Fees on Invoices". This security option is located under the Invoice Security category and prevents users from editing line items on invoices if it is left disabled. | - | Removed ability for users to delete a row form a payment. |
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12/15/2013 | General | - | Fixed issue with penalties not calculating correctly. | - | Removed the need for a tech support code for the following Set Field Options on the License Table:
Set Cancel not paid date,
Set License Application Date,
Set License Expiration Date,
Set License 'Is Renewable' Flag,
Set License Renewal Date,
Set License Issued Date,
Set License Approval Date. | - | Timestamps have been added to the invoice table to show journalization time. |
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12/01/2013 | General | - | Fixed issue with penalties not calculating correctly. | - | Fixed issue that prevented the ability to edit inspections on licenses. | Reporting | - | Added ability to add "Notes/Comments" data fields to Business reports. |
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11/15/2013 | General | - | Fixed issue with penalties not calculating correctly. | - | Moved the Payment Options down into the Payment Details section for invoices. | - | User Fields now copy over to the renewed license. | - | Added a new option to the Numbering Settings for renewing licenses. You can now choose to use the New Year on Renewals with the same License Number. | - | Fixed issue where the renew button would not respond when clicked. | - | Program now prompts you when changing the expiration date of a license. If the date is changed to something in the past, the program prompts you to change the status to expired; if the date is changed to something in the future you are prompted to change the status to pending. | - | Fixed issue where Units from the invoice would not display when you viewed the invoice items on the license. | - | Changed the focus when you click on Status Details for an Approval to now focus on the Status rather than the Notes field. | New Features | - | Added new Task to mass Approve and Issue Licenses. | - | Added the ability to change a license's status from Approved to Pending. This can be done from the license screen, through the tools option. | Program Setup | - | Buttons on the approval tab for licenses are now showing as expected. | Reporting | - | A new license report called "Licenses with all recommendations made" has been added to the License Report category. | - | Fixed issues with certain reporting data fields. | - | Fixed issue where printing a license, invoice, or receipt directly from the record would not print correctly due to incorrect filters being loaded. | - | The employee information for licenses now pulls into reports as expected. |
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11/01/2013 | General | - | Fixed issue with penalties not calculating correctly. | - | Added the ability to adjust paid invoices. | - | Fixed issue where the setting for requiring a $0 balance prior to issuance would not activate correctly. | - | Fixed issue with adding attachments to licenses. |
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10/15/2013 | General | - | Fixed issue with penalties not calculating correctly. | - | When looking up NAICS codes, you can now sort and search by the description. | - | Added ability to search by Business Contact Name and Business Contact Name 2. | - | Added the "Business Name Addl" column to the Business List Table. | Reporting | - | Added new filter option for License report to exclude all Expired Licenses. | - | Added Denial Date as a filter option for License reports. | - | Fixed issue where certain reports would yield errors when ran over Current Record. |
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10/01/2013 | General | - | Fixed issue with penalties not calculating correctly. | - | Removed "Full Payment" option when taking payment for invoices. Payments will now default to full payment but will be editable to allow for a manual spread of the payment. | - | The "&" symbol in Business names will now display correctly under the General Tab for Business Information. | - | Removed commas from the Business List table view for the Street Number Column. Also added a Street Name column. | New Features | - | Added new option to print Licenses and/or Invoices after the mass renewal process is ran. | Reporting | - | Added new Business datafields to License reports. |
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09/15/2013 | General | - | Fixed issue with penalties not calculating correctly. | - | Removed the need for a tech support code for the following Set Field Options on the License Table:
Set Cancel not paid date,
Set License Application Date,
Set License Expiration Date,
Set License 'Is Renewable' Flag,
Set License Renewal Date,
Set License Issued Date,
Set License Approval Date. | - | When renewing licenses, the program will now grab the year that is set in the status bar of the program. | - | Disabled the "View" option for payments while still creating an invoice. | - | Users can now enter up to two decimal places under "units" when adding fees to an invoice. | New Features | - | The ability to email invoices has been added to the "Tasks" option in the upper toolbar. |
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09/01/2013 | General | - | Fixed issue with penalties not calculating correctly. | - | Upon log-in, a message will appear indicating the number of licenses that are expired. You can then click the pop-up to set the status of those licenses to 'expired'. |
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08/15/2013 | General | - | Fixed issue with penalties not calculating correctly. | - | Pop-up message will now appear when you fail an inspection on an approved License indicating that the status has been changed to "Pending". | - | Removed the need for a tech support code for the following Set Field Options on the License Table:
Set Cancel not paid date
Set License Application Date
Set License Expiration Date
Set License 'Is Renewable' Flag
Set License Renewal Date
| - | The "Pay this Invoice" button now remains greyed out until the invoice is fully created. | Program Security | - | Added security setting to prevent the sending of approval emails. | Reporting | - | Business Tracking Items can now be tracked on Business reports |
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08/15/2013 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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08/01/2013 | General | - | Fixed issue with penalties not calculating correctly. | - | Added an option in User Preferences to NOT display success message after payment and to turn off the License Successfully Issued message. | - | Added four decimals to the rate table for license fees. |
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07/15/2013 | General | - | Allow for the deletion of users from an approval level. | - | When assiging a license to a new business the license will pull over to the new license and remove the license from the original business it was added to. | New Features | - | Linked employees will now automatically come over to the new license when a license is renewed. | - | Approval levels can be altered on a license as long as it has not been fully approved or issued. The license must have a status of pending. | Other | - | When selecting which type of attachment to add, the program will now default to the last used attachment type. | Reporting | - | Business Statements will print information for the invoices in the selected range. |
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07/01/2013 | New Features | - | The ability to write-off invoices has been added to the program. | Other | - | Employees can now be deleted without any errors. | - | When doing mass renewals, you can now set the year of the licenses for numbering purposes. | Reporting | - | Added option to ignore report options when printing current record. | - | A filter has been added to the "Business Statement" reports to include only open invoices. Also, License #, License Type, and two user fields are now available to add to those reports. |
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06/15/2013 | New Features | - | The program now allows for lines in the fee schedule to be deleted. |
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06/01/2013 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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05/15/2013 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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05/01/2013 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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04/15/2013 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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04/01/2013 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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03/15/2013 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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03/01/2013 | Reporting | - | When running the business statement the date field is no longer being cut off. | - | When running the business statement we have added a date filter option. |
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02/15/2013 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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02/01/2013 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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01/15/2013 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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01/01/2013 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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12/15/2012 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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12/01/2012 | General | - | Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes. |
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