Version DateDetails
04/15/2024
General
-  Addressed an issue where Winter PRE adjustments imported from Assessing were not always importing as winter only .
04/01/2024
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
03/15/2024
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
03/01/2024
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
02/15/2024
Reporting
-  Added option to the Sequentially Search for Various Fields Report to List Parcels with More Than 30 Headings
02/01/2024
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
01/15/2024
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
01/01/2024
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
12/15/2023
General
-  Updated the MTT Interest Rate for Jan. 1, 2024 to 9.3%
12/01/2023
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
11/15/2023
Reporting
-  Added Overpaid parcels to the Exceptions section of the Add Group of Payments En Masse Utility verification report.
11/01/2023
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
10/15/2023
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
10/01/2023
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
09/15/2023
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
09/01/2023
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
08/15/2023
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
08/01/2023
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
07/15/2023
Reporting
-  The Sequential Search for Various Fields Report will no longer include DNR parcels when the "No Taxes Billed with Positive Taxable Value" option is selected.
07/01/2023
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
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.
06/15/2023
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
06/01/2023
General
-  MTT Refund Interest rate updated to include 8.25% for July 1 through December 31, 2023
05/15/2023
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
05/01/2023
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
04/15/2023
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
04/01/2023
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
03/15/2023
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
03/01/2023
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
02/15/2023
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
02/01/2023
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
01/15/2023
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
01/01/2023
General
-   MTT Refund Interest rate updated to include 5.65% for January 1st through June 30, 2023
12/15/2022
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
12/01/2022
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
11/15/2022
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
11/01/2022
Reporting
-  Added option to show the Assessors Certification Number and Unit Name, entered under Unit Information, to the Standard Warrant Report.
10/15/2022
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
10/01/2022
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
09/15/2022
General
-  Corrected error when running the Invoice Cloud ACH Export.
Reporting
-  Added an option to select a specific Season when printing the General Ledger Account Numbers report.
09/01/2022
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
08/15/2022
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
08/01/2022
General
-  Addressed reporting issue for calculated fields
08/01/2022
General
-  Tax will now recognize any project attached to the AP liability account and create the correct check request.
07/15/2022
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
07/01/2022
General
-  Updated the MTT Interest Rate for 7/1/2022-12/31/2022 to 4.27%
06/15/2022
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
06/01/2022
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
05/15/2022
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
05/01/2022
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
04/15/2022
Reporting
-  Added a new field to show a summary of linked delinquent personal property amounts owed on a tax bill. This field can be found in the report writer feature under MemoryFieldsTable and is called dlqpersonalinfo. The properties on this field will need to be set to being multilined to display correctly.
04/01/2022
General
-  Addressed an issue where the 'Calculate DDA Factors' utility was not including PA494/204 - Developmental Property parcels.
03/15/2022
General
-  Added program functionality increasing the CFR Rate per acre and the CFR Conservation Easement Rate Per Acre for 2022 Tax Year Databases.
03/01/2022
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
02/15/2022
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
02/02/2022
Reporting
-  Fixed report issue when generating PDF files
02/01/2022
New Features
-  Added an option to Include/Exclude Act 189 Parcels from the Delinquent Tax Export.
Reporting
-  Added the option to the Delinquent Taxpayer Report to Exclude Building on Leased Land Properties
-  Corrected the issue with the Standard Warrant Report to include parcels with special assessments only where the balance was adjusted to 0 in the special assessment count
01/15/2022
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
01/01/2022
General
-  MTT Refund Interest rate updated to include 4.25% for January 1st through June 30, 2022
12/15/2021
Reporting
-  Added option to show one unpaid season at a time.
12/01/2021
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
11/15/2021
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
11/01/2021
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
10/15/2021
General
-  Corrected issue with not being able to Accept Barcode Payments Enmass when there are multiple parcel number formats.
10/01/2021
General
-  Corrected issue when scanning bar codes for payments enmasse where the prompt would appear for the check number even when this option was not turned on.
09/15/2021
Reporting
-  Corrected the Warrant Rounding Discrepancies Report from showing when the special assessments causing the discrepancies are not mlilage based.
09/01/2021
Reporting
-  Corrected the DS4410 to show 100% PRE Qualified Forest parcels with a building value filled in the correct column.
08/15/2021
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
08/01/2021
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
07/15/2021
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
07/01/2021
General
-  MTT Refund Interest rate updated to include 4.25% for July 1st through December 31, 2021.
Reporting
-  Removed case sensitivity when determining when to combine captured tax headings on the Quick Tax Disbursement report.
-  The Standard Warrant Report is now reflecting Exempt parcels in their own section. Located up top with the other values, when an Exempt parcel has an associated Taxable Value.
06/15/2021
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
06/01/2021
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
05/15/2021
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
05/01/2021
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
04/15/2021
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
04/01/2021
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
03/15/2021
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
03/01/2021
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
02/15/2021
New Features
-  Added option to control the use of departments when forming the AP liability GL number for refunds sent to Accounts Payable.
02/01/2021
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
01/15/2021
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
01/01/2021
General
-  MTT Refund Interest rate updated to include the 4.25% for January 1, 2021 through June 30, 2021.
12/15/2020
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
12/01/2020
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
11/15/2020
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
11/01/2020
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
10/15/2020
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
10/01/2020
General
-  Added functionality to disallow partial payments via the 'Accept Barcoded Payments En Masse' utility, if the Receipt Options are set to manually spread partial payments.
New Features
-  Added flag "Do Not Accept Payments" to the Misc Info tab on the Edit Parcel screen.
09/15/2020
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
09/01/2020
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
08/15/2020
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
08/15/2020
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
08/01/2020
Reporting
-  Addressed an issue where the DS4410 report was not properly reporting capture on parcels that were less than 100% within a capture district.
07/15/2020
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
07/01/2020
General
-  Addressed an issue where the complete tax roll import was not always creating correct millage rate tables.
06/15/2020
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
06/01/2020
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
05/15/2020
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
05/01/2020
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
04/15/2020
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
04/01/2020
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
03/15/2020
Reporting
-  Added in a new Report Option to the Daily Cash Journal for filtering out or including Internet receipts.
03/01/2020
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
02/15/2020
General
-  Corrected a 'Classification' display issue related to computer monitor resolution where the field would run into other items on the Edit Parcel screen.
Other
-  There was an issue with users being able to access the Manual from the Assessing application located in Help/View Documentation/Manual. The scheduled update on 2/15/2020 corrects this issue.
02/01/2020
General
-  Added an Owner Name verification to the Invoice Cloud Export, if a record missing an Owner Name is found a special report is generated to display which parcel needs correcting. A file will not generate until the parcel records missing an owner name have been modified to the proper Owner information.
New Features
-  Under Help > View Documentation there is a document outlining our keyboard shortcuts
Reporting
-  Added report special population of 'Ad Valorem + CFR + Land Bank/Land Bank Sale'.
-  Addressed an issue on the Questionable Parcels\Payments report where CFR parcels were inaccurately being considered questionable.
01/15/2020
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
01/01/2020
General
-  MTT Refund Interest rate updated to include 6.4% for January 1 through June 30, 2020.
New Features
-  Added Classification to the Receipt Tab as an indexable field.
Program Security
-  A new feature was added to allow an Admin User the ability to set an Expiration Date for a particular user. This new option is located within the User Security/Inactivate User (disable user Login) and is labeled as Expire Date.
-  A new feature was added to the system to add the ability to Mark a User as Inactive. An Admin User will have the ability within the User Security to Inactivate/Disable a User Login.
12/15/2019
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
12/01/2019
Reporting
-  Added special assessment breakdown to Adjustment Report using a new option "Print Special Assessment Breakdown" on the Report Option window.
11/15/2019
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
11/01/2019
Reporting
-  Added a new option to the Delinquent Taxpayer Report (Summary) to exclude deferred parcel balances from the report population. Option is called "Exclude Deferred Parcels" and available in the Report Options window, it will exclude parcel balances for deferred seasons.
10/15/2019
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
10/01/2019
General
-  Change was put in place to verify a database Tax Year when using the "Another Equalizer Tax Database (Direct Export)" export in the Tax .NET application.
Reporting
-  Addressed an issue where the DS4410 Report was not properly reflecting negative capture on certain Brownfield parcels.
09/15/2019
Reporting
-  On the Tax Collection Record Report columns were added for breaking out Over\Under receipt amounts and Interest\Penalty receipt amounts.
09/01/2019
General
-  Increased the total Email Address field length to a maximum of 50 characters to match the Assessing .NET application.
08/15/2019
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
08/01/2019
General
-  Added an option "Process Parcels with full payments" in the Add Group of Payments Enmasse utility. This option will add a receipt to a parcel that has been paid in full; partial payments are not included in this option.
Reporting
-  Corrected an error message related to Report Options being turned on with the Adjustment Report.
-  Addressed an issue where the Settlement Report was printing the village name in the heading when running on township taxes.
-  Addressed an issue with the Print Barcode report option on the Manatron Format Tax Roll. The report will now include a barcode to the right hand side under the parcel record.
07/15/2019
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
07/01/2019
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
06/15/2019
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
06/01/2019
General
-  Increased the number of allowable characters for special assessment codes in the "Special Assessment Import From Non-BSA Software Sources (Comma Delimited)" import. This import now allows for 10 characters on special assessment codes in a CSV file.
-  Change to the "Barcoded Payments Enmasse Utility" has been made to automatically fill in "CASH" to the check number field when a "C" is typed in.
-  Corrected a spelling error on the Tax Payoff Calculator window for "Total Tax Billed".
-  MTT Refund Interest rate updated to include the 6.39% for July 1 through December 31, 2019.
Reporting
-  Added in a new total section to the Daily Cash Journal Report called "Total Refunds" which will add up any refund reciepts included in the report population and no longer inlcude the amount in "Total Checks". A refund receipt has to contain the default text of "REFUND!!" in the Check Number field for it to be picked up in "Total Refunds".
-  Updated the County SET Settlement Report to match the version now required by the State of Michigan.
05/15/2019
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
05/01/2019
General
-  Added the 425 Agreement classification to Tax .NET in order to match the Assessing .NET application.
Reporting
-  Added auditing of Copying Reports, Renaming Reports and Renaming of Report Profiles in Report Profiles.
04/15/2019
General
-  Qualified Forest PA 42 parcels will no longer allow a building value higher than the taxable value.
-  Changed the program Calculation options to reflect new legislation that the 2 mill Qualified forest fee must now be levied in the summer season.
Program Security
-  Expanded a Security Setting put in place for "Print Receipt" in Tax .NET application. Users with the option currently set will now be able to print out receipt reports without needing security to Run Reports.
04/01/2019
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
03/15/2019
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
03/01/2019
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
02/15/2019
General
-  Added 3 new PRE\MBT Flag types to match new legislation put in place for Act of God 1, 2 and 3 in Assessing .NET.
02/01/2019
Journalization Changes
-  Corrected issue when trying to create Pooled Cash Fund entries.
02/01/2019
Program Setup
-  Addressed an issue related to the 'Include interest/penalty in refund calculations' option not handling a certain scenario.
01/15/2019
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
01/01/2019
General
-  Added in a new classification called “PA 206 Eligible Economic Development Group” per legislation.
Program Setup
-  MTT Refund Interest rate updated to include 5.9% for January 1 through June 30, 2019.
12/15/2018
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
12/01/2018
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
11/15/2018
Reporting
-  Corrected an issue with the Mortgage Code/Parcel # Cross Reference Report related to the Report Option "If Winter, Display Summer Balance On Report". Parcels handled by a mortgage company that are paid in full no longer display on this report as they previously had when run in the Winter season.
11/01/2018
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
10/15/2018
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
10/01/2018
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
09/15/2018
Reporting
-  Changed the verbiage on the Delinquent Taxpayer Report (Summary) for the Report Option to limit results. This will now read "Limit results to delinquent amounts less than or equal to amount below:".
09/01/2018
Reporting
-  When using special population DS4410 Eligible Parcels, reports were not including Transitional Qualified Forest Parcels in the population. No change to the DS4410 Report (New Version) took place in this program change.
08/15/2018
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
08/01/2018
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
07/15/2018
Reporting
-  Addressed an issue where the DDA/LDFA Report (Detail) was calculating captured taxes on millages not being billed to certain parcels.
07/01/2018
General
-  MTT Refund Interest rate updated to include the 5.41% for July 1 through December 31, 2018.
Reporting
-  Addressed an issue with Qualified Forest Parcels and Transitional Qualified Forest Parcels not including the millage rate on Tax Bills.
06/15/2018
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
06/01/2018
Other
-  Changed the wording under the Liability Account Message Screen.
05/15/2018
General
-  Added new Audit Entry when importing parcel information to a Tax .NET database; ASCII references the import type and Direct Import contains database name imported from.
New Features
-  A new export was added for customers using Invoice Cloud. The export is found under File > Export > Custom Exports for Various Counties/Vendors > Invoice Cloud.
05/01/2018
General
-  Addressed an issue where the Utility to Modify Parcels would throw an error when attempting to change any part of a parcel number.
04/15/2018
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
04/01/2018
General
-  Addressed an issue where the current season tax roll export was not exporting the 'Send Bill To' flag properly if it was set to 'Owner & Taxpayer.'
Reporting
-  Addressed an issue where the SET Reimbursement Report was not properly handling situations where village taxes were being billed by the township in the summer season.
03/15/2018
Reporting
-  An issue with Taxes Collected Interest/Penalty Total on the report has been resolved.
-  Addressed an issue on the Balancing Recap Report where payments made prior to a school district adjustment were not being included on the report.
03/01/2018
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
02/15/2018
Reporting
-  Updated the Settlement Report to list interest and penalty total amounts on separate lines.
-  Made changes to the DS4410 Report (new version) to properly address situations of negative TIF capture.
02/01/2018
Reporting
-  Addressed an issue on the Adjustment Report, where the Billing Types option was not reporting correctly.
-  Made changes to the DS4410 Report (new version) to properly address situations of negative TIF capture.
01/15/2018
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
01/01/2018
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
12/15/2017
General
-  MTT Refund Interest rate updated to include the 5.15% for January 1 through June 30, 2018.
Reporting
-  Added the Village season to the Refunds due by Parcel Report.
12/01/2017
Reporting
-  Addressed an issue with Reminder Bills, the report will now allow for past payments to be included. Please turn on the option for Include Past Payments to display the parcel balance for the current season.
-  Addressed an issue with the Mortgage Code/Parcel # Cross Reference Report where a column heading for the Summer Balance was shifting. It is now displaying on the report in the correct column header above the Summer Balance. The Balance column is now totaling on the Mortgage Code and including the Summer Balance when the option "If Winter, include Summer balance on report" is turned on.
-  Addressed an issue where the Mortgage Code/Parcel Number Cross Reference Report was not properly subtotaling the balance column per mortgage code.
11/15/2017
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
11/01/2017
Reporting
-  New Report options added to the Reminder Bill allows users to exclude deferred parcel printing.
10/15/2017
General
-  Added the tax year to be included in the description on a Check Request sent from Tax .NET over to Accounts Payable .NET.
-  Addressed an issue with the Direct option related to the Various Items Import where a current record would not process. This has been corrected to allow for a current record to be used in the Import.
New Features
-  Added a new feature of Online Tax Due Date into the Interest and Penalty Setup. This date allows for displaying on AccessMyGov a due date for taxpayers to reference.
10/01/2017
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
09/15/2017
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
09/01/2017
Reporting
-  Added a Balance column to both the "Mortgage Code/Parcel # Cross Reference" and "Mortgage Code/Parcel # with Barcode" reports
-  Revision made to the SET Reimbursement Report to include parcels that levy a special assessment in the parcel count.
-  Addressed an issue pushing adjustments from Tax .NET to Delinquent .NET regarding the property classification.
08/15/2017
Reporting
-  Added a Report Option to the S.E.T. Reimbursement report to run on either Original or Adjusted Values.
08/01/2017
Reporting
-  Addressed an issue where the SET Reimbursement Report was including some non-qualified parcels.
-  Addressed an issue where the System generated Report Profile's would duplicate as an available option.
07/15/2017
Program Setup
-  Addressed an issue where the 'Hide Village tab Where Applicable' setting was hiding the village tab in all scenarios.
07/01/2017
Calculation Changes
-  MTT Refund Interest rate updated to include the 4.70% for July 1 through December 31, 2017
Reporting
-  Added a subtotal for State School Aid Fund on the Quick Tax Disbursement.
06/15/2017
Other
-  Addressed an issue with deleting out millage rate lines on a millage rate table in a season where an adjustment exists for the parcels. The program will now allow for a millage rate line or table to be deleted in an uncommitted season where adjustments exist.
-  Addressed a PRE Taxable Value Rounding issue where the value was reporting differently than Assessing when pushed out to the 4th decimal place.
06/01/2017
New Features
-  Added an over/under threshold receipting option for all users.
-  Added the option to exclude Billing Codes in the 'Tax Information for Tax Bill Printing Services' export
Other
-  Added support for Transitional Qualified Forest parcels
-  Addressed an issue in the Tax .NET application where millage rate tables could not be deleted from an uncommitted season.
-  Addressed a discrepancy between Assessing and Tax with zero valued parcels in the differences screen and compare report.
Reporting
-  Fixed the layout in the DDA/LDFA Detail Report to correct an issue with printing blank pages.
05/15/2017
General
-  Addressed issue to disallow the deletion of millage tables and individual millage lines if payments exist.
-  Added functionality to the Commit Calculated Tax Amounts utility, the program no longer allows for this utility to be run on a season where payments exist.
-  Addressed issue to disallow the deletion of special assessments if payments have been applied to the parcel.
Reporting
-  Added feature to Daily Cash Journal to separate ACH payment totals.
05/01/2017
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
04/15/2017
Reporting
-  Changed the rounding method on the Quick Tax Disbursement and Settlement Reports so that, when calculating Land Bank Sale parcel distributions, the splitting of odd amounts favors the taxing authorities.
-  An issue with the DDA/LDFA Report (Detail) where multiple school districts totals were not printing correctly has been corrected.
04/01/2017
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
03/15/2017
General
-  Added program functionality increasing the CFR Rate per acre and the CFR Conservation Easement Rate per acre for 2017 Tax Year Databases.
Other
-  Addressed an issue discovered for MBT parcels and the Resource Software Export. The Export has been updated to contain all Tax Sub Code characters for an MBT parcel.
03/01/2017
Other
-  Addressed an issue with Quick Marking and blocking receipts.
-  An issue was resolved with adding PA 494 Parcels to a committed database. They may now be added without adding a corresponding millage table.
-  Addressed an issue with the barcode being printed on the Reminder Tax Bill.
02/15/2017
Other
-  Added support for Transitional Qualified Forest parcels
-  Fixed an issue related to Foreign Address parcels receiving an extra Audit Entry when the Write Floating Values utility is run.
Reporting
-  Questionable Parcels/Payments Report has a new option to exclude Questionable Tax Calculations due to Manual Adjustments.
02/01/2017
Reporting
-  Added an option for the Reminder Bill to have specific Payoff Dates to calculate future delinquent amounts
01/15/2017
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
01/01/2017
General
-  MTT Interest rate updated to include the 4.50% for January 1 - June 30, 2017.
12/15/2016
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
12/01/2016
New Features
-  Added a new feature that allows a user to define the receipt report that prints in the Accept Barcoded Payments Enmasse utility when the Print Receipt Automatically option is turned on.
11/15/2016
New Features
-  Acres can now be changed as needed. However once taxes are committed, users will need to recalculate parcels using the manual adjustment process located under Tools > Edit Tax Amounts Outside Adjustment Process > Recalculate Taxes Based on Current TV/PRE/MBT Info.
-  Changed the Delinquent Personal Export to prompt for Special Act Classification groups to include.
11/01/2016
New Features
-  The export to the Delinquent Tax Application has a change to the way parcel classifications are selected. Users now have more control over which classifications they wish to export.
Reporting
-  The DS 4410 Report now has an option to display all parcels being included in a selected population.
10/15/2016
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
10/01/2016
Reporting
-  Addressed a rounding issue on the DS 4410 report, whereby captured amounts were not always reporting correctly.
09/15/2016
General
-  Addressed an issue where changing the email address on parcels would update the 'Last Modified' date. 'Last Modified' date is now only updated when a name or address is changed.
Reporting
-  Addressed an issue where the SET Reimbursement Report and County SET Settlement Summary Report were including parcels that do not qualify for SET reimbursement.
09/01/2016
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
08/15/2016
New Features
-  Added the ability to import the adjustment date used in the Assessing .NET program for Board of Review adjustments when importing adjustments into the tax program.
08/01/2016
General
-  Address an issue with Database Versioning where the prior release was using an incorrect minor verison number.
08/01/2016
Other
-  Addressed an issue where Qualified Forest parcels with a Building Value filled in were displaying on the Questionable Parcels/Payments Report in rare circumstances.
07/15/2016
Other
-  Added a total for excluded millage rates in DDA Millage Exclusion window in Exclusions/Factors for DDA/TIFA/Brownfield Districts setup.
Reporting
-  Addressed an issue regarding the barcode on the 'Hillsdale County Receipt' report.
07/01/2016
06/15/2016
General
-  Updated a user setting that allows custom access users the ability to download the latest version of the tax program while in an archived database.
06/01/2016
General
-  Addressed an issue with the County Delinquent Tax export School District Warning Message wherein it was not displaying the correct school district.
-  Addressed an issue where a direct import of the Equalizer Assessing/Equalization Import was influenced by the settings of the General Standard ASCii Export in Assessing .NET. Specifically if the Real/Personal setting in assessing was set to Real Only or Personal Only, only that parcel type was imported into the tax program.
-  Added support for phone number in Tab 5 Owner Info. in the Edit Parcel Application View.
Reporting
-  Addressed an issue where a Qualified Forest parcel (QFP PA 42) with building value was incorrectly causing rounding discrepancies in the Standard Warrant report.
05/15/2016
Other
-  MTT Refund Interest rate updated to include the 4.40% for July 1 through December 31, 2016.
05/01/2016
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
04/15/2016
General
-  Addressed an issue where the Complete Tax Roll and all Payments import was removing payment information from tax history.
New Features
-  Added a subtotal for Base Tax when manually adjusting individual tax amounts through Adjust Each Ad Valorem Tax Amount Individually process.
-  Added the ability to apply an override to the State Education Tax (SET) millage rate of individual Special Act parcels.
Reporting
-  Added the ability to search for parcels that have a State Education Tax (SET) override when using the Sequentially Search for Various Fields report.
-  Added Group Security Summary Report under Other Reports.
-  Corrected the User Security Setting report to display the correct settings when a user is part of a user group.
04/01/2016
General
-  Changed the functionality of the Support Utility Bill Winter Taxes in Summer (Senate Bill 322) to not flag parcels that have a zero taxable value as Winter Taxes Billed in Summer.
-  Addressed an issue where Tax .NET refund check requests sent to Accounts Payable .NET that contained refund amounts for adjusted special assessments were causing an error.
New Features
-  The Attachment Path will now be brought forward when 'Application Settings' is chosen during the New Tax Year Database Wizard.
03/15/2016
General
-  Addressed an issue during a refund where editing the Paid By Name 2 field on the refund receipt was causing an error to be displayed when the check request was sent to AP .Net program.
-  Addressed an issue with the Delinquent .NET direct export report where the unit code was not displaying as expected. The report will now include the proper unit code based on the data being exported.
-  Addressed an issue where Tax .NET refunds sent to AP .NET that had interest and or penalty manually added to the refund amount caused the General Ledger Account Number distribution amounts of the refund in the Tax .NET program to not match the amounts displayed on the invoice of the refund check request in AP .NET program.
Reporting
-  Addressed an issue where the DDA/LDFA Report (Detail) report was not properly reporting captured value for parcels set at 0% within the district.
03/01/2016
General
-  Changed the way PA 42 Qualified Forest Program parcels calculate the 2 mill service fee. The service fee is now calculated on the parcel's land value (taxable value minus building taxable value).
02/15/2016
General
-  Moved the New Tax Year Database Wizard option towards the top of the Database Menu.
New Features
-  ACH Export option added that allows the exporting of either amount billed or amount due. Amount billed will not export parcels with any payments or completely paid parcels and amount due exports parcels with or without partial payments but will not export completely paid parcels.
Reporting
-  Addressed an issue where the Quick Tax Disbursement Report option 'Calculate Land Bank Sale Distribution' was causing a report error when a land bank sale receipt was in the report population.
-  When printing a tax bill from CR, in some cases some report requirements were not being properly loaded. This issue has been resolved.
02/01/2016
General
-  Addressed an issue where certain network conditions would cause the program to close unexpectedly.
-  Addressed an issue where Generic Data Exports involving the Receipts Table were including unexpected receipts in the export.
Reporting
-  Added an exceptions list to the report displayed after running the ‘Standard Special Assessment Import From Another Equalizer Tax System’ import.
-  Addressed an issue where the Quick Tax Disbursement report was not reporting as expected when Land Bank Sale receipts were present in the report population and the report option ‘Calculate Land Bank Sale Redistribution’ was being used.
01/15/2016
New Features
-  Added functionality for Tax to calculate captured value for parcels that are not 100% within a TIF capture district in the same manner that the Assessing program does.
01/05/2016
Reporting
-  Addressed an issue where the DDA/LDFA Report (Detail) report was not calculating capture tax value.
01/01/2016
General
-  Addressed an issue where sending a refund check request to the Accounts Payable .NET program would fail if the Paid By Name 2 field in Taxes Paid By window was left blank.
-  MTT Refund Interest rate updated to include the 4.25% for January 1 through June 30, 2016.
12/15/2015
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
12/01/2015
General
-  Addressed an issue whereby the 'Set Fields' utility would not allow changing certain fields on journalized receipts.
11/15/2015
General
-  Addressed an issue where the Standard Cash Receipting Import from Non BSA Vendors was importing payments as overpayments.
-  Addressed an issue where in certain cases payment imports were not sending a payment to the Special Assessment program when using the Special Assessment Option ‘Update Sp. Assessment System when accepting payments’.
Other
-  Modified the Set Fields tool in the Receipts table to not allow changing the Posting or Interest Dates of journalized receipts.
Reporting
-  Added a report to the Parcel Reports category that will list parcels that have been assigned an ACH code.
11/02/2015
Imports/Exports
-  Addressed an issue where the Standard Cash Receipting Import from Non-BSA Vendors was importing all payments as overpayments.
11/01/2015
General
-  Performance enhancement made to the Direct Import version of the Standard Special Assessment Import From Another Equalizer Tax System import.
Reporting
-  Changes made to the DNR Composite Billing report to specifically list out millage based special assessments setup under Taxes Setup > Special Assessments and Drains. Millages listed will balance to the Total Mills per parcel.
10/15/2015
Reporting
-  Daily Cash Journal now changes report label to match the report option Name to Display selected.
-  Resolved an issue with the Land Bank Interest total not displaying correctly on the Quick Tax Disbursement report.
-  Addressed an issue with the Settlement Report where pages after Page 1 were not displaying Taxing Authorities.
-  Addressed an issue with the Quick Tax Disbursement Report where the interest and/or penalty was not subtracted out of the New Total for the School Aid Fund breakout.
10/01/2015
General
-  Addressed an issue with payment imports where users were receiving an error during the live run.
Reporting
-  Addressed an issue where the DDA Detail Report would show captured amounts for millages not being billed.
09/15/2015
General
-  Resolved reporting issue with the previous 9/15/2015 update. Reports with calculated fields, images or tables should be corrected automatically.
09/15/2015
General
-  Addressed an issue where the MTT Refund Interest calculator was not automatically loading negative balances for interest, penalty, and overpayment.
New Features
-  Added an option to send Principle Residence Exemption Reduction adjustments to the Delinquent Tax Program.
Reporting
-  Changed the Top 30 Taxpayer Report to include the season the report is being run in.
-  Added feature to Quick Tax Disbursement Report. The report will now separate the amount of School Operating tax that is due to the State School Aid Fund from payments made on land bank Sale (5/50) parcels.
-  Added a report option to the Quick Tax Disbursement Report that separates collected Commercial Facility Tax and Industrial Facility Tax receipt totals.
-  Added an audit record for user password changes. This will be audited like changing user information, in the administration database.
09/01/2015
General
-  Our customer survey is now available through Help~ Contact Customer Support. Please take the time to complete the survey and let us know how we are doing.
-  Addressed an issue where adjustments on special act parcels would not export to the Delinquent Tax program.
New Features
-  Added functionality to create audit trail entries when running the utility to Calculate DDA Factors.
-  Added new report 'Millage Table/Classification Cross Reference Report' to the Balancing/Settlement reports category.
-  Added a Keyboard Shortcut to enter an adjustment on the Edit Parcel screen (Alt + J)
-  Added feature for user to view Assessor comments for parcel images.
Reporting
-  Added a record count to the Quick Tax Disbursement Report.
-  Added option to the Adjustments Report to allow printing for all seasons (Summer/Winter/Village) at once.
-  Added unit name to Settlement Report Unit Total pages to supplement the unit code currently displayed.
-  Extended the Comments Report to allow for more characters.
-  Addressed an issue where the DDA Detail Report was showing captured amounts for DDA millages on parcels where the millage was not being charged.
08/15/2015
General
-  Change to the General Ledger Quick Entry Utility to allow for all School Districts to be displayed as an option when modifying General Ledger Numbers.
-  Addressed an issue where PA 494/204 Developmental Property Exclusions/Factors tax tables in DDA/TIFA/Brownfield Districts setup were not displaying tax heading codes as expected.
-  When submitting a Technical Support Help Request through the help menu in the program users will need to select a How can we help item.
New Features
-  Added an option to the Assessing Link Options to not update email addresses in tax from the linked assessing database.
-  Added option in the Payoff Calculator that allows users to choose a Reminder Bill that uses the payoff dates in the Payoff Calculator.
Reporting
-  When printing bills, removed the prompt to print the PRE Savings amount. This option is located within Report Options.
08/01/2015
General
-  Addressed an issue with the Real Estate Tax Service Import and the option turned on to Update Special Assessment System when accepting payments.
Reporting
-  Addressed an issue where the Adjustment Report was not including special assessments in the adjustment totals.
07/15/2015
General
-  MTT Refund Interest Rates updated with July to December 2015 rate.
Reporting
-  Addressed an issue where tax bills would not show the correct SET millage on IFT parcels that had SET overrides.
07/01/2015
General
-  For local municipalities: Removed the restriction that required a tech support password to edit a special act millage table.
-  Addressed an issue where the Quick Block list in the Specials Table for Special Code was not in Alpha/Numeric order.
-  Addressed an issue with the Generic Export and the season commit flags. The correct commit flag value will display regardless of season the Generic Export is run in.
06/01/2014
New Features
-  Implemented program changes related to PA 42 Qualified Forest Program.
05/15/2014
Reporting
-  Addressed an issue with the AP Check Request Report, so that it now only displays the Tax Application check requests that have been sent to Accounts Payable.
-  Detail Tax History Report is now correctly reporting summer and winter totals when Summer/Winter is selected in the report options.
05/01/2014
Other
-  Addressed an issue with the tax Application Security setting Edit Initial Assessment Value.
Reporting
-  Added the tax year to the Tax Detail All Seasons window Print Text Details report.
04/15/2014
General
-  Fixed an issue where the Tool to copy "Other" GL numbers in General Ledger Setup was not properly functioning.
Reporting
-  Addressed an issue where the Questionable Parcels/Payments Report was incorrectly reporting on a taxable value calculated millage based special assessment.
04/01/2014
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
03/15/2014
Other
-  Addressed an issue with how small balances display and journalize on journal reports to General Ledger.
-  Addressed an issue where importing PA 494 parcels would zero out billed millage based taxes.
Program Security
-  Added security setting "View Audit Table" under category Database Options. This is defaulting to disabled. Any non-admin user will need this option enabled to view the Audit table.
Reporting
-  Changed the population setting on the Questionable/Parcels and Payments report to run the same population as the Settlement Report when the Questionable/Parcels and Payments report is run from the Settlement Report prompt.
-  Resolved an issue with Parcel without Descriptions report.
03/01/2014
General
-  Addressed an issue where Parcel Search from F5 and Parcel field were not correctly allowing multiple format searches
New Features
-  The send a refund check request to Accounts Payable procedure will now automatically add the parcel number to the Notes field in the Accounts Payable interface window.
02/15/2014
General
-  Addressed an issue with journalizing a reverse receipt that reverses a refund receipt sent to Accounts Payable.
Reporting
-  When using Snap to Grid and Draw Grid, when creating a new report, these options will stay when set.
-  Fixed issue where Mortgage Code/Parcel # Cross Reference were not accurately displaying both summer and winter balances with interest.
02/01/2014
General
-  Addressed an issue where CFR parcel taxes were not calculating correctly when the CFR calculation option was set to spread to each taxing authority.
-  Addressed an issue where the Complete Tax Roll Import was not working correctly when the Update Audit Trail import option was turned on.
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue where users with full rights were unable to print from Archived Database.
01/15/2014
Other
-  MTT Refund Interest Rates updated with January to June 2014 rate.
01/01/2014
Reporting
-   Addressed an issue where a receipt printed from Apply Payments Application View was not accurately displaying the partial payment spread.
12/19/2013
General
-  Addressed an issue with the Assessing/Tax Differences display where multiple PRE adjustments in Assessing were showing incorrectly in the Tax program
12/15/2013
General
-  Added a unit code prompt to the current season tax roll import process if using the Special Inferring Method under Government Units Determind By.
-  Addressed an issue with copy/paste general ledger number tool under Taxes Setup > General Ledger Setup.
Reporting
-  Added functionality to the DDA/LDFA Report (Detail)to properly handle captured amounts in units where winter taxes were billed in the summer.
-  Corrected issue where changes would not save when editing a user report.
12/01/2013
General
-  Addressed an issue where property addresses with a decimal point were not displaying as expected.
-  Addressed a display issue when blocking in the Parcels Table when indexed by Marked you would not see the parcels blocked in red.
-  Fixed an issue where the Drain Assessment Import was causing parcels with a CFR special assessment to double the CFR special assessment.
11/15/2013
Reporting
-  Addressed an issue where parcels with 100% PRE were not displaying on the DS 4410 Report (New Version) as expected.
11/01/2013
New Features
-  Added Search Function to assist finding users in active directory list.
Program Setup
-  Resolved an issue with entering the MBT Commercial Personal Property millage exemption in the Tax Names and Millage rate table.
Reporting
-  Report heading information "Winter Season" has been removed from the DS 4410 Report (New Version) as this report will now always display both summer and winter values.
-  Addressed an issue where the DS 4410 Report (New Version) was displaying an error when run on certain parcels.
10/15/2013
General
-  Fixed an issue that was reintroduced in the 10/15 version where initial values could be edited
10/15/2013
General
-  Multiple users marking parcels with different Mark Numbers, addresses an issue when attempting to block marked records.
New Features
-  Added Search Function to assist finding users in active directory list.
Reporting
-  Added Report, under "Other Reports" to check the status of Check Requests Sent to AP.
10/09/2013
General
-  Fixed an issue where the original Taxable/Assessed/PRE values could be edited when taxes were committed
10/01/2013
New Features
-  Added ability to change PDF document quality to control PDF file size
-  Added Search Function to assist finding users in active directory list
-  Added Search Function to assist finding users in active directory list.
Other
-  Addressed an issue where the email address field in the Owner Information tab was missing
Reporting
-  Various improvements to DS 4410 report
-  Special Assessment Roll can now be run to find Specials with refunds due
-  Resolved an issue were the Settlement Report gives an error if no Municipality name is entered in Unit setup
09/15/2013
Reporting
-  Added option to User Security Report to display all security settings
09/09/2013
Reporting
-  Implemented changes to the DS440 (New Version) Report to reflect the recent legislative changes
09/01/2013
General
-  Corrected an issue that allowed the same payment to be reversed more than once.
-  Addressed an issue with PA 494 parcels that are also in a DDA district. The program was displaying an error when attempting to commit taxes.
New Features
-  Added the ability to perform address searches with just a street number.
-  Adjusted PRE/MBT now displaying accurately on Apply Payments screen.
-  Cursor defaults to the check number field when entering in partial payments now.
-  Added ability to search by Owner Name Extra and Owner Care of Fields.
Other
-  Turning on the Deferment Flag no longer locks up the program, when the update history real-time is turned on.
-  PA 494 parcels will now journalize correctly when improved value is zero.
Program Setup
-  Added the 7/1/2013 date and interest rate to the MTT interest calendar.
-  Added the ability to have the Prior Year Delinquent Message print in both upper and lower case.
Reporting
-  Settlement Report shows correct unit when Choose Unit is selected for one unit and if multiple units are selected, prints "Choose Units" as the population.
-  The Standard Receipt with Signature Line has been updated to now display up to 23 line items.
-  Added additional line items to the display on the Tax Certification Report.
-  Addressed a display issue with PA 494 parcels not displaying the correct taxable value for the specific school district breakout.
08/15/2013
Other
-  Fixed issue with using small font when printing Mortgage Company mailing labels 3 across
-  Deleting attachments will now complete successfully.
Program Security
-  Added report profile user security allowing you to specify users or groups that can or can't access the report profile.
Reporting
-  Added ability to include interest on the Mortgage Code/Parcel # Cross Reference and Mortgage Code/Parcel # with Barcode reports
-  Fixed report layout issue for Special Assessment Receipting Journal report
-  Mortgage Code/Parcel # Cross Reference report heading changed to display the actual population selected
-  Fixed an issue with the Mortgage Company mailing labels to print the selected population
-  Added the ability to add watermarks to reports. The file must be .jpg and can be set in Program Setup | Administration | Global Report Watermark Setup.
08/15/2013
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
08/01/2013
General
-  PA277 Choice parcels, ability to index the parcels table by these and run reports on the specified population. Also, added the PA277 flag to Report Writer
Program Security
-  Added Security Options to Control Adding New Users
Reporting
-  For ease of reporting, we have added a PA 494 TV IMPRVMT line to our Standard Tax Roll Report
-  Added new report special population of PA 494 Parcels
-  Updated Deferment Application to include City, State, Zip in the Address fields of the application
-  Fixed DDA/LDFA Detail Report to correctly reflect capture on winter millages billed in the summer season
07/15/2013
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
07/01/2013
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
06/25/2013
Reporting
-  Corrected an issue where some reports were printing with blank data fields
06/18/2013
General
-  Removed edit restrictions for millage rate entry for PA-494 Developmental Properties
06/15/2013
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
06/07/2013
General
-  Implemented program changes dealing with the following legislative acts: PA 277 Schools of choice, SB 972 Prior Year Delinquent Taxes Message, Turbine Non Exempt Parcels
-  Updated the Standard Real Estate Tax Service export to now include 2 new flags, one for the Winter taxes billed in the Summer flag and another for the Prior Year Delinquent flag.
06/01/2013
General
-  Legislation changes for SB 322 – Winter on Summer Bill
-  Legislation changes for SB 972 Prior Year Delinquent Notice
-  2 New Special Populations for Reports have been added (Prior Year Delinquent Parcels and Winter Taxes Billed on Summer Parcels)
-  Several New Special Act Classifications have been added.
05/15/2013
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue with user created reports not displaying in the recently renamed report category Receipts (Based on the Parcels Table).
05/01/2013
Other
-  Addressed an issue with the Current Season import that caused the import to not work as expected.
Reporting
-  Fixed issue where the Allegan County Tax Roll would not display expected information when run on parcels with school district adjustments.
04/15/2013
Other
-  Addressed an issue where the option to update history in real time setting was causing system slowness when moving between parcel records.
04/01/2013
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
03/15/2013
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
03/01/2013
New Features
-  Added new User Preference option to Flash User Alpha Fields
Reporting
-  Addressed an report issue where new Special Act classifications were not being included/excluded on reports as expected.
-  Added Land Bank Sale Redistribution to the Settlement Report
02/15/2013
Other
-  Made changes to the Cash Receipting Import "Payments Based on Mortgage Code" so check number(s) will import correctly into the tax program.
Reporting
-  Made changes to reports for the new classification Sr Citizen Family Disabled Housing-PILT 2013 Rates.
02/05/2013
General
-  Fixed an issue journalizing negative payments.
02/01/2013
General
-  Sr Ctzn/Dis Fam Hsg - PILT 2013 millage table will correctly display error when trying to charge an Administration Fee.
Reporting
-  Questionable Parcel Warning Band will no longer display on Settlement Report for Senior Citizen Disabled Family Housing PILT parcels when taxable value is higher than assessed value.
-  Tax Journal Report is now correctly including all negative journal entries in the total.
01/15/2013
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
01/01/2013
General
-  Updated MTT Interest Calculator with Jan 1, 2013 Interest at 4.25%
12/15/2012
General
-  Addressed an issue where CFR Calculations set to spread to each Taxing Authority was incorrectly adding CFR distribution to the School OPER FC line item.
12/01/2012
General
-  Change to Assessing/Tax Parcel Differences, to address Winter Only PRE differences from displaying while in the Summer season in situations where other adjustments are present.
-  Placed "Change Parcel Number" utility into the Special BSA Tech support utilities. Also, changed Audit Trail to now capture and report any changed parcel numbers for the current database and in the History File.
Reporting
-  Made a change to receipts on negative transactions so they would not show a balance due where appropriate.
11/20/2012
General
-  Fixed an issue regarding Winter PRE/Foreclosure Rescission Adjustments when committing winter taxes
-  Committed tax amounts were not affected
11/16/2012
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue with the Direct Import from Assessing
11/15/2012
General
-  Scheduled Update: No specific feature changes.
09/04/2012
General
-  Added a Quick Print Tax Bill button on the Edit Parcel screen that sends a tax bill for the current season directly to the printer.
08/15/2012
Calculation Changes
-  Fixed an issue with invalid payment spreads when your receipt spreading option is set to Spread Equally to All Buckets.

There was an issue where the amount spread to the taxing authorities could have been off by a penny causing the overall receipt amount to not match the actual amount spread. Upon updating, we will automatically detect for these invalid spreads and notify you with a report.
06/21/2012
General
-  Fixed an issue where the seasonal tab control on the Edit Parcel screen is not displaying correctly on 64-bit machines running Windows 7
Reporting
-  Fixed the Adjustment Report so it now properly exports to Excel
Imports/Exports
-  Added new logic to the Tax Bill Printing Service Export so that the School Operating Foreclosure taxing authority is never exported (when it is not billed)
06/13/2012
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue with the Standard Warrant Report where it was not properly handling taxing authorities which were setup to only bill to Comm/Ind Property
06/06/2012
General
-  Updated the system with the changes specified in Public Act 114 of 2012 (Senate Bill 349)
04/11/2012
General
-  Fixed an issue in the last version where the program would crash when searching for part of a parcel number
03/08/2012
Calculation Changes
-  Fixed an issue with the Calculate DDA Factors process where if more than 1,000 records were associated with the DDA code you were processing the factors would not compute properly.
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue with the Complete Roll Import where we at times were not honoring the order of Special Assessments within the import file. This would then in turn cause payments to import their spreads in the incorrect order causing balancing issues.

Note: Simply re-importing the file after updating will correct any spread issues
02/27/2012
General
-  Fixed an issue where partial payments were not spreading correctly and still allowed to be saved within the system. Please note that this issue was only a factor when ALL of the following scenarios were true:

  • Payment was a partial payment
  • Payment was entered in to the system via import or web
  • Receipt spread option set to spread equally across all buckets
  • Tax.NET program version equal to or greater than 01/11/2012


  • **NOTE: Upon updating, the system will automatically detect any invalid payment spreads the next time you open the database. If invalid spreads are found, you will be prompted with a message and report. If you have any questions please contact Tax Support.
01/11/2012
Calculation Changes
-  Fixed an issue where partial payments were not spreading properly when the Receipt Spread Option was set to 'Ratio Method - Spread evenly to all buckets'. This was only an issue when the municipality was setup to only charge interest to Tax Amounts only. New logic will take this in to consideration when calculating the receipt spread.
General
-  Resolved an issue where you'd potentially receive an error message when modifying an existing reversal receipt which was created due to a school or classification adjustment regarding an empty GL #. This was the result of the wrong school and/or classification being used when validating that receipt's general ledger numbers
11/17/2011
Reporting
-  Fixed a program crash that would occur when editing calculated expressions in the report desiger
11/14/2011
General
-  Fixed an issue that was introduced in today's update which caused payments to be taken thru internet services to be rejected
10/25/2011
General
-  Fixed an issue when attempting to Add an Attachment where the program would force close
-  No longer showing uncommitted seasons when in Public Viewing Mode
-  Added new option to the Parcel Set Fields utility so that when you modify the Comments you now have two choices: 1) You can completely replace the Comment or 2) You can append to the existing comment
-  Added the ability to resize the Receipt window. This was needed for customers who would like to view all taxing authorities without having to scroll
-  Renamed the title of our Parcel Legal Description window
Reporting
-  Added new feature to our Invalid Address Report so that you can elect to ignore checking the street # on Personal Property / BLL Parcels
-  Added new options to our Deferment List Report so you can filter to only show either deferments with balances due or deferments with partial payments
-  Added the ability to export the Adjustment Report to Excel
-  Added new logic to our QTD Report so that when electing to separate out Land Bank Sales we now show an individual page for each land bank type (State, County, and City) rather than one page for all land banks combined
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed City of Detroit Delq. Personal Property Tax Bill Export so that it will properly export when running from the Winter season
10/21/2011
General
-  Fixed an error that was showing when trying to add an attachment
10/19/2011
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue with our Payment Imports related to the recent classification adjustment changes. The issue was isolated to receipts entered on non-advalorem parcels. When viewing the receipt in the program you'd see the 'INVALID TAX TABLE' message on each of the receipt detail items. This update will also correct any existing payments in your system and you do NOT have to re-import them
10/07/2011
General
-  Tax.NET now supports the ability to adjust a parcel's classification. The classification can now ONLY be modified thru the adjustment process once taxes have been committed.
09/20/2011
General
-  Fixed an issue when removing a manual adjustment when a previous adjustment existed and the parcel was not clearing the 'manual adjustment' flag / message
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue with the Balancing Recap Report not properly reporting the correct original values when a school district adjustment was made
09/09/2011
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue where payment imports were not properly updating the amount paid on the history entry
08/29/2011
General
-  Fixed an issue where the program would display an error while attempting to perform an AP Check Request
08/23/2011
General
-  Added a new Print Button when viewing an existing receipt
-  No longer create a file when running the ACH Proof process
-  Fixed an issue where the Batch # would not properly save itself when entering it on the Apply Payments screen
Reporting
-  Show a warning when a customer runs the Hillsdale County Receipt and is not licensed to Hillsdale
-  Tweak to the logic used to calculate the receipt interest spread (i.e. shown on the QTD Report).

Note:This change will only affect those users who elect to not charge interest on special assessments and also collect interest before 9/15. If this DOES affect you, please call BS&A Software Tax Support as soon as possible.
Imports/Exports
-  Added new custom Current Season Export for County Users export. This allows the export to run over multiple units and is NOT intended to be later imported in to the Tax system. New export is located under 'Custom Exports'
08/17/2011
General
-  Added new warning message to the receipt journalization process so that if you are running over a block/range and have your sort index set to actual date or interest date and choose to filter by post date you'll now receive a warning message explaining the possible issues with doing this
-  Added new utility: Update Names and Addresses from Assessing. This utility will run over a selected population and attempt to update the names, addresses, and send bill to flag regardless of the update options setup in program setup. (Acts just like the Update legals utility)
-  Went through and updated anywhere we were checking if a parcel was Sr. Citizen Disabled to now include the 2012 Sr. Citizen Disabled classification choice
Reporting
-  Added new special population choice: Ad Valorem minus (Sr. Citizen Disabled)
-  Added new feature to the DDA Detail Report so that it is now possible to run the report over *ALL* DDA/LDFA's
07/25/2011
Reporting
-  When licensed to Harper Woods always display the receipt journal report in summary
-  Fixed a layout issue with the MTT Taxable Adjustment Affidavit Report
-  Tweaks to the layout of the Reminder Bill to better handle large unit names
Imports/Exports
-  Added logic to the Assessing BOR Import so if you are licensed to Hillsdale County the actual date/time is now imported
07/12/2011
General
-  No longer attempting to check security rights when viewing the Info. button on the Edit Parcel / Apply Payments screen
-  Added new logic in the Tax program so anytime you enter CC for the Check # field the system will default the field to show 'CREDIT CARD' (like we do with 'C' for 'CASH').
-  Fixed a scrolling issue with the Accept Barcoded Payments utility
Reporting
-  Added Tuscola County Receipt
-  Updated the Daily Cash Journal Report to now handle sub-grouping by Credit Card. This requires the Check # field to show 'CREDIT CARD'
06/29/2011
General
-  Updated the verbage on our parcel set fields utility to now display in the title where you can set the send bill to flag
Reporting
-  Fix to the General Ledger Number Printout so that Special Assessments are now properly listed for all property types
Imports/Exports
-  Added the NCOA Export
06/24/2011
General
-  Fixed a program crash that would occur at various points in the application for users with the option to 'Hide Village Tab where applicable' turned on. This only applies to the 6/23 version.
06/22/2011
General
-  Added new error message when attempting to restore a database backup file which has no data
Reporting
-  Added new filter selection display to our Choose Units, Choose Specials, and Choose Audit Types report population windows
06/21/2011
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue where certain fields within a calculated expression would be removed when switching to the advanced view
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue where legals and/or comments would import in to the system with extra spaces between lines / words
06/17/2011
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue you could possibly receive while performing the Tax Bill Printing Service Export regarding a 'key not being present'
06/15/2011
Reporting
-  Added the ability to breakdown the Top 30 Taxpayer Report by classification type
06/06/2011
General
-  Added the ability to change the font size on the legals window
-  Fixed an issue where our Audit Trail was no longer creating the proper detailed Audit Records. This was causing issues when attempting to run the Audit Report for specific change types. This fix only applies to audit entries going forward
-  Added the ability to copy over CVT Access Settings in both the 'New DB' and 'Copy DB' wizards
-  Fixed an issue regarding Generic Backups where after restoring a Generic Backup you'd receive an error when attempting to open the program.
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue where the Proper Class Report would not print in certain scenarios. This was due to an invalid property class type being set via the Assessing Import
-  Added the ability to print the owner address on the Adjustment Report
05/25/2011
General
-  Fixed a potential problem where you'd receive an error stating 'Error loading and calculating DDA details.' during the Commit Taxes process.

While this scenario is quite rare to encounter it is still recommended you update before committing taxes.
05/20/2011
General
-  When entering a partial payment amount on the Apply Payments screen the 'Pay Balance' and 'Pay Balance (All Seasons)' buttons will become disabled to prevent confusion
-  Added new option under General Settings which allows you to define if the Hide Village option is defined globally or per-user
05/19/2011
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue with our DIRECT Assessing Import where certain Legal Records were not importing. This was due to an issue when handling special characters like degree symbols and fractional characters.

** NOTE ** If you previously performed a direct import you'll want to re-import your Legals file to correct this issue. If you performed an ASCII Import you are not affected by this issue.
05/18/2011
General
-  New logic added to the ACH Export Process. When running the pre-note process we no longer skip parcels which have had payments already made allowing them to be pre-noted
-  Added new verbage to the New DB Wizard better explaining how to set your shared DB group
-  New logic added to the New DB Wizard so your newly created database will always have its shared DB group set to 'None' by default
-  Added new logic to the New DB Wizard to default the 'Update History' option to OFF by default
Reporting
-  Tweaked the Adjustment Report to allow for more width in the Tax Heading column. Previously, if you were using the max amount of characters in any of your Tax Headings they would be clipped off if the 'original' column amounts were too large
Imports/Exports
-  Added better error messages to all of our imports if they ever encounter an error during runtime.
-  Added new logic to the Assessing Import so if your unit is currently committed and you do not have the 'Update Existing Parcels Only' flag enabled you will now be shown a warning saying that you should enable this option
05/09/2011
Reporting
-  Added support for the Intelligent Mail Barcode. This feature can now be setup under the Taxes Setup screen and used on any Report Writer Reports
05/04/2011
General
-  Added the ability to run the Add Payments Enmasse Utility over multiple seasons
-  Added several indices to our Receipt List so all indices are now available when viewing either by local unit or county
-  No longer displaying the Village info when clicking the Tax Details button and no village taxes were billed
-  Added new program setup option which will automatically mark all seasons as deferred when electing to defer a parcel (currently this is done by season)
-  Added support for printing from any of our Help Dialogs
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue where overriding interest / penalty would not allow for filtering on the Audit Report
-  Added the ability to include interest/penalty when running the Sequentially Search Fields Report and you enable the option to filter by tax billed amounts
-  Added new Special Population: (BLL) + Personal Property Parcels Only for use on reports
-  Corrected a display issue with our Adjustment Reports so that long tax headings no longer overflow in to the 'original' column
-  Fixed an issue with the Huron County Roll where the tax headings were not displaying properly if there were more than 10 headings
-  Added new report writer report: Simple List Multiple Seasons Report. This is a report writer version of the Simple List which also runs over both summer and winter
Program Setup
-  Added ability to enter comments on the Mortgage Company Setup Form
Imports/Exports
-  Added new logic to the Dlq County Tax Export so we now properly validate that no duplicate tax headings exist before exporting
-  Added new post-process report to the Special Assessment Import from another Tax databae. This eliminates the prompts you'd previously receive while performing the import
-  Added the ability to export and import both the e-mail address and do not print bill flag for the Various Items Export
04/27/2011
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue when performing the Various Items Import and you elected to import DDA Information. There was an issue where duplicate DDA Factor Tables were being added upon import
03/29/2011
Reporting
-  Added new logic to the Quick Tax Disbursement Report so that if you enable the option to Calculate Land Bank Sale Redistributions the redistributions are now displayed per taxing authority rather than one lump sum total

Also, added a new option which allows you to separate Land Bank Sales to their own totals page
03/11/2011
General
-  Added utility to mark parcels enmasse using a text file containing the parcels to mark
Reporting
-  Update to the Osceola County Tax Roll so that the Total Roll will now properly display both original adjust adjusted values
-  Update to the Sequentially Search for Various Fields report so when electing to report on Negative Int/Pen Balance we now look at each one seperately rather than together
03/09/2011
Calculation Changes
-  Update to Tom's latest C++ changes. Specifically, we are no longer charging penalty on deferred parcels when prompting for interest
General
-  Fix to our History Graph where the lines displayed in the graph were using the opposite seasons' colors
Reporting
-  Added Hillsdale Bill Reports in preparation for them coming on soon
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue regaring the Complete Roll Import where the receipt spread would not import properly in certain scenarios
-  Fixed an issue with the Direct Tax Export where adjustments were not properly being merged with the destination database
03/01/2011
General
-  Fixed an issue where switching databases would cause the program to crash
Reporting
-  New features added to the Settlement Report so that questionable parcels / payments will automatically be detected during report processing. If any issues are found, this will be noted at the top of the report and you will then be prompted to run the Questionable Report afterwards.
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue with all of our Assessing Imports when importing data that was exported from the PVSW Assessing System. Previously, there was an error reading the VALUES file structure which would cause junk parcels to be added to your database.
02/18/2011
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue where you'd receive an unexpected error when running the List Over/Under Payments Report
02/17/2011
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue when printing bills. The problem would occur when the following scenario was hit: 1) 'Exclude' options would have to be enabled. 2) A parcel which had its 'Send To' flag set to Owner & Taxpayer would need to be excluded.

When this scenario was met the next bill to print would display incorrect information.
02/16/2011
Reporting
-  Fixed an error you'd receive when printing bills claiming that 'index is outside the bounds of an array'.

NOTE: You would only receive this if you had any of the 'exclude' options enabled when printing bills
02/11/2011
General
-  Fix to the Assessing Differences Link and the Assessing DB Compare Report so we now use the previous classification when comparing against the Assessing database
-  Added new Set Field Utility to remove a DDA from a parcel. (Called 'DDA - Remove from Parcel')
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue with the Reminder Bill not properly handling dates for leap years
02/08/2011
General
-  Fixed an issue where the MTT Interest Refund Calculator was only updating the payoff amounts for the current season (tab) you were viewing when modifying any of the date values. (A symptom would be displaying the incorrect # of days in the calculation details)
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue with the Tax Collection Report by Date where the breakdown would not be shown for a day if the total of payments equaled 0.00
Imports/Exports
-  Added Otsego County Export
-  Fixed a display issue on the GL Export Report Header for the KZoo Eden Export
02/03/2011
General
-  Fixed an issue where millage based Special Assessments were not reflecting the proper amount when being adjusted multiple times
-  Corrected typo on Dlq. County export dialog
-  When Auto Cell Movement is enabled on the Apply Payments screen the cursor will properly position itself based on your default search type
01/31/2011
General
-  Fixed an issue when attempting to view the GIS Screen would cause the program to crash unintentionally
01/25/2011
General
-  New Contact Customer Support feature added: A new feature has been added under the Help Menu which will enable you to submit a request to BS&A Support to contact you via phone.
01/18/2011
General
-  Added new display on the Apply Payments Screen. When linked to Dlq. Personal Property and you have an amount owing in the linked program a new warning label will be shown on the screen so you are aware of this information
Reporting
-  Fixed several typos on a handful of our Receipt Reports. The word Official was incorrect
01/14/2011
General
-  Fixed an issue where the Info... button would not appear for special interest calculations on the Apply Payments Screen
-  Fixed an issue where the cursor was not properly returning back to the Parcel # field when applying payments using Auto Cell Movement
-  Added logic so the Apply Payments Enmasse utility now properly recognizes zero balance parcels even if it contains receipts
-  Added new BSA Message Center
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue with the Tax Collection Record by Date report not displaying the correct special assessment amounts. This was caused by a special being added on to a parcel AFTER a payment was made.
-  Added logic to enforce a special assessment be selected when running the Special Assessment Receipting Journal
01/03/2011
General
-  Fixed an issue where attempting to access an attachment would crash the program
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue with the Standard Warrant Report where if the headings wrapped to a second page the page header was not printing properly
Imports/Exports
-  Fix to the Complete Roll Import specific to Allegan Co.
-  Added new logic to the Kentwood Payment Import so if the import code is anything ohter than 'S', 'W', or 'V' an error is reported
12/16/2010
General
-  Now displaying the Special Assessment amount billed on the Apply Payments Screen
Imports/Exports
-  When performing the Drain Import any new Special Assessments added to the system will be added as Drains
-  Fixed an issue with the Assessing Direct Import where it would prompt if you wanted to journalize negative transactions. This message should only be displayed if a school district adjustment occurred
12/15/2010
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue where the fields in the MemoryFieldsAddlTable were not being loaded even if you were using one of the fields from that table in a Calculated Expression
12/13/2010
General
-  CFT – Rehab – PA 210 of 2005 changed to now read CFT-Rehab Value-PA 210 of 2005
Reporting
-  Fixed typo on the QTD Report Options window
12/09/2010
General
-  Added 2011 MTT Interest Rate (1.12%)
12/08/2010
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue when printing Tax Bills where if the send to flag was set to 'Owner & Taxpayer' the incorrect address was being printed on the second copy
11/30/2010
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue with the Adjustment History Report so it now properly handles the date range and adjustment type filters as well as Special Assessments
-  Added Date/Time to the Warrant Report
-  Modified the Reminder Bill so we now use the respective Unit's Tax Bill Message 2 rather than our canned generic message
-  Fixed multiple display issues with the MTT Int Refund Report when sending it to File or Spreadsheet
11/24/2010
General
-  Added support for handling the deletion of multiple manual adjustments. The system should now properly recalculate your current adjusted tax bill when multiple manual adjustments exist and you then delete one of them.
-  Fixed an issue where if you had multiple manual adjustments on a parcel it was possible to delete a manual adjustment which was not the most CURRENT manual adjustment on the parcel
11/22/2010
Reporting
-  Added the Municipality Name field to the System Information table for use on Report Writer reports
-  Added City of Monroe Bill (Laser)
11/19/2010
General
-  Fixed an issue with the Number Tax Bills process causing the program to unexpectedly close.
11/18/2010
Calculation Changes
-  Added a new choice to determine what properties should be billed a certain Tax Rate. The new choice is called DDA Millage Non-PRE Properties.
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue with the Taxable/PRE/MBT % Report where if your Unit Name was too long the Report would throw an error
11/15/2010
General
-  Fixed an issue when indexed by 'Adjusted? Y/N' column and blocking was not properly working
Reporting
-  Modified the Tax Warrant report so that the signature line now reads 'Assessor / Supervisor' per 211.42
Program Setup
-  Added a new option in General Settings which allows you to not charge an Admin. % when adding Specials to the system
-  Added the optional Originating DFI ID field to our Unit's ACH Setup
-  Reworded the warning you receive when attempting to modify a Special Classification table
-  Added the ability to specify an Alternate License under the General Settings window.
Imports/Exports
-  New features added to the CASS Certification Export which allow you to set a handful of new export filters
11/08/2010
General
-  Added logic to the Calculate Recycle Fee Process so that it no longer applies Special Assessments to parcels which are inactive
-  Support up to 10 characters when entering the Special Assessment for the Calculate Recycle Fee Process
Imports/Exports
-  Updated both the Complete Roll and Current Season imports / exports to support Special Assessments up to 10 characters long
11/05/2010
General
-  Fixed an issue where the program would crash when adding attachments
-  Fixed an issue where it was possible after running an import that the system would get tripped in to a state where it was possible to have multiple CFR Specials added to a Parcel in the winter season
Imports/Exports
-  Updated logic to support importing the CFR Rehab classification from PVSW Tax
11/03/2010
Calculation Changes
-  Fixed an issue where the Admin Fee was not calculating for CFR Special Assessments in the winter season
General
-  Fixed an issue when indexed by Owner Name and attempting to set a block where the rows within the block were not being properly colored
10/31/2010
General
-  Added a new Payoff Calculator button to our seasonal tab on the Edit Parcel screen. This new utility can be used to view the payoff amounts due at specific dates (up to 3).
Program Setup
-  Fixed an error you would encounter while modifying the priority of Tax Names / Millage Rates.
10/29/2010
General
-  Fixed an issue where a duplicate CFR Special would be put on the winter season when one already existed. This would happen by clicking the 'Specials' button and then closing the window
Program Setup
-  Fixed an issue when pasting Tax Names + Rates on to a Sr. Citizen table and the millages were not being set to 0
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue for City Saginaw where their parcel numbers were not being formatted properly when running the complete tax roll export
10/28/2010
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue where Report Filters were not properly being honored when running reports
Program Setup
-  Fixed an issue where tax rates were not being displayed on the DDA Exclusion Factor window
10/27/2010
Calculation Changes
-  Fixed an issue for Lincoln Park where interest wasn't calculating properly
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue where if a Parcel had more than 30 payments you'd receive an error when attempting to run any Report Writer Reprots
10/27/2010
General
-  Per request of City of Holland added new winter millage to their custom report + export
Reporting
-  Fixed the Standard Warrant Report where it was possible for school tax rates to not group properly
10/22/2010
Calculation Changes
-  Added Midland Township special penalty calculation
General
-  Accept Barcoded Payments utility now allows for entry of the Payment Source
-  Added support for CFT - PA227 of 2008 special act classification
Reporting
-  Added support for custom Oakland Co. group fields for use on the Report Writer
10/22/2010
Reporting
-  Added the population choice to the Dlq. Int. Spread Report
-  Fixed our Receipt Reports so the 'LastPmt_X' fields now properly display the most current receipt. Previously they were always displaying the oldest receipt
Program Setup
-  Fixed a bug in the Report Writer Maintenance window where highlighting a report and clicking 'OK' would not take you to that report
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue with our payment imports where if you chose a 'Proof' run and then immediately performed a 'Live' run the report would show duplicate information
10/21/2010
General
-  Increased the performance of our calculation logic. You should notice benefits throughout the program (i.e. reports, processes, etc.)
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue where the Adjustment Report was not displaying the proper final and difference values. This would only occur if you had an adjustment in the summer season only
10/15/2010
General
-  Fixed an issue where you'd receive an error message stating that 'Column 'code_parcelnumber' does not allow DBNull.Value.'
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue with our Payments Only Export when running the export from a village season.
10/14/2010
General
-  Added new field, Code / Parcel Number to our Specials list so you can sort by code and have the secondary sort on Parcel Number as well
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue when printing Tax Bills where the amount field was showing 2 and the tax heading was not printing
Imports/Exports
-  Increased the timeout duration on our import processes to help reduce the chance of a server timeout error
10/12/2010
Reporting
-  Added support for the Settlement Report to now breakdown totals by Unit
Imports/Exports
-  Added new logic to all of our payment imports so directly after performing a proof run the system will ask if you would like to perform a LIVE run and commit changes. This should reduce the need to re-enter all information again
-  When running the Special Assessment Export and your selected population is 'Choose Specials' we now make sure to clear out this setting and revert the export back to 'All Records' for the next time around.
10/12/2010
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue with our Special Assessment Export so that if you choose to run over a population of Choose Specials the population choice will be cleared out and reset for the next time you run the export. This will prevent the scenario where you export the incorrect specials the second time around
-  Fixed an issue with any of our export windows that prompted for a Directory and/or File Name where clicking the browse button would crash the program
10/07/2010
General
-  Fixed an issue where you'd experiance a performance decrease when linked to Assessing while running processes, reports, imports, etc..
-  When linked to Dlq. Tax .NET and you have the option enabled to send adjustments we now make sure to send manual adjustments to Dlq. Tax as well
10/01/2010
General
-  Added the ability to drill down and view the 'Tendered By' details for Cash Receipting payments This feature can be accessed by clicking the Additional Pymt Details button when viewing a receipt
Program Setup
-  Added the ability to change color schemes per database rather than per user. This setting is located in the General Settings dialog
09/30/2010
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue with the Questionable Payment / Parcel Report showing false-positives in regards to questionable tax calculation
-  Fixed an issue with the Tax Collection Report displaying the last processed receipt twiice when running across a filtered population
09/28/2010
General
-  Fixed an issue when updating history where if the parcel contained duplicate special assessment codes it was possible the billing/payment spread window would display inaccurate results (i.e. only one special assessment out of the two would be listed)
09/24/2010
General
-  Fixed an issue with our conversion routine where we were converting over invalid parcel specials that existed in PVSW Tax but should not have been converted
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue with our reports that would display Report Name For XXXX where 'XXXX' was the name of the unit you last had your cursor on. Now, the reports will properly display the last unit processed in the report
09/21/2010
General
-  Always show the post-conversion report after performing a PVSW Tax conversion
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue with the Adjustment History Report if the pacel contained multiple adjustments using the same adjustment date
Imports/Exports
-  All payment imports now display a transaction count along with the dollar amount totals
-  Added the ability to specify an additional report title when performing the Mortgage Company Payment Import
09/15/2010
General
-  Reworked the appearance of the Apply Payments screen so the receipt list is a bit easier on the eyes. Payment amounts will also reflect their proper color to help quickly point out negative payments.
-  Fixed an issue when journalizing receipts that were sent to AP. We were previously attempting to verify the Liability GL # for detail entries that wouldn't have even been journalized. This was an issue Southgate was specifically hitting
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue with the Livingston County Receipt Report so that the 'Received Of' and 'To' portions of their Receipt print the proper addresses
09/13/2010
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue with the QTD Report regarding loading the proper DDA Factors when the parcel has had its school district adjusted. Previously we were always looking at the orignal school district instead of the school district the receipt paid on.
09/10/2010
General
-  Fixed an issue for Lenawee County where the incorrect Parcel was being shown when printing the Assessing Report from the linked applications area
-  If you do not have edit rights to the Legal Description (either linked to Assessing or viewing the Public / Inquiry screens) the legal description window will now focus the 'Close' button by default
-  Added new Set Field utility to set the Show Comments in Equalizer CR System flag
09/09/2010
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue where it was possible during any of our Payment Imports that the incorrect Unit ID was being assigned to the first payment you imported. This would cause the receipt to be ignored when calculating the balance due on the parcel. Simply updating the program will resolve this issue (and fix any previous receipts automatically)
09/08/2010
General
-  Fixed an issue with the Barcoded Payments Utility where if you had multiple masks setup the system would not recognize a scanned Parcel # using one of the alternate parcel # formats you have setup
-  Added the ability to now specify two decimal places when running the Special Assessment Set Field utility to apply a factor
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue with the Adjustment Report when using a Date Range filter and manual adjustments not displaying the correct final value
09/07/2010
Imports/Exports
-  Added the ability to specify the directory to place export files when performing the complete roll export
09/03/2010
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue when adding a reversal payment where the time portion of the receipt was not storing the correct value. This would cause the system to think the reversal was actually entered BEFORE the orignal payment, causing display issues on receipt reports
09/02/2010
General
-  Added new option to the County Conversion Utility so you can now convert Tax History as well
-  Fixed an issue with our Conversion where if the PVSW database had no ParcelMaster records the conversion would not convert over Receipts or Specials.
Reporting
-  Added new informational fields to the MTT Int. Refund Report
08/31/2010
Calculation Changes
-  Added new 'type' to our Audit table for Payment Modifications. This will allow you to filter down your Audit Report to only changes made to payments (i.e. Batch #). Also added support to setup an advanced query on the AuditDetails table.
General
-  Fixed an issue so when you reverse a payment that was marked as disbursed the reversal payment will no longer show that it was also disbursed
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an error with the Complete Roll Import regarding Village Units. There was an unintentional issue where once you selected the village unit you wanted to import in to the system would claim that the selected unit was not a village unit when in fact it was.
08/27/2010
Reporting
-  Added new Special Population choice Ad Valorem Parcels minus(Act 189, RZ, BLL, SrCit) to match what was recently added to PVSW Tax
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue with the Complete Tax Roll Import where if you had the Update History Real-Time flag enabled the import would create a duplicate history entry for the current sesaon if one already existed
08/27/2010
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue that was accidently introduced in a recent update where the Date and Time information at the top of our Reports was no longer printing
08/25/2010
Reporting
-  Fixed the Report Options window when viewing from the Report Profile screen so it is no longer being clipped
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue with the Special Assessment Import from another Tax Database where if a parcel contained duplicate special assessment codes it would only import the first special and not the duplicates
08/24/2010
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue when running the Special Assessment Export (to another Tax database) and you were using a population of Choose Specials. Regardless of which specials you selected the system would always export everything
08/23/2010
General
-  When making a School District Adjustment on a parcel which has payments you will now be prompted to select if you wish for the reversal payments to be including in the next journalization
08/20/2010
General
-  Added logic to the Adjustment Entry Window so when enabling/disabling any of the checkbox fields it will now automatically advance to the next entry field (behaves like PVSW Tax)
08/19/2010
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue where fields that were intended to display information from the last receipt were displaying incorrect values from previous receipts
Program Setup
-  Added City of Zilwaukee custom penalty logic
08/16/2010
General
-  Added a new School District Code Change Tech Support utility
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue with the DS 4410 (New) Report where the school districts within each unit were not printing in numeric order
-  Added Oakland County Adjustment Report
Program Setup
-  Modified the wording on the General Ledger Numbers Setup window to now read 'All Taxing Authority General Ledger Entries'
08/12/2010
General
-  Fixed an issue where you could not close out of the Receipt Options dialog after modifying the Payment Spread Option
08/11/2010
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue with the Top 30 Taxpayers Report not handling the same owner name where one of the names would have trailing whitespace at the end
-  Updated our Report Writer 'Friendly Names' for the Receipts table so the proper names are now displayed
Imports/Exports
-  Implemented the Oakland Tax Spread Export
08/10/2010
General
-  Added the ability to filter by Post Date when journalizing a population of records
Reporting
-  Updated the QTD Report so the Special Assessment Code is now displayed along with the heading
08/04/2010
General
-  Implemented custom features for Northville Township, Wayne Co.
-  Added the Default Search Option to the Receipt Options window. This will allow you to specify which field should gain focus after taking a payment (when you have Auto Cell Movement Enabled)
Reporting
-  Updated the Mort Company / Parcel Cross-Ref Report so the unit return address is printed for each Mortgage Code section rather than just the last page
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue with the Assessing Split Import where you'd receive an error stating it could not insert duplicate Parcels
07/30/2010
General
-  Added new check list reminder when using the New Database Wizard reminding the user to update their Tax Bill Due Dates after creating their new database
-  Added a new tech support utility to correct the Various Items import issue. The tech support utility will remove duplicate DDA Factor Tables
-  When creating an AP Check Request we now make sure to carry over the receipt's 'paid by' information for use as the check request's vendor name / address
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue with the QTD Report not handling receipts which were paid on a parcel's previous clasification.
Program Setup
-  Added new help link to Unit ACH setup
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue regarding the Various Items Import where duplicate DDA Factor Tables were being generated for imported DDAs.
07/28/2010
Calculation Changes
-  Fixed an issue with the Calculate DDA Factors utility where it was not properly handling Village DDAs
-  Fixed an issue where we were not handling DDA Reference Only Parcels as being inactive. This was specifically brought up from an issue with the Assign Special Assessments Enmasse utility allows specials to be added to DDA Ref. Only parcels. This was true for other various areas as well though
General
-  Updated the Barcode Payments Utility so the parcel # entry field now supports showing any Parcel Masks you may have setup (for users that like to hand enter in this window). Also fixed the post-process report so it displays the Receipt #
07/28/2010
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue with the Daily Cash Journal report where the last digit of the batch number was getting clipped off when running in portrait mode
-  Fixed an issue where the legal description was not loading nor printing on any Payment Report Writer Reports
Program Setup
-  Added a new prompt to the General Settings window when attempting to switch your Dlq. Int. Calc Method to 'prompt for % interest to charge'.
07/26/2010
Calculation Changes
-  Updated our Kalamazoo City Non-Installment Interest / Penalty calculation logic so we now also calculate State Ed. and County Op. staring on August 1st
Reporting
-  Added new Kentwood OCR field for use with Report Writer reports
Program Setup
-  Added new option to User Preferences Setup so you can disable keyboard restrictions while in Public Viewing Mode
Imports/Exports
-  Added the City of Kentwood Lockbox Import to our payment imports
07/22/2010
Calculation Changes
-  Added a new tool to the Taxes Setup screen which allows you to set the Admin Fee for All Units
General
-  Added a new Special Assessment Set Field Utility. This utility allows you to add a flat rate amount to a population of specials
-  No longer allow the user to override interest / penalty when it is using the Sr. Citizens Disabled classification
-  Added a new tech support utility which allows you to update all general ledgers numbers to use a newly specified GL # format
Reporting
-  Fixed a bug in the DS4410 report where we were not including Sr. Citizen Disabled parcels
-  Added new Mackinac County Receipt Report
-  Fixed both the Adjustment Report and Settlement Report to properly handle School District Adjustments
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue with the Direct Import of Assessing BORs where the docket # would not import on PRE adjustments
07/21/2010
General
-  This critical update is in response to several ErrorLogs that were sent to us when attempting to perform a Direct Import from Assessing. The error is due to an issue where the Assessing.NET program is not using the latest version. Normally, you'd receive a prompt informing you of this when logging in to your Tax.NET database. However, this prompt was accidently supressed.

To resolve the errors you receive during your direct import you ** must update your Assessing.NET program to the latest version and also log in to the Assessing database. **
07/19/2010
Calculation Changes
-  When viewing as a County and you are setup to the Property Address for Address Searches we no longer require the entry of a Unit Code
General
-  Added a new toolbar button to our Parcels, Specials, and Receipts Lists called Jump To. This feature is only visible when Viewing as a County User. It allows you to quickly jump to the first / last record within a specified unit.
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue with the Daily Cash Journal report so based on the orientation you are printing (Landscape / Portrait) the page headings will properly center
-  Fixed an issue with the DDA Detail Report where if you elected to only include Paid Parcels within a specified Date Range the report would ignore the other filters you had selected and only honor the date range
07/16/2010
Reporting
-  Resolved an issue when running the Quick Tax Disbursement Report and you had the option to Calculate DDA/TIFA Redistributions turned ON. The problem would only occur if the heading for your DDA/TIFA in Program Setup used both upper and lower case spelling (i.e. Dda #1 instead of DDA #1). Now, the report is case-insensitive
07/15/2010
Reporting
-  Per request of Kentwood we will no longer prompt for the PRE Savings when running a Report Writer Bill Report
-  Fixed an issue with our Adjustment Reports where Special Assessment adjustments would not appear in the Final Column with the correct value.
07/14/2010
Calculation Changes
-  Fixed an unintended bug that was introduced in a recent fix we added during our calculation routine. The bug resulted in the user seeing the following message while running reports, processes, etc.: Parcel 'X' failed to calculate. Unexpected calculation error. Grabbing the latest update will resolve this issue.
07/13/2010
General
-  Fixed an issue with the Override Deferment window where clicking the 'X' or Cancel button would cause the deferment values to clear out rather than reset to previous values
-  Fixed an issue with the Enter Adjustment window where it was possible for the adjust date field to never allow you to move off of it or click anywhere until a value was entered
-  Added new safety measures to any dialog where you could copy information to the clipboard. Previously it was possible for this action to cause the program to crash
07/12/2010
General
-  Per request of City of Alma we have disabled the validation of GL #'s during receipt journalization
-  When licensed to Thornapple Township GL #'s will no longer be validated during journalization
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue with the Assessing Database Compare Report so the proper parcel status is displayed on the report
-  Fixed an issue with the DDA Detail Report where if a DDA Factors table did not exist for the current parcel's tax classification the report would not process correctly.
-  Fixed an issue with the Copy Receipt Report to Payment Report Category utility.
-  When licensed to Cannon you will no longer receive the prompt if you wish to include PRE savings on your Tax Bill
07/07/2010
General
-  Fixed an issue with the Copy Database Process regarding the Copy GL Numbers selection. This fix will no longer cause an error to be displayed which states that the 'index was out of range'
07/06/2010
General
-  Fixed an error with the Copy Database Process where the GL Numbers were always attempting to be copied even if they were not selected
-  Fixed an issue with our Set column collation tech support utility so we also make sure to update the Tax History database as well
-  Fixed the Apply Payments screen so the Tax Bill # search now behaves more like PVSW Tax. This was achieved by making the field select all text when clicking in to it, so if you began to type it would replace all existing text
Reporting
-  Fixed the Oakland County Advalorem Special Population choice so it no longer includes certain special acts
Program Setup
-  Fixed an issue where the General Settings window was not saving certain settings upon closing the dialog
Imports/Exports
-  Added the Clinton County -- City of Dewitt Magic Writer Export
07/02/2010
Reporting
-  Adjusted layout of a few address related fields on the City of Holland Bill (Laser) as well as adding the ability to print bar codes on the bill.
06/28/2010
Reporting
-  Added the 'Muskegon County Laser Bill' report.
06/25/2010
General
-  Fixed an issue when creating new databases that could cause various processes and/or reports on that database to not complete successfully giving you an error message.
-  Added a tech support utility that should be run if you either created a new database since the 6/23 program version or if you ran the support utility to fix sorting issues.
06/23/2010
General
-  Fixed an issue with the Parcel Summary Pod where if you had the option turned on to not show the balance due for uncommitted seasons the incorrect unit was being referenced based on the current season. This was an issue with twsp/village parcels
-  Fixed an issue when viewing a parcel which resided only in history. When viewing the details for a specific year after closing the detail window the wrong parcel would be shown.
-  Added a new Tech Support Utility to fix an issue for Garrish Twsp. This utility is called Set all database columns to use a Windows Collation and will fix the sorting issue for all string-based indices
06/22/2010
General
-  When linked to Assessing and update names + addresses real-time we now read the e-mail address as well
-  Fixed an issue where searching for a parcel which resided only in Tax History would behave awkardly and sometimes bring up a window of partial matches when it shouldn't have
Reporting
-  Modified the Choose Units population window so that the Units are shown in sorted order
-  Fix to the Quick Tax Disbursement Report so the casing (upper / lower case) of Tax Rates does not impact the report
-  Fixed a page break issue with the County Wide School Recap Report
Program Setup
-  Added a new feature to the User Preferences Window so you can enable / disable if parcel searches should enforce an exact match
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue with the Assessing Import where if you were in a County Database it was possible for village parcels to be assigned the wrong Gov Unit ID. They'd import in with the same Unit for both Gov Unit and Tax Unit
-  Added a new option to the Assessing Import Options to elect whether or not you'd like to import the E-mail Address from Assessing.
06/17/2010
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue when attempting tosave a report as a PDF and certain fields would not display properly in the PDF file
06/15/2010
Reporting
-  Fixed the Tax Names & Millage Rates Report so it will always sort by Unit / Season / School / Type
-  Added a new field to our MemoryFieldsTable called homestead_savings_formatted which formats the PRE exemption amount to include commas and a dollar sign
Program Setup
-  Added a new index to the Tax Rates Table so you can now sort by Unit / Sesaon / School / Type
-  Added new option to the User Preferences screen which allows you to enable the report window to close after running a report
-  Fixed an issue where the Group Code field would not save on the Tax Bill Options window (Oakland County specific)
06/10/2010
General
-  Modified verbage on the New Database Wizard so users will know to not select the update history option if they already update history real-time. Also, changed 'select all' to 'select recommended'. Choosing this will also no longer select Schools or Property Classes
-  Added new field to the Other Addr. window on the Owner Address screen of a Parcel. This field allows for the storage of an e-mail address. This is step 1 of a multistep process to match Assessing. In a future update this field will be populated via the Assessing link
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue with the Tax Bill Printing Service Export so if a Parcel is marked to not Print a Bill it will also not be exported
06/08/2010
Reporting
-  Added logic to the Standard Roll so that we now display the special assessment description along with the code
-  Modified our Report Writer Bill Reports so we display 5 decimal places rather than 4 for all of our millages
-  Updated the Mort. Code Cross Ref. report for Thornapple so it displays the User 2 field rather than User 1
-  Added Battle Creek Laser Bill
-  Fix to the Mortagage Company Cross Ref. Report so when running as totals only the mortgage company name is being printed
Imports/Exports
-  When performing the Resource Export you can now choose the folder where the export files will be placed
06/04/2010
General
-  New logic added so the Taxpayer Name Extra field is now pulled over from Assessing when you are setup to update names / addresses when linked to Assessing
-  Added new indices to the Parcel List. You can now search + index by the Owner's Name Extra field
-  Fixed an issue when adding specials to a parcel in a database with more than one unit. It was possible the wrong unit was being used to filter the list of specials to choose from
Reporting
-  When licensed to Thornapple and you run the Mortgage Code Cross Ref. Report we now display the User 1 field on the report
Imports/Exports
-  When running any Import or Export we will now close out all windows to the main Edit Parcel screen
06/03/2010
General
-  Fixed an issue with searching for a parcel which only resides in History where sometimes the Parcel search results window would appear as if a partial search was performed when it should not have been
Reporting
-  When running a custom user-created Report Writer Roll Report always make sure we load the legal description
06/02/2010
General
-  When running the New Database Wizard always ensure the newly created database has the Archived flag turned off
Reporting
-  Fixed the History Info Printout Report so the year details should print in proper descending order
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue when running the ASCII Assessing Import where school districts would not be created in program setup
06/01/2010
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue where after performing a direct import from Assessing and then performing any other import clicking the browse button to browse for the file to import would crash the program
05/28/2010
General
-  Added the Flag Payments utility to the Parcel List when viewing as a county. This was a utility in PVSW Tax which allowed you to define a block and choose to pay any marked/unmarked parcels within that block. Requested by Osceola County.
Reporting
-  Fixed our History Printout Reports so when printing history for a parcel which exists only in history the year details will print in proper descending order
05/26/2010
Reporting
-  Fixed the DDA Detail / Summary Reports so that if a parcel was never paid it will no longer show as Fully Paid but rather Unpaid
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue with the Assessing Split Import when running as a Direct Import. First, we corrected an issue where the 'Live' radio button would not automatically select itself when electing to run a LIVE run after you performed a PROOF run. Secondly, we fixed an error that would get thrown when running a LIVE run after performing a PROOF run
05/25/2010
Calculation Changes
-  Fixed an issue where DDA Millages were not being billed due to a case-sensitive check when calculating the tax bill
Reporting
-  Updated our DS 4410 New Report to include the latest changes made to the PVSW Tax version
-  When running the Owner / Address Cross Ref. Report we now display the Bill Code when electing to run the 'Extended Report' in the Report Options
-  Latest update will remove leading and trailing whitespace from DDA values which was causing certain reports to not filter properly. Specifically, the DDA Detail Report
05/21/2010
General
-  Fixed an issue when performing a Owner Name Quick Search (F6) and if you modified the sort index using the drop down and then selected a record the incorrect record would be selected. You'd have to be viewing the Parcel List while performing the quick search for this to happen
-  Fixed an issue with the conversion not creating the proper REHAB Ad Valorem tables for village parcels that were billed in the Summer/Winter as well
-  Fixed an error where if you created a New Database the assessing differences link would attempt to update itself while this process was running and cause an unexpected error.
-  Fixed an issue with our Inquiry Screen where it would appear possible to edit the Parcel's Comments even though these changes would never save. Corrected this so it now behaves as intended and the Comments appear as read-only data.
Reporting
-  Added a new feature to the Standard Tax Roll so you can now breakdown the totals by tax classification
-  Fixed an issue with the County Wide Recap Report not displaying delinquent properties that had .01 owing
05/18/2010
General
-  Updated our Receipt Journalization process so we better display an error if a parcel cannot be properly calculated
-  Fixed an issue when attempting to Journalize Tax Receipts and you'd receive an error that stated: 'Could not load Parcel XXX'
Reporting
-  Updated our Blank Deferment PDF as well as the Deferment Report (Current Season)
-  Fixed an issue with the Adjustment Report where if you ran over Summer/Winter seasons it would still include village tax rates
05/17/2010
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue with the Standard Warrant Report where DDA Millage was being charged when Extra Millage was NOT checked in DDA Setup
-  Fixed an issue witht he Tax Collection Record report where tax headings would print for all units in your database regardless of the selected population
Program Setup
-  Added a new override to Assessing setup so if the Assessing year and current Tax year are not valid you can still read names/addresses
Imports/Exports
-  Improved the performance of the Various Items Import
05/14/2010
Calculation Changes
-  Fixed an issue with the City of Kalamzoo interest installment calculation
General
-  Fixed an issue with the Search for Questionable PRE Values utility so if you elect to filter by certain property classes those filters will be properly honored
-  When choosing to Copy Database we now warn the user that if they are intending to create a new tax year database they should use the new database wizard instead
-  Added some additional verbage to the New DB Wizard Checklist so we have better instructions on how to import Assessing data
-  When taking Receipts the DDA Receipt field should now properly fill in regardless of what bucket the DDA was entered on the Parcel (previously only worked if the DDA was entered in the first bucket)
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed the City of Kalamzoo GL Eden Export so the Post ID is now exported with the GL # description
05/13/2010
Calculation Changes
-  Fix to the City of Kalamazoo custom interest calculation not working properly for summer parcels not flagged for installments
-  Gracefully handle parcels that do not have a Property Class or School District defined. Previously the program would throw a vague error when it hit this scenario
General
-  Fixed an issue when attempting to print from the Public Viewing Screen. Previously the program would throw an error or 'freeze up'.
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed a display issue with the Standard Cash Receipting Payment Import report for parcels that were not found. We now properly display the attempted amount to import value
05/11/2010
Calculation Changes
-  Implemented City of Holland's custom penalty calculation logic
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue where CFT Rehab parcels were not being included in reports where the special population choice was selected to include CFT/IFT Parcels
-  Added a new special population choice called CFT Rehab Parcels
05/10/2010
Calculation Changes
-  Added the latest changes made to PVSW Tax
Reporting
-  Added Excel Support to the QTD Report
Program Setup
-  Fixed an issue when modiying the flat value for a Special Assessment in program setup and the program would display that it updated values when really nothing should have been modified since all seasons were committed
05/07/2010
Reporting
-  Improved performance of running reports within the Tax.NET system. Users with larger databases may notice reports take a bit less time to run
05/05/2010
Calculation Changes
-  If licensed to Antrim County we will assume the current parcel's unit is the first 5 characters of the Parcel #
General
-  Added custom logic for Antrim County to calculate what the total due will be for specific dates. These fields are available in the Report Writer and also exported in the tax bill export
-  Added the ability to start the program in Public Viewing Mode by specifying the command line argument: /PublicMode
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue when attempting to exclude mortgage codes during the Tax Bill Printing Service Export
-  Added new logic so if you attempt to perform a Direct Import from Assessing we validate you have permissions to do so immediately
05/04/2010
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue where the Range population window was not displaying properly.
-  Added the Monroe County Tax Roll
-  Added both the Oakland County Tax Bill and Oakland County OCR Tax Bill
-  Fixed an issue where calculated expressions were not coming over correctly when converting a PVSW Tax Report
Imports/Exports
-  Allow Land Bank parcels to be exported to Dlq. Tax. if they are marked to be treated as advalorem
04/29/2010
General
-  Added new feature which allows you to view the status of an AP Check Request from the Receipt Details window.
Reporting
-  Fixed the Settlement Report so the taxing authorities are properly sorted in the School District breakdowns
-  Fixed an issue where the Choose Units filter was not working when running any of our Special Assessment Report Category Reports
-  Fixed an issue when setting up the Report Profile e-mail addresses and you could potentially get stuck in a situation where the window would not allow you to close
Program Setup
-  Added the ability to set the background and foreground color for secured fields on the user's color settings window
04/22/2010
General
-  Fixed an issue when linked to Specials .NET and payments were not being sent over even if you had the option to update the special system turned on.
Reporting
-  Per request of Genesee County, we are now showing the Cash / Non-Cash Totals broken down per each totals page
Imports/Exports
-  When performing a Complete Roll Export or Current Season Export the adjustment reason for Specail Assessments will now come over when performing the import.
04/20/2010
General
-  Added a new utility that can be ran from both the Receipt and Special Assessment Lists where based on a block you define on either table the system will then mark all linked Parcels in the Parcel List based on your block.

This new utility is located under the Tools drop down.
04/19/2010
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue where running a Delinquent Tax Roll over the 'Current Billing Type' in the Winter season would incorrectly filter out Parcels that actually still had amounts owing. Previously, regardless of what season you were in we were only ever checking the summer balance. So, if you had a winter amount owing but the summer was fully paid the Parcel would not show on the report.
04/19/2010
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue with the Adjustment Report where the opposite season's values would not display when running over a specified data range. i.e. If running the report over Summer/Winter sesaons and you were currently in the winter season, the summer difference values would not display
04/16/2010
General
-  Added extra security to the deferment flag so that it is now required you answer a confirmation dialog to prevent people from accidently clicking it when attempting to switch seasons via tabs
Reporting
-  The DDA Detail Report will now show the total Taxable Value and Captured Value for Com. Personal, Ind. Personal, and Special Act Personal parcels
04/14/2010
Calculation Changes
-  Fixed an issue where the 'base_paid' field that is stored on our History record was not displaying properly in Assessing (this field is not shown in Tax.NET). This was fixed in the calculation and creation of the history record. Running 'Write Floating Values' over yoru database will correct any potential issues. (Note: This is only a DISPLAY issue when viewing from Assessing.NET)
04/12/2010
Reporting
-  Added the Refund by Parcel report to the system.
-  Added the ability to Search for Questionable Admin Fee amounts on the Various Fields Report
Imports/Exports
-  No longer include Land Bank Parcel in any of our Dlq. Tax Exports
04/07/2010
General
-  Fixed a display issue when clicking the Count button at the top of any of our Table Views. Previously the 'Total Inactive Records:' display was being cliipped
-  Fixed a potentially error that would occur immediately after Rolling Over your Tax Database to the new tax year
Imports/Exports
-  Improved the performance of our imports by adding several new indexes to our database tables that were missing. This should cut down on the time it takes to save and update the data to the database for larger databases.
04/01/2010
Calculation Changes
-  Added new logic to the Scottville Interest Calculation so that personal property parcels will receive 1% additional interest each month starting on March 1.
General
-  Added a new utility under File -> Database -> Advanced called Rebuild Database Indexes. This utility is intended to fix index fragmentation issues. If you are a county database which has performed many imports you should consider running this during off-peak hours.
03/26/2010
General
-  Added the ability to specify whether or not a parcel should appear on Internet Services. This option is identical to the one found in Assessing and is located on the Misc. tab on the Edit Parcel screen
-  Added new logic so that if the Assessing.NET Database in your shared database group is more than one year ahead of your current tax year we will automatically disable reading names / addresses as well as the real-time differences link
03/23/2010
General
-  Fixed an issue with the New Database Wizard where if you created a new database and clicked 'No' to setting the newly created database as your active database and repeated the process again the next database would have its Tax Year set one year further than it should have been
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue with the Complete Roll Import where it was possible to receive an error message stating that the row has been removed from the table
03/22/2010
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue where the Quick Tax Disbursement report was displaying 'NaN' for certan values
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue with the Assessing ASCII Import where you'd receive an error that a row has been removed from a table and does not have any data.
03/19/2010
General
-  Implemented the latest additions that were put in to PVSW Tax
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue with the Report Converter where Special Assessment Category Reports were not converting properly from PVSW Tax
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue with the Cheboygan Specials Import adding duplicate specials to various parcels
03/15/2010
General
-  Do not allow a user to set the journalized flag via set fields utility on a payment which was taken thru CR
-  Fixed an issue with the Fix Payment Spread utility where it would not process certain parcels that should be due to rounding errors
-  Fixed an issue on older datababases where upon startup you'd receive an error that column "priority" does not exist
Program Setup
-  It is no longer possible to modify the Stop Date Option to set it to manually calculate without requiring a Tech Support password
03/11/2010
General
-  Fixed an issue where you'd receive an error when taking payments thru the Cash Receipting interface describing that an invalid priority was assigned to receipt bucket.
-  When licensed to City of Saginaw you should now view next year's installment in the Special Assessment linked application summary pod.
-  Display the PRE/MBT percent on the Apply Payments Screen
03/09/2010
General
-  Fixed an issue with the Unit Code Change tech support utility so it will properly run
Imports/Exports
-  Added logic to the Dlq. Personal Property Export so it always defaults to the My Documents folder for the export folder
-  Implemented support for command line arguments. Specifically, we added the ability to run the automated generic tax bill export for Southfield
03/09/2010
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue with our Dlq. Interest Spread Report where if a parcel contained more than one special assessment using the same code it would not total properly on the report
03/08/2010
General
-  It is no longer possible to accept negative payments thru Cash Receipting
Reporting
-  Added the ability to run the Questionable Payments Report over multiple seasons
Program Setup
-  Added new logic so it is no longer possible to modify the interest or penalty monthly interest percents after a payment has been made and applied toward either one.
03/04/2010
General
-  Fixed an issue with GIS where you could receive an error stating that the program could not load file or assembly 'ArcSdeExtension'.
-  Fixed an issue when taking a payment and your taxpayer or owner street address was longer than 35 characters. This has been modified to now properly support up to 62 characters
03/03/2010
Program Setup
-  Added a new feature under General Settings in Program Setup which allows for you to now enter a minimum and maximum valid date range for use in all date fields within the program.
Imports/Exports
-  Small tweak to our Current Season Import so if you attempt to import a complete roll export it will display an error sooner in the import process
03/02/2010
General
-  Fixed an issue where an error would occur when attempting to backup the Tax History database
-  Fixed an issue where it was not possible to take partial payments thru IS
Reporting
-  Fixed a typo on the newly added County SET Settlement Summary Report
Imports/Exports
-  Added new logic to the Complete Roll Import so it is no longer possible to import a Current Season Export
03/01/2010
Reporting
-  Added the County SET Settlement Summary Report (4341) requested by the state
03/01/2010
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue when running the Adjustment Report over more than one record across multiple seasons and the Grand Total values were displaying incorrect values
02/26/2010
General
-  Added the ability to perform a Generic SQL Backup. This option is only needed when backing up a database which will be restored on a previous version of SQL Server.
-  Added the ability to search the update log for key words
-  When clicking the print button on the apply payments screen it will default to the receipt report by default
Reporting
-  IFT Report now displays the property class
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue with the Eaton County Resource Import where certain receipts were not importing. This issue was also present in the Bay City Import and has been addressed as well.
02/23/2010
General
-  Modified the wording on our Owner Info tab so it now reads 'Last Modified:' rather than 'Laste Change Date:'
-  When Update Real Time History is turned ON we will always update *all* seasons rather than just the season you are currently in when viewing the History Screen
02/22/2010
General
-  Fixed an issue with the City of Grand Rapids Transactional Write Off Utility (Underpayments) where it would write off the balance for parcels which never received any payments
02/18/2010
General
-  Added a new Support Utility called Update Parcel Adjustment Flags that will correct the adjustment flags for parcels imported using the Special Winter Season Only Import
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue with the Special Winter Season Only Import where it was improperly marking parcels as being adjusted.
02/17/2010
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue when setting up an Advanced Query on a Report using a date field. Previously when entering the date value it would store it with a time of 12:00 am. Now we only honor the date portion rather than the time portion so it includes all the proper records.
02/16/2010
Program Setup
-  Added a new option to the Cash Receipting Settings which allows you to always elect to use the CR Receipt # as the Tax Payment Receipt #
02/10/2010
General
-  Fixed an issue with the Choose Units population window where the cancel button was not behaving as expected
-  If no owner name or address is set we now show 'Not Set' as our label so you can still click it to perform a search
-  New logic for the Add Payments Enmasse process so that if choosing 'Marked' as your population you can be indexed by anything. However, any other population will ignore marked parcels
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue with our Adjustment Report where if more than one tax heading existed with the exact same name it would not display the proper value
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue with our Standard Special Assessment Export where the end of file character was not being included at the very end causing an issue during import where the last special would not be read in.
02/05/2010
General
-  Fixed a typo on the conversion window
-  Attached Attachment Support
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue with the Standard Tax Roll by Date Range Report for parcels which contained a manual adjustment
02/04/2010
Program Setup
-  Fixed a bug when attempting to enter DDA Exclusion Factors and not all the Tax Tables were available for entry.
Imports/Exports
-  Dramatically improved the overall performance and speed of the Complete Roll Import
-  Dramatically improved the overall performance and speed of the Current Season Import
-  Fixed an issue with our Complete Roll Export where it was possible if you had more then one special assessment on your parcel and a payment was made that the amount paid for each bucket would not export in the correct order causing an issue during import where the amount paid would get assigned to the wrong bucket
01/29/2010
General
-  Fixed an issue with the Unit Code Change tech support utility. There was an issue where receipts were not properly having their unit code updated during the utility
-  Added the ability to drill down to individual Tax Receipts from the General Ledger program. (Requires latest update of General Ledger)
-  New logic added which will allow you to override the interest / penalty on a Parcel if the Parcel has a negative balance AND an adjustment on it.
-  Fixed an issue during the conversion of our legals file where some legal descriptions were not properly converting over the degree symbol
Reporting
-  A new report has been added to the system called Standard Tax Roll by Date Range. This report will allow you to run the Standard Roll as of a specific date in time
Program Setup
-  Fixed an issue where the Erase GL Numbers tool was not working on the Unit GL # Setup Screen
01/28/2010
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue when performing the Assessing BOR Import and village parcels were unintentionally having their Gov Unit ID and Tax Unit ID fields modified to improper values
01/22/2010
General
-  Added new User Setting so you can elect to store the Batch Number per Season when entering payments
-  Implemented the latest changes added to PVSW Tax
Program Setup
-  Modified the wording in the dialog that is shown when changing either the Mills or Flat Value amounts on a Special Assessment in program setup
01/20/2010
General
-  Fixed an issue with our Accept Barcoded Payments Enmasse utility where if you elected to prompt for the Paid By Info on each scanned receipt the paid by information entered would not persist on each receipt.
-  Added the ability to now save comments on Adjustment Records
-  New logic added to the Linked App. tab on the Edit Parcel Screen so the '***' only appear if one of the linked applications has a balance due. Assessing does not apply.
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue with the Direct Export to another Tax Database. Previously when running this process on a population other than 'All Records' the target database would encounter serious balancing issues
-  Fixed the Macomb Dlq. Taxes Export so it properly allows for the compressed file to end with the .ZIX extension as well as include the proper exported files in the compressed file
01/19/2010
General
-  Fixed an issue where if the Update Real Time History option was enabled and you took in a payment thru Cash Receipting the Tax.NET history information was not updating
-  Added the ability to Calculate DDA Factors for multiple seasons rather than just one. This should make it much easier for some municipalities.
-  Updated the URL used for Microsoft Maps as the previous URL was invalid due to the Bing.com switch
-  Added the ability to index by the newly added CR Receipt # field on our Receipt Table. This is also available when viewing as a County
-  Several enhancements were made to the Dlq County Adjustment Preview Window
-  Added the ability to modify the Receipt # field after a payment is accepted only if there is currently no receipt # entered. Once the receipt # is entered it will no longer be editable
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue when running a Report Writer Report and an error would occur while calculating our memory fields.
-  Added new logic to the Quick Tax Disbursement Report so it will now properly calculate the interest spread on a negative payment made after a Parcel's taxes have been adjusted down to zero
-  Added a new >MTT Interest Refund Printout Report to the system. This report is available from the MTT Interest Refund Calculator window and prints out a summary report of the tax headings and the amounts to be refunded
-  Fixed an issue with our Choose Units report population window where it was possible for the user to edit the 'Unit ID' column
-  When printing the Settlement Report we now display the interest prompt option in the page header
Program Setup
-  Added new logic so that if the user attempts to modify a Special Act Rates Table they must now provide a Tech Support Code. This is to help prevent data integrity issues if they plan on exporting this data to PVSW Tax.
Imports/Exports
-  Eaton County Resource Payment Import has been added to the system.
-  Eaton County Billing Export added to the system.
01/08/2010
Reporting
-  Added the ability to now copy a Payment/Distribution Category Report to the Receipt Category. Previously this only supported going from Receipt Category -> Payment Category.
-  Added request for Byron Township so the homestead reduction display will always print on their Tax Bill Report and will no longer be prompted for it when running the report
Imports/Exports
-  Added the ability to choose which directory you would like to place the files when running our Dlq. Taxes Export
-  After successfully running our Dlq Taxes Export show a window to the user informing them where the three files were placed.
01/06/2010
General
-  Fixed an issue that Stockbridge Village pointed out where after entering an adjustment the defer interest window was being displayed when it shouldn't have.
-  Fixed an issue reported by Elk Rapids where after entering an adjustment on a village parcel the village taxes were not reflecting the adjustment.
01/05/2010
General
-  Added a new field to the Additional Payment Details window of a Receipt which will display the Cash Receipting Receipt # when the payment is taken using the CR system. This will only apply to new receipts added going forward.
Reporting
-  The Daily Cash Journal Report has a new option which will allow you to view seasonal subtotals.
Imports/Exports
-  Removed the option on our Delinquent County export window to perform a Direct Export. This will now be performed as a Direct Import in the Dlq. County .NET system
01/04/2010
General
-  Fixed an issue when manually posting Journal Entries and the posted JE report was not being shown after a successful post
-  Fixed an issue when adding a new Parcel and the entered Tax Unit / Gov Unit values were being flipped
-  When the Update History Real Time flag is turned on and you take a payment using Cash Receipting we now update history information
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue when performing a Complete Roll Export and the payment export was not handling the scenario where a tax rate was added to a season after taxes were committed and payments had been made. Would only affect parcels with Special Assessments
12/23/2009
General
-  If a receipt was taken in through Cash Receipting we no longer show the GL Information Panel when viewing that receipts' journal entry
-  When creating our journal entry for a receipt taken in through Cash Receipting we make sure the Journal Entry properly fills in the user name fields
Reporting
-  Tweaked the heading on our GL # Report so that instead of printing 'Unspread Interest' it now shows 'Penalty'
-  Corrected an issue with our Settlement Report where Tax Headings with identical headings were not being properly grouped together
Imports/Exports
-  Fix to our payment import for Kentwood where they'd receive an error message stating 'Value cannot be null.'
-  Fixed an issue when performing a Direct Import where after backing up the database prior to running the import you'd receive an error message claiming the file 'N/A' could not be found
12/17/2009
General
-  Fixed an issue for City of Fenton where during Receipt Journalization the proper GL #'s were not being used based on the Parcel's property class
Reporting
-  Corrected an issue when running either of the Tax Collection Reports and choosing to print more than one season. If in the winter season the summer totals should now display and vice versa.
12/16/2009
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue that recently cropped up with any of our Payment Imports that would cause a "Timeout Error" to be thrown.
12/16/2009
General
-  Added two new reports to the Parcel Print button. Added the Deferment Application (Current Season) and Payment List Report
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue where the Descriptive Date and Entry Date were not being honored when performing the ACH Export
-  Fixed an issue for Cheboygan County when performing the Complete Roll Import
-  When performing theDlq. Tax Export we are now sending over the IFT Cert. #
12/15/2009
General
-  Reworked the logic for updating a Parcel's History Information if the Update in Real-Time flag is turned on.
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue when running the List of Unjournalized Receipts report from the journal status icon and the number of records printed on the report would not match the count displayed from the journal status icon
-  Fixed an issue with the Special Assessment Receipting Journal where if a receipt paid on a parcel which had more than one special not all specials would display on the report
Imports/Exports
-  Corrected an issue where an error would be encountered while running the Complete Roll Import and choosing to update the Audit Trail. Reported by Cheboygan County
12/14/2009
General
-  Updated program to now support ThinkGeo's latest GIS version
-  Update our History Table so the owner street addr. field now supports up to 62 characters to match with our Parcel Record
-  Fixed an issue when attempting to adjust a special assessment and the adjustment window that was displayed would not show the proper Special Assessment
-  Fixed an issue with the Special Assessment Screen where the heading displayed was not correct.
-  Fixed an issue with MS SQL Server 2008 SP2 and Vista SP2 where an error can be thrown when attempting to dispose an active TransactionScope. (See Microsoft Bug)
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue with the Novi City Bill so that it will now print up to 40 characters for the top portion mailing address
-  Tweaked the Tax Collection Report so the school districts will now print in sorted order
-  Fixed an issue with the Industrial Facilities Tax Report where the total tax billed was rounding to the nearest dollar rather than hundredths place
-  Fixed an issue with the Adjustment History Breakdown Report for Big Rapids
12/08/2009
Reporting
-  Small tweak to the Questionable Payments Report so that receipts that were reversed due to an adjustment will no longer show up as a false-positive on the report
-  Fixed an issue where you could not view any of the ParcelMaster fields in the Report Designer when modifying a Special Assessment report.
-  When printing the Standard Warrant Report the special heading will now be displayed in the Special Assessment sub-section
Program Setup
-  Updated our MTT Rates Setup so we now include the new 2010 Interest Rate value provided by the State
-  Per request we added an Alternate Parcel # Format 2 field in the General Settings. This allows you to now specify a second alternate format to use
Imports/Exports
-  Per request of Bay County in both the Fixed Length and Comma Delimited Special Assessment Imports we will now prompt if they wish to continue importing a special on a parcel that had no taxes billed and is NOT exempt
-  When licensed to Scio the Washtenaw Drain Import will now show a warning when attempting to import a drain on a DDA Reference Only parcel
12/03/2009
General
-  Fixed an issue when taking payments through Cash Receipting so that if an individual bucket has a negative balance you will no longer receive an error stating that the amount you are attempting to pay is greater than the actual balance
-  Fixed our Parcel Set Fields utility in regards to the Send Bill To flag so that if you choose to send to taxpayer we no longer check to ensure you have a value entered in the tax payer name field
-  Fixed an issue with our Apply Payments Screen where it was possible that the F12 key would get ignored in certain scenarios
-  Fixed an issue when selecting the Choose Units population and an error would be displayed claiming that a property could not be bound
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue with our Adjustment Reports for Gerrish Township where tax rates were deleted from program setup causing errors on existing adjustments
Imports/Exports
-  Added the Mailing Label Comma Delimited Export
-  Fixed an issue for Grand Rapids regarding their Payment Imports so the proper file path is used for the selected import
-  When importing a compressed file we now ensure that the INFO.EQ will always be uncompressed. There was an issue where if an older INFO.EQ existed and it was somehow marked as 'read only' it would not be overwritten.
-  Modified the dialog that asks if you wish to select a different folder to uncompress to during an import so that the default choice will be 'Yes' rather than 'No'
-  Fixed an issue with the City of Holland Tax Bill Export where the option to exclude individual mortgage companies was not working properly
-  Fixed an issue when compressing export files which include the INFO.EQ file and that file was somehow marked as read only
12/01/2009
General
-  Added additional verbage to the Accept Barcoded Payments Enmasse utility so the user is made aware of the fact the receipts that are automatically printed will use the Payment Dist. Report Category
-  The Tax Manual is now available from the Help Menu
Reporting
-  Fixed the Novi City Bill so it does not chop off the street address on a handful of parcels
-  Fixed an issue with the Taxes Billed and Paid All Payments Listed report so that records no longer overlap to the second page
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an error that would occur at the end of the Direct Export to another Tax Database process
-  Few tweaks to the reworked Standard Special Assessment Export so we now display the Special Assessment Heading
11/24/2009
Calculation Changes
-  Optimized logic within a handful of our calculations to help improve the overall performance and speed of the application
General
-  Corrected a typo in one of the questions we display to the user when running the Set Fields utility
-  Per request we modified our Parcel Search Dialog so if you enter an incorrect Parcel # you will immediately be prompted that the Parcel # does not exist if it cannot be found. Previously we'd display a list of partial matches to you which people would accidentally click thinking a Parcel # was found
Reporting
-  Fixed the Mortgage Company / Parcel # Cross Reference Report so if you elect to display the summer balance the proper column header is printed
-  Added a handful of new fields to our Report Writer Field Selection List. The fields added in particular were called unit_penalty_duedate_X and unit_intrst_duedate_X where 'X' represents the corresponding season (0 = summer, 1 = winter, 2 = village). These fields will hold the last day to pay for both interest and penalty from the corresponding parcel's Government Unit
-  Added a new option to the Special Assessment Roll which allows you to display the Taxable Value of the associated Parcel for that Special Assessment
Program Setup
-  When running any of the Mortgage Company Reports from program setup we now allow for the user to select a population they wish to run over
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue regarding the Current Season Import and the adjustment file where an error would get displayed saying that a row already belonged to a table. (Mason Co. reported)
11/20/2009
General
-  Added new index to the Parcels List called Gov Unit / Taxpayer's Name
Reporting
-  Fixed an alignment issue with the Fenton Township Laser Bill
-  Reworked the Genesee County Adjustment Report so we are now properly printing both Summer and Winter totals regardless of what season the report is ran. Added new report option to the report so you can specify what seasons to run over. Added a grand total line on each page which summarizes both seasons when running over multiple seasons
-  Fixed an issue with all of our Direct Bill Reports so they hit the same alignment as PVSW Tax Reports
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue with the Current Season Import regarding bring over adjustments while having the Update Existing Parcels Only option turned on (Selma TWSP)
-  Fixed an issue with the Special Assessment Installment Import where the hundredths decimal place was not importing in if no header was defined in the file
11/19/2009
Calculation Changes
-  Added new Advanced Set Fields utility. This is currently tucked away as a Tech Support Utility but can be used to perform more advanced SQL queries against the database than can be accomplished with the standard Set Fields utility
Reporting
-  Added a new property to the Report Designer which will allow you to force a specific field to print in All Caps. This property is called ForceCaps and can be found under the Misc section.
-  Added two new processes to the Report Tools drop down menu. Backup All User Reports will allow you to create a .ZIP file which contains a backup of *ALL* user reports within the system. Restore All User Reports will then allow you to restore this backup file. Two new Security Settings have been added for these utilities
-  Fixed an issue where the OCR was not printing on the newly added West Bloomfield Bill Report
-  Added Fenton Township Laser Bill Report to the system.
-  Made a handful of new fields available to the user in the Report Designer that were previously hidden.
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue with the Standard Special Assessment Import (fixed length) where if no heading was defined in the import file the export would fail.
11/17/2009
General
-  Fixed an issue for City of Allegan when attempting to perform a winter only split and the program would throw an error
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue when attempting to import Reports which did not have properly formatted calculated expressions
-  Fixed an issue when running the Comments Report so if no comment exists the Parcel #, Owner Name, etc. will not print either
-  Added new West Bloomfield Bill Report 2009 to the system.
-  Fixed an issue with the Assessing Database Compare Report where if the parcel did not exist in Assessing the report would error out
-  Fixed an issue with the DNR Composite Bill Report so the School Supplemental millages are included in the Total Aggregate Millage
Program Setup
-  Added the ability to compress export files using the PVSW Compression Method when licensed to Wayne County. This option is located in General Settings
11/16/2009
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue with the DNR Composite Report throwing an error when no records were found to display on the report
11/12/2009
General
-  Fixed an issue when attempting to use the Update Unit Code tech support utility
Reporting
-  Added logic when starting up the application to clean up our ReportBatchTable. This table is only used internally but could potentially hold out-dated information which could lead to reports running slower than normal.
-  Added new logic for the DNR Composite Report to match latest PVSW Tax changes
-  Implemented logic in our Report Designer to show a handful of new fields that were available in PVSW Tax but were not being shown in .NET Tax.
-  Fixed an issue that could occur when attempting to run a Report Writer Special Assessment category report.
Imports/Exports
-  The Generic Data Export now allows you to search for a specific field when adding fields to your collection
-  Fixed an issue with the Complete Tax Roll Export where payment and adjustment details were not being exported in the proper order based on the priorities established in Taxes Setup
11/10/2009
General
-  Fixed the Post Date / Parcel # field in our Receipts List so quick blocking over the field properly works.
-  Added new feature to Reminders which will allow you to select if a Reminder should be visible to all users or only visible to yourself
-  Fixed an issue where the Receipt Comments window was using the incorrect Security item when testing if the user had access.
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue with any Report Writer reports that were using a Group Header Band. If no detail rows are printed for the corresponding group header the group header band will no longer print.
-  Added logic to the QTD Report to handle payments which were made on a parcel PRIOR to changing the parcel's classification (in a committed season)
-  When Importing / Exporting Report Writer Reports (user defined) you will now be able to select more than one report to import / export (to match PVSW applications)
-  Fixed an issue with the Osceola County Roll Report where the per-parcel Grand Totals were not displaying the correct value
Imports/Exports
-  Added new logic to our Complete Roll Export so we now export if a Receipt was marked as a DDA Receipt. Previously this information was not being exported and therefore would not be imported as well.
-  Fixed an issue when exporting Receipt Comments in the Complete Roll Export so we now remove any new-line characters before exporting the comment.
11/04/2009
General
-  Added latest changes to PVSW Tax
-  When entering a Property Class Adjustment and taxes are committed the user will now be shown an informational window telling them to verify their MBT Flag is set properly
-  Fixed an issue when attempting to delete Delete Journal Entries using the Tech Support Utility
-  Fixed an issue when performing a Payment Import and linked to Special Assessments and you are setup to update the Special Assessment system with payment information.
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue with the Top 30 Taxpayers Report where it was not properly handling the scenario where two parcels could have the same owner name but different capitalization
-  Added new logic for all of our Bill Reports so that the system will intelligently decide if the report is using the PRE Savings field and if so prompt the user if they wish to print the 'Would you like to print the phrase: Your Princ. Residence Exemption Has Reduced This Bill By: XXXX?' message
-  Adjustment Reports will now print the season on the top of the report
-  Added the ability to print a barcode on the Reminder Bill
Imports/Exports
-  Added the Bay City Taxes Import
-  Fixed an issue with the Complete Tax Roll Export involving receipt details not exporting in the proper tax rate order which potentially causes an issue during the import.
11/02/2009
Calculation Changes
-  Added logic so we no longer automatically set the PRE Flag or PRE/MBT % once a season has had its taxes committed
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue when running the Reminder Bill where it was attempting to calculate future interest for an invalid month
10/30/2009
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue with the Standard Special Assessment Import from another Equalizer Tax Database where the millage rate and initial amount were not properly being read.
10/27/2009
Calculation Changes
-  Modified wording on our Accept Barcoded Payment Enmasse Window.
General
-  Added new logic so when viewing the Apply Payments Screen and you search by either Owner Name or Property Address we will now apply any Quick Payment Logic if the option has been turned on under Receipt Options
-  Remove the Close button from the Public View Mode window when viewing in Full Screen mode. This hopefully will avoid confusion when running reports. A close button has instead been added to the toolstrip
-  Fixed an issue where the Legal and Tax Detail Reports were not printing properly from the Public Viewing Mode window.
Reporting
-  Added the Hillside Top-Tear Bill Report. This Bill was used by other municipalities other than Hillsdale.
Imports/Exports
-  Added new logic to the CASS Certification Export / Import so it now includes the Print Order field. Added two new fields to the Other Info. window from the Address Tab to display the Print Order for both the Owner and Taxpayer addresses. Added a new indexable field to the Parcel Table (CASS Print Order)
-  New logic added to our Complete Tax Roll Export and All Seasons Payments Export so that for files you do not elect to export a 'dummy' file will still be created to match PVSW Tax.
10/21/2009
General
-  When adding a property to the Driving Directions List and the option to show the Driving Directions button is disabled prompt the user if they wish to enable it.
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue with the Wayne County Complete Roll Export for Inkster.
10/20/2009
Calculation Changes
-  Fixed rounding logic in our Flint Special Interest Calculation
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue with the Run All Reports window from the Report Profile screen where the overall progress bar was not properly reflecting the current progress
-  Added Genesee County custom reports.
-  Fixed an error that was getting thrown when attempting to run the Reminder Bill
Imports/Exports
-  Added new logic per request of Kentwood so that while performing a Direct Import of Assessing Values we now bring over the IFT Certificate Exp. Date to the user field under the Misc. Tab. in Tax.NET
10/16/2009
General
-  Fixed an issue when linked to Special Assessments .NET and the penalty and admin fee values were being zeroed out if the Special Installment was transferred to Tax.NET.
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue where Memory Row Fields used in a Report Query were not working properly for Report Writer Reports
Program Security
-  Added logic so it is now possible to delete Special Assessments from the Specials table in an uncommitted season assuming you have proper security rights. Previously it was required you needed admin access.
10/14/2009
General
-  Logic added to ensure that each bucket on a receipt has a negative value when attempting to send an AP Check Request
-  Added additional logic to the Cash Receipting .NET interafce to never allow for an individual bucket to be overpaid along with the interest, penalty, and admin fee buckets.
-  Per request of Ottawa County when in Public Viewing Mode do not allow a user to choose which printer they want to send a report to. Always use the Default Printer
-  Updated our conversion to fix an issue that Otsego County was hitting involving duplicate special assessment records. These issues are now reported in our warning report as well as skipped over in the conversion
-  Added shortcut keys to the Reminder context menus
Reporting
-  Logic added to the List Payments with Amount in Overpayment report so that it now shows the Posting Date + Receipt # per user request
Program Setup
-  Added logic to the Interest / Penalty Setup Form so once a payment is taken on the related unit you will no longer be able to modify the Override Interest Calculation Method field. Tech Support utility has been added to override this restriction.
Imports/Exports
-  Added new feature to all of our Special Assessment Imports so you are now prompted to choose a season to import to and during the import process validate the season is not committed (cannot add specials to a committed season)
10/07/2009
General
-  New logic added for interaction between Cash Receipting and Tax so if the option to auto-number receipts is turned OFF we will pull the Cash Receipting Receipt Number over and use it for our Tax Receipt's receipt number
Reporting
-  Corrected an issue with the Standard Warrant Report where values would not report properly if the State Tax Millage Rate was Overriden
-  Added a new feature to the Special Assessment Roll so you can now choose to print the Property Address as an address option
-  Fixed display issue with the Farmington Hills Laser Bill so the mortgage company name now prints properly.
-  Added new option to our Over / Under Report which allows you to turn on the ability to display receipt information (Receipt Number + Post Date)
Program Setup
-  Corrected a typo on the Taxes Setup - Quick Entry Utility error message.
10/01/2009
Program Security
-  Fixed a security issue where it was possible to right-click on a combo box field that you DID NOT have security access to and still be able to modify its selected value.
09/30/2009
General
-  Expanded the Comments section of a Receipt. You can now enter more characters than previously allowed.
-  Added a new Disbursed field to our Receipts. This field will now get set through running the Quick Tax Disbursement Report. New options were added to the QTD Report to manage this. The 'disbursed' field is also an indexable field in our Receipts List. Also, a new Set Field Utility was added in case the 'disbursed' flag needs to get cleared
-  Fixed a bug when taking a payment through CR and you are linked to PVSW Specials and are set to update the Special Assessment system with payments. Previously when taking a payment through CR the payment would get posted twice to Special Assessments.
Program Setup
-  Modified the wording for the Do not display Journal Status icon in Taskbar to now read Status Bar (maintains consistency with other applications)
09/29/2009
General
-  Added logic so that information messages are now shown when entering a CFR acreage and the parcel's classification is NOT set to 'CFR'. Also added logic so if you choose 'CFR' as your parcel's classification a reminder to enter CFR acreage is displayed
-  Added new indexable field to the Journal Entry Table. This field allows you to index by Total Journal Entry Amount
Imports/Exports
-  When performing a Direct Import from Assessing we will now bring over the School and Property Class Descriptions
09/25/2009
General
-  When viewing a Receipt that has not been journalized the View Journal Entry... Button will now show Journal Receipt. Clicking this button will now allow you to quickly journalize the single receipt
Program Setup
-  Added the ability to set the Background/Foreground Color for any of our non-editable fields. This is a new setting in the My Color Options screen.
Imports/Exports
-  Added a bundle of new features to the Manatron Export.

1) You will no longer be required to have your sort index set to the Parcel #. This will be done automatically behind-the-scenes.

2) The ability to compress the export files has been added.

3) If we detect a value has been entered in the 'Parcel Prefix' field from Program Setup we'll ask if the value entered is the County Code. If it is, the value will be disregarded as part of the Parcel #.

4) The system will now intelligently auto-populate the unique Special Assessment codes
09/24/2009
General
-  Do not allow the user to close out of the Special Assessment Adjustment Window using the ESC key if they have turned on the check box to adjust the special and have not entered a date or adjustment reason.
-  Per request we modified the wording to no longer say Interest / Penalty Override Options and instead read Override Options
-  Added new Parcel Set Field Utility which will allow you to turn ON/OFF the Pop up Comment when Parcel Loaded flag.
-  Update to the Wayne County Export to handle bad parcel street addresses
Reporting
-  Fixed the Tax Names Millage Rates Report so it prints only for the current unit you are viewing
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue with the Resource Software Export saying the specified key does not exist.
-  Tweaked the Resource Export so data now matches PVSW Tax output.
-  Fix to the General Ledger export so it runs over all seasons
09/18/2009
Calculation Changes
-  Corrected a rounding issue with City of Harris custom penalty calculation
General
-  It is no longer possible to change the tax year on a database once a payment has been received. If there is a scenario where this does need to occur, a tech support utility has been added to handle this.
-  Corrected a balloon tip typo on the dialog that gets displayed when adding a DDA/TIFA to the current Parcel.
-  Fixed an issue where it was possible to receive an error message after modifying the Paid By information on a Receipt and then attempting to save the receipt.
-  When viewing an uncommitted season we will now display a large label in the top right of the application to clearly indicate you are in an uncommitted season.
-  Fixed an issue where it was possible for someone to keep the AP Check Request window open which would then lock anyone out from being able to send payments to Tax.NET (specifically CR.NET)
-  Fixed a conversion issue for City of Jackson. We are now ignoring casing for our Parcel #'s to prevent a select few Special Assessments from not converting
-  Do not allow a user to add more than 25 parcels to the Driving Directions feature as Microsoft Maps does not allow more than 25 points
-  Added logic so it is no longer possible to modify the taxable value to be greater than the assessed value. This will now also be tracked on the Questionable Parcels/Payments report.
-  When running the Receipt Set Fields utility or deleting a population of Receipts it will process records across all seasons.
-  Fix to the Add Group of Payments Enmasse utility when linked to Special Assessments. Previously Special Assessments was not being updated with payments if Tax.NET was setup to do so.
Reporting
-  Settlement Report Heading will now display the choice of season(s) to print over
-  Fixed the Journal Status Report so the batch # column will now properly display all ten digits of the batch number.
-  City of Holland Bill (laser) added.
-  Corrected an issue when running the Questionable Payments report on a Unit which had only one tax rate
-  Fixed an issue with the Range Population so when re-running a report over a previously entered range any newly added / deleted records will be included.
-  Updated the Audit Reports so they now show the Change Type value.
Program Setup
-  Corrected the tab order on our Special Assessments GL # Setup screen
-  Modified the wording on the DDA Exclusions/Factors Button error message in program setup
-  Added new General Settings Option which will toggle the ability to display the balance due for an uncommitted season in the Parcel Summary pod.
Imports/Exports
-  Added new feature for the Assessing BOR Import. When performing the import as a PROOF run you will now be prompted if you wish to perform a LIVE run upon a successful completion of the proof run, taking you straight back to the options screen.
-  When performing any of our Special Assessment imports you will now be given the choice to specify if any newly added Special Assessments should charge an Administration Fee.
-  Corrected the Macomb Dlq. Taxes Export so you can now enter your own manual unit code rather than select from a pre-defined list.
-  City of Holland Tax Print Data Export added
-  City of Holland export for Harris Utility Billing added.
-  City of Holland export for Web added.
-  New feature added to the Current Season Import so we now spin through the values file and verify there are no adjustment conflicts. If there are, we report these to the user and prompt if they wish to continue.
09/15/2009
General
-  Modified the warning on the message received when attempting to make an AP Check Request and both the Overpayment GL # and the AP Liability GL # are identical
-  Improved the performance of the Set Journalized Flag when setting the flag to OFF on receipts which have been journalized but NOT posted to GL yet.
-  Fixed an issue with the Assign Special Assessment Enmasse utility where it was giving an error when selecting a Unit to add to when in a multi-unit database
Reporting
-  Updated a handful of our Special Population Choices so they now match Assessing
Program Setup
-  Added logic to our Delinquent Tax Interface Options window so you can now specific an alternate Delinquent Tax database to use when sending adjustments for personal property parcels.
09/11/2009
General
-  When sending a Check Request to AP we will now validate that the Overpayment Debit GL # is not identical to the AP Liability Credit GL #. If they are identical a warning message will be displayed
Reporting
-  Fix to the Balancing Recap Report where Receipts made on Parcels that had multiple special assessments using the same code but different amounts will no longer double the amount displayed in the date range column.
-  Added a new tool to the Report Window. Under the Tools tool strip button you will find a new option that will allow you to Copy a User Receipt Category Report to the Payment/Distribution Category.
-  Updated a display issue with the Taxable Affidavit Adjustment Report regarding single-season adjustments due to a Split/Comb
Program Setup
-  Hooked up the ability to define a Default Payment Category Report to use under General Settings in program setup
09/10/2009
Calculation Changes
-  Any recent modifications or additions to PVSW Tax have been added in to .NET Tax.
General
-  Performance optimizations were made to the Void process from CR.NET
Imports/Exports
-  When running the General Ledger Export the user can now select a population of payments to export (to match PVSW Tax)
-  Fixed an issue with our Payment Import in regards to the post-process report. Imported data that was skipped will no longer show on the report as just '(S)'
09/09/2009
Calculation Changes
-  Small tweak to our interest calculation logic for databases dated before 2007
General
-  If licensed to Tyrone Township the system will no longer attempt to validate General Ledger Numbers
-  Fixed an issue with the Accept Barcoded Payments Enmasse process when the Auto Print Receipt option is selected
-  Fixed an issue with posting to General Ledger when using Project Accounting
Imports/Exports
-  Grand Traverse County Export added.
-  Fixed an issue with the Official Payments Import not properly parsing the data file
-  Delinquent Data Export For Macomb County added to the system.
-  Fixed an issue with the Generic Tax Bill Export for Cash Receipting Systems where it was attempting to validate read/write permissions on an incorrect directory.
09/09/2009
General
-  Fixed an issue with Receipt Journalization where the process would erroneously state 'No records found to journalize' and no receipts would be processed.
09/08/2009
Calculation Changes
-  Added interest calculation logic for databases dated prior to 2007.
General
-  Fixed an issue where if you reversed a payment from Tax.NET ALL receipts in Specials .NET would get reversed that were not tied to a parcel in Tax.NET
-  Fixed an issue where if you paid on a parcel that had a special assessment and then you removed that special assessment you would receive an error when attempting to modify the receipt.
-  Fixed an issue where the pop-up comment would be displayed before the parcel actaully loaded
-  Added a Delinquent Tax Adjustment Preview Window. When linked to Delinquent Tax .NET and you have the option to update Dlq. Tax with adjustments turned on you will now be shown a preview window that outlines that changes that are going to occur in Dlq. Tax.
-  Sending Adjustments to Dlq. Tax is now implemented for cases where the Parcel and Tax Rates already exist in Dlq. Tax.
Reporting
-  Fix to the History Info Printout report where if the parcel had no tax history the report would not run
-  Osceola Adjustment Bill report added to the system.
-  Updated our Taxable Adjustment Affidavit Report so it now handles School District and Property Class Adjustments
Imports/Exports
-  Added the Generic Tax Bill Export for Kent County
09/01/2009
General
-  Fixed an issue where the interest paid was not being reflected on the Taxes Billed/Paid window for databases prior to 2007
-  When entering or viewing a Receipt in a database prior to 2007 we no longer show interest and penalty as seperate amounts but rather as a combined value (matches PVSW Tax)
-  Added new option under General Settings to toggle ON/OFF the Journal Status Icon in the taskbar
-  When printing the Taxes Billed/Paid or the Tax Detail: All Seasons windows we now include the Owner Name and Address
-  When paying on a parcel through Cash Receipting and the option to Show Comments in CR is enabled for the parcel the comments will now properly be displayed in the details window in CR.NET
Reporting
-  Added the Alaiedon Township Bill Report
-  Fixed an issue when clicking the Test Expression button in the Report Editor when creating a Calculated Expression
-  New logic added to the Daily Cash Journal Report so reversed payments no longer show up under the checks sub-total but now appear as their own sub-total.
Imports/Exports
-  Added the Manatron Export (New Version) to the system.
08/28/2009
General
-  Do not allow anyone to set the Journalization Source on a receipt after it has been journalized
Reporting
-  Any Receipt which previously had a Report Options window associated with it will now allow you to edit the Unit's Receipt Message from the same dialog
Program Setup
-  Modified the wording on the Add Tax Names / Rates for multiple units Wizard so the word 'season' now shows 'billing type'
08/27/2009
Reporting
-  All Audit Reports will now include a Report Options Window similar to what you are use to in PVSW Tax. You now have the ability to filter by Date as well as Change Type
-  When creating a Parcel Report Writer Report and you choose to show History information setting a filter on the band will now properly display values.
-  Fixed an issue with the Livingston County Tax Roll where the proper values were not being displayed on the totals pages.
08/26/2009
General
-  When a School or Property Class Adjustment is performed that will automatically reverse any receipts they will now reverse any corresponding receipts in Specials .NET if linked and setup to update payments.
-  All Table Views now show the Delete Record(s) option. These utilities were previously located under the Tech Support menu. The Delete Payment option has also been added to the Apply Payments Screen for an individual receipt.
-  Fixed an issue where the Received Of information in CR.NET was not populating with the proper information from Tax.NET
-  Ability to link to Utility Billing .NET has been added. This will now show up as a new 'pod' in our Linked Application Tab. You will be able to view all accounts tied to the given Parcel # as well as the account's current bill and history information.
Reporting
-  When running a report over a range and your sort index is by Property Address the proper range information will be shown in the report header (for reports that display this information)
-  Fixed an issue on our Receipt Reports where if you ran them from the Payment/Distribution Category the address field would print the same address on each page.
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue with the Resource Export where the proper Total Values were not printing on the post-process report
-  On any of our Exports that display a dialog showing where either exports files or a compressed file got placed we now show a link that will take you to the Folder Location
08/24/2009
General
-  Anytime a payment is now reversed in Tax.NET and you are linked to Specials .NET and set to Update Payment in Real-Time any corresponding Specials .NET payments will automatically be reversed as well.
08/21/2009
General
-  Per request the Add Payments Enamsse process will now print an exceptions list that details all the parcels that were skipped and NOT paid (similar to the payment import report).
-  Any dialog that would previously be displayed for an input value will no longer require the key to be pressed twice after entering a value, once will suffice now. An example would be taking a payment and beign prompted for a Check #.
-  When linked to Special Assessments .NET we will display the current installment balance rather than the Payoff Amount on the Linked Applications Tab
-  When Sending a Check Request to AP and the user clicks the cancel button do not continue sending the check request.
-  New logic added to our PVSW Tax Conversion so Parcel Specials that do not have a corresponding Parcel in the system will no longer be converted. A warning will be shown in the post-process report.
Reporting
-  All Report Option windows now display a single Close button rather than both an 'OK' and 'Cancel' button. Had some who were confused as to why their report would still run after clicking the 'Cancel' button
-  Added the ability to choose how you want to sort the Payment Import Report like PVSW Tax (Sequence Number, Parcel #, or Posting Date)
-  When printing the DDA/TIFA Millage Exclusion Report include any temporary changes done in the current window when printing.
08/19/2009
General
-  Reworked our MTT Interest Refund Calculator so it now shows the interest refund breakdown per Taxing Authority. This was something requested by a few users.
-  Added new logic so the Journal Status Icon will refresh itself when the application loses/gains focus. This can only happen at most once every 30 seconds.
-  Added new logic to our Linked Application page so that if an error occurs when loading data for any of the linked applications the corresponding 'Application Pod' will display there was an error along with a link to view the error details
-  Fixed a display issue when linked to Pervasive Specials where the balance was showing the payoff amount rather than the current installment balance.
-  Fixed a display issue when linked to Pervasive Specials where the Total Principal Balance was not diplaying the correct value.
Reporting
-  Fixed the Manually Import FPC Report option so it functions as desired.
08/17/2009
General
-  If linked to a Pervasive Application and an error is encountered while attempting to load the linked data we will no longer silently fail. Any errors will now be reported to the user. (Needed for an issue with Scio)
-  Fixed an issue where certain indexes would not allow you to Mark current block when sorted by them.
Reporting
-  Added the ability to now convert over both Receipt and Special Assessment report writer reports from PVSW Tax.
-  Added new Sample Special Assessment report writer report that users can now derive their own custom Special Assessment Report Writer reports from
08/13/2009
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue regarding converting PVSW Roll Reports. Previously they would get placed in the 'Parcel Category'. They are now properly being placed in the 'Roll Category'. We also added a 'Sample Roll Report' for users to base any future custom Roll reports off of.
08/13/2009
General
-  Added new logic for City of Grand Rapids so that GL #'s will no longer be validated since they use an external GL system
08/12/2009
General
-  Fixed an issue with the Add SPAS for delq. admin fee utility. It is no longer possible to add a duplicate special code to the current Unit. This was previously displaying this flaw as an error when running the process.
-  Added a new option to our Assessing Interface Options window which allows the user to disable the Pop-up notification when a new difference is detected
-  When Editing Tax Amounts outside of the adjustment process we now refresh the view so the '** Manual Adjustment **' label properly displays
Reporting
-  Reworked our Receipt Reports that get ran from the Payment / Distribution category. Running receipt reports from this category will now keep the proper sort order as well as allow for receipts to be ran from both seasons.
-  Fixed an issue regarding the Report Converter that West Bloomfield was having with their custom Tax Bill reports.
Program Setup
-  Moved the Assessing Pervasive File Path option to be located on our Pervasive System Links window in Program Setup rather than under Assessing Options
Imports/Exports
-  Added the West Bloomfield LOCKBOX Payment Import choice under our Payment Import category.
-  Fixed an issue with our Payment Imports where if you had the Update History Real-Time option turned on the history information would still get updated even when performing a PROOF RUN
08/07/2009
General
-  Fixed an issue for Bethany Township where a dozen or so receipts were saved with the exact same Date/Time causing them to not successfully export to PVSW Tax.
-  Added checks to the Receipt Paid By window so you can not enter a paid by name longer than the allowed length (35 characters). This was an issue that Hayes Township was hitting.
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue with the Adjustment Affidavit Report where the original taxable value was not displaying the correct value. Was previously always showing the SEV instead of Taxable.
GIS
-  Added the ability to use the Parcel Specials table with GIS
08/04/2009
General
-  Fixed an issue when journalizing receipts that were sent to AP. The amounts were previously getting credited twice rather than washing out the original receipt.
-  Added a new feature to the Apply Payments screen so you can view the Taxes Billed and Paid breakdown by now clicking the 'Balance' button in the lower right of the screen.
08/03/2009
Calculation Changes
-  Added City of Harrison custom penalty calculation logic.
General
-  Fixed an issue with Schema Update 8.1 where if the millisecond portion on some of the receipt date/time values was too large the update would not take.
07/31/2009
Calculation Changes
-  Fix to the GR Quadrant Import where it was erroneously stating that certain parcels could not be found when they truly were in the system.
General
-  Fixed an issue for Torch Lake when attempting to update their 2005 Tax Database
-  Corrected an issue when attempting to reverse a payment on a parcel that had its Classification Modified after taxes were committed.
Reporting
-  Fixed a few issues with the Taxable Adjustment Affidavit Report where certain dollar values displayed too many decimal places. Also fixed an issue where certain pages were 'wrapping' to the next page.
Imports/Exports
-  Added the Generic Tax Bill Export for Cash Receipting Systems
-  Fix to the GR NetVantage Payment Import so the receipt numbers are now being set when importing the data.
07/30/2009
General
-  Per request, added the Posting Date / Parcel # index to the Receipts List. (When viewing as a county we also added the 'Unit / Posting Date / Parcel' index)
-  Updated logic so when adding a History Record and licensed to Livingston special assessments will save the code rather than the header.
-  Fixed the Parcel Set Field - DDA Selection utility so it will now properly assign the selected DDA in a database that contains just one Unit.
Reporting
-  Farmington Hills Tax Bill Report added to the system.
-  Fixed totaling issues that were occuring with both the Oakland Deqlinuent Roll (2006 Version) and the Oakland Total Roll (2005 Version)
Imports/Exports
-  Farmington Hills Lockbox Payment Import added to the system.
-  Fix to the Printing Service Export so when licensed to Farmington Hills the OCR is now exported
-  Fixed the Custom Export list where certain selections were taking the user to the Oakland Export sub-list.
07/27/2009
General
-  Fix to the journal status icon in the lower right of the application so that it no longer includes receipts which can only be journalized through Cash Receipting.
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue with the Assessing BOR Import where the process would erroneously remove all the history records for a parcel that imported in an adjustment.

Parcels that did not import a BOR adjustment will NOT be affected by this.
07/27/2009
General
-  Modified the AP Check Request dialog so you can no longer enter more data than AP can store. This would previously throw an error
Reporting
-  Now allowing for users to set a report filter on the Memory Field rows. For instance, the last payment date, etc.
07/24/2009
General
-  Small fix to an issue with Date/Time values when saving receipts so we gaurantee the 'millisecond' portion of the time is unique. This was needed to support exporting payments to PVSW Tax.
07/24/2009
Calculation Changes
-  Fixed an issue where it was possible for more than one receipt to be saved with the exact same Date/Time value. This poses an issue when attempting to export data to PVSW Tax.
General
-  Fixed an issue that Kentwood was hitting where during the receipt journalization process from CR.NET you'd get an 'Object Reference not set' error message.
-  New logic added to the Receipt Set Fields process so when electing to delete receipts you can no longer delete those which have been journalized
-  Fixed an issue when linked to Assessing where the 'Liber/Page' value in Assessing would be longer than what Tax.NET could store, throwing a warning to the user.
-  Hooked up a new feature from the Utility menu, Reverse Group of Payments Enmasse. This process will reverse the selected population of receipts. Receipts which have already been reversed or are negative payments will be skipped.
-  New logic added so you can no longer Refund Receipts to AP that are journalized.
-  Additional wording added to the journal prompt window when adding a negative payment so that if you plan on eventually refunding to AP we let you know you chould click 'No' for your answer.
-  New logic added to the Receipt Set Field - Journal Flag so that if the receipt has been journalized AND posted you cannot set the flag. If the receipt has only been journalized and NOT posted it will set the flag to false and then delete the corresponding JE in Tax.NET.
Imports/Exports
-  Added some extra safety when attempting to compress export files so the application may no longer crash if an error occurrs during the compression routine.
07/21/2009
Imports/Exports
-  Added the West Bloomfield Tax Export located under the custom Oakland County exports menu.
07/21/2009
General
-  Fixed an issue where if you have the Update History Real-Time flag turned on and you attempted to edit + save a Parcel the program would not let you save the record or perform any other task and appear to 'hang'.
07/20/2009
Calculation Changes
-  Fixed an issue for Torch Lake regarding parcel's that were classified as CFR
General
-  Fixed a rare issue that was possible when Linked to Assessing.NET. While attempting to load the linked parcel's image in a seperate thread the parcel would not have fully loaded yet causing an issue.
-  Added additional logic when saving a new/existing receipt so we validate the posting date is in an open period.
Reporting
-  Per request of Kentwood make sure at the top of the QTD Report to display 'FOR '.
07/20/2009
General
-  Added logic so that Comments and Split Comments do not get added to the Audit Trail when they were not even modified.
07/19/2009
General
-  Fixed an issue with the Receipt Set Fields utility when attempting to set the Post Date. When using the calendar to select the date it would not persist to the date text box.
-  Added new Auditing functionality. Specifically we added the Change Type field to our Audit Table. This field will provide an extra means to help categorize audit entries. This will only affect new Audit Entries going forward, all current entries will show a change type of 'General'.
-  Added new feature to the Parcel # Search so that if you hit the [ENTER] key to search for a Parcel # it will go in to 'edit mode' (blinking cursor) rather than just highlighting the field.
-  Fixed an issue when attempting to Add a new Parcel. You should now be able to successfully add any parcel.
07/17/2009
General
-  Fixed an issue with the Accept Barcoded Payments Enmasse process where it you did not choose to prompt for the 'paid by' information on each scanned payment we would not properly fill in the 'paid by' fields with the 'Send To' address.
07/16/2009
General
-  Fixed an issue where it was possible during the Commit Taxes utility to have duplicate Tax History records created if the parcel being committed had an adjustment on it.
07/16/2009
General
-  Fixed an issue where it was possible to journalize reversal receipts that were added to Tax.NET via CR.NET
-  When creating the reversal receipt for Tax.NET via CR.NET do not set the 'Journalization Source' to be 'Tax System'. Instead keep it set to 'Cash Receipting'.
-  Modified the Copy Database process so that it is now possible to copy GL Numbers seperate from Units, Specials, and Tax Rates.
-  New logic added so that instead of showing an error message and cancelling the entire Receipt Journalization Process when attempting to journalize a CR payment, we now just skip these records.
-  Fixed logic so the Change Date field on the Address Info. tab will now be updated when changing any of the address values from Tax.NET. Previously this would only get set from Assessing.
-  Modified the font on the Parcel # text box so it is now bold (per request of Grand Rapids)
-  Added logic when Adding/Editing Receipts so it is now required that you enter a Post Date.
-  Fixed an issue when posting in summary to General Ledger where it was including the hour, minutes, and seconds portion of the 'post date' therefore payments would never truly post in summary
Reporting
-  Added the West Bloomfield Tax Bill report to the system.
-  For any customer made bills based off of the Standard Tax Bill or Allegan Tax Bill no longer prompt for the 'Would you like to print the phrase...' question. Always just calculate the homestead savings.
-  Fixed the GL Number Report so the report column headings are properly aligned.
-  Fixed an issue with the Tax Collection Report by Date where the last record processed was not getting dumped to the report. Also fixed an issue where the proper posting date was not printing.
Program Setup
-  Added new option under My Preferences which will make it so anytime you are editing a multi-line text box (Legal, Comment, etc.) the initial key entry will append data rather than clear the current text and begin typing.
07/14/2009
General
-  Added additional fields for the Correction Code, Delivery Point Code, and Carrier Route for the Taxpayer Address on the 'Other Addr.' window.
-  Fixed cursor positioning on the Apply Payments screen if you are set to use a 'Quick Payment' method and also have the Auto Cell Movement option set to ON. The cursor will now stay focused on the Parcel # field after accepting a payment if these options are set.
Reporting
-  Fixed totaling issue with the Industrial Facilities Tax Report. Also corrected logic in the report so IFT classifications that were recently added to the program are now properly recognized (IFT Commercial on Personal, IFT Rehab, etc.)
-  Per request of Kentwood when selecting Range as your report population the report header will display the range entered.
Imports/Exports
-  New CASS Certification Export/Import processes have been hooked up. Previously only the owner name address was being certified. The new process will not only certify both the Owner and Taxpayer addresses but if any other address information changes during CASS Certification it will be updated on the Parcel as well.
-  Fixed an issue that St. Clair County was experiancing with the Complete Roll Import. Also improved the speed of the import when processing the payments file.
07/11/2009
General
-  Tweaked the Add Payments Enmasse process so that if indexed by the marked field any parcels in your selected population will have payments added to them (behaves identical to PVSW Tax)
Reporting
-  Fixed the Gratiot County, Charlevoix, Mason County, Muskegon County, and Osceola County Receipt Reports so that the 'Current Pmt' information will now properly display on any receipts printed after the first.
-  Per request of St. Clair County a new option has been added to the Settlement Report which will allow the report to total special assessments by their heading only rather than code + heading.
Program Setup
-  New logic added so that anytime you load a Parcel and then click to the Taxes Setup screen the Unit that is displayed will be that of the last parcel you were viewing. This should make it a bit easier on counties when viewing data.
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed a potential timeout issue with our Complete Roll Import. This was happening to St. Clair County
07/09/2009
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue with the Tax Certification Report where if a legal description was short enough it would not print on the report.
07/08/2009
General
-  Fixed an issue for Allegan's Tax History data where some of the history detail records contained bad data causing an error when attempting to insert it in to SQL.
07/08/2009
General
-  Fixed an issue that was occurring when attempting to convert a PVSW Tax database for Scio.
07/02/2009
General
-  Per customer request we will now only show the positive taxable value / payment prompt when deleting parcels if the population you are deleting is set to Current Record.
07/01/2009
Calculation Changes
-  New logic added when attempting to determine the unit code to use for Ionia County when calculating a parcel (From latest PVSW Tax Update)
-  Fixed an issue that Ionia hit where if two or more users were on the exact same parcel on different machines and both performed an adjustment and saved two adjusted tax bills would get created. This would then cause the tax bill to have double the amounts.
General
-  When committing your seasons' taxes we will now create an Audit Entry for each Parcel to track when it was committed.
Reporting
-  New logic added to the Warrant Report to handle overriden SET values. (From latest PVSW Tax Update)
Imports/Exports
-  Added logic to the Standard Non-BSA CR Payment Import so it now handles Farmington Hills lock box payment files (From latest PVSW Tax Update)
06/30/2009
General
-  Fix to the Accept Barcoded Payments Enmasse window so the payment values after scanning will show a comma when displayed.
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue with the Mortgage Code/Parcel # with Barcode Report where if indexed on anything other than the Mortgage Code field the report would take an exceptionally long time to run.
-  Added the TL Receipt Report to the Receipt/Payment categories.
Program Setup
-  Fixed an issue for Elk Rapids so that they are able to now use the '&' character in their mask setup (PVSW Tax previously would use 'U' )
-  Added a new setting in the My Preferences window which allows you to Display report contents when the report is cancelled.
GIS
-  GIS has been updated to use the latest release candidate from Think Geo
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue with the Complete Tax Roll Export and the Current Season Export where the Tax Tables were not exporting the rates in the proper order.

This would ONLY affect those who have manually modified the order of their tax rates and performed either of the mentioned exports.

The error would be noticed once the data was imported, the tax bill rates would be in a different order than what appears in program setup and the Warrant Report would quickly show balancing issues.
06/29/2009
Calculation Changes
-  Fixed an issue with the Commit Taxes process regarding parcels that were adjusted prior to comitting. The adjustment record that would get created during the process would always show taxes of 0.00. This does NOT affect balancing. This was simply a display issue.
General
-  Fixed an issue where if you made a School District Adjustment to a parcel that previoulsy was already adjusted and you then attempted to view the previous adjustment the tax headings would be blank
-  Fixed an issue when attempting to run the BS&A Tech Support Utilities from the Edit Parcel screen. Previously the program would close. Fixes an issue for Owosso.
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue with the Adjustment Reports when choosing to run over a date range for Kentwood. Previously when running over a date range the 'Final' column would show figures from the last processed adjustment in the date range.
Imports/Exports
-  Added better error handling when attempting to import a compressed file to a folder that you do not have security rights to. Previously if attempting to do this the program would give an error and close.
06/25/2009
Reporting
-  Hooked up the Audit Trail so it now audits any changes made to Reports. This includes adding, deleting, editing, etc.
-  Fixed an issue when taking a payment across all seasons and the Print Receipt Automatically option is enabled. Previously the report would hang and then not print properly.
-  Tweaked all of our Receipt Report Writer reports so that the millage labels will not print '0.00000' for millages that are not suppose to be showing.
Program Setup
-  The ability to have multiple zip codes assigned to the same city is now possible in the Zip Code setup window.
-  Per request of Bangor Twsp Tax.NET now allows for the use of Custom Map URLs (this is the exact same feature currently found in Assessing.NET).
-  New feature under General Settings added to allow a user to turn On/Off GIS Integration for all users at once rather than individually for all users.
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue with the Delinquent Utility Billing Import where the last line of the import file was not getting processed.
06/23/2009
General
-  Fixed an issue where it was possible for certain application settings to get reloaded after you had modified them and kept the window open. This was due to an issue where the Assessing.NET Link was reloading the settings every time it would refresh itself (based on your setting in program setup).

One particular area this affected would be your Tax Bill Report Options window. If you noticed certain settings were getting stomped out / not saving please update your appliation.
06/22/2009
Calculation Changes
-  Hooked up the latest MBT logic changes that were added to PVSW Tax.
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue when attempting to export a report to a text file.
-  Fixed an issue when attempting to export a a report to E-mail and focus was not given to the e-mail window.
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue for Pere Marquette that they were getting while attempting to run the Direct Import from Assessing
-  Tax Bill Printing Service Export for City of Novi added.
06/19/2009
General
-  Hooked up new logic so that the Parcel Summary Pod (located on the left hand side) will update its values properly after modifying the PRE/MBT Flag.
06/18/2009
Calculation Changes
-  Fixed a calculation error where certain parcels were not getting classified as MBT parcels.
06/18/2009
Calculation Changes
-  Latest changes that were made to PVSW Tax (mainly MBT logic) have been implemented.
General
-  Fixed an issue where you'd receive an error stating that a directory was not valid when attempting to run the update with elevated privlages.
06/16/2009
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue with the Tax Bill Printing Service export where if in the winter season and attempting to export it would automatically switch to the summer season before exporting.
-  Added additional auditing to the Erase Mortgage Codes Import Process. Also improved the performance of the Mortgage Company Import Process.
06/16/2009
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue with the Comments Report when attempting to print a comment for a Parcel that did not exist.
-  Fixed an issue where the new Archived Watermark was not being displayed on user-created reports.
06/16/2009
Program Security
-  New logic added so that users setup with Administrative Access have rights to Archived Databases
06/15/2009
Calculation Changes
-  Added logic so parcels classified as IFT - Personal on Commercial Class will now be recognized as "IFT" parcels.
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue that Kentwood was having with their Group Header bands on Report Writer reports now properly printing data from the MemoryField tables.
06/12/2009
Calculation Changes
-  Fix to the Wayne County Roll Report so our combined totals and other various items display propertly.
Reporting
-  Fixed logic with Tax Bill Reports so that the principal residence exemption amount will properly display on the reports.
06/11/2009
General
-  Increased the timeout period when running the Delete History for specific tax year utility.
-  When in an archived database we now display a more visible label at the top of the application to indicate we are in an archived database (to match Assessing.NET)
-  Logic added so if the Update History in Real-Time flag is turned on we will update history when clcking OFF of the Edit Parcel or Apply Payments screens (matches PVSW Tax behavior)
-  Two new Special Act Classifications added to the system: "RZ-OPRA Rehab 1/2 rate" and "RZ-OPRA Frozen"
-  Scottville City special interest calculation implemented
Reporting
-  Fixed the SpecificWord('value','position') calculated expression function so it properly returns the word specified by the 'position' argument.
-  Tweaked the barcode position on the Novi City Bill
-  Per request of Kentwood added a new option under General Settings that will show an 'ARCHIVED' watermark on all reports that are printed from an archived database.
Program Setup
-  Fixed an issue where the Millage Rate Program Setup report was not printing the Tax Rates in their assigned order after you altered their priority.
Program Security
-  Per request of Kentwood non-enterprise admin users will now be able to print from an archived database.
Imports/Exports
-  The following Wayne County Imports/Exports were added: Wayne County Delq. Export, Wayne County Complete Export, and Wayne County Special Assessments/Drains Import.
-  Kalamazoo City General Ledger Export added.
06/09/2009
General
-  Reworked how we save information to the Tax History database to better improve performance for users who have multiple years of Tax History data.
Imports/Exports
-  Added Midland Co. Imports under the Custom Import section.
06/08/2009
General
-  Improved the performance of updating the Tax History database when the Update History in Real-Time option is turned on.
06/05/2009
General
-  Increased the width of the Send To field on the Owner Info tab.
Program Setup
-  Modified the way we are storing our Shared Program Folder. This setting is now getting stored in our Admin Database in a seperate database table. This will resolve issues where this field was getting reset after you'd run an update.
-  Increased the Timeout when attempting to validate we have a successful connection to a linked application to 5 seconds instead of 1.
-  Fix to Drop Down Lists that are used within any of our grids so they better handle certain keystrokes.
Program Security
-  Logic added so that if you are an Enterprise Administrator you still have security rights in an Archived Database
Imports/Exports
-  All Imports will now allow you to specify a folder you wish to extract your files to. This resolves an issue with some customers who were attempting to uncompress an export created from a PVSW application and the bsaucomp.exe utility could not resolve their 'My Documents' folder.
06/02/2009
General
-  Hooked up the Tax Details window so it is now sizable
-  Fix so that the Add Payments Enmasse process will now properly persist the options that are entered before running.
Reporting
-  Added logic so that any report which was added based off of the Reminder Bill will now properly calculate the reminder dates as well as the balances due.
-  Logic added so that parcels which have their Send To choice set to Owner / Taxpayer will have two Tax Bills generated, one for the Owner and one for the Taxpayer.
06/02/2009
General
-  Performance when saving information to the Tax History Database improved. This is an attempt to resolve an issue that Baldwin Twsp. is having with saving their Tax History.
-  Marking records is now user independant. This means that multiple users can have certain records marked / un-marked without affecting any of the other users.
Imports/Exports
-  All Direct Imports from Assessing.NET now display the assessing database name we are pulling information from.
05/31/2009
General
-  Added a new utility which will allow you to convert the Tax History data seperate from the normal conversion utility.
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue with the Quick Tax Disbursement Report where the DDA redistributions were not getting subtracted out for the opposite season you ran the report in.
05/29/2009
Reporting
-  Fixed issues related to converting Grand Rapids user created Reports where certain calculated expressions were not coming over properly.
-  Hooked up a new table in our Report Writer reports called MemoryFieldsAddlTable. This table will hold additional calculated fields related to the individual tax rates.
Program Setup
-  Fixed an issue when entering DDA's where you'd receive a message that you first need to setup a Tax Table before you can view the Exclusions/Factors window for a DDA. You will need to re-enter your DDA's if you were receiving this message.
05/27/2009
General
-  All of the logic and features that have recently been added / implemented in PVSW Tax have now been put in to Tax .NET as well. One of the bigger features that comes along with this is the DS 4410 New Version Report.
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue with the Report Converter when attempting to convert Grand Rapids user reports.
-  Fixed an issue when attempting to run a User Created Bill Report that Kalamazoo Township was having.
05/26/2009
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue when attempting to run the 'Chart/Graphs' utility and the population you were running over had differing years per each parcel.
Imports/Exports
-  When running the Various Items Export make sure to display what the file names created are called after the export is complete.
05/21/2009
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue with the Real Estate Service Export which would cause the application to close.
05/21/2009
Reporting
-  Per request of the County User Group meeting we held on Friday (5/15) added logic so that on our Roll and Settlement reports we now break out Special Assessment totals by their respective type (Sp. Assessments, Roads, and Drains).
05/19/2009
Calculation Changes
-  Only show the Version Watermark on Non-Report Writer reports.
General
-  Fixed an issue when attempting to run the New Database Wizard.
-  Calendar View has been added to the reminder system. This will allow you to view your reminders in a calendar mode similar to Outlook.
Program Setup
-  Modified the Color Code Comment Button option in Program Setup so it now will flash the button rather than color code it (per rqeuest of the User Group meeting on 5/15).
05/14/2009
General
-  Fixed an issue when attempting to take payments on Tax Bills through the CR.NET interface and an error would occurr disallowing the payment to save.
-  Made the 'Balance Due' label on the Parcel Summary control (lower left of application) bold.
-  Added additional verbage to the 'New Database Wizard' to help in understanding all the available options when starting a new tax year database.
-  Added new logic to the Set Fields window so that it now requires a Check-Box confirmation dialog stating that the user understand the population the utility is running over.
-  Added logic to the conversion to handle bad receipt dates where the year could potentially be less than 1753 (minimum year SQL supports)
-  Corrected the tab order on the Owner Info tab on the Edit Parcel screen.
Imports/Exports
-  Fix to the Mortgage Co. Import process for Stockbridge to handle their parcel # mask.
05/11/2009
General
-  Fixed an issue where the 'New Database' and the 'Copy Database' wizards were still attempting to use the BS&A Restoration Service. This service is now obsolete.
05/08/2009
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue where the Special Installment import was not properly locating the unit to verify if its taxes were committed if the system was setup to infer the unit.
-  Fixed an issue with the Special Installment import where the last line of the import file was not getting processed.
05/08/2009
Calculation Changes
-  Fix to a handful of Bill Reports that were Direct Reports (not user editable) so they use the proper barcode font.
General
-  Fixed an issue that Stockbridge was encountering while attempting to convert an '04 database.
Reporting
-  Fixed a display problem on some reports when running over a population of either Block or Range and sorted on a Multi-Index column.
05/07/2009
General
-  Fixed an issue with the new 'Amount' index that was added to the Receipts List so that when viewing as a County negative amounts are properly sorted.
Reporting
-  Benzie County Laser Bill added to system.
Imports/Exports
-  Fixed an issue when attempting to compress any of the exports the proper files were not getting included in the compression.
05/05/2009
General
-  Corrected an issue where reversed receipts were using the Hour/Minute/Second values from the receipt being reversed rather than the actual current time values.
-  New logic added to the conversion process so that widowed Parcel/Master records will now be properly handled. This fixes an issue that Stockbridge was having while attempting to convert a 2002 database.
-  New feature added to the Receipts List so that the 'Amount' field is now an indexable column.
05/04/2009
Calculation Changes
-  Fixed an error from occurring while attempting to reverse a payment.
05/01/2009
General
-  Fixed an issue where Names / Addresses were not properly updating when linked up to Assessing
Reporting
-  Small tweak to the Novi City Laser Bill so the font size is set to 10 rather than 8.
Program Setup
-  Corrected an issue where the Assessing Interface Options would not persist their settings after closing the dialog.
Imports/Exports
-  St. Joseph County Web Export has been implemented. This can be found under File -> Exports -> Custom Exports.
-  When compressing files after running an export the system will now remember the last directory where you placed the compressed file.
05/01/2009
General
-  Corrected an error from occuring when attempting to view the Tax History screen and no valid unit could be loaded for the parcel you are attempting to view.
Reporting
-  Added additional wording to the message that gets displayed when attempting to run an 'Original' Tax Bill.
-  Corrected a typo on the heading of the State Tax Commission Affidavit report.
Imports/Exports
-  Oakland Delinquent WAS Export added to the system under Exports -> Custom Exports -> Oakland County
04/30/2009
Calculation Changes
-  Fix to the history code to correct a calculation error where we could not load the related Unit thus causing unwanted behavior on the History screen.
General
-  Fixed an error when attempting to perform the 'Quick Entry' utility for Special Assessments.
-  New logic added when performing a parcel search so that if you enter only a partial Parcel # it will attempt to lookup any relevant matches that it can find within the database rather than prompting no match was found.
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue where you'd go to Reports -> Other Reports and it would cause an error.
-  Fixed a few Receipt Report Writer reports that had a typo (showed 'Receiopt' rather than 'Receipt')
-  Fixed an issue where any of our Report Writer reports would not work properly when you attempted to set a dispaly filter on the Detail Band of a report using one of the Memory Table fields.
-  Hooked up new feature (per request of Mackinac) so that the user now has the ability to print an 'Original' Tax Bill (no adjustments will be included). By defualt, the option will be set to always print the 'Current' Tax Bill and if the user choose to print the original they will also be given a Yes/No confirmation window.
-  Added Novi City Laser Bill. This report is unique in that it prints an OCR label at the top of the report.
Program Setup
-  Hooked up logic so that when licensed to Oakland the Tax Classification drop down has some additional choices (in the Tax Names / Rates setup screen)
-  An option to disable showing the Village Tab has been added under the 'My Settings' window in Program Setup. This is something that has been requested before although this time I believe we found a great solution for it.
Imports/Exports
-  Corrected the help links on our Import choices so they are no longer out of order.
04/28/2009
General
-  Logic added to the Apply Payments screen so that if you have elected to use a default receipt that option will be honored when attempting to print an individual receipt.
-  Hooked up the ability to perform the 'Quick Entry' utility on the Billing Code field.
-  Added new logic to all of our 'Quick Entry' utilities so that they now create an Audit Record for any parcels they may modify.
-  Hooked up a new column on our History view that now displays the 'Balance' for that history record.
-  Added new field to the bottom of our History screen that shows the total balance for all history records
-  When viewing an individual Tax History record you can now find a new tab page where you can add comments to the associated record.
-  Added a new field to our Receipts List -- 'Paid By'. Also added a new field when viewing as a county -- 'Unit / Paid By'.
-  Changed the wording on our General Settings screen so 'Parcel Prefix' now reads 'County Code' to match Assessing
Reporting
-  Hooked up a new Parcel Category report: 'Taxes Due by Owners Name Quick Listing' report. This report will give a quick recap of the taxes due by season in alphabetical order by Owner Name
-  Fixed an issue where the 'Default Report' settings located in General Setup would not be honored in a brand new database.
Program Setup
-  Wording change when adding a new Unit so it no longer shows 'Name' but rather 'Municipality' to match Assessing.
-  Fix to error occurring when attempting to add a new school district and then add a Tax Table using this school district.
Imports/Exports
-  Corrected issue where the Tax Bill Export was not properly exporting the servicer name if one was found on the corresponding mortgage company record.
-  Fixed the 'Help' links on our Import choices so they do not display the export help text but rather the proper import help text.
04/27/2009
General
-  Updates to the conversion so it now handles fractional characters such as '1/2', '1/4', etc.
-  Added logic so that when printing Receipts from the 'Apply Payments' screen and you have selected a default Receipt Report to use from General Settings it will honor that option.
Imports/Exports
-  Fix to the Tax Bill Export so that it will properly print the servicer name if one exists for the corresponding mortgage company.
04/23/2009
General
-  Fixed an issue where the Tax History Audit entries were not saving the Date/Time.
-  Updated logic so that when attempting to send a check request to the AP system we are validating you are linked to AP, not GL.
Reporting
-  * New Feature *. Customers will now have the ability to mark Parcels as being 'Included in the Tax Bill Print Job'. You will find this option on all Tax Bill Report Option windows. If a Tax Bill is printed for that Parcel it will be marked accordingly and you can view this information on the "Misc." tab on the Edit Parcel screen.
04/23/2009
General
-  The Tutorial and Manual menu items located under the “Help” menu will no longer cause an error when attempting to click them. Instead you will be prompted that those documents are not yet ready yet.
-  Tax History Screen – This view has been completely reworked so it is no longer seasonally tabbed out like the majority of our other screens. This was an issue that a few people brought up to Kelly and I felt was a great concern. Now we are displaying the Tax History information in a single grid like we do in IS / Assessing. Also, the Tax History graph has been removed and can now be found under its own button.
-  Corrected a problem where some of our grids would not paint themselves properly and instead would look completely black. This was affecting all of our applications.
-  Added logic so that the user index fields on the Parcel List will now always have “(User )” appended to the end of their display name to prevent an issue where they could possibly have a user index field called ‘Parcel Number’ (which would result in two of the same indices which is not allowable).
Reporting
-  Per request the QTD report will no longer display “for Township” at the top of the report in the population title text.
-  Tax Collection and Tax Collection by Date reports will now display “Block - ” in the title rather than just “Block”.
-  Added new logic to the Report Converter so it does not attempt to open the old report files with write access. This would cause an error on reports that had the ‘Read Only’ attribute on them set.
-  Corrected typos on the QTD Report Options screen as well as the Security Item Description for ‘Run Charge/Don’t Charge Admin Fee Tool’.
Program Setup
-  Added the ability to now specify a Default Roll, and Default Receipt report to use when going to print those respective reports. These options can be found under the ‘General Settings’ button in program setup.
04/21/2009
General
-  Billed amount on the History Screen will now properly reflect the admin amount as well.
-  Fixed an issue when attempting to modify any data on one of our History Detail screens and then saving the record would result in an error message.
-  Fixed an issue where you could not View / Print any audit entries related to manual changes made on the Tax History Detail screens.
Reporting
-  Fixed an issue where the Report Profiler could potentially lock the program up.
Program Setup
-  Quick Entry Utility for GL #'s updated. - Fixed issue where you could potentially enter the window even if there was an error while attempting to save the previous window. - The ENTER key will now open the GL # Setup Screen on the grid. - Only the 'Run' button will be highlighted upon first entering the screen. - Heading descriptions should now match the same descriptions found on the Tax Names & Rates Setup screen.
Program Security
-  Fixed wording on the ACH Security Item Description.
Imports/Exports
-  Standard Pmt. Import now uses the Post Date as the default date when prompting the user rather than the actual system date.
-  Current / Complete Exports have been updated to be backward compatible with PVSW Tax.
04/20/2009
General
-  When linked to the specials system and the option to update payments in real time is turned on, we will now longer attempt to process $0.00 payments.
-  Corrected the Defer Int./Pen. window so that the # of days you enter now properly persists after closing.
-  Hooked up a 'Super Admin' feature which allows for BS&A to have a backdoor login in case any user may change their admin user's password or delete that user.
Reporting
-  Report Filters, Generic Data Export, and Report Writer will now all show the 'User Friendly' field names.
Imports/Exports
-  Fix to the Real Estate Export so that it does not attempt to calculate all seasons when exporting, only the current season
-  Fix to the Standard Payment Import exception report pages so they are now properly formatting (previously certain lines were overlapping each other)
-  Corrected the tab order on the Tax Bill Export Dialog.
04/17/2009
General
-  Fix to the conversion so the '~' character now comes over in our conversions
-  Fix to an issue where during the conversion zip code information was not being properly formatted for out of country zipcodes.
Imports/Exports
-  Tab order was corrected on the Tax Bill Export dialog
-  Added logic so that the Assessing User Field Import must have at least one field selected to update before it will continue
04/16/2009
Imports/Exports
-  Reworked the Assessing ASCII User Field Import so you can now choose if you wish to import it via ASCII files or if you want to perform a Direct Import if you are linked to the Assessing system.
04/14/2009
Calculation Changes
-  Fixed an issue where the Assessing Split Import was not honoring the permission settings set in Assessing.NET
Imports/Exports
-  Washtenaw County Drain Import added to the list of our Custom Imports.
-  Fixed a conversion problem with Scio's data where widowed records were coming over causing Tax Bill information to be incorrect.
04/13/2009
General
-  Fix so that the 'Quick Payment' option on the Receipt Options screen would properly honor the discard changes button.
-  Moved the 'Update Unit Code' and 'Update Unit Code for each Parcel 'utilities to now be located under Tech Support Utilities.
-  After deleting any records from their corresponding lists make sure we refresh the list.
Reporting
-  DDA/TIFA Rate Exclusion report now lists the total millage exclusion at the bottom of each DDA Record
Program Setup
-  Fix so that when adding a new Tax Table the proper information would be added to any previously existing DDA's.
04/11/2009
Reporting
-  The Balancing Settlement Report was not honoring the Special Population choice when it came to population filtering.
Imports/Exports
-  Corrected the Standard Non-BSA Cash Receipting import where the program could potentially hang.
04/09/2009
Reporting
-  Corrected an issue where the Property Class filter on the Balancing Settlement Report was not being honored.
Imports/Exports
-  When performing an Assessing BOR Import, the user now has the option to elect to be prompted to defer interest / penalty when base taxes increase.
-  Anytime you successfully compress an export the message will now display the path the compressed file was placed.
-  Small updates to the Tax Bill Export to handle special characters in legal descriptions.