A record of changes to the Accredo system. Each release note outlines the updates, fixes, and enhancements included in the latest versions, so you can track what has changed over time.

Accredo A90 – Version 9.0.103

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Improvement

ALL - All Modules

The Action Bar no longer needs a module code where the word can only mean one thing, so Timesheet and Disbursement now work on their own. Cash Book Deposit, Withdrawal, Transfer and Banking Summary can be reached from the Action Bar for the first time, and where a word is genuinely ambiguous - Transfer in a Saturn system that has Inventory Control - you are offered the choice.

Action Bar wording for Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable now matches the way people work: AP Invoice, AP Credit, AP Payment, AP Cash Purchase, AP Journal, AR Invoice, AR Credit, AR Receipt and AR Journal each start the matching transaction, optionally for a creditor or debtor you name. The shipment document is now asked for by name - Shipment or Both for a full shipment, PO Invoice and PO Receipt for the invoice-only and receipt-only variants. Note that AP Invoice and a bare Receipt now start a transaction rather than a shipment.

Closing the last open form now returns focus to the navigator, so the Maintain, Tasks and Enquiries tabs respond to the first click. Previously one click was needed to restore focus to the navigator before the tab could be selected.

Changing the Accredo scaling setting now takes effect immediately and no longer requires Accredo to be restarted. Application scaling can be increased or decreased using the buttons in the Title bar.

Starting a document from the Action Bar now finds a customer, creditor or product the same way opening one does. Typing add inv for jones matches the closest record, or offers a list to choose from, instead of putting the text straight into the code field without checking it exists.

Content pasted into memos, narratives, description tabs now keeps more of its structure.

Where Company Settings does not allow the content type to be changed, selecting a Global Narrative no longer overrides it - the narrative is downgraded to the fixed content type instead. The content type is also now shown, read-only, in the narrative editor for document and batch lines.

Switching between and closing maximised tabbed windows no longer causes the other open windows to flash through a minimised state before repainting. Closing a tab is now noticeably faster, particularly with many windows open and on lower-specification hardware.

Fix 64-bit Access Violations in Form and Report Designers

CB - Cash Book

The Delete button on the Bank Statements tab of a Cash Book bank account is now enabled for open statements, subject to permission, matching what the Statement List already allowed.

Merging two Cash Book bank account codes now works. The merge previously failed, reporting that a bank account record already existed with the target code.

CO - Company

Company Settings gains an Allow User Change option beside each Content Type default. Where it is not selected the content type is fixed to the default and shown read-only in the editors, so exports and document report designs that depend on a particular content type cannot be broken by someone changing it on the fly.

Accredo now detects a Windows tel: dialler such as Microsoft Teams and treats it like a phone line, so the dial button beside a phone number, and the Make Call buttons on the Job, Purchase Order and Order or Invoice screens, become available without TAPI and with no setup. The Preferences option is renamed Allow Make Call without TAPI/tel:, and the MaxBasic MakePhoneCall function places calls through the dialler too.

DI - Data Interchange

Importing an Excel worksheet whose sheet name contains an apostrophe or other special character, and which has a print area set, no longer fails with an E4013 Missing exclamation mark error. The worksheet list and the import now read these files correctly.

FD - Form Designer

Image components on custom forms now identify picture files by their content rather than by their file extension, so an image saved with a mismatched extension - for example a PNG named .jpg - displays correctly instead of raising an error. PNG and GIF transparency is preserved, and a file that cannot be read still reports a clear error.

GL - General Ledger

GL Settings, General tab now has an optional Suspense Account field, which can be left blank. When it is set, the nominated account appears in the Clearing Accounts section of the GL Ledger Reconciliation report alongside the existing AR, AP, fixed-asset and stock-purchase clearing accounts, showing its code, name and closing balance. Leaving it blank leaves the report unchanged, and an account that no longer exists is simply omitted.

The GL Report Wizard now checks column numbers before generating, and offers an option to renumber the columns into sequence. Column number defaulting when a field is added has also been improved.

OE - Order Entry

The Action Bar now opens an Order from its Packing Slip number as well as its Document ID, matching the way Invoice already accepts either a document number or an ID.

Typing a bare document name in the Action Bar now opens its list with that document class already selected - Packing Slip shows packing slips, Quote shows quotes, Credit shows credits - instead of the list's own default.

RD - Report Designers

Reports generated from the GL Report Wizard now allow enough vertical space in the band for totals that occupy more than one row, so multi-row totals are no longer clipped in the generated design.

SYS - System

On Licensee Details, the module list on the System tab is now anchored to the bottom of the form, so it grows with the window instead of staying at its original small size.

Upgrading to a newer Accredo version now triggers a build check automatically when the version is higher than the one recorded, so the build warning no longer appears after an upgrade and there is no need to open Help > About to clear it.

WS - Web Service

The web service System metadata endpoints no longer return a 403 when a system has no entities to report; the metadata document simply omits the types and properties collections instead.

Changes made to an existing web service client in File > Web Service > Clients now take effect on the running web service straight away, so regenerating a client secret or editing client settings no longer needs a web service restart before the new details work.

XConv - Mercury2Saturn

The Mercury to Saturn and Saturn to Mercury conversion tools now work against Version 9 systems. Selecting a Version 9 system populates the company list, and running the company conversion no longer raises an exception.

XConv - Saturn2Mercury

The Mercury to Saturn and Saturn to Mercury conversion tools now work against Version 9 systems. Selecting a Version 9 system populates the company list, and running the company conversion no longer raises an exception.

ZIP - Backup

The 7-Zip compression engine bundled with Accredo has been updated to version 26.02, closing a published security vulnerability in the earlier version. The standalone VSS backup tool has been updated to the same version.

 

Bug Fix

ALL - All Modules

Fix Unlock failed (Mem) errors from COM Server sessions which switch company logins with a uncommitted transaction 'in flight' on shutdown

Input boxes opened from a MaxBasic script were positioned and sized incorrectly on high resolution displays when multi-monitor scaling was enabled. Now fixed.

Selecting a Global Narrative in the Narrative Editor now sets the Content Type on the form to match the narrative being inserted where that is an upgrade - Text to Markdown or Html, or Markdown to Html provided Content Type change is allowed.

AP - Accounts Payable

When keying an AP Credit Return, the pending balance now reduces as the credit is entered instead of increasing. This was a display-only issue; the posted balance always moved in the correct direction.

The due date on an AP Credit Return is now calculated the right way round: a credit takes the credit date, while a negative credit follows the creditor's payment terms.

CO - Company

Selecting a font in Report Preferences no longer raises an access violation in the 64-bit application. This was one of a group of 64-bit addressing faults found in Version 9; fonts can again be chosen and saved normally.

The Navigator once again remembers its width between sessions.

The Permit WebApp button on the Permissions tab of a user now grants the Cash Book permissions the Web App needs, including CB > Reports > Queries, which it previously skipped.

EM - Email and HTML editor

In the Mail Editor opened by printing a document to a Mail Message destination, the cursor is now visible in the To field when the window opens. Previously focus was on the field but the flashing cursor did not appear until the window was left and returned to.

FD - Form Designer

In Form Designer, setting the Table or Memory Table property of a list grid or edit grid no longer raises an Invalid property value error and access violation in the 64-bit application. Grids can again be bound to tables through the Form Designer interface as well as by scripting.

Mouse-wheel scrolling works again on Custom Form edit grids, list grids and data combos. Scrolling in these controls had stopped responding in Version 9.

Connecting a Table or Memory Table to a Grid in Form Designer, or changing the table a grid points at, no longer raises an access violation.

IC - Inventory Control

Saving a product in Component Maintenance no longer fails with a currency error where a price number is mapped to a price list that has since been superseded within a dated price group. This affected companies using Foreign Exchange together with dated price groups.

MB - Max Basic

The MaxBasic AddCompany function now works. It takes an optional fourth CompanyType parameter - Live, Test or Demo, defaulting to Live - which was previously never set, so every call failed reporting that the Type field must have a value.

Script output larger than 2 GB no longer fails. A script that printed roughly a billion characters previously raised a range error and left the output window blank, losing the output with no message.

PP - Purchase Pricing

Running a Special Pricing or Purchase Pricing Rule List, including from Tasks and from the Rule List Designer, no longer raises an access violation in the 64-bit application.

RD - Report Designers

The ICTransfer document report design supplied with the Version 9 install no longer reports CrLf not found when printed. The shipped example design has been corrected; any customer copy taken from the earlier version will need the same correction.

RE - Report Engine

Printing a grid to Excel no longer fails when the grid includes a timestamp column such as Created Timestamp. Previously Excel reported that the NumberFormat property of the Range class could not be set, and nothing printed.

SA - Sales Analysis

Running a custom Sales Analysis report no longer raises an access violation.

SP - Special Pricing

Running a Special Pricing or Purchase Pricing Rule List, including from Tasks and from the Rule List Designer, no longer raises an access violation in the 64-bit application.

WS - Web Service

The web service now returns the intended 401 Unauthorized, with its WWW-Authenticate header, when a request carries an expired or invalid token on any of its listeners rather than only the admin one. A request to an unregistered endpoint returns its error instead of leaving the caller waiting for a timeout.

A web service Special Pricing enquiry no longer fails with an Open failed JCCTRL.PDB error in companies that do not have the Job Costing module installed. The enquiry now runs correctly whether or not Job Costing is present.

The web service action metadata endpoint no longer fails when one action's field domain cannot be resolved, and a single action can now be fetched by name instead of downloading the whole catalogue.

XConv - Accredo Conversion

Converting a Mercury company to Version 9 now carries the Shipper Code across on Invoicing invoices. The version 7 to version 8 conversion step was not registered in Mercury, so the Shipper Code was left blank on every invoice that crossed that step and a File Recovery was needed to fill them in. Companies that have already converted still need that File Recovery run.

ZIP - Backup

Restoring a company from a backup now fails with a clear error when the drive holding the temporary directory does not have enough free space for the extracted data. Previously the restore reported success while silently leaving files out of the restored company.

 

Accredo A90 – Version 9.0.102

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Improvement

ALL - All Modules

In the Action bar you can now type a table name such as APCONTCT or ARCAT1 as an alias to jump to the matching masterfile, document list, or form. Previously only some table names were recognised.

IN - Invoicing System

The web service now exposes customer delivery addresses as a standalone entity that can be created and updated directly, controlled by the dedicated Delivery Addresses permission rather than requiring full Customer access. This lets an application save a delivery address from an invoice or order without granting broader customer maintenance rights.

MB - Max Basic

Period-by-period balance history is now available through the Accredo Web Service and MaxBasic scripts. A new read-only Balance sub-object on customers, suppliers, GL accounts, jobs, assets, bank accounts, products, and analysis codes returns the same balances shown on each record's Balances tab, allowing the Web App and integrations to display and graph balances over time.

OE - Order Entry

The web service now exposes customer delivery addresses as a standalone entity that can be created and updated directly, controlled by the dedicated Delivery Addresses permission rather than requiring full Customer access. This lets an application save a delivery address from an invoice or order without granting broader customer maintenance rights.

WS - Web Service

Period-by-period balance history is now available through the Accredo Web Service and MaxBasic scripts. A new read-only Balance sub-object on customers, suppliers, GL accounts, jobs, assets, bank accounts, products, and analysis codes returns the same balances shown on each record's Balances tab, allowing the Web App and integrations to display and graph balances over time.

Setting up a Web Service API client that uses the Client Credentials grant now requires a client secret. The secret is shown only once when it is generated and is then stored in a secure one-way hashed form, so it can no longer be retrieved afterwards. Any existing Client Credentials clients will need their secret regenerated.

 

Bug Fix

ALL - All Modules

Resolved an error that could occur when resizing the File Recovery recovery log (Setup > File Recovery > Resize Recovery Log).

IN - Invoicing System

Fixed the Reprice Invoices task so that repricing credits with Cost Price and Cost ID selected now clears the cost ID lock on the credit lines and updates them to the current cost price.

MB - Max Basic

When a MaxBasic script sets the narrative text on an Information or Description tab (customer, supplier, product, asset, job or payroll), the tab now updates on screen straight away rather than only after the record is saved. This applies to tabs using the Markdown or HTML content types; plain text already behaved this way.

RE - Report Engine

Document report designs now apply the font set on an expression component to Markdown content, matching the existing behaviour for the Text and HTML content types. Headings and bold text keep their emphasis but now use the design's chosen font.

WS - Web Service

Fixed the OAuth authorization step, which previously used a hardcoded service root and failed for any service root other than the default. Authorization now uses the service root configured for your site.

Fixed an issue where the web service could fail to generate its OData metadata, returning an error, when a company's batch email send option was set to Full MAPI. This prevented tools such as LINQPad or Swagger from loading the service; metadata now generates correctly regardless of the batch mail setting.

XX - Install Scripts

Windows 8 / Server 2012 and Windows 8.1 / Server 2012 R2 systems are officially unsupported for Accredo Version 9. Registry settings can be applied to allow Accredo 9 to run on those systems on the understanding that it has not been tested and is not supported for O/S related issues on those operating systems. Without the registry settings on a pre-Windows 10 system, Accredo 9 shows an "Operating System not supported" message and exits.

 

Accredo A90 – Version 9.0.101

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New Feature

ALL - All Modules

Version 9 adds a free-form Action Bar in the main window's title bar that opens lists, opens records directly by code or document number, runs word-searches with a multi-match dropdown when needed, and inserts new records via action verbs such as Add or New. Searches respect installed modules and user permissions, errors appear as a hint balloon on the search box, and a per-user Add button and default search masterfile give quick access to the records and actions you use most.

Narrative Editors across Accredo now support formatting — bold, underline, headings and other common text formatting — with three content types selectable per narrative block: plain Text, Markdown, or HTML. Markdown and HTML narratives display as formatted text on screen and print as formatted text in designed Reports and Documents; report layouts print the raw source. A new Default Content Type group on the Company record sets the default for new narratives, with separate settings for Memos, Information & Description tabs, and Narrative Lines. Allow change selections control whether the default is enforced. All existing narrative content carries forward as Text on upgrade. Accredo's bundled example designed Reports and Documents have been updated to render Markdown and HTML; other designed Reports and Documents may need updating.

WS - Web Service

Add document insert endpoints.

Return JSON for report layouts in the WS.

Added OAuth 2.1 support.

 

Improvement

ALL - All Modules

Layout Names are not forced to be unique, unique identifier is LayoutID. Display Layout ID when customising report layouts. For scripting Report Objects Layout property now accept either LayoutName or Layout ID. AddToReportList options record the ID instead of the name.

Add t/a Trading Name to Customer and Creditor Names in Headers and Captions where Trading name is specified.

Add Find and Replace support to Narrative editors.

AP - Accounts Payable

Purchase Orders now supports a Request for Credit document class controlled by a new Credits permission, and AP Shipments adds Credit Return, Credit Only, and Return Only. Create Shipment from a Request for Credit produces the matching credit-side document; quantities and document report designs are flip-signed so credits read as positive returns to the supplier. Mark as Receipted displays as Mark as Returned on credit documents, and Duplicate Contra in AP now flips the document class to its credit-side equivalent.

When an Invoice Only Shipment is posted, Accredo now automatically updates the cost prices on related Receipt Only Shipment lines — matched through the Purchase Order line — to match the invoiced cost. A single PO line can be split across multiple receipts and multiple invoices, with the update following the PO line invoiced cost. Already-posted Receipt Only Shipment lines are revised using the existing Update Costs process, with IC transactions updated where the IC period is still available and costing reflowing from there; unposted Receipt Only Shipment lines have their cost prices updated in place. A new AP Setting, Update Receipt Cost from Invoiced Cost (Shipments tab, on by default), controls the behaviour.

Added an opt-in AP Shipments setting "Use Invoiced Cross-rate for Receipts" (AP Settings > Shipments tab) defaults unselected. When selected, a PO-sourced Receipt-Only shipment created from a foreign-currency, already-invoiced, non-fixed-rate PO takes its header exchange rate from the source PO's invoiced cross-rate (Invoiced Amount / Invoiced Amount Bs) and is marked Fixed.

AR - Accounts Receivable

Added Price Code selection to Customer List.

CB - Cash Book

Bank Account Name switched from domain Short Description string(30) to domain Bank Payee string(40) to accommodate account names which in NZ vary in length by bank but are a maximum of 35 characters.

CO - Company

Make Period Name Unicode enabled.

WebApp users will require Report\Query permission for all modules and Company in addition to permissions they have for the WinApp. A new script enabled button on the User Permissions tab automates granting the necessary permissions.

Updated description for Permission Company > Reports > Report Destinations to make it clear this applies in the WinApp only and cannot be enforced in the WebApp.

EM - Email and HTML editor

Add support for TLS 1.3 transport security.

GL - General Ledger

The GL Financial Report Wizard's Columns grid gains Row, Column, and Totals Only settings, letting you lay columns out across up to five rows instead of a single line and stack one column beneath another, such as a percentage under its related amount. A column flagged Totals Only prints only on total lines, keeping the detail rows uncluttered. Recipes saved by the Version 9 Wizard cannot be opened in older WinApp builds.

The GL Financial Report Wizard's Columns grid gains a Year Offset setting that shifts a column's figures into prior or future years, from -10 to +10, so multi-year comparison reports can be built in the Wizard rather than by hand-editing the generated code. The offset combines with the existing period menu choices, column headings adjust automatically to the offset year, and recipes saved by the Version 9 Wizard cannot be opened in older WinApp builds.

Ensure unique variable names and component names are generated from the GL Report Wizard when they would otherwise repeat e.g. same content selected multiple times or stripping of invalid characters would return the same name for two different columns.

Added GL Batch Import Type for Lightning Payroll.

Added Refresh Labels button to GL Report Wizard Grid.

GL Financial Report Wizard "recipes" .pfy files are written out as Json. Old Wizard files can be loaded.

IC - Inventory Control

Version 9 adds effective-dated sell pricing through Price Groups: every Price Code now has a Price Type of List or Group, Groups own multiple dated child Lists, and the pricing engine picks the member List whose Effective Date is the latest on or before the document or transaction date. Existing flat Price Lists continue to work unchanged, with a new Promote Price List to Price Group utility the opt-in path to convert a flat code. The CO Price List form gains a Currently Effective / All Active / All Including Inactive filter, the IC Product form gains a Price Date selector, and the Price Code field is widened from 8 to 12 characters.

Retain original posted IC Cost on duplicate contra IC Transactions and IC Transaction proxies i.e. Document and Batch Lines by tracking IC Cost ID. Link to IC Cost ID can be broken by repricing and selecting IC Cost ID.

Added a MaxBasic EffectivePriceList(PriceCode[, EffectiveDate]) function in the String function group. Returns the effective PriceListCode for a PriceGroup and Date.

IN - Invoicing System

Retain original posted IC Cost on duplicate contra IC Transactions and IC Transaction proxies i.e. Document and Batch Lines by tracking IC Cost ID. Link to IC Cost ID can be broken by repricing and selecting IC Cost ID.

JC - Job Costing

Retain original posted IC Cost on duplicate contra IC Transactions and IC Transaction proxies i.e. Document and Batch Lines by tracking IC Cost ID. Link to IC Cost ID can be broken by repricing and selecting IC Cost ID.

Add Start new page for each master and Repeat column headings per master Report Preferences for Master Detail layouts.

Master detail layouts include IN Invoice, OE Order, JC Work In Progress Detail layouts.

MB - Max Basic

Added optional 2nd Content Type parameter to the InsertNarrative/AppendNarrative methods on Document and Batch objects with values "T", "M" or "H". If not specified, then the default from the Company settings will be used.

Added a MaxBasic EffectivePriceList(PriceCode[, EffectiveDate]) function in the String function group. Returns the effective PriceListCode for a PriceGroup and Date.

Two MaxBasic functions (String group), usable in scripts and report expressions:

HTMLToText(Html) — returns plain text from HTML. (Existing function; now returns an empty string for empty input instead of erroring.)

MarkdownToText(Markdown) — returns plain text from Markdown (strips markup; faithful-enough, not byte-exact).

Example: MarkdownToText(Information) / HTMLToText(Information) to export narrative content as plain text. WinApp only (not in the web service).

OE - Order Entry

Add Narration field to OE Order Header and replicate from Quote to Order, and Order to Invoice.

PO - Purchase Orders

Purchase Orders now supports a Request for Credit document class controlled by a new Credits permission, and AP Shipments adds Credit Return, Credit Only, and Return Only. Create Shipment from a Request for Credit produces the matching credit-side document; quantities and document report designs are flip-signed so credits read as positive returns to the supplier. Mark as Receipted displays as Mark as Returned on credit documents, and Duplicate Contra in AP now flips the document class to its credit-side equivalent.

When an Invoice Only Shipment is posted, Accredo now automatically updates the cost prices on related Receipt Only Shipment lines — matched through the Purchase Order line — to match the invoiced cost. A single PO line can be split across multiple receipts and multiple invoices, with the update following the PO line invoiced cost. Already-posted Receipt Only Shipment lines are revised using the existing Update Costs process, with IC transactions updated where the IC period is still available and costing reflowing from there; unposted Receipt Only Shipment lines have their cost prices updated in place. A new AP Setting, Update Receipt Cost from Invoiced Cost (Shipments tab, on by default), controls the behaviour.

RD - Report Designers

Switch PFD load and save to JSON format. Old PFD files continue to work and can be loaded in the designer. They will update to the new format on save from the designer.

Example documents updated:

ContentType on Narratives

Credit Returns in AP

Request for Credit in PO

Json format for saved pfd files.

Preview Only watermark.

RE - Report Engine

Memo reports and Masterfile reports with Information or Desciption bands acquire a new Memo Text / Information Text / Description Text band which uses content type to print as formatted in the relevant editor. Memo reports are updated to select this by default in place of the Memo Lines band.

SQL - SQL

Added TOP and LIMIT support to Accredo SQL.

SYS - System

Set Send Bug Reports Via HTTP true in System Settings during data conversion.

WS - Web Service

Added new Accept Token in URL setting. Default is unselected and selecting is not recommended since it is considered an insecure practice. System conversion will set the setting selected for backwards compatibility if sites have WS Clients other than the Accredo ones configured. Recommendation is to review and turn off unless required.

Optionally return Results List from batch printing.

XConv - Accredo Conversion

Set Excel File Format to be Excel (.xlsx) in Report Preferences during conversion. We have dealt with a couple of issues recently which were due to this preference still set to .xls.

XX - Install Scripts

Combine installers for single install exe including WebService in System and Update installers.