This release has no release notes but is a technical patch.

This release has no release notes but is a technical patch.

When entering bank mutations, debtor receipts are nicely set to payment CREDIT. However when changing the amount the default is set again which is taken from the general ledger account. This help from RentBuddy is not really a help and has been removed for a better user experience at the request of our administrative users.

Staff planning

It was recently possible to freeze a schedule, allowing you to block changes or to ask for a warning to continue. However with the latter, no changes were made. We have now improved this.

When sending dunning letters in RentBuddy in bulk, it is now possible to send them directly to Outlook without intervention per dunning letter and send them directly in a single run, or to continue to send them individually.

We have built in an extra control that while emailing an invoice it will be reprinted should the file, for whatever reason, no longer be present. So in that case, the PDF is re-created and always attached to the mail. The invoice does need to be booked to do this. But nothing has changed about that check.

In the screen quotations we have now provided for more "quietness" in the screen. This means that ALL bids whose project has been changed to a ORDER CONFIRMATION are no longer visible except for the order confirmation itself. This ensures that many (duplicate) quotes are automatically set to handled.

When processing a count list of type [Check available stock] the stock mutation was not created with the correct numbers. The difference of the numbers was done based on total stock count. With this particular count list type, this should be the available (non-rental) numbers are.

During hour writing, the end time of the hour line was adjusted after the multiple times change the hour line with hour correction (breaks, etc.). For example, the end time was then extended or shortened by 30 minutes, whereas the end time should not be changed.

When changing the end time while writing hours, the lead time was not changed if the end time of the hour line was changed.

At BackStage there has been an improvement for selecting projects.

WORKFORCE PLANNING

We have added some nice new things to the employee scheduling feature again. For example, as of this version it is possible to block a schedule. This can be done completely (when you think nothing more can be changed) or by means of a warning. With the notification you can add a memo so that the person who is planning gets a warning that nothing more can be changed.

RentBuddy currently uses a central planning system. However, by popular demand we have now built in the ability to work with so-called Planning rights. At the employee (read = planner) you can set through the buttons Functions -> Planning rights. You can assign function groups to a planner. When this planner then requests the staff schedule, only functions for which he has been given rights will be shown. For example, one planner can plan all drivers and transports, while another employee can plan wrappers or service employees. Of course if you do not set anything it works so that the employee can continue to plan everything without restrictions.

We have once again improved the BUYING PRICES of the freelancers/employees in this version. When there were no price agreements on the project and thus the default rates were applied, the order was always DAY PRICE first and then the HOUR PRICE. However, as of this version RentBuddy follows the preference you have set with the employee. Normally you make appointments per hour or per day rate. If, exceptionally, the rate is different, you can always set the applicable rate in the planning.

Behind the employee, you can retrieve an overview of project summaries. This lists planned and realized/written hours. Also the rates such as daily/hourly overtime rates. However, this screen was not updated with the functionalities of the last months that we implemented in the employee scheduling. As of this update, this screen is also fully equipped with the correct information.

When generating hours for recorded leave/absence days, it is now possible to define in the leave types whether or not hours should be written during generation. We have added to the LEAVE TYPES added a check mark for that purpose. This allows you to indicate that for certain leave types (think compensation hours) no HOURS are written and for Vacation Days, for example, they are again.

As a result, excess hours recorded as leave type COMPENSATION hours are not recorded as time worked. The resulting shortfall in hours is offset against the plus hours (compensatory hours).

Within the OpenKvk present within RentBuddy, you could already easily search by address, name, zip code of companies. You were then shown the registration of the Chamber of Commerce. Only if you knew the KvK nr. and search based on that, it was not found. We have now added this option as well.

In some cases recently, the available stock gave the wrong number. This was because the available numbers were divided twice by the number of components. This error has been corrected.

NEW: TURNOVER STATISTICS

In collaboration with a number of larger clients who also use RentBuddy Finance, we have created a new turnover statistics report with an export to Excel. The overview looks at realized and therefore also invoiced turnover per Item. It can also be broken down to each month. In our tests, the total of all item turnovers matched the invoices invoiced in RentBuddy Finance exactly.

You can define a "different" bank account number with the purchase invoice. However with the payment batch this was not transferred to the payment batch but the account was transferred from the creditor card. Since we have now changed this, the creditor card can also be updated from the payment batch.

In the payment batch of accounts payable, we made the space for piece number larger, eliminating ++++. Of course, this only occurred if your piece number consisted of many digits.

We have in making dunning letters by mail, we made an improvement at the debtor's email address. In bulk this was not clearing in some cases.

In the screen Warehouse Occupancy we have changed the colors upon request. GREEN for loading and RED for unloading packing slips. This was reversed and not consistent with other screens in RentBuddy.

Clocking in and out

We modified the clocking in and out process. For example, after each clock-in or clock-out of an employee, the screen was not completely cleaned which caused confusion for the next employee who wanted to clock-in or clock-out. However, what also went wrong were the time corrections on the screen (such as Break, lunch, dinner etc). Each time you clock in and out, the default hour corrections are turned on which you set in the hour corrections as "ON". However after these were turned off when clocking in, they were then turned back on by default, only RentBuddy then did not take this into account for the next employee and thus the hour corrections were not implemented even though they were visually visible. This error has now been fixed.

If an employee clocked in at, say, 7 p.m. in the evening and clocked out at 3 a.m. during the night, the hours became negative. The tools we were using could not handle hours that passed through the night. We have now created our own function that calculates this correctly. NOTE: This was only when clocking in and out and not for example in the BackStage App (where we use other techniques).

When you use GENERATE HOURS RentBuddy automatically writes hours for the employee's leave time/days. However, RentBuddy now also takes the employee's working hours into account. For example, if you specified that leave was until 6 p.m. but the employee worked until 2 p.m. that day according to his contract, hours were still written until 6 p.m. So this has now been improved so that hours are only written up to 2:00 pm.

When you create a new project/contract for a debtor that is BLOCKED or a WARNING then a warning text was provided but the warning was not shown. RentBuddy now shows what the warning is in a popup and tooltip.

When paying purchase invoices in a payment batch, you have the option to set off CREDITNOTAs with your payments. With this, you no longer had to book them off via the memorial book first. However, we only supported when two invoices were offset against each other and not when they were multiple invoices. From now on, RentBuddy can also offset multiple invoices against each other.

When making journal entries in the memorial journal, the date was always reset to today. This, of course, is annoying. We have fixed that in this release.

When approving purchase invoices, the approver could now be defined on the invoice itself, in addition to the creditor. However, after this change, if no deviating employee was entered on the invoice, you could no longer see this on the purchase invoices to be approved. We have now adjusted it so that both employees get to see the purchase invoices to be approved.

From now on, when you create a fiscal year but do not enter a full fiscal year in it in terms of date range (for example, from 01-01-2023 to 31-12-2023), RentBuddy will now give an alert to check the dates. If the date range is accidentally entered incorrectly, you will of course receive notifications that RentBuddy cannot bill or book. This saves a lot of digging out and errors that you quickly overlook. TIP! PAY CLOSE ATTENTION THAT THE FISCAL YEAR PERIOD OF /TM IS ENTERED PROPERLY AND CORRECTLY.

NEW users of RentBuddy who had not yet committed any Item got a justified error message in several places where you have to search for an Item . Then RentBuddy stopped because something "unexpected" happened. We have now caught this. We now show an empty search screen of articles.

When you want to handle a project/contract, RentBuddy checks for many things. One is the cotnrole whether all balance sheet accounts are (advances, prepayments) on a project have been settled. However customers who do NOT use RentBuddy Finance often want to do this without settling it. We have now made an alert of this and RentBuddy may create the counter entry itself after which the project can be settled.

On the printout of the claim form hours/expenses, sometimes expenses were not visible. This was because in the layout the conditions were checked in a control field. As of this version, we now retrieve these again from the database so that this is always correct from now on.

We changed the sorting of the MyPonto batches. Due to checking in the program, red colors were sometimes displayed incorrectly. The sorting is now : account number, book date and piece number. In addition, when a statement batch is created from now on, a financial item number is also created immediately. This means fewer actions and improved sorting by item number.

The creation of a MyPonto batch and the piece number to be linked to it was not optimal. We have changed this completely so that when the MyPonto Batch is created, a next piece number is now immediately created in the bank book with the start and end balance from MyPonto. A financial mutation batch is also linked. This ensures a better reconciliation of the piece numbers in the journal and fewer operations to link a MyPonto batch.

If you are working with multiple administrations work in RentBuddy, you could already filter the contracts/projects by an administration. However, what was not possible, as is also possible in staff scheduling, that you make a selection of the companies for which you want to see the projects. From now on, it is now possible to filter a single or multiple administrations in your contracts.

When scanning with the handheld scanner, a message now comes up when a Item is registered for service.

When one printed an invoice and you work with SmartDocs in the cloud then there was no preview displayed anymore because it had just been moved to the cloud. We now create a copy in advance so the preview of an invoice is back during invoicing.

When you wanted to create a Creditor from a relation card, a debtor was created instead of a creditor. This error has been fixed.

EXPANSION OF WORKFORCE PLANNING

There is now a possibility that you can make fixed rate agreements per co-worker/per function. This was already made possible in the previous patch in the master files of employees, however in this patch, also the Purchase Price of the freelancer is now calculated according to these rates. In addition, it is possible to make separate agreements at the project level.

STAFF SCHEDULING RATES

If the user adjusts an employee's rates, and at that time the financial columns in the detail screen are also visible, the column should be [Purchasing] prefer to be recalculated immediately. The rate change is very likely to affect the numbers in that column, but until this moment the recalculated values did not come into view until you refreshed the entire screen.

STAFF SCHEDULING RATES The minimum value of 8 is too high for the boundary between regular hours and overtime. It is possible to agree a rate with an employee for a job of -say- three hours, with a higher or even lower hourly rate for if the work takes longer. Until now, the overtime rate could only take effect when the work was at least eight hours long, and that limit was too high. This, too, has now been improved.

De-duplicating creditors

It sometimes happens that you are not paying attention when booking a purchase invoice and before you know it you have created the creditor twice. In the worst case, you even have several purchase invoices behind each creditor number. From now on it is possible to deduplicate a creditor with an already existing creditor. All entries, purchase invoices and documents are then moved to the creditor's main account.

When booking a PURCHASE INVOICE, if a creditor was duplicated in the system, it was booked on the first creditor found. So now you can deduplicate and put the old creditor on inactive to inactive. With SCAN and RECOGNITION, creditors that are recognized but not on active are no longer matched. This also prevents that a purchase invoice is linked to an inactive creditor.

When running an invoice run but not yet booking the invoices you can in the screen FINISH INVOICING the invoices to be booked. However, it was also desirable to see the possible journal entry before booking. This is now possible. At the bottom of each invoice the journal entry can be checked.

META BOOKING PROFILES

When you have created multiple administrations in RentBuddy and you are using posting profiles, META posting profiles were also created "underwater". After all, the item file is for all administrations, but for each administration you can define separate general ledger accounts. However, once you had created a booking profile you could not delete it from RentBuddy. So now we have also provided the ability to remove META BOOKING PROFILES from the system.

In the countlists from RentBuddy, the SEARCH key field has now been added upon request.

The ADDITION field in web orders was 3 characters in size. This has now been increased to 10 characters upon request.

Due to a "fallacy" during development, the filters on the screen are CONTROL PERSONNEL REQUIREMENTS top right were always disabled and also not usable. We have now fixed this error correctly.

When using project templates, the tab was missing since one of the last updates the TOTALS. This had to do with being able to authorize this tab in "normal" rental projects. Within templates this was not possible and so it was completely removed from the screen. This has now been restored.

More and more connections work through APIs like our webshop Api or the MyPonto connection. However, unicode fragments such asu00f6 were written back to the database instead of u + umlaut with special characters. This is now solved in the JSON object.

The screen for overview projects of an employee has several improvements. For example, the projects are now better filtered on the period that is selected. Also, only projects where the employee is definitively scheduled are now shown.

When, within staffing requirements, the functions such as, for example Move Day and did not press the OK key but typed 2x ENTER, the screen closed but the date was not transferred. To quickly activate the OK button in RentBuddy, the function key F12 is available everywhere and thus the screen cannot be closed by pressing ENTER a second time.

We have now made the clock-in and clock-out screen available for SMALL users.

If one does not include a reporting layout defined as the default layout, no reminders came out, even if you wanted to send reminders by e-mail.

Creating claim forms is now also possible / improved from the employee card. One could not create new /empty statement forms for the employee from the employee card. This has now been made possible.

If you have paid out 150 overtime hours in an interim settlement of your staff, for example, the balances of the overtime hours should of course also be corrected. However, it was no longer possible to negative hours to book negative hours to correct this. This is now possible again.

It is now possible to give employees ALWAYS rights for BackStage to write hours, even when they are not scheduled on a project.

In the annual statement of personnel expenses, one received an error message. This has been fixed in this version.

It is now possible to have a password reset on the next login to RentBuddy. This allows you to give a user a simple password which he can change at the next login.

From the In and Out dashboard, it is now also possible to turn on and off "READY FOR PICKING".

One can indicate in the reminder layouts from now on whether invoices are still attached as(n) should be sent along. The desire was to be able to set this up.

It is now also possible within the templates of the WhatsApp messages the fields [TEMPLATE_FIELD_TIME_FROM] and [TEMPLATE_FIELD_TIME_TILL] also to be used respectively for start and end time of scheduling.

It is now possible per employee PER FUNCTION rates per function. For example, a freelancer can charge 35 euros per hour for set-up and 40 euros per hour as a FOH employee. You can set this on the third tab of an employee's details screen.

If you completely removed a scheduling requirement in staff scheduling and then clicked on another schedule then sometimes you would get an error message in RentBuddy. This has been fixed.

The ability to use own photos on the login screen again has been restored.

If you had created a user group and wanted to delete it completely that was no longer possible in RentBuddy. One can now delete an "empty" user group from now on as well.

When printing out a callsheet, one could get the message "WIN_prs_WorkPlanboard" component unknown. This has been fixed.

In the screen Post calculation in a sales order, the part numbers are not visible but were there ++++ because the part number was larger than the space on the screen.

While entering purchase invoices, one would sometimes get the message, "The TABOrder property does not apply to IMG_kit_for_EDIT_inho_inho_code control". This has been resolved.

The invitation buttons in the mail (YES I AM AVAILABLE / NO I AM AVAILABLE) you can turn off with the parameter [PLAN_INVITE_CTA_BUTTONS]. Yet in some cases, these buttons still showed up in the mail. This has been fixed.

When the system is busy with a heavy query or process, windows may block in some cases. Sometimes the mouse pointer then changes to a spinning circle, but sometimes it does not. If the user then clicks a few more times, the window "fades out" (everything becomes lighter in color) by which Windows seems to want to say that the window is not responding, and eventually the familiar "This window is not responding" dialog appears, offering the option to kill the process. If the user assumes that things are not going to work out (which is often the case because it is still in progress), such a Rentbuddy session is then often aborted incorrectly. This can have other unpleasant consequences, such as locks getting stuck because the Rentbuddy process is terminated. (on the client), but keeps the database connection alive (on the server). Through a significant change in the tools we have fixed this, which should result in a better user experience.

Signature was not collected

Due to the lack of the apikey in the quote.

More than 10 invoices attached to reminders

If one had more than 10 invoices sent as attachments with the reminders it gave an error message. We have now capped this at 100 invoices.

Project number too small size

When the project number consists of more than 8 numbers, RentBuddy did not display it correctly.

New functionality : Authorization

It is now possible in the contract/project to allow users who are not scheduled on the project to still write hours in the BackStage App. Authorization of the project has now been added for this purpose.

Recalculate total hours

When one wanted to change the written time in claim management - one could change the time but the total hours did not change with it.

Order lines: Hidden columns Within a project's order lines, columns that were hidden suddenly became visible again.

Annual review Staff

In the annual hours overview, it is now possible to make selections of the staff members to export all or part of them in the digital overview.

Hiring manager error message When clicking on Hiring Manager from the project overview, in some cases you could get an error message that prevented information from appearing on the screen.

Extra at task copy

When copying a task in the project, the warehouse memos are now copied along with it.

When scheduling staffing requirements, it is now also possible to see the last scheduled crew for the position in question. Since often the same employees are scheduled during this period, this now makes scheduling even faster.

Since one of the last patches, Mollie payment links were accidentally sent as TESTLINK.

This has been restored.

With the quotation layouts, it is possible to assign them to an administration. However, when searching for various layouts when creating quotations, this was not always taken into account so you would also see quotations from other administrations. This has been improved.

In addition to the account manager at the creditor, it is now possible to select a different approver/fiaturer for each purchase invoice. This makes it possible to assign purchase invoices separately to the responsible employee within the company.

The Entry and Exit screen returns error message The 'cont_type' member does not exist in the 'strInhr' class or structure but still works normally. This has been fixed.

Within RentBuddy it was already possible to use CTRL+C/CTRL+V to copy and paste order lines. Only the selection was remembered so that you could simply paste the same lines several times. However, this can be annoying because you have to uncheck the old selection each time. Therefore, this functionality is now changed from CTRL+C to CLTR+B. Then the selection remains Saved. With CTRL+C you can then copy the lines once.

Hiring Manager error: When moving a line from left to right, the line is overwritten each time.

The calendar and entry/exit screen now displays the project status. In addition, project status can be filtered here.

In service and maintenance, text templates can now be used. A text template can be attached to complaint description and note.

In the bank statement screen, sometimes the beginning and ending balances were incorrectly colored red when there was a negative balance.

One can block the financial period for invoices however one could still indicate an invoice date from a closed period. This too is now controlled.

We have made the Hiring screen wider in this update and also added the timelines and tasks column.

The print of the Bank statements of ING, for example, use <BR> for new lines. RentBuddy's Bank Statement layout now neatly replaces them to a new line on the printout.

A new feature has been added to RentBuddy in conjunction with BackStage Pro.

With the option Site visit it is now possible to record as pre-production data during the location visit. In BackStage Pro, this option is directly possible to supplement with photos, notes, explanations, etc. A location visit can then be turned into a project at a desired time.

After the previous patch it was no longer possible to use the D/C button while entering financial mutations in the diaries. This has now been fixed.

Hours generation now includes Absence hours generated just as they already were for leave days.

If you set a ledger number in the bank book at the debtor/or creditors and one used the plus sign at the description and then went to search by invoice number then the name was not automatically entered at the description.

In the memorial journal, the DEBET/CREDIT is now handled better.

Multiple PDF invoices were no longer being created. In addition, after recovery, the invoice run crashed because a string was built with all file locations to the individual PDF files to merge them into an entire PDF folder creating a PDF document and can be printed at once. Also created the ability for customers not working with SmartDocs to reprint cq restore broken or ungenerated PDF files.

If you use the macro [PAYMTEXT] not included in your text block, the text block was overwritten when the mail was sent. In the current patch, the payment link is now pasted after the text block.

If you go via : Rental > Subscriptions > Print > Trip overview > Trip lines > Location address opened the screen then you did not enter CHANGE mode. That has been fixed in this release.

The components of the underlying assemblies were removed when decoupling a set.

It was possible when several employees started invoicing at the same time that the same invoice number was issued twice. We have now created a unique invoice number table per administration so this can no longer occur in special cases.

Format fix has now been created for the value field of item configurator.

An incorrect query was run when changing the accordor of an employee, which did not restrict it to the current employee.

When copying time lines, the screen remained open and you could not see that RentBuddy was actually duplicating. The wish was to close this screen immediately after duplicating and then you would immediately see the changed lines. This has been adjusted in this version.

Expense claims can now be completely handled for a given period with a few clicks now that one can select multiple lines.

One can now set authorizations per employee on article main groups. Both from the article main group and from the employee. also, you can easily duplicate/take over from another employee. For example, you can authorize certain employees only for furniture and another employee for kitchen appliances.

The parameter for the financial package SHL was no longer passed properly.

In the shopping cart within the subscription module, service items were no longer displayed.

Within the module DigiSign the same email addresses are now used as those used with the quote

When opening a sales order via the right mouse button, the rental orders screen in the plan board staff opened.

For RentBuddy Finance users who do not use MyPonto, the ability to easily enter bank transactions without this module is now provided.

From now on, the SCAN-HEAR data will be recorded in the RentBuddy database, making it easier for the help desk to examine or analyze the data.

The established schedule start and end time with [:] provided fold out RentBuddy. [Staffing needs]

Article Configurator: If the user had not yet defined a separator and the import started, the file was not read in. During the import of the file, the presence of separators is now checked.

When entering contract rules, one could use CTRL-V, CTRL-X always place the rules at the back. In addition, one could not move to another task with duplicating. This is now possible. Also, for some users, the size of the contract number was too small and only pluses were shown.

Copying personnel requirements has been improved. Sometimes not all employees were copied but only positions.

Mollie accounts/Payments: It is now possible to set up separate Mollie accounts for each financial administration to enable payments.

In RentBuddy there is now a piece number check built in to check for missing or duplicate part numbers in a journal.

Within the sales order, suddenly the fields are on top of each other.

Employee Settlement: two right-click options had disappeared from version 6 to write hours directly. This has been restored.

"A control has no subelement: '.' operator not allowed" when opening project. This was due to an error in RentBuddy's tools when renumbering controls. This message is now fixed.

You want a journal of the type [BANK] going to enter. This could only be done via telebanking. This has been restored and also made possible again from entering mutations.

One could not print a claim form with only hours and no expenses. This is now possible again.

Personnel requirements: right-click sometimes gives the wrong menu. If you are entering times, and you right-click on a line to expand the menu with "New Day," "New Time" and the like, sometimes another menu pops up with options like "Copy벥n," "Cut," "Paste" and the like.

Personnel requirement: key INS works, but CTRL-N does not.

To enter a new time, you can use the INS key, but CTRL-N does not work. Everywhere in RentBuddy, CTRL-N can be used as an alternative to INS, but not in this screen. Especially for Apple users, this is annoying.

In the tree of functions in the staffing requirement, some users were all showing them twice. What happened now is that a new function is always shown with only a single employee below it. This was due to an error in the indexes and has been fixed.

Error message when exporting accounts receivable: Invalid table in OR phrase: plts optional

When passing parameters by address, an element of 'real' type cannot be converted to the 'int' type when emailing an invoice

"fCopyFile: No empty string must be passed to the function" when entering expenses on a file

Cannot insert the value NULL into column 'cofr_netto_amount' when creating an invoice

When passing parameters by address, an element of 'real' type cannot be converted to the 'int' type when emailing an invoice

If through an order line (right mouse button, planboard) the Item planboard is started then no Item is shown there and the mouse pointer remains a circle