DDMS 8.22.20 Gets Sales Tax Enhancements
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What’s New In This Release?
June 11, 2010 — To take advantage of new technology, work more efficiently, and grow your business, we are releasing the ECi DDMS Version 8.22.20 maintenance release of two enhancements and more than 20 other software changes.
Details are below. Log in to the ECi Customer Support Portal (https://support.ecisolutions.com) to get your software download.
Nine New SQL Limit Fields for Sales Tax Reporting By Address
QC# 56786: We've added nine new fields in the SQL Report limits for the SalesOrderTax table, which will be helpful for CCH and Address Taxability reporting.
If you wish to use the SQL tables to maintain Address Taxability, it will require authorization — however, there is no additional charge! To get started, simply see Setting Up Address Taxability (pdf).
If you wish to automatically populate address-specific tax tables using CCH Tax Import subscription — instead of creating your own — please contact ECi Sales. See also Using CCH Taxing with Your DDMS System (pdf).
Canadian Harmonized Sales Tax Added to Payables for July 1
 QC#56694: For compliance with Canadian sales tax changes effective July 1, we have enhanced graphical Accounts Payable Posting to remit the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST).
A new graphical parameter will allow you to specify your office's Provincial Sales Tax (PST) district.
In Accounts Payable Posting, the AP Invoice tab has a new button to Add HST. This button automatically combines the value of the PST code specified in the new graphical A/P parameter with the Goods and Services Tax specified in (L0) Global Master Parameters.
We emailed implementation instructions to our Canadian dealers.
Other Changes:
This release includes more than 20 improvements to the usability of DDMS sales tax calculations, EDI communications, machine dealer BEI exports, and software upgrades:
- 56801: Enhanced to modify square footage calculations in the text-based Order Entry application. This means square footage calculations can now go to a length of 8.2. This allows sales flooring related products to be sold up to 99,999.99 square footage. This field has been enhanced to allow up to 8 total digits including two decimal places.
- 56802: Corrected an issue with the TDS line when creating credit invoices in EDI where the (SGA) parameter negates them.
- 56798: Corrected an issue with the first invoice run when pulling the cross reference ID from the SG-A-R screen (c-ediref) on an EDI 810. Previously, it was pulling the EDI ID and the Qualifier instead.
- 56757: Corrected CCH Taxing issues when using the multiple-tier city level tax for the 85222 zip code. Previously, large negative tax amounts were shown when creating orders using this zip code.
- 56785: Corrected the BEI interface for machine dealers so that the FIXPARLA file part number includes the first three characters of the item company field.
- 56755: Corrected the BEI interface for machine dealers so that the FIXSERL file includes item company and model, uses only one machine meter record, totals the beginning meter readings for all meters for the machine, displays the "Initial Meter Reading" field, leaves "Last service call reading and date" blank as needed for previous call, and sets BEI "Equipment ID" to the DDMS "System Number".
- 56748: Corrected an issue with the TDS line on the 810 format so that it matches the total of the IT1 and TXI lines. Previously this format was adding the tax for the order quantity. Now it adds the tax for the shipped quantity.
- 56747: Corrected an issue with processing EDI tickets where CCH Taxing is used, so that if you build the return invoice out of P-MASTER you are able to send back a line tax from EDI-TOTALS. Previously, flushing the ticket to JOUR-S inadvertently prevented the correct tax line to display on the 810 document.
- 56743: Corrected so when loading the new tax tables in 8.22.0, the system does not delete any existing product groups that have been added.
- 56737: Corrected so the system sets the proper EDI flags when releasing an EDI exception where a trading partner is set-up to cross reference to a customer account and no cross reference was found. Now, the system reads the trading partner record from P-GLOBAL and retains the EDI order flag.
- 56735: Corrected so the Address Taxability flag is not turned off when loading new tables for the CCH Taxing feature.
- 56733: Corrected so when updating the DDMS software, the system does not remove the Address Taxability Regional (CCH) tax settings.
- 56721: Corrected Accounts Receivable Credit Card Payments so that it updates "Last Payment" date field even if the date field passed from the GOA is blank for online payments.
- 56711: Corrected the setting of an ID so that EDI orders no longer post with blank ticket numbers.
- 56693: Corrected graphical Accounts Receivable Posting so when posting overages while paying Multiple Accounts, the system properly posts the selected Customer ID information to the correct files.
- 56677: Corrected customized code in the SG-A screen to reset the first line of the EDI order prior to calling the flush step with 850s with CCH orders, so that setting a 2 in the 1 field in SG-A still sets the line item due date for exception orders to the next business day. Previously, this only worked for the first order run.
- 56675: Corrected EDI order handling where CCH taxing is used so that the system checks the "see below" address to the standard CCH taxing logic where it gets the zip code, city, and state from the shipto address. Previously the system did not get address from 990 special when there was a ship to special.
- 56674: Corrected 997 acknowledgements when importing 850 EDI purchase orders so that the 'counter' portion of the file naming convention logic now accommodates up to 9999 acknowledgements. Previously, it could only handle 99 per session.
- 56560: Corrected the Customer Price Plan window to speed up the display of large contracts, by improving performance and indexing of four SQL database functions that perform item pricing evaluations. Previously, the time to open contracts with over 49,000 records on an older machine exceeded 15 minutes.
- 56503: Corrected the EBS installation logic so when upgrading DDMS from 8.19.60 to 8.21.41, the system does not display the EBS Server Failed to Install Error Code: 1603 message.
- 56781: Corrected installation so that upgrades from 8.22 to maintenance releases (a), (b), .20, and so on successfully install TBL Applications and complete the wizard.
56812: Corrected so the data flows to the proper accounts and departments when auto releasing EDI orders from a partner who sends a PER at the line item level.
Recent DDMS Releases
Of course, this version also includes everything in ECi DDMS 8.22.0b and 8.22.0 — a major release of 10 new features:
- graphical Delivery Manifest
- SQL Sales Tax Per Customer Address
- password-protecting A/R (Customer) Deposits in Order Entry
- expanding (L4) Federal Withholding Tiers
- Order Notes for Furniture Manufacturer Options
- Searching Multiple Staging Bins
- using 3rd Party Bill's Taxable setting to determine tax
- Call Monitor Print Preview
- Work Orders Caption Bar and Last 10 Calls
- streamlined BEI Export installation
For more details:
How Do I Get This Version?
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click Software Downloads, and
follow the on-screen steps.
Need Help? (800) 366-4778 • https://support.ecisolutions.com • ddmssupport@ecisolutions.com
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