Customer - No Pricing Option

There can be circumstances where an order is to be processed for a customer but there is not a need for any financial record for the order. For example for orders between sister companies or for internal use. Currently if pricing is not set up then there are warning messages and orders cannot be completed.

In order to solve this there is a new tickbox in the customer record in the additional options to identify customers where pricing is not required.

Wholesale Ordering for Treatments.

It is now possible to filter the list of treatments that are offered in wholesale ordering. For example, you may be asked to tint or coat a lens only but this will be restricted to the own tints and coatings and not external suppliers specific treatments.  Such non-rx orders are entered through the Wholesale option in Order Entry.

This is done by marking the treatmentss as being in a family. This family is identified as being the family for Wholesale treatments in

Entry Defaults
  Wholesale Treatment Family

Enter the necessary family code here.

Print Credit Notes but not delivery notes

Some labs are geared up to not print a delivery note at the completion point, they will use shipping notes or the order entry document instead. However they may wish to have credit notes printed when the credit is completed. A new setting has been added to allow credits to be printed whilst suppressing the prints of regular delivery notes.

Screen resizing

Annapurna now remembers screen sizes as you resize on the screen. However, on some systems where font sizes are changed, external displays are added, it can become troublesome and can cause screens to become garbled. A new option has been added to the bottom right of the opening menu panel to reset the screen layouts.

Santiago - Scheduling tasks to go.

Santiago.

There has come an increasing need for running programs at scheduled times for example for sales extraction overnight, for uploading tracking to the web site, for downloading EDI orders.

Although Windows has task scheduler, it becomes problematic to maintain this on servers because of all the security restrictions hence a new program Santiago has been written.

When launched, it will by default load in the common tasks and you can add or schedule as required.

The program is available for download from the downloads folder.

At the same time, Annapurnatrk has been deprecated and replaced with three new programs to do its functions. These can all be scheduled to run independently and at different time intervals within Santiago.

VcaTracking – This processes the tracking files created from vcaDevice program.

AnnapurnaEmail – This sends a daily status email to selected customers.

UploadTracking – This uploads the tracking to Solenzara.

Cut Edge & Fit (CEF).

Cut Edge & Fit (CEF).

Annapurna has an order type for CEF. If this is selected then the lens and frame are not charged but the glazing is. The glazing can be set to a different price. This is done in one of two ways by making an entry in the settings editor under prices.

Setting a special CEF pricelist.

If this is set then the price is taken for the glazing from this pricelist. This will apply to all customers. If there is a need to have different CEF prices for different customers then you need to use the prefix option.

CEF Prefix.

You enter a prefix here eg CF-. The prices for the CF-xx where xx is the glazing code are then entered. You can enter different prices under different pricelists.

The software will look first for a CEF Prefix. If that is not present then it will use the CEF Pricelist. If that is not present the standard pricelist is used.

Cancelled Date

When a job is cancelled, the date of cancellation is recorded as the completion date.  This is so that reports for the jobs in and out will tally up.

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